Vines Foundation Global Development Advisor

Steve is the Teaching Professor of International Development at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. He has been a research partner with The Vines Foundation since 2021. Reifenberg’s teaching and research interests are in international education, international development, and negotiations, and built on work carried out in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, including more than a decade living overseas, primarily in Chile. In most of his teaching, Reifenberg’s classes partner with social entrepreneurs and international organizations that present real world challenges to student teams.
Before moving to Notre Dame in 2010, Reifenberg worked for two decades at Harvard University, serving as executive director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and subsequently founding and directing the DRCLAS Regional Office in Santiago, Chile. Previously, Reifenberg was the program director for Latin America at the Conflict Management Group and the director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The author of Santiago’s Children: What I Learned About Life Working at an Orphanage in Chile, Reifenberg continues to be actively involved in Domingo Savio in Santiago, Chile, and serves on the boards of Partners In Health and Education Bridge in South Sudan. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, an MS in print journalism from Boston University, and a BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.