About Mercy Corps: Our Leadership:

Nancy Lindborg, President

Nancy Lindborg’s guidance and strategic vision have helped transform Mercy Corps into a respected, innovative international relief and development organization and global partner of choice.

Nancy Lindborg, Mercy Corps President (left) greets a beneficiary of a cash-for-work project in the streets of Kurmuk, Sudan. Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/Mercy Corps

During her twelve years of leadership, the organization has experienced unprecedented growth and met new challenges with responsive, innovative programming. In her role as Mercy Corps President, Lindborg uses her expertise in public policy, economic development, post-conflict and disaster assistance to lead Mercy Corps’ global engagement, program operations and development, and emergency response.

From her base in Washington, D.C., Lindborg currently serves as co-president on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign. In her critical role as co-chair of the National Committee on North Korea, she leads efforts to advance, promote and facilitate engagement between citizens of the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid.

Lindborg served from 2000-2005 on the Sphere Management Committee, an international initiative to improve the effectiveness and accountability of NGOs, and chaired that committee from 2000-2004. Lindborg also served as co-chair of the InterAction Disaster Response Committee from 1998-2002.

Before joining Mercy Corps in 1996, Lindborg managed economic development programs as a regional director in post-Soviet Central Asia and worked in the private sector as a public policy consultant in Chicago and San Francisco. She also holds a B.A and M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and an M.A. in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.