Deborah M. Kielty
President and Executive Director
World Trade Center Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Ms. Deborah M. Kielty joined the World Trade Center Institute in Baltimore as President
and Executive Director in October 2001, following a 20-year international career with Procter &
Gamble. As head of the World Trade Center Institute, Ms. Kielty leads the largest international
business network in the mid-Atlantic region, serving over 2,000 clients across the private,
diplomatic, government and academic sectors. In this capacity, Ms. Kielty reports to a Board of
Directors largely made up of private sector business executives. She is responsible for overall
strategic leadership, financial management and organizational development.
Immediately prior to joining the World Trade Center, Ms. Kielty served as Vice
President, Global Alliances & Licensing (1999–2001) and General Manager, Worldwide Strategic
Planning (1992-1999) for Procter & Gamble Beauty Care, based in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Ms. Kielty also served as Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Health & Beauty Care Europe (1988-1991),
based first as Associate Advertising Manager in Rome and later as Managing Director, Cosmetics
in London. Prior to that, Ms. Kielty served as Brand Manager and Associate Advertising Manager,
Procter & Gamble de Mexico (1983-1988) based in Mexico City.
Ms. Kielty holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of California at Santa
Barbara, and a Masters Degree in International Management from Thunderbird’s American Graduate
School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. She was awarded Thunderbird's Barton
Kyle Yount Award, which is given to the member of each graduating class who most exemplifies Yount's
ideals of scholarship, accomplishment and character, and was the keynote student speaker at
her graduation. In 2006, Ms. Kielty was awarded Thunderbird’s Distinguished Alumni Award for
Career Achievement. She has traveled and conducted business in over 50 countries, and speaks
several languages.
Ms. Kielty serves on many boards, including the Baltimore Council on Foreign
Affairs, the Governor's Sub-Cabinet for International Affairs, and the University of Maryland's
Smith School of Business CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research).
In 2003, Ms. Kielty was chosen as one of Baltimore's Top 50 Leaders. For the past three
years, Ms. Kielty has served as M.C. for Maryland's Annual International Business Leadership
Awards, and annually hosts the Embassy Day Tradeshow—the largest such gathering of private
sector business leaders and Embassy diplomats in the region.
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