John Buoymaster
John Buoymaster
**October 27, 2025; Washington, D.C. —**The NPR Foundation is pleased to announce that John Buoymaster has been elected as Chairperson of the NPR Foundation Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning November 1, 2025. John Buoymaster will succeed John McGinn, who has served as Chairperson of the NPR Foundation Board of Trustees for two consecutive terms. As Chairperson of the NPR Foundation, John will also join the NPR Board of Directors.
John has been an NPR Foundation Trustee since 2013. He previously served on the Board, the Executive Committee, and the Development Steering Committee of KQED.
In addition to his service to public media organizations, John also sits on the Stuart Foundation's Board and Investment Committee and is a member of the Columbia Center for Public Research and Leadership Advisory Council. He previously served as a director or trustee of various nonprofit organizations, including Marin Country Day School, Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, and the Children's Health Council, and as a member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors.
John is the Managing Director of Pathstone and was a Vice President in the San Francisco office of J.P. Morgan & Co. A lawyer by training, he has worked with nonprofit organizations and philanthropists as an attorney and financial/investment advisor focused on program strategy and impact, as well as governance.
He is a graduate of Williams College and Stanford Law School.
About the NPR Foundation
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