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Clarence Pearson of New York, NY, is a member of the AARP Board of Directors, Class of 2008. During the 2006-2008 biennium, he is a member of the Board Audit and Finance Committee and vice chair of the AARP Foundation Board. In the previous biennium, Mr. Pearson served on the Board Governance Committee, the Board Membership Committee, and the AARP Insurance Trust.
Mr. Pearson is former senior advisor to the World Health Organization Office at the United Nations. He served as vice president of the Peter Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and former vice president and director of Health and Safety Education for Metropolitan Life
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Mr. Pearson was a loaned executive for a two-year White House assignment as associate director of a U.S. Presidential Health Commission; a consultant-in-residence in Moscow for the U.S. Department of State directing a management training program, New Leaders of Russia; and held public health assignments in the former Yugoslavia and in Central America. For President Eisenhower's People-to-People Ambassador program, he led a delegation to study public health and medical care in the People's Republic of China.
Mr. Pearson conceived and serves as executive editor of a series of books on global health published by Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons. The first two are Critical Issues in Global Health and Global Health Leadership and Management. The third in the series, Global Health and Global Aging, is scheduled for publication in 2007.
Mr. Pearson serves on various boards and founded the Scott and June Pearson Fund for Patient Advocacy at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of Public Health/Chapel Hill. | 