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Since joining Mercy Corps' senior management team in April 2003, Paul Dudley Hart's assignments have included managing Mercy Corps' merger with Cambridge, Mass.-based Conflict Management Group. Hart focuses largely on funding diversification, strategic alliances and other new agency initiatives.
Hart's management career includes a stint as president of The Brown Schools Education Services Group, the largest provider of education, therapeutic and family support services for children with extraordinary needs in the U.S., and a tenure as CEO of Pacific Crest Outward Bound School.
Hart grew up in England but emigrated to Australia at age 17. His early career was as seaman and diver aboard a square-rigged sailing ship doing underwater filming in the Southwest Pacific. He spent 10 years in the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Research Program, directed programs at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod, and also managed marine and environmental survey programs in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Vietnam, Algeria, Egypt, the U.K., Mozambique and Guyana | 