IVCO 2023 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: PART 3
Welcome to Part 3 of the IVCO 2023 Speaker Spotlight, where we introduce you to the remarkable speakers who will ignite change at our upcoming conference in vibrant Kuala Lumpur on 22-26 October.
Meet the third group of our conference speakers!
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
Michael McCabe
Regional Director for the Inter-America and Pacific Region, Peace Corps
Mike McCabe is the Regional Director for the Inter-America and Pacific Region of Peace Corps. He brings over 30 years of professional experience managing international development programmes in over 40 countries. His expertise includes strategic planning, management and administration, grant implementation, youth development, education technology, programme design/implementation, training design and facilitation, and public-private sector partnerships. Mike previously worked at USAID as the Agency Senior Advisor on Youth – overseeing the coordination of youth issues across all sectors of the Agency.
MEET THE SPEAKER: DAY 3 WORKSHOP 7: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FUNDING MODELS FOR YOUTH VOLUNTEERING IN DEVELOPMENT
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Maximilian G. Ventura
Chairperson, Philippines Coalition on Volunteerism
Max headed Philam Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Philamlife Insurance, an affiliate of AIA Group in Hong Kong. He now leads his own CSR/ESG consultancy. He has a degree in business administration and a Master’s in Development Management. He was a Jesuit Volunteer in the early 90’s organising farmers. He established the Kaakbay Philam Volunteer Corps in the early 2000s at Philamlife and has actively advocated volunteerism in the corporate sector. He chairs the Philippines Coalition on Volunteerism, which strives to mainstream volunteerism for nation-building.
MEET THE SPEAKER: DAY 3 WORKSHOP 6: VOLUNTEER -INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS’ ROLE IN POLICY AND ADVOCACY
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Prof. Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood
Executive Director, Sunway Centre of Planetary Health, Sunway University
Dr. Mahmood is a medical professional with over two decades of experience managing crises in health, disasters and conflict settings. She is currently Professor and Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University in Malaysia. She holds advisory council roles in the Government of Malaysia in Foreign Policy, Health and Climate Change. She is also the sustainability advisor at AirAsia and the National Advisor of the Malaysian Red Crescent Society. Globally, she is a member of the Board of Roche in Switzerland and the Norwegian Refugee Council, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council of Responsible Resource Use and a Global Ambassador for the Humanitarian Grand Bargain. She strongly advocates planetary health and sustainability and actively advises on Environment, Social and Governance in the advisory and board roles she holds. Previous appointments include the Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the IFRC, Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit secretariat at the United Nations, and Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA. She is the Founder of MERCY Malaysia, a southern-based international humanitarian organisation.
MEET THE SPEAKER: SPEECH BEFORE DAY 3 PLENARY: YOUTH AT THE HEART OF THE FUTURE OF VOLUNTEERING IN DEVELOPMENT
See the full IVCO2023 Programme here and get your tickets here.