Christine Walshe

Christine Walshe is President of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation (USOPF) and Chief Development Officer of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). Her nonprofit career started at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where she was a member of a small campaign team working on the $300M new symphony center campaign.

Christine joined the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Foundation in 2004 as their first Southeast Major Gift Officer and helped raise $60 million for U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Center for Excellence. In 2008, she joined the USOPC to launch the organization's major giving efforts, which became the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. Now in her fifth year as President of the Foundation and Chief Development Officer of the USOPC, Christine is leading the organization’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign to raise $500M for Team USA athletes on their way to the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The campaign’s impact areas include sport performance and innovation, health and wellness, and athlete career and earnings.

Christine and her team are on track to make and hopefully far exceed this historic milestone with an 84% growth rate from the 2017-2020 quad to the 2021-24 quad. A key message of the campaign is helping the American public understand that unlike other countries, our Team USA athletes receive no federal funding, and their support relies on the philanthropy of individuals and organizations. Christine feels incredibly fortunate to work with donors who love sport and who, like her, see it as a peaceful unifier among the American public as well as among nations.

Christine has her undergraduate degree from Warren Wilson College, and her Master’s Degree in Sports Organization Management from Université catholique de Louvain. She and her husband, Andy, live in Los Angeles with their twin daughters.