INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - Key Persons
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- Executive Director - West, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Regional Vice President, Asia
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- Country Director, West Africa
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- Director, Business Operations
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chairman and CEO, Converse Associates, Inc
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- Programme Development Advisor
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- Director, McKinsey & Company
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- Vice President, Head of Technical Excellence
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- Acting Vice President, Policy & Practice
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- Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher
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- CEO, Bedford Ridge Capital
Steven Klinsky
Founder and CEO, New Mountain Capital
David A. Levine
Former Chief Economist, Sanford C. Bernstein
François-Xavier (FX) de Mallmann
Chairman of the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs
Prakash Melwani
Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
Eduardo G. Mestre
Chairman of Global Advisory, Evercore Partners
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- Senior Policy Officer: Economic Programmes
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- Deputy Vice President, Awards Management Unit ( AMU )
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- Executive Director - East, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Deputy Vice President, Awards Management Unit
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- CEO, Crescent Enterprises
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- Technical Adviser: Environmental Health
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- Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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- Senior Director, Economic Recovery & Development
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- Executive Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
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- Senior Managing Director, Kroll Associates
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- Senior Director, Internal Audit & Global Assurance
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- Vice President, Emergency Programs & Humanitarian Action
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- Chief Officer, Global Human Resources
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder, Conjunction Fund
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- Chief Global Supply Chain Officer
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer, Cbc
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Senior Vice President, Crisis Response, Recovery & Development
- Senior Vice President, International Programmes at the IRC
Ciarán Donnelly is Senior Vice President, International Programmes at the IRC's headquarters in New York. He previously served as Vice President of Programme Quality, and in leadership positions in Burundi, Uganda, Afghanistan and the D.R. Congo. An Irish citizen, Ciarán holds a B.A. in European Studies from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Pavia, and post-graduate degrees from the College of Europe and the University of Cambridge.
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- Chief Gender, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officer
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Managing and Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management
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- Chief Safety & Security Officer
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- Jordan / Milbrey Rennie / Consultant
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- Acting Sr. Director, Strategy & Planning
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- President / Owner, KCG Holdings I, LLC
Cressida Pollock is the former Chief Executive at English National Opera, one of the UK's leading performing Arts organisations. During her tenure at ENO she brought her business and financial expertise together with her turnaround experience from outside the sector to a complex and highly challenged organisation. Cressida's previous background stems from her wide ranging interests in improving organisations, including her tenure at McKinsey & Co. At the age of 24 she was a founding partner of Somerset Capital Management, an Emerging Markets focused investment fund. That investment company today has grown to manage over $10bn under assets. She has twice taken time out of her career to work directly with NGOs and non-profits: first at Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity in London, and then as an advisor at the Zambian Ministry of Health where she developed national healthcare policy for the Minister. Cressida holds an MBA from MIT Sloan where she graduated at the top of her class. She holds an MA in Law and Classics from the University of Cambridge and is a qualified Barrister and member of Lincoln's Inn.
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- Acting Head, Gender Equality Unit
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- Director of the Program on Peace - Building and Rights at Columbia University 's Institute for the Study of Human Rights
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- President
- IRC President
David Miliband oversees the IRC's humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programmes in over 20 cities across the United States. Under his leadership, the IRC has expanded its ability to rapidly respond to humanitarian crises and meet the needs of an unprecedented number of people uprooted by conflict, war and disaster. Read David's bio.
David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, is a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. As the son of refugees, he brings a personal commitment to the IRC's work.
David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he oversees the agency's humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programmes in 26 United States cities.
Under Miliband's leadership, the IRC has expanded its ability to rapidly respond to humanitarian crises and meet the needs of an unprecedented number of people uprooted by conflict, war and disaster. The organisation is implementing an ambitious global strategy to bring clear outcomes, strong evidence and systematic research to the humanitarian programmes through collaborative partnerships with the public and private sectors.
From 2007 to 2010, Miliband was the 74th Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, driving advancements in human rights and representing the U.K. throughout the world. In 2006, as Secretary of State for the Environment, he pioneered the world's first legally binding emissions reduction requirements. He was Member of Parliament for South Shields from 2001 to 2013.
Miliband graduated from Oxford University in 1987 with a first class honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics, and received a master's degree in political science in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Kennedy Scholar.
His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time," and as an effective and passionate advocate for the world's uprooted and poor people.
Miliband's parents fled to Britain from continental Europe during World War II and its aftermath. As the son of refugees, he brings a personal commitment to the IRC's work. He lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Louise Shackelton, and their two sons.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Professor of Psychology, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, SUNY Board of Trustees
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- President, Rockefeller Foundation
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- Chairman
- Executive Managing Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, Board of Directors, IRC - UK
Dr Titilola Banjoko currently works as an Executive Managing Director in the NHS. She has a clinical background. She successfully pioneered the formation of AfricaRecruit and FindaJobinAfrica.com aimed at harnessing human resources and social capacity in Africa. She serves on the council of the Royal African Society and she is a Trustee of Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET). Currently she serves as the chair of the board for the Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development (FORWARD). She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative and the co-convener of the Better Health for Africa Initiative.
She previously served on the many boards which include: the European Commission-United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative, the Department for International Development, the Global Poverty Action Fund Advisory Board and the World Health Organisation's Health Worker Global Policy Advisory Council. She was also a Senior Research Associate at the UK's Foreign Policy Centre and board of the Commonwealth Business Women's Forum. She is regularly invited by the mainstream media to discuss issues on topical news items, speak as a panellist, and chair high level stakeholder events. In 2006, she was named as one of the Prides of a Continent: Africa's gifts to the world. She has received numerous awards and endorsements over the last 10 years. In 2019, she was recognised by the Nigerian Healthcare Professionals UK as one of the 70 most Outstanding Professionals in the United Kingdom. She is passionate about supporting and giving a voice to the voiceless and serving humanitarian causes.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Partner, Centerview Partners
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- Chairman of Global Advisory, Evercore Partners
- Chairman, IRC Board of Advisors
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- Country Director, East Africa
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- Vice President & Head of Program Delivery
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- Senior Programme Development Advisor
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- Senior Director, Finance & Administration
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- Senior Director, Program Quality & Innovation
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- Chief Information and Operations Officer
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- Senior Director, Education Unit
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- Programme & Grants Advisor ( Humanitarian Aid )
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Regional Director - South, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Director of Humanitarian Policy & Advocacy / Head of Geneva Office
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- Chairman of the Audit and Governance Committee
- Head of Macro Research at Eisler Capital
Francesco Garzarelli is Head of Macro Research at Eisler Capital. A graduate of the London Business School and Bocconi University, Francesco sits on the Italian Ambassador to the UK Independent Advisory Board, is a member of Chatham House, the Society of Business Economists and the Parish Council of St Mary's Church in Hampstead. He supports Into University - a UK Charity.
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- Chairman of the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, World Connect
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- Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President, Tanenbaum Center for Inter - Religious Understanding and Founder, Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees
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- Senior Director Resource Acquisition & Management
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Acting Regional Vice President, Asia
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Acting Senior Vice President, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Senior Vice President, IRC Europe
Huey is a Business Lead at TPX Impact, leading full-service digital agency for the public and third sectors. He has over two decades of experience in digital and communications, and has built and led teams at some of the best commercial agencies in the Asia-Pacific and Europe. He and his teams have won numerous awards for their work and he served as a judge at the BAFTA Interactive Awards.
Huey has worked with various UN Agencies, including UNESCO, UNAIDS and UNDP on campaigns to support the rights of LGBT+ people, women and other marginalised communities. He's a passionate advocate for the rights of the displaced, borne from his own experience of fleeing Vietnam in 1976, on a boat with his family. He grew up in the migrant communities of Melbourne, Australia, and witnessed first-hand, their struggles and discrimination, but also the kindness of neighbours and local charities. Huey lives in London with his husband, adopted son and rescue pets.
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- IRC Information Officer for Bangladesh, Has over a Decade of Experience in the Development Sector Globally.
Humayun Kabir Khan, the IRC information officer for Bangladesh, has over a decade of experience in the development sector globally. Email: humayunkabir.khan@rescue.org
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- Executive Director, IRC EU / Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Europe
- Senior Vice President, IRC in Europe
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management, Yale School of Management
How is the IRC responding to East Africa's worst drought in 40 years?
Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a Young Global Leader 2011 (World Economic Forum), an Archbishop Desmond Tutu fellow 2011 (African Leadership Institute), the 2012 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Leadership Fellow, and a 2014 New Voices Fellow (Aspen Institute). Jacqueline has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at universities in the U.S. and Rwanda and frequently speaks at conferences and opines in the media outlets such as the Financial Times, NPR, Project Syndicate, CNBC Africa and others on matters related to investment in Africa.
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- Senior Adviser: Strategic Partnerships DG INTPA / NEAR
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- Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
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- Deputy Director EU, France & Germany Strategic Partnerships
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Chief Research and Innovation Officer
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- Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Management
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- Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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- Chief Operating Officer, Physicians for Human Rights
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- Acting Vice President, Business Operations & Analytics
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- Member Leadership Council, New York Stem Cell Foundation
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- Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors, IRC - UK
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- Chairman Emeritus, Morgan Stanley
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- Senior Director, Strategy, Learning & Innovation
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- CEO, Phenix Strategic Partners
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- Honorary Chairman of the Board and Former CEO, ADP
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Board of Castleton Commodities, and Senior Adviser, Bloomberg, L.P
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- Vice President, International Operations
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- Regional Vice President, Africa Great Lakes
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- Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
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- Co - Founder & CEO TolaData GmbH
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- Chairman of the People and Culture Committee
Kathryn Ludlow is a lawyer and former partner of the international law firm Linklaters where she specialised in dispute resolution and investigations. She was the firm's first global pro bono partner and chaired the Corporate Responsibility Committee. Kathryn is also a non-executive director of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Foundation Trust and a trustee of the Hall for Cornwall.
Kemal Ahmed has over 24 years of institutional asset management experience. He is currently a Partner with London-based CGM UK Advisors Ltd, a strategic investor in asset management firms. His professional career includes money management for Investec Asset Management, Old Square Capital Advisors (a firm he founded), the Brown University Endowment and the World Bank Group's Treasury Department. Kemal has and continues to serve on the Boards of various asset managers. His not-for-profit involvement has included serving, for many years, on the Boards of the Fund for Global Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union. He earned a MA, with distinction, from the Johns Hopkins University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Senior Director, Health Program - Emergencies & Humanitarian Action
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- Senior Director, Research Analysis and Learning - Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Regional Vice President, East Africa
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- Frameworks & Grants Director
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- Senior Director, Emergency Response - Emergencies & Humanitarian Action
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- Acting Senior Director, Violence Prevention & Response
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- Co - Founder and CEO, EmancipAction
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- Member of the UK Management Team
- Executive Director, IRC UK
- Executive Director, UK
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, Inc
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founding Partner, Lizard Investors, LLC
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- Managing Director, Lebenthal Asset Management
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- Policy and Advocacy Adviser: EU Humanitarian and Conflict
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Professor
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- Honorary Vice - Chair, International
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- Programme Development Advisor
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- Regional Grants Assistant
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- Chairman of the Safeguarding Committee
Lynette Lowndes' career is in the international development and humanitarian sector. She has worked in the field with ICRC, UNHCR and IFRC and subsequently held senior leadership positions with the Australian Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in the UK. Lynette now operates as an international consultant in strategy, facilitation and mentoring. Her qualifications are in environmental and global health.
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- Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Chief Operating Officer & External Relations
IRC country director Manish Agrawal, an Indian national, is a qualified humanitarian and development professional with over 22 years experience in the humanitarian sector nationally and internationally.
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- Policy and Advocacy Adviser: Conflict, Migration and Development
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- Country Director, Latin America
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- Regional Director, Europe - Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
- Regional Director, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration ( RAI )
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Chief Strategy Officer and Acting Senior Vice President, Awards Management Unit
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- Counsel, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- President, Center for Global Development
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- Country Director, Middle East & North Africa
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- Vice President, USA Philanthropy
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- Regional Supply Chain Director
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- Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co
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- Regional Vice President, Latin America
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- Senior Director, Strategy & Planning
- Senior Director, Strategy and Planning, Europe
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- Digital Communications Officer
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- Senior Technical Director, Health
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Vice President, Awards Management Unit
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- Regional Vice President, West Africa
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Senior Advisor, the Vistria Group
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Senior Fellow, the Century Foundation and President Emeritus, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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- Senior Director of Finance and Operations, Europe
- Senior Director, Finance & Operations
Najwa Al Abdallah grew up in a small village in Lebanon in poverty and during the civil war which built her resilience and passion to work for charities with focus on eliminating poverty. She spent the last 21 years working for several international NGOs around the world, overseeing finance, HR, IT and compliance and risk management. She is newly appointed as Director of Corporate Services at Money Advice Trust. Najwa blogs on fighting corruption in development and humanitarian aid organisations.
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- Executive Director - West, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Senior Communications Officer
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- Senior Director, Global Infrastructure
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- Director, EU Policy and Advocacy
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- Senior Director, Measurement
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- Senior Director, Violence Prevention & Response
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- Programme Development Advisor
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- Senior Director, Strategy & Performance
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- Project Finance Manager, ECHO
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- Policy and Advocacy Adviser: Refugee Resettlement, Protection and Integration
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- Secretary
- Treasurer
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- Vice President, International Development
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Regional Director - West, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Vice President, Mass Markets
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- CEO & Managing Director, Hellman & Friedman LLC
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- Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
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- Country Director, IRC Deutschland
- Managing Director and Country Representative, Germany
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- Programme & Grants Advisor ( Development Aid )
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- Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code
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- Member of the IRC Staff Leadership Board
- General Counsel / Senior Leaders Group
Richard is a partner at PwC and is currently a member of the Global Assurance Executive. Richard is a Trustee of several charities. He previously served as Treasurer of Save the Children and Chair of Merlin. He was appointed CBE for voluntary service to International Development in 2017.
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- President and Chairman, Marks Ventures, LLC
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- Digital Communications Officer
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- Senior Director, Processing & Resettlement Programs
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- Regional Director - East, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Co - Chair of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Inc
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- Country Director, Africa Great Lakes
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- Executive Vice President and General Counsel, the Estée Lauder Companies
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- Senior Technical Adviser: Emergency Health
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- Programme Development Advisor
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- Senior Executive Assistant to Senior Vice President & Board Liaison
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- Member of the Europe Senior Management Team
- Director of Human Resources, Europe
Sir Hugh Bayley was Labour MP for York from 1992-2015, Minister for Social Security and President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He introduced legislation to focus UK aid on poverty reduction, outlaw transnational bribery and ban tobacco advertising. He taught politics and social policy at the University of York, ran IBT - a television company capitalised by UK development agencies, and was a trade union negotiator.
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- Member of the UK Management Team
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- Founder and CEO, New Mountain Capital
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- Regional Vice President, Middle East & North Africa
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- President and Chief Executive Officer, America 's Physician Groups
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- Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
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- Executive Director, Sweden
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- Regional Supply Chain Director
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- Co - Chair of the Board of Directors
- Secretary
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- Senior Media Relations Manager
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- Special Correspondent, NBC News
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder and Co - CEO, H.I.G. Capital
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- Director, Atlantic - Central, Resstlement Asylum and Integration Programmes
- Regional Director - East, Resettlement, Asylum & Integration
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- Senior Vice President, Bank of America
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Mediator, New York Peace Institute
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- Chairman and CEO, Cranemere, Inc
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- Distinguished Fellow, the Henry Stimson Center
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- Senior Director, Governance
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- Senior Director, Policy & Planning
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- Chief Mobilization & Marketing Officer
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- Chief Mobilisation & Marketing Officer Communications
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- Head of Geopolitical Risk, McKinsey & Company