Mellon Foundation
Henri Stephan Benaim serves as the Associate General Counsel at the Mellon Foundation, a position held since October 2018, following a role as Assistant General Counsel. Prior experience includes serving as an Associate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP from October 2013 to October 2018, and a Corporate Counsel Fellow at the ACLU. Earlier legal experience includes internships at the Guggenheim Museum and the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York. Henri also has a background in the arts, having directed operations at PKM Gallery and worked as a freelance critic for Art Asia Pacific. Academic qualifications include a Doctor of Law (J.D.) from Columbia Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and East Asian Studies from Yale University.
Mellon Foundation
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies. To this end, they support exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work.