Dr. Marc D. Shapiro, FSD board chair, is a director of monitoring, evaluation, and economics at the Millennium Challenge Corporation – a US governmental agency focusing on development through economic growth. At MCC, he oversees impact evaluations and monitoring for over $700 million in development projects spanning diverse sectors. Dr. Shapiro formerly served as a consultant and contractor managing projects and leading evaluations and assessments and provided other research and consulting services for the World Bank, USAID, the UN, FEMA, and various nongovernmental organizations. He has worked in Latin America, Eurasia, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East across a variety of sectors including education, infrastructure, health, public service delivery, agriculture, property rights, ICT, energy and environment, and others. Dr. Shapiro has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester with concentrations in research methods, institutions, and public policy. He has served for a decade in various leadership positions in FSD's Board of Directors and has been associated with FSD through thick and some thin.

Dr. Duncan Chaplin is the Secretary of the FSD's Board of Directors. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya from 1983 to 1985. He then completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is now a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C. where he does research on education policy issues in the U.S., focusing in particular on at-risk youth and rigorous evaluation methods, including random assignment. In his spare time Dr. Chaplin has taught numerous courses in education policy at Georgetown University, served as a board member for the Cesar Chavez Public Policy Charter High School, helped to monitor elections in Bosnia, Kenya, and South Africa, and started a club of Swahili speakers in the Washington, D.C. area.

Dina Winder joined the FSD Board as part of the merger with the Clarence Foundation and currently serves as Treasurer of FSD. She has over ten years of experience in finance, real estate and consumer-focused industries. Currently, Dina is working for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as director of west coast acquisitions and development. She also serves on Kimpton’s EarthCare advisory board, overseeing the strategic direction of 80+ activities across 50 properties in the US. Previously, she worked at Bear Stearns in the investment banking group. She holds a masters degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Julie Reed is the Director of the Office of Service-Learning and Community Action (OSLCA) within the McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. Previously she directed the Center for Public Service at Gettysburg College, and worked in the service-learning centers at Indiana University-Bloomington, IUPUI, Georgetown University, and California State University-Monterey Bay. Julie has administered an Annie E. Casey Foundation grant as well as CNCS VISTA and LSA grants. She co-authored Facilitating Reflection in Higher Education, and developed the Advocates of Community Engagement (ACE) student leadership program now replicated in multiple states. Julie earned her PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs with a minor in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University, and conducted dissertation research on reflective practice and care theory in novice faculty teaching. Her other research focuses on faculty development and service-learning. Julie also holds bachelors and masters degrees in social work from the University of Wisconsin and was previously a licensed social worker in the field of criminal and mental health services. She has served on the executive board of a Nicaraguan community development organization and is interested in domestic and international service-learning projects, in addition to those in her local community.

Wingee Sin has been a board member for Foundation for Sustainable Development since 2004. Miss Sin was an investment strategist at Barclays Global Investors' (BGI) hedge fund business, representing the firm's various hedge fund strategies to institutional investors. Prior to joining BGI in 2004, Wingee worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Equity Derivatives Strategy team, where she authored research on derivatives strategies. Wingee received her BA in economics and East Asian developmental studies from University of California at Berkeley. She holds the NASD Series 3, 7 and 63 licenses and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder. Her interest in sustainable development sprouted from her undergraduate days at Berkeley, and she is excited at the prospect of making a difference in the developing world through FSD.

Dr. Pauline Muchina is the Senior Partnership Advisor for UNAIDS in Washington, DC. At UNAIDS Dr. Muchina works to advocate effective and comprehensive global AIDS responses that empower women and girls to protect themselves and their families, and promote an end to gender-based violence and discrimination against women as a prerequisite for building sustainable communities and stopping the spread of HIV. Previously, Dr. Muchina worked as the Global Health Council’s Community and Faith-based Organization Outreach Coordinator and with the AIDSMARK team at Population Services International. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, she worked for the AIDS Resource Center and World Council of Churches in New York. Dr. Muchina is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, and has served on several boards, including the Global AIDS Alliance, Star School, South Africa and Fighting AIDS through Entertainment, Kenya. Dr. Muchina is an AIDS and gender equality activist and an inspiring public speaker. She has spoken in various international forums, including the UN Beijing International Conference on Women, International AIDS Conference in Bangkok and Toronto, the UN international Conference on Racism and Xenophobia and the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She has been interviewed by various media outlets including Voice of America, NTV Kenya, Citizen Radio, South African TV and the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. She holds a master’s degree in divinity from Yale University Divinity School and a PhD from the Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Greg Ulrich joined the FSD Board in the summer of 2009 as part of the merger with the Clarence Foundation. Greg was most recently the Chairman of the Clarence Foundation, and he has been active in Clarence since 2003. Greg's participation on the FSD Board, and specifically on the Giving Circle and Finance committees, will help FSD ensure that the merger with Clarence is a success, and that FSD is able to realize the benefits of the Giving Circle model. Greg has been in management consulting since 1998. He worked at Marakon Associates, a consultancy that advises Fortune 200 corporations on maximizing profitability and shareholder value, from 1998-2008, where he worked across industries and managed the firm's West Coast operations. Currently Greg is working as a consultant in the renewable energy and nonprofit fields. Greg lives in San Francisco with his wife Elizabeth.

Michael Dickey joined the FSD Board in the summer of 2009 as part of the merger with the Clarence Foundation. While serving on the board of Clarence, Michael helped build their interactive “Giving Circles” website. Michael is the founder and CEO of Atomic Labs, an enterprise software company that helps some of the Internet’s largest websites capture better data for web analytics. Michael was formerly the founder and CEO of BeatBox Technologies, who created the market-leading network appliance for monitoring enterprise web applications. Michael sold BeatBox to Mercury Interactive in 2005, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2006. Prior to BeatBox, Michael worked as CTO for a subsidary of iGate Corporation, who acquired his first software company, Terminus System Designs, which he started as a senior in high school. Michael studied Physics, Computer Science, and Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

Heba Gamal is the Search Quality Manager for the Middle East and North Africa at Google, Inc. In her current role, she focuses on pushing the quality of the search experience to serve the local needs and study how to stabilize the internet infrastructure for these developing countries by coming up with locally relevant product features, policies, and improvements. Prior to taking on the search quality manager role, Heba spent four months in India growing Google's online sales team in the Gurgaon office. Heba joined the FSD Board in the summer of 2009 as part of the merger with the Clarence Foundation. During her time on the Clarence Board, Heba served as the Technology Committee Chair, where she helped manage the launch of the new Giving Circles website, drive online marketing campaigns, and find potential giving circles participants. Heba's interest in international and social development has led her to participate in the Global Philanthropy Forum in 2007 and maintain an active volunteer relationship with Ashoka in the Middle East and Bay Area. Heba studied Global and International Studies with emphasis on Socioeconomics and Politics of the Middle East at the University of California at Santa Barbara.