Amb. Allan Rock   |   Eamon M. Kelly   |   Mary R. Page      

Amb. Swanee Hunt   |    Michael Otim  

Robert Opio    |    Jessica Huber
 

Eamon M. Kelly, Uganda Fund Board Member
Executive Director Payson Center for International Development and President Emeritus Tulane University

Eamon M. Kelly, Professor of International Development and Technology Transfer, was the first social scientist to be elected Chairman of the Board of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Kelly is the President Emeritus of Tulane University having served as its president for seventeen years. He is also the former Chairman of the Association of American Universities, and the original Chairman of the Satellite Working Group, which established the first nation wide private satellite system in the U.S. for the benefit of the Public Broadcasting Service. In 1968, Kelly was appointed to U.S. government service by the President serving as Director of Policy Formulation with the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was later named Special Assistant to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, where he participated in planning and initiating the federal government’s first minority economic development program. Dr. Kelly joined the Ford Foundation in 1969 and served as Officer-in-Charge for the Office of Social Development, the Foundation’s largest domestic and civil rights division. In 1977, Kelly served as a special consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives where he participated in drafting legislation that provided a $1.7 billion guarantee to prevent the insolvency of New York City. Later that year, he was appointed Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1981, Dr. Kelly became the 13th president of Tulane University. He retired in 1988 and currently teaches courses at Tulane on international urban and rural development and the role of science and technology in international development, in the departments of Economics, Latin American Studies, International Health and Development, Sociology, and is the Executive Director of the Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer.