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

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.

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 has provides consultancy services to the Brakeley clients Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Germany). Gisela Keller’s past and current clients include the Museum of Jewish History (Berlin), Bucerius Kunst Forum (museum/Germany), Swisscontact (international aid/Zurich), Goethe Institut (New York), ZEIT-Stiftung (foundation/Germany), Institute for Law and Finance (Germany), University of Alberta (Canada) as well as several European companies.

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’s Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising.