Diana Leat

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Name: Dr Diana Leat Associations: Carnegie UK Trust (Director, Creative Philanthropy Programme 2006-) Center for Civil Society, UCLA (Research Fellow) Demos Related Pages: Click here for a list of pages related to this person.

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Diana is the Director of the Creative Philanthropy Programme at Carnegie UK Trust. Prior to this, she was Visiting Professor at City University Business School. Diana has been a consultant to various grantmaking foundations in the UK and Australia reviewing their policies and practices. She has spent several periods in Australia over the past decade, including some time at Philanthropy Australia and at the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology. She has been Senior Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, London.

Diana has extensive research experience in the philanthropic sector, citizenship and policy development, and has worked as a consultant for Demos, a British policy think tank. She has also worked with WINGS-CF as consultant, editor and in evaluating the effectiveness of its peer matching program. She has also published extensively on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

Selected works:

• Creative Philanthropy (with Helmut Anheier)
• Working with Foundations in Australia (with Heather O'Connor)
• Information for a Messy World: Making Sense of Pre-Grant Inquiry
• The Development of Community Foundations in Australia: Recreating the American Dream