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Sam Worthington,
President & CEO
Sam visits children affected by the 2004 tsunami in Hambantota, Sri Lanka
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Calendar of Activities |
| March 17, Warrenton, VA |
Keynote Speaker, AirServ's International Managers Conference |
| February 13, Washington, DC |
Panel Moderator, National Summit on Citizen Diplomacy |
| February 2, Seattle, WA |
Panel speaker, "America's Response to Global Poverty" Forum |
For more information, contact Nasserie Carew, Director of Public Relations, at 202-667-8227. |
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Sam Worthington assumed the President and CEO position of InterAction on October 10, 2006. InterAction is the nation’s
largest alliance of relief and development nongovernmental organizations working overseas. Mr. Worthington has served as the
Vice Chair of InterAction’s Board of Directors, chaired its PVO Standards and Membership committee, and was co-chair of its
Commission on the Advancement of Women. Previously, he served since 1994 as Chief Executive Officer of Plan USA. Plan is
a global, 62 country, child-focused development organization. Mr. Worthington also sat on Plan’s global executive management
team and chaired Plan’s national CEO team.
Mr. Worthington is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign
Assistance (ACVFA) at USAID, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) at the United Nations, sits on the Boards of the
U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, The Alliance to End Hunger, and he is an International Trustee of Religions for Peace. His
numerous leadership roles include Chairing the global NGO Impact Initiative on behalf of the office of the UN Special Envoy for
Tsunami Recovery (President Clinton). Mr. Worthington is a founder of the Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI) and until
recently served on its Program Policy Council. HACI is a partnership of leading NGOs working to address the impact of AIDS on
children.
Mr. Worthington has a Masters degree with distinction from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a Bachelor’s
degree from the University of Vermont. He also did post graduate research at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes
Internationales in Geneva and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Rhode Island College.
As a Fulbright Scholar, he analyzed and evaluated United Nations international development program methodologies at the
International Labor Office in Switzerland.
Mr. Worthington has represented US non-profits and their programs in The New York Times, The Washington Post, on the three major news networks, CNN ‘Headline News’, NPR ‘Talk of the Nation’, Voice of America’s ‘World Service’, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Worthington was featured on the PBS television series “The Visionaries”.
Sam has worked and traveled overseas for over fifteen years. Sam and his wife Renée along with their three children Rachel, Jamie and Lindsay, live in Bethesda, Maryland. |
