National Advisory Committee

Associate Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu Dhabi.

Chair, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. Director, ALSTOM (Paris); Member, Board of Trustees, Vornado Realty Trust. Trustee, The Wallace Foundation.

Historian. Author of bestselling biography, Alexander Hamilton.

Former President, National League, Major League Baseball. Member of board of directors of: Avis, H.J. Heinz Co., and Aramark Corp. Chairperson, The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Member, Board of Directors, the Children's Defense Fund. Former Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.

Junot Díaz is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is a professor at M.I.T.

President, MTV Networks Entertainment Group. Doug is a Paterson native who has previouly  held senior positions with Comedy Central, USA Network, CNN and TBS.

Former Governor of New Jersey. Former Chairman, 9/11 Commission.

Chairman, S.D. Malkin Properties and Value Retail PLC, London, U.K.

Executive Vice President , The Biltmore Company, Asheville, N.C.

President, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets, and Professor of Economics, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Comedy writer for the Oscars and other shows, actor, and contributor to concerts by Bette Midler, whose parents also were from Paterson.