Timothy Anderson
Timothy Anderson is founder and president of World Computer Exchange and Executive Director of World Computer Exchange – Canada. WCE provides on-line and on-site capacity-building services, sister-schools, and thousands of donated computers each year to help the world's poorest youth bridge the global divides in information, technology and opportunity. WCE's 700 volunteers have shipped 27,000 computers to connect 2,550 schools in 40 developing countries.
Anderson previously founded the pioneering K-12 South Shore Charter School in Massachusetts that he managed for five years building it to 360 students, 50 staff, $2.5 million. It was the first K-12 project-based charter school in the US.
He founded and led for 18 years Dovetail Consulting, a management consulting company, that provided strategic planning, fund raising, and program development to 300 nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and school systems. During that time, he was the paid President of Boston Harbor Associates that doubled in size each of the four years of his leadership and he co-founded and was the first director of the Boston GreenSpace Alliance and co-founded the Boston Management Consortium. He also founded and managed the Hull Environment & Services Corps the first federally funded corps in the US located in a public school district.
For seven years, he was the administrator of Boston's two zoos where he guided the raising of $18 million. Prior to that Anderson was the New England Vice President of the National Alliance of Business, on the campaign staffs for Jimmy Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy, a consultant on projects of the US Office of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and an intern in the office of the Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives, Thomas O’Neill.
He volunteers on the boards of World Computer Exchange and the World Reuse, Repair and Recycling Association. He Chairs the W. Seavey Joyce, S.J., Community Service Award at Boston College and is a member of the Executive Council of AARP Massachusetts. He is a member of the environmental jury for the Stockholm Challenge and on the Steering Committee of the e-Granary Digital Library of WiderNet at the University of Iowa. He was a member of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force Working Group on Low Cost Access and Connectivity as well as the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force. In 2002, the President of the Republic of Georgia awarded him the Badge of Honour of Georgia. He is an honorary professor of the Tbilisi Orbeliani State Pedagogical University and an honorary citizen of Kutaisi, Georgia.
He has served on the boards and committees of 50 organizations. He earned a Masters In Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in 2000 and his undergraduate degree from Boston College in 1973. He is married and the father of two sons.
