Dear EWB,
We’d personally like to thank those of you who could make it out last night to
the elections. All of the candidates represented themselves and the chapter
very well, and as a result all of the races were really close!
So without further ado, your EWB-Duke Executive Board for 2011-2012 is:
PRESIDENT
Maria Gibbs
VP OF PROJECTS
Andrew Mang
VP OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Tomek Brzezinski
VP OF FINANCE FINANCE CHAIR
Kathryn Latham
FINANCE CHAIR
Qifang Bi
INDUSTRY RELATIONS
Charlie Haley
VP OF EVENTS
Ale Ferrara
VP OF DOCUMENTATION
Ellen Huang
VP OF PUBLICITY
Arun Augustine
We hope that you had as good a time working with us as we had working with you,
EWB. We can’t wait to see what great things you’ll do.
Tata,
Your 2010-2011 Executive Board.
January 18 2011 | Officers | No Comments » |
EWB would like to congratulate the EGYPT Project for being voted as the new EWB Project in our list of existing projects! We commend the hard work put into the project application and presentation. We look forward to pursuing this project and again congratulate the Egypt Project for being selected!!!
For more information regarding this new project please contact Philip Danser our VP of Projects at philip.danser@duke.edu. He will direct you to the proper contacts for the group.
December 08 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments » |
At the upcoming Wednesday, November 3rd General Body Meeting (GBM), three groups will present their proposals for the newest EWB-Duke program.
Here’s the schedule for the GBM:
8:00-8:10 — Introduction and Description of Voting Procedure
8:10-8:30 — Philippines
8:30-8:50 — Egypt
8:50-9:10 — South Dakota
9:10-9:30 — Open Discussion and Voting
There will be Q&A following each presentation, as well as an open discussion before voting. The winning program will be announced on or before November 10th. This program will begin recruiting members shortly afterward.
Please read through the New Program Applications (links contained in the GBM schedule) in preparation for the Wednesday GBM.
November 01 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments » |
We’ve got a lot of money that needs to be raised this semester. Here are two powerpoint presentations that contain suggestions on how to make this possible. Both were presented at the October 13th GBM.
Funding Sources: corporate sponsorships, on-campus grants, and donations from professional societies
Funding Strategies: a presentation from the 2010 EWB-USA conference with an emphasis on publicity
October 17 2010 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment » |
Mr. Alan Kyerematen will speak to us TONIGHT (9/23) from 6:30-7:30 PM in Teer 115. Mr. Kyerematen was Ghana’s ambassador to the United States, Minister of Trade, Industry, Private Sector Development and the Presidential Special Initiatives, a presidential primary candidate in Ghana, and he’s the first chief executive of the EMPRETEC Ghana Foundation. He has over thirty years of experience with issues related to developing countries, and he can’t wait to speak with all of us! (and East African food will be provided!!)
For more information, read his bio below.
Mr. Kyerematen’s Bio is below and he can cover a variety of topics
related
to developing countries as per your interest during the round table
discussion, including:
• Public Policy and Legal Framework on Engineering Management
• Corruption in Engineering Contract Management and Administration
• Environmental Impact Management
• Community Development Management
• Human Resource Capacity Building and Skills Training
• Developing Engineering Standards and Compliance Enforcement.
• Local Content in Engineering Contract Execution
• Public- Private Partnerships
Bio: ALAN JOHN KYEREMATEN
Alan has had a distinguished career in both the public and private sector
in Ghana and internationally, spanning over a period of over thirty
years.
He was a Senior Corporate Executive with a subsidiary of Unilever
International, and was also for several years a Principal Consultant and
Head of Public Systems Management with the Management Development and
Productivity Institute, a leading management consulting and training
institution In Ghana.
He was the first Chief Executive of the EMPRETEC Ghana Foundation, an
internationally acknowledged best practice enterprise support institution
for high-growth small and medium enterprises, established initially by
the
UNDP and Barclays Bank Plc. He was also appointed as the first
Director/Chief Executive of Enterprise Africa, UNDP’s flagship program
for
Enterprise Development in Africa.
Alan is a former Cabinet Minister for Trade, Industry, Private Sector
Development and Presidential Special Initiatives for the Republic of
Ghana
and before then was Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America.
He
has also contested as a candidate in the Presidential Primaries in Ghana.
Alan has an Honors Degree in Economics and is also a qualified Attorney
at-
Law. He is a Hubert Humphrey Fellow of the University of Minnesota ,
School
of Management.
He was selected by TIME International Magazine as one of the 100 future
Global Leaders of the New Millennium, alongside Bill Gates, John F.
Kennedy
etc. in its 1994 Special Edition.
September 23 2010 | Events and Speaker | No Comments » |
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