MARC LINDENBERG, 1945 - 2002

Marc Lindenberg was Dean and Professor of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington from 1998 to 2002. He divided his career between active public service in international development organizations and teaching and research at Harvard University, the University of Washington, and as Dean of the Harvard-affiliated Central American overseas business school, INCAE. As CARE USA's Senior Vice President for Programs from 1992 to 1997, Lindenberg led global programs in more than 36 countries providing over $400 million in resources for humanitarian relief and development.

He served on the boards of Oxfam America, TVW, the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, the Washington Red Cross, and NPower, and on the fellowship nomination committee for the Ashoka Foundation. He facilitated strategic planning exercises for the Gates Foundation, the U.N. Foundation, the World Bank and many other organizations. He was an adviser to past presidents of Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, and Ecuador.

Published in 2001, Dr. Lindenberg's book, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs , was nominated for the Ludwick Fleck and Rachel Carson Prizes, the ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, and the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize.

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