Leonard BENARDO

Leonard Benardo is senior vice president for the Open Society Foundations. In his current role, Benardo has two core responsibilities: As a senior leader, he works with the chair, deputy chair, board, and executive leadership to maintain the ongoing vitality and stability of the Foundations. Programmatically, he stewards two major efforts: the Ideas Workshop that seeks to promote and inspire heterodox thinking and cultural imagination; and the Open Society University Network, a billion-dollar effort to promote research and teaching across the globe through a network of higher–education institutions and other organizations. Benardo was formerly vice president of the Open Society Foundations, regional director for Eurasia, and director of the Open Society Fellowship Program. He began his work with the Open Society Foundations at the Soros Foundation Moscow and was the founding director of the Open Society Fellowship Program. Benardo sits on the boards of Central European University, Hungary, the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, the European Humanities University, Lithuania, and the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the International Herald Tribune, Bookforum, the American Prospect, Project Syndicate, and Prospect. He is the co-author, with his wife Jennifer Weiss, of two books: Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names, and Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents.

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