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Adrian Sargeant (born 27 October 1964) is the Robert F. Hartsook Professor of Fundraising at Indiana University holding what is presently the world’s only endowed chair in that discipline. He is also Professor of Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising at Bristol Business School (U.K) and an Adjunct Professor of Fundraising at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities in the domain of fundraising being consistently voted one of the top ten most influential people in the field by readers of Professional Fundraising Magazine.

In 2004 Professor Sargeant pioneered the public information website www.charityfacts.org designed to bolster public trust and confidence in the UK’s charity sector. The site is underpinned by an ongoing benchmarking study tracking the fundraising performance of a cross section of charities. Most recently Professor Sargeant developed the UK’s new National Occupational Standard for Fundraising, specifying the skills and knowledge required of fundraisers working in a variety of different roles within the profession.

In 2008 he was honoured by the Institute of Fundraising for his services to the profession of fundraising, becoming an Honorary Fellow of the Institute.Along with Stephen Lee, Lindsay Boswell and Peter Maple he is calling for a greater investment in meaningful fundraising research in the UK

In 2010 he received a Civil Society Award for his Outstanding Contribution to Fundraising and was named to the prestigious Nonprofit Times' Top 50 Power and Influence List.

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