Peggy Dulany

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Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (born 1947) (known as Peggy Dulany) is a philanthropist and the fourth child of David Rockefeller. She is a fourth-generation member ("the Cousins") of the Rockefeller family. Her siblings are Abby, Richard, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, Eileen Rockefeller Growald, and David Rockefeller, Jr. The surname Dulany is her middle name, taken from her mother's side of the family.

She graduated with honors in 1969 from Radcliffe College and earned a masters and doctorate from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. For most of that time she was co-director of the STEP program for disadvantaged youth in Massachusetts.

She has worked with the National Endowment for the Arts on nonprofit management and planning. She was Senior Vice President of the New York City Partnership - founded by her father - for five years, where she headed the Youth Employment and Education programs.

Dulany has also been involved with consulting with the United Nations and the Ford Foundation on health care and family planning in Brazil, the US and Portugal. In June 2003, Dulany joined the UN Secretary-General's Panel on Civil Society and UN Relationships. The aim of the panel, claims the UN, is to "review past and current practises and recommend improvements for the future in order to make the interaction between civil society and the United Nations more meaningful".

She is also Chair of ProVentures, a business development company for Latin America and Southern Africa. She sits on the boards of Cambridge College, the Africa-America Institute, and was on the board of the family's principal philanthropic organisation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She is also a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Her most prominent public position is as founder and chair of the Synergos Institute, which she established in New York in 1986. The mission of the organisation is to work together with its partners to "mobilize resources and bridge social and economic divides to reduce poverty and increase equity around the world". Its most prominent public event, the "University for a Night", brings together senior leaders from government, business and civil society in a positive dialogue on inter-sector collaboration and problem solving.

Synergos has throughout its history been actively involved with the United Nations; in 1998 it gave a dinner at UN headquarters in New York, billed as a "University for a Night", where world problems were discussed. In attendance was the Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and James Wolfensohn, then President of the World Bank, who is a close associate of the family. The Institute is backed by contributions from Fortune 500 companies, foundations, Unicef and the prominent Republican political campaign donor Dwayne Andreas.[1]

Synergos has also developed the "Global Philanthropists Circle" (GPC) (co-founded with her father), where families and individuals can learn about meaningful efforts to reduce poverty. In addition, in the 1980s and '90s, with support from the United Nations Development Programme and the Rockefeller Foundation, Synergos conducted research on partnership approaches to large-scale problems in Africa and Asia.

She was married to David Quattrone, but they have since divorced; she has been separated from her second husband. She has one child, Michael Dulany Quattrone (born 1977), who attended Northwestern University.