Board of Trustees

Twelve people, seven standing and five sitting, with green leaves in the background.

Board of Trustees

Irene Au
Operating Partner
Khosla Ventures

Scott Belsky
Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President, Design & Emerging Products
Adobe

Victor Calise
Director of Global Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Walmart

Amita Chatterjee
Cooper Hewitt Trustee

Jen Deason
CEO
Home Partners of America

Alan Dye
Vice President, Human Interface Design
Apple

Alberto Eiber, M.D.
Retired Founder and President
Eiber Radiology

Shelby M. Gans
Cooper Hewitt Trustee

Paul Herzan, Chairman Emeritus
Vice President and Acting Secretary
Lily Auchincloss Foundation

Helen Hintz
Cooper Hewitt Trustee

Jon Iwata, Chair
Executive Fellow, Yale School of Management
Former IBM SVP & Chief Brand Officer

Paul Leinwand
Global Managing Director
Strategy&

John Maeda
VP of Design and AI
Microsoft

Henry R. Muñoz III
Chairman Emeritus, Muñoz and Company
Vice-Chairman, SOMOS US

Natalie Nixon, Ph.D.
CEO
Figure 8 Thinking

Karen A. Phillips
Retired Vice President and Director of Development, Multifamily Programs
NY State Homes & Community Renewal

Lisa S. Roberts
Designer

Ivy Ross
Vice President, Design for Hardware
Google

Kimberly Schuessler
Artist

Margaret Gould Stewart
Designer

Esme Usdan
Interior Designer

Keith Yamashita
Co-founder
SYPartners and the kyu collective

Honorary Trustees

Kathleen B. Allaire, Chairman Emerita

Joan K. Davidson, Trustee Emerita
President
FURTHERMORE, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund

Richard Meier, Trustee Emeritus
Principal
Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Kenneth B. Miller, Chairman Emeritus
President
AANeX, LLC

Ex Officio—Smithsonian Institution

Lonnie G. Bunch, III
Secretary

Kevin Gover
Under Secretary for Museums & Culture

Maria Nicanor
Director
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum