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Chairman
Patrick Weil
Historian, Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, visiting professor at Yale Law School
Welcome to the LWB International website!
Welcome to the LWB International website!
Libraries without Borders is an association under the 1901 Associations French law. It is chaired by an Executive Board of 24 members, elected by the General Assembly, constituted by the totality of LWB's members. In the US, LWB is a nonprofit organization 501(c)(3), also chaired by a Board.
In 2007 we founded a nonprofit that seeks to improve access to information, education and culture in the world.
We believed that access to books, to information, and to knowledge required a new kind of mobilization and innovation, and that libraries represented this future where, through the use of new tools and digital technologies, everyone could have access to culture.
We thus sought to reinvent the 21st century library in all its forms. Whether digital or physical, mobile or fixed, libraries give everyone the tools to understand and change the world.
I am proud of the results so far that have allowed Libraries Without Borders to play a novel and significant role in the humanitarian and international communities.
More than a decade ago, we were already driven by the ambition to create a library that would constantly evolve and reinvent itself to better address the major challenges our society faces. That same ambition is now shared by a growing community including our financial and operational parnters, our volutneers, our members and donors, our staff in our offices and those on the ground, of course, and all the individuals and organizations – more and more every day – who collaborate with us in a variety of ways. Together, we are inventing new ways in which libraries can transform and improve the lives of their users.
Chairman
Historian, Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, visiting professor at Yale Law School
Associate Professor, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Historian, Professor at UC Berkeley
Member of the Board
Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America
Executive Committee
Counselor, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Executive Committee
Co-founder & CEO of Codecademy
Member of the Board
Professor, Yale Law School
Member of the Board
Strategic Development Advisor
Member of the Board
Program Officer, Office of the President, Ford Foundation
Member of the Board
Co-Founder LightSail Education
Member of the Board
Teacher at Colleagiate Academies
Deputy Chairman
Professor of History at UC Berkeley
Member of the Board
Program Officer, Humanity in Action
Member of the Board
Publisher, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Chairman
Historian, Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, visiting professor at Yale Law School
Deputy Chairman
Retired, former Press Relations Manager of Radio France
Deputy Chairman
Writer and editor
Deputy Chairman
Producer, So Films
Secretary
Former Principal of the Lycée Français de New York, Honorary Principal, France
Deputy secretary
Lawyer
Deputy treasurer
Counselor at Paris administrative court
Deputy Chairman
Professor of History at UC Berkeley
Member of the Board
Member of the Board
Writer
Member of the Board
Former French ambassador to Mali, Haiti and Cambodia
Member of the Board
Writer
Member of the Board
Lawyer at the Paris Bar
Member of the Board
Librarian, in charge of mediation and digital innovations at the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information (BPI), France
Member of the Board
Journalist, social activist, France
Member of the Board
Former Programs Director at BSF
Member of the Board
Lecturer at Paris I University – Panthéon-Sorbonne, and professor at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana, Guiana
Member of the Board
DC Board of Education Member Ward 2
Member of the Board
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Member of the Board
Founding Member & Product Manager in Applied Artificial Intelligence at Xerox
Member of the Board
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Member of the Board
Writer
Member of the Board
Lawyer
Member of the Board
Senior Advisor to Rothschild Global Advisory – Member of the Global Financial Advisory Compliance Committee