Don Gips, former CEO of the Skoll Foundation, leads the organisation\u2019s work investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs to create lasting social change around the world. His experiences span public service, politics, business, finance, and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most recently, he led Albright Stonebridge Group\u2019s Africa Practice, consulting with companies, entrepreneurs, and foundations investing across the continent. Previously, he served as Director of Presidential Personnel in the Obama White House, ushering in the most diverse administration in U.S. history. He served as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa where he managed more than 1,000 staff and a budget of over $600 million across multiple government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early in his career, he helped design and create a $650 million start\u2010up government corporation to promote community service which became the AmeriCorps program, still operational today. He served as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore and Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. Still earlier in Don\u2019s career, he developed a clean water project with Sarvodaya, a leading social enterprise, and managed a refugee camp in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He sits on the board of Liquid Telecommunication, a Pan\u2010African provider of fibre and telecommunications services led by Strive Masiyiwa, one of Africa\u2019s preeminent entrepreneurs and philanthropists, and the President\u2019s Council on International Affairs at Yale University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and his undergrad degree from Harvard University. He is married to Elizabeth (Liz) Berry Gips, who leads education programs for Village Health Works, bringing health care and development to rural Burundi. Don and Liz have three grown sons: Sam, Peter, and Ben.<\/p>\n
Don Gips, former CEO of the Skoll Foundation, leads the organisation\u2019s work investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs to create lasting social change around the world. His experiences span public service, politics, business, finance, and technology. Most recently, he led Albright Stonebridge Group\u2019s Africa Practice, consulting with companies, entrepreneurs, and foundations investing across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":161111,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"162133,162126,162105,162110,162124,162127","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"team":[286],"class_list":["post-161498","one_person","type-one_person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n