Denise Wales
Consultant, Game Changers

​​​Sessions: Innovation Competition Judge

Denise Wales specializes in the design and delivery of democracy and governance programs in fragile and conflict-affected areas.  She is dedicated to addressing issues of social inclusion and empowering under-recognized and underestimated actors to foster peaceful, just, and sustainable societies. Denise has held management roles at both the headquarters and field levels for non-profit and for-profit implementers such as: DAI; International Relief and Development; Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; and the International Foundation for Election Systems. She has worked in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe and served long-term assignments in Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Kosovo. She started her career in international development as US Peace Corps Volunteer serving in the Slovak Republic.

​Currently, Denise works as an independent consultant and is affiliated with GameChangers 360, LLC, a women-owned social enterprise, and Steve Kroll and Associates, LLC, a small business consulting firm. She is also a trainer for Humentum, conducting workshops on USAID rules and regulations and financial management.

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