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Paul Firstenburg
Mr. Firstenberg has extensive experience in all aspects of philanthropic enterprise as an executive, trustee, advisor, author and teacher. He served as Chancellor of Tulane University, CFO of Princeton University, COO and Trustee of Children’s Television Workshop (Sesame Street), an Officer of the Ford Foundation, Executive Director of the American wing of a global nonprofit organization dedicated to education and as a consultant to businesses, nonprofits and the Russian Government, where he lived for a year seeking to start a private real estate market.
Mr. Firstenberg has senior level business experience as Executive Vice President of the Prudential Real Estate Investment Company, director of international finance for the Atlantic Richfield Oil. Company and as a member of the board of directors of public companies, the Vanguard Group of Mutual Funds and Sizeler Properties Inc., a REIT. He also served in the federal government for five years in the USAID program financing private development in the Middle East and Asia.
Mr. Firstenberg taught governance and the management of nonprofits at Yale School of Management and is author of a series of nonprofit management books and articles on finance, management and board governance including Managing for Profit in the Nonprofit World, The 21st Century Nonprofit and Philanthropy’s Challenge (all published by the Foundation Center). He is co-author, with Professor Burton G. Malkiel of The Twenty First Century Board Room, of Who Will Be in Charge? (Sloan School Management Review).
Mr. Firstenberg received his law degree from the Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.