Co-Founder 

Jerrold Keilson, a historian by training, is a development professsional with more than 40 years of experience in the field.  He’s held senior positions managing large portfolios of USAID-funded projects in education, training and capacity building, and public diplomacy and exchange programs. He’s managed business development divisions for major USAID contractors and NGOs. For fifteen years he taught international development management at American University, and co-edited a book, The Practice of International Development, with Dr. Mike Gubser. Early in his career Jerrold was a State Department foreign service officer who served six years overseas.

Co-Founder

Michael Gubser is a professor of history at James Madison University. His research focuses on international development, intellectual history, and modern Europe. He is also an international development practitioner who has worked as a program evaluator and proposal writer for several foreign aid organizations. He is currently completing a book entitled Their Future: A History of Ahistoricism in International Development; and he co-edited the book The Practice of International Development (Routledge, 2018) with Jerrold Keilson. He is also the author of two books of European history: The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe (Stanford: 2014) and Time’s Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Wayne State, 2006).

When he is not doing the things mentioned above, he is usually working on his next musical or musical theatre project: https://www.mikegubser.com/