Bio
Jeff Bell
Jeff Bell has been working in radio for nearly two decades and has spent most of the past one anchoring news in Northern California.
Jeff attended U.C. Irvine to study civil engineering, and then to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, to get his M.B.A. Along the way, he began working in radio and set off on a circuitous path that first led him to KCBS in 1993. After two years as a part-time anchor/reporter for the station, Jeff left for fulltime work at KFBK in Sacramento, where he spent the next eight years anchoring drive-time news programs. He returned to KCBS in 2004.
Jack Cortis
Cortis has more than 25 years' investment and wealth management experience, including 12 with Mellon. He led Mellon's expansion into the Northwest when it acquired The Trust Company of Washington, and he grew client assets to more than $1 billion. Before joining Mellon, he was executive vice president for Bank of San Francisco, managing their private banking group.
Cortis is active in the community, recently serving as a trustee of several Seattle-area art organizations. He received his bachelor's degree from Loyola College of Maryland and an MBA from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Prior to becoming Dean, she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and the Director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. She is also the former President of the American Society of International Law. Dean Slaughter is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her book, A New World Order, was published by Princeton University Press.
Dean Slaughter is a frequent commentator on foreign affairs in newspapers, radio, and television and is a contributor to the America Abroad blog on TPMCafe.com.