John Wiclif
Odhiambo, Ph.D.
In 2002, Professor
John Odhiambo was installed as Vice
Chancellor (President) of Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya,
where he is also a member of the Faculty of Commerce as a professor
of statistics. Before Strathmore, President Odhiambo (whose
equivalent title in Kenya is Vice Chancellor) was Chairman of the
Department of Mathematics of University of Nairobi, where he was
also Professor of Mathematics in Statistics.
In addition to his duties at
Strathmore, President Odhiambo is Chairman, Kenya Branch, of the
International Biometric Society. He also serves as Consultant
Statistician to the Population Council and as Consultant to the
Rockefeller Foundation's Africa Regional Program.
President Odhiambo received his Bachelor of Science, Master
of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in mathematics and
statistics all from the University of Nairobi. In 1984, he was
awarded a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship at University of
London in the United Kingdom. In 1976, he was awarded the Shell
Prize for best overall graduating student in the Faculty of Science
at University of Nairobi. Professor Odhiambo’s continuing research
concerns the potential of the Group Screening Method in the
management of the AIDS crisis in Africa.
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ph.D.,
Chairman
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is the Theodora
Shelton
Pitney
Professor of Environmental Sciences and Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at
Princeton
University. He has
recently also been Director of Princeton’s Center for Energy and
Environmental Studies. Professor Rodriguez is also currently Member of the Corporation Visiting
Committee for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor
Rodriguez-Iturbe joined the Princeton
faculty in 1999 after holding positions at several institutions in
the United
States and in his native country of
Venezuela.
A world-leading expert in
hydrology, Professor Rodriguez-Iturbe was selected in 2002 to receive the
Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the "Nobel Prize of
water" presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf of
Sweden
on behalf of the Stockholm Water Foundation. The prize recognizes
outstanding research, action or education that increases knowledge
of water as a resource and protects its usability for all life.
Professor Rodriguez-Iturbe
received a degree in Civil
Engineering from Universdad del Zulia in
Venezuela, a Master of Science from
California Institute of Technology, and a Doctor of Philosophy from
Colorado State University.
David C. Sperling,
Ph.D.
Dr. David Sperling is Deputy Vice Chancellor for Planning and
Development at Strathmore University. He is also the former Chairman
of the Governing Council of Strathmore University and Associate
Professor of History and Islamic Studies at
Strathmore
University. Previous to
his current academic appointments, Dr. Sperling served as Lecturer
in the Department of History of
University of
Nairobi from 1989 to
2001. Dr. Sperling’s education career began in 1961, when he became
founding principal of
Strathmore
College, the predecessor
of Strathmore
University
A native American and since 1971 a naturalized Kenyan
citizen, Dr. Sperling received his Bachelor of Arts degree from
Yale
University, Master of
Arts degree from Harvard
University, and his
Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the
School of
Oriental and African
Studies, University of
London. In 1997, Dr.
Sperling was Visiting Fellow at the Institution for Social and
Policy Studies, Yale
University. In 1995, he
was a Visiting Fellow at the Harry Truman Institute, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Dr. Sperling’s ongoing research concerns
Fundamentalism and African expressions of Islam and Christianity in
East Africa
For his pioneering work
in Kenyan education as a founder in 1961 of Strathmore College,
Kenya’s first multiracial school, Dr. Sperling is a recipient of The
John Phillips Award from Phillips Exeter Academy, recognizing alumni
whose lives and contributions to the welfare of community, country,
and humanity exemplify in high degree the nobility of character and
usefulness to humanity that John Phillips sought in establishing the
Academy.
Robert J. Dunne
III 
Mr. Dunne is a financial and education professional and
entrepreneur. He began his
career in 1974 as an auditor for Coopers and Lybrand. Two years
later he expanded his career to investment banking, first in the
Sales and Trading division of White Weld and then for 17 years at
Salomon Brothers, where he served as a Managing Director of Fixed
Income Sales in New York until 1995. As an entrepreneur Mr. Dunne
then established a new venture as an owner and operator of a
Huntington Learning Center for five years in
Princeton, NJ. He now manages a private investment
advisory business near Princeton and serves on the boards of several
charities focusing on children and education.
Mr. Dunne received his BA in Economics from
Columbia University and his MBA in Finance and Accounting from
University of Chicago.
Luis E.
Tellez
Mr. Luis Tellez received a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering, as
well as an MBA in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mr. Tellez spent the early part of his career working in the
chemical industry, and subsequently spent over 20 years
administering several not-for-profit corporations. A member of the
Advisory Council of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and
Institutions at Princeton University, he is founder of The
Witherspoon Institute.
Strathmore University
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