Henry Timms
President and CEO, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Henry Timms is President and CEO of Lincoln Center, the world’s leading performing arts center, which comprises 10 organizations including the Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the New York City Ballet.
Under his leadership, Lincoln Center has been credited with a significant transformation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he created an entire outdoor performing arts center with ten stages, reaching a new and diverse audience. In the face of the crisis, he also has led the acceleration – by two years – and completed the fundraising for the $550M David Geffen Hall project, to create one of the world’s greatest performance spaces.
He is the creator of the global philanthropic movement, #GivingTuesday, which has raised over $7 billion in donations for good causes. By some estimates it is the largest and most diverse philanthropic movement in history.
Henry is the co-author of the international bestselling book New Power which was named as a Book of the Year by Bloomberg, Fortune, FT and CNBC. It was short-listed for the FT/McKinsey Book of the Year.
Previously, he was the President and CEO of 92nd Street Y, a leading NYC cultural and community center.
Henry is a Hauser Leader at Harvard Kennedy School, a Senior Fellow at both Stanford University and the United Nations Foundation, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
