Charles MacCormack

Charles MacCormack has been President and CEO of Save the Children since January, 1993.

From 2006-2009, he served as Chair of InterAction, a coalition of more than 160 humanitarian organizations. He has served on the Food Security Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was selected by the United Nations Secretary General to participate in the founding of the United Nations University, served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the World Food Summit and of the United States Delegation to the Preparatory Committee for the 2001 General Assembly Special Session on the Children.

From 1977-1992 he was President of World Learning (formerly known as The Experiment in International Living), in Brattleboro, Vermont. Prior to that, he served as an International Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Assistant to the Dean of the International Fellow Program at Columbia University and lecturer at the University of New Hampshire.

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Education by Middlebury College, an honorary Doctor of Laws by Clark University and was made a member of the Grand Cordon of the Order of Al-Istiolal by King Hussein of Jordan. MacCormack received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University.

Save the Children is an independent organization for children in need, with programs in 120 countries, including the United States. It aims to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities. In times of acute crisis, the organization mobilizes rapid assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters. Save the Children is made up of 29 member organizations working together worldwide.