WorldTeach - About Us - Board of Directors

We would like to thank our Board of Directors for their outstanding work in the development and promotion of our programs.

Michael Kremer, Founder and President

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremer’s recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization. He and Rachel Glennerster have recently published Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases.

Stewart Uretsky, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Stew is the Senior Vice President for Operations of Conservation International, the third-largest environmental NGO in the country, with offices in 29 countries. Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature for the well-being of humanity. At CI, Stew is responsible for leading the organization’s finances, human resources, development and information technology needs. From 1999 – 2009, Stew was the Chief Administrative and Financial Officer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Director of Finance at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Before joining Harvard, he was the Chief Financial Officer at SunLight Power International – a solar energy company providing solar home systems to rural populations in developing countries on a commercially sustainable, fee-for-service basis. He is a graduate of New York University and has a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins Universitys’ School of Advanced International Studies.

Scott Leland, Secretary
Scott Leland is the Executive Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, supporting the Center's research programs, general administration, strategic planning, and day-to-day operations. Prior to joining M-RCBG, he was the Administrative Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard from 1998 to 2004 and manager of a workforce development project at the Education Development Center from 1996-1998, with programs in Peru, Namibia, and India. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a Project Assistant with the Harvard Institute for International Development in Singapore where he taught courses in economics and policy analysis at the National University of Singapore. He has also worked as a Research Fellow with the Enivornmental Protection Agency in Seattle, a Program Coordinator for Vision Health International in Costa Rica, and Regional Director for South America and the Caribbean with Amigos de las Americas based in Houston, traveling extensively through Latin America. He is a graduate of Stanford University and has a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School.

Roger Arjoon
Prior to joining Arcapita Bank in Bahrain, Roger was with the Mergers and Acquisition Group at UBS Investment Bank in New York, where he gained extensive experience working with private equity firms in the mid market US M&A sector. Previously, he worked at Lehman Brothers in the Financial Institutions Group in London. Roger holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Yale University with Distinction and graduate degrees in Economics and an MBA from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Roger is from Georgetown, Guyana, and made the connections to establish the WorldTeach program in Guyana. He was previously an international squash player.

Thomas Gabrielle
Thomas Michael Gabrielle was himself a volunteer teacher with the Boston College International Volunteer Programme in Corozal, Belize. After two Master's Degree's (Literature and International Development), Thomas worked as the System Administrator for Clark Labs Idrisi Project, a University-based not-for-profit software company who develop the Geographic Information System software Idrisi. The work allowed him to travel to many countries as an instructor and advisor to governments and organizations who utilize mapping tools to enhance their spatial understanding of various phenomena such as climate change and deforestation. In 1999, Thomas began working for the United Nations World Food Programme and then the Food and Agriculture Organization as a Food Security Information Analyst in countries as diverse as Angola, Afghanistan, Haiti, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, China, and Somalia. Currently, Thomas is a founding partner of T-Ana International, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, a firm which provides consulting services to governments, United Nations, NGOs, and project working in the fields of relief and development. Thomas is an active advisor to the governments of Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, as well as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Shelly Leanne

Shelly Leanne, author and consultant, is the President of Educate for Success. Shelly Leanne is a graduate of Harvard College and holds masters and doctoral degrees in International Relations from Oxford University. She has spent time living in South Africa, Kenya–where she lived with a Luo family and taught high school in a small rural village–Trinidad and England. From 1997-2001, Dr. Leanne served as a Lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she taught the school’s first courses on human rights and the United Nations system. During her time as a faculty member at Harvard, she organized the "AIDS in Africa Awareness Week" attended by representatives of the United Nations, the World Bank, Congress, Harvard Medical School, and human rights organizations. “Joshua’s Bible” was her first novel novel. She has also written, “How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors,” and “Say It Like Obama and WIN!: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision.” Shelly was a former WorldTeach volunteer in Kenya.

Dan Levy

Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Chair of MPA Programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, teaches courses in quantitative methods and program evaluation. He is currently directing impact evaluations of school construction programs in Burkino Faso and Niger. He was recently involved in the evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs in Jamaica, a technical assistance project to Mexicos Social Development Ministry (Sedesol), the evaluation of an after-school program in the U.S., and a methodological review of studies comparing the use of various methods to estimate program impacts. He has served as a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, is a lab affiliate at the Poverty Action Lab (MIT), and has served as a consultant to several organizations including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Global Development Network (GDN). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University, grew up in Venezuela, and is fluent in Spanish and French.

Steve Reifenberg

Program Director, Chile Regional Office, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Chile Regional Office, DRCLAS - Santiago As the Regional Office Program Director of the Chile Office, Steve manages all activities and operations of the DRCLAS Office in Santiago, Chile. Prior to moving to Chile, he was DRCLAS's Executive Director from 1996 - 2002. Steve Reifenberg is the former Program Director for Latin America of the Conflict Management Group (CMG), an international non-profit organization created from the Harvard Negotiation Project at the Harvard Law School. He served as the Director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management, jointly administered by the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Institute for International Development from 1990 to 1993. In the early 1980s, he lived and worked for two years at a small orphanage in Santiago, Chile. From his experiences there he wrote the award winning “Santiago’s Children.” Steve is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government where he earned a Master in Public Policy. He also holds a Master in Print Journalism from Boston University and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. As of Feb, 2010, he will be the executive director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. egional Program Director

Ebonya Washington

Ebonya is the Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale. She received her Ph.D. in Economics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her BA with honors in Public Policy from Brown. Previously she was a Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Ebonya is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has written on the political representation and efficacy of marginalized groups and on the financial behavior of low income Americans.

Catherine Winnie

Cathy Hutchison Winnie is the Director of International Studies at Harvard. Cathy spent two years of her childhood in Winthrop House as the daughter of former House masters William Hutchison and Virginia Quay Hutchison. She began her career as a study abroad professional in 1991 when she became assistant director of study abroad at OCS. In 1994, with her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in hand, she left Harvard to develop and grow study abroad programs at Smith College, Yale University, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Thirteen years later, Cathy has traveled in six continents and speaks French, German, and Spanish. In 1988, she went to Berlin on a DAAD grant for dissertation research and stayed until the Wall came down. Through her job, Cathy has visited universities and study abroad programs in many countries, and in 2005, she and husband Larry Winnie traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where they adopted their two daughters, Lidya and Samerawit.

Harriet Wong

Harriet Wong is a former WorldTeach Program Manager. Born and raised in the UK, she earned her first-class bachelors degree from Cambridge University and spent a year teaching English in China. Harriet came to Harvard to complete a masters program in Regional Studies East Asia, with a focus on China's socioeconomic development. While a House Tutor at Harvard, Harriet advised undergraduates applying for international study and travel fellowships. After graduating she worked at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to develop its "China Initiative" executive education program for Chinese and US military officers and government officials. As Program Manager at WorldTeach from 2000 to 2004, Harriet helped increase the quality and quantity of our programs.

Howard Zucker

Dr. Howard Zucker presently serves as a senior advisor to the Division of Global Health & Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston where he is leading an initiative on developing a community peace index. His career has spanned the areas of medicine and public policy having served as Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization in charge of technologies and pharmaceuticals, as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health focused on science, technology and medicine, and as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health & Human Services. Among his many public health projects his work has involved spearheading a public-private partnership on health literacy that improved the lives of millions of women in Afghanistan, the creation of the nation's 180,000+ volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, the global fight against counterfeit medicines, and a vision document for a federal initiative for regenerative medicine which was endorsed by the World Stem Cell Summit. Dr. Zucker is a pediatrician, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, intensive care specialist and lawyer. He has held academic positions at Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Cornell University Weill College of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Most recently he served as an Institute of Politics Resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School where he led a study group on "Improving U.S. Foreign Policy through Global Health Diplomacy."athy Hutchison Winnie is the Director of International Studies at Harvard. Cathy spent two years of her childhood in Winthrop House as the daughter of former House masters William Hutchison and Virginia Quay Hutchison.

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