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Susan Raymond, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President
New York, NY
Susan Raymond, PhD is Executive Vice President of Research, Evaluation, and Strategic Planning for Changing Our World. She has extensive experience in research, analysis and planning, most recently with the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences. At the Academy, she created the first technology and public policy program, and then became Director of Strategic Planning and Special Projects. Prior to this, Susan was a project officer at the World Bank and a senior consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and to various private organizations including the Carnegie Corporation, specializing in healthcare and international economic research. She has led the formation of private foundations in Poland, Croatia, and Hungary and written business plans for foundations in India and Thailand. Under her leadership and during the political transition, Friends of Litewska Hospital became one of the first and most successful private philanthropies in Warsaw, Poland.
In September 2005 in Washington, D.C., Susan was sworn in as the Foreign Policy and Research Advisor to the bipartisan Congressional Commission studying the effectiveness of public and private foreign assistance, the Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People Commission. Susan is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Prosperity in Washington, D.C., and an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University.
Susan serves as Chief Analyst for onPhilanthropy.com, Changing Our World's media division and a global resource for nonprofit professionals. She has published a series of briefing papers on philanthropy relative to the arts, education, the environment and other fields. Her original research paper, Nonprofit Hospitals in America: Lives, Jobs and Philanthropy, is available at onPhilanthropy.com
Her most recent book on philanthropy is Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth, published by Wiley and Sons in April of 2007. She is also the author of The Future of Philanthropy: Economics, Ethics, and Management, published by Wiley and Sons in March 2004. She has published extensively in the areas of philanthropy, economics, health care and corporate responsibility in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Development, Economic Reform Today, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Journal of Healthcare Administration Education, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Susan is also a Project Team member of the Macroeconomics of Cardiovascular Disease project of the Center for Macroeconomics and Health of the Earth Institute at Columbia University under Jeffrey Sachs. She is co-author of the recently released A Race Against Time: The Challenge of Cardiovascular Disease in Developing Economies. The report was covered in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine Asia, New England Journal of Medicine, and British Medical Journal.
She is a regular conference speaker on the future role of philanthropy in economic growth and civil society, including at the Mostar, Bosnia "Mostar 2004" conference and the World Conference of Cardiology in September 2006.
Susan earned her BA Phi Beta Kappa from Macalester College and her MA and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Her substantive focus was in the field of health and medical economics and in international public health. She has worked on philanthropy and economic development projects throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia and Asia.
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