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 CHRISTOPHER DOYLE 

PRESIDENT & CEO AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSION USA www.leprosy.org 

ADDRESS IN ROME: ROMA HOTEL COLUMBUS - VIA DELLA CONCILIAZIONE, 33 TEL. 06/686-5435 PERSONAL MOBILE 1/8643541541 INTERVIEW LANGUAGE : ENGLISH 

Christopher J. Doyle became President and Chief Executive Officer of American Leprosy Missions in January 1995. He is responsible for securing financial resources for the organization, managing the agency's development plan, and fulfilling ALM's mission to serve as a channel of Christ's love to persons affected by leprosy and to those with disabilities, helping them to be healed in body and spirit and to be restored to lives of dignity and usefulness within their communities.

ALM is the United States' oldest and largest non-profit organization dedicated to the care and treatment of people with Hansen's disease worldwide. Since joining ALM, Mr. Doyle has traveled to 18 countries on behalf of the mission surveying field projects and collaborating with international partner agencies. He serves on the boards of the Schieffelin Leprosy Research & Training Center in Karigiri, India, and The Leprosy Mission Trust, India as well as the National Directors’ Forum of The Leprosy Mission International.

From March 1988 through December 1994, Mr. Doyle was state director of Bethany Christian Services of South Carolina. With five offices in the state and headquarters in Columbia, Bethany is the largest non-profit, private child-placing agency in South Carolina. He was trust officer for South Carolina National Bank, now Wachovia, for two years preparing fiduciary tax returns in the trust tax department, conducting research for trust administrators and assisting in estate tax planning.

Mr. Doyle was graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina, serving as student body president in his senior year. He also has an Associate Degree in Business from Greenville Technical College. He has done graduate work at Clemson University and the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the Christian Management Association and of the Marine Corps Association, having served in the United States Marine Corps for four years and receiving an honorable discharge with the rank of E-6.

Christopher J. Doyle was born in West Stewartstown, New Hampshire in 1958 and raised in Rhode Island. He is the son of John and Mary Doyle of Cumberland, Rhode Island. He is married to Karen Adair Birckhead Doyle of Orlando, Florida and they have four small children, Andrew, Jonathan, Kimberly Anne and Daniel. The family lives in Greer, South Carolina and are members of Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church, PCA.

Mr. Doyle serves on the board of Mitchell Road Christian Academy. Mr. Doyle has written numerous articles on leprosy as well as leadership and management issues and fundraising. He has contributed chapters to two books and speaks frequently at national and international seminars and conferences. He is the author of one book, “Leadership Lessons from Grandma” published in 2006.