Per Heggenes is the CEO of IKEA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Stichting INGKA Foundation, the owner of the Swedish home furnishings company IKEA. As CEO, Heggenes sets and drives the Foundation’s funding and innovation strategies, and is a tireless advocate for children living in some of the world’s poorest communities. Since becoming the Foundation’s first CEO in 2009, Heggenes has presided over the Foundation’s evolution into a global, independent, strategic philanthropy with a laser focus on fighting climate change and improving livelihood opportunities for the poor.
He serves on numerous advisory boards for humanitarian and development organizations and has taken a special interest in helping reform the way the global community works to embrace the rights of refugees and migrants – aimed at positive integration that leads to economic independence and self-reliance.
In 2019, Heggenes was appointed by the UN Secretary General to join the High Level Panel on Internal Displacement with the goal of developing durable solutions to protracted internal displacement.
Previously, Heggenes held global and regional leadership roles for the shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, based in London and New York. Heggenes served in the Norwegian Air Force and graduated from the University of Augsburg in Germany with a “Diplom Oekonom”.
Andrea Soros Colombel works for equitable, sustainable and compassionate societies. She serves on the Global and United States Boards of the Open Society Foundations, which support vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens and capable of addressing the pressing problems of our era. Andrea is also a board member and former board chair of Acumen. She supports a range of activities aimed at addressing climate change and reshaping capitalism and democracy to function better for all.
Andrea founded and was active for over 20 years in Trace Foundation, which supported the continuity, development, and vitality of Tibetan communities with a focus on those within China. She is a co-founder and trustee of Tsadra Foundation, which promotes the development of wisdom and compassion through the combined study and practice of Tibetan Buddhist traditions in the west. She is a former board chair of the French American School of New York and an advisor to Scenic Hudson and the Bard MBA program.
Colombel received her BA from the University of Chicago with honors in literature and holds a graduate certificate from the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican citizen and was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2010 - 2016.
During her tenure, Ms. Figueres brought together national and sub-national governments, corporations and activists, women’s groups, scientists and spiritual communities, financial institutions and NGOs to jointly deliver the historic 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Under this Agreement, 195 sovereign governments decided on a collaborative path to limit future global warming to well below 2°C, and strive for 1.5°C in order to protect the most vulnerable in every nation. For this achievement Ms. Figueres has been credited with forging a new brand of collaborative diplomacy and received multiple awards.
Since then Ms. Figueres has continued to foster rapid action on climate change. She is the co-author of The Future We Choose, The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis (Penguin Random House 2019) and co-host of the popular podcast Outrage and Optimism. She sits on the Boards of ACCIONA and ACCIONA Energía.
She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the London School of Economics and has been awarded multiple honorary doctorate degrees from academic institutions such as Yale, University of Massachusetts, Georgetown and University of Edinburgh. After decades of living and working abroad, she has moved back to her beloved Costa Rica. She has two fantastic daughters, Naima and Yihana, fountains of much joy.
CHAIRPERSON:
Shaiza Rizavi, Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co.
BOARD MEMBERS:
Margo Alexander, formerly UBS Global Asset Management
C. Hunter Boll, Source Audio LLC
Kathleen Chew Wai Lin, YTL Corporation Berhad
Nate Laurell, New Frontier Holdings
Cristina Ljungberg, The Case For Her
Kirsten Nevill-Manning, People Operations Executive
Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen
Karen Paterson, Stone Steps Foundation
Andrea Soros Colombel, Trace Foundation and Open Society Foundation
Hans Taparia, Professor and Entrepreneur
Mark Tercek, Global Conservation Leader
Chris Anderson, TED
Jawad Aslam, Ansaar Management Company
Syed Babar Ali, LUMS*
Diana Barrett, The Fledgling Fund
Seth Berkley, GAVI Alliance*
Tim Brown, IDEO
Peter Cain, former Finance Executive
Niko Canner, Incandescent
Jesse Clarke, Distributed Power Fund
Beth Comstock, Author and formerly GE
Rebecca Eastmond, Greenwood Place
Seth Godin, Best-Selling Author and Entrepreneur
Peter Goldmark, Independent Consultant
Allen Grossman, Harvard Business School*
Jon Haidt, New York University Stern School of Business
Per Heggenes, IKEA Foundation
Katie Hill, Boston Consulting Group
Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global
Jill Iscol, IF Hummingbird Foundation*
Uzodinma Iweala, The Africa Center
María Ángeles León López, Open Value Foundation
Federica Marchionni, Global Fashion Agenda
Felipe Medina, Transforming Philanthropy Initiative
Susan Meiselas, Magnum Photos
Catherine S. Muther, Three Guineas Fund*
Vinay Nair, Lightful
Craig Nevill-Manning, Sidewalk Labs
Sally Osberg, formerly Skoll Foundation*
Noor Z. Pahlavi, Acumen Young Benefactors
Jan Piercy, Enclude*
Paul Polman, Imagine
Maria Popova, Brainpickings.org
Kash Rangan, Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative
Kerry J. Sulkowicz, Boswell Group LLC
Vikki Tam, Bain & Company
Colonel Patrick E. Tierney, Freeport-McMoRan
Krista Tippett, On Being
Daniel R. Toole, formerly UNICEF
Brian Trelstad, Bridges Fund Management
Hamdi Ulukaya, Chobani
Naeem Zamindar, Zamindar Capital
Chris Anderson & Jacqueline Novogratz • Andrea Soros Colombel • Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies • The CH Foundation • The ELMA Foundation • IKEA Foundation
Anonymous (3) • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals • Barclays • Shawn & Brook Byers • The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment, managed by the Palladium Group, Randstad and VSO, and, funded by the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs • Kathleen Chew Wai Lin & Yeoh Seok Hong • Dalio Philanthropies • FMO Finance for Development • Giving Wings • Government of Canada • IDB Lab • Moondance Foundation • Craig & Kirsten Nevill-Manning • The Lam Nguyen-Phuong Family • Shaiza Rizavi & Jon Friedland • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • Robin Hood • The Rockefeller Foundation • Steven Ross & Shelley Scherer • Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation • Skoll Foundation • Stone Steps Foundation • Malin Stroman & Sebastian Knutsson • Target Foundation • The Three Dogs Foundation • UBS Optimus Foundation • UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) • USAID
Anonymous (2) • Autodesk Foundation • Diana Barrett • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF; Silicon Valley Community Foundation • IKEA Social Entrepreneurship • Johnson & Johnson • MECS led by Loughborough University and funded by UK aid • Safaricom • Signify Foundation • Woodcock Foundation
Anonymous (2) • American Express • The Amit J. and Vicky L. Patel Foundation • Bank of America • Pamela Tanner Boll • Distributed Power Fund • The Edelman Family Foundation • FMO Finance for Development • Fundación Bancolombia • Fahad Ghaffar • Global Development Incubator • The Hermine & David B. Heller Foundation • Invest Salone with funding from UK aid • Mustafa Kassam • Nate Laurell & Kris McCoy • Lucille Foundation • MAVA Foundation • The Resnick Foundation • MK Reichert Sternlicht Foundation and The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation • United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Sustaining Peace
Ainslie Foundation • Margo Alexander • Sunita & Ernst Baur • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • C. Hunter Boll • The Case for Her • Colhoun Family Foundation • CommonSpirit Health • Environmental Defense Fund • Ford Foundation • Four Acre Trust • Fundación Santo Domingo • The Gem Foundation • Priya and Alok Gupta • Hopelab • David Kidder • Peter & Seimie Kim • MolinaCares Foundation • Cristina Nestares • The Robert & Kate Niehaus Foundation • Open Society Foundations • Verdele Polson • Progress Charitable Foundation • Rumah Foundation • SAP • The Seneca Trust • Sayuri Sharper, Kuo Sharper Foundation • Daniel Szeto, 5L2F Foundation • Matthew & Anupama Tate
Anonymous (3) • Brinson Foundation • Crabby Beach Foundation • Roberta & Steve Denning • Bert & Candance Forbes • The Lawrence Foundation • The Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa • Nussey Foundation • James and Melissa O’Shaugnessy • Osprey Foundation • Sean Phelan & Audrey Mandela • Porticus • Rabo Foundation • Stiller Family Foundation • Tamar Capital • Dr. Daniel A. Torres Fund • Asiff Hirji & Sarah Wigglesworth Family Foundation
Anonymous (9) • Abacus Wealth Partners, LLC Philanthropic Fund • Argosy Foundation • Azurit Foundation • Christain Barnes • David & Kyra Barry • Adam Bendell & Tracy Masington • Amrita Bhandari & Amit Aggarwal • Suzanne Biegel & Daniel Maskit • Blue Yak Foundation • Karen Brown • Georgia & Rick Bullitt • Cristian Cardoner • Jennifer Cast and Liffy Franklin • Ninan Chacko • James Chowdry • Olivia Chowdry • The CO3 Fund • Katherine Collins • Elizabeth Comstock • Tom & Mary Cooper • Cropster Inc. • Murray Dalziel • Thomas Darden • Andy Darrell • David & Kay Aaker Charitable Fund • The Dennis and Pamela Mudd Charitable Foundation • Shirin Sultan Dossa Foundation • EY • First Dollar Foundation • Minal & Sheryl Fofaria • Fondazione Snam • Simon Forsyth • Ann & Tom Friedman • Ian Gazard • Joe Gebbia • GFP Real Estate • The Global Bridge Foundation • Godley Family Foundation • Hemraj Goyal Foundation • The Hershey Corporation • Hamilton and Traci Hill • Hive • Holzer Family Foundation • The HOPE Charitable Foundation • Dan Hu • Candi and Erik Hurst • Anu and Naveen Jain • Marshall & Carlyle Jones • Randy Kaufman • Krupa Family Foundation • L.F.H Foundation • The Lampl Family Foundation • Lynda Sun Lee Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of U.S. Charitable Gift Trust • Ann MacDougall & Jules Kaufman • Robert McCarthy Jr. Fund • Felipe Medina • Arch & Shelly Meredith • The Metta Giving Foundation • Taylor Milsal & Danny Hillis • Morrow Family Foundation • Stephen & Melissa Murdoch • Samuel Nolley and Maureen O'Brien • Ocean & Land Limited • Mr. Warren Packard and Dr. Patricia Chang • Michael & Sarah Peterson • Scott M. Pinkus • Guillaume Racine • Wendy Reed • Nathanael Ren and Judith Kim • Miriam Rivera & Clinton Korver • Joel Rosen and Addie Swartz Family Fund • Martine & Bina Rothblatt / United Therapeutics Corp • Chris Ruder • Mary Pat Ryan • S&P Goodwill Fund • SAP • Emily Scott/The Resiliency Fund • Select Equity Group Foundation • Kaustuv Sen • Ricky Seung • Elizabeth A Sheehan Charitable Fund • David and Dianne Shen • Susan M. Sherrerd • Steve Silberstein • Solberg MFG • Solidaridad • The Someland Foundation • Nathan M Spengler • Craig & Jennifer Staub • Margaret & David Stewart • Richard Strock • The Sunken Meadow Fund • Mark & Amy Tercek Foundation • the ella fund hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation • Visionary Women • Michelle Wilson • World Economic Forum • Jack Yeung • Shaun Zacharia
Acumen honors its Partners based on the amount of pledges made or ongoing in 2021, and any new Partners through August 2022.
**Legacy Partners have included Acumen in their estate planning with a gift estimated at $10,000 or more.
***Affiliate Partners are donors who independently fund regional Acumen Academy entities
In addition to current Partners, we’d like to acknowledge former Partners who have given at the Senior Partner (families or individuals) and Keystone Partner (institutions) levels and were instrumental in Acumen’s earlier days.
Anonymous (14) • A-Spark • Herb Allen III • APEX Foundation • Barr Foundation • Rod and Liz Berens • The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust • Blood Family Foundation • Jeffrey Brewer • Martha & Toby Brooks • Bruce Campbell • Niko Canner • Cartier Charitable Foundation • Charles & Roberta Katz Family Foundation • Cisco Systems Foundation • Ricardo Cisneros • The Cohn Family Foundation • d.o.b Foundation • Michael Daffey • David & Anita Keller Foundation • DCD America, Inc. • Matthew Dontzin • Dr. Reddy's Foundation • Fiona & Stanley Druckenmiller • Edmond de Rothschild Foundations • Fossil Foundation • Futura Foundation • Mike Galgon • George & Amanda Hanley Foundation • Fadi Ghandour • The Gilder Foundation • Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) • Goldman Sachs • Google • Gulab Jaman Foundation • Akhil Gupta • Barry & Jane Haimes • The Hans Foundation • The Harnisch Foundation • Anke Heydenreich & John Moran • Hitachi Foundation • Timothy Hodgson & Linda Netten • Sir Tom Hughes-Hallett • Imago Dei Fund • The James Family Foundation • Jill & Ken Iscol • Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation • The Joshua Mailman Foundation • Amjad Ali Khan • KL Felicitas Foundation • Ken Fox & Ana Tanic • Ladrillera Santafe • Mary LaMar • Mr. Mark Lampert and Ms. Susan Byrd • Laura & Gary Lauder • Alison Lawton • Geraldine Laybourne • LF Foundation • Lodestar Foundation • The Lucy Foundation • Lundin Foundation • William E. Mayer • Jennifer McCann • The MCJ Foundation • Neeraj Mehta & Jennifer L. Mehta • Murray Metcalfe • MetLife Foundation • Miles Morland • Montag Family Foundation • Garrett & Mary Moran • Harriet Mouchly-Weiss • Catherine S. Muther • Susan & Gib Myers • Bjorn E. Nielsen • Nandan and Rohini Nilekani • The Nommontu Foundation • Joe & Amy Novogratz • John & Tina Novogratz • Oak Foundation • The One Foundation • Orca Exploration Group, Inc. • The Page Family Foundation Donor Advised Fund • Partridge Foundation • Peery Foundation • Peter & Devon Briger Foundation • The Peter Cundill Foundation • Susan Petersmeyer • Matthew and Natalie Petersen • Pfizer, Inc. • Phalarope Foundation • Prana Foundation • Margot Pritzker • PwC Charitable Foundation • Rajeev Motwani Foundation • The Ring Family • Amy Robbins • Doug & Christine Rohde • Rudy & Alice Ramsey Foundation • Kevin Ruse • Sheryl and Dave Sandberg • Mark & Lisa Schwartz • Lindsay & Brian Shea • Shei'rah Foundation • The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Inc. • Sidney E. Frank Foundation • SJS Charitable Trust • Small Foundation • Kathryn & Robert Stewart • Stichting af Jochnick Foundation • The Stone Family Foundation • Jose & Trish Suarez • Summit Fund of Washington • The Sunil Paul & Michelle Odom Foundation • Sunshine Comes First • Susquehanna Foundation • Thira Charitable Trust • John L. Thornton • Dan Toole & Beth Verhey • TOSA Foundation • Tudor Investment Corporation • Unilever • United We Reach • Vitol Foundation • W.K. Kellogg Foundation • W.L. Lyons Brown Foundation • Jay & Eileen Walker • George W. & Patricia A. Wellde • Work-in-Progress Fund of Tides Foundation • The World We Want • Zennström Philanthropies • Kashif & Sujatha Zafar
