Board of Directors
Special Olympics' volunteer Board of Directors determines international policies. The board is composed of business and sport leaders, professional athletes, educators and experts in intellectual disabilities from around the world.
Officers
Timothy Shriver, Ph.D
Chairman of the Board
William P. Alford
Lead Director & Vice Chair
Loretta Claiborne
Chief Inspiration Officer; Vice Chair
Dale Jones
Treasurer
Angelo Moratti
Vice Chair
Mary Davis
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon M. Fitzgerald
Chief Legal Officer; Secretary, Board of Directors
Daniel Kurland
Assistant Secretary, Board of Directors
Board Members
His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba
UAE Ambassador to the US; Special Olympics
Jaime Alemán
Former Ambassador of Panama to the United States; Senior Partner, Aleman, Cordero, Galindo & Lee
Kiera Byland
Chair, Global Athlete Congress; Special Olympics Athlete, Great Britain
Dr. Jim Clements
President, Clemson University
Bart Conner
Sports Broadcaster; Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medalist
Yolanda Eleta de Varela
President, Special Olympics Panama; Member, Latin America Strategic Advisory Council
Didier Drogba
Legendary Professional Football (Soccer) Player
Anne Finucane
Vice Chairman, Bank of America
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley
Chief Executive Officer, Multiplying Good; Olympic Gold Medalist, 100 Meter Hurdles
Jennifer Fortner
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Chicago
Ronak Lakhani
General Secretary, Special Olympics Pakistan
Ray Lane
Managing Partner, GreatPoint Ventures; Strategic Advisor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Li Ruigang
Founding Chairman of CMC Capital Partners
Glenn Lyon
Former Chairman & CEO, Finish Line
Hamchetou Maiga-Ba
International Advisory Committee Africa Representative; Chairperson, Special Olympics Mali
Károly Mirnics, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Munroe-Meyer Institute; Hattie B. Munroe Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Carolina Picasso
International Advisory Committee Latin America Representative; President, Special Olympics Chile
Satish Pillai
Chairman Special Olympics Bharat; Recipient of the DhyanChand Award, a lifetime achievement sporting honor of the Republic of India
James Quincey
Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
Eleni Rossides
International Advisory Committee Europe Eurasia Representative; National Director, Special Olympics Cyprus
David Sable
Non-Executive Chairman, Young & Rubicam
Kim Samuel
President, The Samuel Family Foundation
Shi Derong
Chief Advisor, Dongyi Capital; Chairman, Shanghai Private Equity Association
Bobby Shriver
Activist; Attorney
Mark Shriver
Senior Vice President, U.S. Programs and Advocacy, Save the Children; CEO, Save the Children Action Network
Maria Gabriela Sigala
Activist; Philanthropist; Attorney
Chang-Woo Soh
Chairperson of SOEA RLC, President of Special Olympics Seoul, Vice President of SO Korea and CEO of Papa Johns Korea
Natalia Vodianova
Model; Philanthropist; Film Actress
Yang Lan
Founding Chairperson, Sun Culture Media Group and Sun Culture Foundation; Journalist; Philanthropist
Mike Zafirovski
Founder, Chairman, and President of The Zaf Group
