Judith Rodin has blazed many trails. As the first female president of an Ivy League university, she guided the University of Pennsylvania, her alma mater, through a period of unprecedented growth before joining the Rockefeller Foundation in 2005 as its first female president.
How does Rodin keep one of the most venerable foundations in the world — which celebrated its centennial in 2013 — relevant in today’s rapidly changing world? We asked the mother-of-one who Forbes magazine has called one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
The development field is in transition. How is the Rockefeller Foundation adapting?