Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a $13 billion international social justice philanthropy with offices in the US and ten regions around the globe. For two decades, he has been a leader in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Walker led the philanthropy committee that helped bring a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy, and chairs the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and the Presidents’ Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy. He co-chairs New York City’s Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, and serves on The Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the UN International Labour Organization Global Commission on the Future of Work. He also serves on the boards of Carnegie Hall, the High Line, VOW to End Child Marriage, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Educated exclusively in public schools, Walker was a member of the first class of Head Start in 1965 and received his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.