Luis Ubiñas has had a career across business, government and nonprofit sectors. He is currently Chair of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. The Foundation recently completed construction of the Liberty Museum on Liberty Island, one of the ten most visited museums in the United States and is now rebuilding the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration.
Over the course of his career, Luis has served as President of the Ford Foundation, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and a Presidential appointee to the Interna-tional Trade Commission, the Export-Import Bank Council on US Competitiveness and, currently, the Federal Oversight and Management Board.
Additionally, he has served as President of the Board of the Pan American Develop-ment Foundation, which invests over $150 million annually in development projects in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Luis serves on several other multi-lateral, 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.
In the private sector, Luis is Lead Director at Electronic Arts, and serves on the boards of ATT, the technology and connectivity company, and Tanger, a publicly traded REIT. He also invests in and advises a number of private and pre-IPO companies.
Luis was appointed President of the Ford Foundation in 2007, and served through 2013. Prior to Ford, Luis was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, leading the firm’s media practice on the West Coast.
Luis is a graduate of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Mass., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in government, a Certificate in Latin American Studies, and was selected as a Truman scholar. He is also a graduate of 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.
Luis and his wife, Deborah Tolman, the feminist scholar, have two sons; Max and Ben.
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