2005 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient

Well known as an international lawyer, Dr. Hauser is President of the Hauser Foundation in New York City. She served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board from 2001 to 2004. Dr. Hauser chairs the International Peace Academy, a research body affiliated with the United Nations, and was the founding chair of the Advisory Board of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. She serves as a director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the RAND Corporation, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, among other organizations. She sits on the Visiting Committee of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University and is vice-chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Harvard Law School. She serves as co-chair of Harvard University’s endowment campaign. In 1997, she and her husband founded the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, and she is chair of its Advisory Board. A Fulbright fellow to France in 1954-1955, Dr. Hauser holds advanced degrees from the University of Strasbourg in France, from Harvard and New York University Law Schools, and from the University of Paris Law Faculty.