International 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
- Stephen M. Carter
- Lead Director & Vice Chair
- Chief Executive Officer
- Superior Essex, Inc.
- Nadia Comaneci
- Vice Chair
- Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medalist
- Raymond J. Lane
- Vice Chair
- Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Andrew Robertson
- Treasurer
- Chief Executive Officer, BBDO Worldwide
Board members
- William Alford
- Professor, Harvard Law School
- HRH Princess Lalla Amina
- IAC Middle East/North Africa Representative
- Honorary Chairperson,
- Special Olympics Morocco
- Peter Arnell
- Chairman
- Arnell
- Edward Barbanell
- Actor, "The Ringer"
- Folashade Bolumole
- IAC Africa Representative
- Program National Director,
- Special Olympics Nigeria
- David Braddock, Ph.D.
- Executive Director, Coleman Institute
- Associate Vice President for Research, University of Colorado System
- Fernando Ceballos
- IAC Latin America Representative
- President, Special Olympics Honduras
- Loretta Claiborne
- Special Olympics Athlete, USA
- Holder of Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Quinnipiac University and Villanova University
- Bart Conner
- Sports Broadcaster
- Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medalist
- Member, International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Donna de Varona
- Sports Broadcaster
- Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist
- Yolanda Eleta de Varela
- Board President, Special Olympics Panama
- Member, Latin America Strategic Advisory Council
- Jay Emmett
- President, Redwood Productions
- Kevin M. Farr
- Chief Financial Officer, Mattel, Inc.
- Anne Finucane
- Chief Marketing Officer and President, Northeast, Bank of America
- Scott Hamilton
- Sports Broadcaster
- Olympic Ice Skating Gold Medalist
- Jia Yong
- IAC East Asia Representative
- Executive Chairman, Special Olympics China
- Kim Samuel Johnson
- Director, The Samuel Group
- Larry Lucchino
- President and CEO, Boston Red Sox
- Muhtar Kent
- Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
- Ossie Kilkenny
- International Entrepreneur
- Founder, O.J. Kilkenny & Company
- John F. Manley
- Private Investor
- Angelo Moratti
- Chairman, Special Olympics Italy
- Vice Chairman, SARAS S.p.A
- Florence Nabayinda
- Special Olympics Athlete, Uganda
- Sargent Shriver 30th Anniversary Global Messenger
- Bob Norbie
- IAC North America Representative
- President/CEO, Special Olympics Montana
- Dr. Andrey Pavlov
- Chairman, Special Olympics Russia
- Ministry of Science & Technologies of the Russian Federation
- Samuel Perkins
- NBA Player Consultant and Olympic Gold Medalist
- Gulya Saidova
- IAC Europe/Eurasia Representative
- National Director, Special Olympics Uzbekistan
- Maria Shriver
- First Lady of California
- Broadcast Journalist and Author
- Margaret Spellings
- Former U.S. Secretary of Education,
- President and CEO, Margaret Spellings and Company
- Anne Sweeney
- Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks
- President, Disney-ABC Television Group
- HE Vivian Fernández de Torrijos
- Former First Lady of the Republic of Panama
- Vanessa Williams
- Actress and Recording Artist
- Dr. Dicken Yung
- Former President, Special Olympics East Asia