Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees has a general charge of the affairs, property and assets of Central European University. The Trustees carry out the aims and purposes of the Corporation, formulate strategy for the implementation of endeavors defined in the preamble of the University By-Laws, and, to this end, manage and control all of its property.

The Board of Trustees decides upon establishment or cessation of teaching sites and departments, after consulting the Senate and the President and Rector. The Board of Trustees issues financial guidelines, and decides upon possible departures from such guidelines. The Board of Trustees decides upon tuition fees.

Members

Leon Botstein, Chairman of the Board
(Bard College, New York)

George Soros, Honorary Chairman of the Board
(Soros Fund Management, New York)

Gerhard Casper
(Stanford University, Stanford)

Akos Detrekoi
(Hungarian National Council for Communications and Information Technology)

Yehuda Elkana
(CEU President and Rector)

Patricia Albjerg Graham
(Harvard University)

Vartan Gregorian
(Carnegie Corporation of New York)

Chaviva M. Hosek
(Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto)

Wilhelm Krull
(Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover)

Pierre Mirabaud
(Mirabaud & Cie, Geneva)

Monica Macovei (CEU alumna, Legal Studies 1993)
(Advisor on Anti-Corruption to the Prime Minister of Macedonia)

Peter A. Nadosy
(Morgan Stanley, New York)

Aryeh Neier
(Open Society Institute, New York)

William Newton-Smith
(Higher Education Support Program)

Matthew Nimetz
(CEU International Council)

Mary Patterson McPherson
(American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia)

Gary Poliner
(Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company)

Wanda Rapaczynski
(AGORA, Warsaw)

Gunter Stock
(Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

Adam Tertak
(Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)