Conor Grennan
Founder and President
Conor Grennan spent eight years at the EastWest Institute (EWI), both in Prague and the European Union Office in Brussels.
During that time, Grennan developed and managed a wide variety of projects focusing on issues such as peace and reconciliation in the Balkans, community development in Central Eastern Europe, and harmonizing anti-trafficking policy at the highest levels government in the European Union and the former Yugoslavia in cooperation with the top experts in the field. In 2001 he was made Deputy Director of EWI’s Program on Security and Good Governance, and served as the Advisor on EU Affairs to EWI’s Worldwide Security Program.
Grennan left EWI in 2004 to travel and volunteer in Nepal, where he spent six months working at the Little Princes Children’s Home in the village of Godawari. When he learned that the children in the home were not orphans, but were in fact trafficked, he started Next Generation Nepal, an American NGO dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families.
Grennan is a citizen of the U.S. and Ireland and was based in Kathmandu, Nepal, until October 2007. He is the President, Next Generation Nepal (USA, Nepal) and lives in Connecticut. He graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business in 2010, where he served as President of the Student Body.
Elizabeth L. Grennan
Liz Grennan is a corporate lawyer currently serving as the General Counsel to a technology start-up that provides software and analytic solutions for commercial clients. Grennan is also an entrepreneur, having just founded an online health and wellness site, Still the Sea.
As a lawyer, Grennan has spent the past nine years practicing corporate law at Latham & Watkins LLP and Hogan & Hartson LLP, as well as serving as the General Counsel to a technology start-up within the U.S. Intelligence Community, now a thriving division of The Boeing Company. Her work has spanned the following areas: Cross border business, finance and tax; mergers and acquisitions; securities law; and project finance law.
Prior to her focus on Nepal, Grennan has worked in orphanages throughout the world, including homes in Mexico, Vietnam and Zambia. Since 2006, Grennan has since made six trips to Kathmandu to work with Next Generation Nepal. While at Latham & Watkins, Grennan worked to found “Buildable Hours,” a nonprofit organization of law firms committing financial and physical resources to build homes for local Habitat for Humanity chapters for deserving families. She served on the Buildable Hours board from 2002-2006. Grennan has also served as pro bono counsel to a large nondenominational church in New York City since 2002.
Grennan received her BA from the University of California at Los Angeles, her MSc from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and her JD from The University of Virginia School of Law.
Grennan and her husband Conor are based in New Canaan, Connecticut, with their children Finn and Lucy.
Wayne Harvey
Treasurer
Wayne Harvey, CPA, joined RFE/RL in November 2006 as Comptroller. With over 30 years of experience in both corporate and nonprofit settings, Harvey’s expertise includes finance, administration, human resources, information technology and purchasing.
Before joining RFE/RL, Harvey’s most recent role was as Director of Finance & Administration with The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women’s reproductive rights worldwide.
Harvey’s diverse experience includes an international think tank, the world's only flying eye hospital, a United Nations agency, two circuses, and manufacturing firms. He has directed finance, administration, information technology, purchasing, and human resources departments. Harvey was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Orbis International, Inc., a global organization dedicated to the elimination of avoidable blindness. Before joining Orbis, Harvey was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at EastWest Institute, a think tank that provides policy advice on economic, security and political issues in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. Harvey has also held finance positions with the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, the Big Apple Circus, SmithKline Bioscience Laboratories, and other corporations.
Harvey holds a BS in accounting from the University of Maryland and a CPA certificate and is based in Washington DC.
Sasha Havlicek
Chairperson
As founding Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), Sasha Havlicek has been responsible for the strategic development of this London-based think tank heading up programs, research and policy work in the fields of social cohesion and counter-radicalization, European neighborhood and Russia policy, cultural and media dialogue with Muslim communities and the Arab world. She also oversees the Institute's Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Program launched with Oxford University in 2007.
Havlicek previously served as Senior Programme Director at the US think-tank, the EastWest Institute (EWI), where she developed a prominent portfolio of border management and cross-border conflict mitigation projects, setting up and running field operations across the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Russia. Havlicek also served on a Task Force of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe in the aftermath of the Balkan wars.
Havlicek sits on the Board of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), which she helped found. She also serves on the board of the Women without Borders SAVE Initiative.
A British national, educated at undergraduate and Masters levels at the London School of Economics (LSE), she also holds a graduate diploma from the Institut D'Etudes Politiques (IEP), Paris.
Antje Herrberg
Dr. Antje Herrberg joined Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) as Director of European Policy in 2004. She is responsible for advocacy work vis à vis EU institutions and foundations, policy analysis, directing the activities of the CMI Brussels office, and bringing CMI's work closely into the EU fold.
Committed to contributing to sustainable peace efforts in this world, Herrberg joined the Crisis Management Initiative/Office of Martti Ahtisaari as the Director for European Policy in 2004. She is responsible for advocacy work vis à vis EU institutions and foundations, policy analysis and bringing CMI's work closely into the EU fold. She continues to work on specific assignments including the Aceh Peace Agreement, CMI's private diplomacy initiative and several actions in the field of civilian crisis management.
Herrberg also represents the International Peacebuilding Alliance (Interpeace) to the EU, and has over 14 years of experience in the public, private, policy and non-for profit sector.
Herrberg is a native German speaker, but works also in French, English and Russian. She is currently based in Brussels.
Mark R. Shulman
Secretary
Mark Shulman is Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs and International Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace Law School.
Prior to joining Pace, Shulman directed the Worldwide Security Program at the EastWest Institute. He has previously practiced corporate law at Debevoise & Plimpton and taught at Yale, Columbia, and the US Air War College.
Shulman has published numerous books and articles in the fields of history, law and international affairs. He received his BA from Yale, a Master’s degree from Oxford, a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his JD from Columbia where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational Law on the board of which he continues to sit. Until January 2006, he also served as an officer and board member of the New York-based Asian University for Women Support Foundation, a non-profit building a world-class women’s college in Bangladesh.
Shulman is based in New York City.
Sanjeev M. Sherchan
Sanjeev M. Sherchan is Assistant Director for Global Leadership Initiatives at the Asia Society. In this capacity, Sherchan is primarily responsible for conceptualizing and overseeing all aspects of the Society’s global initiatives. He joined the Asia Society in the fall of 2000 as a Program Assistant in the policy department. Sherchan also takes his role as one of the three Ombudsmen at the Asia Society very seriously.
Prior to that, before returning to the United States for graduate studies in 1998, Sherchan worked as a consultant for PLAN International in Nepal. Sherchan has been a commentator on news and television programs and written op-eds on South Asia. In December 2008, he was one of the 60 National Democratic Institute (NDI) accredited foreign election monitors who observed voting and counting during Bangladesh’s Ninth Parliamentary Elections. He was deployed in the Jessore district in south western Bangladesh.
Sherchan is a graduate of Baylor University in Texas; he received his M.A. in International Relations in 2000. | 
