Jean Case

Jean N. Case (born 1959) is CEO of the Case Foundation, which she and her husband, AOL co-founder Steve Case, created in 1997. The Cases joined the Giving Pledge in 2011, committing to give away a majority of their wealth.

Civic Service

In June 2006, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.

In 2007, Case was asked by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as a co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership to promote economic opportunity for the Palestinian people, prepare Palestinian youth for the responsibilities of citizenship and good governance, and marshal new private investment in the West Bank.

Board Service

Case serves on the National Geographic Society's board of trustees and on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, Brainscope, and SnagFilms, as well as the advisory councils of the Social Enterprise Initiative for the Harvard Business School, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and the Civil Society, Georgetown University's Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, and the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund.