Darren Walker

Darren Walker in conversation with Sharad Khare of Human Biography with The Philanthropy Workshop on a new paradigm for philanthropy that moves from generosity to justice.

Our team got to interview the kind, articulate, and generous Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. We were invited into the Ford Foundation’s most impressive offices where we were shooting for our partners at The Philanthropy Workshop.

Darren is incredibly accomplished in his leadership and his passion for philanthropy is a touchstone in his work.

We are proud of documenting super humans like Darren. His work is iconic, he is iconic.

Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, an international social justice philanthropy with a $13 billion endowment and $600 million in annual grant making. He chaired the philanthropy committee that brought a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy and is co-founder and chair of the US Impact Investing Alliance.

Before joining Ford, Darren was vice president at the Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing global and domestic programs including the Rebuild New Orleans initiative after Hurricane Katrina. In the 1990s, as COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation—Harlem’s largest community development organization—he oversaw a comprehensive revitalization strategy, including building over 1,000 units of affordable housing and the first major commercial development in Harlem since the 1960s. Earlier, he had a decade-long career in international law and finance at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and UBS.

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