Our Team

Developing Practical Steps for Resolving America’s Chronic Problems.

Chairman & CEO
Sol Erdman

Sol

Chairman & CEO

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Chief Operating Officer
Mike Tedesco

Mike

Chief Operating Officer

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Chief Development Officer
Tara Desisto

Tara

Chief Development Officer

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Strategic Operations Director
Paul Kramer

Paul

Director, Strategic Operations

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Committees

Supporting the Center in building out the vision.

Our initial Project Steering Committee consists of:

Rob Fersh, founder and former president of Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
David Fairman, managing director of the Consensus Building Institute
Kabrina Bass, chair of the National Association for Community Mediation
Stuart Butler, senior fellow at Brookings and former director of Center for Policy Innovation at Heritage
Sol Erdman, founder and CEO of the Center for Collaborative Democracy

Our Board of Advisors Include:

LAWRENCE SUSSKIND vice chair and co-founder, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
LARRY DIAMOND senior fellow, Hoover Institution; founding co-editor, Journal of Democracy
EUGENE STEUERLE Richard Fischer chair at the Urban Institute; co-founder, Tax Policy Center
JOHN STEINER co-founder of the Bridge Alliance and the Social Venture Network
MARGO KING collaborator, Threshold Foundation, Integral Institute, Mediators Foundation
JERRY TAYLOR co-founder and former president, Niskanen Institute
BARRY ANDERSON former acting director, Congressional Budget Office
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA professor, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
HAHRIE HAN inaugural director, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
MALKA RANJANA KOPELL co-founder and CEO, Civity
NEALIN PARKER executive director, Common Ground USA
FRANCIS JOHNSON president, Take Back Our Republic
CHARLES WHEELAN founder and co-chair, Unite America
KELLY JOHNSTON former Secretary of the U.S. Senate
URIEL EPHSTEIN executive director, Renew Democracy Initiative
DAVID LEVINE president and co-founder, American Sustainable Business Council
BRANDON ARNOLD executive vice president, National Taxpayers Union
JOHN PASSACANTANDO former executive director, Greenpeace
WILLIAM CYRUS GARRETT senior policy advisor, America Achieves
ADI IGNATIUS editor, Harvard Business Review
ROB RICHIE founder and president, FairVote
LARRY SPEARS co-founder, Policy Consensus Initiative