People in the News (6/19/05): Appointments and Promotions

The New York City-based Carnegie Corporation has elected NORMAN PEARLSTINE to its board. Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time, Inc., previously spent more than twenty years at the Wall Street Journal in a variety of posts, including executive editor, managing editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, and editor and publisher of the Wall Street Journal/Europe. He also helped launched the magazine Smart Money and was a general partner of Friday Holdings LP. He is president of the Atsuko Chiba Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Jack and Jill of America Foundation in Washington, D.C., has named GRACE SPEIGHTS as president. Speights, partner in the labor and employment law practice of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, currently serves on the advisory committee on local rules for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and as chair of the D.C. chapter of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. She was formerly a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, a representative for the National Bar Association, a member of the District of Columbia Federal Judicial Nominations Commission, and vice president of the Coalition for the Homeless.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has named ROBERT B. MENSCHEL as board chairman and MARIE-JOS�E KRAVIS as president. Menschel, a museum trustee since 1989, served as board president and chair of the museum's executive committee. He replaces Ronald S. Lauder, who has served as chair since 1995, and will become chairman emeritus. Kravis joined the museum's board in 1994 and became its vice chairman in 2004.

The D.C.-based Global AIDS Alliance has named MPHO TUTU as board chair. Tutu, resident clergy at Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia, and a daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has consulted for the Carnegie Corporation and was program director at the Phelps Stokes Fund from 1988 to 1993. Prior to her seminary education, she ran after-school and summer programs for children from poor and single-parent homes, developed a pastoral care program for rape survivors, and worked at a shelter for women and children who had suffered from domestic violence.

In other news, the D.C-based Hudson Institute has named KENNETH R. WEINSTEIN as CEO and DEBORAH L. HOOPES as vice president and CFO. Weinstein, a former research fellow at the institute, recently served as its vice president and COO. He previously directed the government reform project at the Heritage Foundation, was director of research at the New Citizenship Project, and taught political science at Georgetown University. Hoopes, who has worked at the institute for seventeen years, was formerly controller of the Indiana Department of Transportation and a field auditor with the Indiana State Board of Accounts.

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