National Advisory Board

Associate Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu Dhabi.

Chair, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. Director, ALSTOM (Paris); Member, Board of Trustees, Vornado Realty Trust. Trustee, The Wallace Foundation.

Author, Alexander Hamilton, American; Senior Editor, National Review; Historian Curator, "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America," New-York Historical Society; Host, PBS Documentary, Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, 2011

Historian. Author of bestselling biography, Alexander Hamilton.

Former President, National League, Major League Baseball. Member of board of directors of: Avis, H.J. Heinz Co., and Aramark Corp. Chairperson, The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Member, Board of Directors, the Children's Defense Fund. Former Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.

Junot Díaz is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is a professor at M.I.T.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Architecture Critic for The New Yorker.

Fifth great grandson of Alexander Hamilton.

President, MTV Networks Entertainment Group. Doug is a Paterson native who has previouly  held senior positions with Comedy Central, USA Network, CNN and TBS.

Vice President, Brookings Institution; Founding Director, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program; Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Former Governor of New Jersey. Former Chairman, 9/11 Commission.

Chairman, S.D. Malkin Properties and Value Retail PLC, London, U.K.

Executive Vice President , The Biltmore Company, Asheville, N.C.

President Emeritus, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Former President, World Wildlife Fund; Co-chair, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling; Senior Advisor, TPG Capital LP

Descendant of Alexander Hamilton. Served in six agencies of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and State. Former legal adviser to the U.S. Strategic Arms Limitation Delegation, General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets, and Professor of Economics, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Comedy writer for the Oscars and other shows, actor, and contributor to concerts by Bette Midler, whose parents also were from Paterson.