Sue Cunningham is president and CEO of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), which supports more than 3,600 schools, colleges and universities worldwide in developing their alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing operations in order to advance their institutions. As CASE president and CEO, she provides strategic and operational leadership for one of the largest associations of education-related institutions in the world with members in more than 80 countries. She became president of CASE in March, 2015.

Cunningham engaged CASE and thousands of its volunteers in a comprehensive strategic planning process resulting in Reimagining CASE: 2017- 2021, an ambitious and comprehensive framework for serving CASE’s members and championing education worldwide. This volunteer and member engagement extends into a comprehensive effort to refine CASE’s governance structure to more effectively support CASE’s global reach and service to members.

Under her leadership CASE acquired the Voluntary Support of Education survey and created AMAtlas. CASE has reinvigorated its global advocacy agenda and is engaged in reviews of the curriculum across all advancement disciplines and an update of CASE’s management and reporting standards and guidelines, which operate as the industry-leading set of standards. She is most proud of CASE’s efforts to diversify the advancement professions and CASE’s commitment to talent management, within the organization and across CASE’s membership.

Cunningham serves on the steering committee of the Washington Higher Education Secretariat, is a member of the Council of Higher Education Management Associations, the International Women’s Foundation, and serves on the fundraising committee for the Aurora Foundation.

Prior to CASE, she served as vice-principal for advancement at the University of Melbourne and as the director of development for the University of Oxford. She served as director of development at Christ Church, Oxford, and as director of external relations at St. Andrews University.

She is an honorary fellow of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a recipient of the CASE Europe Distinguished Service Award, and is a CASE Crystal Apple Award recipient. She holds a master’s degree from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from Middlesex University.

Ian Edwards is Partner at More Partnership with 29 years of fundraising experience. He has advised on some of the highest profile university campaigns undertaken outside North America including Oxford, UCL and Trinity College Dublin. He advised École Polytechnique on its first campaign and is working with EDHEC Business School and Institut Pasteur. Other clients include, the Royal Academy of Music, the London School of Economics, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund the University of Pretoria and Rhodes Trust.

Ian has an MA in Social & Political Science from Emmanuel College Cambridge and counts his primary talents in fundraising strategy, campaign planning and principal gifts. He’s also known for his expertise in board and senior volunteer coaching and mentoring, articulation of the institution’s story, and developing an authentic and compelling narrative that inspires donors and volunteers.

His previous experience includes 10 years working for the world’s leading coffee and sugar trading company based in Nairobi; 5 years as the first Director of Development at Shrewsbury School; and 10 years at INSEAD, latterly as Executive Director of Development leading the team responsible for the €200m INSEAD Campaign: a business school for the world.

Ian’s contributions to the industry include serving as Chair of CASE Europe Board from 2001-04, a Trustee for Nizkor Network, Liveryman for Worshipful Company of World Traders, and Freeman of the City of London. He is also a CASE Crystal Apple Holder.

Ian lives in France and is a fluent French speaker.

Liesl Elder directs the University Development Office, overseeing philanthropic fundraising for the University across the academic divisions, museums and libraries. Her teams work worldwide, including the University’s offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. She came to Oxford in in 2011 to lead the Oxford Thinking Campaign, managing its relaunch from a £1.25bn to a £3bn campaign, and seeing it though to a successful conclusion last year. The Oxford team won the 2020 CASE Platinum Award for Best Practice in Fundraising.

Liesl has worked in educational fundraising since 1993, beginning her career at the US liberal arts colleges Carleton College and Oberlin College before serving as Campaign Director for Santa Clara University in California. She moved to the UK in 2004 to become Director of Development and Communications at Durham University, followed by a few years in Scotland as Director of Development at the University of Edinburgh.

Nationally and internationally recognized as an excellent consultant, executive coach, and presenter, Karen Osborne receives invitations from across the globe. She makes presentations to and consults with large and small not-for-profits and institutions. She speaks at AFP chapters across the United States and annually for the Institute for Charitable Giving. As a CASE volunteer, she speaks at the Minority Advancement Institute, for the webinar series and for the past 15 years, at CASE's Summer Institute in Educational Fundraising.

Considered an industry thought leader, Osborne has many published articles, serves on leadership panels, tweets daily @kareneosborne and blogs. CASE awarded her the Crystal Apple for Outstanding Teaching and Public Speaking. In 2014, CASE honored her with the Frank L. Ashmore Award for Distinguished Service to the fundraising profession.

Osborne serves on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation board, and is an adjunct faculty member for Johns Hopkins University's graduate nonprofit leadership program.

Fritz Schroeder became Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations in October 2012 and has served Johns Hopkins for more than 25 years in a series of senior management roles.

He provides leadership and oversight for all fundraising and alumni efforts of the university and Johns Hopkins Medicine, and serves as the institution’s chief fundraising officer. He was responsible for planning and executing the recently concluded Rising to the Challenge campaign, which received more than $6 billion in commitments.

Schroeder joined Johns Hopkins in 1996 as Director of Annual Giving and became Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations in 2000. During this time he had responsibility for alumni outreach and for annual giving programs, serving as the Executive Director of the Alumni Association.

In 2004, Schroeder became Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, with a promotion to Senior Associate Vice President in 2006. He shared responsibility with deans and directors for the university’s decentralized fundraising operations in the schools and other units; provided leadership for centralized development support offices; and took the lead on strategic planning, budget planning and oversight, trustee stewardship, prospect strategy development, and general organizational issues.

Schroeder joined Johns Hopkins from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he had served since 1989 in a number of roles, including Director of Annual Giving from 1993 to 1996.

He is a frequent speaker and conference leader, serves as a trustee of CASE, and is the author of the 2000 book Annual Giving: A Practical Approach as well as several other fundraising chapters. In addition, he is currently leading an effort to develop a more consistent advancement curriculum through the work of a task force established by CASE in the fall of 2017.

Schroeder is a 1989 graduate of James Madison University. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994.