The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ("Junior"), and Senior's principal business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick T. Gates, in New York State in 1913.Its central historical mission is "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."
Board of Trustees
The Rockefeller Foundation is governed by the Board of Trustees which consists of no fewer than 12 members, with the Foundation’s president serving as an ex-officio member. The Board of Trustees is generally responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s program and grant making strategy; budgets, expenditures and appropriation policies and guidelines; and investment strategies, allocations and performance. The Board of Trustees performs its duties through committees that include, but are not limited to: the Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Budget and Compensation Committee and Audit Committee and Trusteeship Committee as described in the Foundation’s Bylaws.
Note: An asterisk (*) following an individual's name indicates an officer who is also a trustee or director.
- James F.Orr, III, * Board Chair, President & CEO.
- Judith Rodin, * President.
- Peter Madonia, Chief Operating Officer.
- Zia Khan, Vice President, Strategy and Evaluation.
- Shari L. Patrick, General Counsel and Corp. Secretary
- Donna Dean, Treasurer and C.I.O.
- Ellen Taus, Chief Financial Officer
- Ann M. Fudge
- Helene D. Gayle
- Rajat K. Gupta
- Thomas J. Healey
- Alice S. Huang
- Strive Masiyiwa
- Diana Natalicio
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Richard D. Parsons
- Surin Pitsuwan
- David Rockefeller, Jr.
- John W. Rowe
- Vo-Tong Xuan
James F. Orr IIIPresident & amp; Chief Executive Officer
Landing Point Capital
Joined the Rockefeller Foundation Board of trustees in 1995. Mr. Orr began serving as chair of the board in December 2000.
Mr. Orr is President and Chief Executive Officer of Landing Point Capital in Boston, Massachusetts, a private investment management firm he founded in January 2002. With more than 35 years of experience in the financial-services industry, his careers has encompassed insurance, banking, brokerage and investment management.
Previously Mr. Orr was President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston-based United Asset Management Corporation (UAM), one of the largest publicly owned investment management companies in the world. Prior to UAM, Mr. Orr was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UNUM Provident Corporation, a global provider of group disability and other types of insurance. He joined that firm’s predecessor in 1986 as Chief Operating Officer and was elected CEO in 1987.
During his tenure, the company grew after-tax profits from $100 million to $400 million, he executed the first conversion of a major mutual insurance company to public ownership, and increased the firm’s value by eight times at its peak. In 1998, he successfully merged UNUM Corporation with Provident Companies. In recognition of his leadership abilities, Mr. Orr was named Insurance CEO of the Year five times by The Wall Street Transcript, and CEO of the Year by the International Insurance Society.
Prior to joining UNUM, Mr. Orr was Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Connecticut Bank & Trust Company in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked from 1975 to 1986. Previously, he was President of Cardinal Management Company, an investment-management firm in Boston. At the start of his career, Mr. Orr worked at both a New York City brokerage firm and a Boston-based commercial bank.
Mr. Orr is actively involved in a range of industry, community and charitable activities. He is past chairman of the American Council of Life Insurers. He was a regular member of the Conference Board and a director of Nashua Corporation. He is a trustee of Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania; he is a member of the Advisory Council at the Harvard Center for Society and Health; and he serves on the Dean’s Council at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Mr. Orr received his bachelor’s degree in science from Villanova University. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Boston University in 1970.
Judith Rodin, PhD
President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Judith Rodin, a global philanthropic and humanitarian leader, joined the Rockefeller Foundation as president in 2005. She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution, and provost of Yale University.
During Dr. Rodin’s first four years at the Foundation, she re calibrated its focus for the 21st century. Today, the Foundation helps ensure that more people can tap into the benefits of globalization while developing stronger resilience to risks, affirming its mission, since 1913, to “promote the well-being” of humanity. Foundation initiatives include efforts to mobilize an agricultural revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa, bolster economic security for American workers, inform more equitable, sustainable transportation policies in the United States, ensure access to affordable, high-quality health systems in developing countries, and help vulnerable communities cope with the impacts of climate change. Dr. Rodin is the first woman to serve as the Foundation's president in its 96 year history.
At the University of Pennsylvania, she presided over an unprecedented decade of growth and progress that transformed the institution, its campus, and community. Under her leadership, Penn doubled its research funding and tripled both its annual fund raising and the size of its endowment. It engineered a comprehensive, award-winning, and internationally acclaimed neighborhood revitalization program in West Philadelphia. The university also attracted record numbers of undergraduate applicants, welcoming its most selective classes in history, while climbing from 16th to fourth in the leading national rankings. In 2004, Dr. Rodin received both the Philadelphia Award and William Penn Award. In 2006, she was awarded the Pennsylvania Society’s Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement. She was the first person to receive all three awards, a recognition of her tremendous impact on the city and commonwealth.
At Yale University, Dr. Rodin chaired the Department of Psychology and served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences before becoming Provost. As a faculty member for 22 years, she helped pioneer the fields of behavioral medicine and health psychology. She is widely recognized for her ground-breaking research in obesity, eating disorders, aging, and women’s health—work that earned her both the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Early Career Award in 1977 and its Distinguished Lifetime Contribution Award in 2005.
She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She participates in the annual World Economic Forum and serves on several boards, including those of the Brookings Institution, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Global Humanitarian Forum (founded by Kofi Annan), and Clinton Global Initiative’s poverty alleviation track. She is also a director of AMR Corporation, Citigroup Inc. and Comcast.
Dr. Rodin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, earned her PhD from Columbia University, and has since received 17 honorary doctorate degrees. She has authored more than 200 academic articles and has written or co-written 12 books, including her most recent, The University & Urban Renewal: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets.
Peter Madonia
Chief Operating Officer
Peter J. Madonia joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2006.
As Chief Operating Officer, he provides leadership and strategic direction for financial and operational functions. Mr. Madonia oversees several areas, including human and financial resources, information technology, facilities and office services, records management and library services. He also oversees the Foundation’s regional office operations in Nairobi, Kenya; Bangkok, Thailand; and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Madonia served as chief of staff to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a position he was appointed to after serving as senior advisor to the Bloomberg for Mayor campaign. Mr. Madonia’s previous experience in New York City government included serving as first deputy commissioner of the Fire Department, deputy commissioner for budget and operations at the Department of Buildings, and chief of staff to the deputy mayor for operations.
Mr. Madonia also owns and for twelve years operated a successful and well-known family bakery business.
Mr. Madonia received a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University, where he has taught urban studies as an adjunct professor. He also has a master’s degree in Urban Studies from the University of Chicago.
Zhia Kan
Vice President for Strategy and Evaluation
Zia Khan joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009. As Vice President for Strategy and Evaluation, Dr. Khan is responsible for cascading strategy through the organization, implementing results-based management, strengthening research and knowledge management capabilities and aiding ongoing strategy development. He also helps guide the Foundation in exploring new opportunities as well as monitoring and evaluating the impact of the Foundation’s efforts.
Having worked closely with CEOs and senior leadership on large-scale transformation projects, Dr. Khan brings to the Foundation many years of consulting and research experience in developing and implementing strategy for a wide range of organizations. His expertise includes taking organizations through evaluation initiatives to measure impact, performance, and alignment with strategy.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Khan was a partner and Vice President of Booz & Company, a global management consulting firm, which he joined when it acquired Katzenbach Partners in July 2009. He had founded the San Francisco office for Katzenbach Partners, a national management consulting firm focused on strategy and organization, and led the West Coast practice. In his seven years there, he developed many of the firm’s innovative practices related to the intersection of strategy and organization. He has written a book with Jon Katzenbach on the balance between formal and informal organizational capabilities required to achieve breakthroughs in performance.
Dr. Khan holds a B.S. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in engineering from Stanford. He sits on the board of Spark, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that empowers youth.
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Shari L. Patrick joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2008. As General Counsel, she is responsible for managing and advising the Foundation on a broad range of legal matters. In her role as Corporate Secretary, she provides strategic and operational support to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees and its committees.
Ms. Patrick came to the Rockefeller Foundation after more than 15 years as counsel to media companies and television networks. Her media work included serving as Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and General Counsel of Comedy Central, Senior Counsel to Home Box Office, and legal counsel to NBC Universal. She began her legal career at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.
Ms. Patrick received a bachelor’s degree with High Distinction from the University of Nebraska and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
Donna J. Dean
Treasurer and C.I.O.
As treasurer and Chief Investment Officer, Dean is responsible for investing the Foundation's endowment. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Dean spent seven years at Yale University, where she served as director of investments, with the responsibility for real estate as well as oversight of the New Haven Initiative community investment program.
She previously worked for CIGNA Investments in Hartford, from 1984 to 1987, where she managed real estate portfolios in the southeastern United States. From 1978 to 1984, she was with the International Paper Company in New York where she served as manager of trust investments and oversaw the company's pension and employee benefit funds. Dean began her careers in the national lending division at the Charlotte headquarters of what is now Bank of America. Dean received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ellen Taus
Chief Financial Officer
Ellen Taus joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2008. As Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Taus oversees the Foundation’s audit, tax, budgeting, insurance and cash management functions.
Prior to The Rockefeller Foundation, Ms. Taus was the Chief Financial Officer of Oxford University Press USA, where she oversaw the organization’s business operations in the United States and was responsible for finance, distribution, customer service, governance, regulatory compliance, and facilities management.
From 1999 to 2003, Ms. Taus served as CFO for the Electronic Publishing Division of the New York Times Company after having been the company’s Vice President and Treasurer for three years. Earlier in her career, she worked in corporate finance for RH Macy and was the CFO for the American Museum of the Moving Image.
A graduate of Northwestern University with a B.A. in Economics, Ms. Taus hold’s a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A in Finance and Marketing from Columbia University.
She currently serves on the Stewardship Committee of the Audubon Society of New York and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Bureau of National Affairs, a professional publisher, of Common Ground, a New York-based housing and homelessness prevention organization, and of Comprehensive Development Inc., a New York City education organization.
Retired Chairman & CEO
Young & amp; Rubicam Brands
ANN FUDGE joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2006.
Ms. Fudge is Retired Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands, a global network of pre-eminent companies across the full range of marketing communications. Young & Rubicam Brands companies include Y&R (advertising), Burson-Marsteller (public relations/public affairs), Wunderman (direct and database marketing), Landor Associates (brand consulting and creative design), Sudler & Hennessey (strategic health care communications) and Cohn & Wolfe (public relations) among others.
Prior to Young & Rubicam Brands, Ms. Fudge served as President, Beverages, Desserts and Post Division—a $5 billion unit of Kraft Foods. She served on Kraft’s Management Committee and has managed many businesses including Maxwell House Coffee, Gevalia Kaffe, Kool Aid, Crystal Light, Post cereals, Jell-O desserts and Altoids. Before joining General Foods, she spent nine years at General Mills, where she began as a Marketing Assistant and rose to the level of Marketing Director.
She serves on the Board of Directors of General Electric, Novartis, and Unilever. She is Vice Chair of the Harvard Board of Overseers, a trustee of Morehouse College, and the Brookings Institution. Ms. Fudge also serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and is Chair of the U.S. Program Advisory Panel for the Gates Foundation. She has served on the board of Catalyst, the New York Philharmonic and on the Board of Governors for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She has also served on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Liz Claiborne, Allied Signal, Honeywell, and Marriott International.
Ms. Fudge has received the Matrix Award for Advertising from New York Women in Communication and was a recipient of the NY Executive Council’s Ten Awards for leadership and innovation in business. She was named one of Time Magazine’s Global Business Influentials. Among her other honors are Leadership Awards from the Minneapolis and New York City YWCA, an Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Ebony magazine, and a Legacy Award in Business from Black Enterprise magazine. She has been profiled in Black Enterprise, Business Week and The New York Times, among others, and named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business.
Ms. Fudge received a bachelor’s degree from Simmons College and her MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
Helene D. GaylePresident & CEO
CARE USA
Helene Gayle joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2009.
Since 2006, Dr. Gayle has been president and CEO of CARE USA, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty by empowering women. In more than 70 countries, CARE works with communities to improve health, education and economic development. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
Dr. Gayle spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), focused primarily on combating HIV/AIDS, in a variety of roles involving research, programs and policy. She was named the first director of the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention and achieved the rank of Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service. On assignment from the CDC, Dr. Gayle also served as the AIDS coordinator and chief of the HIV/AIDS division for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
She then directed the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was responsible for programs related to HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, reproductive health issues and tuberculosis.
Dr. Gayle has been appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, and on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. She was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, Newsweek’s top 10 “Women in Leadership” and the Wall Street Journal’s “50 Women to Watch.” Dr. Gayle has published numerous scientific articles and has been featured in media outlets as diverse as The New York Times, Washington Post, ForbesWoman, Glamour, O magazine, Ebony, Essence, the Financial Times, National Public Radio and CNN.
A Buffalo, New York native, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Barnard College, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University. She is board certified in pediatrics, completing a residency in pediatric medicine at the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Dr. Gayle has worked extensively in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Her contributions have been honored with awards from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Spelman College, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and the U.S. Public Health Service, among others. She has received 10 honorary degrees and holds faculty appointments at the University of Washington School of Public Health, the Emory University School of Medicine, and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
Dr. Gayle serves on several boards, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ONE, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Institute of Medicine. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and the American Public Health Association.
Senior Partner Emeritus
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
RAJAT KUMAR GUPTA joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2006. Mr. Gupta is the Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company. He joined the Firm's New York Office in 1973, assumed leadership of its Scandinavian Offices in 1981, and Chicago Office in 1989.
Mr. Gupta served as the Managing Director Worldwide of McKinsey from 1994 to 2003.
In his 34 year career in consulting, Mr. Gupta has served many leading companies on a broad set of topics related to strategy, organization and operations. He has played a thought leadership role in organizational thinking throughout his career, and led the Organization Practice for the Firm.
He previously served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on UN Reform. He is an independent Director of Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, AMR Corporation, Harman International, Qatar Financial Centre, and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Sberbank. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Genpact and New Silk Route Private Equity.
Mr. Gupta is very active in many nonprofit institutions focused on education, health and development. He is Chairman of the Board of the Indian School of Business and is associated in a leadership role with many other institutions including Harvard Business School; Kellogg School of Management; Tsinghua University; Yale; Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI); Weill Cornell Medical College; Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Harvard School of Public Health.
He is involved with a variety of global development and trade organizations, including serving as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Gates Foundation; Co-Chair of the American India Foundation (AIF); Board of Pratham India Education Initiative; Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Board of the Millennium Promise; and Vice Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Gupta holds a bachelor of technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Thomas J. HealeyPartner
Healey Development LLC
THOMAS J. HEALEY joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2003.Mr. Healey is a Partner at Healey Development and a retired Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
He is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.He joined Goldman Sachs in 1985 to create the Real Estate Capital Markets Group, and founded the Pension Services Group in 1990. He became a Partner in 1988 and a Managing Director in 1996. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Healey served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Domestic Finance under President Reagan. Before joining the U.S. Treasury, he spent eight years at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., where he was head of the Corporate Finance Department.
At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Healey was Co-Chairman of the Retirement Committee and Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund, managed by Goldman Sachs. He also served on the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, and was a Presidentially-appointed Director of the Securities Industry Protection Corporation.
He is Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation Investment Committee and is actively involved with other charitable institutions, including the Trustees of Reservations in Boston, an environmental preservation organization; Morristown Memorial Health Foundation; and the Maryknoll Missionaries. Mr. Healey also serves on a number of educational boards, including Georgetown University and the Tri-County Scholarship Fund.
Mr. Healey graduated from Georgetown University and Harvard Business School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Senior Faculty Associate in Biology
California Institute of Technology
ALICE S. HUANG joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2004.
Dr. Huang is Senior Faculty Associate in Biology at the California Institute of Technology and president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was previously Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital in Boston.
Subsequently she served as Dean for Science at New York University. She currently sits on the boards of the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, Public Agenda, AAAS, C100, and 80-20, Inc.. She consults on science policy for government agencies in Singapore, Taiwan, and China, as well as for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, and the State of California.
Dr. Huang, a distinguished virologist, received the American Society for Microbiology’s Eli Lilly Award in Immunology and Microbiology in 1977 and, in 2001, its Alice C. Evans Award for promoting women in the sciences. She has honorary doctorates of science from Wheaton College, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Her past board service includes the Health Effects Institute (Boston), the Keystone Center, the University of Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins University, and Shady Hill School. She is a fellow of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, American Women in Science, the Academy of Microbiology, and the AAAS.
Born in China, Dr. Huang emigrated to the United States in 1949. She attended Wellesley College and received a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree and a PhD in microbiology from Johns Hopkins University. As an administrator, Dr. Huang is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research, organization of educational institutions, and policy issues related to science and technology.
Executive Chairman
Econet Wireless International
STRIVE T. MASIYIWA joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2003.
Mr. Masiyiwa is founder and Executive Chairman of South African-based, diversified international telecommunications group Econet Wireless. Under his leadership and guidance, Econet Wireless has developed, since its formation in 1993, into a global telecommunications enterprise with a presence in more than 15 countries in Africa, Europe and the East Asia-Pacific region. The company operates in the core areas of mobile cellular telephony, fixed public networks, and internet and satellite services.
A recognised entrepreneur, Mr. Masiyiwa has also been involved in the development of Africa’s independent media.He is a well-known international business leader who has won international recognition and numerous awards for business excellence. In 1999 he was named by the Junior Chamber International (Jaycees) as one of the “Ten Most Outstanding Young Persons of the World.” In 2003 he was chosen as one of the “15 Global Influentials of the year” in a CNN/Time magazine poll.
Over the years Mr. Masiyiwa has served on many international boards, and has also been involved in numerous initiatives to promote entrepreneurship and social development in Africa. He is currently on the boards of the Nelson Mandela Advisory Committee and Endeavor SA.
Outside his business interests, Mr. Masiyiwa is also active in promoting awareness of the impact of AIDS in Africa. A foundation he and his wife founded and fund currently provides scholarships to more than 25,000 orphans.
As one of the most respected African business leaders today, Mr. Masiyiwa speaks regularly on African business at major international business gatherings and has been regularly featured in leading international publications and television programs, among them the Economist, Newsweek, Barron’s of New York, Financial Times and CNN.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Retired Associate Justice
United States Supreme Court
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2006.
Justice O’Connor is a retired Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was born in El Paso, Texas and spent her early childhood on the Day family's 198,000-acre cattle ranch. When she reached school age, her parents sent her back to El Paso to live with her grandmother.
Justice O’Connor attended Stanford University, where she received her B.A. in economics. She continued at Stanford for her law degree, graduating in two years rather than the customary three, and graduating third out of a class of 102. It was during her work as editor on the Stanford Law Review that she met John Jay O’Connor III, also attending law school at Stanford. Soon after graduation they were married. After three years in Frankfurt, Germany, the O’Connors settled in Phoenix, Arizona.
Justice O’Connor opened a law office because no law firm would hire a woman at that time. She then served as an Arizona assistant attorney general from 1965 until 1969, when she was appointed to a vacancy in the Arizona Senate, where she rose to the rank of Senate Majority Leader. In 1974, she ran successfully for trial judge, a position she held until she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. Eighteen months later, on July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to the Supreme Court. In September, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the Court’s 102nd justice and its first female member.
During her time on the court, Justice O’Connor made it clear that the high court's role in American society was to interpret the law, not to legislate. Her votes were generally conservative, but she sometimes surprised observers with her political independence. On July 1, 2005, Associate Justice O’Connor announced her retirement from the Supreme Court, though her tenure continued into the following year. She left after 25 years of service on the bench.
Justice O’Connor currently also serves as Chancellor of the College of William and Mary and on the board of the National Constitution Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Between March and December of 2006, Justice O’Connor served her country as a member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group of the United States Institute of Peace. She authored The Majesty of the Law, Lazy B, Chico, and Finding Susie. In 2009, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Managing Director
The World Bank
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2009.
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is currently a Managing Director of the World Bank where she has oversight responsibility for the World Bank’s operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia and Europe and Central Asia. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala spearheaded several World Bank initiatives to assist low-income countries during both the food and later financial crisis. She is currently chairing the replenishment of over $40 billion for the International Development Association (IDA), the grant and soft credit arm of the World Bank.
From September 2006 to November 2007, she was Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution. From June to August 2006, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, overseeing Nigeria’s External Relations; and from July 2003 to June 2006 she served as Minister of Finance and Economy of Nigeria and head of Nigeria's much acclaimed Presidential Economic team responsible for implementing a comprehensive home-grown economic reform program that stabilized the macro-economy and tripled the growth rate to an average 6% per annum over three years.
Her achievements as Finance Minister garnered international recognition for improving Nigeria’s financial stability and fostering greater fiscal transparency to combat corruption. In October 2005, she led the Nigerian team that negotiated the cancellation of 60% of Nigeria’s external debt ($18 billion) with the Paris Club. The debt deal also included an innovative buy-back mechanism that wiped out Nigeria’s Paris Club debt and reduced the country’s external indebtedness from $35 billion to $5 billion. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala oversaw Nigeria’s first Sovereign credit rating of BB—from Fitch and Standard and Poor’s—a rating that grouped Nigeria with other emerging market countries such as Vietnam, Venezuela and the Philippines.
Previously, she pursued a 21-year career as a development economist at the World Bank, where she held the post of Vice President and Corporate Secretary. This included two tours of duty (1997-2000) working in the East Asia Region during the East Asian financial crisis; two duty tours in the Middle East Region, the last (2000-2003) as Director, Operations (deputy vice-president) of the region. Dr Okonjo-Iweala also served as Director of Institutional Change and Strategy (1995-1997). From 1989 to 1991, she was Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President, Operations.
Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was educated at Harvard and has a Ph.D. in Regional Economics and Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Honorary Doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin, Brown University and Amherst College, among others. She is the recipient of Time magazine’s European Hero of the Year Award, 2004, for her work on economic reform in Nigeria, Euromoney magazine Global Finance Minister of the year, 2005, Financial Times/The Banker African Finance Minister of the year 2005, This Day (one of Nigeria’s premier newspapers) Minister of the Year award 2004 and 2005. In 2006, she was named by Forbes magazine as one of 100 most powerful women in the world.
Portfolio, the Conde Nast International Business Intelligence magazine, called her one of 73 “Brilliant” business influencers in the world of business and public service.
Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups: ONE Campaign, the World Resources Institute, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nelson Mandela Institution, Friends of the Global Fund Africa, and the African Institutes of Science and Technology as well as the Center for Global Development (CGD).
Richard D. Parsons
Chairman of the Board
Citigroup Inc.
RICHARD D. PARSONS joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2007.
Mr. Parsons became Chairman of the Board of Citigroup Inc. in February 2009. Before taking the helm at the financial giant, Mr. Parson’s served as Chairman of the Board of Time Warner, from May 2003 to January 2009. From May 2002 to December 2007, Mr. Parsons served as Time Warner’s Chief Executive Officer.
As CEO, Mr. Parsons led Time Warner’s turnaround and set the company on a solid path toward achieving sustainable growth. In its January 2005 report on America’s Best CEOs, Institutional Investor magazine named Mr. Parsons the top CEO in the entertainment industry.
Before becoming Time Warner’s CEO, Mr. Parsons served as the company's Co-Chief Operating Officer, overseeing its content businesses-Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, Warner Music Group and Time Warner Book Group-as well as two key corporate functions: Legal and People Development.
Mr. Parsons joined Time Warner as its President in February 1995, and had been a member of the company's Board of Directors since January 1991. As President, he oversaw the company's filmed entertainment and music businesses, and all corporate staff functions, including financial activities, legal affairs, public affairs and administration.
Before joining Time Warner, Mr. Parsons was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dime Bancorp, Inc., one of the largest thrift institutions in the United States. Previously, he was the managing partner of the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. Prior to that, he held various positions in state and federal government, as counsel for Nelson Rockefeller and as a senior White House aide under President Gerald Ford. Mr. Parsons received his undergraduate education at the University of Hawaii and his legal training at Union University's Albany Law School.
Mr. Parsons’ civic and nonprofit commitments include Co-Chairman of the Mayor’s Commission on Economic Opportunity in New York; Chairman Emeritus of the Partnership for New York City; Chairman of the Apollo Theatre Foundation and service on the boards of Howard University, the Museum of Modern Art and the American Museum of Natural History. He also serves on the board of Estée Lauder.
Board of Trustees
Dr. Surin, a native of Nakorn Sri Thammarat in Southern Thailand, is Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – an organization of 10 countries in Southeast Asia that works to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development of the region. Early in his career, Dr. Surin taught Political Science at Thammasat University, and in 1984 ran for a Parliamentary seat from his home town.
Dr. Surin had been returned to Parliament eight times since 1986 and as an MP was appointed Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Secretary to the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Currently Dr. Surin is on the Advisory Boards of the UN Human Security Trust Fund, the International Crisis Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies.
Dr. Surin attended Thammasat University before winning a scholarship to attend Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California where he completed his B.A. in Political Science (cum laude) in 1972. Dr. Surin went on to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1974 and 1982 respectively, in the field of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Surin's entire Harvard career was supported by the Winston S. Churchill Association and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. In 1983-84, he was selected by the American Political Science Association to serve as a Congressional Fellow in Washington DC.
Director & Former Chairman
Rockefeller & Co., Inc.
DAVID ROCKEFELLER, Jr., joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2006.
Mr. Rockefeller is a director and former chairman of Rockefeller & Co. and has been an active participant in the nonprofit arena, especially in the areas of environment, philanthropy, arts and public education.
He is a past vice chair of the National Park Foundation, reporting directly to the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Rockefeller served as a member of the Pew Oceans Commission that issued a comprehensive report on the health of U.S. marine waters in June 2003. His commitment to ensuring that our government and communities embrace and implement the recommendations of the Pew Commission—and his passion for sailing and the sea—fueled the formation of Sailors for the Sea, a "new voice for ocean conservation."
Mr. Rockefeller is an advisor and former vice chair of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, and a founder of the Alaska Fund for the Future, an organization dedicated to preserving the Alaskan natural environment and its native cultures. As a sailor, he has raced and cruised for over forty years in waters from Labrador to Miami, from San Diego to Alaska, and from Scotland and Sweden to Turkey and Italy.
He is the former chair of the North American Nominating Committee for the Praemium Imperiale, the Japanese prize for outstanding international achievement in the arts. He is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, the Asian Cultural Council, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He chaired Arts, Education and Americans, which produced the book, Coming to Our Senses: The Significance of the Arts for American Education. He is a founding trustee of The Cantata Singers in Boston and performed with them as a chorister for forty years.
Mr. Rockefeller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His former foundation affiliations have included service as Trustee and Chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, President of the Rockefeller Family Fund, and Trustee of the Boston Foundation. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Professor
Columbia University
Dr. John Rowe joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2007.
Dr. Rowe is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. From 2000 until his retirement in late 2006, Dr. Rowe served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations.
Before his tenure at Aetna, from 1998 to 2000, Dr. Rowe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation’s largest academic health care organizations. From 1988 to 1998, prior to the Mount Sinai-NYU Health merger, Dr. Rowe was President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Gerontology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. He has authored over 200 scientific publications, mostly on the physiology of the aging process, including a leading textbook of geriatric medicine, in addition to more recent publications on health care policy. Dr.
Rowe has received many honors and awards for his research and health policy efforts regarding care of the elderly. He was Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is co-author, with Robert Kahn, PhD, of Successful Aging (Pantheon, 1998). Currently, Dr. Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation’s Network on An Aging Society and chairs the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans.
He has served as president of the Gerontological Society of America and recently chaired the Committee of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences on The Future Health Care Workforce Needs of An Aging Population. Dr. Rowe was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences where he is involved in the Evidence Based Roundtable. In addition to serving on the Rockefeller Foundation board, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Dr Rowe is a former member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
Vo-Tong Xuan
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Tan Tao University and Rector Emeritus, An Giang University
VO-TONG XUAN joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2002.
Dr. Xuan is Vice President for Academic Affairs of Tan Tao University (TTU), the first American-style university in Vietnam, financed solely by the ITA Group (Tan Tao Investment & Industry Corporation), a Vietnamese business.
Dr. Vo-Tong is also the Rector Emeritus of An Giang University in Vietnam and concurrently Director of the Vietnam-Africa Agricultural Development Company, also in Vietnam. Dr. Xuan supports applied research and projects on rice production and land-use management, coordinates the Vietnam Farming Systems Research and Development Network, and continues to do his own research and development on rice production in seven African countries.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Xuan served as a consultant for various international agricultural organizations, providing advice and information on the Asian economy and farming situations. He has written a half-dozen books on the topic of rice production in Asia, and his writings and studies have been presented in numerous journals.
He has won several awards and commendations for his work: in November 2008, he received the D.L. Umali Award for agricultural development; in May 2002, he received the Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth for his significant work in increasing rice production in the Mekong delta region by introducing new strains and educating farmers in their use. He is especially proud of the certificate of recognition he received in 1995 from the Canadian government for scientific achievement, and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service awarded to him in 1993, which is considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Dr. Xuan was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in Rome. He serves on the board of trustees of the International Rice Research Institute of the Philippines, the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines, and the Environment Economics Program for Southeast Asia in Singapore. In addition, he is a member of several professional societies including the Crop Science Society of America, the American Society of Agronomy, the International Farming Systems R&E Association and the Soil Society of America.
He obtained both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural chemistry from the University of the Philippines. He has a doctoral degree in crop science from Kyushu University in Japan.
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