Board of Directors

R. Bruce Hitchner
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Professor R. Bruce Hitchner is the Chairman of the Dayton Project and Director of the Boston branch of the Public International Law and Policy Group. Since 1997, Dr. Hitchner has organized international conferences, workshops, business-to-business projects, and roundtables on Dayton Agreement implementation, the Hague Tribunal, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, US-Balkan policy, and NATO involvement in the region. He is the coauthor with Marshall Harris and Paul Williams of Making Justice Work (Century Foundation) and has published op-eds in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, the Dayton Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, the Providence Journal, and War and Peace Reporting. Dr. Hitchner was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He also served as director of the Center for International Programs at the University of Dayton from 1996 to 2001. He is currently professor and chair of the Classics Department at Tufts University, Medford, MA.


Mark Kurtz
Chief Operations Officer

Mark Kurtz is COO of The Dayton Peace Accords Project and founder of Single Lane Publishing, a niche publishing company focused on travel publications for educational tours and dedicated to exploiting emerging technologies for production and distribution. From 2001-2004, he was Director of Publications and New Media at the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in Boston. Prior to his appointment as Director of Publications, he served as Managing Editor of the AIA's American Journal of Archaeology, the premier English-language journal in the field. From 1997-1999, he worked as Assistant Editor of Harvard Theological Review and Harvard Theological Studies, and Managing Editor of the Archaeological Resources for New Testament Studies, also based at Harvard University. He received an M.A. in the Study of Religion (2001) and an M.T.S. in Ancient Religious History (1994), both from Harvard. From 1995-2000, Mark held numerous teaching positions at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Divinity School. His research interests focus on constitutional arrangements negotiated between imperial and local elites in contested border zones in the Hellenistic Levant.


Frederick E. Cammerzell, III
General Counsel

Frederick E. Cammerzell, III has been in the private practice of law in Princeton since 1975. He also serves as Vice President and Director of Cammerzell Tool and Die Works, Inc., with general oversight of legal and financial affairs. Mr. Cammerzell earned a Bachelor's degree in History from Princeton University and his Master's and Law degrees from Catholic University of America. He serves as Secretary and General Counsel of Miele, Inc.; Director and General Counsel of the Toni Morrison Society; Secretary and General Counsel of the Project on Ethnic Relations, Inc.; Trustee of Princeton HealthCare System; and is a member of the Bedens Brook Club. His prior positions include serving on the board of the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association, the Princeton Prospect Foundation, the Princeton Bar Association, and serving as Princeton Area Chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis National Society-Central New Jersey Chapter. He also ran as a Democratic Congressional candidate in New Jersey's Fifth District in 1982. Mr. Cammerzell is married, has two children and lives in Princeton.


Rebecca M. Hitchner
Secretary


Richard C. Holbrooke
Honorary Chairman

Richard C. Holbrooke is Vice Chairman of Perseus LLC, a merchant bank and private equity fund management company. He most recently served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was also a member of President Clinton's cabinet (1999-2001). As Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1994-1996), he was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. He later served as President Clinton's Special Envoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and Special Envoy to Cyprus on a pro-bono basis while a private citizen. From 1993-1994, he was the US Ambassador to Germany. During the Carter Administration (1977-1981), Amb. Holbrooke served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and was in charge of US relations with China at the time Sino-American relations were normalized in December, 1978. After joining the Foreign Service in 1962, he served in Vietnam (1963-1966), including a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta for AID. He worked on Vietnam at the Johnson White House (1966-1968), wrote one volume of the Pentagon Papers, and was a member of the American delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris (1968-1969). He was Peace Corps Director in Morocco (1970-1972), Managing Editor of Foreign Policy (1972-1977), and held senior positions at two leading Wall Street firms, Credit Suisse First Boston (Vice Chairman) and Lehman Brothers (Managing Director). Amb. Holbrooke has written numerous articles and two best-selling books, To End a War, a memoir of the Dayton negotiations, and co-author of Counsel to the President, Clark Clifford's memoir. He has received twenty honorary degrees and numerous awards, including several Nobel Peace Prize nominations. He is the Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, a center for US-German cultural exchange; President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition, the business alliance against HIV/AIDS; and Chairman of the Asia Society.