Larry Cooley

Board Member

Founder and President Emeritus of Management Systems International, Larry Cooley has more than 40 years' experience in the fields of strategic management, public sector reform, and international development.  He currently supports several Palestinian economic and youth development activities, chairs the board of the Society for International Development, serves as a Trustee and past board chair of World Learning, and serves on the boards of ELMA Philanthropies and Communities in Schools.  He is an elected Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and founder/co-chair of a 4200-member global community of practice on scaling up development and climate outcomes. 

Larry has served as facilitator for three Cabinet-level working groups in the United States and as advisor to the leaders of more than a dozen governments.  Born in the US, he has lived and worked in Lesotho, Bangladesh, Guyana, Portugal, and Mexico. He and his wife, Marina Fanning, have three children and divide their year between Arlington, VA and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  They have a large number of family members in Israel and are members of Temple Micah in Washington, DC where Larry is a past President and Marina served until recently on the Board of Directors.