Jeff Morgan

This article is about the businessman. For people with a similar name, see Jeffrey Morgan (disambiguation).

Jeff Morgan is an American businessman. He is best known for founding Global Heritage Fund (GHF), a non-profit organization that works internationally to preserve cultural heritage sites in the developing world. Since 2002, Morgan has served as GHF's Executive Director.[1]

Jeff Morgan is now Executive Director of GlobalConservation.org working to save endangered UNESCO World Heritage and National Parks in developing countries.

Personal life

Morgan was born in Palo Alto, California to James C. Morgan, who served as CEO of Applied Materials for 26 years, and Becky Morgan, a former Republican California State Senator. Morgan grew up in Palo Alto and later attended Cornell University, where he earned a degree in urban and regional planning, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he earned a master's in management. He lives in Portola Valley. His oldest, Julien, attends Cornell and his youngest, Sophie, is going into middle school. The middle one, Lucie, is starting high school.

Professional Life

Prior to founding GHF, Morgan worked as an international sales and marketing executive in software and network computing, including at Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. He traveled extensively during this time, and lamented that in regions where increased tourism revenue could potentially yield the greatest benefits to local communities, there seemed to be a disregard for cultural heritage conservation.[2]

Morgan founded GHF in 2002, and since then, the organization has raised investment of over $40 million and secured $28 million in co-funding for 16 global heritage sites to ensure their sustainable preservation and responsible development. The organization, which works exclusively in the developing world, currently has conservation projects in Cambodia, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Peru, and Turkey.[3]

Morgan is co-author of two books: Cracking the Japanese Market: Keys to Success in the New Global Economy (Free Press, 1991) and Saving Our Global Heritage (GHF Press, 2004). He also serves on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://globalheritagefund.org/about_us/ghf_team/staff/jeff_morgan
  2. ↑ Jeff Morgan. "Challenges Facing World Heritage in Africa Today". Retrieved 2015-01-19.
  3. ↑ http://globalheritagefund.org/what_we_do/ghf_projects
  4. ↑ http://siepr.stanford.edu/advisory_board

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