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Board of Trustees

Officers

Co-Chairmen
Richard Gilder (1932–2020)
Lewis E. Lehrman

Vice Chairs
Robert H. Niehaus
Shaiza Rizavi

Secretary
Russell P. Pennoyer

Treasurer
Joseph DiMenna
 

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Edward L. Ayers
S. Andrew Banks
James G. Basker, President and CEO of the Gilder Lehrman Institute
John D. Britton II
Alysha Butler
Kenneth Chenault
Robert C. Daum
Dixie De Luca
Patrick Duff
Grady Durham
Regina Gannon
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Bruce Gordon
Annette Gordon-Reed
Allen C. Guelzo
Elizabeth Herbst-Brady
Phillip A. Jackson
Alan Jones
Gladstone N. Jones, III
Daniel P. Jordan (1938–2024), Life Trustee
Thomas D. Lehrman
Stephen F. Mandel Jr.
Michael McCormick
David McCullough (1933–2022), Life Trustee
John L. Nau III
Linda Pace
William J. Poorvu
Julian Robertson (1932–2022), Life Trustee
Valerie Rockefeller
Mary Caslin Ross
Mark Shafir
Nancy Simpkins
Dorothy (Debbie) Stapleton
Luz Towns-Miranda
Richard Webster

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