President & CEO: Crispian Kirk

ckirk@oici.org
Crispian Kirk is a highly regarded social entrepreneur and is President and CEO of OIC International. Crispian was formerly the director of the National Medical Association’s (NMA) Global Health Initiative, where he was responsible for launching Global Health projects in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries. He also founded and served as president of Bantu Consulting, LLC, where he provided strategic international business development and finance expertise to small and medium-sized enterprises. He served as a member of the Obama-Biden Africa Policy Team during the 2008 Presidential Election and was also previously an independent consultant to the Brookings Institution and the Ford Foundation.

Crispian has an extensive career in international development, having begun this track while providing pro bono legal representation to survivors of apartheid before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Since then he has implemented a number of projects in Africa and Latin America. He recently served as the NAACP Representative to the United Nations and as the NAACP Director of International Affairs. He also served as the NAACP’s Director of Election Protection and the Association’s Chief Legislative Counsel and led an international observers program to monitor the 2006 Venezuelan presidential election.

Additionally, Crispian has participated in the filming of a documentary in Sierra Leone that examines human rights abuses in the diamond industry. He has also served as a guest analyst with numerous domestic and international media outlets, including BBC, CNN, Voice of America and SABC, and has contributed to a number of newspapers and blogs.

Crispian is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and the University of Maryland School of Law. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar.