The Global Citizen - National Viewpoint

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Featured Speakers: 

• Tara C. Kenney, Managing Director, Deutsche Asset Management
•  Michael Camilleri, Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Executive Director of the Northern Triangle Task Force, USAID 
• Ray Offenheiser, William J. Pulte Director and Professor of the Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

Tara C. Kenney '82

Tara Kenney ’82 is a senior finance executive with extensive experience as a banker and investor in the Emerging Markets. Kenney formed TCK Global Advisors in September 2020 to bring sustainable investment solutions to the institutional marketplace. She has served for many decades on non-profit boards furthering the mission of economic empowerment, financial inclusion, education, and health care for the underserved, in the US and Globally.

Prior to TCK Global Advisors, Tara led the Faith-Based practice for Boston Common Asset Management, a leader in ESG/Impact Investing, as a Senior Vice President. In this role she managed consultant relationships and new business development, leading to significant new wins during her tenure. Earlier, Kenney was a Managing Director with Deutsche Asset Management, where she directed the Institutional business for Latin America, and served as a Portfolio Manager and Head of Emerging Markets and Latin American Equities. In her 30 + year career, Tara was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Scudder Investments Latin American Equity Product, as well as working for Bankers Trust’s Latin American Merchant Bank, where she led the Brady Plan debt negotiations, and work for the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

She received a BA in Government and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and did postgraduate work in Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She earned an MBA in Finance at New
York University’s Stern School of Business.

Learn more about Tara Kenney’s work and partners here:

• Highlighting Tara Kenney in an article by Megan Peterson, Accion: Women leaders are crucial for enabling sustainable development, part one
• Article by Michael Schlein, President and CEO at Accion, on the impact of COVID-19 on the underserved, Accion’s mission and the role of inclusive finance: Your support can help continue building a financially inclusive world

• Stories of hope and resilience from TCK Global Advisors partners’ clients:
  • Article by Robert Abare, Accion: How South Africa’s women entrepreneurs are leading responses to COVID-19
  • Article by Jose Wolff, Accion: “The fight to keep going”: A family business changes course 

Other related talks:

• Opening remarks from Sir Ronald Cohen at The Future of Impact Investing at the Harvard Business School: The Future of Impact Investing Keynote Address with Sir Ronald Cohen
• In this TED talk, Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen, shares stories of how “patient capital” can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity — to the world’s poorest: Patient Capital

Michael Camilleri '00

Michael Camilleri ’00 is Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. An international lawyer and former diplomat, he served in the Obama administration from 2012 to 2017 as the Western Hemisphere adviser on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as Director for Andean Affairs at the National Security Council.

Prior to joining the U.S. government, Michael was a human rights specialist at the Organization of American States and a senior staff attorney at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). He also worked with a coalition of civil society organizations in Guatemala and at a large international law firm.

Michael’s commentary and analysis on legal and policy issues in the Americas have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly, BBC, Fox News, Univision, NTN24, and CNN en Español. Michael is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he has been an adjunct professor of law and international affairs at the George Washington University, American University, and the University of Baltimore. He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Michael Camilleri’s testimony at the House Foreign Affairs Committee on “The Health, Economic, and Political Challenges Facing Latin America and the Caribbean” recorded on September 15, 2020:

Articles by Michael Camilleri related to his work:

• Michael Camilleri (Foreign Affairs): Why Antiestablishment Fervor Is Growing in Latin America
• Michael Camilleri and Catharine Christie (Americas Quarterly): How the ‘Art of the Deal’ Hurt Latin America’s Corruption Fight
• Michael Camilleri and Michael Shifter (New York Times access required): It’s Not the Time for War Games With Venezuela

Ray Offenheiser '71 (Moderator)

Presented by Ray Offenheiser

Ray Offenheiser ’71 serves as the William J. Pulte Director and Keough School Associate Professor of the Practice. He teaches graduate and undergraduate students in the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he leads a course on the Foundations of Sustainable Development. Prior to joining Notre Dame in August 2017, Offenheiser was the president of Oxfam America – a Boston-based international relief and development agency and the U.S. affiliate of Oxfam International – for more than 20 years. His research interests and areas of expertise include poverty alleviation, human rights, United States foreign policy, and international development. He has been a frequent commentator with U.S. and international media on these and other subjects.

Listen in as Ray Offenheiser and guests discuss current humanitarian issues around the globe:

Ray Offenheiser at Cornell University on five areas that are fundamental to human existence: “The Way Forward” Keynote at Global Grand Challenges Symposium