Board of Directors

Chair: Russell Hemenway (National Director, National Committee for an Effective Congress; Trustee, The Fund for Peace Inc.; Chair, Fund for Constitutional Government)
Secretary: Edgar N. James, Esq. (Partner, James & Hoffman; pro bono litigator on behalf of the Archive)
Treasurer: Nancy Kranich (Former Associate Dean of Libraries, New York University; Former President, American Library Association)
Sheila Coronel (Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; former Director, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism)
Herbert N. Foerstel (Retired University Librarian, University of Maryland; Author of Secret Science and Surveillance in the Stacks; Member, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee)
Vivian Schiller (Chief Digital Officer, NBC News; former President, National Public Radio; former Senior Vice President, The New York Times Company; former Senior Vice President, The Discovery Times Channel)
Nancy E. Soderberg (Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Northern Florida; former Vice President, International Crisis Group; former U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations; former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; former Staff Director, National Security Council; appointed Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board in January 2012)
Gen. William Y. Smith, Ph.D. (US Air Force retired; former President, Institute for Defense Analyses; former Deputy Commander, NATO; Co-author of Operation Anadyr)
President: Thomas S. Blanton (Director, National Security Archive)

Advisory Board

Dr. Philip Brenner, Ph.D. (Professor of International Relations and former Chair, School of International Service, American University; Lead plaintiff in Archive lawsuit for Cuban Missile Crisis documents)
Susan Brynteson (University Librarian, University of Delaware; Former Chair, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee)
Dr. Anne Cahn, Ph.D. (Member of the Board of Directors, United States Institute of Peace; Author of Killing Détente; former Director, Committee on National Security; former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Department of Defense staffer)
Rosemary Chalk (National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences)
John Dinges (Professor, Columbia University School of Journalism; former Managing Editor, National Public Radio; Archive Fellow and Author of Our Man in Panama)
Dr. Joan Hoff, Ph.D. (Professor of History and Chair of the Baker Institute, Ohio University; former Executive Secretary, Organization of American Historians)
Dr. Akira Iriye, Ph.D. (Professor of History, Harvard University; Past President, American Historical Association)
Dr. David Alan Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Professor of Maritime Strategy, National War College; Former MacArthur Fellow)
Tina Rosenberg, (New York Times Editorial Board; Former MacArthur Fellow; Former Archive Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner for her book The Haunted Land)
Jack Siggins (University Librarian, The George Washington University)
Dr. Richard Steckel, Ph.D. (President, AddVenture Network; Former Director, Childrens’ Museum of Denver)
Dr. John Steinbruner, Ph.D. (Director, Center for International Security Studies at Maryland; former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution)
Thomas Susman, Esq. (Partner, Ropes & Gray; Former counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; Co-author of the 1974 Freedom of Information Act amendments)