Mora McLean

Mora McLean is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Africa-America Institute (AAI), the oldest U.S.-based nonprofit organization concerned with increasing Africa’s global competitiveness and economic well being through advanced academic and professional training for Africans. She joined AAI from the Ford Foundation, where she was Deputy Director for Africa and Middle East Programs, and before that the Foundation’s West Africa Representative based in Lagos, Nigeria.

A native of St.Thomas, U.S.Virgin Islands, Ms. McLean was graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut before earning a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is a Wesleyan University Trustee, and previously served on the governing boards of the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC and U.S. International University in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms. Mc Lean Chairs the United States Trade Representative Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, and is a member of the Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative Advisory Board; the congressionally established Advisory Commission for the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program; the African Studies Association; and the Council on Foreign Relations.