David Chambers DAVID CHAMBERS

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Bio

David Chambers, AM.APMP, is an executive with Accenture based in their Reston office. He is assistant editorial director on multi-million dollar proposals for large-scale, complex projects work in the firm's Federal Government division. In his first year, proposals on which he worked earned more than $350 million. He is also a Media & Entertainment subject matter expert specializing in Middle East Broadcast Television. Past experience includes BearingPoint (Los Angeles), Arthur Andersen (Jeddah), the Showtime satellite television network (Dubai) -- for whom he conceptualized the world's first satellite-based ISP, SHOWnet -- and United Press International (UPI). Corporate work includes Sea-Land Services (under secondment to Government of Dubai agencies including the ports and free zone authorities and economic department) and Philip Morris in Corporate Affairs (now Altria). Before graduate studies, he was co-editor, co-publisher, and correspondent for the Gas Daily industry newsletter.

Committed to the Arts, Academia, and other Non-Profit arenas, David serves on the boards or advisory boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (nominated by President Michael Kaiser), the University of Virginia's Media Studies Department, and Keith Reinhard's Business for Diplomatic Action (BDA) -- developers of the World Citizens Guide. He is an Honorary member of Americans for Informed Democracy and a member of the British Council's cultural think-tank CounterPoint and the MENA division of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He also volunteers on international cases for the congressionally mandated National Center on Missing & Exploiting Children (NCMEC) and Team H.O.P.E.

For Accenture, David serves on the board of the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), Supply Chain Council (SCC), the US-India Business Council, and NPower. Internally, he serves as co-lead for the firm's American-Asian Network Group and is a member of several other diversity groups. He is also a member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP).

Currently, he is a member or affiliate of several Middle East-related associations: the Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA), the American-Kuwaiti Alliance (AKA), the US-Bahrain Business Council (USBBC), the National U.S.-Arab Chambers of Commerce (NUSACC), the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), the Arab & Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA), and the Muslim-American Journalists Association (MAJA).

Previously, he served on the White House Arts & Entertainment Task Force's Television Committee, the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry's IT committee, and various committees of U.S. Chamber of Commerce affiliates in the Middle East. On behalf of Showtime, he co-founded the satellite television signal anti-piracy committee for the Motion Picture Association of America's Middle East region (now the Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance).

David holds an M.A. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a B.A. from the University of Virginia's College of Letters, Arts & Sciences. He received a Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education at the American University in Cairo, where he studied classical Arabic and colloquial Egyptian at the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA). He speaks Arabic and Persian (Farsi) as well as German and is a long-time member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). His writings have been published as Op-Eds and in peer-reviewed journals (see "Recent Media," below), and he has appeared on television including C-SPAN, Arab Radio & Television (ART), and Al-Hurra. He has chaired conferences for the Stanley Foundation and the National Defense University and has served as a Middle East & North Africa (MENA) regional educational expert, ranging from analysis and recommendations regarding the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement to scholarship assessments and recommendations for U.S. Department of State's PLUS program.

David Chambers on C-SPAN Recent Media

Recent Productions

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