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Michael Northrop - Michael Northrop

Michael Northrop

Sustainable Development Director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Bio Current as of April 6, 2021

Michael Northrop is the program director for the Sustainable Development grantmaking program at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund where he focuses on energy and climate change. Northrop also teaches a spring semester course on environmental policy campaigns at the Yale School of Environment. Previously he was executive director of Ashoka, an international development organization that supports “public sector entrepreneurs” and an analyst at First Boston, an investment bank in New York City. Northrop serves on New York City’s Sustainability Advisory Board, on the city’s Waterfront Advisory Board, and on the boards of the Rainforest Action Network, Inside ClimateNews, and Princeton-in-Asia. Northrop has a Master of public administration from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, where he was an English major as an undergraduate.