Board & Advisory Council

John P. Salazar joined the IAF board in 2006 and currently serves as chair. He is an attorney in Albuquerque with Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb where he specializes in real estate and land use, chairs the business department and is a member of the firm’s executive committee. His community service includes the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, the University of New Mexico Alumni Association, and the boards of the Albuquerque Economic Forum, the Albuquerque Community Foundation and the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. He has a J.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from the University of New Mexico.

Thomas J. Dodd serves as the board vice chair. He was U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica and to Uruguay. He teaches Latin American history and diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he previously directed the graduate program in Latin American studies, and has been an adjunct professor at American University and the George Washington University. He has a Ph.D. and an M.A. from George Washington University and a B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Roger W. Wallace has served on the IAF’s board since October 2004, including as chair until 2009. He is vice president for government affairs at Pioneer Natural Resources Company, an independent oil and gas company in Irving, Texas. Past positions include deputy undersecretary for international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce; minister-counselor for commercial affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City; and protocol officer for the U.S. Department of State. He is co-chair of the advisory board to the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and serves on the board of the US-Mexico Foundation and on the Council on Foreign Relations. He has an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. from Washington and Lee University.

Jack C. Vaughn Jr., served as the board’s vice chair from 2006 to 2009. He has worked in the petroleum industry for 25 years, most recently as managing director of Vaughn Petroleum, and at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of International Affairs. He was president of the Dallas Council on World Affairs, chairs the advisory board of the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University, and serves on the boards of the Baylor University Medical Research Foundation, the University of Texas’ Southwestern Medical Foundation and the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti. He holds an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University and a B.B.A from University of Texas at Austin.

Kelly Ryan is currently acting as deputy assistant secretary for immigration and border security at the Department of Homeland Security. She is responsible for oversight of immigration policy and development in all DHS mission areas relating to immigration. From 2002 to 2009, she was a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. She was also a lead U.S. negotiator of the UN Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Ms. Ryan is a graduate of Tulane University and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University and a LL.M. from Cambridge University.

Eddy Arriola serves as chairman of the board of Miami-based Apollo Bank. He is also founder, chairman and CEO of Apollo Bancshares, the bank-holding company that, under his leadership, acquired and re-launched Union Credit Bank as Apollo Bank in 2010. He was co-founder and managing director of Inktel Direct, a nationwide provider of third-party direct marketing services, which he grew into one of the largest Hispanic-owned companies in the United States. Mr. Arriola earned his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree in history from Boston College and received an OPM Program graduate degree from Harvard Business School.