Raymond C. Offenheiser |
Has served as President of Oxfam America since 1995. Prior to joining Oxfam he worked for the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and South America, for the Inter-American Foundation in both Brazil and Colombia, and for Save the Children Federation in Mexico. He has worked on projects of community-based resource management, credit and enterprise development, human rights and local governance, and international security and cooperation. In his role as Oxfam America president, Mr. Offenheiser is a board member of Oxfam International, the board of Grainpro, Inc., and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Interaction. He is an advisor to several organizations including Harvard University's Asia Center, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Hesburgh Center for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Council on Economic Development and World Learning's Global Partnership, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a frequent commentator in the media on such subjects as foreign aid, globalization, and international debt, as well as the evolving challenges facing the field of humanitarian assistance and transnational NGO movements. |
