Save the Children incoming president and CEO Carolyn Miles plays with 3-1/2-year-old Shaban at a child friendly space in the Dagahaley section of Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The camp is home to more than 400,000 refugees.
Thursday, October 5
Farmington Country Club
We are very excited to have Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the Children, as the keynote speaker for our 2017 Human Services Grant Award Luncheon.
Save the Children is an organization that gives children in the United States and around the world a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. The global Save the Children movement currently serves over 185 million children in the US and in more than 120 countries. As a global organization, Save the Children has committed to driving down the numbers of preventable deaths of children under 5, ensuring every child gets a high-quality basic education and protecting all children from harm.
Ms. Miles joined the organization in 1998, was COO from 2004-2011, and became President and CEO in September 2011. Under her senior leadership, the organization has more than doubled the number of children it reaches with nutrition, health, education and other programs. Resources were just under $700m in 2016. Miles’ signature issues include hunger, learning outcomes, and ending preventable child deaths.
Prior to Save the Children, she worked in the private sector in Hong Kong for American Express and as an entrepreneur. While in Asia, she confronted the deprivation of the region’s children, which motivated her to dedicate her life to their welfare.
Miles has served on numerous boards, including Blackbaud, InterAction, USGLC, MFAN, Academy of Education, Arts and Sciences, FSG and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where she received her MBA. In 2015, Miles was named one of the 50 World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine and inducted into the CT Women’s Hall of Fame. She is married with 3 children.
Follow Carolyn via her blog, Logging Miles or on Twitter @carolynsave