Maureen White

Maureen White is the Refugees International Board Chair (joined in 2018). She is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

She was appointed as Senior Advisor on Humanitarian Issues to Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke in the Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) at the Department of State from 2009-2013. She traveled extensively in both countries dealing with the needs of people who were displaced as a result of conflict and natural disasters. In the Clinton Administration, she represented the U.S. Government at the United Nations Children’s Fund from 1997-2001. 

Ms. White also serves on a number of boards for organizations focused on international and humanitarian issues. She has served on the board of the International Rescue Committee–UNHCR’s largest implementing partner–since 1994. Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Democratic Institute and the American Academy in Berlin. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Women’s Foreign Policy Group. 

Ms. White has a B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College and an M.Sc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics. She is married to Steven Rattner, and they have four children.