Keith Decie
Vice President, Communications and External Affairs

Keith Decie provides leadership to and support for GBC communications worldwide. He collaborates with a communications team based in New York and Moscow and works with all of the GBC regional offices. GBC communications are focused on supporting the organization's mission to enable member companies to produce effective and collaborative impact to defeat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. This includes integrated marketing communications, digital media, and media relations. The GBC communications department also provides direct support to member companies.

Keith came to GBC with more than 20 years' experience in both corporate and nonprofit organizations. His work has included brand-building, public affairs, stakeholder relations, and business-to-business marketing. In the course of his career as a communications consultant, he has served a diverse range of organizations,academic institutions, entrepreneurship and emerging-market business assistance programs, corporations ranging from Philips Electronics to start-ups, and various players in the public policy arena.

Prior to GBC, Keith was a vice president at a Washington, DC-based communications firm, handling projects in public affairs, product and service marketing, and stakeholder relations. He also served as director of communications for the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.

During the 1990s, Keith served as assistant to the dean and director of communications at the University of Michigan Business School. It was at this time that Michigan realized a rapid rise in stature. Keith's work included engaging and communicating with major corporations, SMEs, and entrepreneurs as well as with some of the world's most respected thought leaders in areas such as corporate strategy, triple bottom line, and globalization.

Keith has led communications programs in emerging economies, including outreach programs in Central and Eastern Europe, South America, and Asia. He has also developed, supported, and led special non-communications initiatives in areas including e-learning, women in business, and online knowledge co-creation. At Michigan, he co-founded a center designed to develop and deploy a technology-based system for real-time collaboration among businesses, customers, and researchers.

Keith graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in government and a concentration in political theory. He also created a personal course of study in global economic development.