Board of Directors

Habitat for Humanity International Board members oversee the direction of Habitat’s activities worldwide as the organization works to eradicate substandard housing. Directors are elected to two-year terms that may be renewed four times. They receive no compensation for their voluntary service.

Nabil Abadir
Cairo Egypt
Abadir is the director general of Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services. His past accomplishments at CEOSS include: community development practitioner; leader of several CEOSS programs; director of development sector and associate director general. He has also been an agriculture engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture.

He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Assuit University and also earned a diploma in Social Development from Coady International Institute, Canada. He later received a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. In 2004, he received Doctorate of Laws from St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Abadir is a board member of several local and national NGOs and institutions in Egypt, as well as Habitat for Humanity-Egypt.

Archbishop Vicken Aykazian
Washington, DC.
Archbishop Aykasian is a citizen of Turkey, Armenia, Switzerland and the United States. He represents the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. He has been active in ecumenical efforts, including the executive committees of the World Council of Churches and the Churches for Middle East Peace. Aykasian was elected president of the National Council of Churches for a 2 year term beginning November 2007.

He holds a Ph.D. in History.

Archbishop Aykasian helped to institute a partnership with Habitat for Humanity and the Armenian Apostolic Church. This partnership included a 37-house build in Armenia in the name of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of all Armenians.

The Honorable Kathleen Bader
Midland, Michigan
Bader retired as chairman, president and CEO of NatureWorks LLC after serving 32 years at Dow Chemical. Her accomplishments at Dow included serving as business group president for a $4 billion global business portfolio and serving as a member of the Textron board.

Bader earned a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Saint Mary’s Notre Dame and attended Loyola University of Rome, Italy her junior year. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Bader is a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Dean's Council at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the St. Mary’s of Notre Dame President’s Advisory Council.

Edward H. Bastian
Atlanta, Georgia
Edward Bastian is president and chief financial officer for Delta Air Lines at its world headquarters in Atlanta. As president, Bastian and his team oversee and coordinate the company’s strategy from network planning and revenue management to sales, marketing and business development. Bastian previously worked for Pepsi Cola International, where he served as vice president of finance.

Bastian graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration.

He currently serves on the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity and the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta.

Bastian lives in Atlanta with his wife Anna and their four children.

Henry Cisneros
San Antonio. Texas
Cisneros is the chair of City View, which identifies sites, plans neighborhoods, organizes and develops land, and finances the building of homes.

Cisneros was the first person of Hispanic origin to serve as mayor of a major American city—serving eight years as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

President Bill Clinton appointed him Secretary of HUD from 1993-1997. From 1997-2000, Mr. Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, the Spanish-language broadcasting company and the fifth-most-watched television network in the nation.

Emil Constantinescu
Bucharest, Romania
Constantinescu served as the president of Romania from 1996-2000. Currently, he is a professor of Mineralogy at the University of Bucharest.

He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest and subsequently started a career as a geologist. In 1992 he was elected president of the University of Bucharest.

He and his wife Nadia―a former legal adviser whom he married in 1964―have a son, Dragoş, and a daughter, Norina, along with two grandchildren.

Elizabeth Crossman
Trail, Oregon
Now retired, Crossman formerly directed charitable contributions for the Weyerhaeuser Company and was the president of Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation. Her responsibilities included foundation and corporate donations and directing the company's scholarship, matching gifts, and employee volunteer programs. She joined Weyerhaeuser in 1986 and retired in March 2007.

She has a degree in Business Administration.

Crossman is the past president of the Regional Association of Grantmakers, Philanthropy Northwest. She has served on nonprofit boards including Washington Dollars for Scholars, Scholarship America and the YWCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County. She currently serves on the board of Rogue Community College Foundation.

Ted Dosch
Glenview, Illinois
Dosch is the senior vice-president of Global Finance for Anixter International. Prior to joining Anixter, he was the CFO, North America for Whirlpool Corporation, having previously served as the Corporate Controller.

He earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Ohio University and is a CPA.

Dosch's work with Habitat began in 1999 when Whirlpool became a Cornerstone Partner with Habitat for Humanity. He served as the executive sponsor of the Whirlpool-Habitat partnership from 1999 through 2008.

He also works closely with Harbor Habitat for Humanity in Benton Harbor, Michigan with fundraising and home builds. He has volunteered for many Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Projects, including playing a key role for the 2005 Carter Work Project in Michigan.

Dosch is married to Ann and they have three children: Joe, Amanda and Megan.

Renée Glover
Atlanta, Georgia
Renée Lewis Glover is the chief executive officer of the Atlanta Housing Authority, where she pioneered mixed-income developments through partnerships with private sector developers. Glover has been nationally recognized for her role in transforming U.S. urban policy.

Glover served on the National Advisory Council of Fannie Mae. She was appointed by the U.S. Congress to the Millennial Housing Commission in 2000, charged with providing legislative recommendations to Congress on national housing policy.

In November 2007, Glover was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Mary Kazunga
Lusaka, Zambia
Kazunga retired as a coordinator for the Canada Fund. In her work, she prepared studies for prospective humanitarian missions for the Canadian High Commission, recommending which relief programs should receive funding from the government agency.

She attended the School of Social Work in Zambia.

Kazunga has dedicated her life to humanitarian and women’s issues, serving as executive director for the Young Women’s Christian Association and as a board member of Habitat for Humanity Zambia.

Kevin Kessinger
Toronto, Canada
Kessinger is the executive vice-president & CIO of TD Bank Financial Group, based in Toronto, Canada. Prior, he was chief operations and technology officer of Citigroup, with the responsibility over global operations and technology. Additionally, he held several key leadership positions within Citi's Global Consumer Group, including executive vice president, president of Consumer Finance North America and Citi Cards chief operating officer.

Before joining Citi, Kessinger was managing director, Banc One Financial Card Services in Columbus, Ohio.

He received his Master’s degree in Business Administration from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

In addition to serving on the Board of Habitat for Humanity International, Kevin is a trustee for the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri and a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management Program.

Kessinger and his wife, Jean, have four children―two married, a recent college graduate and a junior at Colgate University in New York.

Ken Klein
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Klein is president of KLEINCO Properties, a mid-sized real estate development firm based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been involved in building and development for over 35 years.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Oklahoma State University.

Klein is actively involved in Habitat’s mission and has volunteered to build homes in Florida, Texas, Nevada, California and Washington, D.C. He also serves on the Tulsa Habitat Affiliate Advisory Board. Klein is a trustee for the National Housing Endowment, a board member and audit committee chairman for MOVE, Inc and a board member for First Fidelity Bank.

Klein is past chairman of the board of the Home Builders Institute and has served the National Association of Home Builders as national vice president. He has also served as board chairman for the Gatesway Foundation, assisting mentally and physically handicapped people with housing and job training.

Tony Lanigan
Auckland, New Zealand
Lanigan is currently managing director of a project management consultancy which focuses on strategic decision making, property master planning and development. He has been a principal of a major multi-discipline consultancy and a general manager of one of New Zealand’s largest construction companies. He has also served as chancellor of Auckland University of Technology and as a director of several private and publicly owned construction and building materials distribution companies.

He has a Ph.D. in civil engineering and attended post graduate management training courses at Stanford and MIT.

Lanigan helped establish Habitat for Humanity in New Zealand and is currently chairperson of the national organization. He has assisted Habitat’s Asia Pacific Area vice president with consulting assignments in Indonesia and is chairing the Tsunami PMC group for Sri Lanka. Tony is actively involved in the establishment of the Pacific Council organization to support Habitat for Humanity in the South Pacific.

He has served on a number of boards, including the Catholic Institute of Theology and the New Zealand Housing Foundation.

He is married to Krystyna and they have three adult children.

Chainarong Monthienvichienchai
Bangkok, Thailand
Monthienvichienchai is the vice chancellor at St. John’s University in Bangkok, Thailand. Among his many achievements, Monthienvichienchai worked with the BBC in London as a broadcaster and served on the board of Trustees for Saint Louis College in Bangkok and the Asian Institute of Management Foundation in Manila. From 1980-1997, he also hosted and produced an award-winning weekly television educational program on a national network in Thailand.

He has a Ph.D. in education management from London.

Monthienvichienchai has served on the Pontifical Council for Social Communications since 1987.

He is married to Chintana and has four children: two sons and twin daughters.

Anugerah Pekerti
Jakarta, Indonesia
Pekerti served for 30 years as a professor of business ethics, management and organizational behavior. He also worked as a clinical psychologist and served as president of the oldest private graduate school of management in Indonesia.

He holds a degree in Business from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and a degree in Psychology from the University of Indonesia.

Pekerti is a founding member of Habitat for Humanity Indonesia. He also works as an adviser to World Vision International Indonesia, providing mentoring and coaching to its management team throughout the area.

Jonathan T.M. Reckford
Atlanta, Georgia
Reckford joined Habitat for Humanity as chief executive officer after serving as executive pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church of Edina, Minnesota. Previously, Reckford was president of stores for the Musicland division of Best Buy and senior vice president of corporate planning and communications for Circuit City.

He has also served as director of strategic planning for Disney and held positions at the Marriott Corporation, the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee and Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Reckford graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead Scholar. He earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration, with a certificate in public and nonprofit management, from Stanford University.

Reckford and his wife Ashley have three children.

Edward Schreyer
Manitoba, Canada
Schreyer currently serves as chancellor of Brandon University in Canada. Since 1989, he has been a guest professor at universities throughout Canada and Europe.

Schreyer was first elected to the Manitoba Legislature in 1958 at age 22 and was reelected twice. He became NDP leader in 1969 and Premier of Manitoba from 1969-77. Prior to his terms, he lectured on International Relations at St. Paul’s College.

He has served as minister responsible for Manitoba Hydro, governor general of Canada and commander-in-chief. Additionally, he has been the Canadian high commissioner to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and an ambassador to Vanuatu.

He currently serves in various capacities in a number of organizations: founding director and chairman of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas; Lake Winnipeg Stewardship Board; The Canadian Shield Foundation; Mowat Environmental Institute; Manitoba Geothermal Energy Alliance; Sierra Legal Defense Fund; and Hospital and Nursing Home care organizations.

Schreyer is married to Lily and they have 4 children.

Alex Silva
San Jose, Costa Rica
Silva is the president and founder of Omtrix, a privately owned financial consulting firm specializing in microfinance. He has more than 25 years of experience in the realm of international finance with particular knowledge of Latin America and the Caribbean markets.

Prior to establishing Omtrix, Silva worked for the Inter-American Investment Corporation as head of its Central American office. Additionally, he was executive director of ProFund Internacional.

He has been a board member of numerous microfinance institutions in countries such as Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Juel Shannon Smith
Tampa, Florida
Smith is an educational consultant and the founding director of the Institute on Black Life and The Center for Africa and the Diaspora. She is currently on leave from the University of South Florida.

Smith has also led the organization, The Links Incorporated, in its efforts to build schools for the children of South Africa and Nigeria. The Links has built 57 schools in Gauteng, Northern and KwaZulu Natal Provinces. The Building Schools Project was in partnership with the Late Reverend Leon Sullivan, President and Founder of Occupational Industrialization Centers-International.

John Stack
Alberton, South Africa
Stack is the senior minister at the Alberton Methodist Church. He also oversees the Alberton Methodist Care & Relief Enterprise―a community outreach program caring for HIV/AIDS and cancer patients and providing testing and counseling for HIV/AIDS. AMCRE also protects victims of domestic violence and vulnerable children.

He graduated from the University of South Africa with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology.

Stack was also a founding member of Habitat’s Khulani affiliate and chair of the Habitat for Humanity South Africa Board. He served as a member of the steering committee for the 2002 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

Eduardo Tabush
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Tabush is the founder, owner & president of La Uva SA, a wholesaler and retailer of specialty foods and wines in Guatemala and El Salvador. Tabush is one of the founding partners of Casa del Bosque, a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation compound. He also serves as an advisor in his family’s business, Grupo Difoto, which is the exclusive distributor for Xerox in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Previously, he worked as the marketing manager for the Kodak Distributor in Guatemala and founded Compulandia―a chain of computer retail stores.

Tabush currently serves as vice president on the Guatemala Habitat for Humanity National Board of Directors.

He lives in Guatemala City with his wife Amanda and children Nina and Jacob.

Ronald Terwilliger (ex officio)
Atlanta, Georgia
Terwilliger is the retired chair of Habitat for Humanity International’s board. He is also the retired chairman of Trammell Crow Residential―a developer of multi-family housing in the United States.

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a Baker Scholar at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, Terwilliger is the former chairman of the Urban Land Institute, where he remains a trustee. Additionally, he is chairman emeritus of the Wharton Real Estate Center and past chairman of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

Terwilliger has also served on the governing boards of the Enterprise Foundation and the U.S. Naval Academy.

In 2009, Terwilliger made a historic $100 million commitment to Habitat for Humanity.

Gladys Gary Vaughn
Cabin John, Maryland
Vaughn is the director of Outreach for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is a past national president of The Links Incorporated. The Links is an international network of more than 11,000 women of African ancestry who use their expertise and resources to attend to the needs and aspirations of people of the African Diaspora.

She holds a Ph.D. in Home Economics Education and Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. While an active member of Delta Sigma Theta, she participated in its partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

Vaughn has traveled to many countries conducting training activities that promote improved family well-being. Additionally, she has designed and secured millions in funding for a variety of programs.