"Our hope is that CIFF’s journey will be useful for all
who aim to make development more impactful."

Phyllis Kurlander Costanza is Director of Planning at CIFF and serves as a member of the CIFF US Board of Trustees. She oversees business and programme planning, staffing expansion and programmatic leverage. Prior to CIFF, she worked for 15 years as a management consultant advising clients in both health care and non-profit arenas. Phyllis also worked in the public sector as the Manhattan Representative for New York State Governor Mario Cuomo, advising on policy and politics in Manhattan. She received a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Miami University (Ohio).