David Murray provides fundraising oversight and leadership to Columbia entities that draw support from donor communities beyond their own graduates, including the Data Science Institute, Columbia Climate School, the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, the Campbell Center for Entrepreneurship, the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia Global Reports, Columbia University Press, and Columbia Health.

Throughout his career, David has helped donors support the causes that mean most to them, from PBS and NPR to universities and civil rights groups. David sings in the Empire City Men’s Chorus and funds the Nancy Denovan Musical Reading every year at Second Stage Theater in memory of his mother. David holds a B.S. in computer science from Bucknell University and an M.A. in philanthropic studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University.