On July 18, 2013, AGS Alumni was honored to present its Inaugural Speaker, Doug Shipman, to the class of 2013 as part of their weekly speakers. This was a mere three days before the last day of Governor’s School and the current class’s last speaker. Doug Shipman is from Flippin, Arkansas and attended Arkansas Governor’s School in 1990 with the Area I emphasis of Social Science.

Doug Shipman is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR). Doug was most recently a Principal in the Atlanta office of the Boston Consulting Group where he worked in the New York, Mumbai and Atlanta offices. He is the founding CEO and has been with the Center since the inception of the project in 2005. He currently serves on the Boards of the Emory Alumni Association and the Harvard Alumni Association. He has previously served on the Boards of The Intown Academy charter school, Easter Seals of North Georgia, and the Butler Street YMCA.

He was named one of Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40” in 2008, one of Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40” in 2009 and received the New Leaders Council 40 Under 40 award in 2010. He was also named on of the “100 Most Influential” in Atlanta for 2011 and 2012. He has guest lectured at several institutions including Bard, Duke, Emory and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). He has been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, TEDxAtlanta and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Doug has an extensive educational background in issues of race, ethnicity and gender including the relationship between economics and poverty, the history of American minority groups and religion as applied in social movements including the American Civil Rights movement, the Indian independence movement and the Buddhist environmental movement in Southeast Asia.

Doug has an MPP (Master of Public Policy) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University with an emphasis on domestic politics; an MTS (Master of Theological Studies) from the Harvard Divinity School with an emphasis on religion and public life and a bachelor’s degree with High Honors from Emory University with majors in Economics and Political Science. Doug attended Arkansas Governor’s School in 1990.