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Jeff Kaye

Vice President, Public Affairs and Resource Development, Ben-Gurion University

Jeff Kaye made aliyah from his native Scotland in 1981 and has since established himself a leader of Israel's nonprofit sector. During the past 25 years, his work focused on securing significant philanthropic contributions, building partnerships, and conducting successful negotiations with Israeli government ministries of finance, defense, housing, education, the Prime Minister's Office, the IDF and others. 

For more than a decade, he served as Director General for Resource Development & Public Affairs at the Jewish Agency for Israel. Before joining Ben-Gurion University, he served as Executive Vice President and Director-General of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (Keren L'Yedidut). He is the co- founder of The Israel Academy of Philanthropy, which has taught dozens of nonprofit professionals in Israel about capacity building, effective philanthropy, and sustainable development. Jeff has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Strathclyde University. He received his teaching certificate from David Yellin College in Jerusalem, and a diploma in education administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Sue Cunningham

President & CEO, CASE

Sue Cunningham is President and CEO of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), which supports over 3,000 schools, colleges and universities worldwide in developing their integrated advancement work (alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing). As CASE President and CEO, Ms. Cunningham provides strategic and operational leadership for one of the largest associations of education-related institutions in the world with members in over 80 countries. She started her leadership role at CASE in March 2015.

While at CASE, Ms. Cunningham has engaged CASE in two strategic planning processes. The first, which involved thousands of CASE volunteers, resulted in Reimagining CASE: 2017-2021, and included a comprehensive restructure of CASE’s volunteer leadership and governance structure. She led a recalibration exercise resulting in Championing Advancement: CASE 2022-2027 articulates a clear charge: that CASE will define the competencies and standards for the profession of advancement, and lead and champion their dissemination and application across the world’s educational institutions. 

Under her leadership, CASE acquired the Voluntary Support of Education survey and created CASE Insights, CASE’s global research, data and benchmarking portfolio. CASE published the first global and digital edition of CASE’s Global Reporting Standards and Guidelines, which operate as the industry-leading Standards for the profession, and launched global Alumni Engagement and Brand and Reputation surveys in addition to annual fundraising surveys. CASE created an ambitious competencies model across all advancement disciplines and a related career journey framework and has reinvigorated a global advocacy agenda to communicate the value of education.  

Ms. Cunningham serves as a Trustee for the University of San Diego and is Chair of the Student Affairs Committee.  She is a member of the Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia) Board of Directors. She is a member of the Washington Higher Education Secretariat Steering Committee, the International Association of University Presidents Executive Committee, and the International Women’s Forum. She is the author of ‘Global Exchange: Dialogues to Advance Education’.

Prior to CASE, Ms. Cunningham served as Vice-Principal for Advancement at the University of Melbourne where she led the Believe campaign resulting in surpassing its original $500 million goal; and the Director of Development for the University of Oxford where she led the development team through the first phase of the largest fundraising campaign outside of the United States (at the time): Oxford Thinking, with a goal of £1.25 billion. She served as Director of Development at Christ Church, Oxford and as Director of External Relations at St. Andrews University. 

Before working in education, Ms. Cunningham enjoyed a career in theatre, the arts and the cultural sector. She is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2012, Ms. Cunningham received the CASE Europe Distinguished Service Award and is a CASE Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient. Ms. Cunningham was awarded a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from Middlesex University, and is a graduate of the Columbia University Senior Executive Program. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University in 2025.