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==Leadership==

[[File:Muhammad yunus at weforum.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Muhammad Yunus]], a member of the UN Foundation's board of directors]]
The UN Foundation is led by President and Chief Executive Officer [[Elizabeth M. Cousens|Elizabeth Cousens]], who stepped into the role in January 2020 after serving for four years as Deputy CEO. Prior to her time at the UN Foundation, Cousens served as U.S. Ambassador to the [[United Nations Economic and Social Council|UN Economic and Social Council]], and Alternate Representative to the [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]] where she led U.S. negotiations on the SDGs. [[Kathy Calvin]], the former President of AOL Time Warner Foundation, served as the UN Foundation’s prior President and CEO from 2013 through 2019.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunn|first=Emily Dunn|date=24 January 2015|title=Women in Business Q&A: Kathy Calvin, President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-dunn/women-in-business-qa-kath_b_6211486.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=_xI8INlK7ChMuWFagayfCQ|access-date=4 March 2019|website=HuffPost}}</ref> [[Timothy E. Wirth]], a former [[United States Congress]]man, [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]], and the first [[Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs|Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs]] in U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]]'s administration, served as the UN Foundation's first President from 1998 to 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-08-06|title=Timothy E. Wirth|url=https://www.ase.org/biography/timothy-e-wirth|access-date=2021-01-27|website=Alliance to Save Energy|language=en}}</ref> [[Ted Turner]] serves as the [[Chairman|chairman of the board]]. Other current board members include [[Queen Rania Al-Abdullah]] of [[Jordan]], former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN [[Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown|Mark Malloch-Brown]], Founder and Chairman Emeritus of [[Infosys]] [[N. R. Narayana Murthy]], Master of [[University College, Oxford|University College Oxford]] [[Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos|Valerie Amos]], CEO of [[Verizon Communications]] [[Hans Vestberg]], Former Prime Minister of [[Norway]] [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner [[Muhammad Yunus]], President of the [[University of Miami]] [[Julio Frenk]], Chairman of Endeavor Brazil Fábio Colletti Barbosa, Senior Partner of the Southbridge Group [[Frannie Léautier|Dr. Frannie Léautier]], Chair of the Captain Planet Foundation Laura Turner Seydel, and former UN Foundation Presidents Timothy E. Wirth and Kathy Calvin.<ref>{{cite web|year=2014|title=United Nations Foundation: Our Board|url=http://www.unfoundation.org/who-we-are/board/|access-date=20 May 2014|publisher=United Nations Foundation}}{{psc|date=October 2019}}</ref>