Ruth Moorman to Chair Pardee School Dean’s Advisory Board

Ruth Moorman (CAS’88, SED’89,’09) was named Chair of the of the Dean’s Advisory Board (DAB) of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University at a September 21, 2018 meeting with Pardee School Dean Adil Najam and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs William Grimes held at 121 Bay State Road.

Moorman is an educator who began her career as a secondary special education teacher for students with learning disabilities and behavioral problems. Her current areas of interests include educational leadership, supporting university and community partnerships, increasing opportunities for students in higher education, and funding early-stage medical research. She earned a BA in political science, a master’s in teaching, and a doctorate in special education at Boston University.

The Dean’s Advisory Board serves as a sounding board for the Pardee School Dean by reviewing and providing feedback on the most important matters facing the school. Members provide advice on broad matters of strategy and planning, serve as ambassadors of the school’s mission and vision, and help raise philanthropic resources for the school. Membership includes alumni and friends of the Pardee School who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to the school, to higher education, and to the study of global and international affairs.

The Dean’s Advisory Board also welcomed two new members at the meeting — Bonnie Pierce (CAS ’92, Pardee ’94) and Paul Nathanson (Pardee ’85).

Pierce is a Managing Director of ndp | analytics and has 25 years of experience in partnering with global and domestic corporations, governments, foundations, and universities to build customized solutions to solve their toughest financial and investment challenges and instill best practices.  She has advised some of the largest Fortune 100 and private companies across all industries thus providing ndp’s clients with a unique resource as she approaches research with a results driven perspective.  She is an effective communicator and public speaker and has extensive communications experience.

Nathanson’s professional focus is on reputation management, message development and implementation, public policy analysis, media relations and strategic counseling services for a range of U.S. and international clients. He assists clients in formulating arguments in persuasive ways and ensures that clients’ views are heard and understood by their target audiences, including Members of Congress, policymakers, the news media and the public. Over the years, he has managed comprehensive crisis communications planning and response programs for a range of clients in the fields of consumer products, energy and natural resources, manufacturing, finance and health industries. He has also provided crisis communications and media training to a range of corporate CEOs and other senior executives, trade association leaders and non-profit heads.

Before meeting Najam and Grimes, Pardee School Dean’s Advisory Board members attended a breakfast meeting with Boston University President Robert A. Brown.

The DAB meeting was held during Boston University’s Alumni Weekend, which included a panel at the Pardee School entitled “World in Flux: A Changing World Order?” featuring Pardee School professors Vivien Schmidt, Josh Shifrinson, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller and moderated by Najam. The panel gave members of the DAB and Pardee School alumni the opportunity to discuss contemporary foreign and domestic issues with Pardee School faculty.