Our Advisors
2013-2014 Advisory Boards
Corporate Advisory Board
Chair: Alan R. Crain
Baker Hughes Incorporated
Bruce E. Campbell III
Parkman Whaling
Gregory C. Crowe
Wells Fargo
Wayne A. Harms
ExxonMobil Corporation
Kay Ikawa
United Airlines
E. Daisy Liu
ConocoPhillips
Charles A. Pierce III
Accenture
Kim A. Ruth
Bank of America
Niloy Shah
BP America
Albert C. Tan
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Diplomatic Advisory Board
Chair: Chase Untermeyer
Former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar
Nana Booker AM
Honorary Consul General of Australia
Edward P. Djerejian
Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Israel
General Advisory Board
Chair: Ravi S. Chidambaram
Shell Oil Company (retired)
Dr. Selina Ahmed
Texas Southern University
Thomas Poung Au
Poung Au Design
Christopher Balat
Balcor Commercial/Hospitality
Chris Brown
City of Houston
Divya Brown
Aker Solutions
Michael D. Cannon
Menil Foundation
Dr. C.S. Agnes Cheng
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Louisiana State University
Shern-Min Chow
KHOU-TV Channel 11
Geoffrey S. Connor
Former Texas Secretary of State
Gigi Do
Houston Community College
Philip J. Dingle
Oil and Gas Executive (retired)
James N. Falk
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth
Lily Chen Foster
Sonia Garza-Monarchi
Garza Protocol Associates
Dr. Marie Goradia
Pratham USA
Viet Hoang
Yellow Magazine
Dr. Laura L. Hsu
Rice University
Dr. Shih-Shan Susan Huang
Rice University
Sockalingam Sam Kannappan, P.E.
SNC Lavalin
Dr. Basheer Khumawala
University of Houston
Dr. Saleha Khumawala
University of Houston
Dr. Anne C. Klein
Rice University
Lily Kooros
Kandu Enterprises
Vatsa N. Kumar
Sri Meenakshi Temple Society
Huan Le
DiCentral Corporation
Gin Ru Lee
Teresa Ong Lee, P.C.
Dr. Ninan T. Mathew
Houston Headache & Neurological Institute
Mary Hale McLean
Martha Turner Properties
Colleen F. Morimoto
Rice University
Judy Nyquist
Timothy K. Seo
Zafar Tahir
Taji Petroleum and Tahir Consulting
Joseph Ting
West Plaza Management, Inc.
Richard B. Vaughan
Pinto Partners
Ann Wales
Penn J. Williamson
Transocean Ltd. (retired)
Dr. Yali Zou
University of Houston