Adele Simmons
		Adele Simmons is Vice Chairman and Senior Executive of the Chicago based regional planning group, Chicago Metropolis 2020 and President of the Global Philanthropy Partnership. At Chicago Metropolis 2020, Mrs. Simmons has focused on early childhood education. Through her leadership of the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, Mrs. Simmons is focusing on the challenges facing cities in the next century including sustainability. She has prepared a report on Midwest strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and has Co-Chaired a Task Force that developed a Climate Action Plan for the City of Chicago. She is a founder of Global Chicago and co-chaired a Task Force on Chicago Council on Global Affairs Task Force “The Global Edge: An Agenda for Chicago’s Future.” Mrs. Simmons is also engaged in issues of global philanthropy. As President of the Global Philanthropy Partnership, she oversees the preparation of Global Giving Matters in collaboration with the Synergos Institute. From 1989-1999 Mrs. Simmons was President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, overseeing grants of over $1.5 billion. The foundation's global international programs focused on the environment, population, international peace and security, understanding inequality within and among nations and climate change. The Foundation had offi ces in Russia, Mexico, India, Brazil and Nigeria and projects in 61 countries. Mrs. Simmons is currently on the Board of Marsh and McLennan Companies, the ShoreBank Corporation and ShoreBank International Ltd. and a number of non-profit organizations, including the Field Museum, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Winning Workplaces, The American Prospect, the Synergos Institute, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Museum of Mexican Art. Prior to joining the MacArthur Foundation, Mrs. Simmons was President of Hampshire College, an innovative liberal arts college focusing in interdisciplinary learning, in Amherst, Massachusetts and a served as a Dean and member of the History Department of Princeton University and Tufts University. She served on President Carter's Commission on World Hunger and President Bush's Commission on Sustainable Development and was a member of the Commission on Global Governance as well as the UN High Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.

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