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John Kelly joined
Brakeley in 1990 and became Managing Director in 1991. He is currently President of Brakeley Ltd
based in London.
Before joining Brakeley,
Mr. Kelly headed Regent's College, London. Earlier, he served as Bursar of Bedford
College, University
of London where he was
one of the first people to introduce American fundraising approaches into a
British university. Other administrative
positions in higher education were with the London School of Economics and the University of Glasgow.
For four years Mr. Kelly worked as a management consultant for a
consortium of universities in the north-west of England
and in Wales.
Born in Wimbledon, Mr. Kelly was
brought up in Yorkshire and was educated at
Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire.
He studied at Ushaw College, Durham and
then at Sheffield
University from which he
graduated as a Bachelor of Laws. He is a
Master of Arts of the University
of London in United
States Studies and also earned the Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance.
Throughout his professional life,
Mr. Kelly has been particularly successful in introducing appropriate
innovative practices to the institutions he has served, and for over thirty
years has been actively involved in fundraising. He has extensive professional contacts in the
US, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Kelly was the editor and
principal author of the UK handbook Boosting University Income, first
published in 1984, has written a number of articles on fundraising for
professional journals, and lectures regularly on fundraising. From 1998 to 2001 he was Chairman of
EUConsult, the European Association of Consultants to and about Not-for-Profit
Organisations.
Mr. Kelly
has provided direct consultancy services to a range of Brakeley clients including:
Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg), Kræftens Bekæmpelse (cancer
charity) (Copenhagen), Alliance for Global Sustainability (Japan, Switzerland,
USA and Sweden), l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), the Van Gogh
Museum (Amsterdam), the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines),
York Minster, Marie Curie Cancer Care (London), Hiroshima International School
(Hiroshima), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), the University of
Glasgow (Scotland), Amnesty International, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden),
Piteå School of Music (Sweden), Harvard Law School, Georgia Institute of
Technology (USA), the National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh), Hong Kong
Academy of Performing Arts, International College (Beirut) and Worldwide Fund
for Nature (WWF).
Mr Kelly has served for many years on the Executive
Committee of the Convocation of graduates of the University of Sheffield
and is one of the association’s representatives on the University Court. He is also a coopted Board member of the
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFC) which is headquartered in Washington DC.
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