Rethinking Giving: The Future of Philanthropy
Speakers
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Vice President, Initiatives and Strategy, Rockefeller Foundation
Dr. Zia Khan is the Vice President for Initiatives and Strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Khan oversees the Foundation’s approach for achieving impact and realizing the organization’s mission and goals. He leads the program team in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi and their work in searching for new opportunities, developing strategies, and executing initiatives. He also provides direction for the Foundation’s commitment to supporting new innovations and capacities in the sector.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Khan was a management consultant and advised senior leaders on strategy and organizational performance. He is a frequent writer and speaker on strategy, innovation, leadership, and organizational change. Dr. Khan is the co-author of Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize your Team, and Get Better Results.
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Co-founder / President, GiveDirectly
Paul Niehaus is co-founder and president of GiveDirectly, currently the top-rated nonprofit by GiveWell and ranked among the 25 most audacious companies (Inc) and 10 most innovative companies in finance (Fast Company). GiveDirectly is a recognized leader in the use of modern technology to transfer funds directly to the extreme poor, and in the use of rigorous scientific methods to document its impact.
Paul is also a co-founder of Segovia, which builds enterprise technology for the management of social programming in the emerging markets. He holds an academic appointment in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego, where he works with governments in India to improve the implementation of social programming. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an Affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and is a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Sloan Fellow. In 2013 Foreign Policy named him one of its 100 leading "Global Thinkers."
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Chief Sustainability Officer, President, Walmart Foundation, McKinsey and Company
Kathleen McLaughlin leads McKinsey’s Social Innovation Practice, which works with clients to develop breakthrough solutions to social challenges. She is also a member of the Retail and Organization Practice leadership teams. She works across the private, public, and non-profit sectors globally, helping improve the performance of institutions and systems (health systems, food systems, economic development) more broadly.
Jens Riese is the co-leader of McKinsey’s Economic Development Practice. Jens has helped governments and development agencies address issues such as climate mitigation, agricultural development, public finance, energy access, emissions control, and deforestation.
Lynn Taliento leads McKinsey’s Social Sector Practice in the Americas. After joining McKinsey in 1999, Lynn co-founded the firm’s first practice dedicated to serving nonprofits. She works exclusively with nonprofits, philanthropies, and private and corporate foundations on strategic planning, organizational design, board governance, and advocacy.
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President, Durable Good
Noah Manduke is the President of Durable Good, a management consultancy focused on helping nonprofit organizations leverage brand-building disciplines to accelerate impact. A seasoned strategic identity expert, Noah has for over 35 years helped organizations to define, dramatize, and deliver upon their unique significance with clarity, focus and results.
Durable Good clients have included the Skoll Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, King Philanthropies, Fossil Foundation, American Forest Foundation, Half the Sky Foundation, World Vision Canada, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Institute for the Future, Water for People, Social Progress Index, North American Association for Environmental Education, The Philanthropy Workshop, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Viewpoint School, and the corporate social responsibility divisions of Disney and Mattel.
Noah is the former Chief Strategy Officer of the Jeff Skoll Group, a portfolio of social impact organizations created by renowned philanthropist and social entrepreneur, Jeff Skoll, to pursue his vision of a more sustainable, peaceful and prosperous world. Noah worked closely with Skoll’s leadership to continually sharpen impact strategies and cultivate opportunities for collective impact.
Prior to serving the social sector, Noah spent over 20 years helping businesses such as Microsoft, Adobe, Lexus, Sony, Mattel, and Disney to optimize their branding, marketing, and communications practices. During that time, he spent 13 years at global advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather, and 8 years at leading strategic branding firm, Siegel & Gale, where Noah was named President and Chief Operating Officer 18 months after the company’s sale to Omnicom (NYSE: OMNI).
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Founder & Partner, Dasra
Neera Nundy is the Co-founder and Partner at Dasra India, a strategic philanthropic organization that started in 1999. Her overarching goal is to enable social entrepreneurs and funders with the support they need to achieve big goals in areas such as gender, urban resilience, and sanitation through system change and collaborative philanthropy. Neera plays a crucial role in bringing capacity building, knowledge, funding, and networks to the sector. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a fellow of the third class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship of the Ananta Aspen Center and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is a Board Member of The Hunger Project, American School of Bombay, and Aangan Trust. She is Canadian, has lived in Mumbai for 21 years, runs Dasra with her husband Deval, and busy raising feminist sons – Ayush, Laxman, and Akbar – all teenagers!
