Train Foundation

"The Train Foundation was established by The Hon. John Train in 1987. The Foundation's Board of Trustees is listed below.

"Since 2000, the Foundation has sponsored the international Civil Courage Prize, which honors extraordinary individuals whose acts, undertaken deliberately, over time, have demonstrated "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk." The Train Foundation will continue this initiative in cooperation with like-minded organizations world-wide."

Board
Accessed April 2013:


 * John Train, Trustee and Chairman - Investment Counsel; Columnist
 * Edward Streator, Trustee and President - Former U.S. Ambassador
 * Louis N. Bickford - Program Officer, Global Human Rights, Ford Foundation
 * Ariadne Calvo-Platero, Trustee and Vice President - Journalist, Editor
 * Musa T. Klebnikov, Trustee and Secretary - Executive Director, The Paul Klebnikov Fund
 * John Menzies - Former US Ambassador
 * Ann Brownell Sloane, Trustee - Senior Advisor, GHS Philanthropy Management

Officers
 * Sumner Gerard, Treasurer - Chartered Financial Analyst, Roslyn Heights, New York
 * Joslyn Cooke - Program Coordinator, Civil Courage Prize, New York, New York

Counsel
 * Thomas Hiner - Lawyer, New York, NY

Past Trustees
 * Virginia Armat Hurt - Journalist
 * John Temple Swing - Former President, Foreign Policy Association