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Board of directors and senior management
New Board Sworn In September 30, 2008
Members of the Board
Dr. John O. Agwunobi, Chairman
Dr. John Agwunobi is currently the Senior Vice President and President of Health & Wellness for Wal-Mart Stores Division, overseeing the company’s health and wellness business unit, which includes pharmacies, vision centers, and health care clinics. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, he was the Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and an Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He has served as Florida’s Secretary of Health and as a pediatrician.
Jack Leslie , Vice Chairman
Jack Leslie is the chairman of Weber Shandwick, one of the world's leading public relations agencies. Mr. Leslie is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Chairman of the Board of USA for UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and a participant in UNHCR Missions to Afghanistan (1998), Kosovo (1999) and Tanzania (2001). He is a trustee of the Circumnavigators Foundation and is a director of various corporate boards.
Julius E. Coles, Board Member
Julius E. Coles currently serves as the President of Africare. Before assuming this position, Mr. Coles was the Director of Morehouse College’s Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997 - 2002. He served as the Director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994 - 1997. Most of Mr. Coles’ 28 year career in Foreign Service was spent as a senior official with the United States Agency for International Development where he worked in Swaziland and Senegal, Liberia, Vietnam, Morocco, and Nepal.
Morgan M. Davis, Board Member
Morgan Davis currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Esurance Holdings, Inc., Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd., and White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. Since 2000 Morgan has been actively involved as Chairman of the Board for Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and is a former member of the Faith Alive Foundation. It is Morgan's involvement with Global Strategies that has brought him to Jos, Nigeria several times. With the help of many volunteers, the organization works diligently to improve the health care options for the region. Morgan resides in Southern California with his wife Sandy.
Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, Board Member
Jendayi E. Frazer recently returned to Washington, D.C. after serving as the United States Ambassador to South Africa in Johannesburg from August 2004 to August 2005. She was sworn in and began her tenure as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs on August 29, 2005. Ambassador Frazer has a long history of professional involvement in Africa, having served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from February 22, 2001, a Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, and as Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. She is a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a B.A. in Political Science and African and African-American Studies, M.A. degrees in International Policy Studies and International Development Education, and a Ph.D. in Political Science.
Executive Management
Lloyd O. Pierson, President
Lloyd O. Pierson has been a Presidential Appointee named by three Presidents; in his previous position, he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate as the Assistant Administrator for Africa at USAID. Prior to that, he was Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations for the Peace Corps and during a transition period served as the Acting Director of the Peace Corps. He has been Peace Corps Country Director in Ghana, Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland, and was co-negotiator for the Peace Corps agreement allowing volunteers to enter Zimbabwe. Mr. Pierson has been Director of the Africa Bureau at the International Republican Institute and has worked as the International Policy Advisor for the Save Darfur Coalition, a large NGO working to end the violence in Darfur, Sudan. He has testified before Congress on multiple occasions, including hearings on Angola, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Sudan, Liberia, and Africa regional organizations.