 | | | | Paul Dudley Hart, Director-at-Large, Mercy Corps
As Mercy Corps' Director-at-Large, Paul Dudley Hart brings 25 years of senior management experience and a highly successful track record in fundraising, leadership, and management. Since joining Mercy Corps' senior management team in April 2003 Paul has been on assignments in Lebanon, Jordan, The West Bank, Serbia and Kosovo. He also served as Mercy Corps' Chief of Party in Iraq during August and September of 2003. Paul also focuses on funding diversification and strategic alliance initiatives.
Paul comes to Mercy Corps most immediately from a private consulting practice where he worked with for-profit and not-for-profit clients with organizational development, social responsibility, fund raising and strategic planning services. Previously he served as President of The Brown Schools (TBS) Education Services Group. TBS is the largest provider of education, therapeutic and family support services for children with extraordinary needs. Paul's group served over 3,000 students through 800 employees in 12 programs across five states and Puerto Rico.
Before that, Paul was CEO of Pacific Crest Outward Bound School, headquartered in Portland Oregon, with operations throughout the West Coast providing adventure-based courses structured to inspire self-esteem, self-reliance, concern for others and care for the environment.
Paul grew up in England and ran away to sea on a ship bound for Australia at age 17. This lead to an early career as seaman and diver aboard a square rigged sailing ship doing underwater filming in the South West Pacific. He moved next to colder regions - Antarctica. Paul spent 10 years in the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) and for most of that time had operational leadership responsibility for USARP's principal ocean science operation. For six of those years, the program was operated jointly with the Argentine government and Paul was based in Buenos Aires. Over 10 years, Paul spent 90 months deployed in Antarctica. When he took time to thaw out, he managed marine and environmental survey programs in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Vietnam, Algeria, Egypt, the UK, Mozambique and Guyana.
Paul moved next to The Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the world's largest private marine research lab, where he served as Director of Development and then Director of International and Industrial Programs. Paul was a key WHOI team member responding to the opportunities and massive international public interest following the discovery of RMS Titanic.
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