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Stephen Stamas
Chair

 


Stephen Stamas is chair of The American Assembly. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1953) and earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University (1955), which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and has a PhD from Harvard University (1957).


From 1957-1960, he served both in the US Budget Bureau and as a loan officer in the Development Loan Fund. In 1968-1969, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Policy in the US Department of Commerce. Except for this period of government service, from 1960 to 1986 Mr. Stamas was an employee of Exxon Corporation in a number of financial, supply, corporate planning and public affairs positions. He retired from Exxon Corporation as vice president-public affairs.


He is currently chair of Marlboro School of Music and co-chair of the American Trust for the British Library. He also serves on the board of the New York Philharmonic, where he was president from 1984-1989 and chair from 1989-1996, and of the Greenwall Foundation, where he was chair from 1995-99. He is director-emeritus of Lincoln Center.


He is also a director of Seacor Smit, a company supplying logistics and support vessels for the oil and gas industry.


He was formerly a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University, where he was president of the board from 1983-1985.


 

 

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James Steinberg

James Steinberg is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and cosponsor of The American Assembly's Next Generation Project. He will assume the position of Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the summer of 2011.