Staff Profile
Raoul J. Davion
Associate Director, Girls' Secondary Education
Contact - rdavion@macfound.org
Raoul Davion is Program Officer for Human Rights in Mexico and is the Associate Director of Girl's Secondary Education in Developing Countries.
His grantmaking portfolio includes secondary education in Africa and international human rights. Davion previously Co-chaired the Foundation’s decade-long investment in higher education in Africa.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 2001, Davion was based in sub-Saharan Africa, including six years in South Africa with the Institute of Natural Resources, monitoring and evaluating impacts of proposed large scale development projects. Within the Institute’s focus on rural development, he also worked with local government and nature conservation agencies in South Africa on rural development planning and to build community engagement with conservation and promote sustainable access to natural resources. Davion has also served in the African Development Bank’s Social and Environmental Policy division and at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago.
He obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where he received the Henry Richardson Labouisse Fellowship. His master’s degree focused on rural development and was awarded by the University of KwaZulu Natal.