Honorary Chairs
His Excellency Ambassador of Finland Pekka Lintu
and Mrs. Laurel Colless


Honorary Committee
His Excellency Ambassador of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Salim Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al Sabah and
Sheikha Rima Al-Sabah

The Honorable Elizabeth F. Bagley

The Honorable Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)

His Excellency Ambassador of the Slovak Republic Peter Burian and Mrs. Nina Burianova

The Honorable Thad Cochran (R-MS)

The Honorable and Mrs. Walter Cutler

His Excellency Ambassador of Portugal Joao de Vallera and Mrs. Margarida de Vallera

His Excellency Ambassador of Spain Jorge Dezcallar and Mrs. Teresa Valente Dezcallar

His Excellency Ambassador of Japan Ichiro Fujisaki and Mrs. Yoriko Fujisaki

The Honorable C. Boyden Gray

His Excellency Ambassador of Sweden Jonas Hafström and Mrs. Eva Hafström

The Honorable and Mrs. Lloyd Nelson Hand

His Excellency Ambassador of Iceland Hjálmar W. Hannesson and Mrs. Anna Birgis Hannesson

The Honorable Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL)

His Excellency Ambassador of Afghanistan Said T. Jawad and Mrs. Shamim Jawad

The Honorable and Mrs. Reuben Jeffery III

Her Excellency Ambassador of Netherlands R.V.M. Renee Jones-Bos and Dr. Richard Huw Jones

His Excellency Ambassador of Greece Vassilis Kaskarelis and Mrs. Anna Kaskarelis

His Excellency Ambassador of Slovenia Roman Kirn and Mrs. Jovana Kirn

His Excellency Ambassador of Czech Republic Petr Kolář and Mrs. Jaroslava Kolářová

His Excellency Ambassador of Poland Robert Kupiecki and Mrs. Małgorzata Kupiecka

The Honorable and Mrs. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

The Honorable Barbara Lee (D-CA)

The Honorable and Mrs. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)

His Excellency Ambassador of Belgium Jan Matthysen and Mrs. Agnes Matthysen

His Excellency Ambassador of Morocco Aziz Mekouar and Mrs. Maria Felice Mekouar

His Excellency Ambassador of Syria and Mrs. Imad Moustapha

The Honorable Donald Payne (D-NJ)

His Excellency Ambassador of Denmark Friis Arne Petersen

His Excellency Ambassador of Vietnam Le Cong Phung and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Nhan

His Excellency Ambassador of Latvia Andrejs Pildegovics and Mrs. Elena Pildegovica

General and Mrs. Colin L. Powell

His Excellency Ambassador of Austria Christian Prosl and Mrs. Patricia Hurni Prosl

His Excellency Ambassador of Bangladesh and Mrs. Akramul Qader

The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

His Excellency Ambassador of Mexico Arturo Sarukhan and Mrs. Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan

His Excellency Ambassador of Germany Klaus Scharioth and Dr. Ulrike Scharioth

His Excellency Ambassador of Luxembourg Jean-Paul Senninger and Mrs. Louise Äkerblom

His Excellency Ambassador of Nepal Shankar P. Sharma and Mrs. Kalpana Sharma

His Excellency Ambassador of the United Kingdom Sir Nigel Sheinwald and Dr. Julia Dunne Sheinwald

His Excellency Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt Sameh Shoukry and Mrs. Suzy Shoukry

His Excellency Ambassador of Iraq Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida’ie and Mrs. May Yang Sumaida’ie

His Excellency Ambassador of Hungary Béla Szombati and Mrs. Zsuzsa Szombati

His Excellency Ambassador of the Argentine Republic D. Héctor Marcos Timerman and Mrs. Annabelle Sielecki

The Honorable and Mrs. Tom Udall (D-NM)

His Excellency Ambassador of Brazil Mauro Vieira

His Excellency Ambassador of Guatemala and Mrs. Francisco Villagrán de León

His Excellency Ambassador of France Pierre Vimont

The Honorable Diane Watson (D-CA)

The Honorable Frank R. Wolf (R-VA)

His Excellency Ambassador of Switzerland Urs Ziswiler and Mrs. Ronit Ziswiler

Gala Chairs
Vicki and Roger Sant

Benefit Co-chairs
Cathy Brentzel and Gay Cioffi

Young Humanitarian Co-chairs
Pamela Sorensen and Ashley Taylor


Benefit Committee