Participants

Diana Aviv

President and Chief Executive Officer, Independent Sector

Ms. Aviv is president and CEO of Independent Sector, the national leadership forum for America’s nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs. Independent Sector represents tens of thousands of organizations across the country, and its mission is to advance the common good by leading, strengthening, and mobilizing the charitable community.

Ms. Aviv is a leading speaker on emerging trends within the sector, the financial state of the nonprofit community, public policies affecting charities and foundations, the role of civil society in democracy, and civic engagement. She has testified before Congress and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and MSNBC.com. She is a member of the board of governors of the Partnership for Public Service and the boards of directors of GuideStar and the National Council on Aging. She serves on the advisory boards of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, in addition to the comptroller general’s advisory board at the Government Accountability Office.

A native of South Africa, Ms. Aviv earned a B.S.W. from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and received a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University.