Lance Lindblom

President & CEO, Trustee
The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Lance E. Lindblom was previously the President and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, an organization that seeks to build a socially and economically just society that values nature and protects the ecological balance for future generations. It promotes humane health care, social justice as a core Jewish value, and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities. Before he joined the staff of NCF, Mr. Lindblom served as a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, focusing on democratic accountability, economic and social policy, and globalization. Mr. Lindblom has held several governmental positions, including: Deputy Director of the Chicago Mayor’s Office of Budget and Management, Chief of Special Projects Unit, Senior Program Analyst and Budget Examiner at the Governor’s Office of Illinois Bureau of the Budget, and Economic and Program Analyst at the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission of the Illinois General Assembly.

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Anti-Trust Regulations, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Budget and Tax Policy, Discretionary Spending, Economic Mobility, Efficient Government, Family/Medical leave, Fannie/Freddie, Federal Budget, Financial Markets, Government Investment, Healthcare, Housing Market Collapse, Jobs, Labor Force, Living Wage, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, Municipal/State Budgets, National Debt, Off Shore Tax Shelters, OSHA, Payroll Taxes, Privatization, Ratings Agencies, Retirement, Securitization, Social Insurance, Social Investment, Social Security, Too Big To Fail, Unemployment Insurance, Unfunded Mandates, Unions, US Infrastructure, Welfare, Workforce Development

Experience:

• President & CEO, Nathan Cummings Foundation
• Program Officer, The Ford Foundation, 1995 – 2000
• Executive Vice President, Open Society Institute, April 1994 –
July 1995
• President and CEO, J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation, 1984 – 1994
• Deputy Director, Chicago Mayor’s Office of Budget and Management
• Chief of Special Projects Unit, Governor’s Office of Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission of the Illinois General Assembly
• Senior Program Analyst, Governor’s Office of Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission of the Illinois General Assembly
• Budget Examiner, Governor’s Office of Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission of the Illinois General Assembly
• Economic and Program Analyst, Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission of the Illinois General Assembly