In accordance with the wishes of its founder, The Leon Levy Foundation maintains a small Board of Trustees and operating staff, to ensure focus on and efficiency in grant making.

Shelby White, Trustee
Ms. White is an author, collector and philanthropist.

She serves on the boards of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Institute for Advanced Study, The New York Botanical Garden, New York University, The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, The Bard Graduate Center, and  Writers Room. She is president of both the American Friends of the Cycladic Art Foundation and the American Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem. Ms. White also serves as chairman of the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at Harvard University.

Ms. White's financial articles have appeared in leading American publications including The New York Times, Town and Country, Redbook and Forbes. Her book, "What Every Woman Should Know About her Husband's Money",  was published by Random House (1992, 1994). She has taught seminar courses on philanthropy at New York University and museum studies at City College of New York and written articles about both philanthropy and art collecting.

Ms. White has appeared on television programs, including Good Morning America, Sonya Live, the Bill Buckley Show, and the Today Show. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. from Columbia University.

Ms. White has been listed as one of the countries top philanthropists in Business Week's Annual Review of Top Giver's and on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of America's most generous givers in 2007.

Elizabeth B. Moynihan, Trustee
Ms. Moynihan is an architectural historian who became friendly with Leon Levy in 1980, when they were on an archeological trip to Jordon.

In 1973, while living in India, Ms. Moynihan authored a survey of surviving Moghul gardens, which was published in l979 "Paradise as a Garden in Persia and Moghul India." She also served for many years on the Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission on Education and Culture while continuing her research on Babur, the founder of the Moghul dynasty. In the process, she located and documented four previously unknown 16th century gardens built by Babur.

In l991, she was nominated by Leon Levy and elected to serve as an independent director of the Oppenheimer Funds, of which he was founder and chairman.

In l996, Ms. Moynihan directed a joint project for the Archaeological Survey of India and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and edited the report published in 2000 as "The Moonlight Garden, New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal."

A long-time board member of the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and the Sackler Gallery, Ms. Moynihan has also served as a trustee of the National Building Museum, the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University, and the Preservation League of New York State, among other educational and cultural institutions.

Married to Daniel Patrick Moynihan for 48 years, Ms. Moynihan also managed three of his four campaigns for the United States Senate.

In 2001, Leon Levy asked Ms. Moynihan to serve with Ms. White as trustee of the Leon Levy Foundation.

John W. Bernstein, President and Chief Financial Officer
Before being appointed the first President of the Leon Levy Foundation in 2004, Mr. Bernstein was senior vice president for Institutional Development at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, where he was responsible for a successful $300 million campaign. Mr. Bernstein previously served as vice president for Finance at the Garden, overseeing all financial matters, including earned revenue and the endowment.

Mr. Bernstein, who holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from its Wharton School, worked for the New York Public Library until 1991, when he moved to the New York Botanical Garden. Mr. Bernstein is active in the cultural world of New York City and has served as president of the Ping Chong & Company theater group for many years.

Nina Berg, Director of Administration
Nina Berg worked closely with Leon Levy for over 20 years. Ms. Berg is intimately familiar with Leon Levy's charitable preferences and activities and he felt she would be invaluable to the Foundation Trustees and Managers.