John McCaffrey

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John McCaffrey (b 1968) is a fundraising professional in the United Kingdom .

McCaffrey was born in 1968 in Northern Ireland, and is a graduate of Saint MacNissi's College, Garron Tower in County Antrim and Selwyn College, Cambridge (1986-90) where he read Law and History.

He has worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum as Director of Development from 2002-2005, as a consultant to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People from 2005-6, the National Museums of Scotland, the Vatican Museums and the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales. He also established the University of Ulster's first Development Office in Belfast and has worked for Guinness plc (now Diageo) as PR and as a director in Belfast of ABSA (now Arts and Business).

He played a major part in securing the UK's largest ever charitable gift, $230M given by the Gates Foundation to Cambridge University in 1999.

McCaffrey also advises wealthy donors about their philanthropic giving and steered a number of high net worth individuals towards a Michaelangelo chapel restoration project in the Vatican called the Pauline Chapel as well as towards the charities of the Prince of Wales.

In May 2006, Pope Benedict XVI recognised his service to the Roman Catholic Church by bestowing the Order of St. Gregory the Great on McCaffrey, with the title Knight Commander.