Nonprofit chief executives

Lindiwe Mazibuko (born 9 April 1980) is a South African academic, former politician, musician and the former Parliamentary Leader for the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). She was varyingly labelled a "rising star in Parliament" and a possible future DA leader. She was elected the new DA parliamentary leader on 27 October 2011, beating incumbent Athol Trollip in a tight race, becoming the first non-white person to lead the Democratic Alliance in parliament.

Isabel Noboa Pontón de Loor is an Ecuadorian businessperson, the founder and chief executive officer of the Nobis Consortium [es], one of the largest business groups in Ecuador. She is considered one of the most prominent women entrepreneurs in Latin America, and is known for philanthropic initiatives.

Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.

Haruhisa Handa (半田 晴久, Haruhisa Handa, born 18 March 1951) is a Japanese religious leader and a businessman. Handa is the Chairman and spiritual leader of the Shinto-based religion World Mate. He is also known by the name Toshu Fukami Toshu Fukami (深見 東州, Tōshū Fukami) in his artistic career, as well as the pen name Toto Ami Toto Ami (戸渡阿見, Toto Ami). He also uses the pseudonym Leonardo Toshu (レオナルド東州, Leonarudo Tōshū), which is used as his radio personality.

Bob Fu (Chinese: 傅希秋; pinyin: Fù Xīqiū) is a Chinese American pastor. He is the founder and president since 2002 of China Aid, which provides legal aid to Christians in China. Bob Fu was born in Shandong in 1968 and studied English literature at Liaocheng University in the 1980s. He converted to Christianity after an American teacher gave him a biography of a Chinese Christian convert. After his studies, Fu taught English at the Central Party School in Beijing while participating in the house church movement. In 1996, Bob Fu and his family emigrated to Hong Kong and then the United States, after his wife became pregnant without the government permission to have a child. Fu founded the China Aid Association in Philadelphia in 2002, but moved its headquarters to Midland, Texas in 2004. Fu is also known for his role in helping negotiate barefoot lawyer Chen Guangcheng's immigration to the United States; in this sense, has been described as a "liaison" between oppressed groups in China and foreign governments or media that can help them.

Shavit Ben-Arie (Hebrew: שביט בן-אריה‎; born 1985) is director of Yad Levi Eshkol and author of the book Havrot HaKnesset ("Female Members of the Knesset").

Harold Augenbraum (born New York City March 31, 1953) is an American writer, editor, and translator. He is the former Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Asian American Writers Workshop, and former vice chair of the New York Council for the Humanities. Before taking up his position at the National Book Foundation in November 2004, for fifteen years Augenbraum was Director of The Mercantile Library of New York (now the Center for Fiction), where he established the Center for World Literature, the New York Festival of Mystery, the Clifton Fadiman Medal, and the Proust Society of America. He has been awarded eight grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, received a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America for distinguished service to the mystery field, and coordinated the national celebration of the John Steinbeck Centennial. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is co-founder, with Alice Kaplan, of the Yale Translation Initiative at Yale University.

Nicolette Peel MBE is a British midwife and an advocate for women and families with cancer in pregnancy. In 2013, Peel founded Mummy’s Star charity, which supports families who receive cancer diagnosis during pregnancy and in the postpartum period. Peel developed cancer shortly after the birth of her first child and it encouraged her to focus on the Mummy's Star work.

Sheena Wright (born January 6, 1970) is an American nonprofit executive who is the first woman president of the United Way of New York City. In August 2021, she was tapped as the chair of New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams' transition team. On December 20, 2021, it was announced that she would be the Deputy Mayor of Strategic Initiatives in the Adams administration.

Mialisa "Mia" Tania Bonta (néVillafañe; born January 26, 1972) is an American politician serving as a member of the California State Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents the 18th Assembly District, where she succeeded her husband, Rob Bonta.