Laura K. Landy, President & CEO

Laura K. Landy was named President and CEO of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation in 2006 and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 1998. Primary among her responsibilities is guiding the 56-year-old charitable foundation's fresh commitment to "seeding innovations in health." Using the tools of convening, communications, research and policy, Ms. Landy leads the Foundation’s grantmaking and direct charitable activities with a goal of achieving better health, better care and lower costs for all Americans. She also serves as chair of Re>Think Health, an initiative convened by the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. Re>Think Health is a nonpartisan and diverse group of seasoned thinkers and doers who are working together to envision and help create realistic, high quality and sustainable solutions to our country’s health and healthcare challenges. Meeting regularly, the group is committed to asking questions others are not asking, bringing new thinking to our current debate, helping create models, and stimulating broader understanding of health system dynamics.

Throughout her career, Ms. Landy's focus has been to bring sound business and strategic thinking to social issues, nonprofit organizations, and socially responsible enterprises. She served as President of Applied Concepts, a consulting firm she established in 1983, concentrating in the areas of health, higher education, social services and culture. Among her health-related activities have been a multi-year relationship with Pfizer; the redesign of New Jersey's local public health system; a partnership with AT&T applying emerging technology to healthcare administration; studies of urban healthcare systems; and the creation of strategic alliances between major health, business and cultural institutions. She has also been involved in the design of a sustainable, green housing development, creation of a profitable model of inner-city banking, and worked with organizations such as the 92nd Street Y, the UJA-Federation of New York, the Foundation Center, the Tribeca Film Institute, Adelphi University, and the Ford Foundation.

Her academic background and experience in entrepreneurship and corporate venturing led to her creation and direction of the Institute for Nonprofit Entrepreneurship at NYU's Stern School of Business where she also taught and served as Associate Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Ms. Landy has been a member of the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, the New School, and Fairleigh Dickinson University where she also directed the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies. She is the author of Something Ventured, Something Gained: A Business Development Guide for Nonprofits (ACA Books, New York, NY, 2nd Ed 1989). Ms. Landy received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis. After graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, she received her MBA from New York University.

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