| Summary: | Academic administrator and nonprofit chief executive Badi G. Foster was born on September 29, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.A. degree in international relations from the University of Denver and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Princeton University. From 1973 until 1982, Foster worked for Harvard University, and from 1982 to 1993, for Aetna Life and Casualty. In 1994, he founded and became president and CEO of Transport America. Returning to academia, he was hired as director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed president and CEO of the Phelps-Stokes Fund. In 2014, he became a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University's Hutchins Center; and, a visiting scholar at Northwestern University's Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. His works on politics and cultural affairs have been widely published.
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