Board of Trustees
As of September 22, 2021

Chairman Emeritus
Leonard A. Lauder

Honorary Chairman
Flora Miller Biddle

Chairman
Richard M. DeMartini

President
Fern Kaye Tessler

Chairman of the
Executive Committee
Robert J. Hurst

Vice Chairmen
Nancy Carrington Crown
Pamella G. DeVos
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Miyoung Lee
Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer

Vice Presidents
Gaurav K. Kapadia
Nancy Poses
Scott Resnick
Robert Rosenkranz
David W. Zalaznick

Secretary
Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo

Treasurer
Richard D. Segal

Alice Pratt Brown Director
Adam D. Weinberg, ex officio

Trustees

Judy Hart Angelo
Paul Arnhold
Jill Bikoff
Leslie Bluhm
Neil G. Bluhm
David Carey
Henry Cornell
Fiona Irving Donovan
Fairfax N. Dorn
Lise Evans
Victor F. Ganzi
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Robert B. Goergen
Katja Goldman
Bennett Goodman
Kenneth C. Griffin
Susan K. Hess
Michael E. Kassan, ex officio
Claudia Laviada
Raymond J. Learsy
Jonathan O. Lee
Raymond J. McGuire
Julie Mehretu
Eric L. Motley
Brooke Garber Neidich
Julie Ostrover
John C. Phelan
Jen Rubio
Mary E. Bucksbaum Scanlan
Paul C. Schorr, IV
Jonathan S. Sobel
Laurie M. Tisch
Thomas E. Tuft
Fred Wilson

Honorary Trustees
Joel S. Ehrenkranz
James A. Gordon
Emily Fisher Landau
Thomas H. Lee
Gilbert C. Maurer
Peter Norton

In Memoriam
Melva Bucksbaum
B.H. Friedman
Brendan Gill
Susan Morse Hilles
Michael H. Irving
Roy R. Neuberger
Robert W. Wilson

Past Chairmen
Flora Miller Biddle
Neil G. Bluhm
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

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney


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