John Davies  
President & CEO, Baton Rouge Area Foundation

John G. Davies has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation since June 1988. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is a community foundation that serves Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the civil parishes that adjoin it.

During the past fifteen years, through special initiatives, the Foundation launched the Louisiana Society of New York, it helped organize and provide leadership to the Louisiana Pan American Commission and it provided funding and technical support to institute Local Education Funds throughout the greater Baton Rouge area. It brought housing intermediary, Local Initiatives Support Corporation to Baton Rouge and launched PLAN Baton Rouge, a master planning process to revitalize the city center along New Urbanism principles.

During Mr. Davies’ tenure, the Foundation has grown from $5 million to $475 million in assets, and has awarded over $154.8 million in charitable grants.

Mr. Davies is a director of the Research Park Corporation and chair of the Admission Committee. He is a founding director of the Community Foundations of America and board chair of the Wilbur Marvin Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow of the Synergos Institute in New York. Mr. Davies also serves on the Advisory Committee of the David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Mr. Davies grew up in Latin America as the son of an American diplomat stationed in Lima, Peru. He attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science.

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