Former Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Ford Foundation

Barron (Buzz) Tenny served as Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Ford Foundation from 1996 until January 2011. He joined the Foundation in 1983 as special assistant to the President and was made Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel in 1984.

Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Mr. Tenny was General Counsel, Vice President, and Assistant Secretary of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, a community development corporation in Brooklyn, New York. From 1970 to 1974 he was an associate attorney at the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, with a focus on nonprofit law.

Mr. Tenny is Vice Chair of the Foundation Center, and a trustee of the International Fellowship Fund, where he chairs the Finance and Investment Advisory Committee, the New York Community Trust, and the International Center for Transitional Justice. He is a director of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and the New York City Bar Fund, and a member of the Council on Foundation’s Ethics and Practices Committee.

Mr. Tenny graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and received his bachelor’s degree in history and science from Harvard College.