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George John Mitchell, Jr., GBE is an American politican and businessman. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to... 1995 and was Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. Since retiring from the Senate, Mitchell has taken up a variety of positions in politics and business. He has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, being specifically appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace by President Obama. He was a primary architect of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in two "Mitchell Reports", one on the Arab–Israeli conflict and one on the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball . Mitchell served as chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 until January 2007, and later as chairman of the international law firm DLA Piper. He was the Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1999 to 2009.
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Judith "Judy" L. Estrin is an American business executive. She is currently the CEO of JLabs , through which she pursues a broad range of advisory... activities including sitting on corporate and advisory boards and speaking engagements. Judy is the author of "Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy" , a general interest book that challenges national, academic and business leaders to work together to make USA competitive again. Estrin is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded seven companies with Bill Carrico and was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000. Estrin serves on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company and the FedEx Corporation . Formerly, she served on the boards of Rockwell Automation and Sun Microsystems. She also serves on the advisory boards of Stanford’s School of Engineering and Bio-X interdisciplinary program, and is a member of the University of California President’s Science and Innovation Advisory Board.
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Shirley Ann Jackson, 61, is president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of IBM’s Directors and Corporate Governance... Committee. Dr. Jackson was a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1976 to 1991, professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1995 until she assumed her current position in 1999. Dr. Jackson is a director of FedEx Corporation, Marathon Oil Corp., Medtronic, Inc., Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated and NYSE Euronext. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Jackson is past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Jackson became an IBM director in 2005.
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