Ron is a writer, researcher, and strategic advisor to business, governments, and philanthropies with a focus on social trust, belonging, and human flourishing. Ron is currently the Managing Director of the Humanity 2.0 Institute and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program where he co-leads the Trust and Belonging Initiative. Ron also currently serves as a Fellow at the Centre for Public Impact, a global think tank seeking to re-imagine government and restore relationships between governments and those they govern.

In 2017, Ron established a consultancy, Rembrandt Collective, to shape business strategies for trust, alignment and social impact. For the past two decades, he has served as an advisor to executives in organizations including Preston-Werner Ventures, Fox River Partners, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Vatican, IBM, the World Bank, the White House, and the Aspen Institute. Previous to his consultancy work, Ron served as a policy advisor in the United States Senate.

Ron also serves on multiple advisory boards, including the OECD’s Trust in Business Initiative, a global effort focused on restoring trust in business, and the Paris based think tank Up for Humanness, researching ways to restore social cohesion. He is one of the founding officers of Friends of Notre Dame de Paris, the American foundation that has raised over $50 million in private funds for the restoration of the Cathedral.

Ron and his wife, Kathryn, son Hugo, and daughter Eloïse live in Paris, France.