Chris Bradford is the President of African Leadership Foundation. A co-founder of African Leadership Academy, Chris brings experience in the corporate, educational, and grantmaking sectors. He has worked as a Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and in brand management at the Procter and Gamble Company. In Africa, Chris helped launch the Summer Academy at Cape Town, a highly successful international summer program for high school students. He also spent two years a Peter Ling Teaching Fellow at Oundle School, one of the largest coeducational boarding schools in the United Kingdom. Chris also worked with The Broad Foundation, one of the leading educational foundations in the United States, in the summer of 2005.

Chris has a BA degree summa cum laude from Yale University, an MBA and an MA in Education Administration from Stanford University. At Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Chris was named one of five Siebel Scholars in recognition of his academic excellence and extracurricular leadership.

Althea Wilson is the External Relations Manager at African Leadership Foundation, where she leads external relations and fundraising activities in the USA. Althea grew up in Sierra Leone and moved on to the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico where she obtained her International Baccalaureate diploma. She then pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and International Political Economy at Trent University in Peterborough, ON, Canada. After graduation, she worked for Free the Children (a non-profit organization with headquarters in Toronto) as their International Projects Coordinator before enrolling at Vanderbilt University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a Master's degree in Economics, specializing in Economic Development. Since graduating with her Master's degree, Althea has worked as the Director of Development and Director of Lower School Development at St. Francis Episcopal Day School and St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, MD where she has facilitated the fundraising agendas of both institutions.

Kelly Schaefer is the Director of Chapters and the Graduate Program at African Leadership Foundation. She is responsible for developing and launching African Leadership Academy Chapters in cities across the world, including San Francisco, Boston, New York, London and Washington, D.C. with expansion to Africa-based Chapters in Winter 2011. These regional chapters offer on-going leadership education, support for ALA graduates, events with African-oriented organizations, and serve to broaden the ALA supporter network. Kelly also leads the graduate internship and host family programs. Kelly spent spring 2010 at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg as a Special Projects Manager responsible for organizing the graduate support network. She previously worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, where she focused on strategic projects in industries ranging from media & entertainment to aerospace & defense. Kelly graduated summa cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in management and marketing & communications. At Wharton, Kelly was on the executive board of the Management 100 Leadership Program, which sparked her interested in leadership education.