Deepa Gupta
Program Officer

Email: dgupta at macfound dot org

Deepa Gupta is a Program Officer in Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives. She has responsibilities for the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, the Large Institutional grants program, New Ideas, and arts and culture grantmaking in Chicago.

Previous to her arrival at MacArthur, Deepa worked on a range of issues for the last ten years that have included public policy, communications, and arts and culture. Most recently, she has been a senior associate at McKinsey and Co. Earlier in her career, Deepa worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development and as the business and marketing director for a start-up theater company. Deepa earned an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and (jointly) a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has an AB in Public Policy and Biology from the University of Chicago.