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Kevin Danaher: Executive Director

Dr. Kevin Danaher is the Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center. In this capacity, Dr. Danaher is responsible for establishing and developing the Center's overall vision. In 1988, he co-founded Global Exchange, an international human rights organization whose present annual operating budget is approximately $9MM. In addition to Global Exchange, Dr. Danaher launched and served as the initial board chair of TransFair, USA, and international fair trade organization whose certifications have established national benchmarks for domestically distributed coffee and cocoa products. His latest book, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots, is available at www.globalexchange.org

With over 25 years of non-profit leadership experience, Dr. Danaher is widely recognized as one of the civil sector’s most insightful and inspirational advocates for social justice and environmental sustainability. Dr. Danaher has an extensive network of relationships within the sustainability movement, developed in part through his role as Executive Producer of the GreenFestival, a four-year old collaboration with Washington D.C-based Co-Op America. The GreenFestival brings together over 400 socially responsible enterprises, a full program of world renown speakers, and 25,000 attendees for weekend-long celebrations of the emerging green economy. As a result of this experience, Dr. Danaher is intimately familiar with the needs of emerging and established social profit organizations.

Dr. Danaher received his PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, after which he held a fellowship at the prestigious Washington D.C. think tank, The Institute for Policy Studies. Dr. Danaher is a highly sought after public speaker and author of 10 published books on topics ranging from international economic policy to grass roots, community organizing.