Dr. Alicia Robb is the Founder and President of FSD. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation and a Senior Economist with Beacon Economics. She is also a Research Associate with the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her main research interests are entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, and sustainable development. Dr. Robb received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in economic development and econometrics. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double major in Economics and Multinational Organizational Studies from St. Mary's University. She has worked as a staff economist for an economic consulting firm and as an economist for the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and for the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She has taught economic development at universities in the D.C. and Bay areas, as well as abroad. An avid animal welfare activist and vegetarian, she volunteers with animal rescue groups in her spare time. She normally resides in Marin county with her husband and a wide assortment of animals rescued from abroad and here in the U.S. However, she is currently working in D.C. while her husband works with the new Administration.

Dr. Lori Allio is the Chair of FSD's Board of Directors and is the principal of Allio Consulting of San Francisco which works with domestic and international foundations and non-profit organizations. Dr. Allio's specialties include evaluation, community and policy research, support for grant-making initiatives, and capacity building. Her experience working with non-profit organizations includes managing a small bi-national sustainable community development organization in Veracruz, Mexico; supporting the African Democratization Program and the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta; and acting as a Research and Policy Manager for the California Endowment and the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Allio holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. from the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and a Doctorate in Political Science from Emory University. She occasionally teaches in the areas of international development, foreign policy, and international non-profit practices and has published on a variety of topics related to non-governmental organizations, communities, policy, and development. Her regional expertise and field experience includes numerous countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Dr. Allio speaks excellent Spanish, good Polish, some Russian, and embarrassingly little Italian.

Don Baker is the Vice Chair of FSD's Board of Directors. He is also the Founder and President of the Center for Sustainability and Economic Growth, an NGO that recognizes and promotes best practices in sustainable development projects. Until 2003, Mr. Baker was President and CEO of EPRI Worldwide Holdings, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and served as chairman of the board for two EPRI subsidiaries. Working with other international agencies like World Bank and USAID, he led efforts to increase electrification in developing countries. Mr. Baker developed a passion for sustainable development issues while serving as a juror for Austria's Energy Globe, “The World Award for Sustainability”. For the past three years, he has reviewed and judged hundreds of sustainable development projects submitted for international recognition in the areas of water, air, land use, energy and education. Prior to joining EPRI in 1998, Mr. Baker spent 25 years with General Electric in positions focusing on the energy market. Mr. Baker earned a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree and a Master of Science in Economics from Auburn University. He has authored and presented over 30 papers on energy and the role of electricity in worldwide economic development.

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.

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.

Dr. Marc D. Shapiro is the Vice Chair of FSD's Board of Directors. He is the principal of MDS Associates of Washington, DC which works with domestic and international organizations and governments across sectors in providing evaluation, research, monitoring, and project management services with particular emphasis on education, non-formal education, and environmental/natural resource issues. He has conducted evaluations for the World Bank and served as project director of the evaluation of the National Flood Insurance Program. Dr. Shapiro served as a project director for the largest project sponsored by USAID involving secondary education and decentralization in Macedonia and also supervised an evaluation of all USAID-sponsored education projects in Macedonia . He has worked for 16 years leading evaluations, surveys, and other research efforts and has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester with concentrations in research design, statistics, and public policy. He has taught, worked for NGOs and consulting firms, and as an independent consultant, and has work experience in Macedonia, the Republic of Georgia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the United States.

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.