These dedicated educators play a critical role in the preparation of the Course Description and exam for AP World History. They represent a diversity of knowledge and points of view in their fields and, as a group, are the authority when it comes to making subject-matter decisions in the exam-construction process. The AP Development Committees represent a unique collaboration between high school and college educators.

Committee Chair
Alan L. Karras, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Committee Members
Esther M. Adams, Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, Maryland
Dean T. Ferguson, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas
Jay (Joseph) Harmon, Cypress Woods High School, Cypress, Texas
Robert B. Marks, Whittier College, Whittier, California
John R. McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia

College Board Advisor
Cecil Barden Keeler, Palmetto Ridge High School, Naples, Florida

Chief Reader
Merry Weisner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

ETS Assessment Specialists
Despina Danos
Barbara Hildebrant
Uta Raina