Heiner Baumann

Heiner Baumann served as Director of Global Programs at Barr from the programs’ inception in 2010 until its conclusion 2016. Over more than two decades, he has helped design, build, and manage outcome-oriented philanthropic and social-change organizations, including New Profit Inc. and The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. These focused primarily on health, education, livelihoods, and environment with programs in Africa, South Asia, North America, and Europe. Prior to this work, he spent five years with McKinsey & Company, where he supported a range of corporate clients and also helped build the firm’s nonprofit practice.

Heiner’s writings on the topics of innovation and capacity building in the nonprofit sector have appeared in the Harvard Business Review and Alliance magazine, and he has been a speaker in multiple countries on venture philanthropy. He has served on the boards of directors of several local and international nonprofit organizations and is currently on the Executive Committee of Big Bang Philanthropies, a funder collaborative tackling poverty in developing countries.

Heiner received an advanced degree from the University of Zürich and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is an avid sailor and a cross-country ski coach, and he enjoys commuting to work by bike.