Peter Bell (1940) has been a member since 2002
Peter Bell (1940) is currently a visiting fellow at The Carter Center in Atlanta. For the ten and a half years prior to April 2006, he was the President of CARE USA, the Atlanta-based organization for international development and relief. During the previous nine years, he was the President of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in New York, a private foundation that seeks to improve conditions for people who are poor and disadvantaged. Before joining the Foundation in 1986, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1980 through 1983, he served as President of the Inter-American Foundation, a public agency that supports grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1977 through 1979, he was Special Assistant to the Secretary and then Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Earlier, he worked for the Ford Foundation for twelve years, including ten years in its Latin American program. He obtained a B.A. in History at Yale College in 1962 and a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 1964. Mr. Bell is vice chair of the Inter-American Dialogue and a trustee of the World Peace Foundation. He is a former chair of the ONE Campaign, CARE, Refugee Policy Group, and Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.