Jeffrey A. Schoenfeld

Joined the amfAR board in December 2019. Serves as chair of the compensation committee. Serves on executive, audit, and finance, budget and investment committees.  Expertise in finance.

Mr. Schoenfeld is a retired General Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) where he led the firm’s Institutional Investment Management client activities on a global basis for a range of products/services. He joined BBH in 1984, was named a Partner of the firm in 1996, and served numerous investment leadership roles during his 40-year BBH career, including Chief Investment Officer, Head of Asset Allocation, and Head of Fixed Income Management.

Schoenfeld is passionately involved in numerous philanthropic organizations. He is a member of the board and Co-Chair of the Israel Emergency Response Committee of the Jewish Federations of North America, allocating humanitarian aid and economic assistance in response to the October 7th attacks. He is also a Past President of UJA-Federation of New York, the largest local philanthropy in the world. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, whose principal activities involve connecting diaspora communities around the world and facilitating immigration to Israel. He is also a member of the board and Chair of the Investment Committee of the Jim Joseph Foundation, supporting Jewish youth and young adults in North America in the areas of education, leadership, and community engagement. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Jewish Funders Network, joining other philanthropists to address critical societal challenges.

Schoenfeld serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the NPR Foundation, the country’s leading provider of journalistic excellence and programmatic content for public radio and podcasts, and is on the board of overseers of the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his MBA in 1984. Jeff also received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980.

He resides in New York City.