Special Olympics Board of Directors

Special Olympics guides local, area, state/provincial and national Programs around the world. A volunteer Board of Directors determines international policies and is composed of business and sport leaders, professional athletes, educators and experts in intellectual disabilities from around the world.

OFFICERS

Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D.

Chairman and CEO

Professor William Alford

Treasurer
Professor,
Harvard Law School

J. Brady Lum

President and COO

Angela Ciccolo

Secretary

Stephen M. Carter

Lead Director & Vice Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Superior Essex, Inc.

Lee Gillespie-White

Assistant Secretary

Bart Conner

Vice Chair
Sports Broadcaster
Olympic Gold Medalist

Ray Lane

Vice Chair
General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 

BOARD MEMBERS

HRH Princess Lalla Amina

IAC Middle East/North Africa Representative
Honorary Chairperson,
Special Olympics Morocco

Enrique Borja

Mexican Football Hall of Fame Member and Director of International Relations, CONCACAF 

Fernando Antonio Ceballos Chacón

IAC Latin America Representative
President, Special Olympics Honduras

Yolanda Eleta de Varela

 Board President, Special Olympics Panama
Member, Latin America Strategic Advisory Council

Kevin M. Farr

Chief Financial Officer, Mattel, Inc.

Scott Hamilton

Sports Broadcaster
Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medalist 

Ossie Kilkenny

International Entrepreneur
Founder, O.J. Kilkenny & Company

Katie Burke Mitic

Platform Marketing, Facebook

Ronak Lakhani

IAC Asia Pacific Representative
General Secretary, Special Olympics Pakistan 

Georgia Milton-Sheats

CEO,
Special Olympics Georgia

Hon. Na Kyung Won

Honorary Chair, Special Olympics Korea
Chairman and CEO, 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games 

Samuel Perkins

NBA Player Consultant and Olympic Gold Medalist

Margaret Spellings

Former U.S. Secretary of Education,
President and CEO, Margaret Spellings and Company

Dr. Dicken Yung

Former President, Special Olympics East Asia

Edward Barbanell

Actor, "The Ringer"

Loretta Claiborne

Special Olympics Athlete, USA
Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Quinnipiac University and Villanova University

Dr. Elisabeth Dykens

Director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for
Research on Human Development

Anne Finucane

Global Strategy and Marketing Officer, Northeast, Bank of America

Larry Lucchino

President and CEO, Boston Red Sox

Michelle Kwan

Figure Skating Champion
U.S. Public Diplomacy Envoy

Mr. Yao Ming

Retired NBA Star
Olympic Basketball Player 

Gulya Saidova

IAC Europe/Eurasia Representative
National Director, Special Olympics Uzbekistan

HE Vivian Fernández de Torrijos

Former First Lady of the Republic of Panama

HSH Princess Charlene de Monaco

Princess of Monaco

Jia Yong

Executive President of China Special Olympic Committee, Vice-President of China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) 

Folashade Bolumole

IAC Africa Representative

Donna de Varona

Sports Broadcaster
Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist

Jay Emmett

President, Redwood Productions

H.E. Mr. Luis Gallegos

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of the Republic of Ecuador to the United Nations

Muhtar Kent

Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company

Rex Langthorne

IAC Asia Pacific Representative
Chairman of the Board
Special Olympics Australia

Andrew Liveris

President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company 

Angelo Moratti

Chairman, Special Olympics Italy
Vice Chairman, SARAS S.p.A

Hon. Maria Shriver

Former First Lady of California
Broadcast Journalist and Author

Matthew Williams

Chair, Global Athlete Congress

Vanessa Williams

Actor and Entertainer

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