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Hewlett Foundation's Outgoing President Larry Kramer Reflects on Tenure and Future Challenges

Kramer, who led the foundation to become the world's largest climate funder, will next serve as president of the London School of Economics.

  • Larry Kramer, the outgoing president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, reflects on his tenure and the foundation's work in areas such as climate change, cybersecurity, political polarization, and reimagining capitalism.
  • Under Kramer's leadership, the Hewlett Foundation became the world's largest climate funder from 2007 to 2018.
  • Kramer, an expert in constitutional law, will take up the role of president and vice chancellor at the London School of Economics and Political Science after leaving the Hewlett Foundation.
  • The Hewlett Foundation has begun the search for Kramer's replacement.
  • Kramer discusses the challenges of the current political and economic climate, including the crumbling of the neoliberal paradigm and the rise of authoritarianism and ethnonationalism.
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