Founder and President
Search for Common Ground
Mr. John D. Marks is President and founder of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organization with offices in 18 countries. He also founded and heads Common Ground Productions and has produced or executive-produced numerous TV series around the world. With his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he is a Skoll Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, and additionally he is an Ashoka Senior Fellow. A best-selling and award-winning author, he has been a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Executive Assistant to the late U.S. Senator Clifford Case, a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.
