New Leaders at Unicef and Walter & Elise Haas Fund

Unicef

Henrietta Holsman Fore is the new executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, also known as Unicef. She succeeds Anthony Lake, whose term ended on December 31.

Ms. Fore is an American businesswoman who was the first woman administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2007 until 2009. She is also the retired chairman and chief executive of Holsman International, a manufacturing and investment company started by her family in 1902.

Carnegie Institution for Science

John Mulchaey and Yixian Zheng have begun serving as interim co-presidents, following the retirement of Matthew Scott in December. Mr. Mulchaey is the director of Carnegie Observatories. Ms. Zheng is the directory of embryology at the research institution.

Walter & Elise Haas Fund

Jamie Allison-Hope, vice president for programs at the S.H. Cowell Foundation, has been named executive director of this San Francisco foundation, which reported $212 million in assets in 2016. She will succeed Pam David, who has left the foundation after 15 years.

More new CEOs:

John Brauer, CEO of Union Station Homeless Services, will lead New Horizons, a Los Angeles group that provides services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Kate Fullam has been appointed executive director of the Amagansett Food Institute, which promotes local farming and food production on Long Island, N.Y. She was previously communications manager at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.

Nick Lopez, senior director of major gifts at the Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation, has been promoted to executive director.

Douglas Scott has become CEO of the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech. He has served as interim CEO since March and was previously a principal at Glenmoore Partners, a strategic consulting firm for businesses.

Other notable appointments:

Bethany Criss-June has become managing director of development at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund. She most recently served as national director of membership for the NAACP.

Myrna Hall, former senior vice president for development at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a senior consultant and principal at the fundraising consulting firm Marts & Lundy, has become vice president for advancement at Regis University.

Matt Herrick has joined the Rockefeller Foundation as managing director of communications. He was previously senior vice president at Story Partners, where he founded and managed the public-affairs agency’s food practice.

Jacek Pruski has become managing director and general counsel of We the Action, an online network that connects volunteer lawyers with nonprofit organizations. He previously worked for President Obama as White House trip manager and associate general counsel of the U.S. Department of Education.

Legacies

William Graham, a lawyer and philanthropist whose family owned and published The Washington Post for decades, died December 20 in an apparent suicide. He was 69. His family says much of his giving was done anonymously to groups in education, medical research, and veteran services, but he did acknowledge helping to establish the Puente Learning Center, in Los Angeles.

Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died January 2 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 90. Mr. Monson, who had led the Mormon church since 2008, increased the number of female missionaries. He also continued the church’s historic opposition to same-sex marriage and female priests.

Suanne Roueche, who directed the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development for 20 years, died on December 24. She was 75.

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