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Matthew Levey

Matthew is Executive Director of International Charter School of New York. A father of three New York City public school students, he has a deep global understanding from his work as a US diplomat in South America and Eastern Europe and business insight from a decade of management consulting. Matthew joined the Foreign Service after college and was posted to Ecuador, Romania Washington and Bosnia. In that last assignment he was part of the team that negotiated an end to the Yugoslav civil war.

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