Legal Status
The Cypress Fund for Peace and Security is designated by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity. It is incorporated in the District of Columbia.

	Ambassador Thomas Graham (board chair)
	Melanie Greenberg (ex officio)
	Rosemarie Forsythe, Vice President, ExxonMobil Russia, Inc.
	Katherine Hope Gurun, Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Bechtel Corporation
	David Hamburg, DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Medical College, and president emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation;
	David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University;
	Eliza Klose, Founder and Former president of ISAR: Institute for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia;
	Nancy Lampton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American Life and Accident Insurance Company of Kentucky, Inc.;
	Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps
	Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
	Seth Shaw, Officer, Thorium Power, Inc.

	Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Foreign Minister of Sweden
	B. Stephen Toben, President, Flora Family Foundation
	Professor Christopher D. Jones, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington
	Dr. Hrach Gregorian, President, Institute of World Affairs
	Johanna Mendelson-Forman, Director of Peace and Security Programs, The United Nations Foundation

Ambassador Graham, as board chair, serves as Chief Executive Officer, and plays a strong role in all foundation programs.

Melanie Greenberg, as President, runs the foundation’s programs and works jointly with Ambassador Graham on all strategic planning.

Biographies
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. is the Chairman and co-founder of the Cypress Fund. Internationally known as a leading authority in the field of arms control agreements to combat the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr has served as a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement for the past 30 years, including The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) Treaties, The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) Treaties, The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Ambassador Graham served as special counsel in the Energy Practice of the law firm of Morgan Lewis, resident in the Washington, D.C. office, where he participated in the International Energy and Department of Energy practice areas.
Ambassador Graham has served as the Chairman of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. From 1994 until 1997, he served as the Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament, appointed by President Clinton. He served for 15 years as the General Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA).

He has also served as the Acting Director and Acting Deputy Director of ACDA, as Legal Advisor to the U.S. SALT II, START I and START II Delegations, the Senior Arms Control Agency Representative to the U.S. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Delegations, and many others. In addition, Ambassador Graham led U.S. Government efforts to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994 and 1995.

Graham worked on the negotiation of The Chemical Weapon Convention and The Biological Weapons Convention. He drafted the implementing legislation and managed the ratification of the Geneva Protocol banning the use in war of chemical and biological weapons.

He is also a widely published author in both scholarly journals and major newspapers including a memoir Disarmament Sketches, Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law, 2002 ; Cornerstones of Security, Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era, 2003, with Damien J. Lavera (existing treaties with comments); Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction, September, 2004-all published by the University of Washington Press. Recent articles include: “National Self Defense, International Law, and Weapons of Mass Destruction, in the University of Chicago Law School Journal of International Law, Spring, 2003; and “An NPT for Non-members,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June, 2004 (with Avner Cohen). He has taught at many prestigious universities, including the University of Virginia School of Law, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, the Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford University, and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Ambassador Graham received a L.L.B. from Harvard University in 1961 and an A.B. from Princeton in 1955. He is a member of the Kentucky, District of Columbia, and New York bars and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He chaired the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament of the American Bar Association from 1986-1994. Ambassador Graham received the Trainor Award for Distinction in Diplomacy from Georgetown University in 1995.

Melanie Greenberg (President)
Melanie Greenberg is the President and co-founder of the Cypress Fund. She was a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, focusing on issues of justice in post-conflict peace building until from 2003 until 2004. From 2000 – 2002, Ms. Greenberg was director of the Conflict Resolution grant-making program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She served as the associate director of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, and deputy director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. In her work on international conflict resolution, Ms. Greenberg has helped design and facilitates public peace processes in the Middle East and the Caucasus. She has taught courses in international conflict resolution, multi-party conflict resolution and negotiation at Stanford Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, and she was lead editor and chapter author of the volume Words over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). Ms. Greenberg until recently served as board chair of the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and sits on the board of directors of Women in International Security, Lawyers Alliance for World Security, and Partners for Democratic Change. She is a member of the Council of Advisors for the United States Institute of Peace, and serves on the editorial board of Dispute Resolution Magazine. Ms. Greenberg holds an AB magna cum laude from Harvard, and a JD from Stanford Law School. She lives in Washington, DC.