Richard Kiy is President & CEO of the San Diego based International Community Foundation, a public charity dedicated to expanding cross-border charitable giving along the U.S-Mexico border, Baja California Peninsula and communities across the Americas and Asia. Since taking over the helm of International Community Foundation in 2001, International Community Foundation has grown to over $9 million in assets and has made granted totaling over $18 million to nonprofit organizations and other charitable causes in the regions that it serves.

With a background in environmental policy, Kiy has held several senior level positions in the U.S. Government including Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Health & Safety at the U.S. Department of Energy; Special Assistant for U.S.-Mexico Border Affairs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of International Activities and the Acting Environmental Attaché at the U.S. Embassy-Mexico. Kiy’s private sector international experience includes having served as Senior Vice President for Business Development for PriceSmart, Inc; Vice President for SAIC de Mexico; and Director for Environmental Information Systems with SAIC’s Venezuelan based subsidiary, INTESA.

Kiy is a graduate of Stanford University (A.B. Economic, 1984) and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA, 1986). Kiy is the co-author of the book Environmental Management along North America's Borders and co-editor of The Ties that Bind Us: Mexican Migrants in San Diego County.   

Kiy serves on the board of the U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership, San Diego Grantmakers and the New Americans Immigration Museum and Learning Center.  He also serves as a member of UCSD’s Board of Overseers and the Binational Advisory Board of the San Diego Natural History Museum.