Deb Kielty – President & CEO Emeritus, World Trade Center Institute
Board Chair, P&G Alumni Foundation
Deb Kielty joined the World Trade Center Institute (WTCI) in Baltimore as President and ED in 2001, following a 20-year global business career with Procter & Gamble in Brand and General Management. With business travel taking her to 50 countries, Deb’s global experience spans both operational and strategic leadership roles. She is passionate about leveraging diverse and gender balanced teams to drive business, innovation, and global paths to prosperity for people in need.
While with P&G, Deb climbed the Brand Management ranks, with early roles in the U.S., Mexico, Italy and the U.K., culminating in roles as P&G Managing Director HABC Europe based in London, GM Worldwide Strategic Planning, and P&G Vice President Global Alliances & Licensing based in Maryland. With WTCI, Deb and her team served over 2000 clients and 600 visiting international professionals annually across the private and publics sectors. With its mission to empower globally minded leaders with new ideas and connections to drive growth and global good, WTCI revenues and clients increased year-after-year behind proprietary programs (eg. Women Spanning the Globe, EDGE Emerging & Developing Global Executives, PEP Professional Exchange Programs with USAID, and GPS Global Pathways for Students.) In Jan 2022, Deb assumed the role of President & CEO Emeritus at WTCI, and continues to serve alongside board members from UnderArmour, McCormick, T Rowe Price, Lockheed Martin, Ciena, Stanley Black & Decker, Johns Hopkins Medicine Int’l, Collins Aerospace, Ports America Chesapeake, and more.
Today, Deb leads the P&G Alumni Foundation, serving as Chairman of the Board since 2019 following a decade of service on the Grants Committee. As the charitable arm of the P&G Alumni Network comprised of 35,000 global alumni, the Foundation provides marginalized people in need with economic opportunities (job training, vocational skills, etc.) through strategic grant-making to charitable organizations with active P&G alumni involvement. Deb also serves on the Johns Hopkins Jhpiego Advisory Board and Baltimore Outreach Services homeless shelter for women and children. Past board service includes roles as President of Families with Children from China, Vice Chair for the P&G Alumni Network, Maryland Governor’s Sub-cabinet for Int’l Affairs, the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business CIBER. She is the proud mother of two daughters and an active member of her Federal Hill neighborhood community. Deb enjoys travel, sports of all kinds (including golf and pickleball), film festivals and international foods.