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Peter A. Reiling is vice president of leadership programs at Netflix. Previously, he was executive vice president for Leadership as well as executive director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program at the Aspen Institute. Peter also served as a trustee, officer, and senior moderator of the Aspen Institute and is a Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 1998). He is the co-founder of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) and of similar initiatives in Central America (CALI), India (ILI), the Middle East (MELI), and China, as well as a catalyst for related programs launched in the fields of US politics, education, healthcare innovation, finance and civil rights. The goal of all these ventures, knitted together as the Aspen Global Leadership Network, is to stimulate accomplished, high-integrity, entrepreneurial leaders to play a greater role in the social and economic development of their communities and countries. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, from 1996 to 2004, Peter was President and CEO of TechnoServe, helping entrepreneurs across Africa, Latin America, India and Central Europe to build businesses in their communities. He is co-founder of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and currently serves on the boards of the Pahara Institute and Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. Peter is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and guest lecturer at the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo. He was named "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by the Schwab Foundation in Geneva. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of California/Berkeley (MBA), with additional studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Peter is married to Denise Byrne of Fajardo, Puerto Rico and is the father of two children, Dylan and Eva. He lives in both California and Virginia.
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