Officers

Chairman: Duff Weddle

Duff Weddle began his career as corporate counsel to the Arabian American Oil Company, residing first in the corporate headquarters in Manhattan and thereafter at the center of operations  in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.  In 1977, he joined the HallEstill law firm in Tulsa and was a member of the firm’s international commercial practice group.  He represented clients with international operations and direct foreign investment and was involved with projects in Africa, the Middle East, South America, and South and East Asia.

He joined Devco International Group in 1982, where he became a principal and co-owner of this privately owned company.  Devco was a producer and trader in the international petrochemical industry, with production facilities located in several countries and trading activities worldwide. 

Since 2000, he has been a consultant to public and private companies in various domestic and international projects involving business development, capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, international trading, ocean transportation and logistics, corporate reorganizations and governmental affairs.

Mr. Weddle has presented at international trade conferences and continuing legal education seminars and has been published in both business and legal journals, including  Anhydrous Ammonia in the Pacific Basin—The Growth Markets and The Arbitration Agreement, the First Step in the Settlement of Transnational Commercial Disputes.

As a community volunteer, he served on the Board of the American Red Cross, Tulsa Area Chapter,  for several years, the last two as its Chair.  He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Tulsa, where he has been a member since 1995.  He  was also appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Rotary Club of Tulsa Foundation,  and served as the Chair during the last year of his tenure. 

Mr. Weddle  was a volunteer leader in the Boy Scouts of America,  serving as Assistant Scoutmaster and Co-Chair of the Troop 222’s High Adventure Committee, and was responsible for organizing and leading wilderness backpacking and sea based high adventure expeditions for the scouts. 

Currently, he has a volunteer leadership role in the management of Rotary International’s cultural and educational youth exchange program, under which over 8,000 high school students annually are afforded the opportunity to spend a year abroad under scholarship—-this program supports Rotary’s mission of advancing international good will, mutual understanding and world peace. 

Mr. Weddle  is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where he received a B.B.A., with majors in Finance and Accounting.   He also holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law.  He attended the Advanced Management Program, Harvard School of Business.  He has been admitted to the Bar Associations in the states of Texas and Oklahoma, and was admitted as a certified public accountant by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.

Vice-Chairman: Randy Kluver

Randy Kluver is the Associate Provost of OSU Global and Dean of the School of Global Studies and Professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communications at Oklahoma State University. Previously, he held administrative and faculty positions at Texas A&M University, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), National University of Singapore, and Oklahoma City University, and Jiangxi  Normal University (China). He has also held a role as a visiting fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and is the recipient of a Fulbright Administrator’s Award in South Korea. A native of Oklahoma, he received an undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma, an MA from California State University, Los Angeles, and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. 

He has authored, co-authored, or edited five books and dozens of peer reviewed journal articles in in the fields of new media, Asian politics, the Internet in Asian societies, public diplomacy, and international communication. His most recent book, Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election (2019), examined how the 2016 US presidential election was portrayed in global media. 

Dr. Kluver has lectured at universities around the world and is a Fulbright Specialist.  He has provided testimony for US congressional committees on education and foreign policy. He has done extensive consulting on global media and geopolitics for the US Department of Defense.

Director: Robert H. Donaldson

Robert H. Donaldson is Trustees Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tulsa, where he served as President from 1990-96. Previously (1984-90) Dr. Donaldson was President of Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey’s largest private university, and Provost of Lehman College of the City University of New York (1981-84). He has also taught at Vanderbilt University and at Harvard University; the latter institution awarded his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science.

Dr. Donaldson has authored or co-authored six books and monographs and more than two dozen articles and book chapters, mostly on the politics and foreign policy of the Soviet Union and Russia. His latest book, with Joseph Nogee and Vidya Nadkarni, is The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests; the sixth edition was published in October 2018 by Routledge.

Dr. Donaldson has lectured widely and has served as a consultant to several government agencies. In 1973-74 he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow serving as a consultant to the Department of State, and in 1978-79 he was Visiting Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. In recent years, he has made numerous trips to Russia, where he helped establish programs in which the University of Tulsa participated, including the Zelenograd Business College, the Russian-American Oil and Gas Technology Center, and the Russian-American Management Program. More recently, he has worked as a senior consultant with Kaludis Consulting, Inc., on strategic planning and leadership development with universities in Saudi Arabia.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Donaldson is a past president of the American Committees on Foreign Relations. He has been honored for his work in international higher education by an honorary doctorate awarded by Kyungnam University in Korea, and by the Order of Andres Bello, presented in 1991 by President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela.

Treasurer: David J. Hyman

David J. Hyman is the Treasurer of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations.  Mr. Hyman has practiced law since 1981, first in Nashville, and in Tulsa since 1985.  His practice has focused on the representation of healthcare providers in regulation and transactional matters.  He also serves as an arbitrator and mediator on behalf of national forums.  Mr. Hyman has taught healthcare law as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa College of law, and often lectured on healthcare law matters to both legal and medical professionals.  He has also written and published numerous times on healthcare legal matters.  He has served as the chair of the healthcare law section of the Oklahoma Bar Association and has held leadership positions in the American Health Law Association.  Mr. Hyman is recognized by Best Lawyers in America for healthcare law, and in 2022 was selected by Best Lawyers in America as the healthcare Lawyer of the Year in Tulsa.  Mr. Hyman received his BA degree from Vanderbilt University in 1974 and his JD degree from Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in 1981.

Secretary: Lara Foley

Lara Foley is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tulsa where she currently serves as Assistant Vice Provost for Global Engagement, focusing on international partnership development.  She is the founding director of the TU Global Scholars Program, a selective academic and co-curricular program focused on global challenges and real-world problem solving. The program was a 2019 finalist for the Paul Simon Spotlight Award for Campus Internationalization.

Dr. Foley is the author or co-author of one book and more than a dozen articles or chapters.  Her scholarship has centered around how social structures both enable and constrain the stories we tell about our lives. 

Dr. Foley holds an AB in Psychology from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Florida.

Events Coordinator: Leah Clayman

Leah Clayman has lived in Tulsa for many years. She and her husband John raised three boys who have all returned to Tulsa to build their careers. Leah has performed a variety of volunteer work. She was the President of the Holland Hall Parents’ Association, Co-Chairman of ARTworks at Holland Hall and served as the Jenks East Elementary Volunteer Coordinator. She is on the Landscaping Committee at Temple Israel. Leah likes all the homemaking arts, especially baking, sewing and gardening. Her work on the board of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations has fed her interest in the issues of national security and foreign affairs. She earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Members of the Board of Directors