- Robert Charles Hill, President
- Nancy H. Greene, Vice President
- Robert G. Miles, Treasurer , President Elect
- Barbara Gilmore, Secretary
- Jacqueline Bhabha
- Dr. James R. Calvin
- Bruce A. Morrison
- Alexander Papachristou
- James Paul
Board Member Bios
Robert Charles Hill, President is the founder of the Hill & Associates, PLLC, a law firm focused on providing professional services to meet the special needs of global sports and entertainment organizations and international athletes and other celebrities in immigration and visa matters. Mr. Hill was appointed by Congress to the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform ("the Jordan Commission") (1992-97) and served on President Reagan's White House Staff (1981 – 83) and in the Departments of State and Justice before going into private practice in 1989. He chaired the corporate immigration practice groups at two major Washington, D. C. law firms before opening his own firm in 2004. He is recognized nationally as a prominent authority on legal and public policy issues related to international migration. Mr. Hill is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the City University of New York. He is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bars, the American Bar Association, the Sports Lawyers Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He has been a Visiting Researcher with the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University since 2004.
Robert G. Miles, Treasurer is President and Chief Executive Officer of Lutheran Child and Family Service of Michigan. Dr. Miles is a graduate of Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Exceptional Education from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, specializing in the care and education of emotionally disturbed children. In 1990, Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, named him Alumnus of the Year. In May 2006, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan, recognized Dr. Miles and the work of the agency by conferring a Doctor of Law honoris causa (LL.D.). Dr. Miles holds various positions of leadership, both locally and nationally. He sits on a Michigan Statewise Taskforce for Permanency, Transition and Advocacy for Foster Care Youth. He is President of the Board of Directors of The Michigan Federation for Children and Families and is Immediate Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lutheran Services in America (LSA), one of the largest human care networks in America. Dr. Miles is Chairman of the Pension Advisory Board of United Way Southeast Michigan (UWSEM), and former Chairman of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod's National Task Force on Children at Risk/Welfare Reform. He is a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Bay City. Dr. Miles has been a speaker in diverse settings including university commencements; presenter at The Trieschman Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he spoke on Building a Continuum of Care for America's Children; and routinely speaks to various business, service, and church organizations. In 1994, Governor Engler appointed Dr. Miles to the Michigan International Year of the Family Council.
Nancy H. Greene, Secretary earned her J.D. with Honors from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York. Her formal education includes a Master's in Social Work and a Bachelor's in Sociology from the University of Maryland. Ms. Greene also attended the New York University in Paris. Ms. Greene has experience both as a lawyer and as a social worker. Her legal work included working for the New York City Law Department Office of Corporate Counsel, the Commercial and Real Estate Litigation Division, and as a family law attorney. She is currently working as a Legal Recruiter for E.P. Dine, Inc. As a Social Worker, Ms. Greene worked for the International Social Service-USA Branch (formerly named ISS-American Branch) in the early eighties as the Director of Inter-Country Services. She participated in the development of the initial fee-for-service structure and in the drafting of the U.S. Department of State, Hague International Child Abduction Convention. In addition to her work at ISS-USA, Ms. Greene has worked as a clinical social worker for the Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel and for the Department of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She received a first class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University and a JD from the College of Law in London. She has recently authored three reports entitled Seeking Asylum Alone about unaccompanied child asylum seekers. Her writings on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law, an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America, and many articles, including Internationalist Gatekeepers? The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights and The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child. She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, and citizenship.
James R. Calvin, Ph.D. is currently Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Systems, and Director of the Leadership Development Program (LDP) for Minority Managers at the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University. He is also an Executive Board Member of the Center for Africana Studies (CAS) and has taught in the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. James has served in an advisory capacity to the Foundation for the National Capitol Region, the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program and to other national and regional foundations. James has consulted in the areas of executive leadership development, executive coaching, global diversity, nonprofit management, and organizational development with many institutions including Fannie Mae, Verizon, the Brookings Institution, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The World Bank, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and other organizations. He serves as Chair of the Academy of Management Membership Committee (AOM), he serves as a Board Member of the International Association for Community Development (IACD), he is a Board the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, and he is a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Advancement of Management (SAM). James earned a B.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His M.A. and Ph.D. (with distinction) with a concentration in phenomenology, culture and communication are from New York University.
Barbara Gilmore is an environmentalist and conservation supporter who is a member of Rachel's Network, an organization that promotes women as impassioned leaders and agents of change dedicated to the stewardship of the earth. She has also been a board member of too many organizations to name and most recently with the Task Force on Family Violence, Wisconsin Public Radio. She is also a teacher and travel specialist at the Riveredge Nature Center, in Madison, Wisconsin. Barbara has organized and led many trips all over the world including escorting nine people to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro (elevation 19,340 feet). When not volunteering or traveling the world, Barbara is the mother of an adopted daughter. Barbara received her BS in social work from the University of Madison in Wisconsin.
Bruce Morrison is Chairman of the Morrison Public Affairs Group (MPAG), which he founded in 2001 to conduct and supervise a broad practice involving strategic advice and representation for both domestic and international clients. His work involves advocacy both in Congress and the Executive branch, as well as building alliances with the private sector. Prior to founding MPAG, he was Vice Chairman of the Washington office of GPC International. From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Morrison represented the Third District of Connecticut (New Haven) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also served on the Judiciary Committee, where he specialized in immigration, as well as intellectual property issues, bankruptcy law, and consumer protection policy, including privacy. As chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, he led the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990, a comprehensive reform which included expanded admission of skilled workers. Mr. Morrison holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from MIT and a master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School.
Alexander Papachristou is President of the Near East Foundation, an organization that works with specific communities who are struggling to free themselves from deep poverty as well as the effects of conflict, migration and/or climate change in Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan, Morocco and Mali. Alex has a diverse background from both business and the not-for-profit sectors. An attorney by profession, Alex has had a distinguished career practicing law and as counsel for a private equity firm investing in the former Soviet republics. He also has played and continues to play a leadership role on the boards of several foundations and organizations involved with international development, education and social welfare Mr. Papachristou received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983 and an L.L.M. from that school in 1984. After graduation, he served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson in the Middle District of Alabama. He received an A.B. cum laude from Princeton University in 1979. He speaks Arabic as well as French and Russian.
James Paul has an active general litigation practice involving antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, insurance, employment, foreign corrupt practices, trusts and estates, tax, and products liability. He is a member of the Antitrust and Insurance Sections of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Professional and Judicial Conduct of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and is on the Advisory Committee of the America Bar Association's Ethics 2000 Committee. Mr. Paul also functions as general counsel to Clifford Chance. He attended Valparaiso University (BA, with honors) and University of Chicago School of Law (JD). Mr. Paul was Admitted in New York, and has been
Partner at Clifford Chance since 1978.