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June 2004 Financial Professional Joins Board Lynn A. Foster of New York City was elected to the Population Council’s board of trustees at its December 2003 meeting. A successful financial professional and volunteer leader of several major nonprofit organizations, Foster has a longstanding interest in conservation and has been a trustee of the World Wildlife Fund since 1993. She also has served as president of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and on the national board of the Girl Scouts, as well as on the boards of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Franklin Institute Science Museum, and the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. Population Council president Linda Martin noted, “Lynn brings high-level management experience in both the business and philanthropic worlds and substantive knowledge of health, environmental, and youth development issues that will be invaluable.” Foster has an M.B.A. from Boston University and has held positions focusing on investment and health care at the New England Merchants National Bank, John Hancock Mutual Life, and Smith Barney. She served as consultant for 18 years to Foster Management Co., a private venture capital firm specializing in health care investments. From 1996 to 1999, she was senior vice president and director of investment research at Ashbridge Investment Management in Philadelphia. See Also |
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