Rachel Wolff

• Three-time general manager leading multi-million-dollar project teams in complex operational environments across Africa and Asia. • Agile executive with track record of driving results across funding acquisition, strategic planning, talent development, process improvement, and risk management. • Experienced in climate sector, including leadership in Nepal’s GRID Initiative, USAID-funded Hariyoban, GEAPP-funded Solar-Harnessed Entrepreneurship, adaptive agriculture in Somalia. • Entrepreneurial leader who launched one of the world’s first resilience programs, SomReP, targeting climate-vulnerable pastoralists and farmers in Somalia. Built systems from the ground up for 7-member consortium while raising the first $35M of $80M funding goal. • “Podium-ready” communicator who pivoted from journalism and marketing to networking dynamo—negotiating win-win relationships with governments, funders, communities, and cross-functional teams across time zones and markets. • Diverse functional expertise: Transformed impact, efficiency of media relations and safeguarding risk management functions for $2.7B global organization through innovation and influence. • Wharton MBA, Georgetown Foreign Service BSFS. Bilingual, cross-cultural leader who has worked effectively in 12 countries and in Seattle, Washington, DC, and Chicago. • Twenty years leading high-performance teams at world's largest, professionalized nonprofits, for health, climate, infrastructure projects. Private sector experience: client training support at DC consulting firm, Pentagon reporter for Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, freelance marketing.