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About Susan Berresford
- Susan Vail Berresford (born 1943) is an American foundation executive.
- She was the president of the Ford Foundation from 1996-2007.
- Since November 2008 she has worked as a philanthropy consultant out of the offices of The New York Community Trust.Berresford attended Vassar College and then studied American history at Radcliffe College, where she graduated cum laude in 1965.
- She currently leads several projects for the Ford Foundation.
- She joined the U.S.
- Fund for UNICEF's national Board in October 2008.Berresford was elected president of the Ford Foundation, effective April 3, 1996.
- At the time of her election as president, Berresford was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation.
- Berresford joined the Ford Foundation in 1970 as a project assistant in the Division of National Affairs.
- Between 1972 and 1980 she served as a program officer in that division.
- In 1980 she was named officer in charge of the Foundation's Women's programs.
- She became vice president for the Foundation's U.S.
- and International Affairs programs in 1981, and subsequently served as vice president of the Program Division in charge of worldwide programming. Prior to joining the Foundation, Berresford served as a program officer for the Neighborhood Youth Corps from 1965 until 1967.
- In 1967-68, she worked for the Manpower Career Development Agency.
- Berresford is a Board Member of the Council on Foundations and a member of the Trilateral Commission and has served on the Boards of the Chase Manhattan Corporation and the Hermine and Robert Popper Foundation.
- She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.Berresford is also a board member and chair of United States Artists, serves as an advisory board member of the Trinidad Trust Fund (California), and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- She is a trustee of The California Endowment and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
- She is the convener of the U.S.–Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin.
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