[Chapter-delegates] Please welcome Rinalia

[Sarah Kiden]

Definitely very exciting news! Welcome and congratulations to Rinalia!

Regards,

Sarah

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 16:36 Christine Saegesser <saegesser at isoc.org>
wrote:

> (Apologies for cross-posting)
>
> Dear Colleagues, please find below an important announcement from Andrew
> Sullivan:
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>
> Dear Chapter Leaders,
>
> Thank you all for joining me as part of InterCommunity 2018 last week. It
> was great to see how engaged and excited you are about the upcoming year.
>
> I am too.
>
> As you've seen in our 2019 Action Plan (
> www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/2019), mobilizing people around the
> world is one of the most important things we can do to ensure the Internet
> becomes stronger and reaches further.
>
> To make this happen I'm thrilled to announce that Rinalia Abdul Rahim will
> join the Internet Society on 1 January, 2019 in the newly created role of
> Senior Vice President of Strategy and Implementation. In this position, she
> will be responsible for coordinating the organization's operational outputs
> and for overseeing the alignment of the Internet Society's work with its
> strategic goals and objectives.
>
> Rinalia will lead a team that will help to ensure we are as effective as
> possible as an organization and a community of like-minded people. Her
> team's work will support our collaborative approach with strategic planning
> and performance measurement. This will help us enhance our global impact.
> Because all of you in our community are such an important part of who we
> are and because so much of our work happens through you, Rinalia will also
> take an active role in community engagement with chapters and members,
> joining Joyce and Raul in their focus on strengthening community building.
>
> Some of you may already know Rinalia. I know her from ICANN - where she
> served on the Board of Directors.  Before that, she was Executive Director
> of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) where she was responsible for
> bringing together diverse stakeholders to address development challenges
> including poverty, education, and the empowerment of women and youth.  She
> also established high impact programs and networks for sharing knowledge,
> building partnerships and implementing best practices in multiple regions.
>
> In addition, she has held various advisory positions with organizations
> such as Mozilla Foundation, Global Action Network, World Economic
> Forum-UNESCO Partnership for Education initiative, United Nations Global
> Alliance for ICT and Development (UNGAID), International Task Force on
> Women and ICT, Youth Social Enterprise Initiative and the World Summit on
> the Information Society's ICT for Development Platform.
>
> She'll be based in Malaysia.
>
> To that end, I'd like you all to join Rinalia, Joyce, Raul and myself on a
> call in mid-January to talk to each other so that together, we can create
> more impact around the world in ensuring that the Internet is for
> everyone.  The details for this call will be circulated separately, so
> please watch out for those in due course.
>
> See you on the Internet,
>
> Andrew
>
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> President & CEO, Internet Society
> sullivan at isoc.org
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