Rose
Cecile
Chan Loui
Rose Chan Loui is the Founding Executive Director of the Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits at UCLA School of Law. As the most senior member of the LMPN Team, Chan Loui designs and implements the Center’s programs and oversees its operations. The mission of the Center is to deepen understanding of the philanthropic and nonprofit sector and to promote solutions to its problems through education, thought leadership, and scholarship. The Center’s signature program is the Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations. Other programming includes an annual nonprofit arts conference; a conference on nonprofits and AI; and a conference for family philanthropies. Rose also teaches Nonprofit Law and Policy with Professor Ellen Aprill, a course that covers both the state law and federal tax aspects of nonprofit law. Much of Rose's recent work has been about OpenAI, which is helmed by a nonprofit that is committed by its legal purpose to developing AI safely and "for the benefit of all humanity." Rose has written, spoken about, and been interviewed by such outlets as NBC’s Squawk Box, the University of Chicago’s Capitalisn’t, and 80,000 Hours, reaching an audience beyond the tax law and academic world.
Rose is deeply committed to serving the sector in her personal capacity as a volunteer board member. Her current leadership appointments include being board chair of East West Players, the longest-running theater of color in the country; interim board chair of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, which works to reduce homelessness; and incoming board chair of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. A dedicated alumna of Stanford University, Rose serves on the Board of Governors of Stanford Associates, an honorary organization and university’s oldest alumni association, and was chair and remains on the board of Stanford Club of Pasadena. She has been honored by Stanford with the Governors’ Award for her years of service to the university.
Rose was born in the Philippines and grew up in Taiwan. She came to the United States for the first time to matriculate at Stanford as an international student. She is married to Warren Loui, a corporate finance lawyer, and they have three children, Nick (the founder/CEO of a media analytics company), Ryan (a USC Law graduate and a public interest lawyer), and Samantha (a third-year law student at NYU Law and Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader).