Raymond C. Offenheiser, Jr.
President, Oxfam America
Offenheiser is the president of Oxfam America, a non-profit international development and relief agency, and the US affiliate of Oxfam International. Since Offenheiser joined Boston-based Oxfam America in 1995, the organization has grown more than fourfold and has positioned itself as an expert on international development and global trade.
Before joining Oxfam America, he served for five years as the Ford Foundation representative in Bangladesh and, prior to that, in the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America. He has also directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in both Brazil and Colombia, and worked for Save the Children Federation in Mexico.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Interdependence Initiative at the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Inter-American Dialogue. Offenheiser has served as an advisor for Harvard University’s Asia Center, the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Offenheiser earned a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1971 and holds an MA in development sociology from Cornell University.
