of the Council on Foreign Relations, and honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution, the California Business Roundtable and the Bay Area Council. In addition, Haas is the former chairman of Stanford's Humanities and Sciences Council as well as the former president of the Levi Strauss Foundation. He is also a donor and supporter of Immigrants Rising. Accolades In 1998, President Bill Clinton honored Haas with the first annual Ron Brown Leadership Award in recognition of the company's anti-racism initiative called "Project Change". In 2009, Haas was selected as the Alumnus of the Year of the University of California, Berkeley. Personal life In 1974, he married attorney Colleen Gershon; they have a daughter, Elise. See also Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley League of Women Voters References External links Sweatshops dialogue UC Berkeley 20th-century American businesspeople 1942 births American chairpersons of corporations American people of German-Jewish descent Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Haas family Harvard Business School alumni Jewish American philanthropists Living people McKinsey & Company people University of California, Berkeley alumni Levi Strauss & Co. people Peace Corps volunteers Newmark family