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Ridgway White

President and Chief Executive Officer, CS Mott Foundation

Ridgway White is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Charles Stewart (CS) Mott Foundation, which has $3.7 billion in assets with annual grantmaking of $150 million per year.

White chairs the U.S. Sugar Corporation Board. He currently serves on the boards of the Isabel Foundation, the Charles Stewart Harding Foundation, MFO Management Company, Ayablu, and Mizzen Education, Inc.

White previously served on the board of the Council on Foundations and currently chairs its Public Policy Advisory Committee. He also served on the board of the Council of Michigan Foundations and as Co-chair of its COVID-19 Working Group. He is a past chair of the National Center for Family Philanthropy and the Sloan Museum governing council and served on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Return to School advisory committee.

White is a graduate of Hobart College, where he studied architecture, economics, and urban planning.