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December 10, 2002
Lewis B. Kaden named to Markle Foundation Board of Directors
New York, NY-- Zoë Baird, president of the Markle Foundation,
announced today that Lewis B. Kaden, a partner at the New York-based law
firm Davis Polk and Wardwell, has been named to the foundation's Board
of Directors. The announcement follows a vote of the Board of Directors
that took place at a meeting in New York. Mr. Kaden was elected to a
three-year term. His appointment is effective immediately. At the same
meeting, Board member Stephen Friedman was re-appointed to a three-year
term.
Lewis Kaden is a first-rate scholar and keen lawyer who has devoted
enormous energy and creativity to some of the country's most significant
policy and legal challenges, said Zoë Baird. We are extremely fortunate
to have him as a member of our Board.
Before joining Davis Polk & Wardwell, Mr. Kaden was counsel to the Governor
of New Jersey from 1974 to 1976, a professor at the Columbia Law School from
1976 to 1984, and director of Columbia's Center for Law and Economic Studies
from 1980 to 1984. He has been adjunct professor of law at Columbia since 1984.
Mr. Kaden is a director of Bethlehem Steel. He serves on the Boards of Trustees
of Continuum Health Partners, Inc., Beth Israel Medical Center, St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, The Long Island College Hospital, New York
Eye & Ear Infirmary), Century Foundation, Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights,
and Environmental Defense. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has served as chairman of the United States Government Overseas Presence
Advisory Panel in 1999-2000, of the Industrial Cooperation Council of the
State of New York and, from 1987 to 1992, of Governor Cuomo's Commission on
Competitiveness.
Mr. Kaden graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1963 and from
Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1967. During 1963-1964 he was the
John Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
About the Markle Foundation
Emerging information and communication technologies possess enormous
potential to improve people's lives. The Markle Foundation works to realize
this potential and to accelerate the use of these technologies to address
critical public needs. The foundation focuses its work in the program areas
of Policy for a Networked Society and Information Technologies for Better
Health. We are currently reviewing our program in Interactive Media for Children.
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