Why Resilience

Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, explores how resiliency can empower even the most destitute and vulnerable communities. “When the World Bank was planning to invest $100 million dollars in upgrading the slums in Nairobi, these slum-dweller leaders were represented at the table.”

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ABOUT Judith Rodin

“Judith Rodin is President of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organisations. She was previously President of the University of Pennsylvania, and provost of Yale University.

Since joining the Foundation in 2005, Dr. Rodin has recalibrated its focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century and today the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to strengthen resilience to risks and ensure more equitable growth around the world.

The Foundation accomplishes these goals through initiatives to address climate change in poor communities, strengthen global health systems, catalyse the field of impact investing, mobilize an agricultural revolution in Africa and shape smart, sustainable transportation policies in the United States.

A pioneer and innovator throughout her career, Dr. Rodin was the first woman named to lead an Ivy League Institution and is the first woman to serve as The Rockefeller Foundation’s president in its nearly 100-year history. A research psychologist by training, she was one of the pioneers of the behavioral medicine and health psychology movements.

Last year she was recognised as one of Forbes Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Dr. Rodin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University.”

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