Brett O'Bannon, Experienced and celebrated educator, consultant, program manager, and author.

About

Proven successful, transformative leader and a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary analyst, educator, consultant, project and program manager in multicultural settings. Noted architect of transformative solutions to the most vexing dilemmas associated with pressing social, economic, and political challenges, such as a novel assessment system generating more timely early warnings, and more effective solutions to challenges before they become crises.

Experience

The Rowan Fund for their Futures

Feb 2021 – Present

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Founder and President

I founded The Rowan Fund in response to the unprecedented threat to students' educational attainment goals that has arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic. The economic havoc wrought by COVID, and the long, slow, and uncertain recovery ahead, means that students in developing countries like Thailand are beginning to see their dreams of a college education fade away. The Fund will provide grants and various forms of financial counseling to help students most in need meet the higher costs their families were unprepared for, even before COVID left most of them unemployed.

Webster University - Thailand

Aug 2018 – Present

Bangkok

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Teach courses in the IR program such as Research Methods, Civil Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, Gender and Politics, Genocide and Mass Atrocities, etc. Primary research emphases are conflict, mass atrocity crimes, gender and politics, development.

Education

Indiana University - Bloomington

Aug 1994 – Apr 2003

PhD, Political Science: International Relations, Comparative Politics and African Studies Certification

Brett O'Bannon

Experienced and celebrated educator, consultant, program manager, and author.

Skills

Languages