UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Academic Advisor
- Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Aimee Hilado earned a dual master's degree in social work and applied child development at Loyola University Chicago and Erikson Institute, and a PhD in social work with distinction at Loyola University Chicago. She is a licensed clinical social worker and was the Founding Clinical Director of the RefugeeOne Wellness Program (2011-2021), a mental health program she developed for refugees and immigrants at the largest refugee resettlement agency in Chicago. Previously, she was a fellow with Zero to Three, a national organization focused on translating the science of early development into helpful resources, practical tools, and responsive policies for parents, professionals, and policymakers.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Board Director
- Experienced Corporate Board Director
Ana Dutra is an experienced Corporate Board Director of publicly traded and private global corporations. She was the CEO of The Executives' Club, a 112 year-old world-class senior executives organization focused on innovation, technology, Diversity & Inclusion and leadership development for Boards and top leaders. Prior to that, as a CEO and proxy officer of Korn Ferry (NYSE: KFY), Ana created a $500+ MM global business through the combination of organic growth, 7 global acquisitions, innovative go-to-market approaches and incorporation of technology and digitalization of products and services. Currently, Ana is a Director on the Boards of the CME Group (CME-NASDAQ), a fin-tech global futures exchange; Eletrobras (NYSE: EBR), the 4th largest global renewable energy company; Greeley and Hansen, a global engineering and manufacturing company; Lifespace Senior Living Communities, Elkay Manufacturing and is a senior advisor for technology firms. She has been the chair and member of Audit, Compensation, Governance, Nomination and Risk Committees. Ana also serves on the Boards of The Committee of 200, Lurie Children's Hospital, Blessings-in-a-Backpack and Latino Corporate Directors Association and The World Sustainability Forum. Ana is an NACD Board Fellow and a member of the American College of Corporate Directors, Women Corporate Directors, The Chicago Network and The Commercial Club of Chicago.
A Brazilian native with over 30 years of experience in global P&L management, technology, business growth and C-Level business advisory in over 25 countries, Dutra's expertise lies in helping Boards, CEOs and their teams to identify and execute growth strategies and turnarounds through innovation, acquisitions and new technologies. As a CEO herself, Ana Dutra has led a number of global acquisitions, post-merger integrations and execution of accelerated growth strategies. She has led and advised businesses in the technology, CPG, food & beverage, retail, pharma, oil & gas, manufacturing, energy and professional services industries. Ana started her career with IBM where she managed clients and lines-of-businesses in a number of countries. After receiving her MBA from Kellogg business school, she led lines-of-businesses and global P&Ls with CSC, Oliver Wyman, Accenture and, more recently, with Korn Ferry and The Executives' Club.
Ana holds an MBA from Kellogg, a Masters in Economics from Pontificia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, a Juris Doctor from Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, all summa cum laude. She is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French and is a frequent speaker in the Global Competitiveness Forum, World Economic Forum and other Global Conferences. She is frequently featured in the Harvard Business Review online, Forbes, WSJ, CEO Magazine and is the guest editor of the 2015 Best of the Boardroom issue of Hispanic Executive magazine. Ana was also awarded the Chicago United Business Leader of Color, Nueva Estrella Latina and Women in History and Business Award. Ana is the best selling author of "Lessons in LeadershiT: detoxing the Workplace", published in September of 2016.
Job Titles:
- Editor - in - Chief, Comment, and Senior Advisor, UChicago Leadership & Society Initiative
Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine. She is also the host of The Whole Person Revolution podcast and co-editor of Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year, published in January 2022.
Prior to leading Comment, she directed The Philanthropy Roundtable‘s Character Initiative, a program seeking to help foundations and business leaders strengthen "the middle ring" of morally formative institutions. Her path-breaking guidebook, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver's Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape, was published in 2019. From 2014 to 2017 Anne worked for Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Foundation in Texas, and before that, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, World Affairs Journal and The New York Times. She is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum and a Fellow at the Urban Reform Institute, a Houston-based think tank that explores how cities can drive opportunity for the bulk of their citizens. She has published widely, including The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, Bittersweet Monthly and of course Comment, and now serves as a trustee for Nyack College. Anne spent the formative years of her childhood overseas before earning a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College (IL) and a master's degree from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director of the Education Lab
- Co - Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Distinguished Service Professor, Director of the University of Chicago 's Crime Lab
Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, director of the University of Chicago's Crime Lab, co-director of the Education Lab, and co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's working group on the economics of crime.
In the area of urban poverty, Ludwig has participated since 1995 on the evaluation of a HUD-funded randomized residential-mobility experiment known as Moving to Opportunity (MTO), which provides low-income public housing families the opportunity to relocate to private-market housing in less disadvantaged neighborhoods. In the area of education he has written extensively about early childhood interventions, and about the role of social conditions in affecting children's schooling outcomes. In the area of crime, Ludwig has written extensively about gun-violence prevention. Through the Crime Lab he is also involved in partnering with policymakers in Chicago, New York City, and across the country to use tools from social science, behavioral science, and computer science to identify effective (and cost-effective) ways to help prevent crime and violence. This includes studies of various social programs, helping the Chicago Police Department use data to reduce gun violence and strengthen police-community relations, and work underway to use data science to help New York City build and implement a new pretrial risk tool as part of the city's goal to close Riker's Island. Crime Lab projects have helped redirect millions of dollars of public-sector resources to evidence-based strategies and have been featured in national news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, PBS News Hour and National Public Radio. In 2014 the Crime Lab was the recipient of a $1 million MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, the organizational equivalent of the foundation's "genius prize."
His research has been published in leading scientific journals across a range of disciplines including Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, and the American Journal of Sociology. His coauthored article on race, peer norms, and education with Philip Cook was awarded the Vernon Prize for the best article in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He is also coauthor with Cook of Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), coeditor with Cook of Evaluating Gun Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), and coeditor with Cook and Justin McCray of Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Prior to coming to Harris, Ludwig was a professor of public policy at Georgetown University. He is currently on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and was formerly coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources, and currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications. In 2012 he was elected vice president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), the professional society for public policy schools. Ludwig received his BA in economics from Rutgers College and his MA and PhD in economics from Duke University. In 2006 he was awarded APPAM's David N. Kershaw Prize for Contributions to Public Policy by Age 40. In 2012 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.
Job Titles:
- Retired Chairman of the Board, Nautilus, Inc
Carl has recalibrated and transformed CPG and Health & Wellness Brands for four decades, consistently catapulting brands and shareholder/Private Equity value as both a senior general management leader and board director.
Carl retired as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nautilus, Inc. (NLS, NYSE) in August 2022 after 11 years and 12 years as a director. He also served as interim Nautilus CEO from March 2019 through July 2019. He joined the Board of Directors of Vespa Parent LLC (part of Vespa Management Holdco LLC, private) in October, 2018 and continues in this role. He joined the Board of Directors of CHW Acquisition Corporation in December, 2020, which merged with Wag Labs, a digital pet services company, in August, 2022. Earlier in his career, Carl served as a board director of Akers Bioscience, and Avedro, both private medical companies now public.
In October, 2015, Carl retired as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Chief Growth Officer of Big Heart Pet Brands, subsequently acquired by J. M. Smucker Company. In this role, he had line and operating responsibility for the company's widely distributed brands, and the innovation, marketing and creative services, consumer and customer insights, communications and government relations groups, and the company's Canadian subsidiary. He joined Del Monte Foods, a privately owned manufacturer and marketer of processed foods, and the predecessor of Big Heart Pet Brands, in November 2011 as Executive Vice President, Brands and Chief Growth Officer. From 2001 until April 2011, Carl served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of the Campbell Soup Company, a producer of canned soups and related products, where he had direct responsibility for corporate strategy, research and development, quality, corporate marketing services, licensing, and e-business. Carl joined Campbell from Kraft Foods, where he ran three successively larger business divisions. Earlier in his career, he held management positions at Colgate-Palmolive and Polaroid Corporation and served as head of the Consumer Goods consulting practice at Marketing Corporation of America.
Carl completed a 2016 Fellowship at Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Initiative and a 2017 Fellowship at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. He holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Chicago and Bachelor of Arts in Government and Economics from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He served as an executive committee member of the External Advisory Board at the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, University of California, Davis from 2007 to 2019. Mr. Johnson is a trustee of the Adelphic Educational Fund, Wesleyan University, which grants scholarships and supports educational, literary and artistic programs. He also served for 15 years as a member of the Steering Committee of the Kilts Center for Marketing at the University of Chicago (Booth) Graduate School of Business, which provides scholarships to top marketing students and helps the school steer its marketing curriculum. Carl is a member of the Nutrition Round Table, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, and also serves as lead advisor to Monj Health, a digital behavior change platform company aimed at addressing high cost chronic disease conditions resulting from the obesity epidemic.
Job Titles:
- Academic Advisor
- Clinical Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Chicago Booth
- Clinical Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Booth School of Business
Christina Hachikian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Chicago Booth. She teaches several of Booth's social impact courses, focusing on topics including scaling social innovation and social enterprise strategy. She also serves as a coach for the John Edwardson, '72, Social New Venture Challenge, the social impact track of the university's nationally ranked startup launch program, as well as the College New Venture Challenge, the track focused on start-ups led by students from The College. She speaks on social entrepreneurship and innovation globally, on topics including the evolution of the social sector with an eye towards global trends, as well as how social impact is evolving at business schools.
Prior to moving into this full-time teaching role, Hachikian was the founding executive director of the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as well as an adjunct associate professor of strategic management. Since its establishment in 2012, Hachikian led the center's global work as the hub for people solving complex social and environmental problems. Under her leadership, the center became an integral part of the university's social impact ecosystem and was a force for embedding social impact as an integral part of Booth. She was instrumental in building the center's support base, including a more than $30 million endowment. Over her eight year tenure, she built a team of more than 20 people operating in Chicago, Hong Kong, and London dedicated to advancing research and developing the people and practices that will accelerate social change.
Prior to joining Booth, she was vice president and head of investor relations and corporate development for Cole Taylor Bank. Prior to Cole Taylor, Hachikian was an assistant vice president at ShoreBank (now Urban Partnership Bank), a triple-bottom line community development bank. There she was responsible for managing projects including growth strategy, capital raising initiatives, and operational efficiencies.
Hachikian has contributed substantially to the education and workforce development sectors. She is also a board member at two for-profit, early stage companies: including AIM Clinics, which provides autism therapy in underserved markets, as well as AutonomyWorks, a for-profit marketing services firm employing adults with autism, on which she serves as the company's social benefit director under benefit corporation status. She has volunteered since 2014 as executive coach for the executive director of VOCEL, an innovative early education nonprofit. In 2020, Hachikian was appointed to the Governor's Commission on Equitable Early Childhood Education and Care Funding, and was a 2017 McCormick Foundation Executive Fellow, the Erikson Institute's leadership program for the advancement of access to quality early education. She has served on a variety of other committees and boards, including the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor's Early Childhood Workforce Committee and UChicago Impact, the implementation arm of the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago.
Hachikian holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, with a focus on strategic management and managerial and organizational behavior. She also earned an AB in public policy from the University of Chicago.
In 2019, Hachikian was included in the Crain's Chicago List of 40 Under 40.
Job Titles:
- LSI Founding Instructor & Executive Coach
Chuck specializes in pragmatic, integral coaching across all aspects of professional leadership development and executive performance. His broad business background and experiences provide Chuck with a unique perspective and insights that allow him to build credibility, comfort and trust with seasoned executives. For over a decade, Chuck has coached high level executives and influential leaders in some of the world's most well-respected companies, including Abbott Labs, Accenture, Apple, Ernst & Young, Genentech, IBM, McKinsey & Co., Sonos, and United Health Group. In addition to coaching business executives, Chuck specializes in coaching transitioning military professionals, and physician leaders in various hospital and healthcare settings. Prior to his coaching career, Chuck enjoyed 20+ years as a highly successful business professional. He began his career as a factory manager for Berkshire Hathaway, and later served Fortune 500 clients for 10 years in Deloitte's Strategy and Operations consulting practice. Most recently, Chuck was the Global Vice President of Korn Ferry's Leadership and Talent Consultancy, where he advised multinational firms on Succession Management, Talent Strategy and Leadership Development. Chuck earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a B.S. in Leadership Studies from the University of Southern Maine. He is a member of the Harvard Institute of Coaching, and is an adjunct faculty member with the New Ventures West Professional Coach program. Chuck takes great joy in helping develop new coaches to support the growth and development of others. Chuck lives with his wife and two sons in San Francisco, CA. Chuck is an avid reader, musician and concert goer.
Job Titles:
- President and Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Club of Chicago
David Snyder is president and chief executive officer of The Economic Club of Chicago. Founded in 1927, The Economic Club is one of nation's most influential forums for the dissemination of economic, business and social views, dedicated to fostering the development of leaders within Chicago's civic and business community. The Economic Club has welcomed many prominent thought leaders as speakers including CEOs of leading Fortune 500 companies, U.S. presidents, prime ministers, and other foreign dignitaries.
Before his role at the Economic Club, David Snyder was Chief Operating Officer of Chicago CRED, a pioneering initiative targeting gang-affiliated men most at risk for being perpetrators or victims of gun violence. Chicago CRED focuses on street-level violence prevention/interruption, intensive trauma-informed counseling, education and workforce development. In his role as COO, Mr. Snyder oversaw CRED's business operations, strategic planning and grant-making.
Prior to joining CRED in early 2017, Snyder spent more than three decades in various roles, including as Publisher and Editor, at Crain's Chicago Business, the nation's leading local business newspaper and website.
Mr. Snyder is on the board of directors of the Polk Bros. Foundation, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and The Economic Club of Chicago.
A native of Easton, Pa., Mr. Snyder is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., where he received his degree in business administration.
Job Titles:
- Director, Leadership & Society Initiative
Diana Petty designs and oversees leadership development programming to help senior executives prepare for their next chapters in leadership, service, and philanthropy. She builds collaborations across the University's Schools and Divisions and with civic partners to deliver a distinctive higher education experience supporting accomplished leaders committed to using their talents toward creating positive societal impact. You can contact Diana at dpetty@uchicago.edu.
Diana has spent her career helping mission-driven organizations deepen impact in their communities, with expertise in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and program evaluation. She brings extensive experience working in municipal government and public-sector consulting, particularly leading cross-sector, cross-functional partnerships. Diana received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Media Studies from Macalester College, and is a graduate of the New York Urban Fellows Program, the New York University Wagner School's Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service, the StartingBloc Fellowship for Change Leaders, and the University of Chicago Booth School's Executive Program for Emerging Leaders.
In her spare time, Diana enjoys exploring Chicago by bike with her family and playing cards with friends, specifically bridge, euchre, and cribbage.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Community Health and Vitality
Doriane C. Miller, MD'83, is a professor of medicine at UChicago Medicine and director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality. She has dedicated her career to advancing health equity and addressing health care disparities.
Among her many accomplishments, Miller developed the Community Grand Rounds program, sharing information and research to improve health on the South Side. She educates trainees and faculty on the historical context of health disparities through lectures for the Pritzker School of Medicine's Health Disparities course, tours of the South Side and service-learning experiences. Miller addressed COVID-19 issues on the South Side, meeting with local organizations and using her monthly radio program to share reliable information and encourage vaccination and other safe practices. She is also a senior investigator on a $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, working to establish a center to address multiple chronic diseases associated with health disparities.
Previously, Miller served as national program director of New Health Partnerships, program vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a faculty member at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the University of California, San Francisco. She received a Community Health Leadership award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is the author of two plays that address domestic violence and post-traumatic stress disorder in youth exposed to community violence.
Born and raised on Chicago's South Side, Miller received her M.D. from the Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her medical training and fellowship at UCSF.
Job Titles:
- Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
Edward W. Kolb (known to most as Rocky ) is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College and former Dean of Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago, as well as a member of the Enrico Fermi Institute and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. In 1983 he was a founding head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group and in 2004 the founding Director of the Particle Astrophysics Center at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
Kolb is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was the recipient of the 2003 Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers for notable contributions to the teaching of physics, the 1993 Quantrell Prize for teaching excellence at the University of Chicago, and the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Graham School of the University of Chicago. His book for the general public, Blind Watchers of the Sky, received the 1996 Emme Award of the American Aeronautical Society.
The field of Rocky's research is the application of elementary-particle physics to the very early Universe. In addition to over 200 scientific papers, he is a co-author of The Early Universe, the standard textbook on particle physics and cosmology.
Kolb's research was recognized by the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, awarded by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute for Physics. He holds an honorary degree, Doctor Honoris Causa, from the University of Lyon, France, and was the recipient of the J. Hans D. Jensen Prize of the University of Heidelberg.
He has traveled the world, if not yet the Universe, giving scientific and public lectures. Rocky has been a Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer with the American Astronomical Society since 1984. In recent years he has been selected by the American Physical Society and the International Conference on High-Energy Physics to present public lectures in conjunction with international physics meetings. Rocky presented a special public lecture in Salonika Greece as part of the cultural celebration of that city, and he was selected to address the president of Pakistan as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country. He has been the Oppenheimer lecturer in Los Alamos, and in Athens (Ohio) and Troy (New York) he presented the Grasselli Lecture and the Resnick Lecture, as well as over one hundred public lectures throughout the US. He has also presented public lectures at the Royal Society of London, as well as Vienna, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Valencia, Victoria, Montreal, Bonn, Thessolinki, Heidelberg, Munich, Karlsruhe, Rome, Toronto, Copenhagen, Beijing, Turin, Bonn, Islamabad, Madrid, Beijing, Uppsala, Hamilton, and Vancouver.
Elisa Spain is an executive life coach. Throughout her life, Elisa has followed her commitment to excellence. Building on her own professional and personal experience, Elisa's coaching approach has evolved from executive coaching to coaching executives in living their full lives. Her clients include CEOs and C-suite executives from Inc. 500 companies, Crain's Fast 50, Chicago Tribune's Top 100 Workplaces, and Crain's Largest Privately Held Companies.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Elisabeth S. Clemens (A.M. 1985, Ph.D 1990) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago as well as a former Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Her research explores the role of social movements and organizational innovation in political change. Clemens' first book, The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 (Chicago, 1997) received best book awards in both organizational sociology (1998) and political sociology (1999). She is also co-editor of Private Action and the Public Good (Yale, 1998), Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (Duke, 2005), Politics and Partnerships: Voluntary Associations in America's Past and Present (Chicago, 2010; winner of the 2012 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize from ARNOVA), and the journal Studies in American Political Development. She is now completing Civic Nation which traces the tense but powerful entanglements of benevolence and liberalism in the development of the American nation-state.
She recently published Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Chicago, 2020) which traces the tense but powerful entanglements of benevolence and liberalism in the development of American political culture and governance.
Professor Clemens has served terms as chair of both the political sociology and comparative historical sociology sections of the American Sociological Association, as a member of the Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and the Third Sector, and as President of the Social Science History Association for 2012-13.
Job Titles:
- Business Journalist and Media Executive
Eric Schurenberg is a long-time business journalist and media executive, most recently the CEO of Mansueto Ventures, home of the iconic media brands Inc. and Fast Company. He is currently the host of the video interview program, The Human Factor and co-host (with Harvard's Joan Donovan) of the counter-disinformation podcast, In Reality.
During his four-year tenure as CEO, Inc. and Fast Company expanded beyond print and digital into live and digital events, video, podcasts, data, and new recognition programs. Each year of Schurenberg's tenure the company recorded its best annual financial performance to date, culminating in the first year of profitability in the company's 16-year history, in 2021.
For the six years prior, Schurenberg was the president and/or editor-in-chief of Inc. While he was editor, the magazine was twice a National Magazine Award finalist for general excellence, winning once. Before joining Inc, he was the founding editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com and editor-in-chief of BNET.com for CBS Interactive; the sites together won more than a dozen awards for design and journalism during his time there.
Before CBS, he had a number of roles in business journalism. He was the managing editor of Money Magazine (equivalent to editor-in-chief), where he won the Time Inc. Luce award for service journalism in each of the four years Money was eligible. Other roles inside and out of journalism include deputy editor at Business 2.0, assistant managing editor at Fortune, and vice-president at Goldman Sachs. As a writer, he's the winner of a Loeb Award and a National Magazine Award.
In media, Schurenberg co-hosts a podcast, In Reality, that aims to shed light on the fight against misinformation by highlighting the thinkers and doers advocating for truth. His co-host is Joan Donovan, head of research at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy. He also hosts a CEO-to-CEO interview program for Inc. about leadership, entrepreneurs, and media for Inc. called The Human Factor. On broadcast platforms, he was a regular commentator on Nightly Business Report on PBS and Marketplace Radio on NPR and on CBS MoneyWatch. He had his own radio show, You and Your Money, on Westwood One. He's also been a frequent guest on CNBC, CNN, The Today Show, The Early Show, and Good Morning America.
Before becoming a journalist, Schurenberg spent six years as an actor, playing roles in soap operas and in regional theaters like the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Milwaukee's Theater East and Philadephia's Annenberg Center. For reasons even he doesn't quite understand, Schurenberg was repeatedly cast in the role of a Cockney juvenile delinquent, a peculiar bit of type-casting (I'm from Ohio). He mentions it because, well, how many other media executives can make the same claim?
Outside of work, Schurenberg is a private pilot and an enthusiastic club tennis player, who not so long ago helped carry his club's tennis team to the regional championships for northern California.
Job Titles:
- SVP, Philanthropic Strategist, Bank of America
Eric Weinheimer is a Senior Vice President and Philanthropic Strategist for the National Consulting and Advisory Practice at Bank of America Private Bank, based in Chicago, IL.
In his role, Eric delivers customized consulting and advisory services to nonprofit clients' boards of directors and senior leaders. His areas of expertise include strategic planning, board governance, revenue diversification, and social enterprise. He also has extensive experience in working with high-net worth individuals and families in identifying and achieving their philanthropic goals.
Previously, Eric served as President and CEO of Forefront, a regional association of grantmakers, nonprofits, advisors, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors. He was also President and CEO of The Cara Program, a non-profit organization that provides comprehensive training, job placement and support services to individuals who are homeless and struggling in poverty. During Eric's tenure, The Cara Program founded and established 3 social enterprises, including Cleanslate Chicago. He has also served as Interim CEO for nonprofits that have experienced significant internal challenges and crises.
Eric earned a B.S. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Public Service. Eric serves on the Advisory Board for Booth's Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation and the Leadership Council for the Baumhart Center at Loyola University Chicago. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Growing Community Media and the Network for Young Adult Success. He is the Chair of the Membership Committee for the Economic Club of Chicago.
Harry L. Davis studies leadership, strategy, creativity and innovation. His scholarly research has appeared in a number of top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing. Among his publications are "The Promising Start-up Within: A Guide to Internal Corporate Venturing," written with Russ Rosenzweig and published in The Virtual Strategist in October 2001, and "Purchasing Behavior in Embedded Markets," written with fellow Chicago Booth faculty member Jonathan Frenzen and published in the June 1990 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.
Davis, who joined the faculty in 1963, has introduced many innovative executive education programs in the United States and abroad. These programs include the first core leadership program of any top-rated MBA program in the country and the Management Lab. Davis also helped Chicago Booth pioneer its first international campus in 1983 where he served as deputy dean for MBA programs until 1993. He was also professor of behavioral science for the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels.
Davis served as a trustee for the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, was on the boards of Golden Rule Insurance, Harnischfeger Industries, and was chairman of the board of the Graham School of General Studies. The Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership was founded in 2010. It is an incubator, a proving ground, for generating new insights about leadership that impact education, practice, and discovery for future generations of students. The Center provides courses and programs that encourage experimentation, reflection and lifelong learning.
He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1959 and an MBA in marketing in 1960 from Dartmouth College. He earned a master's degree in sociology in 1969 and a PhD in marketing in 1970 from Northwestern University.
Outside of academia, Davis enjoys classical guitar and passenger trains.
Job Titles:
- Immediate past President of the John
- Immediate past President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Julia Stasch is the immediate past president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the nation's largest philanthropies. With a broad background of leadership in the business, government, and social sectors, she joined the Foundation in 2001 to lead major programs in the United States. She served as the Foundation's President for five years prior to stepping down in 2019. During that time, she narrowed the Foundation's programmatic focus for greater impact through big bets in areas such as criminal justice and climate change. She initiated the development of the breakthrough $100 million 100&Change competition and Lever for Change, MacArthur's nonprofit affiliate that helps philanthropists source vetted, high-impact philanthropic opportunities, where she now serves as chair of the board. She also oversaw the design and launch of the global Catalytic Capital Consortium, which is providing $150 million in matching funds for impact investments that address financing gaps and drive significant social change.
Previously, Stasch served as chief of staff to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley; commissioner of housing for the City of Chicago; president of Shorebank Chicago Companies, including ShoreBank, the nation's first community development bank; deputy administrator of the 20,000-person U.S. General Services Administration in the Clinton administration, and president and COO of Chicago-based real estate development firm, Stein & Company.
Stasch is Philanthropy Executive in Residence at the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a Distinguished Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro at the Brookings Institution and board member of P33, a private sector-led effort to drive inclusive global tech and innovation leadership in Chicagoland.
Stasch is a summa cum laude graduate of Loyola University Chicago and holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor, Office of Medicaid Innovation at the University of Illinois
Julie Hamos has had a long career as policy advocate, public interest attorney, state legislator and state agency director. She discovered her interest in lobbying and government as the first staff attorney hired for the newly formed Subcommittee on Oversight of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in 1975. For the next 20 years, Julie championed public interest policies and community issues at the state level, both inside and outside of government, with a deep appreciation for the need for bipartisan problem-solving and negotiations to achieve results.
Julie served as State Representative from 1998 for over 11 years, sponsoring and passing ground-breaking legislation on numerous issues, including comprehensive funding and reform of the regional transit system; a statewide energy efficiency building code; affordable housing policies and rental subsidies; universal hearing screening for all newborns; reform of the long-term care system for older adults; comprehensive rewrite of the Telecommunications Act; creation of the Children's Mental Health Act, and more. She has been honored as "top legislator" by over 50 organizations and was selected as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.
When the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, Julie was appointed as the cabinet-level Director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to help lead Illinois in its implementation. With a $20.5 billion budget and a staff of 2,200, Julie and her team were successful in redesigning the Medicaid healthcare delivery system, expanding Medicaid coverage to over half million Illinois residents, modernizing major technology systems, and bringing fiscal discipline to the Medicaid budget.
Currently, Julie continues her service to the state as Senior Advisor at the Office of Medicaid Innovation at the University of Illinois, assigned to projects that support the Illinois Medicaid Program.
Julie has a J.D. degree from George Washington University National Law Center in Washington DC, and a B.A. degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She was born in Budapest, Hungary, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and escaped with her family during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Job Titles:
- Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory
- Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Junhong Chen is currently a Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and lead water strategist at Argonne National Laboratory.
Prior to coming to Chicago, Prof. Chen served as a program director for the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) program of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). He also served as a co-chair of the NSF-wide ERC Working Group to design the ERC Planning Grants program and the Gen-4 ERC program. In addition, Chen was a representative from the Engineering Directorate serving on the NSF-wide Working Groups for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and NSF Research Traineeship (NRT).
Prior to joining NSF in May 2017, he was a regent scholar of the University of Wisconsin System, a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and an Excellence in Engineering Faculty Fellow in Nanotechnology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He served as the director of NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Water Equipment & Policy (WEP) for six years. He founded NanoAffix Science LLC to commercialize real-time water sensors based on 2D nanomaterials.
Chen received his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Minnesota in 2002 and was a postdoctoral scholar in chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2003. Chen is an elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a recipient of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) Medal. His start-up company, NanoAffix, is a recipient of the 2016 Wisconsin Innovation Award.
Job Titles:
- Senior Publishing Executive and Author, Cofounder - Little Bridges
Kate Jerome's extraordinary career seamlessly blends corporate leadership with creative prowess. An accomplished publishing executive, award-winning children's book author, and intergenerational product expert, Kate's influence on younger generations spans decades, leaving an indelible mark on countless young minds.
Kate began her career as a high school biology teacher but quickly discovered the world of educational publishing. Starting as an entry-level editor at ScottForesman publishing in Chicago, her innovative product vision and strong leadership skills propelled her through every editorial chair and, within 13 short years, she was named President of the company-simultaneously serving as a Senior VP on HarperCollins Executive Board in New York.
As a staunch advocate of STEM, Kate eventually left the corporate environment to collaborate with National Geographic in developing an award-winning educational science series for kids. With a portfolio that now boasts over 200 fiction and nonfiction books, her contributions to children's literature are vast and varied. One of her notable works includes Who Was Amelia Earhart?, a part of the esteemed New York Times best-selling Who Was series. Her most recent series on ocean conservation for middle school students, OceanX Adventures, is being done in collaboration with the Dalio Foundation's nonprofit internationally renowned OceanX initiative.
In 2015 Kate was offered an inaugural Fellowship in Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. This experience re-energized her mission to translate cutting-edge intergenerational research into tangible products, leading to the birth of Little Bridges. As Cofounder and lead innovator, Kate creates engaging family activities and products to inspire meaningful dialogues and cherished moments between children and their favorite adults.
Kate's commitment to continuing education and mentorship is demonstrated by her roles in many esteemed organizations. She is an active Director Emerita for the South Carolina Aquarium and serves as a National Advisor to Reading Partners, a program dedicated to helping children master essential reading skills. She has been a mentor for Stanford's Knight-Hennessy program and is currently an Ambassador for the Stanford Center on Longevity's New Map of Life program. She is also a Social Innovation Coach for the international Dalai Lama Fellows, dedicated to fostering global change-makers.
Job Titles:
- Principal & Founder, IAS Advising LLC
"The University of Chicago's commitment to the rigorous pursuit of knowledge, and its emphasis on turning that knowledge into impact makes it the perfect place to support distinguished leaders thinking about how to drive societal change as part of their next act. As members of the UChicago community, LSI Fellows will find new ways to think about themselves, the world, and their place in it. A year with LSI is an investment in oneself and one's ability to favorably impact the world around them."
Kate Coleman has thirty years of experience as a senior executive in the private and social sectors. Her current research, advising and speaking focuses on social sector impact, scaling, cross sector collaboration and workforce development. She directs IAS Advising LLC, a strategic consultancy for social ventures. She is co-author of two recently published books, Growing Fairly; How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development and Collaborative Cities: Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems.
Prior to founding her advisory practice, Kate was an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University and before that served as Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Advancement Officer for YMCA of the USA (Y-USA), a multibillion-dollar social enterprise. Before joining Y-USA, Kate was Executive Vice President, Financial Development, Marketing and Communications at the YMCA of Metro Chicago.
Kate specializes in the application of data and technology to issues of social importance which is reflected in her books and professional activities. Kate spent the first half of her career in the private sector transitioning to the social sector when she and her colleagues sold the fintech company they led. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of NeverTechLate, a start-up addressing the adverse effects of social isolation among the elderly and advises a diverse group of organizations exploring innovative cross sector approaches to social and workforce challenges including scaling impact across formal and informal networks.
Job Titles:
- President
- Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- President of the University of Chicago Medicine Health System and Dean of the Biological Sciences Division
President, UChicago Medicine health system, Executive Vice President of the University for Biology and Medicine, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
A prominent diabetes researcher, physician and educator, Dr. Polonsky serves as President of the University of Chicago Medicine health system and Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. He also serves as Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs for the University of Chicago, overseeing its research and education programs. He reports directly to the University president.
Born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dr. Polonsky graduated cum laude in 1973 from the University of Witwatersrand Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, then came to the University of Chicago in 1978 for a fellowship in endocrinology. He joined the University's faculty in 1981, was promoted to professor in 1990 and became the Louis Block Professor of Medicine in 1995. He also has served as chief of endocrinology and as director of the University's Diabetes Research and Training Center. In 1999, Dr. Polonsky moved to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was appointed the Adolphus Busch Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University and physician-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital before his return to the University of Chicago Medicine.
As a scientist, Dr. Polonsky studies factors that influence the health and function of pancreatic beta cells, which produce and secrete insulin. Defects in insulin production and action are hallmarks of noninsulin dependent (type 2) diabetes. Dr. Polonsky was part of a team at the University of Chicago in the 1980s that developed and tested ways to measure insulin-secretion rates.
His more recent studies have focused on novel, sensitive and accurate methods of evaluating beta-cell function in people with mild diabetes or who have not yet developed diabetes, and on forms of diabetes that result from genetic causes. He currently is studying genes that increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and is evaluating drugs that stimulate insulin secretion - a project that he began with colleagues at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Polonsky is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He has won multiple awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the American Federation of Clinical Research in 1993, the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of the American Diabetes Association in 1994 and a highly selective National Institutes of Health MERIT Award in 1997. In 2007, he was named director of the five-year, $50-million NIH-funded Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences at Washington University. In 2009 he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
He has published more than 250 papers, has served on the editorial boards of several journals and on national and regional committees of a number of organizations including the American Diabetes Association and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He was a member of the board of directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Keystone Capital
Kent Dauten is Chairman of Keystone Capital, a private equity investment firm and entrepreneurial holding company which he co-founded in 1994. Keystone is an operationally focused acquirer and longer term holder of a diverse portfolio of manufacturing and service businesses. Kent served as President and CEO of the firm's first portfolio company and built it into the nation's leading medical records management company through a series of a dozen acquisitions. He then successfully merged this business into Iron Mountain Incorporated, served for a transition period as the President of their Health Care Division and continues today as a director of this NYSE public company.
Kent started his career in 1979 at First Chicago Venture Capital where he was responsible for finding, evaluating, closing and monitoring management buyout and growth investments across various industries. He also initiated and developed a health care services industry specialization including serving on the board for over 30 years of his very first investment, hospital operator Health Management Associates, overseeing its growth to over $6 billion in revenues. Kent later helped lead the spinoff of First Chicago Venture Capital's entire organization to co-found Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the Midwest's largest private equity firms.
Kent serves on the boards of trustees of numerous civic and philanthropic organizations, including at Northwestern Medicine where he is a past chairman of Northwestern Memorial Foundation, and the Museum of Science and Industry where he is currently board chair. He is also active in the field of education on the board of the Big Shoulders Fund and was previously elected as a member and President of his local School District #29 board. He serves at Harvard Business School on the Board of Dean's Advisors and previously was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence there mentoring students. At Dartmouth College he and his wife serve on the President's Leadership Council and have served as Co-Chairs of the Dartmouth College Fund annual unrestricted giving effort, for which they received the Mandel Society award for visionary leadership.
For over sixteen years Kent was a volunteer with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, including serving for a term as its board chair, and received this agency's Amicus Certus "True Friend" award in 2012. He has served as president of his local church council, and currently is on the Presiding Bishop's Advisory Council for the national Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Born and raised in Champaign, IL, Kent received an A.B. degree in economics, summa cum laude and Phi Betta Kappa, from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A from Harvard University. He and his wife live in north suburban Chicago and are very proud of their four children.
Job Titles:
- Financial Executive
- Corporate Board Member, PIMCO Funds & State Auto Financial Corporation
Kym Hubbard is an experienced financial executive with a track record for success in the financial services industry and executive leadership. Her career includes portfolio management, strategic planning, corporate governance, risk management, structuring and negotiating financial transactions, creating and implementing ESG policies, and P&L responsibility. She has extensive experience in numerous industries, and diverse work experience: auditor at a major accounting firm, sale side and buy side investment/port-folio management experience, impact investing, treasury management, global investment management, and public company Board Audit Committee experience. Her experience does qualify her as a Qualified Financial Expert.
Kym was elected to the Boards of State Auto Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:STFC) ( 2016), the PIMCO Funds (2017), and the PIMCO Equity Funds (2019). At STFC, Kym is Chair of the Investment Committee, and serves on the Audit, Compensation, and Independent Committees. At PIMCO, Kym Co-chairs the Valuation Oversight Committee, and serves on the Audit, Nominating & Governance, and Investment Committees.
Prior to joining the Boards, Kym was the Global Head of Investments for Ernst & Young, Global (EYG). Kym worked with affiliates in the UK, Cana-da, and Latin American Countries on global risk management, corporate governance, and capital and debt restructuring. As Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer, of (EY), Kym managed more than $15B dollars in active defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans for over 67,000 US employees. As Treasurer, she was responsible for the firms' corporate governance, risk management, credit and debt management, capital structure, cyber security initiatives, and regulatory oversight.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the University of Palermo
- Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Laura Gagliardi is the Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry, with joint appointments in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the James Franck Institute. She also directs the Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry.
Prof. Gagliardi became an assistant professor at the University of Palermo in 2002. In 2005, she became associate professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She joined the University of Minnesota as a professor of chemistry in 2009, was appointed as Distinguished McKnight University Professor in 2014, and was awarded a McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in 2018. She has also been serving as the director of the DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center called Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center since 2014.
Gagliardi has received the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, the Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, among others. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is a member of Academia Europaea, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, which is the leading theoretical chemistry journal in the world.
Job Titles:
- Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science
Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book is Democracies and International Law (2021), and his prior books include How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018), written with Aziz Z. Huq, which won the best book award from the International Society of Constitutional Law; Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009), which also won a best book prize from APSA; and Judicial Reputation (2015). He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789. Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Millie Rey guides students through the process of conceiving of and executing their academic and professional projects through the medium of writing instruction and by collaborating with other instructional partners at the University. She designs and implements instruction that aims to remove obstacles that adult learners face, helps them develop critical thinking skills and leads them to gain a better understanding of what they aim to achieve.
Millie is committed to using writing instruction to empower others to confidently pursue their mission. She created a non-profit organization that supported teachers in becoming leaders and better instructors by coaching them on reflective practice. As a consultant, she supports various organizations in helping their professionals and students think more critically and write more incisively. Millie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with a minor in French from Bates College, and a master's degree in TESOL/applied linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is currently ABD in sociology at The University of Chicago.
Millie loves dancing (tango anyone?), sports, biking, cooking, eating (!), travel, the theater, music, movies, games… and enjoying all of these with loved ones.
Job Titles:
- LSI Founding Instructor & Executive Coach
For over 20 years, Nicole Johnson-Scales has worked to climb the ladder in Corporate America. Throughout these years, she found the best way to thrive as an executive was to be ambitious in the climb and develop professional joy along the way. This is why she created NJS Consulting Group; to help executives find courage, confidence, and a powerful strategy to lead with impact.
When working with executives, Johnson-Scales helps them get out of their own way, develop a strategy to get to their next level of success, and find more purpose in their careers. Outside of her one-on-one work with executive leaders, she facilitates team leadership workshops to help the team show up as more impactful leaders and deliver positive change to their organizations. She also offers consulting services to businesses to mitigate risk, supports growth initiatives, and creates positive transformation with their leadership teams.
Johnson-Scales holds an MBA from Olivet Nazarene University and is a certified coach through an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited program. She is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University, Chicago, and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, where she teaches courses on Values-Based Leadership, Leading Organizational Change, and Corporate Social Responsibility. She is a Founding Guide at Chief (Chicago), the social network dedicated to women's leadership.
When Johnson-Scales is not serving her clients, you can find her watching a movie with her husband, shopping with her daughter, or laughing on the phone with her son, who lives out of state. She loves to travel and spend time with friends and family.
Professor Dube's research focuses on the political economy of development. Her work examines links between poverty and conflict, and how institutions affect health service delivery and the spread of epidemics. In recent work, she has examined how community involvement affected response to the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.
Job Titles:
- Chairman and CEO of Phelps Prescott Group
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Phelps Prescott Group LLC
Paula A Sneed is the chairperson and CEO of Phelps Prescott Group LLC (PPG), a strategy and management consultancy she cofounded in 2007. PPG couples strategic, operational, and organizational consulting with hands-on implementation support to help high performing not-for-profit organizations refocus, remove barriers and accelerate their success.
Paula spent almost 30 years at General Foods and Kraft Foods, in a variety of marketing, general management and senior executive roles. For half of her career, she was a member of the companies' senior executive teams. As the chief marketing officer, executive vice president and president of two operating divisions, executive vice president of the eCommerce Division, and executive vice president, Global Marketing Resources and Initiatives, Paula led teams that grew the companies' iconic brands.
She is a director of the Charles Schwab Corporation, TE Connectivity Ltd., and Berry Global Inc. She is the chair of the board of Family Independence Initiative, and a member of the boards of the New Schools Venture Fund, The Surge Institute, and Turnaround for Children. She was a founding partner of Social Venture Partners-Chicago and was a charter member of its board. She is a former director of Hercules Inc., Airgas Inc., Communispace Inc., Teach for America national and Chicago regional boards, Right To Play, and the American Marketing Association. She is also a former trustee of Simmons College, Chicago Children's Museum and Illinois Institute of Technology, and a former member of the Harvard Business School Visiting Committee.
Paula's commitment to civil rights, political activism, community and nonprofit service was nurtured by her parents and fueled by exposure to national and local civil rights leaders and social activists during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. An activist in college, Paula spent her first 6 years after graduating working in addiction, health care and social service programs in Boston. A lifelong volunteer, mentor, advisor and coach to students and young adults, Paula's nonprofit board service spans almost 50 years.
Paula earned a BA from Simmons College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She received an honorary doctorate degree in business administration from Johnson and Wales University. She has been recognized for her leadership and accomplishments by Fortune, Black Enterprise, Working Mother and Ebony Magazines and by numerous business and civic organizations.
Paula has been married for over 40 years to Lawrence P. Bass, an electrical engineer and retired entrepreneur, who after retirement, taught physics and engineering in inner city Chicago Public High Schools for six years. They have an adult daughter who lives in Oakland, CA.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Global Conflict Studies
Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies.
Job Titles:
- Social Entrepreneur and Investor
- Strategic Advisor, Unite Us
Rachel Kohler is a social entrepreneur and investor. Most recently, Rachel was the co-owner and CEO of NowPow, a social care technology platform start up that connected people to vital community resources. NowPow successfully exited with a sale to Unite Us in late 2021.
Rachel brings over 30 years of business experience spanning investment banking, management consulting and general management. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She is on the board of Kohler Co. and Kohler Foundation. She is a trustee at the University of Chicago, the University of Chicago Medical Center, and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She serves on the board of MAPSCorps, a community asset mapping organization that provides youth meaningful paid employment and professional development while exposing them to data collection, data analytics and data dissemination.
Job Titles:
- Chief Inclusion Experience Officer, Publicis Groupe
Renetta McCann has been recognized as one of the leading innovators and most influential executives in the advertising, marketing and media industries, with a global reputation for not only building brands, but also the organizations and leadership to sustain them.
As Chief Inclusion Experience Officer for Publicis Groupe, she works to drive inclusion at all levels of the organization, with an emphasis on ensuring that the company's clients are benefiting from the many strategic advantages that diverse teams deliver.
Renetta is no stranger to the Publicis family. She began her career at Leo Burnett, and, after a long tenure, she became the CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group Worldwide. Under her leadership, client billings exceeded $26 billion and the global workforce rose to over 6,000 people. Most recently, she served as the Chief Talent Officer for Leo Burnett USA as well as Publicis Communications North America.
Along the way, Renetta has been an active volunteer and contributor to various industry and civic organizations. Currently she serves on the Executive Committee of the Chicago Community Trust, the Marketing Committee of the Robert and Ann Lurie Children's Hospital and the Legacy Giving Committee of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
She is a frequent name in the press. In 2002, she was named "Corporate Executive of the Year" by Black Enterprise magazine and was selected Ad Woman of the Year by the Chicago Advertising Federation. Essence named her one of "50 Women Who are Changing the World" and she received a Matrix Award in 2006 from New York Women in Communications. She has appeared on the pages of Advertising Age, Business Week and Chicago magazine. In 2014 the American Advertising Federation honored her with a Diversity Achievement Award for her contributions as an Industry Influential and she received The Pantheon Award from the 4A's MAIP program. Recently, she was featured on Adweek's list of "11 Inspiring Women Who Have Broken Down Advertising's Most Persistent Barriers." On September 10, 2020, Renetta was honored with an ADCOLOR lifetime Achievement Award and the Sheldon J. Levy Leadership Award. In October 2020, Renetta received the Chicago Advertising Federation's Silver Medal Award.
After nearly 30 years of communications management and leadership, she went back to the books, earning an M.S. in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. She worked as an executive coach and organizational change consultant before rejoining Burnett in the fall of 2012. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer in the MSLOC program, teaching a course on organizational design. Renetta has also served as a Corporate Director of Tribune Publishing (now named Tronc).
She lives in Chicago with her husband Kevin and children, Ella and Alexander.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Tobaccowala Foundation
- Senior Advisor, Publicis Group
Rishad Tobaccowala is an author, speaker, teacher, and advisor with four decades of experience specializing in helping people, organizations and teams re-invent themselves to remain relevant in changing times. His best-selling book "Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data" was published globally by HarperCollins and focuses on helping people think, feel, and see differently about how to grow their companies, their teams and themselves in transformative times.
Rishad spent nearly four decades at Publicis Groupe, an 80,000-employee firm comprising companies like Epsilon, Sapient, Digitas, Leo Burnett, Saatchi and Saatchi, Starcom and Zenith dedicated to delivering marketing and business transformation. Before Rishad stopped being a full-time employee with Publicis Groupe (where he remains active as a Senior Advisor) he was Publicis Groupe's Global Chief Strategist and Growth Officer and served on its Management Committee.
Rishad has also been the Chairman of Digitas and Razorfish, two of the largest marketing transformation agencies in the world with over 11000 employees.
Over his 40-year career Tobaccowala has worked across almost every area of marketing and strategy including brand advertising, media, database, direct and interactive marketing. As a pioneer in digital marketing, Tobaccowala helped create one of the first interactive groups and digital agencies 25 years ago and has helped launch a series of initiatives over the years from groups focused on gaming, social, mobile and search engine marketing. Starcom IP, Play, Giant Step, SMG Search and Denuo are some of the brands Tobaccowala helped incubate.
Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five "Marketing Innovators. He is the Ad Age Interactive Hall of Fame and has received a lifetime achievement silver medal award from the Chicago Ad Federation, an Inspire Award for motivating and building talent from the Advertising Education Foundation and the Association of National Advertisers and was named an Advertising Legend by the Advertising Club of New York.
Rishad is also chairman of The Tobaccowala Foundation, which helps over 10,000 people gain better access to health and education in India.
Tobaccowala holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Bombay and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago with which he remains closely involved.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor to the Arabella Advisors
- Senior Advisor, Arabella Advisors
Sampriti Ganguli serves as a Senior Advisor to the Arabella Advisors team and previously served as the firm's chief executive officer. In that role, Sampriti oversaw all aspects of Arabella's performance for more than seven years, including revenue, operations, strategic growth, marketing, and client services. Based on her extensive experience, Sampriti continues to proved guidance that helps Arabella deliver on its mission-to help changemakers achieve their impact goals more efficiently, effectively, and equitably.
Sampriti joined Arabella after 14 years at Corporate Executive Board (CEB). As executive director of CEB's legal, risk, and compliance practice, she focused on operations, strategy, marketing, and new business development, and managed the firm's subscription-based research programs for internal auditors, general counsel, chief risk officers, and chief compliance officers. She also spent three years as managing director of CEB's government practice and, before that, eight years as managing director of the company's finance practice. She has authored more than 25 major papers on topics ranging from risk and talent management to collaboration, benchmarking, and technology adoption.
Earlier in her career, Sampriti worked at JPMorgan Chase's Emerging Markets Research division in Singapore and as a consultant for the World Bank's East Asia Environment and Social Development Unit. She also sits on the board of InsideNGO, an association dedicated to strengthening operations and leadership capabilities of international non-governmental organizations.
Sampriti is the recipient of the Corporate Trailblazer Award from the National Black MBA Association in recognition of her focus on increasing diversity in the workplace, and she received a 2016 Brava Award from SmartCEO magazine for her focus on women and leadership in the charitable sector.
Sampriti received a BA with distinction in economics and political science from Swarthmore College. She was awarded a full-tuition Freeman Fellowship to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she earned an MA with distinction in international affairs. She then received her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
A mother of two, Sampriti speaks five languages and enjoys Latin dancing, Zumba, historical fiction, and Asian cooking.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for Engagement for the University of Chicago Leadership
- Assistant Director for Engagement, Leadership & Society Initiative
Sarah Wilson is the Assistant Director for Engagement for the University of Chicago Leadership and Society Initiative. In this role, Sarah supports LSI fellows in their selection of courses and through building connections with faculty, centers, and students across campus to maximize their fellowship experience and to support their unique learning goals. You can contact Sarah at swilson11@uchicago.edu.
Sarah is passionate about supporting lifelong learners in their pursuit of knowledge and humanistic inquiry. Prior to joining LSI, Sarah managed the Adult Education program at the Newberry Library, where she administered hundreds of seminars in the arts and humanities for adult learners. Sarah also supported adult education initiatives through the Odyssey Project at Illinois Humanities and the Detroit Mercy Education Project. Sarah holds a PhD in Medieval English Literature from Northwestern University, where she taught literature and composition classes. She is excited about bringing her academic background and facility with research projects to bear in supporting the educational goals of LSI fellows. She also holds a BA in English and Philosophy from the University of North Texas.
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys reading, spending time outdoors, and ambitious baking projects.
Job Titles:
- Dean, Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies
Seth Green was appointed Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies on July 1, 2021.
Before joining Graham, Green served as Founding Director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago. During his tenure, the Center launched a top-ranked specialty MBA program, a globally significant award for social innovation in business, and an array of educational programs that annually engage more than 4,000 learners. Green also served as an Executive Lecturer in Loyola's Quinlan School of Business, teaching classes on social entrepreneurship and receiving recognition as the Mission-Driven Faculty Member of the Year in 2021.
Prior to Loyola, Green led Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), a nonprofit organization that prepares low-income youth for post-secondary and life success. At Y.O.U., Green oversaw the fourfold expansion of programs and a $16.4 million fundraising campaign to build a state-of-the-art youth center. He also spearheaded two strategic planning processes, resulting in an enhanced program model and deepened impact. Alongside Y.O.U., Green taught courses on nonprofit management as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University.
Earlier in his career, Green worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, guiding private sector clients through strategy development and change management. A recipient of McKinsey's Community Fellowship, he spent one year of his time at the firm supporting nonprofit clients, including the Gates Foundation and United Way.
Green speaks and writes on social innovation. His commentaries and research have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Magazine, the Journal of Business Research, and the Social Innovations Journal, and he serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Business and Society Review. Green has been a featured guest on Slate Podcasts, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, MSNBC, and CNN, and his efforts have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2008, Utne Reader named him one of 50 "Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."
Green is civically engaged in Chicago, serving on the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Metro Chicago, the Impact Investing Advisory Council of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, the Advisory Board of Concordia Place, the Reception Committee of the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Advisory Board of the Executives' Club of Chicago.
A Marshall Scholar, Green holds a J.D. from Yale University, a master's in women's studies from Oxford University, a master's in development studies from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor's degree in politics from Princeton University.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for Curriculum, Leadership & Society Initiative / Shannon
Morrissey (she/her) is the Assistant Director for Curriculum for the University of Chicago Leadership and Society Initiative. In this role, Shannon supports LSI by overseeing curriculum development and the experiential learning components that help fellows apply their skills and contribute to positive social change. You can contact Shannon at smorrissey@uchicago.edu.
Shannon has always had a passion for work that bridges the gap between theory and praxis. Prior to joining LSI, Shannon worked with the Chicago Studies program, helping students apply their classroom learning to think critically about issues facing the City of Chicago. She also served as a program director for a national service-learning nonprofit and worked as a strategy and research consultant for mission-driven organizations. Shannon holds a BA in Sociology from Whitman College and an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago where she has also done advanced graduate work in Sociology.
Shannon is a proud Minnesotan who likes to spend her free time playing board games with family and friends, baking sweet treats, and swimming at Promontory Point.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Co - Chairman of Corporate Leadership Center
- Member of Its Community of Corporate Chairmen
- President of S.a. Penrose Advisors
- President, S.a. Penrose Advisors, LLC
Sheila Penrose is President of S.A. Penrose Advisors, and a trusted advisor to CEOs and C-Suite executives sharing extensive experience in board dynamics, stakeholder management, CEO succession, talent and team-building, strategic M&A, capital allocation and sustainability. She acts as Executive Advisor to BCG's CEO Advisory Practice.
Sheila served as Chairman of JLL Inc., and as Direct of McDonald's Corp chairing the Sustainability Committee. She has served as an independent director for global companies in the speciality chemic, secure identity, financial systems, restaurant, and real estate services industries.
Sheila is a recipient of the Chicago Business Hall of Fame, and Women on Boards awards, among others; she was a finalist for NYSE's Chairman of the Year.
Job Titles:
- Mayor of Westfield, New Jersey
Shelley Brindle is the Mayor of Westfield, NJ, elected in November 2017 as the first female Mayor in Westfield's history.
Prior to being elected, Shelley had served as HBO's Executive Vice President, Domestic Network Distribution and Marketing where she was responsible for the revenue, marketing, and distribution strategy of HBO's $4.4 billion domestic subscription business. Having successfully led HBO's digital transformation, Shelley retired in March of 2016 to pursue public service. She aspired to use her experience as the first woman in HBO's C-suite to serve as a mentor to emerging female leaders and entrepreneurs, as well as apply her leadership and operating skills to serve as Mayor of her hometown.
In addition to serving as Mayor, Shelley serves on the Board of Philo, a streaming TV tech company in San Francisco, serves as a Global Ambassador for Vital Voices, is a founding member of Plum Alley Investments, is an active member of several women's leadership organizations, and has been a regular participant at Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women Summit.
Shelley holds a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Rhetoric and Communications Studies/History from the University of Virginia. She lives in Westfield, New Jersey with her husband Kip, their three children Grace (21), a senior a Carleton College; Nora (18) a sophomore at The Ohio State University; and Nick, (15) a 10th grader at Westfield High School, as well as their two dogs and any number of foster dogs waiting for a good home.
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- Senior Partner Emeritus & Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Mr. Sanghvi recently retired as Senior Partner in the Chicago Office of McKinsey & Company and is now a Senior Advisor to the Firm. At various times during his career, he led McKinsey's Global Agriculture Practice, its Economic Development Practice, and its Chicago location.
Mr. Sanghvi first joined McKinsey in 1986, served for a year at the World Bank in 1991-92, and then rejoined McKinsey. During his career, he split his time between working with private sector clients on growth and performance improvement, poor country governments on end to end ag transformation, and donors on their ag development strategies. Mr. Sanghvi's current McKinsey activities continue to focus on food security and ag/food sustainability as well as helping serve a few legacy clients on a broader set of issues.
Mr. Sanghvi is, or has been, the lead advisor for the World Economic Forum's New Vision for Agriculture, a Board member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a member of the NY Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Advisory Committee for USAID, an Advisory Board member for Paine Schwartz Partners, a Board member for the Indo American Center of Chicago, and a Steering Committee member for the African Agricultural Transformation Initiative.
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- Senior Advisor, Publicis Group
Susan Gianinno was named Chairman, Publicis North America in 2013 and in April 2018 was appointed Senior Advisor to Publicis Groupe. Among her other Publicis' responsibilities, Susan leads Publicis Groupe's Partnership with the World Economic Forum as a member of the WEF Steering Committee on Shaping the Future of Education, Work and Gender Equality. Susan has also served as Chairman of Publicis Academy. As Chairman and CEO of Publicis USA from 2003-2018, Susan led Publicis' consistent growth and expansion in this important region, making it one of the most highly respected, top tier creative and digital agencies in North America.
Prior to joining Publicis Groupe, Susan was Chairman and President of D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles Worldwide, which she joined after being CEO of J.Walter Thompson in New York. Susan joined JWT from BBDO, where she was an EVP in charge of Global Clients. She spent 12 years at Young & Rubicam, where she was EVP, Global Client Managing Director. As a pioneer, Susan was the first woman to serve on the Boards of Directors at all four companies. Susan has served on several Boards, both Corporate and not-for profit. She is on the Board of RR Donnelley and Chairs their Corporate Governance Committee. She is a former Board member of A.T. Cross. She is currently Chair Emeritus of the Ad Council, where she has been a Board member since 2003. Susan has also served on the Board of The Paley Center for Media. Susan served on the Board of the 4A's for over 10 years. Other not-for profit Boards include Chair of Encore.Org (mobilizing midlife talents to solve intractable social problems) and WorldTeach (providing volunteer teachers to meet global education needs), and, for 10 years, United Way of New York including serving on the Executive Committee.
Susan's Higher Education Directorships includes being on the Director's Advisory Council for Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Initiative, a Board Trustee and Trustee Associate at Boston College (where she co-founded BC Connections, a pioneering Mentoring program for women undergraduates and Co-Founded the Council on Women at Boston College). Susan is also on the Advisory Council for the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Susan started in advertising while working on a Ph.D. in Comparative Psychology from the University of Chicago. She received a Masters Degree in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago, a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from Northwestern University and a Bachelor's Degree with Honors from Boston College.
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- Academic Advisor
- Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Division of the Social Sciences
Dr. Stokes is the Faculty Chair of the Chicago Center on Democracy, where she guides the strategy and direction of the center. She is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research interests include democratic theory and how democracy functions in developing societies; distributive politics; and comparative political behavior. Dr. Stokes' articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review. She teaches courses on political development, political parties and democracy, comparative political behavior, and distributive politics. See Dr. Stokes' CV.
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- Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science
Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book is Democracies and International Law (2021), and his prior books include How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018), written with Aziz Z. Huq, which won the best book award from the International Society of Constitutional Law; Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009), which also won a best book prize from APSA; and Judicial Reputation (2015). He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789. Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology