The Drug Strategies Board has provided wisdom, guidance, and support. Their work and impact will be remembered. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board of Directors

  • Mathea Falco

    President, Drug Strategies
    Former U.S. Sectary of State for International Narcotic Matters

  • Louise Bryson

    Chair Emerita, J. Paul Getty Trust

  • Marian Wright Edelman

    President Emerita, Children’s Defense Fund

  • James R. Jones

    Board Chair
    Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Former Member of Congress

  • Michael Kantor

    Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
    Former U.S. Trade Representative

  • Dr. A. Thomas McLellan

    Former Deputy Director, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy

  • Morris Panner

    CEO, Ambra Health

  • Marni Vliet

    Former President, Kansas Health Foundation

  • Hubert Williams

    Former President, Police Foundation

Former Board Members

  • Rosalind P. Brannigan (1942-2005)

    Vice-President of Drug Strategies, 1993-2004, whose vision, energy and dedication to improving public health inspired Drug Strategies' work.

  • Robert Carswell (1928–2016)

    Senior Partner, Shearman & Sterling

  • Dr. Michael Crichton (1942–2008)

    Author, Film Director

  • Neil Goldschmidt (1940-2024)

    Board Chair, Drug Strategies, 1993-2003

    Former Governor of Oregon, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

  • Dr. Avram Goldstein (1919–2012)

    Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Stanford University

  • Dr. Pedro José Greer

    Florida International University School of Medicine

  • Dr. Margaret Hamburg

    Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    Former Commissioner of Health, New York City

  • Lee Hamilton

    Former Member of Congress
    Former Director, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.

  • Philip Heymann (1932-2021)

    Board Chair, Drug Strategies, 2009-2020

    Harvard Law School Professor, Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General

  • Dr. Dean Jamison

    Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington

  • Dr. David A. Kessler

    Former FDA Commissioner
    Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, UCSF

  • Mark Kleiman (1951-2019)

    Professor of Public Policy, NYU
    Chairman, BOTEC Analysis Corporation

  • Robert S. McNamara (1916–2009)

    Former President, World Bank
    Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

  • Dr. Robert B. Millman (1939–2017)

    Board Chair, Drug Strategies, 2003-2009

    Psychiatrist, New York

  • Norval Morris (1923–2004)

    University of Chicago Law School

  • Howard E. Prunty

    Former President, National Association of Black Social Workers

  • Alice Rivlin (1931-2019)

    Brookings Institution
    Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve

  • Charles Ruff (1939–2000)

    Former White House Counsel

  • Dr. Thomas Schelling (1921–2016)

    Nobel Laureate
    Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

  • Herbert Sturz (1931-2021)

    Senior Advisor, Open Society Foundations

  • Hope Taft

    Co-Founder, Ohio Parents for a Drug-Free Youth

  • Nancy Dickerson Whitehead (1927–1997

    President, Television Corporation of America