2003 Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Bell-Rose '79, JD '83, MPA '84

Stephanie Bell-Rose is a Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and founding President of The Goldman Sachs Foundation, a $250 million international foundation that seeks to improve academic performance and lifelong productivity of young people worldwide.  Prior to her appointment at Goldman Sachs, Ms. Bell-Rose served as Counsel and Program Officer for Public Affairs at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where she directed legal affairs and designed philanthropic initiatives in education and public policy in the US and abroad.

She has authored or co-authored selected publications, including Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the US; "The Corporate Role in Developing Leaders: From the Sidelines to the Frontline," in College Board Review; "African-American High Achievers: Developing Talented Leaders," in The State of Black America; "The Contribution of Immigrant Women," in Radcliffe Quarterly; "Developing a Success Orientation," in Education Week, "Using Performance Metrics to Assess Impact," in Nonprofit Earned Income (Jossey-Bass), and "Maximizing Impact through Strategic Philanthropy," a Goldman Sachs Foundation monograph.

Ms. Bell-Rose is Trustee and Board Vice President of The Barnes Foundation, Trustee of American Museum of Natural History, and Advisor to Harvard University's Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations and the Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative Advisory Board. She serves on the Dean's Council of Harvard Law School and Harvard's University Committee on Student Excellence and Opportunity. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, the Contributions Council, the Business-Higher Education Forum, The Economic Club of New York, and the Council on Foreign Relations where she serves on the Chairman's Advisory Council and the Membership Committee.

She is the recipient of the Fay Prize from Radcliffe College, awards from the Westchester Children's Association, The Links of New York City, and the National Council of Negro Women, and a congressional citation for her work on behalf of children.  She was recently named one of twenty-five influential women in business by the Network Journal.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, she earned an A.B. with honors from Harvard College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government.