Stephen B. Heintz is President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has held top leadership positions in both the nonprofit and public sectors. Prior to joining RBF in 2001, Heintz was Founding President of Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the EastWest Institute (EWI), where he worked on issues of economic reform, civil society development, and international security based in Prague, Czech Republic. Earlier he developed an extensive track record as a policy analyst and cabinet official in the State of Connecticut, where he served as Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development and Commissioner of the Department of Income Maintenance (Social Welfare). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University.