Ronald Schiller

Ronald Schiller is an American administrator of not-for-profit organizations.
As of March, 2011 he was scheduled to leave NPR as vice president of fundraising and become an administrator at the Aspen Institute.
Schiller has previously been employed by Carnegie Mellon University, the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, Cornell University and the University of Chicago. At Chicago he led a $2 billion fund raising campaign and increased donations from $160 million per year to over $500 million by 2009.
In March 2011, conservative activist James O'Keefe conducted an undercover operation during which departing NPR Fundraiser Ronald Schiller was recorded heavily criticizing Conservative groups such as the Tea Party movement, describing them as "fanatically involved in people's personal lives and very fundemental Christian—I wouldn't even call it Christian...basically, they believe in white, middle America, gun-toting—it's pretty scary. They're seriously racist, racist people". He also stated that NPR "would be better off in the long run without federal funding", defended the firing of Juan Williams, and criticized "anti-intellectual" elements within the Republican Party. NPR later distanced themselves from the comments of their departing executive.

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