Board of Trustees Members
The Board of Trustees (BoT) members under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan are the governing and decision-making body of the institution who are responsible for operational matters, defining its general policies, administration and the planning of its activities. The BoT is also responsible for the establishment of its administrative and financial regulations. Currently serving BoT Members are:

Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Co-Chair, NGIC
President of Latvia 1999-2007
Ismail Serageldin
Co-Chair, NGIC
Vice-President, World Bank 1992-2000
Tarja Halonen
President of Finland
2000-2012
Marianna V. Vardinoyannis
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO
1999
Amre Moussa
Secretary General of the Arab League
2001- 2011
Boris Tadic
President of Serbia 2004-2012,
2001-2011
Ivo Josipovic
President of Croatia
2010-2015
Zlatko Lagumdzija
Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2001-2002
Rosen Plevneviev
President of Bulgaria
2012-2017
Petar Stoyanov
President of the Pepublic of Bulgaria
1997-2002
Eka Tkeshelashvili
Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia
2010-2012
Kateryna Yushchenko
First Lady of Ukraine
2005-2010
Jean Baderchneider
Senior VP, ExxonMobil
2000-2013
Kerry Kennedy
President of Robert F. Kennedy Human
Rights
Yves Leterme
Prime Minister of Belgium
2008, 2009-2011
Filip Vujanovic
President of Montenegro
2003-2018
David Pan
Executive Dean of
Schwarzman College
Tzipi Livni
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel
2006-2009