With more than 20 years' experience in the nonprofit sector, Professor Henry is keenly interested in the application of management skills and perspective to the dynamics of nonprofit organizations. He is chief operating officer of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which has three primary funding areas: medical research, environment and performing arts. The foundation owns and manages a 2,700-acre open space in New Jersey that is being transformed to serve as a model of environmental stewardship. The foundation also runs a museum and related funding program in Hawaii. The work of the foundation is funded by an endowment of approximately $2 billion.
From 2000 to 2005, Henry was an associate dean at Columbia Business School, and he has been an adjunct faculty member since 2005. He has also taught in the Executive Education Program and for Teachers College. He was the associate director and chief operating officer of the Museum of the City of New York and a David Rockefeller fellow with the New York City Partnership, and he has held senior administrative positions with the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities.
Henry has served as a panelist/evaluator for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as consultant and board member for a number of nonprofit organizations.