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Vivian Riefberg is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia (UVA) Darden School of Business, where she holds a David C. Walentas Jefferson Scholars Chair. She is also a Faculty Senior Fellow at the Miller Center at UVA. In June 2020, she retired as a senior partner with McKinsey & Company after 31 years with the management consulting firm. Vivian is a board member of ONWARD (EBR:ONWD), Waystar, K Health, Accompany Health and Lightrock, an impact investing firm. In the past she served as a board member for Signify Health which was acquired by CVS in March 2023. In the nonprofit space, she serves on the boards of the Public Broadcasting Service, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, and the National Education Equity Lab. She is also an advisory board member for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. She has served on the NIH Clinical Center Board of Governors and the Advisory Board for Clinical Research. She also served on the board of directors of the Partnership for a Healthier America, a nonprofit created to mobilize efforts to solve the child obesity challenge. She served on the board of directors of Mentors, Inc. and Generation US, a skills-based training and employment program. Vivian is Co-Chair of the Distribution Strategy Advisory Committee and Vice Chair of the PBS Investment Committee. She serves on the Executive Committee and Audit Committee. Vivian earned a BA, magna cum laude in history from Harvard-Radcliffe College and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.