Stephen Wolk

International Research & Exchanges Board is an American company that utilizes technology to improve education, institutions, civic engagement, and access to information. The private company is based in Washington. The company works with communities to design practical solutions to the problems they face. The company focuses on developing leaders who can create transformative change across communities, governments, organizations, and businesses. The company identifies these leaders, develop their capabilities, provide opportunities, and build their networks to increase their impact.

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities. Investor and philanthropist George Soros in 1993 created OSI as a private operating and grantmaking foundation to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Those foundations were established, starting in 1984, to help countries make the transition from communism. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros foundations network to encompass the United States and more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each Soros foundation relies on the expertise of boards composed of eminent citizens who determine individual agendas based on local priorities.

US Civilian Research & Development Foundation promotes international scientific and technical collaboration through grants, technical resources, and training. It designs and manages international research funding programs and supports emerging science and technology infrastructure. The firm specializes in bringing isolated scientific communities into the global scientific mainstream. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.