Peter Flaherty B’67, ’68, managing director of New York private investing firm Arcon Partners, has been appointed chair of the SAIS Advisory Council.
Flaherty, an active member of the council since 1985, replaces his wife, Pamela Flaherty ’68, the council’s chair since 2003. Pamela, who remains a council member, became chair of The Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees in July 2007.
“We are privileged to have the chair of our advisory council move from the superb leadership of Pam Flaherty to the wise and highly esteemed Peter Flaherty. Peter, of course, was our key partner in developing the school’s recent strategic review process,” said SAIS Dean Jessica P. Einhorn. “It is especially fortunate that we can benefit from Peter’s invaluable insights and experience—now as council chair— while we move into high gear with executing our ‘Rolling Back the Future’ strategic plan.”
The advisory council, which meets twice an academic year, is a volunteer group composed of the school’s closest friends and supporters. They provide critical counsel to the dean in setting the direction for SAIS’s future and increasing support and visibility for the school and its mission. The council’s 41 members include Johns Hopkins University trustees, SAIS graduates, business and public-sector representatives and community members, all with a keen interest in international affairs.
“SAIS is a fantastic institution, and I am more than thrilled to do anything to be helpful,” said Flaherty of his new role. “The advisory council is just one of the various vehicles we have to ensure that the school [remains] the preeminent institution of its kind. … SAIS is the most relevant to the world that it has ever been, in my view.”
Flaherty said he believes a council priority should be helping SAIS raise funds for student scholarships. “If we want to have our pick of the best prospective talent going into this field, we have to provide the financial wherewithal for anyone who needs it. ... We don’t want our graduates to feel they need to limit their career choices to the most highly paid job options because they need to repay school loans.”
Flaherty said he hopes to explore ways to incorporate more leadership development into the overall SAIS student experience, build stronger ties to top public- and private-sector employers worldwide and increasingly leverage linkages among the Washington, D.C., Bologna and Nanjing campuses.
An expert in organizational change management, Flaherty spent more than 25 years at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he now holds the title of director emeritus.
He serves on other boards and councils, including those at Rockefeller University, the Leadership Academy of the New York City Schools, the Foreign Policy Association, The Kenyon Review, Techno-Serve, Epoch Investment Partners and Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. The Flahertys reside in New York City.
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