IISTL Board of Directors
The International Institute is led by community and business leaders bring their expertise to help achieve our mission to build a more connected and productive society to benefit immigrants, their families, and the wider community.
Officers
Chair
Arindam Kar
Partner, Antitrust
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Vice Chair
Alice Tharenos
VP of Financial Strategies
Peabody Energy
Secretary
Cullen Andrews
VP – Sales & Marketing
Dot Foods, Inc.
Treasurer
Eric Hansen
Sr. Manager, Audit & Assurance
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Imm. Past Chair
Anh Pham-Nguyen
Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation
Wells Fargo Advisors
Board of Directors
W. Todd Ackerman
Executive Vice President Head of Risk Transformation
US Bank
Charles Allen
Independent Translator, Scholar, and Communication Strategist
Susan Bergen
Executive Vice-President, Corporate Marketing
Commerce Bank
Nergis Cavitt
Sr. Learning & Development Consultant
BJC Healthcare
Arvan Chan
Regional Vice President, Corporate Operations
Centene
Ken Fields
Senior Vice President and Senior Partner
Fleishman Hillard St. Louis
Ruth Kim
General Counsel, SVP and Senior Partner
Fleishman Hillard St. Louis
Christina Mayadas Lawrence
Chief Strategy Officer, Zone Americas
Nestle Purina Petcare
Mark Lee
President-Residential North America
MiTek Inc.
LaShana Lewis
CEO
L.M. Lewis Consulting
Adnan Omeragić
Partner
Fox Architects
Fran Geyer Pestello, PhD
Professor of Sociology
St. Louis University
Shawn Schukar
Chairman & President
Ameren Transmission
Jennifer Schwesig
Partner, International Practice Group Leader
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Amit Shah
VP & Deputy General Counsel
MiTek Industries, Inc.
Sanjit Singh
Sr. VP, Head of Strategy
Wells Fargo Advisers
Sarah Swatosh
Partner
Sedey Harper Westhoff PC
Lorie White
Community Volunteer