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Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors possess expertise in fields covering the full range of the foundation's activities and provide guidance on particular projects and larger strategic initiatives.
Kenneth A. Olliff North America
Director for Strategic Foundation Initiatives and Co-Director of Arete, The University of Chicago. Olliff did his undergraduate work in literature at the University of Rochester and graduate work in ethics and theology at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University. He also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the editor of Through the Rose Window: Art, Myth, and the Religious Imagination (Skinner House Press, 2002). With colleagues John Cacioppo and Matthew Christian, he founded the Arete Initiative at Chicago in 2007.
Director for Strategic Foundation Initiatives and Co-Director of Arete, The University of Chicago. Olliff did his undergraduate work in literature at the University of Rochester and graduate work in ethics and theology at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University. He also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the editor of Through the Rose Window: Art, Myth, and the Religious Imagination (Skinner House Press, 2002). With colleagues John Cacioppo and Matthew Christian, he founded the Arete Initiative at Chicago in 2007. Led by the Office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, Arete leverages the University’s intellectual resources to tackle complex global and societal questions that cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries. To do so, Arete provides comprehensive support to faculty leaders in conceptualizing and launching new large-scale, interdisciplinary research initiatives.