Alene Gelbard The Johns Hopkins University, United States
Alene H. Gelbard, PhD, is currently owner of ACCESS Partnerships. ACCESS Partnerships increases the abilities of businesses and community organizations to partner for community well-being. She is also Adjunct Professor of Social Enterprise at American University. She has over four decades of international experience advancing social and economic development. During the last 15 years, she has focused on helping businesses become more engaged in improving community well-being based on the experiences and perspectives of businesses. Results include a highly successful model for business/community organization partnership building that has produced sustainable resources for partnership building in Indonesia. Today, hundreds of businesses and community organizations in that country use these resources to increase their abilities to partner.
Her prior experience includes advising policymakers, program directors, and researchers on how to use data for effective policymaking and program development and management. She has lived and worked in Indonesia, Bolivia, France, Brazil, and the Philippines and worked in other countries in Asia, Latin American and Africa. She speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese, and limited Indonesian.
Strengths include strategic planning, leadership, management, design thinking, coalition, and network building, and oral and written communication skills, especially in multicultural and multilingual settings.
