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Board

Luc Tayart de Borms
Luc Tayart de Borms Luc is the Chair of GuideStar International. He has been Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation since 1996. The King Baudouin Foundation supports projects and citizens that promote justice, democracy and respect for diversity. It pursues a number of operating and grant-making programs to these ends in Belgium, Europe and across the Atlantic.

Buzz Schmidt
Buzz Schmidt Buzz is the founder of the GuideStar systems in the United States and the United Kingdom. Following the success of these systems, he founded and leads GuideStar International.

Dr. Diana Wells
Dr. Diana Wells Diana is President of Ashoka, Innovators for the Public, an international association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, established to create a global competitive citizen sector by sourcing and supporting system-changing solutions to the world’s most urgent problems.

Dr. Virginia Hodgkinson
Virginia Hodgkinson 05 Virginia is a retired Georgetown University professor and leading non profit sector researcher. She is also a board member of GuideStar in the United States and played a criticial role in the development of the U.S. service.

Brian Smouha
Brian Smouha Brian is a trustee for the Institute for Philanthropy and was a senior partner at Deloitte & Touche specialising in financial institutions worldwide. He has significant experience in conducting and co-ordinating professional services in international and multi-cultural environments. His expertise in negotiating, advising and settling international disputes benefited numerous clients as well as creditors. He retired from the Partnership on 31st May, 2001.

Mathew Cherian
Mathew Cherian Mathew is CEO of HelpAge India. He was Indian Director of Oxfam, founding Director of CAF in India and a founder of the Credibility Alliance and the Network on Human Rights.

Miklós Marschall
Miklos Marschall Miklós is the regional director for Europe and Central Asia of Transparency International. He is also the director of the biannual International Anti-corruption Conference (IACC). Prior to this he was the founding executive director of CIVICUS and served as deputy mayor of Budapest, Hungary. He is the chair of the Hungarian Nonprofit Information and Training Center (NIOK) and an advisory board member of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL).

Martin Thomas
Martin Thomas Martin is non-executive Chairman of Lancashire Holdings Limited and a trustee of several other charities. A solicitor for 16 years, he has worked as a senior official of the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and on the staff of the European Commission.

Anne Wade
Anne Wade Anne is Senior Vice President and investment manager with Capital International. She is also a Trustee for ADVANCE, on the investment committee of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and is a consultative reader for New Philanthropy Capital.

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