Marc Lindenberg
Marc Lindenberg (1945–2002) was Dean and Professor of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He divided his career between active public service in international development organizations and teaching and research at Harvard University, the University of Washington, and as Dean of the Harvard-affiliated Central American overseas business school, INCAE. As CARE USA’s Senior Vice President for Programs from 1992 to 1997, Lindenberg led global programs in more than 36 countries providing over $400 million in resources for humanitarian relief and development.
He was on the boards of Oxfam America, TVW, the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, the Washington Red Cross, and Npower, and on the fellows nomination committee for the Ashoka Foundation. He has facilitated strategic planning exercises for the Gates Foundation, the U.N. Foundation, the World Bank and many other organizations. He worked as an advisor to past presidents of Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala and Ecuador.
Dr. Lindenberg’s most recent book, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs, has been nominated for the Ludwick Fleck and Rachel Carson Prizes, the ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, and the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize.