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Richard Steele
Adjunct
Associate
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Biography:
Richard Steele is Head of Bridgespan's New York office. His consulting engagements with U.S. nonprofits include strategy development for a series of DC-based advocacy groups, including the Atlantic Council, The United Nations Foundation, Council on Foundations and the National Senior Citizens Law Center, and a wide range of philanthropies including Omidyar Network, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Peter G. Peterson Foundation. In the field of education he has worked with Sesame Workshop, Achieve, Inc., Communities in Schools, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation for Education funded initiative, Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count. In the U.K. he has worked with an internationally-recognized group of museums, helping to create an innovative public-private partnership. He also led Marakon's relationship with Business in the Community.
He joined Bridgespan from Marakon Associates, where he was a partner in their London and New York offices and worked in the media, retail, fast-moving consumer goods, and banking sectors, with engagement in 14 countries including Brazil, Mexico, and India. Most of this work related to strategy development, profitable growth, and organizational change.
He has co-authored articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and Harvard Management Update. His work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Times of India.
He is passionate about foreign policy issues and is one of only two foreign nationals on the board of The Atlantic Council of the United States, the think tank chaired by former Senator Chuck Hagel.
Educated in the U.K. and France, he has a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.
He lives in New York with his wife, a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University and two children, Evie and Felix.