Board of Directors
Yasuhide Nakayama

Yasuhide Nakayama

Yasuhide Nakayama was first elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 2003, and since then has been reelected to the Diet on five occasions as a representative for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Thomas E. Patterson

Thomas E. Patterson

Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum

John Quelch

John Quelch

Co-Founder, and Member of Board of Directors, Board of Thinkers , Boston Global Forum. John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He holds a joint appointment at Harvard School of Public Health as...

Elisabeth Moreno

Elisabeth Moreno

Elisabeth Moreno is a French-Cape Verdean, born in Cape Verde in 1970 and moved to France in 1976. She has successively been an entrepreneur, senior executive, consular judge, minister, and businesswoman. Holding a Master’s degree in Business Law in France and a dual...

Nazli Choucri

Nazli Choucri

Member of BGF’s Board of Thinkers; Professor of Political Science at MIT; Co-founder, member of GC Development Council & Global Citizenship Educators at Global Citizenship Education Network

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

The Toshiba Professor at MIT, Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics lab, Co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age