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Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:23, Anna Torres <a...@wikimedia.org.ar> wrote: > Dear movement fellows, > > Thank you so much for your warm welcoming! > > As Galileo said and thanks to the support of the team and specially at this > very first stage, from March 1st onwards I will asume the ED of Wikimedia > Argentina Foundation. > To be part of Wikimedia Argentina Foundation means to me an excellent > professional challenge that I am prepare to assume and also the perfect > place where to project - generating more and better results- all the years > of trainning and work experience acquired during my career. > > During the last ten years I have worked in the field of human development > and international cooperation from all its aspects- attempting different > development sectors like social, economic, educational, sustainable and > cultural development among others- and so I considere the development as > the comprehensive management of all of these concepts which are nowadays > the key in order to ensure fairer societies. > > With your support, our work together and a tool like Wikipedia, I'm sure > that Wikimedia Argentina Foudations aswell as the rest of the chapters > around the world, can set up a new framework to encorage the social, > economic and cultural change we would like to see in the nearly future. In > this connection, I hope not only, all of us, to create more inclusive > projects, but these projects to be the result and the impact each one of us > would like to build up! > > Thanks you so much for the opportunity! > > Anna Torres Adell > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Galileo Vidoni <gali...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear movement fellows, >> >> I'm pleased to announce that Wikimedia Argentina has a new Executive >> Director. Please welcome Anna Torres Adell to our movement! >> >> Anna was born in Barcelona but settled in Buenos Aires a couple of years >> ago. She is a licentiate in Political Science for the Universitat Pompeu >> Fabra and has post-graduate studies in International Cooperation; >> Management and Control of Public Policies; and Local Development and the >> Social Economy. >> >> She developed an interest on international cooperation and social matters >> since her teens, helping establish an educational NGO in Guatemala when she >> was just over 20. She has since lived and worked in Spain, México, >> Guatemala and Argentina. Before joining us at Wikimedia Argentina, Anna was >> the ED of PROEM Foundation, an organization aimed at coaching small >> businesses. Anna's track record also includes working with AECID, the >> Spanish agency for international cooperation, and the United Nations >> Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). >> >> She has extensive knowledge and experience in the five dimensions that we >> cared the most when recruiting: commitment with the social goal of free >> knowledge, working with volunteers, administration, program management and >> funding. >> >> Selecting Anna was not easy, but not because we couldn't find the right >> person: We had just too much good EDs we wanted to hire! Thankfully we >> could choose from an important pool of candidates and proceed to evaluate >> thoroughly each one of them. We received over 100 applications, of which >> not less than half were pertinent. We gave all of them a score and made >> successive filtering stages before arriving to the eight people we >> interviewed in person over the last days. >> >> As you may have read on this list back in January, our decision to hire a >> new ED has to do with Osmar leaving us to return to his home country. Let >> me highlight that this good news could not have been possible without >> Osmar's work and commitment. Not only he helped designing the work >> description for his replacement, but he also participated in the recruiting >> and hiring process. >> >> We are extremely grateful to all what he has done to advance our mission in >> Wikimedia Argentina, and while we are certainly saddened to see him go we >> know that both he and us are doing everything possible to leave the >> organization on track and in good hands. Programmatic work will not suffer >> from this leadership change; if any, we as Board will ensure it gets >> reinforced. >> >> Anna will formally start working with us on March 1, and throughout all of >> that month Osmar will continue with us in Benedict fashion as "ED emeritus" >> to ensure that all the necessary knowledge, proceedings and contacts are >> transferred from one administration to another. We are glad to have >> achieved this level of stability as an organization, and we'd love to >> spread the word about this happy and smooth transition in the >> WikimediaConference with whoever wants to hear us :). >> >> We asked Osmar to be one of our representatives in Berlin as his last act >> of service, so it will also be a nice opportunity for you to meet him. In >> the meantime, please welcome Anna to the Wikimedia movement and to this >> mailing list! >> >> Best regards, >> >> *Galileo Vidoni* >> Presidente >> A. C. 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