JD “Jack” Rockefeller retired as Associate Dean, Global Health Solutions at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He was chief architect of a centralized innovation funding and program development model for environmental health projects at the Medical School and in cooperation with all environmental health programming at Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, he also engaged with The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) convening researchers, educators, and practitioners from multiple disciplines across Dartmouth to work toward the mission of improving environmental health, reducing health disparities, and creating high-performing, sustainable health systems. While at Dartmouth he also engaged with Bloomberg Philanthropies, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Foundation, Hewlett and Packard related foundations, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Jack holds degrees in Science from Arizona State University, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University. He also earned his Juris Doctorate with honors from the John F Kennedy School of Law followed by a post-graduate research fellowship in law from
Trinity College, Dublin, where he headed up the Northern Ireland Negotiation Project.
Jack worked under Kader Asmal, who directed the Law Department at Trinity, and where he was chief counsel for Nelson Mandela, while incarcerated. He is also a Wharton School Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of Wharton’s Advanced Management Program. Environmental life supports and economy have been his strategic interface at each step in his education, fund
development and model building globally.
Prior to his tenure at Dartmouth, Jack was Senior Advisor to the President’s office at Johns Hopkins University. He was engaged primarily to assist with the Rising to the Challenge Campaign, which was constructed and implemented with his assistance – raising more than $6.0 Billion over 5 years in this role. Throughout the past 15 years he was engaged by the Clinton Health Access Initiative where he worked on innovative funding approaches in Environmental Global Health.
