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Neal Keny-Guyer SOM ‘82, the chief executive officer of the humanitarian organization Mercy Corps, has been elected to a six-year term on the Yale Corporation.

Yale alumni who voted over the past two months chose Keny-Guyer for one of the Corporation’s six alumni fellow seats, effective July 1. He will replace Jeffrey Koplan ‘66, the vice president for global health at Emory University, whose term on the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, ends this month.

He beat out Nelson Cunningham ’80, managing partner at McLarty Associates, an international strategic advisory firm in Washington, and Sharon Ruwart ’85, managing director of the Beijing office of APCO Worldwide, a global communications consulting firm, in the election.

“Neal is in many ways the typical SOM graduate of his time,” University President Richard Levin said in a telephone interview. “He has strong business skills but has committed himself to public leadership and made a real mark in the NGO world.”

Keny-Guyer, a member of the board of advisers for the School of Management, grew up in Tennessee and completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University. He joined Mercy Corps, which now has more than 3,700 employees stationed in over 40 countries around the globe, in 1994.

Yale Daily News - Social entrepreneur elected to Yale Corporation.