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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, 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
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(chair), 2018-, retired
United States Navy
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; Supreme Allied Commander at
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; chair of the Board of Counselors, McLarty Associates
*
Agnes Binagwaho
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, 2019-, Vice-Chancellor, The
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, Rwanda
*
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, 2018-, President,
Ariel Investments
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*
Donald Kaberuka
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, 2015-, former president,
African Development Bank Group
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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.
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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
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(1995 to 2004) and 26 years with
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* Yifei Li, 2013-, country chair,
Man Group
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China
*
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
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, 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
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& Recipient of
2016 Nobel Peace Prize
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* Dr.
Rajiv Shah
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, 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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*
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
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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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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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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 (New Zealand), Citizens Association for Racial Equality, a former New Zealand organisation
* 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
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complex.
*
Thomas J. Healey, 2003–2012, partner, Healey Development LLC; teaching course at
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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
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.
*
Alice S. Huang
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, 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,
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*
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, Washington, D.C.
* John J. McCloy 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 1969–1981 – journalist.
* Diana Natalicio, 2004–2014, president, The University of Texas at El Paso
* Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, 2009–2018, Finance Minister of Nigeria; former managing director of the
World Bank
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; former Foreign Minister of Nigeria.
* Sandra Day O'Connor, 2006–2013, associate justice, retired, Supreme Court of the United States
* James F. Orr, III, (board chair), president and chief executive officer, LandingPoint Capital, Boston, Massachusetts.
* Richard Parsons (businessman), Richard Parsons, 2007–2021, chairman of the board, Citigroup Inc.
* Surin Pitsuwan, 2010–2012, secretary general of ASEAN (2007–2012) and Thailand, Thai politician.
* Mamphela Ramphele, 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.
*
John D. Rockefeller
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1913–1923.
* John D. Rockefeller Jr. chairman: 1917–1939.
*
John D. Rockefeller III
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chairman: 1952–1972.
* John D. Rockefeller IV 1976–81.
*
Judith Rodin
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, president of the foundation (2005-2016); ex-officio member of the board
* Julius Rosenwald 1917–1931 – chairman of Sears Roebuck, 1932–1939.
* John Rowe (Aetna), John Rowe Doctor of Medicine, M.D., 2007–2019, professor at the
Columbia University
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Mailman School of Public Health; former chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc.
*
Dean Rusk
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1950–1961 – US Secretary of State, 1961–1969.
* Raymond W. Smith, chairman, N M Rothschild & Sons, Rothschild, Inc., New York; chairman of ''Arlington Capital Partners''; chairman of Verizon Ventures; and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
* Frank Stanton (executive), Frank Stanton 1961–1966? – president of CBS, 1946–1971.
* Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1939–1957 – publisher of ''
The New York Times
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'', 1935–1961.
* Paul Volcker 1975–1979 – chairman, board of governors, Federal Reserve Board; president, New York Federal Reserve Bank.
* Thomas J. Watson Jr. 1963–1970? – president of IBM, 1952–1971.
* James Wolfensohn – former president of the
World Bank
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.
* George D. Woods 1961–1967? – president of the World Bank, 1963–1968.
* Võ Tòng Xuân, 2002–2010, vice president for academic affairs, Tan Tao University, Ho Chi Minh City; former rector of An Giang University, the second university in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
* Owen D. Young 1928–1939 – chairman of GE, 1922–1939, 1942–1945.
Presidents
* John D. Rockefeller Jr. – 11 February 1913 – 6 November 1917
* George E. Vincent – 6 November 1917 – 20 September 1929; member of the
John D. Rockefeller
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/Frederick T. Gates General Education Board (1914–1929)
* Max Mason – 20 September 1929 – 30 May 1936
* Raymond B. Fosdick – 30 May 1936 – 22 August 1948; brother of American clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick
* Chester Barnard – 22 August 1948 – 17 July 1952; Bell System executive and author of landmark 1938 book, ''The Functions of the Executive''
*
Dean Rusk
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– 17 July 1952 – 19 January 1961; United States Secretary of State 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 – 3 October 1972 – 31 December 1979; physician, general director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (1962–1971).
* Richard Wall Lyman, Richard Lyman – 1 January 1980 – 11 January 1988; president of Stanford University (1970–1980).
* Peter C. Goldmark Jr., Peter Goldmark Jr. – 11 January 1988 – 31 December 1997; former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
[Teltsch, Kathleen]
"Rockefeller Foundation Selects a New President"
''The New York Times'', May 8, 1988. Goldmark was son of Peter Carl Goldmark. 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.
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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.
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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 pr ...
- 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.
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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 ...
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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'' that advised the US State Department and the US government on World War II strategy and forward planning
* Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London
* Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington – Support of the diplomatic training program
* Brookings Institution in Washington – Significant funding of research grants in the fields of economic and social studies
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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''
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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 – Substantial funding to the ''Institute of International Studies''
* Princeton University – Office of Population Research
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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 – Funded research for the College of Agriculture and built an international house for foreign students
* McGill University – The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Montreal Neurological Institute, on the request of Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon, who had met David Rockefeller years before
* Library of Congress – Funded a project for photographic copies of the complete card catalogues for the world's fifty leading libraries
* Bodleian Library at Oxford University – Grant for a building to house five million volumes
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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
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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
* National Institute of Public Health of Japan (formerly :ja:国立公衆衛生院, ja) in Tokyo (1938)
* Group of Thirty – 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, until his death in 2019
* London School of Economics – funded research and general budget
* University of Lyon, 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 (CHMI), Center for Health Market Innovations
* Mahidol University in Thailand
See also
* Asia Society
* International African Association, Association Internationale Africaine
* Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, CGIAR
* Eugenics in the United States
* Industrial relations
* Philanthropy
* Philanthropy in the United States
* Rockefeller Brothers Fund
* Rockefeller family
* Social sciences
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.
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* 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
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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* [https://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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