THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release
October 13, 2000
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES MORA McLEAN AS MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
INSTITUTE OF PEACE
The President today announced the nomination of Mora McLean as a member of
the Board of Directors of the Institute of Peace.
Ms. Mora McLean, of New York, New York, is President of the Africa-American
Institute (AAI), a 45-year old non-profit organization whose mission is to
foster development in Africa through education and training, to promote
educational and cultural exchange, and to inform policy dialogue and mutually
beneficial trade and investment ties between Americans and Africans. Prior to
joining AAI, Ms. McLean, served as Deputy Director for Africa and Middle East
programs for the Ford Foundation. She spent five years in the Ford Foundation,s
Lagos, Nigeria office, first as Assistant Representative for West Africa and
then as Representative for West Africa through the end of 1994.
Ms. McLean received a B.A. in African Studies at Wesleyan University and a
J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
The United States Institute of Peace is a bi-partisan board established in
1948 by an Act of Congress to promote international peace and the resolution of
international conflict without violence through education, training, research,
and public information. The Institute has a staff of 47 and an annual budget of
approximately $11 million. The Board of Directors is composed of fifteen voting
members. Each Board member should have appropriate practical or academic
experience in U.S. peace and conflict resolution efforts. In addition, no more
than eight (8) of the fifteen (15) voting members of the Board may belong to the
same political party. Members of the Board serve a four-year term.
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