International Center for Research on Women

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) was founded in 1976 and "has worked with partner organizations and governments throughout the world to promote gender equitable development, reduce poverty, and change the lives of millions of women and girls and their communities - undertaking focused, evidence-based, action-oriented research; providing technical assistance to partner organizations, donors and governments; and advocating for new or improved policies and programs.

"ICRW collaborates with individuals, governments, businesses, foundations and communities in more than 40 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and South and Central America to catalyze change."


 * Geeta Rao Gupta - President

Funding Partners
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 * Academy for Educational Development (AED)
 * Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA)
 * Altria Group Inc.
 * Becton Dickinson and Company
 * CARE
 * Catto Charitable Foundation
 * Center for Global Development
 * Columbia University
 * Commonwealth Secretariat
 * Development Alternatives Inc.
 * Elton John AIDS Foundation
 * Ford Foundation
 * Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 * GlaxoSmithKline, Positive Action Program
 * Harvard University
 * William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
 * International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
 * International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
 * International Labour Organization (ILO)
 * J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation
 * John M. Lloyd Foundation
 * Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
 * Levi Strauss Foundation
 * John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
 * M·A·C AIDS Fund
 * Macro International
 * Management Systems International (MSI)
 * Medical Research Council
 * Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
 * The Moriah Fund
 * Government of the Netherlands
 * Nike Foundation
 * David and Lucile Packard Foundation
 * Population Council
 * Population Services International (PSI)
 * Progressive Health Partners
 * The Rockefeller Foundation
 * Simmons College
 * John Snow Inc.
 * SunTrust Mid-Atlantic Foundation
 * The Trull Foundation
 * Turner Foundation
 * U.N Development Programme (UNDP)
 * U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF)
 * U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
 * Wallace Global Fund
 * World Bank
 * World Health Organization

In 2000 they received $2.5 million from the Ford Foundation.

Directors

 * Jeanne L. Warner, Chair, Adjunct Professor, St. John's University
 * Caroline Atkinson, Vice Chair, Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department, International Monetary Fund
 * Joanna Breyer, Ph.D. - Staff Psychologist, Pediatric Oncology Department, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
 * Winnie Byanyima - Director, Women, Gender and Development, The African Union
 * Stormy Byorum - Senior Managing Director, Stephens Cori Capital Advisers, LLC
 * Philip J. Deutch, Esq. - Managing Partner, NGP Energy Technology Partners
 * Carole Dickert-Scherr - Vice President, Human Resources, Public Broadcasting Service
 * Mohamed El-Erian, Ph.D. - President and CEO, Harvard Management Company
 * Julie T. Katzman - Partner, JTK Advisors/MAPA Ventures, LLC
 * Jeffrey Goldstein - Managing Director, Hellman & Friedman, LLC
 * Steven Hofman - Independent Consultant
 * Olivia M. Leland - Millennium Challenge Corp.
 * Matthew J. Mallow, Esq. - Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP
 * Charles W. Quatt, Ph.D. - President and Founder, Quatt Associates
 * Nafis Sadik, M.D. - U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
 * Lee C. Smith - Former President, Levi Strauss International

Officers of the Board Source
 * Geeta Rao Gupta, Ph.D., ICRW President (ex-officio)
 * Kathleen Barnett, Ph.D., ICRW Vice President of Programs
 * Luis Guardia, ICRW Vice President of Finance & Administration and CFO; and Treasurer of the Board
 * Elvira Bustamante, ICRW Executive Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Board

Former Staff and Directors

 * Virginia Bouvier has worked for them

Initial Board of Directors 1976

 * Beverly Brown
 * Mayra Buvinic founding member and President\
 * Irene Tinker
 * Coralie Turbitt
 * Roxann Van Dusen

Past Members of ICRW Board
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 * Nancy Birdsall former chair of board
 * Julia Chang Block
 * Sharon Camp
 * Maria Livanos Cattaui
 * Lincoln C. Chen
 * Ann Crittenden
 * Nicholas Danforth
 * Kay Davies
 * Ana Milena Muñoz de Gaviria
 * Vera de Ladoucette
 * Elaine Dinn
 * Mathea Falco
 * Constante Freeman
 * Fredrica Friedman
 * Helene Gayle
 * Adrienne Germain
 * Joan Goodin
 * Alan Goodman
 * Margaret Goodman
 * Neva R. Goodwin
 * Ravi Gulhati
 * Margaret Hagen
 * Peter Hakim
 * Robi Henry
 * Doris Holleb
 * Julie Hoover
 * Eileen Kennedy
 * Julia Lear
 * Susan B. Levine
 * Tawny Little Schneider
 * Nira H. Long
 * Eric Marler
 * Joycelin Massiah
 * Charles Maynes
 * William McGreevev
 * Shaile Avrin McLean
 * Rajiv Mehrotra
 * Thomas Merrick
 * Moises Naim
 * Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
 * Mary Okelo
 * A. Wynante Patterson
 * Per Pinstrup-Andersen
 * Yolonda C. Richardson
 * Constantina Safilios-Rothschild
 * Turid Sato
 * Amartya Sen
 * John Sewell
 * Brooke Shearer
 * Anne Sheffield
 * Elise Fiber Smith
 * Sarah Tinsley
 * Al van Huyck
 * Carl Wahren
 * Millidge Walker
 * Jeanne Warner
 * Abraham Weisblat
 * Nadia Youssef
 * George Zeidenstein
 * Robin Zeitz

Contact

 * Web: http://www.icrw.org