Sarah Harder, Chair and President
Sarah Harder has worked for thirty years on issues involving women at grassroots, national and international levels. She serves as President and Board Chair of the National Peace Foundation in Washington DC, where she also co-chairs the National Women's Conference Committee and serves on the National Council of Women's Organizations. As the president of the American Association of University Women (1985-89), she chaired its $46 million Education Foundation. She served as vice-president of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) based in Geneva. Her study and action guide, "Women's Future, World Future: Education for Survival and Progress" is used by IFUW affiliates in 68 countries. She is Professor Emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she served for 34 years as administrator and faculty member. Through the National Peace Foundation, Harder has worked since 1991 on civil society, peace building and social partnership projects involving NGOs, their communities and their government in the Russian Federation.

Lee T. Feldman, Executive Director
Lee Feldman has served as a scientific consultant to private and public agencies, the World Health Organization, not-for-profit organizations, large multinational corporations and private equity firms for 30+ years. Lee has been on the Board of NPF since 1992.

In addition to his role at NPF, Lee is also Chief Scientific Officer of Scian – The Institute for Scientific Policy Analysis. Scian and NPF are frequent collaborators in NPF/Institute for Scientific Policy Analysis projects(NPF/ISPA).  In these efforts NPF works with both grass-roots organizations and public/private policymakers as they wrestle with the stakes, facts and values influencing their decision-making. By promoting a high integrity process that includes key stakeholders, Scian and NPF support the goal of rational decision-making, especially where there are significant public interest implications. 

Lee’s work has been applied to many different fields and subjects, including business development, community building and problem solving, food and nutrition, as well as a wide variety of health policy matters. He has undertaken projects for organizations such as the World Health Organization, European Parliament, Sanofi-Aventis, Santech Institute, the Government of Namibia, Siemens, Medtronic, the Government of Canada, the Provinces of Alberta and Nova Scotia, numerous health enterprises, Internet companies, investment banks and venture capitalists.

Catherine Sultan
Cathy Sultan, a native of Washington, D.C. lived in Beirut, Lebanon from 1969 to 1983. Her memoir A Beirut Heart: One Woman's War, published by Scarletta Press in November 2005, recounts her family's survival during the Lebanese civil war. In her second book Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides, also published by Scarletta Press, Cathy attempts to open eyes to the human realities of life in Israel-Palestine through interviews she conducted in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Cathy brings her expertise to NPF where she coordinates programs designed to educate NPF members about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Spring 2008 Cathy led a group of delegates on a two-week study tour as part of NPF's Eyewitness Program to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This journey, sponsored in part by Interfaith Peace Builders, offered participants a unique experience of daily life in Israel and Palestine. In previous years, Sultan has worked with Partners for Peace, a Washington-based NGO, to co-sponsor "Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision," a program that worked with the Bereaved Family Circle to bring Israelis and Palestinians who have lost loved ones to the conflict to the US for speaking tours and citizen dialogues.

Peter A. Wadsworth
Mr. Wadsworth, a retired investment banker/financial advisor specializing in healthcare and technology, joined NPF's board in 2009. Before advising companies on growth oriented capital formation strategies and value oriented investing, Mr. Wadsworth raised over $2 billion for healthcare and technology organizations as an investment banker. Mr. Wadsworth currently serves as treasurer of the Choral Society of the Hamptons, a 501(c)(3) organization and has organized several grass roots efforts since retiring. Past employers have included IBM, McKinsey & Company, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, and Kidder, Peabody & Company. Mr. Wadsworth has written and lectured extensively on capital formation in the managed care industry.

Richard Arndt, Ex-Officio
Richard Arndt spent 24 years in the US Foreign Service focusing on expanding the potential for cultural diplomacy. Arndt left his professorship in 18th-century French literature at Columbia University in 1961 to take up cultural diplomacy with the US Information Agency and the Department of State, serving as US Cultural Attaché in Beirut, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Tehran, Rome and Paris, and in various positions with USIA and State.

Upon retiring in 1985, Arndt served as Diplomat in Residence at the University of Virginia (1986-89) where he also directed mid-career educational programs and joined the permanent faculty of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction; he then taught at the George Washington University from 1992-1994. He served on the boards of the National Peace Foundation (NPF), Americans for the Universality of UNESCO (AUU), the Fulbright Association (FA), the Council of International Programs, the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs, the US Committee for the Preservation of Ancient Tyre, the International Society for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Interchange (ISECSI), and on the advisory bodies of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, and the American Iranian Council. Arndt is also Founding-President of the Lois Roth Endowment, honoring his late wife and fellow cultural diplomat Lois W. Roth. Dr. Arndt's latest book is entitled, First Resort of Kings: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century.