ANDRES A. THOMPSON Curriculum Vitae. Portuguese (proficiency) Dutch, Italian and French (working knowledge) Spanish (mother tongue)

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1 ANDRES A. THOMPSON Curriculum Vitae Place and date of birth: Nationality: Residence: Rosario (Argentina), May 23, l955 Argentine Uruguay Languages: Current position: English (proficiency) Portuguese (proficiency) Dutch, Italian and French (working knowledge) Spanish (mother tongue) Independent Consultant Last Positions: streetfootballworld, Director Brazil Office ( ) ( Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI, USA ( ). 1 ( Areas of interest and expertise: Business social Responsibility; Grassroots and community sustainable development; Non-governmental organizations and philanthropy; International development cooperation, racism and human rights; civil society; sports and arts and culture for development; Social policies; Leadership development. 1 NOTE: This CV does not include the many leadership and management activities performed during my position as Program Director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for 15 years. These involved, among others: organization and implementation of training workshops for grantees on project design, project management and evaluation, coaching and mentoring of fellows; writing of innumerous reporting documents on programming; participation in international conferences and seminars representing the foundation; technical assistance and advise to several grantmaking institutions in the region; participation in several working groups; site visits to and negotiations with grantees in Latin America and the Caribbean.

2 Formal Education: Secondary school at the Rosario English School, Rosario (Argentina) Studies in Psychology, School of Psychology at the University of Rosario, Argentina M.A. in Development Studies. Specialization: Social and Economic Studies and Policies; Sub-specialization: Comparative institutions and development strategies. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Holland, International Fellow, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, Post-graduate Courses: "The nonprofit manager and public benefit strategy" and "Fund Raising for the public good", The Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, New School for Social Research, New York, Senior International Fellow, The Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Civil Society, The graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, Research experience: Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), Holland Institute for the New Chile (Rotterdam), Holland CEDLA (Center for the Study of Latin America), University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Analysis of Long Term Social Policies, Secretary of Planning, Presidency of the Nation, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984 Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), Buenos Aires, , Group of Analysis for Social and Institutional Development (GADIS), Buenos Aires, (support service of the Inter-American Foundation in Argentina) Center for the Study of Philanthropy, City University of New York, Outreach coordinator at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), Buenos Aires, 1993 Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), 2

3 Buenos Aires, Co-coordinator of the project on comparative research on philanthropy in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina), supported by the Inter-American Foundation Coordinator of the work team on Non Governmental Organizations in Argentina, sponsored by UNICEF, Buenos Aires, 1993 Research Director of the project "Democratización y necesidades sociales: el sector no lucrativo y el Estado en Argentina" (Democratization and social needs: the non-profit sector and the State in Argentina), CEDES, Buenos Aires, Fellowships: Ministry of Culture, The Netherlands National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Secretary of Science and Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, World University Service (WUS), 1987 Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and International Institute for Union Cooperation (ISCOS, Italy), Salzburg Seminar, Austria, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2004 Senior Fellow, The Synergos Institute, New York, U.S.A Academic experience: Professor at the National University of Buenos Aires, Department of History (History of Political Systems) Buenos Aires, Professor at various training courses for union leaders; Center for Labor Studies (CEDEL) and Center for Studies and Union Training (CEFS), Buenos Aires, Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, National University at Buenos Aires. Postgraduate seminar on Non-governmental organizations and Social Development, Buenos Aires, 1991 Graduate and Postgraduate director of dissertations at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), the University of Tandil and the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,

4 Professor of "Analysis of the third sector and philanthropy in Argentina", postgraduate program on Non-profit Organizations, Di Tella University/San Andrés University/CEDES, Buenos Aires, 1997 Consultancy: Program on Political and Collaborative Relations for Europe and Latin America (PREAL), ILET-Chile, Pablo Iglesias Foundation (Spain) and Institute on Development Studies (Portugal), Coordinating body of NGOs for Development Cooperation (COCIS), Italy, UNICEF-Argentina, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), Buenos Aires, Foundation for Quality and Participation, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1992 Evaluation of Research and Development Projects for the Ford Foundation (USA), Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), Inter-American Foundation (IAF), UNICEF and the National University at Rosario. Latin American Association of Promotion Organizations (ALOP), 1994 W.K. Kellogg Foundation, USA, 1994 UNICEF-Argentina, Institute C&A, Brazil, 2010 Movimento para um Brasil Literario (Movement for a Literary Brazil), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina, 2014 Memberships: Member of the Editorial Committee, Newsletter of International Labour Studies, The Netherlands, Innovations and Networks for Development (IRED), Argentina, Member of the International Council, "International Research Project on Voluntary Sector Activities", City University of New York, 1990 Member of the Editorial Committee, Voluntas magazine (International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations), London, 1991 at present 4

5 Member of the Labour Movements Commission, CLACSO, Buenos Aires, Member of the Advisory Commission of the Research Council, National University of Rosario, Argentina (Political Sciences and International Relations), 1992 Member of the International Advisory Council, Third Conference on Voluntary and Non- Profit Organizations, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, 1992 Member of the Academic Committee, Program of Comparative Research on Poverty (CROP), International Council of Social Sciences-UNESCO, Paris, Member of the Association of Researchers on Voluntary and Non-Profit Action (ARNOVA), USA Member of the International Committee, Council of Foundations, USA, Board member of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Baltimore, , Editorial Committee Member, Alliance magazine, U.K. Board member of the program Youth transforming with art, Center for the Study of Public Policies (CEPP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Member of the Advisory Committee of Comitê Gestor da Internet do Brasil - CGI.br, 2012 Publications: BOOKS Sindicalismo y regímenes militares en Argentina y Chile (Unions and military regimes in Argentina and Chile) (with B. Gallitelli), CEDLA, Amsterdam, 1981 Sindicalismo peronista/gobierno radical. Los años de Alfonsín, (Peronist Unions/Radical Government. The years of Alfonsín) (co-authored with Ricardo Gaudio), Ediciones Folios- Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 250 pp., Buenos Aires Sindicatos y Concertación Social en Argentina (Concertation and democratization in Argentina), ISCOS-CISL,CLACSO, Chile, 1993 Público y privado. Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro en Argentina (Public and private. Non-profit organizations in Argentina), UNICEF-Losada, 1996 (comp.) 5

6 The Third Sector in Latin America, special issue of Voluntas, Manchester University Press, 1997 (editor) Partnering with youth to build the future (editor), Peiropolis, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ARTICLES IN BOOKS "El tercer sector y el desarrollo social", in Bustelo E. and Isuani. A. (eds.), Mucho, poquito o nada. Crisis y alternativas de política social en los 90, UNICEF-CIEPP, Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, 1990 "Pobreza y microproyectos de desarrollo social", in Martínez Nogueira, R. et al., La Trama Solidaria, GADIS, 1991 "SIN FINES DE LUCRO. Desarrollo social, empresariado y filantropía. La experiencia internacional y el caso argentino", Boletín Informativo Techint, December 1992 "Democracy and development: the role of non-governmental organizations in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay", in McCarthy, K.D. et al. (eds.), The Non-profit Sector in the Global Community, Jossey-Bass Publishes, San Francisco, 1992 "Bien público e iniciativa privada", in David y Goliath, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales magazine, Buenos Aires, April 1993 Sin fines de lucro. Empresariado, desarrollo social y filantropía, in Socialismo y Participación, Vol. 65, CEDEP, Lima, Perú "De la primavera populista al invierno conservador: el sindicalismo peronista entre 1973 y 1989", in Moreno, Omar (comp.), Desafíos para el sindicalismo en Argentina, Fundación Friedrich Ebert-Legasa, Buenos Aires, 1994 "La partecipazione sindacale nei processi di concertazione sociale in America Latina: analisi di un dibattito", in Lavoro e politiche neoliberali in America Latina, Sociologia del Lavoro Nr. 55, Italy, 1994 "A modo de cierre", in Luna, Elba (comp.), Fondos privados, fines públicos. El empresariado y el financiamiento de la iniciativa social en América Latina, Espacio Editorial, Buenos Aires, 1995 "Las organizaciones no-gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro: un fenómeno mundial", in Thompson. A. (comp.), Público y privado, 1995 "Beneficencia, filantropía y justicia social. El tercer sector en la historia Argentina", in 6

7 Thompson, A. (comp.), Público y privado. Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro en Argentina, UNICEF-Losada, Buenos Aires, 1996 "Do compromisso à eficiência? Os caminhos do Terceiro Setor na América Latina", in 3o. Setor: Desenvolvimento Social Sustentado, GIFE-Paz e Terra, Brazil, 1997 Civil society and philanthropy in Latin America: from religious charity to the search of citizenship (with Leilah Landim), in Ilchman, Katz and E. Queen, Philanthropy in the world s traditions, Indiana University Press, 1998 El voluntariado social en América Latina: tendencias, influencias, espacios y lecciones aprendidas (with Olga Lucía Toro), in Sociedad Civil, Análisis y Debates, Scientific Magazine, México, Nr. 9 Vol. III, Summer 1999 Continuidade das práticas de parceria no combate à exclusão social, in Estratégias Inovadoras de Parceria no Combate à Exclusão Social. Avaliação, diálogo e perspectivas, Seminar organized by Comunidade Solidária, Brasilia, January 24-25, 2000 New partnerships for social development: business and the third sector (with F.B. Tancredi and M. Kisil), in International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 23 Nr. 5-8, May-August 2000, Marcel Dekker, Inc. Reflexões sobre o papel dos financiadores no desenvolvimento social (Reflections on the role of funders in social development), in Landim Leilah and Trevisan, Maria Carolina (organizers) Apoio Internacional ao Desenvolvimento Social, Ed. Peiropolis, Sao Paulo, 2009 More than 100 articles in newspapers, journals, blogs and magazines on labour issues, non-governmental development organizations, civil society and philanthropy. Avalilable upon request Participated with an active role in more than 50 international conferences on the same issues mentioned above. Complete list available upon request Other activities: Founder and Director, "Third Sector" (Tercer Sector) magazine, Buenos Aires, Lived and worked in Holland, Brazil, Uruguay and the United States. Extensive travel experience. Volunteer activities for several nonprofit organizations April

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