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Alyse Nelson is President and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership. A co-founder of Vital Voices, Alyse has worked for the organization for more than 25 years, serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Under her leadership, Vital Voices has expanded its reach to 20,000 women leaders across 184 countries. Previously, Alyse served as deputy director of the State Department’s Vital Voices Global Democracy Initiative and staffed the President’s Interagency Council on Women at the White House. Alyse is author of the best-selling book “Vital Voices: the Power of Women Leading Change Around the World” and a regular speaker, trainer and featured expert on leadership and global women’s issues. Alyse is a Member in the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as an official Observer for the World Bank’s We-fi Initiative for Women Entrepreneurs. Fortune Magazine named Alyse one of the 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter and she was featured as one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Shaking the World. In 2018 and 2019 Apolitical named her one of the most influential people in global gender policy.