JEFFREY C. WALKER

Jeff is Chairman of the Contemplative Science Center at the University of Virginia; Board member - Giving Tuesday; Center for Consciousness and Action; Leadership Now Project (focused on Democracy); Ex-Chairman and current board member, New Profit; board member Aurelia Institute for Space Development; Ex-Vice Chairman, United Nations Envoy’s Office for Health Finance and Malaria. Served on the Boards of the University of Virginia, Berklee College of Music, the Grammys Music Education Coalition, the UVA Undergraduate Business School, Lincoln Center Film Society, Morgan Library, the African Pilanthropy Forum, Aspen Management Partnership for Health and Just Capital. Was Co-Chairman of The Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, Chair of The Council of Foundations at UVA, served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors and Visiting Committee at the Harvard Business School, at the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard School of Public Health, MIT Media Lab, the END Fund and others. Has been on numerous for-profit boards. Co-founded the Psychedelic Health Equity Initiative and Subtle and Healing Energy Consortium.

Was Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Business School and a Lecturer at the Kennedy School. Served as the Chairman of Millennium Promise an incubator to end extreme poverty, Co-founder and Chairman of NPower and was Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello).  He co-authored the book, The Generosity Network, and teaches and writes about System Change. Awarded the John Whitehead prize for philanthropy by the HBS Club of NYC.

For twenty five years Jeff 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. He also has a CPA and a CMA.  He received the John Whitehead award for philanthropy from the NYC HBS Club.

Jeff co-authored the book, “The Generosity Network”, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about.  He is currently teaching, researching and writing on the issue of orchestrating and coordinating systems change and is co-hosting a podcast, in its third season, called Systems Catalysts.  He is deeply committed to the exploration of mind/body/spirit and collaborating with others.