John C. Kelley, Ph.D.
From the year 2000 to the present, Dr. Kelley
has provided strategic consulting services to financial institutions in Asia. He works with his clients to identify
system requirements and select the software partners to match those requirements.
From 1995 to 2000, he consulted
for the World Bank and IDB in support of their joint efforts to improve the deployment of information technology in development
programs in Latin America. He helped to put together a public-private partnership with IBM, Sun Microsystems, and other
technology who worked in innovative application of IT to education, health and agriculture projects.
During the
same period, Dr. Kelley was responsible for the design, implementation and analysis of business ethics surveys administered
by the Ethics Resource Center (ERC). He brings to ethics survey research both quantitative and qualitative methods.
At the ERC, he was responsible for 21 surveys of ethics and education programs in major global corporations.
Prior
to that, Dr. Kelley was CIO of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, where he oversaw the implementation
an integrated financial and personnel management system. This followed an early career in the US Foreign Service, where
he spent 6 years as Deputy CIO at USAID supervising the design and development of financial systems. These systems were
deployed in more than 50 USAID Missions in developing countries. He started with USAID as a project manager in Honduras,
where he spent 6 years in a number of assignments that resulted in 3 awards of meritorious service.
Dr. Kelley
was an assistant professor of anthropology at York College (CUNY) and instructor in anthropology and education at Columbia
University from 1973-1976. He taught courses on the people and cultures of Latin America at both the undergraduate and
graduate level. The National Endowment for the Humanities granted him a fellowship to explore anthropological themes
in science fiction.
Dr. Kelley completed a double major in Biology and Religion at Andrews University and a Ph.D.
in social anthropology from Columbia University, where he specialized in the study of social change. He was awarded
a doctoral fellowship by the Social Science Research Council to look at the relationship between technology, culture and change
in social systems.
In his spare time, Dr. Kelley plays chess in cyberspace – if you are a member of the Internet
Chess Club, you can find him under the handle ‘Bishopjake’.
AwardsDr. Kelley earned numerous awards while in the Foreign Service, including:
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Meritorious Honor Award in 1983, for furtherance of US foreign policy objectives in El Salvador
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Superior Honor Award in 1982, for application of information technology to projects in USAID
In college,
John graduated with Honors and earned an award as Best Delegate at a Model United Nations