1. Early life

2. Career
    Ford Foundation  Pan American Development Foundation  Other activities 

3. Personal life

4. References

Luis Antonio Ubiñas (born 1963) is an American investor, businessman and nonprofit advisor.^[1] He served as the president of the Ford Foundation from 2008 through 2013. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, he had an 18-year career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.^[2] He is currently on the Board of several public and private corporations, including Electronic Arts, where he is Lead Director and chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Boston Private Bank, where he is chair of the Growth Initiatives Committee, both are Publicly traded. He also serves on the Boards of several private companies, including Shorelight Education and GFR Media. In the nonprofit sector, he is the president of the Board of Trustees of the Pan American Development Foundation, serves as an Advisory Committee member for the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships, is vice chairman of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and serves on the Executive Committee of the New York Public Library. He is also active in the arts as a collector, donor and board member.

Early life

Ubiñas grew up in the South Bronx in New York City. His mother, a native of Puerto Rico, was a seamstress.^[3] His father died when Ubiñas and his four siblings were young.^[4] He is an alumnus of A Better Chance, a non-profit which assists gifted young people of color attend highly-ranked secondary schools.^[5] Ubiñas graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in government. He was a Truman Scholar. In 1989, he graduated from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar with highest honors. ^[6]

Career

Ubiñas spent 18 years at McKinsey & Company as a consultant in the areas of telecommunications, technology and media.^[1] He was also president of the Ford Foundation for six years and is now and investor and entrepreneur.

Ford Foundation

Ubiñas served as president of the Ford Foundation from January 2008 through 2013. During his tenure as president, Ubiñas significantly restructured the organization. The restructuring effort focused the foundation's number of program areas from over 200 to 35, and defined eight major issues, including access to education, economic opportunity and human rights, as its core objectives.^[7] Ubiñas increased the Ford Foundation's focus on social justice issues.^[1] He also reinvested over 80% of the Foundation's endowment, moving its endowment performance from bottom quartile to top quartile performance among endowments over $3 billion, renovated the network of international offices and modernized the Foundation's systems. During his tenure operating costs fell 33%, while grantee satisfaction rose.

Pan American Development Foundation

In 2015, Ubiñas became the president of the Board of Trustees of the Pan American Development Foundation, an organization that works with governments, non-profit organizations and corporations to fund and administer development projects in Central and South America and the Caribbean.^[8]

Other activities

Ubiñas is a trustee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and the New York Public Library.^[9] In the private sector, Ubinas is a member of the Board of Directors of Shorelight Education, which helps bring international students to colleges and universities in the United States and GFR Media, the largest media company in Puerto Rico. He is a Lead Director at Electronic Arts and serves on the Board of the Boston Private Bank. He serves as an Advisory Committee Member for the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships which overseas the United Nations' relationships with non-governmental partners. He has also served on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation, the Advisory Committee for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and as Northwest Regional Chair for White House Fellows.

Personal life

His wife, Deborah Tolman, is a developmental psychologist. They have two sons, Max and Ben.^[10]

References

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