Renee Wessels
Associate Executive Director for Strategy and External Affairs
Maria Guerrero
Executive Assistant and Business Analyst for Executive Leadership
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Samuel J. Meisels
Founding Executive Director
Meisels is the founding executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, president emeritus of Erikson Institute, and a professor and research scientist emeritus at the University of Michigan. He retired from the Buffett Institute in 2023, concluding a career that spanned more than a half-century and established him as a leading voice in the field of early childhood education and development.