International House Berkeley

Business Literature and Journalism J. Dennis Bonney, Vice Chairman, Chevron Corporation Amir Aczel, Author of Fermat's Last Theorem, Descartes' Secret Notebook, The Mystery of Aleph Charlene Wang Chien, President, First International Computer, Inc., Taiwan Choong Kun Cho, President of Korean Airlines Marianne Likowski Alireza, Author of At the Drop of a Veil Veil, published in1971 Paritish Choksi, Executive Vice President, ATEL Capital Group Arlene Blum, Author and leader of the first all-women's ascent of Annapurna Jan Fandrianto, President, Sipura Technology, Inc. Gray Brechin, A historical geographer, journalist and television producer, taught geography at Berkeley David Fischer, Vice President, AOL Europe Jawahar Gidwani, Chairman and CEO of KARMA2GO, LLC Richard Goldman, Founder of Goldman Environmental Prize and founder of Goldman Insurance Services Kazusue Konoike, President, Konoike Construction Co., Ltd., Japan Kakutaro Kitashiro, General Manager, IBM Asia Pacific. Simon Lewis, Director of Communications and Public Policy, Vodafone Andre Manoliu, Managing Director, GrowthPlans LLC David Brock, Author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative Sandy Close, Executive Director, Pacific News Service Richard H. Dillon, Author of many books on American history Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author of Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and more Heart Firoozeh Jazayeri Dumas, Author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America Marian Cleeves Diamond, Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, and Director of the Lawrence Hall of Science Heinz Eulau, Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science, Stanford George Foster, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Francesca Gobbo, Professor of Intercultural Education, University of Turin, Italy Gregory Grossman, Professor Emeritus of Economics, UC Berkeley, expert on Soviet economy John Heilbron, Professor of History, Vice Chancellor, UC Berkeley Wolf Homburger, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley Cigdem Cizakca Kagitcibasi, Turkish social psychologist William J. Knox, Professor Emeritus of Physics, UC Davis, helped found I-House Davis Nobuaki Kumagai, President, Osaka University Markos Kounalakis, President and Publisher of Washington Monthly Eugene C. Lee, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UC Berkeley, Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies Harold Gilliam, Environmental columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle,, author of The San Francisco Experience Choh-Ming Li, Vice Chancellor Chinese University of Hong Kong Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Ved Mehta, Author of 13 books and New Yorker staff writer Mehta for more than 30 years M. Ishaq Nadiri, Professor of Economics, NYU, economic advisor to Afghanistan George H.B. Verberg, President of the Intnl. Gas Union Gustav Olivercrona, Swedish television commentator Science Donna Rosenthal, Author of The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land A. Richard Newton, Dean of Engineering, UC Berkeley, leader in the founding of UC's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Hans Rausing, Founder and Chairman, Tetra Pak Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone Hamid Savoj, Senior Vice President, Magma Design Automation Mario Bancora, Director of Argentina's Atomic Energy Commission Hans Peter Duerr, Director of the Max Planck Institute Drew Gaffney, Space Shuttle Astronaut, Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Robbie Clipper Sethi, Author of Fifty-Fifty which celebrates diversity's complexities Edmundo Paz Soldan, Bolivian author of The Matter of Desire William Haseltine, CEO, Human Genome Sciences Dick Wilson, Author of more than 20 books about Asia including They Changed India Wilmot Hess, NASA official and Associate Director of the Department of Energy Art and Design Alan Pasternak, Energy expert and staff scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cyril Ponnamperuma, Director of the Chemical Evolution program, NASA Ames Research Center Tshewang Dendup, Starred in a film, Travelers and Magicians about Bhutan Rafael Rodriguez, Costa Rican botanist and artist, specializing in orchids Wilton Dillon, Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian David Scheuring, Founding Director, Yolo Land Trust and Director of the Cache Creek Conservancy Mohammed Ahmed Selim, Head Engineer for the High Dam in Egypt David Seaborg, An evolutionary biologist who does scientific research on evolutionary theory David Shirley, Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Theodore Taylor, Atomic weapons scientist who campaigned against nuclear weaponry Chien Shiung Wu Yuan, Considered by many to be the greatest woman physicist Yoshiko Kakudo, Curator of Japanese Arts, de Young Museum of San Francisco Bora Özkök, Director of Cultural Folk Tours and scholar of Turkish culture, folklore, and music Karl Pister, Dean of the College of Engineering, UC Berkeley, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz Lisbet Rausing, Senior research fellow at Imperial College, London Alison Dundes Renteln, Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, USC and Professor of Political Science & Anthropology Roger Revelle, One of the world's most articulate spokesmen for science and an early predictor of global warming Marion Ross, Professor of Economics Emerita and Dean of the Faculty, Mills College Urvashi Sahni, Education reformer in India Education Shankar Sastry, Director of UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Margaret Andrews, Executive Director, MBA Program, MIT Sloan School of Management Robin Sharwood, Warden Trinity College at the University of Melbourne Helmer Aslaksen, Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore Hla Shwe, UC Davis Professor of Physics and President of the Davis International House Board of Directors John Bahcall, Professor of Natural Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and President Emeritus of the American Astronomical Society Sir Albert Sloman, Chairman of United World Colleges Ermenegildo Zegna, Italian fashion designer James Cason, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley 17 Yasuhiko Torii, President, Keio University, Japan Wayne Vucinich, Professor of Eastern European Studies, Stanford University

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