Daniel Wordsworth

Biography

Daniel Wordsworth is the President & CEO of the American Refugee
Committee (ARC), an international humanitarian aid agency operating relief
programs throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Wordsworth is an entrepreneur who came to ARC after several years leading for-profit start-ups in China. At ARC he has applied those principles of entrepreneurship to the humanitarian world. Wordsworth has ingrained in ARC's worldwide teams a bias for action and put in place the framework and culture for new ideas and approaches to emerge. Under Wordsworth, ARC received the Drucker Prize in 2011. He has led the formation of several breakthrough humanitarian enterprises and platforms, and organizational revenues have more than doubled in his 9-year tenure. Wordsworth has 20 years of experience in the field, having risen through the ranks of Christian Children's Fund and established emergency response programs throughout Africa and Asia. He has also lived and worked with the urban poor in Australia and Hong Kong. He started his career in the Royal Australian Navy.