GISELA KELLER

Senior Consultant, USA

Gisela Keller Gisela Keller has been working as a consultant in New York since 2004 and with Brakeley since January 2006.

Prior to becoming a consultant, she worked as program officer at the New York-based Goldman Sachs foundation overseeing the advancing academic achievement portfolio. As Head of External Relations working for Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, she built the corporate philanthropy program of the Firm.  When working for the New York-based non-profit organisation, the Armonk Institute, Ms. Keller successfully expanded fundraising strategies and incomes.

Born in Bonn, Germany, Ms. Keller received a Master of Arts of the Freie Universität  Berlin in modern history and Hispanic studies.

Gisela Keller is deeply attuned with the business culture and non-profit world on both sides of the Atlantic. Throughout her career she has helped various organisations and companies to successfully get their message across the Atlantic in order to internationalise donor bases, set up 501(c)(3) organisations in the U.S., build strategic relationships with funders, board members and donors as well as to develop targeted PR plans.

Ms. Keller currently provides consultancy services to the Brakeley client Karolinska Institutet and to the Paris-based Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.  Among her previous clients are the Friends of Goethe and the ZEIT-Foundation.

Ms. Keller has written several articles on the American world of philanthropy for European audiences. She is a board member of the New York-based charities CITYarts and Deutsches Haus at New York University. Ms. Keller is an Adjunct Professor at the New York University Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising.