International Rescue Committee [to 31 January 2015]

The International Rescue Committee Adds Highly Regarded Sector Leaders to Senior Team as Organization Begins to Implement New Strategy
New Leaders from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and International Rescue Committee To Join IRC Leadership Board. Team Will Play Key Role in Implementation of New Five-Year Strategy

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2015 – The International Rescue Committee (IRC) today announced that it is expanding its Leadership Board, adding three sector leaders as the organization begins to roll out a new global strategy. Ciarán Donnelly, who has served in a series of domestic and international roles since joining the IRC in 2001, will become the organization’s Vice President, International Programs. Jodi Nelson, who previously served at the IRC, will rejoin as Senior Vice President, Policy and Practice. Nelson currently is the Director of Strategy, Measurement and Evaluation at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And Amanda Seller, who currently serves as Head of Private Fundraising for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will become the IRC’s Senior Vice President, Revenue.

“Those we serve need the very best,” said IRC President and CEO David Miliband. “We are thrilled that these sector leaders are joining our team and our efforts to continue to meet the needs of the millions worldwide whose lives have been shattered by conflict and disaster.”

According to Miliband, Nelson, Seller and Donnelly will assume key roles in guiding the organization as it implements an ambitious global strategy developed during the past year in collaboration with IRC staff and sector experts. Built on the organization’s existing strengths, the new strategy is designed to help the IRC – and the sector – meet the evolving needs of the world’s refugees and displaced people with increasingly evidence-based, higher-impact and more cost-effective programming…

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