Leadership

President Bill Clinton
Founder and Board Chair, Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States
William Jefferson Clinton, the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice, led the U.S. to the longest economic expansion in American history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs.
After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation, and today, the renamed Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, works to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change.
Today the Foundation has staff and volunteers around the world working to improve lives through several initiatives, including the independent Clinton Health Access Initiative, through which over 11.5 million people in more than 70 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated prices for HIV/AIDS medications. The Clinton Climate Initiative, the Clinton Development Initiative, and the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership are applying a business-oriented approach to promote sustainable economic growth and to fight climate change worldwide and in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In the U.S., the Foundation is working to combat the alarming rise in childhood obesity and preventable disease through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Clinton Health Matters Initiative. Established in 2005, the Clinton Global Initiative brings together global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues. So far, more than 3,600 Clinton Global Initiative commitments have improved the lives of over 435 million people in more than 180 countries.
In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has joined with former President George H.W. Bush three times – after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008, and with President George W. Bush in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Today the Clinton Foundation supports economic growth, job creation, and sustainability in Haiti.
President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York.

Chelsea Clinton, DPhil, MPH
Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation
As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea Clinton works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve lives and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. This includes the Foundation’s early child initiative Too Small to Fail, which supports families with the resources they need to promote early brain and language development; and the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a global program that empowers student leaders to turn their ideas into action. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity.
In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World as well as She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, She Persisted in Science, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference; Don’t Let Them Disappear; It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going; and Welcome to the Big Kids Club. She is also the co-author of The Book of Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea’s podcast, In Fact with Chelsea Clinton, premiered in 2021 and she is the co-founder of HiddenLight Productions.
Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She lives with her husband Marc, and their children Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper, in New York City.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Clinton Foundation’s Board of Directors governs the work of the Foundation. Our Board shapes the Foundation’s direction through its mission, strategy, budget, and key policies; ensures that the leadership, resources, and finances in place match the Foundation’s vision; and monitors and improves the performance of the organization. The Foundation Board meets formally three times each year as well as between the regular meetings as needed to conduct the Foundation’s business.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON*
Founder and Board Chair
William Jefferson Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice – first in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation. Today, the Foundation works to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has served as the top United Nations envoy for the Indian Ocean tsunami recovery effort and as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. Today, the Clinton Foundation is supporting economic growth, capacity building, and education in Haiti. President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York.

CHELSEA CLINTON, DPhil, MPH*
Vice Chair of the Board (2011-present)
As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea Clinton works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve lives and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. This includes the Foundation’s early child initiative Too Small to Fail, which supports families with the resources they need to promote early brain and language development; and the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a global program that empowers student leaders to turn their ideas into action. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity.
In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World as well as She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, She Persisted in Science, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference; Don’t Let Them Disappear; It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going; and Welcome to the Big Kids Club. She is also the co-author of The Book of Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea’s podcast, In Fact with Chelsea Clinton, premiered in 2021 and she is the co-founder of HiddenLight Productions.
Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She lives with her husband Marc, and their children Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper, in New York City.
ROLANDO GONZALEZ-BUNSTER*
(2013-present)
Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster is the chairman and chief executive officer of InterEnergy Holdings. Prior to founding InterEnergy, he founded and managed InterEnergy’s predecessor, Basic Energy Ltd. (Bahamas), a holding company that owned and operates electrical generation and distribution assets in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Jamaica. Rolando is a pioneer of the electric sector of the Dominican Republic, being credited with the signing of the country’s first state utility PPA, as well as being one of the key participants in the privatization of the state controlled electricity businesses. His track record in the country dates back to the late 1980’s, when he developed the country’s first barge mounted power plant in partnership with Seaboard Corporation. Since then, Rolando has successfully developed, acquired and managed over 1,500MW of generating capacity in the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Jamaica and Panama. In addition to overseeing the management of all group operating companies, he led all significant aspects of project development, financing and the relationship with governments and multilateral organizations such as the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to founding Basic Energy, Rolando was the international vice president of New York-based multi-billion dollar conglomerate Gulf & Western Industries Inc., reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Charles Bludhorn. Rolando is the chair of the International Initiatives Committee of Georgetown University, a member of the Latin American Board of Georgetown University, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences, his alma matter. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Foundation, and the Energy & Climate Committee of the Clinton Global Initiative, focusing on clean and renewable energies. Further to this, Rolando is a member of the Institute of the Americas as well as serving on the board of The Walkabout Foundation – a non-profit organization focused on funding research to find a cure for paralysis and donating wheelchairs to people in need around the world.

AMBASSADOR ERIC GOOSBY, M.D.*
(2013-present)
Dr. Eric Goosby has dedicated his professional life to fighting HIV/AIDS from treating patients to running international programs. After serving four years in the U.S. State Department as Ambassador-at-Large and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, overseeing the implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Dr. Goosby returned to the University of California, San Francisco where he is professor of Medicine and director of the Center for Implementation Sciences, Global Health Sciences. While at the State Department, he also led the Office of Global Health Diplomacy, advancing the United States’ global health mission to improve and save lives and foster sustainability through a shared global responsibility. As CEO and chief medical officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, 2001-2009, he played a key role in the development and implementation of HIV/AIDS national treatment scale-up plans in South Africa, Rwanda, China, and Ukraine. During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Goosby was director of the Ryan White Care Act at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and later, served as deputy director of the White House National AIDS Policy Office and Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at HHS.

ROBERT S. HARRISON*
(2018-present)
Robert S. Harrison is the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, having served as Chairman from 2012 to 2022. He served as the chief executive officer of the Clinton Global Initiative from 2007 to 2016 and was the first executive director of the Clinton Foundation’s childhood obesity initiative from 2005 to 2007. Before joining the Clinton Foundation, he was an investment banker and attorney for 22 years. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1987, where he became a partner in the firm’s investment banking division and global co-head of its Communications, Media, and Entertainment group until 2003. From 1981 to 1987, Harrison practiced corporate law in the New York and Paris offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Harrison serves as a trustee of the Rhodes Trust, a director of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, chairman emeritus of the Henry Street Settlement Board of Directors, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell University; a master’s degree in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

BRUCE LINDSEY
(2005-present)
Bruce Lindsey serves as the counselor to the chair of the Board for the Clinton Foundation, and served as chairman from 2005 to 2017. Bruce joined the Foundation in 2001 as general counsel and served as CEO from 2003 to 2013. Bruce served as assistant to the President and deputy counsel to the President throughout President Clinton’s two terms in office. In 1993, Bruce was also director of the Office of Presidential Personnel where he supervised the selection and approval of political appointees in the Cabinet departments and to Presidential boards and commissions. During the 1992 Presidential campaign, he served as the National Campaign Director. He had previously been a partner at Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, a law firm in Little Rock, where he is currently of counsel. Bruce received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Rhodes College.

CHERYL MILLS*
(2004-2009, 2013-present)
Cheryl Mills is founder and chief executive officer of the BlackIvy Group, a company that grows and builds businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to founding BlackIvy, Cheryl served as counselor and chief of staff at the U.S. Department of State where she managed the foreign policy and operational priorities for the $55 billion agency. Prior to joining the State Department, she served as senior vice president for administration and operations as well as general counsel at New York University. During her tenure, Cheryl identified and convened strategic partners and negotiated the structure, framework, terms and conditions for the establishment of the University’s campus in the United Arab Emirates. Cheryl came to New York to join Oxygen Media, where she served as senior vice president for corporate policy and public programming. She previously worked in Washington, D.C., where she served as deputy counsel to the President at the White House. Cheryl’s legal experience also includes serving as associate counsel to the President, as deputy general counsel of the Clinton/Gore Transition Planning Foundation, and as an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan and Hartson. Cheryl currently serves on the boards of BlackRock, Inc. (corporate), the Clinton Foundation, and the See Forever Foundation (not-for-profit). She received her Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia.

JANET MURGUÍA*
(2019-present)
Janet Murguía is president and CEO of UnidosUS (formerly known as National Council of La Raza) – the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization. In that role, Murguía has sought to strengthen UnidosUS’s work and enhance its record of impact as a vital American institution. Murguía has also worked to amplify the Latino voice on issues affecting the Hispanic community such as education, health care, immigration, civil rights, and the economy. Murguía began her career in Washington, D.C. as legislative counsel to former Congressman Jim Slattery from her home state, Kansas. She worked with Congressman Slattery for seven years before joining the Clinton administration, where she served for six years as a deputy assistant to President Clinton, including deputy director of legislative affairs. After serving in the Clinton administration, Murguía went on to serve as deputy campaign manager and director of constituency outreach for the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign where she was the primary liaison between former Vice President Gore and national constituency groups. In 2001, Murguía joined the University of Kansas (KU) as executive vice chancellor for University Relations, where she oversaw KU’s internal and external relations with the public. She is credited for coordinating the university’s strategic planning and marketing efforts at the four KU campuses. Murguía is currently a board member of Achieve, an independent and nonpartisan nonprofit education reform organization, and the Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility. She also serves as a member of Diversity Advisory Councils for Bank of America, Charter Communications, Comcast/NBC Universal, and Wells Fargo. She received three degrees from KU: a B.S. degree in journalism, a B.A. degree in Spanish, and a J.D. degree from the KU School of Law. She has also received several honorary degrees—a Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Dominguez Hills, an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wake Forest University, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Williams College.

NIMA TAGHAVI*
(2018-present)
Nima Taghavi is the Founder & CEO of Group 206, a private investment firm created in 2013. Taghavi’s entrepreneurial journey began at a young age. Taghavi immigrated to the US from Iran when he was 9 years old, and by his early teen years, was selling video games at the Swap Meet to supplement his family’s income. This early start helped Taghavi develop a passion for business. Taghavi turned his early entrepreneurial experience into successfully founding and exiting several enterprises throughout his career, including video game distributor SVG Distribution and video game publisher Crave Entertainment. Both SVG and Crave became market leaders and, under Crave Entertainment Group (CEG) and were sold to The Handleman Company (NYSE: HDL) in 2005. With revenues nearing $300M, CEG was the largest privately held company in the video game industry at the time. Nima was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 1998, 2000 and 2004. Taghavi was an original investor and co-founder of Solutions 2 GO (Canada), which grew from its inception in 2004 to become the largest video game distributor in North America by 2008. To optimize his investment in Solutions 2 GO (Canada), Taghavi founded its sister company Solutions 2 GO LLC (U.S.) in 2009, a video game distribution company specializing in both the brick and mortar and e-commerce retail channels. After reaching well over $1B in combined revenue, Taghavi sold his collective interests in 2017. As a longtime owner-user and investor in industrial real estate, Taghavi co-founded investment management firm BKM Capital Partners in 2013. Soon after, Taghavi was joined by John Mack (former CEO & Chairman at Morgan Stanley) as an investor, business partner, and board advisor. Throughout Taghavi’s tenure as Chairman, BKM grew to nearly $2 billion in assets under management with more than 20 institutional investor partners. In 2020, Taghavi and Mack sold their collective ownership in BKM. In 2018, Taghavi co-founded VoltEdge, a consumer brand company specializing in the design, development, and manufacturing of high-performance video game accessories sold through national brick & mortar and e-commerce retailers. In 2020, VoltEdge was acquired by Mexico-based GameXpress. Taghavi established The Nima Taghavi Foundation in 2005 to support a variety of disadvantaged children’s charities and other causes. Additionally, Taghavi has been a member of the Board of Directors for Eastern Congo Initiative (founded by Ben Affleck) since 2015 and a member of the Board of Directors for The Clinton Foundation since 2018.
*Independent, voting director as defined in the IRS instructions for Form 990.
LEADERSHIP TEAM


Ragina Arrington
Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Global Initiative University
Ragina Arrington returned to the Clinton Foundation as the CEO, CGI University. She came back to CGI U from Leadership for Educational Equity where she served as the Senior Director, Regional Impact over the New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and National Capital Regions where she was responsible for managing and supporting Directors in setting vision, identifying goals, work scopes, and strategy in addition to coaching and supporting their professional development. Prior to that, she worked with Teach For America, New York where she was the Director of Community Partnerships. With Teach For America, Ragina worked to cultivate and maintain relationships with a variety of community, city, and state stakeholders, all with the goal of elevating the teaching profession and creating access points for native New Yorkers, first-generation, Black, AAPI, and Latinx students. She also curated and executed engagement strategies to increase the number of highly diverse, talented, and committed applicants to Teach For America, New York. When not supporting her region, she lent DEI expertise to the national organization as a DEI Facilitator for incoming first-year educators, building a scaffolded learning opportunity where teachers centered their personal identity development as the vehicle for understanding racism as a function of systemic oppression.In her passion work, she served as the Director of Partnerships and Co+Investment Strategies with Unboxed Philanthropy Advisors, where she supported individuals, foundations, and nonprofits in realizing their personal philanthropic dreams with a strong focus on social justice. This included building out and reinforcing strategic growth plans, conducting market and landscape analysis, and curating critical relationships. In her previous tenure with the Foundation, Ragina operated as the Senior Outreach Manager, CGI U and was heavily focused on improving and sustaining its diversity outreach and student selection. She also created and grew the Clinton Global Initiative’s University Network which provided skilled mentorship and fiscal support of over 3 million dollars to student projects from around the globe.


Omar Faroul
Chief Technology Officer
Omar is the chief technology officer at the Clinton Foundation. As CTO, Omar is responsible for the overall technology and cybersecurity strategy of the Foundation and aims to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of IT operations globally.
Omar brings 15 years of experience in the technology industry, including having served the Foundation in several IT roles and having worked at the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.


Francesca Ernst Khan
Chief Brand & Digital Marketing Officer
Francesca Ernst Khan is a brand strategist and communications specialist who is responsible for defining and driving integrated brand, digital, and marketing programs that increase understanding of and connection to the work of the Clinton Foundation. In this role, she oversees an interdisciplinary team of digital, social, event, and multimedia storytellers charged with developing clear, compelling, and data-driven content across Clinton Foundation properties and platforms.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 2014, Francesca worked for Widmeyer Communications (a Finn Partners company), EMILYs List, and the American Federation of Teachers. Francesca received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2008 and her M.A in Strategic Communications from American University in 2012. She resides in New York City with her family and still believes in a place called Hope.


Bari Lurie
Chief of Staff, Office of Chelsea Clinton
Bari Lurie joined the Clinton Foundation in August 2011 as chief of staff to Chelsea Clinton. In this capacity she helps shape and implement the strategic direction of the office, including Chelsea’s engagement across the Foundation. Prior to the Foundation, Bari was chief of staff at Tribeca Enterprises, working on growth strategies and managing the company’s signature partnership with Qatar. Before moving to New York, Bari worked on Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign as well as her 2006 Senate race and for her political action committee, HILLPAC. Bari holds a bachelor’s in political communications from George Washington University.


Laura Marcus
Managing Director, Project 42
Laura Marcus is the Managing Director of Project 42 where she overseas highlighting the record of the Clinton administration and strategic engagement of alumni from the administration and presidential campaigns. Laura came to the Foundation with over 20 years of business management and strategy experience in global financial and governmental institutions. She was the Chief Operating Officer of a managed futures fund of funds trading strategy developed at BNP Paribas and launched at Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken. Prior to joining BNP, Laura worked for six years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President and Business Manager in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division. Laura is a proud alumna serving on the Little Rock presidential campaign, and first day to last day in the Clinton administration White House and Pentagon working on national security matters. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.


PATTI MILLER
Chief Executive Officer, Too Small to Fail
Patti Miller oversees Too Small to Fail, the early childhood education initiative of the Clinton Foundation and its public awareness and action campaign to promote the importance of early brain and language development and support parents with tools to talk, read and sing with their young children starting at birth. Prior to joining the Foundation, Patti served as Vice President of Public Policy at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit producer of “Sesame Street. Patti also previously served as Vice President of the Children and the Media Program at Children Now, a national child advocacy organization. In that role, she led a broad coalition in advocacy and policy efforts to improve the media environment for children. Patti holds a master’s in education from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the University of California at Berkeley.


GREGORY MILNE
Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Global Initiative
Gregory Milne is the chief executive officer of the Clinton Global Initiative at the Clinton Foundation. Prior to this role, Greg served as chief impact and foreign policy officer at the Clinton Foundation where we oversaw the Foundation’s efforts on programmatic impact and evaluation, metrics, and information sharing; he also helps guide international strategy and plays a central role in shaping and executing President Clinton’s foreign policy vision for the Foundation. Previously, he served as the deputy chief of staff and director of policy to President Clinton and chief executive office of the Clinton Foundation’s Haiti program. Prior to that he worked as the private sector advisor at the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti, President Clinton’s UN office, assisting with economic development and reconstruction programs in Haiti. Before joining the Clinton Foundation, he was a senior associate at Shearman & Sterling, LLP in the New York Office where he specialized in international property transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Greg received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law where he was a Crowley Scholar and a bachelor’s from the University of Michigan. He is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School.


CRAIG MINASSIAN
Chief Content, Communications, and Marketing Officer
Craig Minassian brings a unique background in strategic communications, public affairs, brand marketing, programming and content development to advancing the work and impact of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Craig served as assistant press secretary and director of television news in the White House for President Clinton, on numerous presidential campaigns and as a senior advisor to the Democratic National Convention Committees in 2008 and 2012. Craig spent a significant portion of his career as an executive, consultant and producer for networks including HBO, Comedy Central, ABC and MTV and served on the organizing committee for World Cup USA in 1994. In 2006, he launched Minassian Media, which advises a wide range of leading global private and public sector organizations in technology, media and global health and development. Craig is a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and serves on the President’s Council and the School of Communication Dean’s Advisory Committee for the University of Miami, his alma mater.


Katrina Owoh
Chief Financial Officer
Katrina Owoh is the chief financial officer of the Clinton Foundation. In this role, she provides leadership for the global financial operations of the Clinton Foundation, oversees the team that manages the day-to-day financial operations of the Foundation, and monitors the financial health of the organization. With over twenty years of extensive experience in financial operations in various industries, including telecommunications, healthcare, and higher education, Katrina brings to this role knowledge of Nonprofit, Government, and business financial management and compliance.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as the Assistant Dean for Administration in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and the Associate Director of Internal Audit for the University of Arkansas System. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Katrina received her bachelor of science in accounting from UA Little Rock and a master’s in business administration from Harding University. She also serves on numerous community boards such as the Arkansas Department of Heritage Mosaic Templars of America Center for African American Culture and Business Advisory Board, Pulaski County Youth Services Advisory Board, and The Ivy Foundation of Little Rock; former member of the UA Little Rock Alumni Association Board of Directors and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®. She and her husband, Dr. Jeremy S. Owoh, have one teenage son, Jaxon.


BILL RUSTRICK
Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Development Initiative
Bill Rustrick is the chief executive officer of the Clinton Development Initiative (CDI), based in Malawi. He joined CDI as country director in Malawi and managing director of Tukula Farming Company in November 2015. Prior to CDI he was the operations director on a multi-estate tea production facility in Western Kenya, involving a large out-grower supply chain. He has also helped establish, develop, and manage both smallholder and commercial cropping operations in Mozambique, Brazil, Zambia, the Gambia, Papua New Guinea, and Malaysia.


AMY SANDGRUND-FISHER
General Counsel and Chief Human Resources Officer
Amy Sandgrund-Fisher is the general counsel and chief human resources officer for the Clinton Foundation. Previously, she served as people counsel at AppNexus, where she was responsible for providing legal advice on employment matters and nonprofit partnerships, among other responsibilities. Prior to this role, Amy served in senior legal roles at several for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, and Tough Mudder. Amy also worked at Proskauer LLP for a number of years focused on litigation and at the Citizens Union of the City of New York as its advocacy director. In addition to her legal practice, Amy has also served on a number of New York City Bar Association committees focused on women in the law and issues related to New York City government. Amy received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from New York University Law School.


LUKE SCHIEL
Chief Program and Strategy Officer, Clinton Global Initiative
Luke Schiel is the managing director of the CGI Action Networks, where he oversees the Clinton Foundation’s work and partnerships with organizations committed to promoting climate resilience, fostering inclusive economic growth, and supporting community-based organizations in the United States and the Caribbean. In this role, he devises strategies to drive attention, resources and partnerships to those at the forefront of progressive social and environmental change. Prior, Luke served in various program, partnership, fundraising, and leadership capacities at the Clinton Global Initiative. He first joined the Clinton Foundation in 2013 and previously worked in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. Luke has a bachelor’s degree in political science and English literature from Washington University in St. Louis.


STEPHANIE S. STREETT
Executive Director
Stephanie S. Streett is executive director of the Clinton Foundation. She has served in this role since 2001 and oversees the strategy and management of the Clinton Presidential Center. The Clinton Center presents a unique perspective of the work – past, present, and future – of the 42nd President of the United States William J. Clinton and provides extensive educational and cultural opportunities for visitors of all ages. She also serves as Corporate Secretary for the Clinton Foundation Board of Directors.
Streett oversees the Presidential Leadership Scholars program on behalf of the Clinton Foundation. This first of its kind leadership development program produces bold and principled leaders committed to solving our world’s most pressing challenges through a unique collaboration between the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In addition to her extensive career in the nonprofit sector, Streett also has considerable government experience. Prior to joining the Clinton Foundation, she served in the Clinton Administration for eight years on the White House staff, first as Special Assistant to the President, then Deputy Assistant to the President, and finally as Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling. Previously, Streett worked on Capitol Hill as a staff member for the United States Senate Committee on the Budget.
Currently, Streett is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for City Year Little Rock, a member of the International Women’s Forum Arkansas and the Rotary Club of Little Rock, where she was named a Paul Harris Fellow. She previously served as President of the University of Arkansas Alumni Association National Board of Directors. Streett received the 2015 Sandra Wilson Cherry Award, the 2018 City Year Little Rock Lifetime of Service Award, and the 2019 University of Arkansas Alumni Association Community Service Award.
Streett earned her B.S. in Political Science from the University of Arkansas. She and her husband Don Erbach are the proud parents of three teenage daughters.

CHRIS THRASHER

CHRIS THRASHER
Chief Executive Officer of the Overdose Response Network, Clinton Global Initiative
Christian serves as chief executive officer of the Overdose Response Network within the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) at the Clinton Foundation. In this capacity, Chris oversees all of the Foundation’s efforts helping to address the substance use disorders. Two of the cornerstone initiatives of this work at the foundation is working with communities and our foundation partners to ensure that naloxone (the lifesaving opioid overdose reversal drug) is widely available, accessible, and affordable. Another cornerstone initiative is CHMI’s Empowering Faith Leaders program. Our nations’ faith leaders are an integral part of stigma reduction regarding substance use disorders and as such CHMI is deeply engaged in the training of our current and future faith leaders throughout the United States.
Before joining the Clinton Foundation, Chris served as the senior vice president of behavioral health at Sharecare, a comprehensive health and wellness engagement platform. Prior to Sharecare, Chris served in several leadership roles over 14 years in the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2003, Chris founded and became director of the Center of Excellence for Sexual Health (CESH). In addition, Chris was a member of the faculty at MSM within the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine.
Chris earned a bachelor’s in communications and psychology from the State University College of Fredonia in New York and a master’s in human sexuality, marriage and family relations from New York University. Chris is a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor with the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare as well as a certified Sexuality Counselor and Sexuality Educator by The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Since December 17, 1989, Chris has been living in long-term recovery a day at a time.


KEVIN THURM
Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Thurm is the chief executive officer of the Clinton Foundation. He previously served as a senior counselor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he worked with Secretary Sylvia Burwell and HHS senior leadership on a number of cross-cutting strategic initiatives, including continuing implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Prior to that role, Kevin held various leadership positions at Citigroup, including chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel. Before joining Citigroup, Thurm served as the deputy secretary and chief of staff for the Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Donna E. Shalala. He received a bachelor’s from Tufts University in 1983; a bachelor’s/master’s from Oxford University in 1986, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989.
LEADERS OF OUR INDEPENDENT, AFFILIATED INITIATIVES


KATHY HIGGINS
Chief Executive Officer, Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Kathy Higgins, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, is a national expert on health care and philanthropy, having previously served as the president and CEO of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation.
Higgins leads Healthier Generation’s team of nearly 100 professional staff across the nation working to make the healthy choice the easy choice for all children, including:
- Supporting tens of thousands of schools and youth-serving organizations in creating healthier learning environments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia
- Working with companies to improve their individual and industry-wide business practices to improve children’s health
- Driving strategic collaboration with the business sector at the national and local levels to shape supply, build demand and improve access to healthier foods and beverages
- Leveraging a robust online platform and expansion in digital technologies to improve program experience and deliver powerful marketing programs and campaigns that raise awareness and drive action toward healthier futures for all children
Prior to taking on the role of Healthier Generation CEO in January 2019, Higgins spent more than 30 years at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, where her roles span leading public health engagement, corporate communications, community relations, and corporate affairs. In 2000, Higgins led the launch of the Blue Cross NC Foundation.
As president and CEO of the Blue Cross NC Foundation, Higgins led unprecedented growth, including the strategic investment of more than $150 million into North Carolina communities through more than 1,000 grants to improve the health of vulnerable populations, support physical activity and nutrition programs, and help nonprofit groups improve their organizational capacity. Higgins was also a significant advocate in Blue Cross NC’s early adoption of Healthier Generation’s decade-long innovative insurance benefit program, designed to encourage clinicians to extend weight management and obesity prevention services to kids and families.
In addition to her extensive business background, Higgins has engaged in significant community leadership throughout her career and has served on numerous state and national boards, including co-leading the NC Institute of Medicine Taskforce on Childhood Obesity Prevention; being appointed by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper to serve on the Governor’s Council for Early Childhood Development; and earning recognition from Diversity Journal as a “Women Worth Watching” award winner. She also serves on the boards of the Carolina Hurricanes Foundation (chair), the Triangle Area YMCA and the Underwood Foundation.
Among her many honors and distinctions, she has been named both an Eisenhower Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, for which she was selected to study health care and philanthropy in New Zealand and Australia.
Higgins holds a bachelor’s degree in education from West Virginia Wesleyan College and completed her master’s work in community health education from Virginia Tech. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina and is the mother to twin boys. Kathy can be found on Twitter at @KathyHigginsHG.


Dr. Neil Buddy Shah
Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Trained as a physician and development economist, Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is an award-winning social entrepreneur, CEO, and global health funder who is passionate about making global health efforts as impactful as possible.
Dr. Shah is currently the Managing Director of GiveWell, a research and funding organization that directs hundreds of millions of dollars per year to programs in global health and development. GiveWell seeks to identify and fund the most cost-effective ways to save lives, and has recently emerged as one of the world’s largest private funders in global health.
Dr. Shah was previously co-founder, CEO and now Board Chair of IDinsight, a global development data analytics and advisory firm with offices across Africa, Asia, and the US. At IDinsight, he helped pioneer the practical application of cutting-edge data and impact measurement tools such as randomized controlled trials, machine learning and results-based financing mechanisms to improve the impact of life-saving and antipoverty programs across Africa and Asia. Buddy worked previously at the World Bank and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Buddy holds an AB in economics from Harvard, an MD with special distinction in global health policy from Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and an MPA in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.
Dr. Shah serves on the Boards of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Private Foundations Board Constituency); the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School; Educate Girls; Giving Green; and IDinsight. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as guest faculty at Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and is a former Echoing Green Fellow and Forbes’ 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur. He has lived and worked in India, Cambodia, Uganda and the United States.