Kim Starkey

Kim is President and CEO of King Philanthropies, a private foundation that conducts rigorous due diligence and then deploys grants and impact investments to achieve impact at scale. In this role, Kim focuses on a goal that she has pursued throughout her career: to equip leaders and organizations to achieve extraordinary results.

In addition to leading King Philanthropies, Kim has spent the past decade as a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Her GSB courses equip students to establish and lead high performing social ventures (both for-profit and nonprofit). Kim has advised a wide range of philanthropists, foundations, impact investors, and nonprofit organizations on topics such as strategy, impact evaluation, and organizational effectiveness.

Kim is a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (Seed), the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and the steering committee of Stronger Foundations for Nutrition (a collaborative of funders working to combat malnutrition around the world).

She writes widely about leadership and organizational excellence in the social sector. Kim co-authored the book Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector (Stanford University Press) and she contributes frequently to publications such as Forbes and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Previously, Kim served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and was a Visiting Practitioner at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. A Harry S. Truman Scholar, Kim holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an M.Sc. degree in economics for development from the University of Oxford, and an M.Sc. degree in international relations from the London School of Economics.