Name: Glen Galaich

Pronouns: He/Him

Title: CEO | Stupski Foundation

Glen Galaich is the CEO of the Stupski Foundation, a Bay Area-based foundation spending all of its assets within the next 10 years to address some of the Bay Area’s and Hawai‘i’s biggest challenges so one day everyone can benefit from the resources and opportunities in the places the Foundation calls home. He is responsible for leading the overall spenddown strategy of the Foundation as well as overseeing programmatic focus areas and operations.

Glen previously served as Chief Executive Officer of The Philanthropy Workshop, whose mission was to educate, inspire, and activate a peer network of effective, engaged, and innovative philanthropists. His career in strategic philanthropy started with the founding team of the Global Philanthropy Forum where he was responsible for launching the first and second Conferences on Borderless Giving. He also served at Human Rights Watch as the deputy director of development for North America where he had strategic oversight of the Human Rights Watch Council, a network of supporters and opinion leaders committed to raising money for, and awareness of, human rights in five major cities.

Glen has written and published on the role of ethnicity in the formation of political parties, human rights, and in the use of political violence and repression in sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in political science, and a B.A. in political science from the University of California at San Diego.