Dr. Rajiv Shah to serve as the 13th president of the foundation. Shah became the youngest person, at 43, and first Indian-American to serve as president of the foundation. He assumed the position March 1, succeeding
Judith Rodin
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who served as president for nearly twelve years and announced her retirement, at age 71, in June 2016. A former
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of the
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, Rodin was the first woman to head the foundation. Rodin in turn had succeeded
Gordon Conway
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in 2005. Current staff as of June 1, 2021 include:
* Admiral
James G. Stavridis
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(chair), 2018-, retired
United States Navy
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; Supreme Allied Commander at
NATO
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, 2009–2013, Operating Executive,
The Carlyle Group
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; chair of the Board of Counselors, McLarty Associates
*
Agnes Binagwaho
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, 2019-, Vice-Chancellor, The
University of Global Health Equity
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Catalytic partners that have helped to launch the University inc ...
, Rwanda
*
Mellody Hobson
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, 2018-, President,
Ariel Investments
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History
Ariel was founded in 1983 by John W. Rogers, Jr., who is chairman and Co-CEO of the c ...
*
Donald Kaberuka
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Early life and education
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, 2015-, former president,
African Development Bank Group
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,
Rwanda
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Minister of Finance and Economic Planning between 1997 and 2005.
*
Martin L. Leibowitz Martin L. Leibowitz is a financial researcher, business leader, and a managing director of Morgan Stanley.
Career
Before joining Morgan Stanley, Leibowitz was vice chairman and chief investment officer of TIAA-CREF from 1995 to 2004. Previously he ...
, 2012-, Vice-chairman,
Morgan Stanley
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Research Department's Global Strategy Team; formerly
TIAA-CREF
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(1995 to 2004) and 26 years with
Salomon Brothers
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* Yifei Li, 2013-, country chair,
Man Group
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China
*
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, 2019-, co-founder, Sahel Consulting
*
Paul Polman
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, 2019-, chair,
International Chamber of Commerce
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, The B Team; Former CEO,
Unilever
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*
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
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, 2017-, President & CEO,
WETA-TV
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*
Juan Manuel Santos
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An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, ...
, 2020-, Former President of
Colombia
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& Recipient of
2016 Nobel Peace Prize
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* Dr.
Rajiv Shah
Rajiv J. "Raj" Shah (born March 9, 1973) is the President of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former American government official, physician and health economist who served as the 16th Administrator of the United States Agency for Internationa ...
, 2017-, President of the foundation and ex-officio member of the board; served as a Rockefeller Foundation Trustee, 2015–2017; former administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development
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(USAID) from 2010 to 2017.
*
Adam Silver
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, 2020-, Commissioner,
National Basketball Association
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(NB)
*
Patty Stonesifer
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, 2019-, former President & CEO,
Martha's Table
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History
Martha's Table started in 1980 as a safe place for children to receive free sandwiches and food after ...
; former CEO and co-chair,
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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*
Ravi Venkatesan
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, 2014-, former chairman,
Bank of Baroda
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; former Chairman
Microsoft
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India (2004–2011) and
Cummins
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India; Special Representative for Young People and Innovation,
UNICEF
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Past trustees
*
Alan Alda
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, 1989–1994 – actor and film director.
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"The New York Times
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" 28, May 1989. Retrieved on 4 January 2019.
*
Winthrop W. Aldrich
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Early years
Aldrich was born in Rhode Islan ...
1935–1951 – chairman of the
Chase National Bank
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, 1934–1953; Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 1953–1957.
*
John W. Davis
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1922–1939 –
J. P. Morgan
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's private attorney; founding president of the
Council on Foreign Relations
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.
*
C. Douglas Dillon
Clarence Douglas Dillon (born Clarence Douglass Dillon; August 21, 1909January 10, 2003) was an American diplomat and politician, who served as U.S. Ambassador to France (1953–1957) and as the 57th Secretary of the Treasury (1961–1965). He w ...
1960–1961 – US Treasury Secretary, 1961–1965; member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
*
Orvil E. Dryfoos
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1960–1963 – publisher of ''
The New York Times
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'', 1961–1963.
*
Peggy Dulany
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Early life
Rockefeller was born in 1947. She is the fourth child of David Rockefeller and Margaret McGrath, and a fourth-generation member (''"the cousin ...
, 1989–1994 – Fourth child of David Rockefeller; founder and president of ''Synergos''.
*
John Foster Dulles
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1935–1952 (chairman) – US Secretary of State, 1953–1959; senior partner,
Sullivan & Cromwell
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law firm.
*
Charles William Eliot
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1914–1917 – president of
Harvard
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, 1869–1909.
*
John Robert Evans
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He was the founding dean of the McMaster University Medical School and then vice-president of Health Services at M ...
1982 -1996 (chairman) – president of the
University of Toronto
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1972–1978; founding director of the Population, Health and Nutrition Department of the World Bank
*
Ann M. Fudge
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, 2006–2015, former chairman and CEO,
Young & Rubicam
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Brands, New York
*
Frederick Taylor Gates
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1913–1923 – John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s principal advisor.
*
Helene D. Gayle
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Biography
Helene Gayle was bor ...
, 2010–2019, president and CEO of
CARE
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* CARE (relief agency), "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere", an international aid and ...
.
*
Stephen Jay Gould
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1993–2002 – author; professor and curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
*
Rajat Gupta
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, 2006–11, former director,
Goldman Sachs
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,
Procter & Gamble
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,
AMR Corporation
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; Special Advisor to the
UN Secretary-General
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The role of the secretary-ge ...
; former managing director,
McKinsey & Company
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.
*
Wallace Harrison
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1951–1961 – Rockefeller family architect; lead architect for the
UN Headquarters
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complex.
*
Thomas J. Healey, 2003–2012, partner, Healey Development LLC; teaching course at
Harvard University
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's
John F. Kennedy School of Government
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; formerly with
Goldman Sachs
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and an Assistant Secretary of the
U.S. Treasury
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.
*
Alice S. Huang
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Early years
Alice Huang's father, Quentin K. Y. Huang, was orphaned at age 12 in Anhui, China and w ...
, senior faculty associate,
California Institute of Technology
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.
*
Charles Evans Hughes
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1917–1921; 1925–1928 – Chief Justice of the United States, 1930–1941.
*
Robert A. Lovett
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1949–1961 – US Secretary of Defense, 1951–1953.
*
Monica Lozano, 2012–2018, CEO,
ImpreMedia, LLC
*
Yo-Yo Ma
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1999–2002 – cellist.
*
Strive Masiyiwa, 2003–2018,
Zimbabwe
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a businessman and cellphone pioneer, founding
Econet Wireless
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.
*
Jessica T. Mathews
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, president,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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, Washington, D.C.
*
John J. McCloy
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chairman: 1946–1949; 1953–1958 – prominent US presidential advisor; chairman of the
Ford Foundation
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, 1958–1965; chairman of the council on Foreign Relations.
*
Bill Moyers
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1969–1981 – journalist.
*
Diana Natalicio
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, 2004–2014, president, The
University of Texas at El Paso
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*
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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, 2009–2018, Finance Minister of Nigeria; former managing director of the
World Bank
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; former Foreign Minister of
Nigeria
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.
*
Sandra Day O'Connor
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, 2006–2013, associate justice, retired,
Supreme Court of the United States
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* James F. Orr, III, (board chair), president and chief executive officer, LandingPoint Capital, Boston, Massachusetts.
*
Richard Parsons Richard Parsons may refer to:
* Richard Parsons (diplomat) (1928–2016), British ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden
* Richard Parsons (businessman) (born 1948), former chairman of Citigroup and the former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner
* Ri ...
, 2007–2021, chairman of the board,
Citigroup
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Inc.
*
Surin Pitsuwan
Surin Abdul Halim bin Ismail Pitsuwan ( th, สุรินทร์ พิศสุวรรณ; Jawi: سورين عبدالحاليم بن اسماعيل ڤيتسووان; October 28, 1949 – November 30, 2017) was a Thai diplomat and politici ...
, 2010–2012, secretary general of
ASEAN
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(2007–2012) and
Thai
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** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand
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*** Thai script
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politician.
*
Mamphela Ramphele
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, chairperson, Circle Capital Ventures, Cape Town, South Africa.
* David Rockefeller Jr., 2006–2016, chair of foundation board Dec. 2010- ; vice-chairman of ''Rockefeller Family & Associates''; director and former chair, ''Rockefeller & Co., Inc.''; current trustee of the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
.
*
John D. Rockefeller
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1913–1923.
*
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in M ...
chairman: 1917–1939.
*
John D. Rockefeller III
John Davison Rockefeller III (March 21, 1906 – July 10, 1978) was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a grandson of Standard Oil co-found ...
chairman: 1952–1972.
*
John D. Rockefeller IV
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1976–81.
*
Judith Rodin
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, president of the foundation (2005-2016); ex-officio member of the board
*
Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for establishing the Rosenwald Fund, which donated millions in ...
1917–1931 – chairman of
Sears Roebuck
Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...
, 1932–1939.
*
John Rowe M.D.
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, 2007–2019, professor at the
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
Mailman School of Public Health
The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Columbia University. Located on the Columbia University Medical Center campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, the school i ...
; former chairman and CEO of
Aetna
Aetna Inc. () is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, ...
Inc.
*
Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the F ...
1950–1961 – US Secretary of State, 1961–1969.
*
Raymond W. Smith
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, chairman,
Rothschild
Rothschild () is a name derived from the German ''zum rothen Schild'' (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "with the red sign", in reference to the houses where these family members lived or had lived. At the time, houses were designated by sign ...
, Inc., New York; chairman of ''
Arlington Capital Partners
Arlington Capital Partners is a Washington, DC based private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout and recapitalization investments in middle market companies. Started in 1999, the firm manages $4.0 billion of committed capital out of five i ...
''; chairman of
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...
Ventures; and a trustee of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establis ...
.
*
Frank Stanton 1961–1966? – president of
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
, 1946–1971.
*
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891December 11, 1968) was the publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the st ...
1939–1957 – publisher of ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', 1935–1961.
*
Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the ...
1975–1979 – chairman, board of governors, Federal Reserve Board; president, New York Federal Reserve Bank.
*
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, political figure, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president (195 ...
1963–1970? – president of
IBM, 1952–1971.
*
James Wolfensohn
Sir James David Wolfensohn (1 December 193325 November 2020) was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005). During his tenure at the World Bank, he is ...
– former president of the
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...
.
*
George D. Woods
George David Woods (July 27, 1901 – August 20, 1982) was a U.S. banker. He served as President of the World Bank from January 1963 until March 1968.
Biography
George Woods was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1901. After completing high school ...
1961–1967? – president of the World Bank, 1963–1968.
*
Võ Tòng Xuân Dr. Võ Tòng Xuân (born 6 September 1940) is former Provost of Tân Tạo University (TTU), the former rector of An Giang University (AGU) and the former vice rector of Can Tho University. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ro ...
, 2002–2010, vice president for academic affairs, Tan Tao University,
Ho Chi Minh City
, population_density_km2 = 4,292
, population_density_metro_km2 = 697.2
, population_demonym = Saigonese
, blank_name = GRP (Nominal)
, blank_info = 2019
, blank1_name = – Total
, blank1_ ...
; former rector of
An Giang University
An Giang University (AGU) ( vi, Trường Đại học An Giang) is a Vietnamese public university based in the city of Long Xuyen in An Giang Province. With over 10,000 enrolled students annually, it is one of the major educational and research ...
, the second university in
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
's
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta ( vi, Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit=Nine Dragon River Delta or simply vi, Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, lit=Mekong River Delta, label=none), also known as the Western Region ( vi, Miền Tây, links=no) or South-weste ...
.
*
Owen D. Young
Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
He is known for t ...
1928–1939 – chairman of
GE, 1922–1939, 1942–1945.
Presidents
*
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in M ...
– 11 February 1913 – 6 November 1917
*
George E. Vincent
George Edgar Vincent (March 21, 1864 – February 2, 1941) was an American sociologist and university president.
Biography
He was born at Rockford, Illinois, the son of Bishop John H. Vincent. He studied at Yale, where he was a member of De ...
– 6 November 1917 – 20 September 1929; member of the
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He has been widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history. Rockefeller was ...
/
Frederick T. Gates
Frederick Taylor Gates (July 22, 1853, Maine, Broome County, New York – February 6, 1929, Phoenix, Arizona) was an American Baptist clergyman, educator, and the principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist John D. ...
General Education Board The General Education Board was a private organization which was used primarily to support higher education and medical schools in the United States, and to help rural white and black schools in the South, as well as modernize farming practices i ...
(1914–1929)
*
Max Mason
Charles Max Mason (–), better known as Max Mason, was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1928) and president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936).
Mason's mathematical research inte ...
– 20 September 1929 – 30 May 1936
*
Raymond B. Fosdick
Raymond Blaine Fosdick (9 June 1883 - 19 July 1972) was an American lawyer, public administrator and author. He served as the president of the Rockefeller Foundation for twelve years (1936-1948). He was an ardent internationalist and supporter of ...
– 30 May 1936 – 22 August 1948; brother of American clergyman
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 – October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominen ...
*
Chester Barnard
Chester Irving Barnard (November 7, 1886 – June 7, 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, '' The Functions of th ...
– 22 August 1948 – 17 July 1952;
Bell System
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundr ...
executive and author of landmark 1938 book, ''
The Functions of the Executive
''The Functions of the Executive'' is a book by Chester I. Barnard (1886–1961) that presents a "theory of cooperation and organization" and "a study of the functions and of the methods of operation of executives in formal organizations." It wa ...
''
*
Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the F ...
– 17 July 1952 – 19 January 1961;
United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The office holder is one of the highest ranking members of the president's Ca ...
from 1961 to 1969
J. George Harrar– 20 January 1961 – 3 October 1972; plant pathologist, "generally regarded as the father of 'the Green Revolution.'"
*
John Hilton Knowles
John Hilton Knowles (May 23, 1926March 6, 1979) was an American Cardiovascular physiology, cardiopulmonary physiologist and physician who was most notable for being the 9th President of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1972 until his death from p ...
– 3 October 1972 – 31 December 1979; physician, general director of the
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United Stat ...
(1962–1971).
*
Richard Lyman – 1 January 1980 – 11 January 1988; president of
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
(1970–1980).
*
Peter Goldmark Jr. – 11 January 1988 – 31 December 1997; former executive director of the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ, is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized ...
.
[Teltsch, Kathleen]
"Rockefeller Foundation Selects a New President"
''The New York Times'', May 8, 1988. Goldmark was son of Peter Carl Goldmark
Peter Carl Goldmark (born Péter Károly Goldmark; December 2, 1906 – December 7, 1977) was a Hungarian-American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33 rpm phonogr ...
. See Blumenthal, Ralph
"Remembering the Travel Scandal at the Port Authority"
''The New York Times'' City Room blog, June 24, 2008. Both retrieved 2011-01-09.
*
Gordon Conway
Sir Gordon Richard Conway (born 6 July 1938) is an agricultural ecologist and former President of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Royal Geographical Society. He is currently Professor of International Development at Imperial College, Lond ...
– 1 January 1998 – 31 December 2004; an agricultural ecologist and former president of the
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
.
*
Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin (born Judith Seitz, September 9, 1944) is a philanthropist with a long history in U.S. higher education. She was the president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 2005 until 2017. From 1994 to 2004, Rodin served as the 7th permanent p ...
- 1 January 2005 – 1 March 2017; former president of the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
, and provost, chair of the Department of Psychology,
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
.
*
Rajiv Shah
Rajiv J. "Raj" Shah (born March 9, 1973) is the President of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former American government official, physician and health economist who served as the 16th Administrator of the United States Agency for Internationa ...
- 1 March 2017 -, distinguished fellow in residence, Georgetown University; previously administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...
(USAID) from 2010 to 2015.
Organizations that received Rockefeller grants
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Rockefeller University
The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classif ...
*
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank
A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, mi ...
(CFR) – Especially the notable 1939-45 ''
War and Peace Studies War and Peace Studies was a project carried out by the Council on Foreign Relations between 1939 and 1945 before and during American involvement in World War II. It was intended to advise the U.S. Government on conduct in the war and the subsequent ...
'' that advised the US
State Department
The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...
and the US government on World War II strategy and forward planning
*
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Royal may refer to:
People
* Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name
* A member of a royal family
Places United States
* Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
* Royal, Illinois, a village
* Royal, Iowa, a cit ...
(RIIA) in London
*
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington D.C. with operations in Europe, South and East Asia, and the Middle East as well as the United States. Founded in ...
in Washington – Support of the diplomatic training program
*
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in ec ...
in Washington – Significant funding of research grants in the fields of economic and social studies
*
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...
in Washington – Helped finance the training of foreign officials through the ''Economic Development Institute''
*
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
– Grants to the ''Center for International Affairs'' and medical, business and administration Schools
*
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
– Substantial funding to the ''Institute of International Studies''
*
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
–
Office of Population Research
The Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University is the oldest population research center in the United States. Founded in 1936, the OPR is a leading demographic research and training center. Recent research activity has primarily f ...
*
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
– Establishment of the ''Russia Institute''
*
University of the Philippines, Los Baños
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– Funded research for the College of Agriculture and built an international house for foreign students
*
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
– The Rockefeller Foundation funded the
Montreal Neurological Institute
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC; french: Centre universitaire de santé McGill) is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is affiliated with McGill University and is one of the largest medical complex in ...
, on the request of Dr.
Wilder Penfield
Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American Canadians, American-Physicians in Canada, Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of th ...
, a Canadian neurosurgeon, who had met David Rockefeller years before
*
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...
– Funded a project for photographic copies of the complete card catalogues for the world's fifty leading libraries
*
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second- ...
at
Oxford University
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
– Grant for a building to house five million volumes
*
Population Council
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The Council conducts research in biomedicine, social science, and public health and helps build research capacities in developing countries. One-third of its res ...
of New York – Funded fellowships
*
Social Science Research Council
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is a US-based, independent, international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines. Established in Manhattan in 1923, it today maintains a he ...
– Major funding for fellowships and grants-in-aid
*
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...
*
National Institute of Public Health of Japan
The is a government research and training organization charged with improving public health in Japan.
Mission
The institute was established in 2002 as part of a reorganization of national health organizations. It integrates the former Institute o ...
(formerly
ja) in Tokyo (1938)
*
Group of Thirty
The Group of Thirty, often abbreviated to G30, is an international body of financiers and academics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sect ...
– In 1978 the foundation invited
Geoffrey Bell to set up this high-powered and influential advisory group on global financial issues, whose former chairman was longtime Rockefeller associate
Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the ...
, until his death in 2019
*
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
– funded research and general budget
*
University of Lyon, France – funded research in natural sciences, social sciences, medicine and the new building of the medical school during the 1920s-1930s
* The
Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory
* The
Results for Development Institute – funded the
Center for Health Market Innovations
*
Mahidol University
Mahidol University (Mahidol), an autonomous research institution in Thailand, had its origin in the establishment of Siriraj Hospital in 1888. Mahidol had an acceptance rate for Medicine of 0.4% as of the 2016 academic year.
Becoming the Univers ...
in Thailand
See also
*
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Man ...
*
Association Internationale Africaine
The International African Association (in full, "International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of Central Africa"; in French ''Association Internationale Africaine,'' and in full ''Association Internationale pour l'Exploration et ...
*
CGIAR
CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security. CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty, increase food ...
*
Eugenics in the United States
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. T ...
*
Industrial relations
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unions, employer organizations, ...
*
Philanthropy
Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...
*
Philanthropy in the United States
Philanthropy in the United States has long played a major role, from the Puritans of early Massachusetts who founded Harvard College down to the present day. Since the late 19th century, philanthropy has been a major source of income for religion, ...
*
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic foundation created and run by members of the Rockefeller family. It was founded in New York City in 1940 as the primary philanthropic vehicle for the five third-generation Rockefeller brothe ...
*
Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family () is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothe ...
*
Social sciences
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...
References
Further reading
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* Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Philanthrocapitalism, past and present: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the setting (s) of the international/global health agenda." ''Hypothesis'' 12.1 (2014): e8
online* Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and
Elizabeth Fee
Elizabeth Fee (December 11, 1946 – October 17, 2018), also known as Liz Fee, was a historian of science, medicine and health. She was the Chief of the United States National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division.
Early life and edu ...
. "The Rockefeller Foundation and the international health agenda"], ''The Lancet'', (2013) Volume 381, Issue 9878, Pages 1618 - 1619
online* Brown, E. Richard, ''Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
* Chernow, Ron, ''Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr.'', London: Warner Books, 1998
online* Cotton, James. "Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the limits of American hegemony in the emergence of Australian international studies." ''International Relations of the Asia-Pacific'' 12.1 (2012): 161–192. [
* Dowie, Mark, ''American Foundations: An Investigative History'', Boston: The MIT Press, 2001.
* Eckl, Julian. "The power of private foundations: Rockefeller and Gates in the struggle against malaria." ''Global Social Policy'' 14.1 (2014): 91–116.
* Erdem, Murat, and W. ROSE Kenneth. "American Philanthropy ın Republican Turkey; The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations." ''The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations'' 31 (2000): 131–157
online* Farley, John. ''To cast out disease: a history of the International Health Division of Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951)'' (Oxford University Press, 2004).
* Fisher, Donald, ''Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council'', Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
* Fosdick, Raymond B., ''John D. Rockefeller Jr., A Portrait'', New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
* Fosdick, Raymond B., ''The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation'' (1952
online* Hauptmann, Emily. "From opposition to accommodation: How Rockefeller Foundation grants redefined relations between political theory and social science in the 1950s." ''American Political Science Review'' 100.4 (2006): 643–649
online* Jonas, Gerald. ''The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Modern Science''. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1989
online* Kay, Lily, ''The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
* Laurence, Peter L. "The death and life of urban design: Jane Jacobs, The Rockefeller Foundation and the new research in urbanism, 1955–1965." ''Journal of Urban Design'' 11.2 (2006): 145–172
online* Lawrence, Christopher. ''Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919–1930: New Science in an Old Country'', Rochester Studies in Medical History, University of Rochester Press, 2005.
* Mathers, Kathryn Frances. ''Shared journey: The Rockefeller Foundation, human capital, and development in Africa'' (2013
online* Nielsen, Waldemar, ''The Big Foundations'', New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973
online* Nielsen, Waldemar A., ''The Golden Donors'', E. P. Dutton, 1985. Called Foundation "unimaginative ... lacking leadership....slouching toward senility.
online* Ninkovich, Frank. "The Rockefeller Foundation, China, and Cultural Change." ''Journal of American History'' 70.4 (1984): 799–820
online* Palmer, Steven,
Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation', Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
* Perkins, John H. "The Rockefeller Foundation and the green revolution, 1941–1956." ''Agriculture and Human Values'' 7.3 (1990): 6–18
online* Sachse, Carola. ''What Research, to What End? The Rockefeller Foundation and the Max Planck Gesellschaft in the Early Cold War'' (2009
online* Shaplen, Robert, ''Toward the Well-Being of Mankind: Fifty Years of the Rockefeller Foundation'', New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
*
* Theiler, Max and Downs, W. G., ''The Arthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of The Rockefeller Foundation Virus Program, 1951–1970''. (1973) Yale University Press. New Haven and London. .
* Uy, Michael Sy. ''Ask the Experts: How Ford, Rockefeller, and the NEA Changed American Music'', (Oxford University Press, 2020) 270pp.
* Wood, Andrew Grant. "Sanitizing the State: The Rockefeller International Health Board and the Yellow Fever Campaign in Veracruz." ''Americas'' 6#1 Spring 2010 ·
* Youde, Jeremy. "The Rockefeller and Gates Foundations in global health governance." ''Global Society'' 27.2 (2013): 139–158
online
Rockefeller Foundation 990100 Years: The International Health Board The Rockefeller Foundation/Rockefeller Archive Center.
External links
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CFR Website – Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996The history of the council by Peter Grose, a council member – mentions financial support from the Rockefeller foundation.
Foundation Center: Top 50 US Foundations by total giving*
ttps://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php SFGate.com: "Eugenics and the Nazis: the California Connection"Press for Conversion! magazine, Issue # 53: "Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism," Bryan Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, March 2004Rockefeller Foundation website including
timelineHookworm and malaria research in Malaya, Java, and the Fiji Islands; report of Uncinariasis commission to the Orient, 1915–1917The Rockefeller foundation, International health board. New York 1920
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Rockefeller family
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