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Mark L. Bodden
Mr. Bodden is Vice President/Program Director at the Rudin Foundations, where he directs the philanthropic activities of the three family foundations based and operating primarily in New York City. The Rudin family has and continues to assume a major business role in shaping the commercial and residential landscape of New York City.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Bodden was Managing Director of Binder and Binder, a national law firm handling Social Security Disability. He led the corporate giving program at Philip Morris Companies (now Altria) and has over fifteen years of public policy experience, having worked in Washington, D.C. and in Albany, New York. An informal consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations, Mr. Bodden has been a presenter at national and regional grantmaking conferences, including the Council on Foundations and is currently on the Board of New York Regional Association of Grantmakers.
A graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Mr. Bodden completed coursework at the National Law Center at George Washington University. He has also received a certificate from the Public Affairs Institute in Washington, having completed its Three-year program for Public Affairs Executives. He serves on the adjunct faculty at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and has shared his insights on philanthropy in prior appearances at Baruch.