Ms. McLean provides strategic counsel to international nonprofit institutions.
Her immediate prior position was president and CEO of Boyden World Corporation, one of the world’s largest executive search firms. Ms. McLean previously was president of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, the worldwide trade association for executive search firms.
Most of her career has been oriented toward advising and managing large international nonprofits. She served as vice president of the Institute of International Education, where she developed and ran innovative education and exchange programs in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Previously, she was CEO and founder of McLean & Co. which provided advisory services to clients such as the World Bank, and the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie and Aga Khan Foundations on building civil society institutions and strategic change.
She served previously as general counsel of the International Development Cooperation Agency, which reorganized the US Government’s foreign aid program. Before that she spent a decade at the Ford Foundation as Associate General Counsel and the officer in charge of developing and running the Ford Foundation’s human rights grants program in South Africa. Her career began as a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Ms. McLean is currently on the Board of Directors of the Southern Africa Legal Services Fund and previously served on the boards of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, Montefiore Medical Center and the American Council of Nationalities Services/U.S. Committee for Refugees. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. McLean holds a bachelor's degree from Smith College and received her law degree from Yale Law School. She has published several works on international philanthropy.
