Biography

Skye Blanks serves as the Chief Operations Officer for the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), and is the acting Director of the Knowledge Hubs (KHubs) project, which are institutions or networks, dedicated to capture, share and exchange development experiences with national and international partners in order to accelerate development for micro-small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). 

Skye is a double alumnus of the George Washington University Presidential Fellowship program and holds an MBA with a certification in Financial Management from The George Washington School of Business. He also holds a BA in International Affairs with a concentration in International Development from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.

Before dedicating his work towards the ICSB, Skye worked abroad as a Research Fellow for the Barcelona-based NGO, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo.

Skye also served as a Treasury Scholar, working in the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Development Results and Accountability, within the Office of International Affairs, where he helped to analyze international economic development policies and review country strategies, projects, and evaluations for the Multilateral Development Banks.