Jeffrey C. Walker
Chairman
Millennium Promise
Moderating: Investing, scaling and going public - can social enterprises ever take off in developing countries?
Jeffrey C. Walker is an Executive in Residence at the Harvard Business School focusing on the areas of Social Enterprises and Active Philanthropy. He is also a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School where he teaches a seminar on “Active Value Creation- applying private equity tools to the not for profit world.” He is Chairman of Millennium Promise, a charity that incubates ideas to eliminate extreme poverty in developing countries. He is also ex-Chairman and co-founder of Npower, an organization that provides technology training to inner city kids, connects them with jobs, and provides back office technology to over 500 nonprofits. He is co-Chair of the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium (70 organizations all focused on bringing music programs back to kids in the U.S.). Mr. Walker was Chairman and is currently Vice Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello) and for ten years and sat on the board of the Big Apple Circus. He is also on the Berklee College of Music, New Profit, Morgan Library, University of Virginia Undergraduate Business School, and Lincoln Center Film Society boards and sits on the Visiting Committee at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Walker is ex-Chairman and CEO of CCMP Capital (CCMP). CCMP is the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), JPMorgan Chase & Co’s global private equity group with operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Walker is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.