Vice President for Development
Inge T. Reichenbach, Staatsexamen
Inge T. Reichenbach was appointed Vice President for Development in 2005 to lead the University’s five-year $3.5 billion “Yale Tomorrow Campaign,” a comprehensive fundraising campaign that covered Yale College as well as all schools and units of the University. The major goals of the Campaign focused on the arts, the sciences, the College and international, with the additional objectives of expanding Yale College through the addition of two new residential colleges and the academic development of Yale’s West Campus as a major center of Yale’s increased focus on the sciences added in the second half of the Campaign. Yale Tomorrow ended June 30, 2011 with a record total of $ 3.88 billion raised.
Prior to coming to Yale, Ms. Reichenbach served as Cornell University’s Vice President of Alumni Affairs and Development from 1995 – 2005. From 1988 to 1995, she was director of University Development. During these years, she directed Cornell’s five-year capital campaign, which raised $1.5 billion, at the time the largest amount ever raised by any campaign.
Ms. Reichenbach presents widely on fund raising related topics. Most recently, she was a keynote speaker at the “Deutscher Fundraising Kongress 2011” and delivered the keynote at the 2011 CASE conference on International Fundraising in New York City. She spoke at a conference of university presidents on endowments in St. Petersburg, Russia, and about philanthropy as a transformative force in higher education at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James F. Byrnes Institut and the Baden Wuerttemberg Staatsministerium in Stuttgart, Germany, and the Evangelische Akademie, in Bad Boll. She was a speaker at two conferences on endowment funds in Paris in 2008 and 2010, both hosted by the then-French Secretary of Finance, Christine Lagarde, and served on her Comité Stratégique de Fonds de Dotation. She contributed a chapter to the recently published Across Frontiers: New International Perspectives on Educational Fundraising (CASE, 2010) and wrote the article on Endowment Funds “A la Francaise” from an American Perspective, in Courier Juridique des Finances et de l’Industrie, Numero Special: Fonds de Dotations, Decembre 2010, pp 15-21 (English and French).
A native of Germany, she studied classical and romance philology at the University of Heidelberg.
