Board of Trustees
As of May 18, 2026

Chair
Fern Kaye Tessler

President
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer

Chair of the 
Executive Committee
Robert J. Hurst

Vice Chairs
Susan K. Hess
Gaurav K. Kapadia
Nancy Poses
Robert Rosenkranz

Vice Presidents
Paul Arnhold
Nancy Carrington Crown
Pamella G. DeVos
Miyoung Lee
Julie Ostrover

Secretary
Laurie M. Tisch

Treasurer
Paul C. Schorr, IV

Alice Pratt Brown Director
Scott Rothkopf, ex officio

Trustees

Judy Hart Angelo
Jill Bikoff
Leslie Bluhm
Neil G. Bluhm
Stewart Butterfield
David Cancel
David Carey
Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo
Richard M. DeMartini
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Fairfax N. Dorn
Marcia Dunn
Lise Evans
Michael Gamson
Victor F. Ganzi
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Katja Goldman
Bennett Goodman
Michael E. Kassan
Neal K. Katyal
Claudia Laviada
Jonathan O. Lee
Stephanie March
Raymond J. McGuire
Rosemary McNeely
Julie Mehretu
Brooke Garber Neidich
Mike Nickols
Alice J. Sareen
Pete Scantland
Kim Shirley
Thomas E. Tuft
Raphael Wertheimer
Ku-Ling Yurman
David Zalaznick


Honorary Chair
Flora Miller Biddle

Honorary Trustees
Joel S. Ehrenkranz
James A. Gordon
Peter Norton
Adam D. Weinberg, Director Emeritus

Past Chairs
Flora Miller Biddle
Neil G. Bluhm
Richard M. DeMartini
Susan K. Hess
Robert J. Hurst
Leonard A. Lauder
Howard Lipman
Flora Whitney Miller
Brooke Garber Neidich
David Solinger
Laurie M. Tisch
Thomas E. Tuft

Founder
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney



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