Renée Dobbins Anderson, Ph.D.
Chief Advancement Officer, Charleston Gaillard Center
President & CEO, Rivers Performance Hall Foundation

Highlights:
• Architect and consultant of multiple successful nine- and ten-figure fundraising campaigns, including the Gaillard Center’s $142M capital campaign, a public-private partnership with the City of Charleston
• 40+ years’ experience in development, consulting, and institutional advancement
• 2019 Outstanding Community Volunteer, AFP South Carolina Lowcountry Chapter

Education:
• Ph.D., Organizational Theory, Structure, and Behavior
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Certificate, Harvard Institute for Educational Management (IEM)
Harvard Graduate School of Education

About Renée:
Renée is the founding Vice Chairman of the Rivers Performance Hall Foundation, as well as a founding executive board member of the Charleston Gaillard Center. Serving as President & CEO of the Rivers Performance Hall Foundation and Chief Advancement Officer for the Charleston Gaillard Center, she also chairs the Gaillard Center’s first Artistic Programming Committee.

Renée’s regional and national involvement in educational leadership includes graduate education, higher education, and institutional advancement consulting, fundraising, and training. Spending more than twenty years as associate dean for graduate education for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and thirteen years in institutional advancement and development there, her tenure concluded with the successful completion of UNC’s $2.4 billion Carolina First Campaign.

She retired in 2003 as associate dean of Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. While remaining active at UNC-Chapel Hill, Renée also serves on the Board of Governors at the Business School at the College of Charleston.