Dr. Ellen Dorsey is Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, a private foundation focused on progressive social change in the fields of environment, democracy, human rights and corporate accountability. Under her leadership, the Fund is recognized for creative philanthropic strategies and mission-related investing. Dorsey was awarded the 2016 inaugural Nelson Mandela – Graca Machel Brave Philanthropy Award for launching Divest-Invest Philanthropy, a coalition of over 170 foundations committed to deploying their investments to address the climate crisis and accelerate the clean energy transition. She holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and was a Fulbright Research Fellow in South Africa during that country’s historic transformation. She has served on the boards of Greenpeace USA, the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the United States Human Rights Network, and as board chair of Amnesty International USA.