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PATRONS
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Patron
Mary Robinson served as United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and as President of
Ireland from 1990 to 1997. Before her election as
President, Mrs. Robinson served as Senator, holding that
office for 20 years. In 1969 she became Reid Professor
of Constitutional Law at Trinity College, Dublin..
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Patron
Denis O'Brien is Chairman of the privately-owned Digicel
Group, one of the fastest growing cellular companies in
the world.
Mr. O’Brien founded Digicel in 2001 when the company
launched a GSM cellular phone service in the Caribbean.
The Digicel Group has extended its operations to 22
markets with more than 4 million ..
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Patron
Peter Sutherland has served as chairman of BP plc since
1997 and chairman of Goldman Sachs International since
1995. He also serves as special representative of the
United Nations secretary-general for migrations. Before
these appointments, he was the founding director-general
of the World Trade Organisation...
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THE BOARD
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Executive Chairman and Founder
Kate Coleman
founded Right to Sight in January 2006, after
many years of looking for ways to contribute to the
elimination of preventable blindness. Kate was gripped
by the solvability of the blindness crisis while
attending a lecture about the Vision 2020-the Right to
Sight campaign, given by one of the founders of the
V2020 initiative, ...
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Director
Norman
is a founding director of Right to Sight and
works closely with the Chairman and CEO. Norman spends
time applying his corporate skills to the evolution of
Right to Sight’s consultancy. He founded the
Inspired Foundation in 2006 and is a dedicated
philanthropist, channeling expertise and funds to
humanitarian causes...
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Director
Mr
Arnold is the CEO of Concern Worldwide. Previously, Mr
Arnold worked in the Department of Agriculture and Food
for 13 years, as Chief Economist and as Assistant
Secretary General...
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Trustee
Initially running Eye Units supported by Sight Savers
but over the years, emphasis on teaching, mainly
paramedics in Uganda and Malawi. Other countries visited
for this work; India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania,
Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Gambia. These visits have
involved contact with CBMI employed Doctors and
support staff...
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Trustee
Since retiring from my position as Consultant
Ophthalmologist in Leicester in October 2000, I have
become more involved in practical medical work and post
graduate teaching in developing countries, with visits
to Burma, The Yemen, Tanzania, Malawi, Pakistan, India
and Cambodia...
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Trustee
Nollaig Fahy is the Chief Executive Officer of the
Research and Development Trust of Ireland’s National
Orthopaedic Hospital and Trustee of The Human Givens
Foundation. Previously, Mr Fahy was Project Director for
the Cottage Home Child and Family Services, Dublin.
Prior to focusing his entrepreneurial abilities for
social gain he operated a number of successful
commercial retail businesses...
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Trustee
Professor Tanner is Director of Surgical Affairs at the
Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Previously he was
Professor of Surgery in Trinity College Dublin and
Consultant Surgeon at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital,
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Trustee
Professor Brugha
MD, FFPHMI, MSc, DCH, Dip Obs, Dip Humanities
is Head of the Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health
Medicine, at the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.
Previously he was a Lecturer in public health at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, before
taking over as Head of the Health Policy Unit...
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Trustee
Ms McGrath works in Dublin as a Planning, Development
and Construction Consultant in Dublin.
Jane has been involved with
humanitarian projects for many years, following a long
family tradition. In particular, she offered
organisational and humanitarian support from Ireland to
a parish in Zambia led by her late uncle Bishop Corboy...
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ADVISORS
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Advisor
Mr Thulasiraj serves as the Executive Director of the
Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology (LAICO),
which runs one of the world's biggest rural eye care
programs, and is one of the large public health
institutions in India...
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Advisor
Chairman of the Board of Governors and President of the
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB),
Dr Rao is a leader in VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
campaign. Dr Rao has recently been selected for many
International Blindness Prevention Awards , the most
recent being in November 2007,
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Advisor
Dr. Hannah Faal is the Senior Eye Care Programme
Consultant for West Africa for Sight Savers
International and is based in the Regional Office in
Accra, Ghana. Her main area of work is the development
of eye care programmes within comprehensive eye
services.
She developed and implemented a comprehensive National
Eye Care ...
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Advisor
Charles Normand was born in Kuala Lumpur and spent his
childhood in Kenya and Scotland. He studied economics
and has worked at the universities of Stirling, York,
the Queens University of Belfast and the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was Senior Research
Fellow and Deputy Director of the York HEC...
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Advisor
Robert H. Osher, M.D.Robert H. Osher, M.D. served as
Medical Director of Cincinnati Eye Institute (CEI) for
20 years. He is a Professor of Ophthalmology at
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and his
practice is limited to cataract and implant surgery. He
has been listed in the Best Doctors in America since the
first...
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Advisor
Dr. Kassalow is a co-founder of Scojo Vision, LLC and
Scojo Foundation. He is also the founder of the Global
Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign
Relations, where he served as an Adjunct Senior Fellow
from 1999-2004. Prior to his position at the Council, he
served as Director of the Onchocerciasis Division at
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Advisor
Prof Michael O Keefe, special advisor to Right to Sight
in Paediatric Ophthalmology, is a professor of
paediatric ophthalmology in UCD Dublin. He pioneered
Refractive Surgery in Ireland in 1992. He is author of
nearly 200 peer review publications and lectures
worldwide in paediatric ophthalmology..
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Advisor
Liz O'Donnell is a former Irish politician who has a
special interest in overseas development. She was the
Deputy Leader of the junior coalition government party,
the Progressive Democrats who
represented Dublin South as a Teachta Dála (TD) from
1992 to 2007...
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Advisor (South Africa)
Professor Colin Cook, University of
Capetown, Groote Schuur Hospital, Capetown. Professor
Cook has been at the forefront of the V2020 elimination
of preventable blindness campaign in South Africa and is
the CBM international medical advisor to Southern
Africa. Righttosight will work closely with Professor
Cook to optimise eye care training and hospital
management across South Africa, bridging partnerships
with other NGOs and government hospitals
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Advisor
(South Africa)
Prof. Naidoo is credited with
placing and promoting public health issues on
optometry’s global agenda. A former Fulbright Scholar,
he was recently named an Ashoka Fellow for his social
entrepreneurial efforts in addressing the needs of those
less privileged. He was named African Optometrist of the
Year in 2002. ...
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Advisor
(Regional Africa)
Maie studied at The Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland. She is an Anaesthetist by profession, with a
special interest in high risk Obstetric Anaesthesia. She
was born in Manchester, England, and was brought up
between Beirut, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
Ireland and England....
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OPERATIONS
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CEO
In 1993, Simon started his first business, Mercator
International, a brokerage company. By 2001 this had
expanded to include a consultancy business and he had
raised $10 million to start a technology company. After
meeting Colonel John
Blashford-Snell
in South America, John invited
Simon to join him in the Amazon...
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Head of Programmes
Keerti Bhusan Pradhan, holds a Masters in Healthcare
Management from the premier institute in India, Tata
Institute of Social Sciences (www.tiss.edu a WHO
collaborating centre for Health Policy and Management).
He has 20 years of experience in health and development
sector programme development and management...
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Medical Advisor
Dr
Fahey is a medical doctor and public health consultant
with 8 years experience working in ophthalmology and
public health in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Before
working for Right to Sight, Dr Fahey set up his
own eye charity to support cataract surgery in Ethiopia. |
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