Carrie Hessler-Radelet

Carrie Hessler-Radelet is the President & CEO of Global Communities, an international non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives, advancing equity and securing strong futures, working in nearly 30 countries around the world.  She also serves as the President & CEO of IntraHealth International, with whom Global Communities merged in 2024.

Beginning in 2017, Carrie served as President & CEO of Project Concern International (PCI), a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health, end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls—resulting in a meaningful and measurable change in people’s lives.  PCI and Global Communities merged in 2020 to expand the scale and impact of our collective programs.

She is also Chair of the Board of the Vitas Group, an international microfinance institution, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Communities, with operations in 5 countries, primarily in the Middle East.  Carrie is passionate about accompanying communities on their pathway to developing their own sustainable, innovative solutions to reducing poverty and building resilience.

Prior to her time at Global Communities, Carrie led the US Peace Corps, first as Deputy Director (2010-2012), and then as Director (2012-2017), leading America’s iconic international volunteer service organization with programs in over 65 countries. At Peace Corps, she and her team led historic reforms to modernize and strengthen the agency to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

Prior to her Peace Corps appointment, Carrie worked as the Vice President and Director of the Washington D.C. office of John Snow, Inc. (JSI), overseeing the management of public health programs in 85 countries around the world. Her decades of global health work also included serving as the lead consultant on the first Five-Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy for the US Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), working with USAID in Indonesia on maternal and child health and HIV programming, founding the Special Olympics in The Gambia, and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer with her husband, Steve Radelet, in Western Samoa.

She holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Boston University.