Rockefeller Foundation - Presidents

Presidents

  • Judith Rodin - 2005- ; former president of the University of Pennsylvania, and provost, chair of the Department of Psychology, Yale University.
  • Gordon Conway - 1998-2004; an agricultural ecologist and former President of the Royal Geographical Society.
  • Peter Goldmark, Jr. - 1988-1997; former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  • Richard Lyman - 1980-1988; president of Stanford University (1970–1980).
  • John Knowles - 1972-1979; physician, general director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (1962–1971).
  • J. George Harrar - 1961-1972; plant pathologist, "generally regarded as the father of 'the Green Revolution.'"
  • Dean Rusk - 1952-1961; United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969
  • Chester Barnard - 1948-1952; Bell System executive and author of landmark 1938 book, The Functions of the Executive
  • Raymond Fosdick - 1936-1948; brother of American clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Max Mason - 1929-1936
  • George E. Vincent - 1917-1929; member of the John D. Rockefeller/Frederick T. Gates General Education Board (1914–1929)
  • John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - 1913-1917.

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