Harvey P. Dale
HARVEY P. DALE is Founding President of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a Director of Atlantic since 1982, and a member of the Investment Committee.
Mr. Dale is University Professor of Philanthropy and the Law at New York University (NYU), where he is also the Director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. He has been a faculty member of the NYU Law School since 1977, teaching primarily in the field of nonprofit organisations for the last 25 years. He is an expert on international tax laws and has advised groups in Australia, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and South Africa regarding legal issues affecting nonprofit organisations and the formulation of laws governing them. Mr. Dale was Counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York from 1983 to 2002.
He serves in leadership roles for many charitable organisations in the United States and South Africa. Mr. Dale is a Trustee of the Legal Resources Trust in South Africa, Vice-Chair and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the International Center for Transitional Justice, Chairman of the Friends of the South African Constitutional Court (USA) Inc., and President and Director of the Southern Africa Legal Services Foundation. He serves as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on “Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations.”
Mr. Dale is a Life Member and a former Chair of the Cornell University Council, and was a member of the University’s Trustee Investment Committee from 1996 to 2005. In 2007, he was named a Presidential Councillor by the Cornell Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Board of Visitors to the Duke University Law School and was formerly a member of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Law School. Mr. Dale is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has written many articles on the rationales for tax exemption, international grantmaking, and issues surrounding unrelated business income tax.
He earned a B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
