Jonathan Reckford

Jonathan Reckford is CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, a global Christian housing organization, since 2005. Previously, he was executive pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church near Minneapolis and held executive and managerial positions at Best Buy, The Walt Disney Co., and Marriott. Reckford started his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs and did marketing for the 1988 Seoul Olympics organizing committee, also coaching the Korean rowing team. He chairs Leadership 18 and is a member of the Freddie Mac Housing Advisory Council, Council on Foreign Relations, and World Economic Forum Urban Steering Committee. Named the country’s most influential nonprofit leader in 2017 by The NonProfit Times, Reckford is the author of Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World.