Neal Keny-Guyer

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Neal Keny-Guyer is the Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian relief and development organization based in Portland, Oregon.

A native of Tennessee, Keny-Guyer earned his Bachelor of Arts in public policy and religion from Duke University, a Master of Public and Private Management degree from Yale, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Portland State University.

Keny-Guyer joined Mercy Corps in 1994 as Chief Executive Officer. During his leadership, he has forged new organizational directions - most notably, globalizing operations through mergers and strategic alliances, placing peace-making, human rights and civil society at the heart of the organization's mission.

Keny-Guyer's career began in America's inner cities in 1976. As Special Projects Coordinator for Cities-In-Schools (a nationwide organization known now as Communities-In-Schools), he worked with at-risk youth to stem high school drop-out rates and gang activity among minority young people in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1980, Keny-Guyer moved to Thailand to aid Cambodian refugees. As Field Coordinator for CARE/UNICEF, he organized an emergency relief program along the Thai-Cambodian border, including cross-border distribution of food and agricultural supplies.

With Save the Children over the next nine years, Keny-Guyer designed and implemented relief and development programs in places including Somalia, Lebanon, West Bank/Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan.

In 1990, Keny-Guyer focused his efforts stateside, founding Keny-Guyer Associates in Menlo Park, California to offer strategic planning and organizational development consulting to businesses, foundations and non-profit agencies.

Keny-Guyer serves on the boards of local and national organizations, including InterAction, an alliance of humanitarian and development organizations, Yale School of Management Board of Advisors and Nike Foundation Advisory Group.^[1]