Our Team

Leadership

Doug Rand
Director, Talent Mobility Fund

Doug served as Senior Advisor to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during the Biden administration and as Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) during the Obama administration. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and an advisor to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. As an entrepreneur, he was the co-founder and president of Boundless, and the co-founder and CEO of Playscripts, Inc. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, and received master’s and undergraduate degrees from Harvard, where he studied evolutionary biology.

Diane Rish
Deputy Director, Talent Mobility Fund

Diane is a U.S. immigration attorney with more than 16 years of experience in U.S. immigration law and policy. Most recently, she served as Senior Manager of Immigration at Salesforce, a cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco. Previously, she served as Associate Director of Government Relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) where she advocated on behalf of AILA and its 15,000+ immigration attorney members for immigration-related policy, regulatory and legislative reforms before Congress, the White House and federal agencies. Diane began her legal career in private practice where she provided legal counsel to Fortune 500 companies on all aspects of employment-based immigration.

Experts Council

Parth
Ahya
Chief of Staff, Renaissance Philanthropy
Jeff
Alstott
Senior Information Scientist
Fanta
Aw, PhD
Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA
Lawrence S.
Bacow
President Emeritus, Harvard University
Amanda
Baran
Former Chief of the Office of Policy & Strategy at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for the Biden administration
Michael
Clemens
Professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University
Johann
Harnoss
BCG Henderson Fellow for Global Migration, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Imagine Foundation
William
Kerr
Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of Harvard's Managing the Future of Work Project
Amy
Nice
Founder, Talent Mobility Fund
Leo Rafael
Reif
President Emeritus, MIT
Rajat
Suri
Co-Founder, Lima, Presto, Lyft
Julia
Willemyns
Founding Co-Director, Centre for British Progress
Lisa
Zeiger
Head of People, ClassDojo, former Head of Mobility, Stripe