Heritage Foundation

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The Heritage Foundation

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BS “Mission”:

To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

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Heritage’s policy centers include: Asian Studies Center, B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, Center for Data Analysis, Center for Health Policy Studies, Center for International Trade and Economics, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Center for Media and Public Policy, DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, Domestic Policy Studies, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, The Kathryn and Shelby Collum Davis Institute for International Studies, The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.

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Board of Trustees

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Chairman
Thomas A. Saunders III, Heritage Trustee Since 2005

Prior to founding Saunders Karp & Megrue, a private equity firm, in 1990, Mr. Saunders served as a managing director of Morgan Stanley & Co. from 1974 to 1989. Mr. Saunders serves on a number of boards, but he is particularly interested in higher education and research institutions and has contributed generously to them. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, where he served as the immediate past chair. He is a past member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia and the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute. Additionally, Mr. Saunders is the former Chairman of the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business Foundation and was Co-Chair of the recently completed Capital Campaign at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Saunders received his BS from the Virginia Military Institute in 1958 and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School in 1967. Mr. Saunders is married to the former Mary Jordan Horner, the daughter of U. S. Marine Corps Major General Matthew C. Horner, deceased. The Saunders reside in New York City and Locust Valley, New York. They have two children, Mrs. Calvert Saunders Moore of New York and Thomas A. Saunders, IV of California, and three grandchildren.

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Vice Chairman
Richard M. Scaife, Heritage Trustee Since 1985,
Publisher and Owner, Tribune-Review Publishing Co., Inc., Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Scaife’s extensive involvement in the publishing industry – he is the owner and Chairman of the Board of the Tribune-Review as well as a number of radio stations – has brought a refreshing alternative voice to the media markets of Western Pennsylvania, including his hometown of Pittsburgh. His enduring commitment to the free society is evident in his role as a director with the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council and his service on the boards of the Hoover Institution, Pepperdine University and other major educational institutions.

During the Reagan and Bush administrations, Scaife served as a presidentially appointed member of the U.S. Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, which oversees the U.S. Information Agency. One of the Pittsburgh area’s leading philanthropists – he chairs the Sarah Scaife Foundation, The Allegheny Foundation and the Carthage Foundation – Scaife is a frequent speaker and commentator on U.S. strategic interests.

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Secretary
J. Frederic Rench, Heritage Trustee Since 1973

Rench is leader of the movement to spur citizen activism in electoral politics, having pioneered new methods of mobilizing conservative political involvement at the local level. His role in engineering a number of political upsets over the years has been noted by media in and around his hometown of Racine, Wisc.

The former Chairman and CEO of Racine Industries Inc., an international carpet-care firm, Rench is a founding Trustee of Heritage. He also serves on the Boards of St. John’s Military Academy and the Free Congress Foundation and is a past member of the Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

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Meg Allen , Heritage Trustee Since 2009

Meg Allen is currently Director, DRAMLA S.A., Geneva. Born and raised in the U.S.A. (Hawaii, then California), her qualifications include a BSc. Degree (Accounting and Economics) and an Investment Management Certificate.

Meg co-founded the partnership, DRAMLA Consulting U.K. in 1984 where she was responsible for financial management and providing intermediary services for companies looking to establish joint ventures in China. In 1995 she co-founded DRAMLA S.A. in Geneva where she is currently Director responsible for portfolio management.

Meg co-manages a charitable foundation which supports health, education, arts, sports and community projects. Other than family and sports activities, she has several interests and commitments in the Arts and in Transatlantic politics. Meg is married to David and they have three children.

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Douglas F. Allison, Heritage Trustee Since 1998

Mr. Allison was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Allison-Fisher, Inc., an automotive marketing research and consultancy firm with offices in Southfield, Michigan and Gardena, California. Before founding Allison-Fisher, Inc. in 1980, Mr. Allison was a partner in an investment company that purchased and operated banks in the United States and Europe.

During approximately 20 years with the Ford Motor Company, Mr. Allison served in a number of managerial positions. He graduated from the University of Detroit magna cum laude with a BS in aeronautical engineering. Mr. Allison also serves on the Board of Governors of the Skyline Club and a member of the Economic Club of Detroit. Mr. Allison resides in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan with his wife Sarah.

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Larry P. Arnn, Ph.D. , Heritage Trustee Since 2002
President, Hillsdale College, Michigan

Arnn has been President of Hillsdale, a prominent liberal arts college, since 1999. Before that, he served as president of the Claremont Institute, a think tank based in southern California.

Arnn received his bachelor’s degree in political science and accounting in 1974 from Arkansas State University. He later studied at the Claremont Graduate School, receiving his master’s degree in government there in 1976 and his doctorate in government in 1985. He also studied in England from 1977 to 1980, first as a research student at the London School of Economics and then at Worcester College at Oxford University. Later, Arnn worked as director of research for Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill.

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The Hon. Belden H. Bell, Heritage Trustee Since 2000

Dr. Belden Bell has served as Counselor to the President of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. and now serves on the Board of Trustees of that body. A lawyer, author and journalist, Dr. Bell served, from 1985 to 1990 as OAS Ambassador/Director to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. He acted in 1996 as deputy chief of staff to the Jack Kemp Vice Presidential campaign and was an alternate delegate from Virginia to the GOP national convention, and again in 2004. In 2000 he was elected a full delegate from Virginia’s 8th District. In 1992 he was the Presidential Elector from Virginia’s Eighth District. During the Reagan years he first served as campaign Foreign Policy and Defense Advisors Coordinator under Richard V. Allen, was a member of the State Department Transition Team for President-elect Reagan, and was then named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs. He then served in a similar capacity at USIA. Bell has also served as Deputy Attorney General of Indiana and had a long career as a senior congressional aide, including serving as deputy director of the House Republican Study Committee. In 1976 he was Republican nominee for Congress, losing the general election by 4/10 of 1%. Dr. Bell is an Eisenhower Fellow ( ROC-Taiwan), and has been an international observer in national elections in Zimbabwe and The Island of Nevis. He formerly practiced law in Evansville, Indiana and was assistant tri-state editor of the Evansville Courier. He has just completed a four-year term on the Board of Visitors for The College of William and Mary and now serves on the Richard Bland College Foundation board. He was educated at Dartmouth College, Indiana University (BA) and Emory University Law School (Doctor of Laws).

Bell authored Nicaragua: An Ally Under Siege and has written two newspaper columns. He has contributed articles to Human Events and the Washington Post. The Bells are the parents of three daughters, and live with several dogs and an unrepentant parrot. They make their home in Marshall, Fauquier County, Virginia, where Bell is a member of the Fauquier GOP Committee. He serves as an Elder in Warrenton Presbyterian Church.

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Midge Decter, Heritage Trustee Since 1981
New York, New York

Decter’s incisive writing on a range of topics has proven invaluable to the conservative movement. A former editor at Basic Books, her writing has graced the pages of Commentary, First Things, Harper’s and a number of other publications. Her books include “The New Chastity”, “Liberal Parents, Radical Children”. and the recent “Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait”. A Senior Fellow at the Institute on Religion and Public Life in New York City, Decter previously served as Executive Director of the Committee for a Free World, a powerful voice for anti-communism that she voluntarily disbanded after the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of Soviet communism.

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Edwin J. Feulner, Heritage Trustee Since 1973
President, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Heritage’s President Edwin J. Feulner is the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal from Ronald Reagan for his work as “a leader of the conservative movement.” He is a former Director of the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served as Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, a member of the Commission on Reforming the International Financial Institutions (the “Meltzer Commission), and on the UNESCO Assessment Commission.

He has served as President of both the Mont Pelerin Society, the world’s foremost body of conservative intellectuals, and of The Philadelphia Society, and as Chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and consulted for President Reagan on domestic policy issues. As an active leader of the conservative movement, his books include “Conservatives Stalk the House,” “Leadership for America” and “The March of Freedom.”

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Steve Forbes, Heritage Trustee Since 2001
President and Chief Executive Officer, Forbes Inc.

A former presidential candidate, Forbes has carved out a distinguished career as both a business executive and a journalist. The head of Forbes Inc. since 1990, he has launched several new ventures, including Forbes.com and successful supplements to-and foreign editions of-the company’s flagship publication, FORBES magazine. He also chairs the company’s subsidiary, AMERICAN HERITAGE, and is editor-in chief of FORBES magazine.

Long active in public affairs, Forbes served as chairman of the bipartisan Board of International Broadcasting, which oversaw Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, from 1985 to 1993. He is a past chairman of the Board of Directors for Empower America and was Honorary Chairman of Americans for Hope, Growth and Opportunity. He also serves as a Trustee of Princeton University (his alma mater) and on numerous other boards.

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Robert J. Herbold, Heritage Trustee Since 2003
Retired Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft

Bob Herbold, retired executive vice president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corp., is the Managing Director of The Herbold Group, LLC, a consulting business focused on profitability, strategic, and operational issues. Herbold is also an Operating Partner of the private equity firm Thoma Cressey Bravo and serves on the Board of Directors of Agilent Technologies, Indachin Ltd. Hong Kong and Vision Solutions Inc. In 2001 he was appointed by President Bush to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and currently chairs the Education Subcommittee of the Council.

Herbold joined Microsoft in 1994 as executive vice president and chief operating officer, retiring in 2001. Prior to joining Microsoft, he spent 26 years at The Procter & Gamble Co. In his last five years with P&G, he served as senior vice president of marketing. Herbold has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati and both a master’s degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.

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Todd W. Herrick, Heritage Trustee Since 2007
Retired chairman, president and CEO of Tecumseh Products Co.

Tecumseh Products Co. is a family-owned business in Tecumseh, Mich., that makes compressors, small engines, power-train products for lawn mowers and garden equipment, and industrial pumps.

Herrick joined the Heritage board in September 2007, but he is no newcomer to the non-profit world. For years he has served as chairman of the Herrick Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in Michigan. Herrick also serves on the boards of: Howe Military School, University of Notre Dame School of Business and the University of Michigan School of Engineering. In addition, he is chairman of the board at Thermogy, a for-profit company that develops alternative power.

Herrick has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame in 1967. From 1968-1973, he served as an Army helicopter pilot, retiring with the rank of captain. He and his wife, Linda, live near Harbor Springs, Mich., and have three grown children.

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Jerry Hume, Heritage Trustee Since 1993
Chairman of the Board, Basic American Inc., San Francisco, California

Hume, the Chairman of the Board of Basic American Inc., a San Francisco-based international food service company, has been an active leader of business efforts to improve America’s educational system. Appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to serve on the California State Board of Education, he has championed such education reforms as “school choice” and actively promoted economic literacy as the Chairman of the Foundation for Teaching Economics.

A former Chairman of the California Academy of Sciences, he also has served on the boards of the California Council on Economic Education and TEACH America, a Chicago-based organization that promotes school choice. He currently serves on the board of the Center for Education Reform, which also strongly promotes school choice.

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Kay Coles James, Heritage Trustee Since 2005

Kay Coles James was the former director of the federal Office of Personnel Management. As director, she ran an agency charged with the personnel administration of 1.8 million federal workers. The agency itself had more than 3,600 employees nationwide, an annual budget of more than $261 million and trust funds that yielded more than $29 billion.

Before becoming director, James served as a Heritage distinguished fellow and director of its Citizenship Project. Prior to that, she was dean of the School of Government at Regent University and served as chair of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. She is a graduate of Hampton University and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the University of Virginia’s Publius Award for Public Service. James is married to Charles James Sr., has three children and one grandchild. She lives in Fairfax, Va.

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The Hon. J. William Middendorf II, Heritage Trustee Since 1989
Chairman, Middendorf and Company, Washington, D.C.

Middendorf has served a number of presidential administrations in high-level positions, including Secretary of the Navy and Ambassador to the European Communities, the Organization of American States, and the Netherlands. A delegate to presidential nominating conventions as far back as Barry Goldwater’s in 1964, Middendorf remains active in shaping conservative foreign, defense and economic policy through regular meetings with staff members on Capitol Hill.

An “intellectual force” behind the North American Free Trade Agreement, having written about the concept of a free-trade area uniting the region as early as 1988 in Heritage’s “Mandate for Leadership III,” Middendorf also is a true renaissance man with interests in both music — he wrote Heritage’s theme march — and art.

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Abby Moffat, Heritage Trustee Since 2009

Moffat, formerly the owner-operator of an event-planning business, is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Media Research Center as well as treasurer of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. She is a veteran leader on the boards of nonprofits, having also served in that role for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Radio America, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, the Center for Security Policy and the Institute for World Politics. Moffat, a graduate of Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., is affiliated with the Philanthropy Roundtable and Capital Speakers Group. She resides in Bethesda, Md.

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Nersi Nazari, Ph.D., Heritage Trustee since 2006
Founder & President, Pacific General Ventures

In 2003, Nazari founded Pacific General Ventures, which invested in semiconductor and software companies. Nazari served as CEO of the firm’s portfolio company, Teranetics Inc. (acquired by PLX Technology) from 2009 to 2010.

Before Pacific General, Nazari was a vice president at Marvell Semiconductor Inc., where his responsibilities included the development of storage and communications products.

From 1994 to 1997, Nazari was chief technologist at GEC Plessey Semiconductor. Before that, he was an engineer at Seagate Technology and Digital Equipment Corp. He holds eight patents.

In 2003, Nazari established the Hasbun Nazari Charitable Fund, which supports various charities worldwide with an emphasis on children’s education and welfare, health-care research and public policy. He holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Colorado and lives in Atherton, California.

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Robert Pennington , Heritage Trustee Since 2009

Pennington most recently was the overseer of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., his alma mater. His background in financial leadership also includes serving as executive vice president for the stock brokerage Dean Witter Reynolds in the early 1980s before becoming president of Intercapital Investment Management, a New York firm. Pennington later served as president and director of Capital Guardian Trust Co., part of the Capital Group Cos. Inc. He resides in Darien, Conn.

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William E. Simon, Jr., Heritage Trustee Since 2008

William E. Simon, Jr., brings his experience as a financier, federal prosecutor and “philanthropist” to The Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Simon is currently Executive Director of William E. Simon & Sons LLC, a global merchant bank he co-founded with his brother and his father, former Treasury Secretary and “energy czar” William E. Simon, Sr. Since its founding in 1988, the firm has built and manages a diverse and significant investment portfolio, with holdings in real estate, private equity and fixed-income securities. From 1985 to 1988, Simon served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York under then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the William E. Simon Foundation and the Cynthia L. and William E. Simon, Jr., Foundation.

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Brian Tracy, Heritage Trustee since 2003, Heritage Associate, Founder, Brian Tracy International, San Diego, California

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and high levels of achievement.

Brian is an internationally known and respected authority addressing half a million people each year on leadership, management, sales, personal development, strategic planning, goal-setting, time management, creativity, and many other diverse topics. Brian has worked at IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas, and The Million Dollar Round Table.He has produced more than 400 different audio and video learning programs covering the entire spectrum of human and corporate performance.

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Phillip N. Truluck, Heritage Trustee Since 2001
Executive Vice President, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC

Truluck is Heritage’s chief operating officer, responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations. During 1982 and 1983, he served on the Executive Committee of the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, more commonly known as the Grace Commission.

Prior to joining Heritage in 1977, he was on the staffs of Sen. Strom Thurmond and Rep. Ben Blackburn, and served as Deputy Director of the Republican Study Committee. He is a founding director and current member of the Board of Directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise, an affiliate of the National Endowment for Democracy.

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Barb Van Andel-Gaby, Heritage Trustee Since 1996
CEO, Peter Island Resort.

Marion is a long-time member of the Board of Trustees of Capital Research Center, which is headed by Heritage’s former Vice-President, Terry Scanlon. Marion has also served as an advisor to several civic organizations, including: Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, the Cleveland Clinic of Florida, and the Board of The Orleans.

Since 1992, she has been a Co-Chairman of The Heritage Legacy Society, a group of Heritage supporters who make gifts through their estates so Heritage will be a permanent voice in Washington for conservative principles. Marion is also a trustee of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Marion’s late husband, Preston “Dick” Wells, was a long time Heritage trustee before passing away in 2003. She continues his legacy as a stalwart advocate of conservative principles in America.
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Honorary Chairman and Trustee Emeritus
David R. Brown, M.D., Heritage Trustee Since 1978
Emeritus, Orthopedic Associates, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dr. David R. Brown maintained a private practice as an orthopedic surgeon in Oklahoma City and was a Clinical Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Brown is Retired Chairman of Orthopedic Associates, Incorporated. And serves on governing boards for the Heritage Foundation, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs and several nonprofit organizations. Dr. Brown was a member of the OMRF Board from 1976 to 2001. He served as Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2001.

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HONORARY TRUSTEES

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Kathryn Davis, Heritage Trustee since 1994
Partner, Shelby Cullom Davis & Co., LP, New York, New York

Much of The Heritage Foundation’s success in foreign and defense studies can be traced directly to the guidance and support of Dr. Kathryn Davis and her husband, the late Ambassador Shelby Cullom Davis.
An adventurer, scholar and visionary, Dr. Davis has exercised her interest in foreign affairs for more than three-quarters of a century. She celebrated her 1929 graduation from Wellesley College by searching the Caucasus Mountains, on horseback, to find an obscure Muslim tribe. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Geneva. She was a researcher for the Council on Foreign Relations throughout the 1930s.

In 1991, she and her husband received the first Clare Boothe Luce Award, Heritage’s highest honor. Six years later, Dr. Davis established the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at Heritage. The Davis Institute today addresses virtually every aspect of foreign policy with analyses produced from four study centers: the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, the Asian Studies Center, the Center for International Trade and Economics and the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

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The Hon. Frank Shakespeare, Heritage Trustee Since 1979
former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, La Jolla, California

Ambassador Shakespeare’s belief in the power of ideas is exemplified by his role as Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting during the Reagan administration. Under his leadership, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty carried the message of freedom behind the Iron Curtain and helped bring the Cold War to a successful conclusion. Heritage’s Board Chairman from 1981 to 1985, Shakespeare went on to serve as Ambassador to both Portugal and the Holy See (Vatican City). He also has served as President of RKO General Inc., Director of the U.S. Information Agency, and President of CBS Television Services. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisc.

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PATRON OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher, LG, PC, OM, FRS
Former British Prime Minister

In September 2006, Baroness Thatcher added a unique title to her list of honors: Patron of The Heritage Foundation. It is a designation that recognizes her “singular contributions as a leader of the free world and to the improvement of the life of her nation and people.”

As Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, Margaret Thatcher joined her “noble friend,” U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in directly challenging the oppressive communism of the Soviet Empire. The Russian people honored her efforts by nicknaming her the “Iron Lady.”

Lady Thatcher also restored Great Britain to its position as a world power through economic reforms emphasizing deregulation and privatization. The success of her economic policies led other nations–including those in newly free Central and Eastern Europe–to adopt similar market-based reforms.

In 2005, Lady Thatcher selected The Heritage Foundation to house the new Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. The Thatcher Center specializes in the study of transatlantic relations, with a special emphasis on advancing initiatives to strengthen the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain.

Lady Thatcher has spoken at The Heritage Foundation on a number of occasions. In an open letter to Heritage members, she noted that she looks to Heritage “to carry forward my legacy in the United States” because it is “an organization committed to defending and restoring sound conservative principles.”

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