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Meet the Director
Meet the Director
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Robert C. Gailey, M.Div. Associate Professor of Business Director of the Center for International Development
DEGREES
B.A., Eastern Nazarene College
M.Div., Nazarene Theological Seminary
Doctoral Candidate (ABD), University of San Diego, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, with a concentration in Nonprofit Management
BACKGROUND
Rob Gailey teaches nonprofit organizational management and theories of economic development in the International Development Studies major at PLNU and serves as the faculty advisor to PLNU's Microfinance Club. He is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Education Sciences, with a concentration in Nonprofit Management.
As Director of the Center for International Development, Rob Gailey is actively engaged with students across campus to bring awareness and solutions to social issues that impact our global economy. The Center for International Development has funded students to participate in international development conferences and research in LA, NY, Halifax, Rwanda, DC, and China.
RESEARCH
Professor Gailey's dissertation research is focused on the role of social capital and household economic welfare among clients of a microfinance organization in South Africa. Rob's research interests include microfinance, international economic development, poverty measurements, faith-based approaches to holistic relief and development, and intercultural studies.
Rob collaborates with other disciplines and offices on campus to explore how to enhance PLNU's involvement in international humanitarian and development work, and leads student groups to Armenia and Mexico to build homes for impoverished villages. He has participated in Teachers Noticing Teachers, the Baylor Conference on Poverty, Lazarian World Homes, the American Humanics Management Institute, USD's Social Issues Conference, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, the Global Missiology Conference of the Nazarene church, and various microfinance conferences throughout the region.
INTERESTS
Rob Gailey is a globally-minded individual with proven expertise in his field of study, and a personal background which successfully inspires his research, teaching, and publications. He spent six years of his childhood in the country of Swaziland and since has conducted microfinance/development training in the following countries: Liberia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Armenia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Haiti, Georgia, Mongolia, Philippines, Albania, Thailand, South Africa, and Kenya.
He and his wife, Wanda, served for 18 months as missionaries in the country of Malawi, where Rob directed a vocational school. Rob has also served two years as research director for the Microcredit Summit Campaign in Washington D.C. and six years as director of Microfinance Consulting Services for World Relief. Rob and his wife have two children.
PUBLICATIONS
- Co-author "Nurturing a Prophetic Imagination: Missiology as Ecclesiology" presented by co-authors at the Nazarene Global Missiology Conference, Netherlands, March 2007.
- Co-author of Sustainability in Microfinance - What's the Bottom Line? presented at the Association of Christian Economists 20th Anniversary Conference: Economists, Practitioners & the Attack on Poverty: Toward Christian Collaboration, Washington, D.C., January 2003. Published as a chapter in Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration by Judith M. Dean, Authentic & World Vision, October 2005.
- Supporting author for Overcoming the obstacles of identifying the poorest families: using participatory wealth ranking (PWR), the CASHPOR House Index (CHI), and other measurements to identify and encourage the participation of the poorest families, especially the women of those families / Simanowitz, A,; Nkuna, B,; Kasim, S,; Gailey, Robert / Microcredit Summit 2000
- Author, A sharp and inexpensive pair of eyeglasses, Credit and Savings for the Hard-core Poor (CASHPOR) newsletter (1999)
- Co-author, Recapitalizing Liberia: Principles for Providing Grants and Loans, first draft published in UNCDF newsletter, most recent draft reprinted in Forced Migration Review (#20, May 2004)
- Lead Compiler, Spiritual Transformation Through Microenterprise Development: A Compendium of Tools for Christian Practitioners, first printed and distributed at the 2nd Global Christian MED Conference, Thailand, 2000
- Reviewer of symposium on Third World Development and Microcredit for Policy Studies Journal
- Using Your Talents in a Productive Way, article written for and published by the Church of the Nazarene Africa Region NYI Newsletter, February, 2004
- Assisted in the development and writing of How Microfinance Providers Target the Poor: A Compendium of Strategies, for the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest
- Primary research support person for authors of four papers presented in plenary sessions at the 1999 Microcredit Summit Campaign's Meeting of Councils Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- Primary researcher among major bilateral donor agencies to determine support of microfinance initiatives. Authored document outlining funding opportunities for MFIs (1998-1999)
- Formed and led a global discussion group of 700 people in three languages assessing cost-effective poverty measurement tools to establish standards for the Campaign. Discussions widely published in numerous newsletters (1997-1999)
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