Dar Vanderbeck

Vice President

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Dorothy.Vanderbeck@resoluteconsulting.com



Dar provides stakeholder outreach, management consulting, program design and project management counsel to Resolute clients domestically and internationally, with a focus on transition environments.

Dar leads the firm’s international development practice, helping clients engage stakeholders and facilitate investment in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, Central America and around the world.  She works with private sector companies, government actors, NGOs, philanthropic organizations, development firms and other key groups to harness their collective capacity and manage teams to design effective, iterative and creative community development programs and organizations.

Before joining Resolute, Dar worked for McKinsey & Co. as the firm’s Global Communications Coordinator. In the public sector Dar was appointed to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), where she worked as a Program Manager on the Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative (ASI) for two years before shifting to the Asia Middle East team where she represented her office with a focus on Libya and Syria. 

Dar previously served as Confidential Assistant to the Administrator of USAID where she worked in the White House Liaison Office and helped coordinate the White House Report on Women and Girls. Prior to this, she served as Special Assistant to the Foreign Assistance Agency Review Team during the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Project, where she worked with a team of policy experts to define the Obama Administration's policies on USAID, MCC and PEPFAR. Dar worked for Obama for America in 2008 in New Jersey and Florida.

She spent 2007 working as a paralegal/caseworker for Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), a small NGO in coastal Kenya, in a prison reform project. Earlier, Dar was the recipient of the Barlow Grant for International Study to collect visual and oral narratives of violence from the Somali refugee community in Kenya and the Diaspora community in Maine. Other work and fellowship experience includes research in the Ukraine with the Open Society Institute, providing resettlement support to refugees, teaching in Tanzania and volunteer work in South Africa.

Dar is originally from New Jersey and has studied in Paris, Nairobi and Lewiston, Maine — graduating from Bates College with a self-designed interdisciplinary degree in “Political Economies in Transition” which drew largely from the fields of Anthropology, Politics and Art History.