Leadership

Raymond C. Offenheiser

President

Raymond C. Offenheiser returned to the US in 1996 to join Oxfam America as its President. Oxfam America, a Boston-based international relief and development agency, supports organizations committed to developing solutions to poverty and injustice around the world. Oxfam America is the US affiliate of Oxfam International—a confederation of 17 Oxfams, which collectively works in 94 countries, and has annual revenue of $1 billion. Oxfam complements its grassroots work with far-reaching programs to engage world public opinion and influence decision makers on such issues as food security, climate change, trade, debt relief, foreign aid, HIV/AIDS, et al, and as such, brings a unique and informed perspective to those critical issues that directly affect the lives of the world's poor.

Under Offenheiser's leadership, Oxfam America more than quintupled in size, and repositioned itself in the US as a leading voice on international development and global trade. Offenheiser has worked his entire career in the non-profit sector, and is a recognized leader on issues such as poverty alleviation, human rights, foreign policy, and international development. He has played a critical leadership role in shaping the development of the Oxfam International confederation and is a founder board member of both the ONE Campaign here in the US as well as the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN). He brings more than 30 years of international development experience as a field programmer, grant maker, and executive in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the US. Prior to joining Oxfam America, he served for five years as the Ford Foundation Representative in Bangladesh and, prior to that, for five years in a similar role in the Andean and Southern Cone Region of South America. He has also directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and worked for Save the Children Federation in Mexico.

He serves as a resource and frequent commentator in the media and before diverse public fora on such issues as foreign aid, global poverty, humanitarian relief, international agriculture, human rights, climate change, global trade policies and corporate social responsibility. He has appeared in programs on CNN, NPR, and the BBC, and published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and other major American newspapers. He recently stepped down as the Honorary President of Wetlands International, a global conservation organization dedicated to the protection of wetland regions. In addition his membership on the Board of Oxfam America and Oxfam International, he also serves or has served on boards, advisory bodies and working groups with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute, the World Agricultural Forum, the Gates Foundation, Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Interaction and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow.
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Jim Daniell

Chief Operating Officer

Jim Daniell joined Oxfam America as COO in 2009 where he oversees all of the agency’s global staff and operations. Daniell works closely with the President, Ray Offenheiser, to translate Offenheiser’s vision for a 21st century, networked non-governmental organization (NGO) into a reality. Together, they are recruiting and building an “Ox-family” where employees thrive as a team of passionate professionals committed to blazing a new trail in the field of international development focused on global poverty and injustice.

Daniell’s approach to operations emphasizes strategic planning, systems management, operations, learning, and innovation. Based on his entrepreneurial and high tech background, Daniell is focused on issues of organization development, flexible global teams, greater integration of private sector systems, and better overall integration of Oxfam America with other NGOs and members of the Oxfam Confederation.

Daniell also has a broad entrepreneurial background having led start-ups, ran divisions of large companies, and worked with both venture funds and angel investment groups. Prior to joining Oxfam, Daniell was the CEO of several technology firms as well as an executive at AT&T where he oversaw global business development (among other roles). He was also a co-founder of CommonAngels – Boston’s most prominent angel investment group. He is presently a Trustee with the Mass Technology Leadership Council and the Museum of Science. Daniell’s other non-profit experience includes oversight of the Episcopal Diocese of Boston. He holds a dual Bachelor of Science in Engineering with Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Connecticut as well as a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Stephanie Kurzina

Vice President for Development and Communications

Stephanie Kurzina joined Oxfam America in 1996 to lead the organization's fund-raising programs. During her tenure, annual revenues have more than quadrupled from $12 million to approximately $50 million per year. Kurzina also led the organization through its first major, multi-year fund-raising campaign for program growth, successfully completed in 2008. The campaign exceeded the $50 million goal, raising over $63 million. In 2009 Stephanie became Vice President for Development and Communications, expanding her role beyond fund-raising to include marketing, media, outreach, and digital communications. In her new capacity, Kurzina helps the organization more effectively involve and engage constituents in our campaigns and issues; she believes that a key factor to overcoming global poverty is the involvement of more US donors and activists to increase Oxfam America's influence. Kurzina also serves as president of the Oxfam America Advocacy Fund, founded in 2004.

Prior to joining Oxfam, Kurzina was an associate director at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, director of development at New England Aquarium in Boston, and director of major gifts at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where she directed a $45 million capital campaign. She has a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, where she began her fund-raising career in the University's New York Regional Development Office.

John Ambler

Vice President, Strategy

John Ambler is Vice President, Strategy at Oxfam America. Within Oxfam America, he works on building up the agriculture program, identifying best practice across the Oxfam confederation, fund raising, and identifying strategic investments in Oxfam America's rights-based programming approach. He spends the other half of his time as a member of Oxfam International's Global Team, also heading up the Program Development Group under that body. The Group is responsible for leading efforts to improve program quality across all the Oxfam affiliates, to effectively implement the Oxfam confederation's initiative to coordinate and make more powerful all of Oxfam's work at the country level (Single Management System project), and to guide the overall global investment strategy of the different Oxfam affiliates.

Prior to this role, for six years, he was Senior Vice President Programs at Oxfam America. In that capacity he guided all humanitarian preparedness and response work worldwide, as well as all Oxfam's long-term development programs globally. The latter included programs in agriculture, water management, extractive industries, gender-based violence, community finance, education, worker rights, and other rural livelihoods activities. Oxfam maintains overseas offices in San Salvador, Lima, Addis Ababa, Khartoum, Dakar, and Phnom Penh. He also oversaw the Learning, Evaluation, and Accountability Department which leads on evaluation and quality control agency-wide, and which guides the organization's rights-based approach.

Earlier, Ambler was the regional director for Asia at CARE USA, based in Bangkok. He supervised and set strategic direction for CARE's relief and development operations for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan. He oversaw the largest regional budget in the CARE system and the work of over 5,000 CARE staff in Asia. Ambler provided strategic and conceptual direction for CARE's programs in rural development, development finance, urban poverty, HIV/AIDS, health, education, and nutrition. He also played a central role in that organization's effort to adopt a rights-based approach to development.

Before joining CARE, Ambler had spent nearly ten years with the Ford Foundation, as a program officer in Indonesia (programming in water management), as the deputy representative of the office for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and as the representative for Vietnam and Thailand. He also opened Ford's first office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Prior to his tenure with Ford, he spent many years working in Indonesia on issues related to the organization of water management, a field in which he is a world-class specialist. He speaks fluent Indonesian as well as some Vietnamese, Burmese and German. Ambler received his B.A. from Stanford University, his M.A. from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and his Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University.

Darius Teter

Vice President for Programs

Darius Teter oversees Oxfam America’s humanitarian response work, regional development programs, community finance and learning and evaluation.

Before joining Oxfam, Teter supervised worldwide program development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US government grant-making agency founded in 2004 to apply the principles of country ownership, accountability and results measurement to large-scale public investments in transport, agriculture and social services.  Previously he worked at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a senior economist focused on community forestry, agriculture and flood control projects in Bangladesh and Cambodia, then as a deputy country director in Mongolia. He went on to become an advisor for overall operations in east and central Asia. Prior to ADB he served as an advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the Harvard Institute for International Development, focusing on trade and investment policy and forestry.

Teter has a BA in history from Yale University and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School. He completed advanced graduate work in forest resources management, focusing on natural resource economics, at the University of British Columbia.

Mark F. Kripp

Chief Financial Officer

Mark Kripp is the chief financial officer for Oxfam America. He joined Oxfam in July of 2005 after working most recently as the vice president of finance for Spryance Inc., a socially progressive organization in India. Prior to that Kripp was the founder and principal of EJE Associates Consulting. In this capacity he directed financial activities of multiple organizations, including corporations, foundations, and the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti. Kripp has over 25 years of extensive and varied experience with all aspects of finance, and has brought the weight of that experience to bear in Oxfam America's operations department. In addition, Kripp has served on the Board of Directors and various Board Committees of the Grant Foundation/Hospital Albert Schweitzer, American Leprosy Missions (Greenville, SC), and is currently treasurer of the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School (Franklin, MA).

Paul O'Brien

Vice President of Policy and Advocacy

Paul O'Brien is the Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America. Prior to joining Oxfam in 2007, O'Brien lived in Afghanistan for five years where he worked in the office of the President and the Ministry of Finance as an advisor on aid coordination, development planning and policy reform. Prior to that, he worked for CARE International as their Afghanistan Advocacy Coordinator and Africa Policy Advisor. Previously, O'Brien was the President of the Echoing Green Foundation, and a litigator in New York for Cravath, Swaine and Moore. He is the co-founder of the Legal Resources Foundation in Kenya and the founder of the Human Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium in Afghanistan, both of which are thriving organizations today. O’Brien has juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, and has published on humanitarian policy, human rights and emerging trends in development.

Officers

Barry Gaberman, Chair
Senior Vice President (retired)
Ford Foundation
Park Ridge, NJ

Raymond C. Offenheiser, President
President
Oxfam America
Boston, MA

Joe H. Hamilton, Treasurer and Secretary
Executive Vice President
Liberty International Underwriters
Boston, MA

Other Directors

Manish Bapna 
Executive Vice President
World Resources Institute
Washington, DC

Elizabeth Becker
Journalist & Author
The New York Times (retired)
Washington, DC

Fran Bermanzohn
Managing Director
Goldman, Sachs & Co
New York, NY

L. David Brown 
Senior Research Fellow 
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Harvard University
Harpswell, ME

Rosalind Conway
Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, NY

David Doniger
Policy Director, Climate Center
Natural Resources Defense Council
Washington, DC

James Down
Vice Chairman
Mercer Management Consulting (retired)
Winchester, MA

Jonathan Fox
Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Department
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

Anne L. Garrels
Journalist
National Public Radio (retired)
Norfolk, CT

Gina Glantz
Senior Advisor to the President
SEIU (retired)
Tiburon, CA

Dan Glickman
Senior Fellow
Bipartisan Policy Center
Washington, DC

Joseph Loughrey
President, Chief Operating Officer 
Cummins Inc. (retired)
Indianapolis, IN

Shigeki Makino
Chief Investment Officer, Global Core Equity
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (former)
Boston, MA

Minh Chau Nguyen
Country Director
East Meets West Foundation
Hanoi, Vietnam

Steven Reiss
Partner
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
New York, NY

Kitt Sawitsky
Co-Managing Director
Goulston & Storrs
Boston, MA

Sarah Sewall 
Program Director, Carr Center for Human Rights
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Smita Singh
Palo Alto, CA

Bridget Snell, Staff-elected Board member
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Manager
Oxfam America
Boston, MA

Roger Widmann
Investment Banker 
Larchmont, NY

Founded in 2003, the Leadership Council is a diverse group of outstanding leaders who serve as ambassadors and advisers for Oxfam America. Members help carry the Oxfam message to new and wide-ranging audiences to enhance the organization’s profile, resources, and effectiveness.

Mohamad Ali
Arlington, MA

Karen Keating Ansara
Boston, MA

David Barclay
Los Angeles, CA

David Bodnick
New York, NY

Sylvia A. Brownrigg
Berkeley, CA

Ellen Carr
Nashville, TN

Terry Collins
Chester, CA

Ian S. Crowe
Darien, CT

Bruce Detwiler
New York, NY

Susan de Vries
Kirkland, WA

Barbara Fiorito
Pound Ridge, NY

Jody Forchheimer
Brookline, MA

Hannelore Grantham
Boston, MA

Patricia Hallstein
New York, NY

Stephen Hays
South Salem, NY

Barry Hershey
Concord, MA

Michael Hirschorn
New York, NY

Lisa Jorgenson
Washington, DC

Stephen B. Land
Larchmont, NY

Joseph D. Lee
Santa Monica, CA

Peter Lynch
San Francisco, CA

Janet A. McKinley
San Francisco, CA

George A. Miller
San Francisco, CA

Sam Miller
Vietnam

Paul A. Moses
Corona Del Mar, CA

Peter Palmer
Belmont, MA

R. Price Peterson
Hacienda La Esmeralda, Panama

Ann Silver Pozen
Bethesda, MD

Dana Quitslund
Bainbridge Island, WA

Kati Rader
Los Altos, CA

Ellen Remmer
Boston, MA

Peter Sanborn
Newton, MA

H. Jay Sarles
Wellesley Hills, MA

Marilyn Sarles
Wellesley Hills, MA

Val Schaffner
New York, NY

Jamey Shachoy
Marion, MA

Peter Singer
New York, NY

Renata Singer
New York, NY

Lucian Snow
Boston, MA

Michael E. Soloff
Santa Monica, CA

Elizabeth Wachs
Rhinebeck, NY

Barbara Waugh
Oakland, CA

Kim Williams
Newbury, MA