Mark Bodden

Mark L. Bodden is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service of NYU''s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is also an adjunct instructor at Baruch College as well as Vice President/Program Director at the Rudin Foundations, where he directs the philanthropic activities of the three family foundations based and operating primarily in New York City.

Prior to his current position, Bodden was the Managing Director of Binder and Binder, a national law firm handling Social Security Disability.  He led the corporate giving program at Philip Morris Companies (now Altria) and has over twenty years of public policy experience, having worked in Washington, D.C. and in Albany, New York.  An informal consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations, Bodden has been a presenter at national and regional grant-making conferences, including the Council on Foundations. He was a past Chair of the Board of Philanthropy New York and member on the Board of the Edwin Gould Academy. Bodden currently serves on the Dean’s Council at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at NYU, on the Board of Overseers at the Rockefeller Institute, and the Board of Visitors of the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership.  

Bodden is a graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and attended the National Law Center at George Washington University.  He is a Fellow at the Public Affairs Institute in Washington.