Woo set to shepherd continuing growth of CRS with business expertise

Eight years ago Carolyn Woo was like many Catholics when it came to knowing
about the work of Catholic Relief Services.

She dutifully contributed to the agency’s Lenten Rice Bowl collection, but
had only a vague notion of the reach the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and
development agency had among the world’s poor and marginalized people.

Today, Woo, 57, dean of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of
Notre Dame, is poised to become the new president and CEO of the $919 million
organization.

On Jan. 1 she will take over for the retiring Ken Hackett, president and CEO
since 1993.

Woo brings 35 years of experience in the academic and business worlds to the
position. Her background includes a six-year term on the CRS board of directors
that ended in 2010.

Her expertise in strategic planning, entrepreneurship and organizational
structure will be vital in managing the rapid growth CRS is experiencing. The
global agency has seen its revenues quadruple in a little more than a decade;
more emphasis is being placed on development and reconstruction alongside the
traditional work of providing basic services and responding to natural
disasters.

Woo told Catholic News Service that she sees her new role as emanating from
the heart.

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