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Board of Regents

The legislation that created the Smithsonian Institution (approved by Congress Aug. 10, 1846) called for the creation of a Board of Regents to govern and administer the organization.

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• Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution
  
• Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
  
• Senator Thad Cochran
  
• Senator Patrick J. Leahy
  
• Senator Jack Reed
• Representative Xavier Becerra
  
• Representative Sam Johnson
• Representative Steven C. LaTourette
• Steve M. Case
  
• France Córdova, Chair
• Shirley Ann Jackson
  
• Robert P. Kogod
  
• John W. McCarter, Jr.
  
• David M. Rubenstein
  
• Roger W. Sant
  
• Alan G. Spoon
  
• Patricia Q. Stonesifer, Vice Chair
  

Senior Administration & Support Officers

• Sudeep Anand, Treasurer
  
• Amy Chen, Director, Office of Investments
  
• Bruce A. Dauer, Director, Office of Planning, Management and Budget
  
• James Douglas, Director, Office of Human Resources
  
• Dorothy A. Leffler, Director, Office of Contracting & Personal Property Management
  
• Bruce Kendall, Director, Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations
  
• Pamela Hudson Veenbaas, Director, Office of Fellowships and Internships
• Chandra P. Heilman, Ombudsman
  
• Karen Keller, Director, Office of Special Events and Protocol
  
• William T. Lynch, Director, Office of Protection Services
  
• Carole M.P. Neves, Director, Office of Policy and Analysis
  
• Nell Payne, Director, Government Relations
  
• Scott Robinson, Director, Office of Sponsored Projects
  
• Deron Burba, Chief Information Officer
  
• Michael Caruso, Editor-in-Chief, Smithsonian magazine
  
• Elizabeth Ziebarth, Coordinator, Accessibility Program
  
• Andrew J. Zino, Comptroller
  

Senior Executives

• Patricia Bartlett, Chief of Staff to the Secretary
  
• Claudine Brown, Assistant Secretary for Education and Access
  
• Virginia B. Clark, Director, Advancement and Philanthropic Giving
  
• Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture
  
• John K. Lapiana, Chief of Staff to the Board of Regents
  
• Evelyn S. Lieberman, Director, Communications and External Affairs
  
• Era L. Marshall, Director, Office of Equal Employment and Minority Affairs
  
• Albert (Al) Horvath, Under Secretary for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
  
• Scott Miller, Deputy Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
• Christopher Liedel, President, Smithsonian Enterprises
  
• Eva Pell, Under Secretary for Science
  
• Scott S. Dahl, Inspector General
  
• Judith E. Leonard, General Counsel
  

Consortia Directors

• Michelle Anne Delaney, Director, Consortium for Understanding the American Experience
  
• Christine Jones, Director, Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe
  
• W. John Kress, Director, Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
  
• Robert Leopold, Director, Consortium for World Cultures
  

Museum, Research & Program Directors

• Camille Giraud Akeju, Director, Anacostia Museum
  
• Charles R. Alcock, Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  
• Eldredge "Biff" Bermingham, Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  
• Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
  
• Lonnie G. Bunch, Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture
  
• Harold A. Closter, Director, Smithsonian Affiliations
  
• Johnnetta B. Cole, Director, National Museum of African Art
  
• John R. Dailey, Director, National Air and Space Museum
  
• Eduardo Díaz, Smithsonian Latino Center
  
• Kevin Gover, Director, National Museum of the American Indian
  
• Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  
• Anson "Tuck" Hines, Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
  
• Allen R. Kane, Director, National Postal Museum
  
• Dennis Kelly, Director, National Zoological Park
  
• Liza Kirwin, Acting Director, Archives of American Art
  
• Richard Koshalek, Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  
• Robert J. Koestler, Director, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute
  
• Konrad Ng, Director, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
  
• Bill Moggridge, Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
  
• Stephanie L. Norby, Director, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
  
• Marc Pachter, Acting Director, National Museum of American History, Behring Center
  
• Valerie J. Paul, Director, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
  
• Julian Raby, Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
  
• Cristián Samper, Director, National Museum of Natural History
  
• Daniel Sheehy, Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  
• Sally G. Shuler, Director, National Science Resources Center
  
• Martin E. Sullivan, Director, National Portrait Gallery
  
• Barbara Tuceling, Director, The Smithsonian Associates
  
• Anne Van Camp, Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives