Carol Loftur-Thun
Partnerships Officer
With 20 years of experience in turnarounds, mergers, and start-ups, Carol served in interim and permanent CEO and Executive Director roles with 11 regional, national, and international NGOs. She started out in marketing and event planning for clients like Inova Hospital, ExxonMobil and the National Gallery of Art. But her passion has been servant leadership of NGOs focused on domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, mental illness, suicide, and healthcare. Carol raised over $31 million to implement turnarounds and oversaw partnership development with CNN International to launch the Freedom Project which builds awareness of modern-day slavery.
Currently she serves as CEO of Minerva Medica, Executive Director of Health Tech Access Alliance, and co-founder of Quasar International Institute, where she empowers leaders to lead innovation, manage change, and do well by doing good. As an ICF certified coach, she helps others listen well, tame chaos, transform conflict, build partnerships, and grow people and organizations to turn vision into results.
While completing her MA in Mediterranean Security from the University of Malta and MS in Conflict Resolution from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at GMU, she participated in the 2022 Global Negotiations Conference and IGN’s 2023 Communication Strategy Workshops. Carol was born in Ecuador, lived in Lebanon and Malta, and studied in India under the Fulbright Program.