Senior Vice President

Don Pressley

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Donald L. Pressley

A Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President, Don Pressley is also the principal manager and strategist for the firm’s diplomacy and international development business. He leads foreign affairs staff and projects in all regions of the developing world to provide services to emerging market economies in such matters as government transformation, economic performance, citizen services, and humanitarian support.

Mr. Pressley’s primary focus is on ways to enhance the synergy of new technologies and methodologies to help developing nations improve and expand their capacities to become productive parts of the global society and economy.

Before joining Booz Allen in 2001, Mr. Pressley was a Senior Foreign Service officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development. His career included assignments as Mission Director in Poland, Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, and acting Administrator. His responsibilities included close interaction with the Department of State, National Security Council, and U.S. Congress in developing and implementing foreign assistance policies and programs.

He was also the key architect of the design of the programs of assistance to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He developed the strategic framework governing all strategies for the 27 regional countries, and led the creation of the Europe and Eurasia Bureau’s development strategy, including the design of the Enterprise Funds that invest in private business across the region.

Mr. Pressley’s substantial experience and his expertise in the development of country strategies serve him well in his efforts to design, manage, and carry out strategic plans that promote the economic and social well-being of transitional countries.

Mr. Pressley has broadened his consulting experience by serving on the board of the Society for International Development, serving on the board of the Business Civic Leadership Center, advisor to the World Bank Evaluation Department and teaching at the MSFS program of Georgetown University.

Mr. Pressley has a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from the University of South Carolina.

profile updated March 2009