Paul Keenan is Senior Vice President for University Development at Columbia University, where he serves as chief operating officer for the Office of Alumni and Development, and helped lead Columbia’s recent capital campaign that raised $5B in 5 years.

Paul’s career spans over 30 years as an advancement executive, coming to Columbia from his position as Vice President for Development at the Hawaii Community Foundation from 2014-2016, and prior to that a 20-year career at Harvard University, most recently as Senior Associate Dean for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where he led the planning and execution of a $2.5B capital campaign. Previously, he worked at Monitor Deloitte as a strategy consultant to Fortune 500 corporations, and founded Keenan Associates as a consultant to non-profits.

Paul earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in History and East Asian Studies from Harvard College in 1985, and his MBA from the Yale School of Management in 1996.