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.
  • Bart Conner
  • Vice Chair
  • Sports Broadcaster
  • Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Raymond J. Lane
  • Vice Chair
  • Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • Professor William Alford
  • Treasurer
  • Professor,
  • Harvard Law School
  • Angela Ciccolo
  • Secretary
  • Lee Gillespie-White
  • Assistant Secretary

Board members

  • HRH Princess Lalla Amina
  • IAC Middle East/North Africa Representative
  • Honorary Chairperson,
  • Special Olympics Morocco
  • Edward Barbanell
  • Actor, "The Ringer"
  • Folashade Bolumole
  • IAC Africa Representative
  • Program National Director,
  • Special Olympics Nigeria
  • Fernando Antonio Ceballos Chacón
  • IAC Latin America Representative
  • President, Special Olympics Honduras
  • Loretta Claiborne
  • Special Olympics Athlete, USA
  • Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Quinnipiac University and Villanova University
  • Donna de Varona
  • Sports Broadcaster
  • Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist
  • Yolanda Eleta de Varela
  • Board President, Special Olympics Panama
  • Member, Latin America Strategic Advisory Council
  • Dr. Elisabeth Dykens
  • Director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for
  • Research on Human Development
  • Jay Emmett
  • President, Redwood Productions
  • Kevin M. Farr
  • Chief Financial Officer, Mattel, Inc.
  • Anne Finucane
  • Chief Marketing Officer and President, Northeast, Bank of America
  • 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
  • Michelle Kwan
  • Figure Skating Champion
  • U.S. Public Diplomacy Envoy
  • Rex Langthorne
  • IAC Asia Pacific Representative
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Special Olympics Australia
  • Katie Burke Mitic
  • Platform Marketing, Facebook
  • Ricardo Montaner
  • Singer-Songwriter
  • Angelo Moratti
  • Chairman, Special Olympics Italy
  • Vice Chairman, SARAS S.p.A
  • Hon. Na Kyung Won
  • Congresswoman, Ruling Party of Korea
  • Honorary Chair, Special Olympics Korea
  • Chairman and CEO, 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games
  • 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
  • Hon. Maria Shriver
  • Former First Lady of California
  • Broadcast Journalist and Author
  • Margaret Spellings
  • Former U.S. Secretary of Education,
  • President and CEO, Margaret Spellings and Company
  • HE Vivian Fernández de Torrijos
  • Former First Lady of the Republic of Panama
  • Matthew Williams
  • Chair, Global Athlete Congress
  • Dr. Dicken Yung
  • Former President, Special Olympics East Asia
  • HSH Charlene Lynette Wittstock
  • Princess of Monaco