Luis A. Ubinas

Luis A. Ubiñas has had a career across business, government and the nonprofit sector. He served as President of the Ford Foundation, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and an Obama-era appointee to both the Export-Import Bank and the International Trade Commission. Over the last several years, he has been an investor, advisor and board member.

Luis is currently Chair of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Luis serves on several other multilateral, governmental and nonprofit boards and advisory committees, including the Advisory Board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships and the New York Public Library, where he serves as Chair of the Finance Committee and on the Executive Committee. He is President Emeritus of the Pan American Development Fund.

In the private sector, Luis is Lead Director at Electronic Arts, and serves on the boards of AT&T and Tanger. He also invests in and advises a number of private and pre-IPO companies.

Luis was appointed President of the Ford Foundation in 2007, serving through 2013. The Foundation is among largest in the United States, with an endowment over $16 billion. He led a broad-based restructuring, including strategic resetting of its philanthropic programs, reinvestment of over 80% of the endowment, and rebuilding facilities, systems and the cost base.

Luis is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was a Truman Scholar, and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Luis is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.