Profile

Kerry McNamara has served since 2010 as an Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of the OCP Group of Morocco.  He works on a broad range of international issues for OCP, including African agricultural development and global food security.  From 1996-2008, while at the World Bank, he played an important role in the international donor community’s efforts to understand and strengthen the contribution of information and communication technologies to economic development and poverty reduction.  From 1993-96, he served as Executive Director of the Civic Education Project (CEP), an initiative financed by philanthropist George Soros that helped revive teaching and research in the social and policy sciences at universities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  He led the expansion of CEP from a start-up project in one country to a region-wide organization serving more than a dozen countries.   A political scientist by training, he has held senior positions in NGOs and research organizations and has taught at several U.S. universities.