John Hewko is the general secretary and CEO of Rotary International, one of the world’s largest service and humanitarian organizations with 46,000 clubs and 1.4 million members throughout the world, and of its foundation, The Rotary Foundation. He oversees a combined operating budget of over $500 million, assets of more than $1 billion and a staff of almost 800.
From 2004 to 2009, he was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries.
Prior to joining MCC, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie. He helped establish the firm’s Moscow office and was the managing partner of its offices in Kyiv and Prague.
Hewko has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in Modern History from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar) and a bachelor’s in Government and Soviet Studies from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He speaks English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
He is a member emeritus of the board of trustees of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.