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William Bohnett

William Bohnett is of counsel to the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in New York City specializing in corporate and securities matters with an emphasis on registered investment company and investment adviser representation.

Since 2009, Mr. Bohnett has been a member of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex. Effective November, 2010, Mr. Bohnett is also a Member of the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan, non-governmental organization consisting exclusively of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders working on national competitiveness issues. He has also been a member since 2003 of the Board of Directors of The Synergos Institute, a New York-based non-profit that works with foundations, NGOs, governments and multinational corporations globally to combat poverty, and is the Chair of its Nominating and Governance and Audit Committees. Mr. Bohnett is an Advisor to the World Policy Institute, a non-partisan, New York-based non-profit working on global development and governance issues, and was a member from 2001-2007 of the Board of Directors of City Harvest, a New York City-based food rescue and distribution non-profit. He has been a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense Fund, a major national and international environmental non-profit, and a Visiting Fellow of the World Resources Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based global environmental research and policy organization. Additionally, he has served on the Boards of The Island School, a secondary school emphasizing sustainable development principles, and New York Sun Works, a non-profit engaged in environmental sustainability projects.

Mr. Bohnett was an early investor and member of the Board of Directors of GeoCities, an Internet community company which went public in August 1998 and subsequently merged with Yahoo!. He is the President of Whitecap Investments LLC, an investment firm. Mr. Bohnett is a 1970 graduate of Princeton University and its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974. He is married, has three grown children and has homes in Princeton Junction, New Jersey and Jupiter Island, Florida.