Susan Aurelia Gitelson, PhD

President & CEO

Susan Gitelson

A Timeline of Professional Milestones 

1957

Serves as Editor of Hunter College High School’s newspaper “What’s What” and as a weekly panelist on the “Young Book Reviewers” radio show until 1958.

1959

Participates in Youth Leaders From Abroad program in Israel until 1960.

1963

Graduates from Barnard College.

1963

Serves as a trainee at the Rockefeller Foundation until 1964.

1966

Receives an MIA from the Columbia School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA).

1970

Receives a Ph.D. from Columbia.

1970

Is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1970

Is affiliated with the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace through 1975.

1975

Authors “Multilateral Aid for National Development and Self-Reliance:  A Case Study of the UNDP in Uganda and Tanzania.”

1975

Serves as a Research Associate at the Columbia Middle East Institute until 1976.

1976

Serves as Co-Editor of “Israel in the Third World,” published by Transaction Publishers.

1979

Establishes Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson Award for Human Values in International Affairs at Columbia SIPA, endowed in perpetuity in 2016.

1981

Serves as President of SJ International Corp. and MTIIC Corp until 2009.

1984

Receives the Columbia University Alumni Medal for Distinguished Service.

1989

Establishes Gitelson Peace Prize at the Truman Institute (now the Truman Peace Prize).

2004

Receives an honorary degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2012

Authors “Giving is not Just for the Very Rich: A How-To Guide for Giving and Philanthropy,” published by On-Demand Publishing, LLC.

2017

Receives the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who.

2020

Continues to serves as President of International Consultants, Inc., which she has done since 1981.

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