The International Selection Commission is made up of leaders from government, world affairs, education, culture, and business. The current members of the Commission are: Martin Meyerson, Commission Chairman, President Emeritus and University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Honorary President, International Association of Universities, Paris; Oscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace laureate, 1991 Liberty Medal co-recipient; Joanne de Asis, of the Philippines, Chairman, Globe Capital Partners; William H. Gray III, former President, College Fund/UNCF and former U.S. Representative; Peter Harf, former CEO, Joh. A. Benckiser, GmbH, Frankfurt; Shirley Hufstedler, Esq., first U.S. Secretary of Education; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Robert McNamara, former President, Ford Motor Company and World Bank and former U.S. cabinet member; Mary Patterson McPherson, Vice President, Mellon Foundation, former President, Bryn Mawr College; Andrea L. Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, National Broadcasting Company; Joseph Neubauer, Chairman and CEO, ARAMARK Corporation; Ambassador Olara A. Otunnu, U.N. High Commissioner for Children in War, former Foreign Minister of Uganda and former head of the United Nations Security Council; Ambassador Hisashi Owada, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs and former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations; P. Anthony Ridder, Chairman, President & CEO, Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Jerome Shestack, Esq., Past President, American Bar Association; Adele Simmons, former President, MacArthur Foundation; Maurice F. Strong, Senior Advisor to the President, World Bank and Chairman, Earth Council; Richard Thornburgh, Esq., former U.S. Attorney General and former Governor of Pennsylvania; and Henry Wendt, former Chairman, SmithKline Beecham.