Presented by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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Join the Chronicle for a discussion with Tim D alrymple, who last year became CEO of the Templeton Foundation, which has about $4.3 billion in assets. Dalrymple is the first person not related to the philanthropy&rsquo\;s founders to lead it.
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Chronicle CEO Stacy Palmer will talk with Dalrymple about how he is l eaning into the foundation&rsquo\;s interdisciplinary approach to its work on science, religion, individual freedom, the free market, and more. In o ne of his first signature projects, Dalrymple unveiled a $60 million grant -making effort to tackle questions about nature, purpose, and the future o f intelligence &mdash\; a particularly important question in the age of AI .
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Before joining Templeton, Dalrymple built a career as a scholar, co-founded a media venture, and then led Christianity T oday, where he won praise for navigating controversial topics with a thoughtful approach to political and ecclesiastical divides.
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Palmer will talk with him about why that range of experience is e specially useful as a foundation leader, how he's thinking about cuts to f ederal funding for many of the organizations Templeton supports, and how u pheavals in higher education, which are Templeton's primary grantee base, affect the foundation's approach.
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