Peter A. Reiling

Peter A. Reiling "is Executive Vice President, Leadership and Policy Programs at the Aspen Institute, a post he assumed in April 2004. Prior to this, Peter served for eight years as President and CEO of TechnoServe, an international nonprofit organization helping entrepreneurs to build profitable businesses in low-income rural communities in Africa, Latin America and Central Europe. Reiling is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee, and serves on the advisory boards of the REDCO Alliance, AGORA Partnerships and the Roosevelt Institution. An Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 1998), he launched the Africa Leadership Initiative, a joint venture of TechnoServe, the Aspen Institute, and an array of African business leaders, in 2000. He launched a similar venture in Central America in 2004. Peter holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a BS from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service."

"He is co-founder of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and currently serves as chairman of the board of the CALI Foundation as well as on the boards of ALI/East Africa, ALI/West Africa, ALI/South Africa, Agora Partnerships and the Energy Access Foundation. Peter is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and guest lecturer at the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee, and was named "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by the Schwab Foundation in Geneva. A graduate of Georgetown University (BSFS) and the University of California/Berkeley (MBA), with additional studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Peter is married to Denise Byrne and is the father of two children, Dylan and Eva Luna."


 * Business Advisor, Roosevelt Institution
 * Executive Director, Henry Crown Fellowship Program