Kyle Peterson

Kyle consults to private foundations, corporate givers, and nonprofit organizations on strategy, evaluation, and communications. Kyle has led all of FSG's international health and economic development engagements, building on his more than ten years of international development experience.

Prior to joining FSG, Kyle served as a strategy consultant at OntheFrontier, a former Monitor Group company that focused on domestic and international economic development. While at OntheFrontier, Kyle researched and wrote a major regional economic study with Professor Michael E. Porter and led a competitiveness consulting project in Rwanda where he advised President Paul Kagame and his cabinet on the country's future economic strategy. Kyle was also the country director in Zimbabwe and Rwanda for Population Services International, a nonprofit social marketing organization that uses the private sector to make needed health products more accessible and appealing. In Zimbabwe, Kyle managed a $20 million program and launched a number of health product "firsts on the continent: mass marketed insecticide-treated mosquito nets and female condoms and a novel network of voluntary counseling and testing centers. These innovations provided thousands of "person years of protection" and are part of the mainstream public landscape in dozens of developing countries today.

Kyle was also an account executive for Hill and Knowlton, serving nonprofit clients and the government of Kuwait; a communications advisor at Consumers Union; and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone. He was also an intern for the U.S. State Department in Mauritius and was awarded a grant to study the democratization process in Zambia for his masters thesis sponsored by Professor Barbara Jordan.

Kyle has spoken to audiences on strategic communications and the competitive advantage of corporate philanthropy. He has supervised dozens of original research studies and is the co-author of a report on behavior change in Southern Africa.

Kyle holds an M.B.A. and an M.P.A., cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in International Studies, cum laude, from the American University.