RICHARD STEELE

Richard 'Dickie' Steele is a Partner in Bridgespan's New York office. He joined Bridgespan from Marakon Associates, where he had been a Partner in their London and New York offices.

Steele's consulting engagements with U.S. nonprofits include strategy development for a series of DC-based advocacy groups, including the Atlantic Council, The United Nations Foundation, Council on Foundations and the National Senior Citizens Law Center, and a wide range of philanthropies including Omidyar Network and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the field of education, he has worked with Sesame Workshop, Achieve Inc., Communities in Schools, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education funded initiative: Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count. In the U.K., Steele has worked with an internationally-recognized group of museums, helping to create an innovative public private partnership, and he led Marakon's relationship with Business in the Community.

Steele's for-profit consulting work has been even more varied, covering the media, retail, fast-moving consumer goods, and banking sectors, with engagement in 14 countries including Brazil, Mexico and India. Most of this work related to strategy development, profitable growth and organizational change.

Steele has co-authored articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and Harvard Management Update. His work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Times of India.

Steele is passionate about foreign policy and public media and is one of only two foreign nationals on the board of The Atlantic Council of the United States, the think tank chaired by former Senator Chuck Hagel.

Educated in the U.K. and France, Steele has a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. He lives in New York with his wife, a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University, and two children, Evie (8) and Felix (4).