Office of Development
The Office of Development leads the university鈥檚 fundraising effort.
Joan E. O鈥橬eill has worked at Yale for more than thirty-five years. She is responsible for leadership of all the university鈥檚 alumni affairs and fundraising activities.
Ms. O’Neill serves as vice president for alumni affairs and development, a role she has held since July 2012. In this role she oversees all alumni affairs and development activities for the university, including the $7 billion university-wide for Humanity campaign. Prior to her appointment as vice president for alumni affairs and development in July 2012, Ms. O’Neill spent eight years as associate vice president for development leading the major gifts, parent giving, planned giving, annual giving, and reunion giving programs, which together contributed $1.2 billion of the Yale Tomorrow campaign's total. She also was the primary liaison to most of Yale’s school and unit development organizations. During the 2004-2005 academic year she served as acting vice president for development. In this role she was instrumental in planning and designing the strategy for the Yale Tomorrow campaign, which concluded in 2011 having raised $3.88 billion. She first joined Yale in 1987 as a major gift officer.
Ms. O’Neill received a B.A. in psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.