Susan V. Berresford served as President of the Ford Foundation from 1996 to 2008. She has spent the majority of her career at the Ford Foundation, joining in 1970 as a project assistant in the Division of National Affairs. Ms. Berresford is also a board member and chair of United States Artists, serves as an advisory board member of the Trinidad Trust Fund (California), and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a trustee of the California Endowment and The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She is the convener of the U.S.–Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin. Ms. Berresford attended Vassar College and then studied American history at Radcliffe College, where she graduated cum laude in 1965. She currently works at The New York Community Trust and still leads several projects for the Ford Foundation. She joined the U.S. Fund’s national Board in October 2008.