[ingodirectors] ANNOUNCEMENT of new NGORC Steering Committee Members in 2018

[Marko Lovrekovic]

Dear colleagues,

Following our call for elections in late January, we received a large
number of votes supporting two candidates for the Steering Committee
(SC) of the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre. In close consultations with the
current Steering Committee, it has been decided to appoint both
candidates due to the fact that another existing SC member will be
leaving very soon. I would like to invite you to join me in
congratulating the following colleagues on their appointments:

1. Ms Sharon Kane, Country Director at Plan International Vietnam
2. Mr Michael R. DiGregorio, Country Representative at the Asia
Foundation Vietnam

Kindly visit the following link for a complete list of the Steering
Committee members:
http://www.ngocentre.org.vn/content/management-structure-and-staff

As a gentle reminder, below you can read a short summary of their
professional biographies:

Sharon Kane has been the Country Director of the child rights
organisation, Plan International Vietnam, since July 2016. Sharon
holds Post Graduate degrees in Health Promotion, Evaluation, and a
Masters of Public Health. She has more than 15 years of experience
working in both the development and humanitarian setting. Starting in
2001, Sharon spent 8 years in Afghanistan and Pakistan working
directly on maternal, child health and nutrition programs and child
protection programs. In 2009, she joined the American Red Cross, moved
to Thailand and led the Final Evaluation of the 2005 Tsunami Response.
This role led to Sharon joining the Australian Red Cross Emergency
Response team and she was deployed to assist in a number of
humanitarian emergencies that occurred in places such as Haiti, Libya,
and Pakistan. In 2012, Sharon took on a senior leadership role in
Laos, as Director of Program Quality for World Vision. During this
time, Sharon served as a Committee Member on the INGO Network for
Laos. As Country Director for Plan International Vietnam, Sharon is
excited to lead the Plan team in the promotion of advancing Children’s
Rights and Equality for Girls.

Dr. Michael R. DiGregorio, the Asia Foundation’s Vietnam Country
Representative, has served as a development professional in Vietnam
for 23 years. During that time, he has worked as a researcher, program
manager, and documentary filmmaker with a variety of philanthropic,
academic, business, and international development organisations.
Before joining the Asia Foundation in 2014, he served as a senior
consultant on urban climate change resilience within the Rockefeller
Foundation’s Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network. Prior to
that, Michael served for eight years within the Ford Foundation’s
Hanoi office developing and managing $34 million in grants in
education, media, arts, and culture. He earned a PhD in Urban Planning
from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 with a
dissertation on the cultural economy of industrialising craft villages
in the Red River Delta. His MA in Urban and Regional Planning from the
University of Hawaii was published in 1994 as ‘Urban Harvest:
Recycling as a Peasant Industry in Northern Vietnam’. Michael also
holds an MA in Development Economics from Ohio University. He is an
affiliate faculty member of the University of Hawaii, where he
continues to advise doctoral students in Urban Planning.

Our team at the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre looks forward to
collaborating with Sharon and Mike!

Warm regards,

Marko
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Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director
VUFO-NGO Resource Centre
Trung Tu Diplomatic Compound
6 Dang Van Ngu, Dong Da, Hanoi
Building E3, Room 201, 2nd floor
Mobile: +84 904 191 871
Phone: +84 24 3832 8570
Email: director at ngocentre.org.vn
Web: http://www.ngocentre.org.vn


On 23 January 2018 at 11:16, Marko Lovrekovic <markongorc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear INGO directors:
>
> Following our recent call for nominations, we received nominations for
> two candidates who meet the criteria for the VUFO-NGO Resource
> Centre's Steering Committee. Kindly note that your organisation is
> eligible to give one vote. Please select one of the nominees below and
> cast your electronic vote by sending a short email to
> <director at ngocentre.org.vn> by 31 January 2018:
>
> Ms. Sharon Kane, Country Director, Plan International Vietnam
> Mr. Michael R. DiGregorio, Country Representative, the Asia Foundation Vietnam
>
> Thank you in advance for taking a minute of your time to send a vote!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Marko