Sally Bowles

Director, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

Former head of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Sally Bowles joined the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation's board of directors in September 2001. Sally helped to establish and served as president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. She began her career as a member of the core working group that drafted the executive order to establish the Peace Corps and later served as assistant to its director. During a decade of service with the State of Connecticut, she served as its Medicaid Director, and as the commissioner overseeing AFDC, General Assistance, Food Stamps and other income maintenance programs. Sally subsequently became the executive director of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Committee for South African Development. Prior to joining the Tremaine Foundation, Sally served as a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation on its program to build international leadership concerning the global environment and sustainable development. She is a founding advisory committee member of the Council on Foundations Program on Family Philanthropy.