Susan Raymond, PhD is Senior Managing Director of Research, Evaluation, and Strategic Planning for Changing Our World. She has extensive experience in research, analysis and planning, most recently with the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences. At the Academy, she created the first technology and public policy program, and then became Director of Strategic Planning and Special Projects. Prior to this, Susan was a project officer at the World Bank and a senior consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and to various private organizations including the Carnegie Corporation, specializing in healthcare and international economic research. She has led the formation of private foundations in Poland, Croatia, and Hungary and written business plans for foundations in India and Thailand. Under her leadership and during the political transition, Friends of Litewska Hospital became one of the first and most successful private philanthropies in Warsaw, Poland. In September 2005 in Washington, D.C., Susan was sworn in as the Foreign Policy and Research Advisor to the bipartisan Congressional Commission studying the effectiveness of public and private foreign assistance, the Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People Commission. Susan is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Prosperity in Washington, D.C., and an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University. Susan serves as Chief Analyst for onPhilanthropy.com, Changing Our World's media division and a global resource for nonprofit professionals. She has published a series of briefing papers on philanthropy relative to the arts, education, the environment and other fields. |