13 Facts About Neva Goodwin

Neva Goodwin Rockefeller was born on June 1,1944 and is an American businesswoman.

Neva Goodwin is involved with efforts to motivate business to recognize social and ecological health as significant, long-term corporate goals.

Neva Goodwin is involved in socially responsible investing and served in leadership roles at organizations such as, most recently, the New Economy Coalition, Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Ceres, and the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

Neva Goodwin seeks a deeper theoretic understanding from exposure to on-the-ground experiments in alternative socio-economic institutional design.

Neva Goodwin is the editor of two six-part book series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World, and Frontier Thinking in Economic Thought.

Neva Goodwin is currently on the editorial board of Schmollers Jahrbuch, Journal of Contextual Economics.

Neva Goodwin has helped arrange a variety of conferences, seminars, and symposia at Pocantico Conference Center, Tufts University, Harvard University, Boston University and elsewhere, and with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Richard Lounsbery Foundation, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Center for International Development at Harvard University, Hewlett Foundation, and more.

Neva Goodwin is currently on the board of advisors at Sustainable Endowments Institute; and the president of the Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve.

Neva Goodwin was active in organizing her family to attempt to reason with the present and former CEOs of ExxonMobil regarding climate change, directly and through shareholder resolutions.

Neva Goodwin attended the Chapin School in New York and graduated from Concord Academy, Class of 1962.

Neva Goodwin was visiting fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University in Helsinki, and a research associate at the Instituto Interamericano De Cooperacion Para La Agricultura, Buenos, Aires, Argentina, before moving to Tufts University in 1991.

Neva Goodwin is the widow of Bruce Mazlish and is the mother of two and grandmother of three.

Neva Goodwin is the third child of David Rockefeller and Margaret McGrath, along with siblings David, Abby, Peggy, Richard, and Eileen.