Raymond C Offenheiser

Raymond C Offenheiser is Director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, part of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, where he also serves as Senior Advisor to the Dean and Distinguished Professor of the Practice, providing strategic leadership to the McKenna Center’s research, and public policy activities. Offenheiser served as President of Oxfam America for 20 years. Prior to joining Oxfam, Offenheiser represented the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America, and directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in Brazil and Colombia. He is currently the Chair of the Board of BRAC USA and a member of the Board of BRAC Global. He is also a board member of the Oxfam America Action Fund, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and the Consensus Building Initiative. He also serves on the Forum for Corporate Responsibility for BHP Mining Corporation and the Development Partners Initiative. Offenheiser was a co-founder of the ONE Campaign and the Washington, DC-based Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, and the Food Policy Action Network.