Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Faculty, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is founder and chairman of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), a venture philanthropy fund that leverages the financial, intellectual, and human capital of its partners to make a meaningful, measurable impact in the nonprofit community. She is the creator and teacher of Stanford business school’s first course on strategic philanthropy and Stanford University’s first course on philanthropy and social innovation. Laura also directs the Arrillaga Foundation, which focuses on education and community development in the Bay Area, and is currently writing three books on philanthropy.

Laura is on the board of Stanford University School of Education, SIEPR (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Athletic Board, Menlo School and the San Francisco Art Institute.
She holds a master of business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a master of arts in education from Stanford’s School of Education, and a bachelor of arts and master of arts in art history from Stanford University. Laura received the 2001 Jacqueline Kennedy Award for Women in Leadership and in 2005 she was selected to become a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. She was also awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the Points of Light Foundation in June 2005. Laura lives in Palo Alto with her husband, Marc Andreessen.