Sam Gill

Sam Gill is president and CEO of the Doris Duke Foundation, a national philanthropy with grantmaking programs in the performing arts, the environment, medical research, child and family well-being, and mutual understanding between communities. Prior to this, he was senior vice president and chief program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where he oversaw grantmaking and managed its research and assessment portfolio. Previously, Gill was vice president of Freedman Consulting. He is a former member of Miami’s Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science board and the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.