Noel V. Lateef

Noel V. Lateef (Born in Rome, Italy on December 7, 1956) is the President and CEO of the Foreign Policy Association.< He is a member of the Century Association, the Council on Foreign Relations and numerous corporate boards. He is an adjunct professor of international law at SUNY Stony Brook and has authored over thirty publications, including a book on economic development in the Sahel Region of West Africa.
Biography
Lateef received his JD degree from Yale Law School in 1982. At Yale Law School, Mr. Lateef was elected Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his BA from Princeton University, where he received advanced standing and majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, graduating with High Honors in 1978.
Accomplishments
Before joining FPA, he was chairman of The Bowery Savings Bank, a venerable New York institution founded in 1834. During his tenure, over a period of nine years, he helped grow the bank from 20 branches to 52 and from a deposit base of $4 billion to $9.5 billion. He also engaged in a banking law practice with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
Lateef has been President and CEO of the Foreign Policy Association since August 1, 1995. Founded in 1918, FPA is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose purpose is to stimulate wider interest in, and greater understanding of, world affairs among American citizens. It is the nation’s oldest organization devoted to citizen education in international affairs. Among its many accomplishments are a network of world affairs councils that stretches across the United States in 95 cities, the longest running television series devoted to international affairs, and the leading foreign policy web site.

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