Board of Advisors
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Chair

Paul C. Rosser, P.E.
Chair, Rosser International, Inc.; former commander, Reserve Naval Construction Force and First Naval Construction Brigade; former chair, Georgia Board of Electrical Contractors; former director, Georgia Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

Founding Member

Ingrid Saunders Jones
Senior vice president, The Coca-Cola Company; chair, The Coca-Cola Foundation and Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta; director, Council on Foundations, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Charter Members

Billye Suber Williams Aaron
Former vice president, United Negro College Fund; director, Morehouse College, Georgia Telecommunications Commission, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

Angela Z. Allen

Samuel E. Allen
Chairman, Globalt, Inc.

Thomas Carroll
Vice president, Mid-Atlanta Region
Tiffany and Company

Evern Cooper Epps
Retired, Past president, UPS Foundation and vice president, UPS Corporate Relations; chair, Board of Corporate Advisors of United Way of America

J. Veronica Biggins*
Partner, Heidrick & Struggles; former assistant to the President of the United States and director, Presidential Personnel

Jack Guynn
Retired, Previous President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Sidney Kirschner
Retired president and CEO, Northside Hospital

Kathryn Jo Lincoln
President, Lincoln Foundation; chair, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; director, Lincoln Electric Company, International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in the Republic of China

John D. Maguire
President emeritus, Claremont Graduate University; former president, New York's College at Old Westbury; trustee, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Business Enterprise Trust

Carlton A. Masters
President, CEO and co-founder, GoodWorks International; former executive, Bank of Montreal; director, Africare

Robert A. Meier
President, Atlanta Office
Northern Trust Bank, FSB

Laura Mendenhall
President, Columbia Theological Seminary

Michael Mescon *
Holder, Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies; founder and chair, HA&W Mescon Group; dean emeritus, Georgia State University College of Business Administration

Alicia Philipp *
President, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; director, Central Atlanta Progress; leadership roles in the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, the Council on Foundations Community Foundation Leadership Team

Sally Rosser *
Strategic and Planning Consultant; member, Governor's Action Group for Safe Children

John Rutherford Seydel, II
Of Counsel, Lawson Davis Pickren & Seydel; co-founder and chair, Upper Chattahoochee RiverKeeper Fund; director, Southern Environmental Law Center, Trust for Public Land, Council for Western Rivers

Paula Stephan
Professor Emerita of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Russ Toal
Institute of Public Health, College of Health and Human Sciences, Georgia State University; Former commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Health; former president and CEO, Georgia 1st, Inc.

Dianne Wisner
Development and Policy Consultant; assistant to Andrew Young; formerly with GoodWorks International

Andrea Young
Vice President, National Black Child Development Institute and
Project Director SPARK DC; Executive Committee, Mayor's Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Development, Washington, DC

Andrew J. Young
Chairman, GoodWorks International; former chairman, Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund; ordained minister, international businessman, human rights activist, author and former U.S. representative, ambassador and Atlanta mayor

Carolyn McClain Young
Executive, GoodWorks International; former educator; director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Apex Museum, Starlight Foundation, Literacy Action

Dean

James Alm
Dean, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies; professor at Georgia State University; former professor at University of Colorado at Boulder; editor of Public Finance Review and associate editor of Review of Economics of the Household and Economic Inquiry.

* Note: Several members of the advisory board hold Georgia State University degrees: J. Veronica Biggins (M.Ed. '70), Alicia Philipp (M.B.A. '82), and Sally Rosser (M.H.A. '75).