Bruce Payne

Bruce was appointed Executive Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in York City in April, 2006. The Foundation is growing rapidly, and he is responsible for a broad program of grants for art and culture, health, and education in the Himalayan region, and for U.S. grant programs in education, civil liberties, and leadership.

For ten years from 1996 to 2005, Bruce was Director of Leadership and the Arts: A Duke Semester in New York City. A Lecturer in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University from 1971 to 2006, Bruce originated Duke’s courses in ethics and policymaking, leadership, policy and the arts, and philanthropy and the arts. He also taught courses in rural poverty, ethnic politics, and other subjects having to do with public choices and values. In 1983 he received Duke’s Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Bruce is the Founding Director of Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program and served as Director from 1985 to 1989.

 

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