Kyle Peterson

Kyle Peterson is a thought leader in shared value, corporate philanthropy, and global health and development issues. He has worked with the world's leading companies and funders, including the Shell Oil Company, Aetna, Eli Lilly & Company, Pfizer, Verizon, Merck, Abbott Labs, Novartis, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Kyle has led many of FSG's global health development engagements and has been a key contributor to the firm's shared value, catalytic philanthropy, and collective impact frameworks. He speaks frequently at social sector and industry conferences and roundtable events. Prior to joining FSG, Kyle served as a strategy consultant at the Monitor Group where he wrote a major regional economic study with Professor Michael Porter and led a competitiveness consulting project for President Paul Kagame and his cabinet on Rwanda’s economic strategy. Kyle was also a country director in Zimbabwe and Rwanda for Population Services International, where he managed a $20 million program and launched a number of health product "firsts" on the African continent, including mass marketed insecticide treated mosquito nets, female condoms, and a novel network of HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing centers.

Kyle was also an account executive for Hill and Knowlton, serving nonprofit clients and the government of Kuwait, a communications advisor at Consumers Union, and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone. He was also an intern for the U.S. State Department in Mauritius and was awarded a Defense Department grant to study the democratization process in Zambia for his masters thesis. Kyle holds an M.B.A. and an M.P.A., cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in International Studies, cum laude, from the American University.