Global Team for Local Initiatives Helping People Help Themselves

Board

Lori Pappas

Founder & Executive Director

Lori Pappas is a specialist in strategic planning who has served as a strategy consultant, turnaround consultant and executive vice-president of a multinational software company. A successful software entrepreneur as well, Pappas is the founder of JobBOSS Software Inc., a developer of software packages for the manufacturing industry. In 1993, JobBOSS was selected by INC Magazine as One of the Best Small Companies to Work for in America. In 1998, Pappas was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Minnesota High Tech Association in recognition of her personal philosophy, ability to challenge paradigms and willingness to embrace new technology initiatives. She was also a finalist for Ernst & Young’s 1998 Entrepreneur of the Year.

Admiral William Fallon

US Navy, retired

Admiral Fallon is co-chair of the Smart Global Health Policy Commission, an initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which is developing actionable recommendations for a long-term, strategic US approach to global health. In 2008, Fallon retired as a four star Admiral after a distinguished 40-year career of military and strategic leadership. He led US and Allied forces in eight separate commands and played a leadership role in military and diplomatic matters at the highest levels of the US government. He is currently a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for International Studies.

Rosa Singer

Director, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, CARE USA

Rosa has served with CARE since 2008. Currently, as Director within the Strategic Partnerships and Alliances Unit at CARE USA, Rosa manages collaboration with Fortune 500 companies, and their foundations, to fight global poverty. She furthermore guides strategic planning and research that links CARE's programming and partnership priorities with the private sector. Formerly staffed in CARE Ethiopia as Program Design Team Leader, Rosa co-designed reproductive health and livelihoods programming for girls subject to early marriage, and thus grounded an innovative partnership between CARE, the Nike Foundation, and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Her niche expertise lies precisely in cross-cutting alliances and programs that leverage gender and girls' empowerment. Before joining CARE, Rosa was the V.P. of Project Management & Development for Latin America at The Pacific Institute. There she managed contracts with the World Bank and led curriculum design, consulting and implementation of behavior change education within foreign government (particularly ministries of education), private sector and NGOs. At present, Rosa also serves as Adjunct Faculty at Seattle University teaching Gender and Development. She earned her M.A. in International Relations from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was a Rotary International World Peace Fellow.

Martha White Pass 

Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics, Carleton College

Martha Paas is the Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics at Carleton College, one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the country. She holds a B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr. She has directed several off-campus programs for Carleton students in economic history at Kings College, Cambridge, and in Nuremberg Germany. Dr. Paas is an expert in economic history, examining how economic growth begins and how lessons of the past can be applied to developing countries.  
She will take the lead role in GTLI’s education initiative, bringing a study of Africa and the
Hamar to middle school children as well as converting GTLI pilot programs into replicable,
scalable programs.