William S. (Bill) Moody, a longtime program officer and later a program director with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), managed grantmaking programs for 40 years, first in economic development and natural resources management in Latin America; community action and conservation in sub-Saharan Africa, race relations in South Africa, and eco-development in the Caribbean; later, in sustainable development and civic engagement/democratic practice in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans; and, along the way, in international relations and human rights.  

Together with Priscilla Lewis as editior, Bill is the author of Staying the Course:  Reflections on 40 Years of Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (Alliance Publishing Trust, London,UK 2014). Bill was educated a Northwestern University (BA); University of Geneva, Switzerland; University of Michigan Law School (JD); and the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (licence speciale).  He is a member of the governing boards of International House, New York, the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and the Woodstock Foundation in Vermont.