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Peter Cleaves
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Principal
, DRG International, Inc.
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Austin, Texas,
United States
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Senior specialist in strategic planning, public management, nonprofit administration, training, evaluation, economic and social development, corporate social responsibility, and finance. Decades’ experience in Middle East, Latin America, and in foundations, banking relations, training, research, and evaluation. Languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese. Short- and longer-term availability |
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Area of Expertise: |
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Government, Governance, Reforms
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Trade, Finance, Economics, Cooperation, Global
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Professional Experience: |
Peter Cleaves has been engaged in social development, business, philanthropy, and academia for decades in Latin America, the Middle East, the United States, and Europe. His specialties are strategic planning, institutional development, nonprofit organizations, private equity, banking and finance. He has held executive positions at the Ford Foundation, AVINA Foundation, Emirates Foundation, First Chicago, and the University of Texas. He advises foundations, nonprofits, businesses, multilaterals, private equity funds, and banks on their Latin American and Middle East activities.
As the first Chief Executive Office of the Emirates Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE, he managed the planning process for grants and operating programs in education, environment, arts, social organizations, science, volunteerism and business employment. Under his leadership, the foundation had co-financing from government and over sixty Emirati companies. He was a board member of the Arab Foundations Forum. Over his tenure the Emirates Foundation increased the number of grants from six to over six hundred, and was awarded the status of Foundation of the Year by the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists.
For eight years at First Chicago, he developed innovative credit products and investment relations for US and Latin American corporations. He was responsible for the largest swap of Bolivian debt and originated multi-million dollar deals with US media companies.
With the AVINA Foundation, he prepared the Latin America private equity plan for AVINA’s Swiss benefactor. He formulated the foundation’s first strategic plan for sustainable development and secured collaboration from Brazilian, Chile, and Ecuadorian companies for over eighty nongovernmental organizations. As Executive Director for Latin America and Iberia, he chaired AVINA’s Management Committee.
Earlier with the Ford Foundation, he led a professional staff assisting institutional strengthening, public policy and economic development at universities and nonprofit organizations in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Central America.
He headed the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, when it was top-ranked in the United States, and served as Director of the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade (a four-university consortium). He assisted professors affiliated with the Trade Center to carry out marketing and country risk analysis for clients in the cement, banking, and oil and gas industries entering Latin America markets.
He has resided in ten countries, authored or co-authored five books, and speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Education: |
Dartmouth College (A.B.)
Vanderbilt University (M.A.)
University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.).
Diplome, Science Politique, Université de Grenoble
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Past & Present Board and Committee Positions:
Maria Moors Cabot Prize in Journalism (New York)
International School Panama
Austin Global Gateway
Amigos de la America (Houston, Austin)
Arab Foundations Forum (Amman, Jordan)
Latin American Studies Association (US Development Committee)
LAFF Society (Ford Foundation, New York)
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Doctorate |
Languages:
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese |
Nationality:
United States
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