Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University and the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. He is also a Professor of Law, a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford (FSI), and a Professor of Political Science. He attended Yale Law School, obtaining his Master of Laws degree in 1962. He then returned to Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1964. Mr. Casper emigrated to the United States in 1964, spending two years as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, and between 1979 and 1987 served as Dean of the Law School. In 1989, Mr. Casper was appointed Provost of the University of Chicago. He served as President of Stanford University from 1992-2000. Mr. Casper has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. From 1977 to 1991, he was an editor of The Supreme Court Review. At present, Mr. Casper serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Central European University in Budapest and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Berlin. He is also a member of various additional boards, including the Council of the American Law Institute and the Committee for Economic Development. From 2000-2008, he served as a successor trustee of Yale University.

Dr. Sonia “Sunnie” Evers is an art historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance. She currently teaches art history, Renaissance Culture and Women’s Studies at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco and as a guest lecturer at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, where she received her PhD in 1995. In addition, she is the author of several articles and papers on the Venetian sixteenth century artist, Paolo Veronese and has organized several European trips for both students and adults. She is a member of the Board of Save Venice, UC Press and San Francisco Ballet.

John Sanday joined GHF in 2007 as Director for Asia and Pacific Programs. John is the Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia Project Director and is also responsible for project oversight, quality assessment, monitoring and reporting, new project investigations and helping to secure in-country matching funding for select GHF projects in the Asia-Pacific region. John Sanday is a British architect who has spent the last 36 years living and working in Nepal. As one of the leading architectural conservators in Asia, he has traveled and worked all over the subcontinent on a wide assortment of historic buildings including Himalayan monasteries, Indian Palaces, and since 1989 monuments in Angkor, Cambodia. John’s most recent commissions are in Mustang, Nepal and Bumthang, Bhutan, where John has created programs to train young professionals and craftsmen to master the skills of preserving their own cultural heritage. John has been elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London and more recently awarded by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contribution to architectural conservation and training, especially in Cambodia and Nepal.

Kuang Han Li manages GHF’s Pingyao Ancient City, Foguang Temple and Monastery Complex (completed) and Fujian tulou Projects in China, including overseeing GHF’s planning, restoration, and interpretation efforts. Additionally, Han is responsible for new China Heritage archaeological site investigations. Han has worked as a consultant to the Getty Conservation Institute’s collaborative project with the Chinese State Administration for Cultural Heritage in Hebei, China and also Kham Aid Foundation’s historic assessment and conservation efforts in Sichuan, China.

Dr. Richard D. Hansen, Ph.D, is an eminent American archaeologist and currently Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mesoamerican Research in the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Dr. Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya and also a director of the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates the mainly unexplored territory in Petén, northern Guatemala. Site of special significance include the Mirador and Nakbe.

Hansen is founder and president of the non-profit Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES). In December 2005 he was given the National Order of the Cultural Patrimony of Guatemala by the Guatemalan President, Oscar Berger, and in 2008 was named Environmentalist of the Year for Latin America by the Latin Trade Bravo Business award. He has published over 93 scientific papers, a book and popular articles plus another 190 professional papers in scientific conferences. He has conducted and directed archaeological research across the world from Israel, the U.S. Great Basin, the U.S. Southwest, and Central America. In 1989, discoveries by Hansen and his colleagues established the idea that ancient Maya rulers had centralized their roles far earlier than once supposed, building several massive centers with the help of commoners as early as 1000-800 B.C.