Carole Corcoran is an attorney with over four decades of experience dealing with legal and governance matters for corporate and not-for-profit clients. Most recently she spent 19 years as general counsel, corporate secretary, and director of special projects for the International Crisis Group, an international NGO focused on conflict prevention. Prior to that she was general counsel for Sanwa Bank’s US financial subsidiaries. In 1990, while in Tibet as a trekker on the 1990 International Peace Climb led by Jim Whittaker to summit Mount Everest, she developed a life-changing interest in Tibet and Asia. She currently is a member of the Human Rights Watch Miami Committee and the boards of Jewel Heart International and The Gelek Rimpoche Foundation, where as cofounder and president, she directs the development, preservation, and distribution of the extensive digital archive of the late Gelek Rimpoche. She is a member of The Council of Foreign Relations and the New York Bar.
Carole Corcoran
