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International Council The Initiatives of Change International Council offers leadership in setting priorities for global action and solving problems. Its 7-9 members serve for 3-5 years. It plays an important role in setting IofC's global agenda, but has no powers other than its own moral authority.
Its Secretary is Tehmina Siganporia.
Current members
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Mike Brown
Mike Brown and his wife, Jean, both writers, have worked since their student days with Initiatives of Change - including 10 years in India and 9 in America. Mike began writing in the 1960s as editor of a youth tabloid in Los Angeles. He spent 8 years on the staff of ‘Himmat’ magazine, a conscience-based news weekly in India. In 2003 his first book was published, 'No Longer Down Under - Australians creating change'. For 20 years both Mike has been active in the Australian reconciliation movement between Aboriginal people and the wider population. In 2000 he received the 'Non-Indigenous Person of the Year' award in his State. Since 2001 he has been one of the coordinators of Action for Life, an inter-generational community of 40 people from 21 countries moving through Asia.
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Chris Evans
Chris Evans was born, and now lives with his wife Anne, on his family's farm in the west of England. Apart from two years' farming in the '70s, he has worked with Initiatives of Change in one capacity or another since 1969. The first two and a half years were in Asia, particularly India where he has enduring links, and since then he has been based in Europe. He has just ended a spell of 13 years as treasurer of IofC in Britain, which has given him much conviction and some experience of what it takes to finance IofC. He is deeply involved in Foundations For Freedom and Caux Initiatives for Business, and for the last 6 years has served on the Board of IofC-USA.
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Will Jenkins
Will Jenkins, from the United States, works in political communications in Washington, DC. He has served as the Director of Communications for Initiatives of Change-USA. He was also part of the leadership team for the ACTION (for a change) initiative. He has worked for several international organizations and founded and directed his own local nonprofit, which engaged the performing arts to address contemporary social issues. He has professional experience on both the performance and production sides of theater, radio and television. He is a trained mediator and has an M.A. in Intercultural Communications.
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Nombulelo Khanyile
Nombulelo Khanyile was born in Kroonstad, South Africa in 1951. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University Of Fort Hare and in 2005 obtained an MBA specialising in Tourism. She has worked with Initiatives of Change in several countries including Canada, USA, U.K, Namibia and Zimbabwe. She was married to Vusi for 21 years and they have three children, two boys – Thulani and Phakade and a daughter Ndoni. Since 2003 she has helped co-ordinate Clean Africa Campaign Leadership Training Programmes, which aim to nurture servant leadership among professionals. Nombulelo is also interested in reconciliation and programmes that empower women to be change agents. She has recently become a director of ‘Back 2 Health Africa’, a company that has developed training programmes that empower individuals and organisations to better manage their health.
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Andrew Lancaster
In 1965, impelled by the vision of a different world, Andrew deferred his Civil Engineering studies in Melbourne for 12 months to make himself available to the program of MRA (now IofC) in Australia. That deferral became a calling and has continued to this day. In the interim he has worked for longer periods in New Zealand, India, North America and Britain. For the last 30 years he has lived in Canberra, where part of his and Margaret’s outreach is to the national Parliament. He and Margaret have three adult sons and two grandsons. He has served on IofC’s Council of Management in Australia for over 25 years and co-edited the World Bulletin (forerunner of Global Update) for 12 years. From June 2003 until October 2006 he was National Coordinator for Initiatives of Change in Australia.
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Grace Liu
Grace Liu was born in Taiwan, and is a teacher by training. She is married to Ren-Jou Liu and they have two grown-up children. Along with her husband she has worked with Initiatives of Change since 1984. Since then they have worked together not only to care for Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China but also in Asia. Together they began giving training to youth and initiated the Asian Pacific Youth Conferences for East Asia which have now extended to include South East Asia and the Pacific region. They also initiated the Action for Life (AfL) programme and have been involved in the three AfL programmes. In Taiwan they set up the IofC Association and Grace has served on the board as General Secretary, Board Member and Treasurer for the last 15 years. She and Ren-Jou started the “Clean Election Campaign” in Taiwan and enlisted a nationwide team and worked with it for seven years as well as accepting to go to Brazil to help them do the same. In 2005 they also set up the “IofC EQ Family Development Association” and run family workshops for parents to learn the spirit and skills of how to change themselves first if they want their families to become happier.
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K Haridas
Born in Malaysia where he had his primary and secondary school education before departing in 1967 for India for his University studies. Whilst at University he met the work of MRA-IofC in December 1969. He took a year of his studies to work with MRA-IofC and continued his full time involvement until June 1984. Since returning to Malaysia he has been the Executive Director of an Educational Foundation, a position he still holds. He is a graduate in Law and Communication Studies and also holds Post-Graduate Diplomas in Shariah Law, Accounting & Finance and Project Management. He is presently the Vice-Chair of MRA Malaysia and is also active with several NGO’s in Malaysia in the areas of Inter-faith and Justice issues. He is married to Tia who is a home maker and they have three daughters.
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Inese Voika
Inese Voika comes from Latvia. She was first trained and worked as investigative journalist. In 1998 Inese created Transparency International-Latvia, which has now become a flagship of Latvia's civil society working on party finance reform and ethics of the government officials. She has served on the international Board of TI, the international anti-corruption organization working in 85 countries. Inese has a degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, which she completed in 2005 as a Fulbright scholar and bachelors degree in Communications from University of Latvia. Currently Inese is engaged in leadership training and serves on the Board of Directors of TI Latvia. Inese has been with IofC since 1992 . She has been active in the ‘Baltic Sea Round Table’ and now is working to establish a training network in the region. She is married with two small children.
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