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Home page  About CSIS Programs Hills Program on Governance Founders and Staff
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Founders and Staff
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FoundersRODERICK M. HILLS
 Roderick M. Hills is founder and Chairman of the Hills Program on Governance at CSIS, and is a leading advocate for effective corporate governance. His long and distinguished career has included both service in the public sector, as Counsel to the President of the United States (1975) and Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission (1975-1977), and in the private sector, as a founder and partner of Hills Stern & Morley LLP, chairman of Hills Enterprises, Ltd., co-founder and a former partner in a California law firm, and chairman or CEO of several other major firms. Mr. Hills currently serves as a member of the boards of Certus and Aklara. He is a founder, former Chairman, and currently the Vice-Chairman of the US-ASEAN Business Council. He is a trustee of the Committee on Economic Development.
Mr. Hills has worked as a professor at Harvard University School of Law, as a distinguished faculty fellow at Yale University School of Management, and as a visiting lecturer at Stanford University School of Law. He graduated with from Stanford University with a B.A. in 1952 and a LL.B. in 1955 and subsequently served as a United States Supreme Court law clerk.
CARLA A. HILLS
 Carla A. Hills is co-founder of the Hills Program on Governance at CSIS. She is chairman and CEO of Hills & Company, International Consultants. The firm provides advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade, and risk assessment issues abroad, particularly in emerging market economies. Mrs. Hills served as U.S. trade representative from 1989 to 1993, where as a member of President George H.W. Bush's cabinet, she was that president's principal adviser on international trade policy. Earlier, Mrs. Hills served as secretary of housing and urban development in the administration of President Gerald Ford (the third woman to hold a cabinet position). She also served as assistant attorney general, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Mrs. Hills currently serves as a member of the board for American International Group, ChevronTexaco Corporation, Lucent Technologies Inc., and Time Warner. She is chair of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; co-chair of the CSIS International Advisory Board; vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S.-China Business Council, and the Inter-American Dialogue; trustee of the Council of the Americas; and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for International Economics. Before entering government, Mrs. Hills co-founded and was partner in a Los Angeles law firm. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Law School, teaching antitrust law, where she edited Antitrust Adviser (McGraw-Hill, 1971). Born in Los Angeles, Mrs. Hills received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University, her law degree from Yale University, and has studied at Oxford University. She holds honorary degrees from seven colleges and universities. In 2000, Mrs. Hills was awarded the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor given by the Mexican government to a non-citizen of that country.
StaffJerry Hyman
Senior Adviser and President
Jerry Hyman serves as both a senior adviser at CSIS and also as president of its Hills Program on Governance. Dr. Hyman’s expert leadership facilitates the work of the Hills Program’s Academic Council and Advisory Board to develop and implement program ideas, as well as fundraising development for both the Hills Program at CSIS and the Hills Governance Centers globally. He serves on the Advisory Council to the Center for International Media Assistance of the National Endowment for Democracy. Dr. Hyman served with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1990 to 2006, and was director of the Office of Democracy and Governance from 2002 to 2007. After his graduation from the University of Virginia Law School in 1985, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Covington & Burling until joining USAID. Between 1970 and 1982, Dr. Hyman taught courses on anthropology, social theory, modernization, economic development, American Indians, and Southeast Asia in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Dr. Hyman holds a B.A. in philosophy and Ph.D. degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous articles and publications. |
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