Darren Walker is the president of the Ford Foundation, an international social justice philanthropy with a $13 billion endowment and $600 million in annual grant making. He cochairs New York City’s Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, and serves on a commission on the future of Rikers Island Correctional Institution and the UN International Labour Organization’s Global Commission on the Future of Work. He also serves on the boards of Carnegie Hall, the High Line, and the Committee to Protect Journalists, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.