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Lee Tablewski is Director of Director, Professional Training Program
at the Institute of the Americas. He has 30 years experience managing programs for non-profit think tanks including the Institute of the Americas, the North-South Center and the Center for the Study of the Presidency.

Tablewski has developed conferences, training workshops and policy initiatives in collaboration with the Department of State, international organizations and public and private entities across the Americas. In addition, he occasionally teaches professional workshops for science and health journalists from Latin America.

During his first eight-year tenure at the Institute of the Americas, Tablewski served as its founding Director of Programs, creating initiatives on energy, privatization, social security reform, health care reform, environment, water infrastructure and information technology.

At the North-South Center at the University of Miami, his team won the World Bank¹s Development Marketplace competition in 2001 with the most creative new idea for poverty alleviation. The project was entitled "Artisan Enterprise Institute."

Before focusing his work on social needs, Tablewski was considered principally an expert on technology for development and served the assistant for international programs to the Dean of Engineering and Vice President for IT at the University of Miami.

With the World Bank¹s infoDev program, Tablewski trained national Y2K program managers in Latin America. For the president of the Dominican Republic, he trained school teachers in the use of technology in the classroom. At the University of California, San Diego, campus, he founded one of the first university-based Mac user groups and was runner up in the Westinghouse Florida Science Talent Search competition with a solar energy project.

Tablewski is the author, “Return on Infrastructure Investment: Focus on Water,” a chapter in the book entitled, Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization. The volume was edited by John Price and Jerry Haar. (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2008).

He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and M.A. in international political economy.