Donor Board

Lisbet Rausing

Lisbet Rausing is an historian and research associate of Imperial College. She was educated at UC Berkeley and Harvard, where she also taught for eight years. She has written two academic monographs as well as numerous scholarly articles. She serves on various boards and committees, for example at Harvard Board of Overseers, and Yad Hanadiv. She holds honorary doctorates from SOAS, Uppsala University, and Imperial College, and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. Dr Rausing is co-founder of Arcadia and a member of the Donor Board.

Peter Baldwin

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was educated at Yale and Harvard. He is the author of The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1877-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press and Milbank Foundation, 2005), and editor of Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate (Beacon Press, 1990). His most recent book examined the current state of the US-Europe divide: The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009). Professor Baldwin is co-founder of Arcadia and the Chair of both the Donor Board and the Advisory Board.