Jeffrey C. Walker
Jeff Walker is Chairman of New Profit, a social change investment fund and is Vice Chair in the WHO/CHAP Venture focused on frontline health. He also currently serves on the boards of the African Philanthropy Forum, Just Capital, UVA Center for Contemplative Sciences (where he is chair), Giving Tuesday, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health, and the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where he was president for 10 years. He is a Partner in Bridge Builders investment fund for Mindful Wellness. Walker was on the board of the University of Virginia, was chairman of The Council of Foundations at University of Virginia (UVA), served on the Berklee College of Music Board and the Harvard Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors, and was on the Visiting Committee and is on the advisory boards of MIT Media Lab and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been on numerous other for-profit and nonprofit boards.
Previously, Walker was Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, focusing on social enterprises and collaboration, and a Lecturer at the Kennedy School. At Harvard, he helped to develop a course in exponential fundraising for nonprofits. He served as the chairman of Millennium Promise, partnering with the United Nations and Columbia University, an incubator to eliminate extreme poverty, and was the chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), where he is as an Emeritus Trustee. Walker co-founded and was chairman of Npower, an organization that provides shared technology services to nonprofits.
Walker co-authored the book The Generosity Network, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about. He also received the John C. Whitehead Award for Social Enterprise from the Harvard Business School Club of New York City. He is currently teaching, researching, and writing on the issue of systems entrepreneurship and systems change.
For 25 years, Walker was CEO and Co-Founder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co’s global private equity, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Virginia, is a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant. He received the John Whitehead award for philanthropy from the NYC HBS Club.