Caroline Montojo

Caroline Montojo, Ph.D., is the President and CEO of the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization in New York City dedicated to advancing neuroscience and society by supporting cross-disciplinary intersections such as neuroscience and ethics, law, policy, humanities, and social sciences. Dr. Montojo leads the Foundation’s new mission to advance neuroscience that benefits society and reflects the aspirations of all people. Dr. Montojo serves on the Board of Directors of the Science Philanthropy Alliance and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the SpringerNature Research Advisory Council, the U.S. National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Forum for Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders.

She was previously the Director of Life Sciences and the Director of Brain Initiatives at The Kavli Foundation where she worked closely with the Kavli Institutes and large-scale international brain initiatives to advance science.

Dr. Montojo completed postdoctoral research in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for which she was awarded the Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Award and the Stephen R. Mallory Schizophrenia Research Award. Dr. Montojo received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.