Voting at the 2025 annual meeting

At the Annual Meeting, the Members will be asked to vote to Approve, Reject or Abstain from voting on (1) the proposed slate of Directors up for election in 2025; and (2) the proposed Amendments to the Association By-Laws.

Slate of Board of Director Nominees

Consistent with prior communications describing the Association’s desire to project more influence in US-UK relations, strengthen the fundraising engine, and position the Marshall Scholarship itself for long-term sustainability, the Governance Committee recommends the following slate of candidates be put forward to the Membership for election to the Board of Directors of the Association at the upcoming Annual Meeting on Sunday, December 7, 2025:

Nathan Fagre (1977) – Third Term

Nathan was elected to the Board in 2019 and is eligible to serve a third term.  He is Chair of the Governance Committee.  He is a 1977 Marshall Scholar who earned an M.Phil. in International Relations at the Oxford University.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, a member of the Fulbright Specialist Program in Law, and founder and senior partner at Ekberg, Fagre & Seem LLP.

Avery Willis Hoffman (2000) -- Second Term

Avery was elected to the Board in 2022 and is eligible to serve a second term. She is a 2000 Marshall Scholar, who earned a D.Phil. and M.St. in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University. She currently serves as Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of Court Theatre at University of Chicago.  She resides in East Greenwich, RI and Chicago, IL.  

Parker Hudson (1968) – Third Term

Parker was elected to the Board in 2017 and is eligible to serve a third term. He is a 1968 Marshall Scholar who earned an M.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He continues a more than fifty-year career in commercial real estate, including early development work in Russia, and is the author of four novels. He resides in Atlanta.

Jeremy Lack (1998) – First Term

Jeremy is a new candidate for election to the Board.  He is a 1998 Marshall Scholar who earned a D.Phil. in Biochemistry at the Oxford University.  He is currently a partner at RA Capital Management, a healthcare and life science investment manager.  He has been a partner, director or founder of numerous healthcare investment funds and companies.

Tom Lupfer (1979) – Second Term

After receiving a BSEE from Purdue University, Tom was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and studied engineering and economics at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. Lupfer is the President and Founder of Clarity Design, a product design and manufacturing company based in San Diego. At the University of San Diego, Tom serves on the Board of Trustees, the Executive Advisory Board of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering and is a Professor of Practice in the Computer Science department. 

Rebecca Peters (2014) – Second Term

Rebecca was elected to the Board in 2021 and is eligible to serve a second term.  She is a member of the Governance Committee. She is a 2014 Marshall Scholar who earned a D.Phil at Oxford University in water security, an M.Sc. from King’s College London in water science and policy, and an M.Sc. at the University of Manchester in development economics.  She currently serves at NASA as Earth Action Lead and as a Lecturer in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Anna Quidar (2007) – Second Term

Anna was elected to the Board in 2022 and is eligible to serve a second term. She is Chair of the Outreach & Diversity Committee. She is a 2007 Marshall Scholar, who earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy at Cambridge University.  She currently is Founder & CEO of The Quidar Group and an Affiliated Senior Research Fellow at Northern Illinois University.  She resides in Arlington, VA. 

If elected, they will all be subject to a 3-year term of service beginning in December 2025.

Proposed Amendments to the By-Laws

The following proposed amendments to the Association’s By-Laws have been recommended by the Governance Committee and approved by the Board of Directors, to update and enhance certain provisions relating to the Board’s internal governance.  The Board recommends these amendments be put forward to the Membership for approval at the December 7, 2025 Annual Meeting:

First proposed amendment:  Article III, Section 3.2 (e)

Reason for Proposed Amendment:  to provide more consistent representation of the MACC or the U.K. Embassy at AMS Board meetings when the Chairman of the MACC or H.M. Ambassador are not able to attend.

Current language:  “. . . and the Chairman of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (London) and H.M. Ambassador to the United States, or their respective designees, shall be non-voting Ex-Officio Directors.”

Proposed language: “. . . and the Chairman of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (London) and H.M. Ambassador to the United States shall be non-voting Ex-Officio Directors.  The Chairman and the Ambassador may each designate one standing alternate for those occasions when they are not able to attend a Board meeting, provided that the Executive Committee is notified in advance that such alternate will be attending in lieu of the Chairman or Ambassador, as the case may be; and that such standing alternate shall hold an appropriate position to represent the Chairman or the Ambassador (and, in the case of the Chairman, the standing alternative shall be a Commissioner of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission).”

Second Proposed Amendment: Article III, Section 3.2 (e)

Reason for Proposed Amendment:  The Managing Editor of the AMS Newsletter is now a consultant or paid staff member and not a volunteer; accordingly it is not necessary to have the Editor serve as non-voting Director.

Current Language:  “At the discretion of the Board, the Managing Editor of the Marshall Newsletter may be elected as a non-voting Director for a three-year, renewable term.”

Proposed Change:  To delete this sentence.

Third Proposed Amendment:  Article III, Section 3.2

Reason for Proposed Amendment:  To provide the Board greater flexibility to reduce the size of the Board in the future to at least 12 Directors instead of the current minimum size of 15 Directors.  A smaller Board would be more in line with best practices for non-profit Boards.

Current Language: “The number of Directors . . . shall be not less than fifteen (15) and not more than eighteen (18) individuals . . .”

Proposed Language: “The number of Directors . . . shall be not less than twelve (12) and not more than eighteen (18) individuals . . .”

Fourth Proposed Amendment: Article IV, Section 3

Reason for Proposed Amendment: Currently, the President of the AMS is limited to two (2) terms each of two (2) years.  This is different from Board members, who can serve three (3) terms with each term being three (3) years; and different from other Officers, who have no term limits.  The proposal would make the President’s term limits consistent with the Board members.

Current Language: “The President shall be limited to two two-year terms.”

Proposed Language: “The President shall be limited to three two-year terms.”

If approved, the Association’s By-Laws will be amended effective as of December 7, 2025.