Alyse Nelson
Alyse Nelson
Overview
Alyse Nelson is president and chief executive officer of Vital Voices Global Partnership. A cofounder of Vital Voices Alyse has worked for the organization for 19 years serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Alyse has worked with women leaders to develop training programs and international forums in over 140 countries and has interviewed more than 200 international leaders including Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former presidents Mary Robinson and Bill Clinton as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureates Aung San Suu Kyi Wangari Maathai and Muhammad Yunus. Under her leadership Vital Voices has tripled in size and expanded its global reach to serve a network of over 15000 women leaders in 144 countries.Previously Alyse served as deputy director of the Vital Voices Global Democracy Initiative at the U.S. Department of State. Her position aided former First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright s commitment to promote the advancement of women as a U.S. foreign policy objective. Alyse helped design and implement Vital Voices initiatives throughout the world. From July 1996 to July 2000 Alyse worked with the President s Interagency Council on Women at the White House and U.S. Department of State. She attended the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China in 1995. Alyse is a Member in the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on Secretary Clinton s Advisory Committee on Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society and is a Board member of Running Start and RAD AID International. Alyse is a part of the Expert Group for the B Team and is on the Advisory Board of Chime for Change.