Our people make all the difference.

ISI's mission has been taken up with consistency and vigor by talent drawn from across the nation and beyond. The individuals listed below are a small sample of the tens of thousands of men and women who have worked for or with ISI to educate for liberty.

Team

  • Christopher Long President
    Christopher Long is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is a graduate of George Mason University. Prior to rejoining ISI in April 2011, he served as Managing Director of Perella Weinberg Partners, a global investment bank and asset management company, as Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of hedge fund advisor Endowment Capital Group, L.P., and as Chief Operating Officer of Friess Associates, LLC, and Treasurer of its Brandywine Funds. Mr. Long has served on a number of boards, including the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board and its investment committee, the Council for National Policy, Wilmington Renaissance Corporation, Saint Edmond’s Academy, and Marion T. Academy Charter School.  Mr. Long resides in Greenville, Delaware, with his wife, Sheila, and their three children.
  • Jeffrey Nelson Executive Vice President
    Jeff Nelson is Executive Vice President for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He holds a B.A. from the University of Detroit, an M.A. from Yale University Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He first joined ISI in 1991 and served as editor of the Intercollegiate Review and founding editor and publisher of the Institute's press, ISI Books. Prior to returning to ISI in 2009, he was president of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and served on ISI's board of trustees. Dr. Nelson serves as vice chairman of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, a trustee of the Wilbur Foundation in California, a member of the G. K. Chesterton Institute board of trustees, secretary of the Edmund Burke Society of America, and a member of the board of trustees for Padua Academy in Wilmington, Delaware. He is the editor of several books, including Redeeming the Time by Russell Kirk, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, The Political Principles of Robert Taft by Russell Kirk and James McClellan, Perfect Sowing by Henry Regnery, and Remembered Past by John Lukacs.
  • Mark Henrie Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer
    Mark C. Henrie is Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He holds degrees from Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard. Mr. Henrie is the author of A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum, and his articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. He serves on the editorial and advisory council of First Things magazine and is a member of the board of visitors of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia. He is also a founding member of the board of directors of the Center for European Renewal (The Hague, Netherlands) and of Regina Luminis Academy, a classical school in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Henrie and his wife, Claudia, live in West Chester, Pennsylvania, together with their five children.
  • Jed Donahue Vice President, Publications and Editor in Chief, ISI Books
    Jed Donahue is Vice President of Publications for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Editor in Chief of ISI Books. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Prior to joining ISI in 2008, he served as a senior editor at Random House's Crown Forum division and as an editor at Regnery Publishing. He began his career working for syndicated columnist George F. Will. Mr. Donahue lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife and two children.
  • Paul Rhein Vice President, Operations
    Paul Rhein is the Vice President of Operations at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Detroit Mercy and completed graduate work in distance education technology at the University of Maryland. A former Coast Guard volunteer, he is active in his parish and in the Delaware Saengerbund, the area's German historical society. Mr. Rhein lives in Newark, Delaware, with his wife and their four children.
  • Nick Reid Vice President
    Nick Reid is Vice President for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He is a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University and also holds a certificate in management from Georgetown University. Prior to joining ISI, Nick was the Director of Major Gifts at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC where he had held several other positions including Deputy Director of U.S. Senate Relations and State Relations Project Coordinator. Nick also served for two years as press secretary to Congressman Jim Ryun (R-KS) and was the 2006 GOP candidate for U.S. Congress in Wisconsin’s Seventh Congressional District. Nick is an ordained Subdeacon in the Orthodox Church and he and his wife, Elizabeth reside in Wilmington, Delaware with their five children.
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Board of Trustees

  • Richard M. DeVos Honorary Trustee