Bruce Sievers is a Senior Fellow of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Consulting Director of the Skirball Foundation, Visiting Scholar at the Haas Center for Public Service, and former Director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. Sievers consults with Stanford faculty, students, and staff on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

Lucy Bernholz is a philanthropy wonk trying to understand how we create, fund, and distribute shared social goods in the digital age – what she calls the future of good. She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology, information, and policy on her blog, philanthropy2173.com.

Susan is the Founder and Director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, a UK-based advisory firm on ethics matters internationally. She also founded Imaginer Consulting Limited, a non-profit consulting firm (UK registered charity) advising non-profit organisations internationally on strategy, governance and accountability, ethics, and management/board relations, now the pro bono division of SLAL.

Johanna Mair is Professor of Management, Organization and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance and the Hewlett Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and the Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. From 2001, to 2011 she served on the Strategic Management faculty at IESE Business School.

Christian Seelos is a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, where he co-leads the OCCI research project. He is the Leo Tindemans Chair on Business Model Innovation and faculty at the Department of Economics and Business at KU Leuven (Belgium) and an academic visitor at Oxford University (UK).

Bernd Helmig is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Since 2008 he has been a professor at the University of Mannheim Business School (Germany), where he serves as the director of the Center for Public & Nonprofit Management. Before moving to Mannheim he was professor and director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organizations Management Research at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland, 2001 to 2008) and assistant professor at the University of Freiburg (Germany 1997-2001), where he also earned his PhD.

Nadia Roumani is a Visiting Practitioner with Stanford University’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), and a Lecturer and 2013 Fellow with Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school). Ms. Roumani is interested in how to integrate design thinking with philanthropy, and she has facilitated design workshops for foundations across the country, including the Gates Foundation, Florida Philanthropy Network, Nexus Youth Summit, Council on Foundations, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, among others.

Christine Sherry worked for a decade at the Hewlett Foundation as the founding Executive Director of the Philanthropy Workshop West, a program in partnership with the TOSA and Rockefeller Foundations. She taught a course, Giving Wisely, last fall in the Stanford Continuing Studies program and will teach a similar course starting this September.

Jenny Shilling Stein co-founded the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation in 2002 to identify and support the most talented social entrepreneurs. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation seeks to dramatically improve the lives of people and the world around us through innovative strategies, systems changing approaches, and disrupting technologies.