Global Affairs Advisory Council

Supporting the Global Affairs mission to inspire global curiosity, understanding, and engagement.

Council members are ambassadors who promote Global Affairs initiatives, including Global Education for All, and support Global Affairs priorities through events, alumni engagement and philanthropic leadership.

Global Affairs Advisory Council Members

Caroline Cabias '72

Former Chief Financial Officer, State of California Board of Equalization

Naomi Carrillo-Martin

Undergraduate Student Representative
Majoring in Civil Engineering, Minoring in Global Studies and Languages 

Jennifer Clinton Ph.D. '03

President and CEO, Cultural Vistas

Allan E. Goodman

President Emeritus, Institute of International Education (IIE)

Ralph Hexter

Former UC Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and Former Interim Chancellor 
Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

Eivind Lange, III '77

President, Paradigm Sports

Sunjo Claris Nyuysoni

Graduate Student Representative
Ph. D. Candidate, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Mari Pangestu '86

Former Managing Director, World Bank
Former Minister of Trade, Indonesia
Former Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Indonesia

David W. Pearson '84

Maison President, Joseph Phelps Vineyards

Sandra Perez '84

Former Director, UC California Program on Access to Care 

Naoki Shimazaki '80

Partner, GCA Law Partners LLP
Chief Investment Counsel, TEL Venture Capital
Chair, Global Affairs Advisory Council

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• Former Global Affairs Advisory Council Members

• Sudikshya Bhandari
  Graduate Student Representative
  Ph.D. Candidate, Geography

  Pamela Ching '81
  Former Senior Research Epidemiologist, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  
  Stella Chung
  Undergraduate Student Representative
  Double majoring in Psychology and Design, Minoring in Professional Writing
  
  Esther Luna DeLozier '03
  Graduate Student Representative
  Ph.D. , Ethnomusicology
  
  Daniel “Dan” M. Dooley '73
  Principal, New Current Water and Land, LLC
  
  Rishita Kumar
  Undergraduate Student Representative
  Double majoring in Science and Technology Studies and Human Rights
  
  Evan Pearson '22
  Undergraduate Student Representative
  
  Cecelia Lakatos Sullivan '83
  President and CEO, CLS Consultants
  
  Ann M. Veneman '70
  Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
  
  Evie White
  Undergraduate Student Representative