Mark Angelson

Mark Angelson is Chair of the Institute of International Education, the nonpartisan world leader in international educational exchange and scholar rescue. From offices around the globe, IIE administers the Fulbright Scholarships and hundreds of other educational and rescue programs for the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the National Security Council and numerous private sector sponsors. 

Angelson is Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board, the bipartisan body established by the United States Congress with the official mandate of promoting the fullest possible public access to a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions and activities. From 2022-2025, he served in the Executive Office of the President of the United States as a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. 

Angelson previously served as the Deputy Mayor of the City of Chicago, CEO of RR Donnelley, Chair and CEO of two prominent Canadian public companies, and Chair of MidOcean Partners, an international investment firm. He earlier had a lengthy and distinguished career as an international lawyer in Singapore, New York and London. He was admitted to practice New York law before the Supreme Court of the United States and English law before the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales. 

Since 2014, Angelson has variously served as Chair and Vice Chair of the Rutgers University Board Governors, and Chair of several Board Committees, including the search committee that recruited Jonathan Holloway to be Rutgers’ 21st President. In 2023, Rutgers conferred upon Angelson an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

Angelson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and its membership committee; the Pilgrims (New York and London); the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; and the Economic Club of New York. He is a Life Trustee of Northwestern University and Adjunct Professor of Mergers and Acquisitions at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He is the coauthor (with Dr. Allan Goodman) of several articles on the efficacy of rescuing threatened professors and rebuilding national academies the world over. 

Angelson was graduated from Rutgers College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from Rutgers Law School. He is a member of the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Angelson holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from John Marshall Law School and the Harold Hines Award from the United Negro College Fund. He was nominated by President Biden to be U.S. Ambassador to Norway.