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Christopher A. Langston

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Christopher A. Langston

CEO and President, Archstone Foundation
Christopher A. Langston

Christopher A. Langston, Ph.D., is an executive, health services researcher, and national leader in philanthropy with 20 years of experience in transforming health care to improve outcomes and value in the care of older Americans. In 2019, he was named President and CEO of Archstone Foundation by its board of directors, its second executive leader. Previously, (2016-2018) he served at the Aging in New York Fund as its Vice President of HealthCare Services, working to advance the integration of healthcare and social services in partnership with New York City's Department for the Aging. From 2007 to 2015 he served as the Program Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation, where he was responsible for the Foundation’s grantmaking in support of its mission to improve the health of older Americans. He served five years on the board of directors of Grantmakers in Aging, the nation’s largest affinity association of funders in the broad field of aging, including three years as board chair. Dr. Langston re-joined Hartford in 2007 after two years at The Atlantic Philanthropies, where he was a program executive on the U.S. Ageing Team in the Human Capital Development subprogram in aging and health. Dr. Langston earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, taught at Purdue University’s Department of Psychological Sciences, and was a post-doctoral fellow in late-life mental and physical health co-morbidities at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Geriatric Center’s Polisher Research Center.