Alan H. Fleischmann

Alan Fleischmann is currently a Team Lead of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition. Within the Economy and International Trade cluster {Department Of Treasury, financial regulatory agencies, international lending agencies}, Fleischmann leads the team reviewing the international financial institutions (IFIs) and multilateral regional development banks, including the Asian Development Bank (AsDB), African Development Bank (AfDB), the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), with a special emphasis on the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

He has advised corporate, individual, and political leaders on strategy, communications, messaging, image and crisis management, positioning, and reputation. He has worked with Fortune 500 corporations, their leadership, domestically and globally, as senior director of the international business strategy firm, Stonebridge International, and as senior vice president of the strategic communications firm Penn Schoen & Berland Associates.

Fleischmann is a co-founder and managing director of ImagineNations™ Group, a partnership-based global network that provides young entrepreneurs with the financial capital, technologies, and business/leadership coaching that young women and men need in order to start micro- and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Bank-ImagineNations Global Partnership for Youth Investment (GPYI). He received the 2008 Goodwin Award in Siena, Italy, on behalf of ImagineNations for its global work. Besides himself, ImagineNations' other board directors include International Youth Foundation and ImagineNations Group founder Rick Little, Financial Times Chairman Sir David Bell, author and former Smith College President Jill Ker Conway, Harvard University's Jane Nelson, and Former Finnish President and 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Martti Ahtisaari, among others.

Fleischmann served as the chief of staff to Maryland Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, responsible for directing and overseeing the policy development, management, legislative relations, and the staff of their State House operations. He coordinated the work of six cabinet departments and agencies from business, international commerce, transportation & economic development -- to the state police, public safety, and criminal & juvenile justice systems. He was a member of the Governor's cabinet.

Previously, he served as a staff director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Congress and its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Prior to serving in Congress, he was the vice president of LATCORP, Inc., where he advised multi-national companies on strategic challenges and opportunities in Latin America and designed joint ventures, franchises, and export-import agreements.

Previously, Fleischmann served as senior associate of the Chase Manhattan Private Bank (JP Morgan Chase) in New York and Argentina, where he was a graduate of the Chase senior executive leadership training program. During the historic period of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fleischmann served as a fellow in the German parliament, working with former German Chancellor Willy Brandt's foundation, while participating in a Bundestag fellowship program at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität.

Fleischmann was awarded a M.A. with honors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he serves as a board member and chairs its Latin America Committee. He received a B.A. and B.S. with honors from American University, where he was the valedictorian and student body president. Fleischmann was the 2008 Alumnus of the Year, awarded by the School of International Service (SIS) of American University, where he serves as a board member.

He also serves on other boards, including the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Medical Center, School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), and the World Security Institute (WSI). In 2008, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley appointed Fleischmann to serve on the board of directors of the University of Maryland Medical System, where he serves on its executive committee.

He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a technical consultant to Paramount Pictures. He has served on the board of directors of OFFITBANK, an independent private bank with more than $13 billion in assets under management. Fleischmann is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he serves on the Task Force on Cuba.

Fleischmann is a graduate of the Gilman School of Baltimore, Maryland. He is married to Dafna Tapiero, the head of CommDev, a global fund at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank, which focuses on creating sustainable community benefits from oil, gas and mining industry investments. They are parents of two children.