The Aspen Institute

Timothy Ogden is a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Business Ownership Initiative and its Financial Security Program. Tim also serves as Managing Director of New York University’s Financial Access Initiative (FAI), coordinating FAI’s research, communications, and operations. His previous work experience encompasses the private and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining the Financial Access Initiative he was the Chief Knowledge Officer at Geneva Global, Inc., an international philanthropy advisory company, and founding editor of Gartner Press. He founded and currently leads Sona Partners, a thought leadership communications firm, where he has helped develop more than 20 books for major publishers. Tim is co-author of Toyota Under Fire, and author of Experimental Conversations, a collection of interviews with economists conducting field experiments on poverty alleviation interventions. Tim also serves as chairman of GiveWell.