Ford Foundation Chooses a Business Consultant as Its New President

In a surprising move, the Ford Foundation last week chose Luis A. Ubiñas, a business consultant with little background in grant making, to take over as its chief executive in 2008.

The choice of Mr. Ubiñas — a director at the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company, the management-consulting company where he has worked for the past 18 years — raised many eyebrows, in part because people had expected Ford to select a high-profile figure from

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