Melissa Berman

Biography

Melissa Berman served as the founding President & CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors from 2022-2024, building it into one of the world’s leading philanthropic advisory, grantmaking, research and project management nonprofits. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ mission is to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world. It annually manages or facilitates about US $600 million in giving to more than 35 countries.

Ms. Berman is a board member of Equality Now, Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and Candid (the combined Foundation Center and Guidestar). She is an adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Business School, a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, and guest faculty for the Schwarzman College of Tsinghua University (Beijing).

Ms. Berman holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.