Carlos Ponce, Ph.D.

Dr. Carlos Ponce is an educator, researcher, consultant, artist, and practitioner. Currently an adjunct faculty at Framingham State University Business School and Global Studies. He is also an adjunct professor and learning facilitator in Boston University Questrom School of Business’ Online MBA program and School of Political Sciences. He teaches as part-time lecturer at the Columbia University SPS M.S. Nonprofit Management program, teaching International Nonprofits: Management & Perspectives, Adjunct Faculty at the John Hopkins University MA in NGO Management program, where he teaches the Institutional Fundraising course. Additionally, he is also a Lecturer at Northeastern University Global Studies and International Relations Master of Science Program, where he teaches multiple courses. Until August 2021, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Columbia University SPS M.S. Nonprofit Management program, teaching and developing the Governance, Leadership, and Managing the Mission-Based courses. He was Adjunct Faculty in the University of New Hampshire Master of Science in Global Conflict & Human Security, where he taught Global Governance & Human Security. Dr. Ponce has over three decades of experience working in the fields of management, project implementation, governance, planning, organizational development, fundraising, nonprofit management, networking, public-private partnerships, social movements, human rights, and democracy empowerment in the US and globally. He has managed, monitored, fundraised, and executed programs for an extensive portfolio of private and public programs, as well as worked as Chief of Party, Regional Director, and CEO in multiple organizations. He published numerous articles and books, and maintains an active engagement with different media sources. In his free time, he is an artist, painter, devoting hours painting with sand, rocks, coral, and acrylic, painting directly at Cape-Cod beaches.