Prodigy Finance, US. Prodigy Finance, a global lending platform that provides postgraduate loans to international students, has appointed Judith Rodin to the board as Chair. From 2005 until 2017, she was the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and from 1994 to 2004, Judith served as the 7th president of the University of Pennsylvania – the first female president of an Ivy League university. Prior to that, she held various professorial and other positions at Yale, including Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Department of Psychology, and Provost.