Welcome EVIE O’BRIEN Executive Director of the Atlantic Institute
It is my pleasure to present the “Annual Review” (2019-20) for the Atlantic Institute. As Executive Director, I am humbled to lead and be part of a global community of extraordinary changemakers who together are accelerating the eradication of global inequities for fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. In 2019, the Atlantic Senior Fellows community became fully formed, with cohorts of Senior Fellows from all seven Atlantic Fellows programs around the world joining the global community. It was a watershed year of many firsts: the inaugural Atlantic Senior Fellows Global Convening held at Rhodes House, Oxford; the Atlantic Senior Fellow Awards; and the awarding of our first Atlantic Fellows Learning and Connection Grant. The Institute also curated smaller gatherings for Senior Fellows, with particular highlights being the thematic forum “Crossing Borders: Effects of Displacement on Health”, in Jordan; and the workshop “Changing the Leadership Narrative: Social Change and Values-based Leadership”, facilitated in partnership with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In February 2020, the global pandemic swept the world, resulting in countrywide lockdowns to try to curb the spread of the disease and death rates in communities already impacted by inequities. We witnessed extraordinary leadership qualities in our Fellows, staff, colleagues and community as they responded to this crisis —
LEFT At the Senior Fellows Global Convening 2019: Amanda Brosnan, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity US +Global; with Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia Noraida Abdullah Karim (on far left) and Borwornsom (Ack) Leerapan (in the middle)
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