Larry Kardon has been a member of the board since 1979. He previously resided in Tangier, where he and his wife Susan opened the first Montessori School in North Africa and his two daughters attended the American School of Tangier. Mr. Kardon currently resides in Pennsylvania. He is involved in real estate sales, marking, and investment as the owner of Realty Executives-West Chester and as managing partner of Nodrak Partners, LLP. 

Aziz Bidah’s background is in auditing and consulting services. He serves on the board of the Chartered Accountant body in Morocco as Chairman of the Professionals Training Committee, and acts as Partner in charge of PriceWaterhouse Morocco. Mr. Bidah is vice president of AMCHAM-Morocco.

Madison Cox, a garden designer and author with offices in both New York City and Morocco, has worked extensively in North America, Europe and Morocco. He serves on a number of boards of foundations including as Vice President of the Fondation Pierre Bergé in Paris, Vice President of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, and as an Advisory Board Member of the Aangan Trust in Mumbai, India. Mr. Cox has been actively involved with the American School of Tangier and the American School of Marrakech for several years.

Julianne Furman is the General Manager of Exco Automotive Solutions Europe and President of Tangier-based Polydesign Systems.  She has lived and worked in Morocco for more than 20 years, serving in a management capacity for a number of Moroccan and American companies and associations involved in a variety of sectors. Ms. Furman was elected to the AST board of trustees in 2015.

Mohammed Kadrouch has a background in business management and since 2000 has held senior commercial positions at several international companies. He currently manages the Sabre Airline Solutions business for West and North Africa. Mr. Kadrouch joined the AST board in 2013 and his children attend the AST school.

Yahya Rouach is a self-taught artist and sculptor of international renown based in Marrakech, Morocco. His multicultural background has served as a main inspiration for his work, and his designs are featured in some of the most beautiful private residences in the world and the occasional public project like the Royal Mansour hotel in Marrakech. His sculptures are currently the focus of a special joint exhibition with Mehdi Qotbi at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Mr. Rouach has been actively involved with the American School of Marrakech since 2009 and joined the board in 2011.  

Richard Schuhmann is currently the President of the Landing School of Boatbuilding and Yacht Design in Arundel Maine.  Previously, as an engineering faculty member at Penn State, and then at MIT, he facilitated innovative design collaborations between his students and students in Rabat at L’Ecole Mohammadia d’ingénieurs and L’Ecole nationale de l’industrie et des mines respectively.  Dr. Schuhmann was elected to the AST board of trustees in 2015. 

Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel was the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco from November 1997 to March 2001, during which time a new U.S.-Morocco strategic relationship was launched on political, military and economic levels. In other positions during his career, he has convened multilateral policy forums involving national security, environmental, and trade and energy issues, and has been involved in matters of Russian and European nuclear non-proliferation. Currently, Ambassador Gabriel is President and CEO of The Gabriel Company, LLC, which represents American corporations and international entities on investment and policy strategies and projects. 

Mr. Magagna has a long and distinguished career in overseas education. Through the support of two Fulbright grants, he began his overseas teaching career at The American School of Tangier. He subsequently became Headmaster there, and later moved on to become Headmaster at the Community School in Teheran and at Jakarta International School; he also served as Headmaster of Rutgers Preparatory School and La Jolla Country Day School in California. John is a past Director of the Near East/South Asia Council of International Schools (NESA), and The East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (EARCOS). Mr. Magagna returned home from a very successful seven years as Headmaster of the Jakarta International School and founded his company, Search Associates, in 1990.