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Updated June 20, 2006

OFFICERS

Chairman Emeritus - Hon. Richard H. Nolte
Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt; Rhodes Scholar (Arabic, Arab history, Muslim law); Past President and Board member emeritus, Near East Foundation; member, World Academy of Arts and Sciences; former Board member: National Aphasia Association, Arctic Institute of North America, Fund for Peace, and Lebanese American University; former member, New York Academy of Science and Council on Foreign Relations; former Associate, HME International Advisory Associates; former Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs (now Trustee) and the Alicia Patterson Foundation; former Middle East Associate, American Universities Field Staff.

Chairman of the Council - John E. Gould, Esq.
Partner, Thompson Hine; Chairman, New Choral Society of Central Westchester; Secretary, Harvard Club of New York; Past Director, Harvard Law School Association of New York; Past President, Fordham College Alumni Association; Past President, Scarsdale Golf Club.

President Emeritus - Dr. William P. Doyle
Retired Vice President, Texaco Inc. and past President, Texaco's Middle East/Far East Division; formerly Vice President of Exploration and Producing for Texaco Latin America/West Africa, Vice President of Exploration and Producing for Texaco Europe, and Managing Director of Texaco Limited for Exploration and Producing.

Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Corresponding Individual Member of the International Geographical Union. He previously served as a Distinguished Research & Development Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Contributing Editor of GeoWorld magazine, U. S. Delegate and Expert to the International Standards Organization, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of GISWorld, member of the Steering Committee of the National Committee for Digital Cartographic Data Standards, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Geography of Arizona State University, member of the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer, and member of the Steering Committee of The Applied Geography Conferences. His current research focuses on improving methods and technology for mapping minefields. Previously, he led development of the LandScan Global Population Database which has become the world standard for estimating populations at risk during natural disasters, wars, and terrorist acts. LandScan recently gained widespread acclaim as the only feasible means of estimating populations impacted by the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Vice President - Dr. Richard W. Janson
President, Janson Industries;  Adjunct Professor of Geography, Kent State University;  Past President, Ohio Academy of Science;  member, Ohio's Industrial Technology and Enterprise Advisory Board;  charter board member,  The Wilderness Center (Ohio);  chairman, Thomas Edison Program (Ohio).

Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon; degrees in archaeology (Yale), law (Columbia), and geography (University of Chicago); editorial board, the Geographical Review;chair, Advanced Placement Geography Committee; Past President, Association of American Geogaphers; National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991-1996;  extensive publications on the political, cultural, and environmental geography of Europe.

Treasurer - John J. McCabe
Senior Vice President, Shay Assets Management Co.; former Chief Investment Officer, Nationar, Inc; former Managing Director, Sterling Manhattan Corp.;  President, New York Society of Security Analysts;  Fellow, Financial Analysts Federation;   Member, National Association of Petroleum Analysts;  Adjunct Professor of Finance, Saint Francis College; former Managing Director, Investment Management Group, Bankers Trust Co.

Assistant Treasurer - Dr. David J. Keeling
Geography Professor and Department Head, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University; specialist in development geography and on Latin America, with twenty years experience working for international business firms in England, Australia, and the U.S.; author of Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises (1996) and Contemporary Argentina: A Geographical Perspective (1997), and several book chapters, articles and reviews. David is the AGS Webmaster and a regular lecturer on the AGS Travel Program.

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Secretary - John Noble Wilford
Senior science correspondent, New York Times; author: The Mapmakers (1981), The Mysterious History of Columbus (1991), and numerous other books and articles; winner: two Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting, many other awards and honorary degrees; assignments throughout U.S. and to Europe, former Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, Canada’s Northwest Territories, Mexico, the Amazon, the Caribbean, among others; co-chairman, Mercator Society

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Assistant Secretary -- Dr. Marie Daly Price
Professor and Chair, The George Washington University;  lecturer for State Department Foreign Service Institute;  extensive field work in and publications on Latin America, especially Andean, Central American and Caribbean areas, and on environmental issues;  referee for several scholarly journals and for National Science Foundation research proposals.