Katherina M. Rosqueta, MBA
Katherina ‘Kat’ M. Rosqueta is the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and a senior fellow at the Wharton Center for Leadership & Change Management. She also serves as the faculty co-director of High Impact Philanthropy Academy and adjunct faculty in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Founded as a collaboration between SP2 and alumni of the Wharton School, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy is the premier source of knowledge and education on how philanthropy can do more good.
Kat serves on the national board of Greenlight Fund, a national nonprofit network matching local communities’ unmet needs with evidence-based social innovations and the board of directors of CCS Fundraising. In her hometown, she is active in Greenlight Fund Philadelphia and serves on the Capitalization Committee of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation. She is the former chair of the board of Candid (merger of Foundation Center and Guidestar), the world’s largest source of information on nonprofits and foundations; past board president of La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco’s oldest and largest shelter for battered women and their children); past chair of the United Way’s Bay Area Week of Caring, and co-founder and past executive committee member of the Women’s MBA Network.
Her work and comments have been cited in numerous publications including the New York Times, Slate, Money Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the Wall Street Journal. She speaks frequently on social impact management and philanthropy and has lectured at the Wharton Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California Haas School of Business, and the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.
Before accepting her appointment to launch the Center, Kat was a consultant with McKinsey & Company; a consultant to the founding team of New Schools Venture Fund; founding director of Board Match Plus, a San Francisco program dedicated to strengthening nonprofit boards; and program manager of Wells Fargo’s Corporate Community Development Group.
Kat received her a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 2012 recipient of the Wharton Women in Business Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award, a 2011 recipient of the Brava! Women Business Achievement Award, the 2020 recipient of the Margaret Bailey Speer Award, and named one of Unboxed Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 100, a list of people, organizations and companies making a positive difference in our world.
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