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 $12.5 million in assets and has granted totaling over $25 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. Economics, 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. He also serves as a member of UCSD’s Board of Overseers and the Binational Advisory Board of the San Diego Natural History Museum. Kiy is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership and Education Studies, Nonprofit Management Program where he teaches a Spring course on nonprofit management in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.