PHR Board of Directors

Anne Stetson

Ms. Stetson is a lawyer and strategic consultant to foundations and other institutions that seek to harness the private sector to advance social change. She currently serves as General Counsel to Seven Seas Capital LLC, a social capital management company, and as Senior Advisor to FSG-Social Impact Advisors, a strategic consulting firm to foundations and non-profits.  

From 1998 to 2001, Ms. Stetson served as Associate General Counsel to Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo, an international asset management firm, where she specialized in offshore funds and foreign investments. Previously, she provided counsel to Fidelity Investments, for which she established that firm's subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, and advised the firm's portfolio managers on the legal aspects of foreign investments. She practiced corporate law in New York at Fox & Horan, an international law firm, in the area of cross-border transactions for Latin American and French clients.

In addition, Ms. Stetson serves as a trustee of the John Merck Fund, a director of ACCION International, and an overseer of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has published articles in the area of foreign investments, Latin American capital markets, and human rights and constitutional reform in Colombia and China. 

Ms. Stetson received her B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Columbia University's School of International Affairs, and her J.D. from Boston University. She also studied at Columbia Law School.

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