2012 Multinational Fellows start arriving in Philadelphia

It’s that time of year when all MNP alumni start feeling nostalgic, remembering their arrival in Philadelphia, and feeling envious of the new cohort. We wish them all the best possible Eisenhower experience over the next two months.

There are 7 Europeans among the 2012 MNP Fellows:

Dr William Crawley, a journalist from Northern Ireland

Pascal Dupeyrat, a strategic investment lobbyist from France

Roxana Damaschin Tecu, a social entrepreneur from Romania

Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler, a lawyer from Germany

Faik Tunay, a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Dearbhail McDonald, a journalist from the Republic of Ireland

Dr Valerie Cummins, a research director from the Republic of Ireland

All descriptions and the full list of 2012 MNP are available on the Eisenhower website.

++UPDATE++

19 April 2012

William Crawley is blogging about his experiences on the Fellowship, you’ll be able to follow his journey at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/

2012 MNP Fellows announced

I’m sure we’ll all remember with nostalgia the excitement when the list of all fellows for our programme went live, so we could get our first impression of the people with whom we would be spending those incredible months. The 2012 list has now been published and there are a number of Europeans among them:

• Dr. William Crawley of Northern Ireland
• Pascal Dupeyrat of France
• Roxana Damaschin Tecu of Romania
• Dr. Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler of Germany
• Faik Tunay of Turkey
• Dr. Valerie Cummins and Dearbhail McDonald of Ireland

You can find their details and those of all 2012 MNP Fellows on the Eisenhower website.

We wish them all the best for what will undoubtedly be an amazing experience, and hope that they will stay in touch with other European fellows on their return.

Irish Fellow at Clinton Global Initiative

Caroline Casey (Ireland, MNP 07) recently spoke at the Clinton Global Iniatitive gathering, in a session on Value-Based Leadership. Her inspirational appearance, talking about her work on business and disability, starts about 35 minutes into the online video.

US fellow to visit Europe in Autumn 2011

From this month’s EF news:

Eisenhower Fellowships’ USA program is delighted to announce an additional fellowship has been awarded to Melissa Walsh, Chief Operating Officer of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, a ten-year, $1 billion initiative to attract investment in the life sciences to Massachusetts. Walsh will travel to Spain and Ireland in the fall of 2011 with the goal of developing an international expansion plan for her state.

US Fellow visits Europe

Chris Nowinski is a US fellow who is currently in Europe for his Fellowship. You can follow Chris’ journey on his blog. His Fellowship will take him to Belgium, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Turkey with the focus on brain trauma, particularly in sports. Welcome to Europe, Chris, and we hope you have a wonderful time here!

European fellows featured in latest EF news

The latest edition of EF News includes John Wolf’s dinner with Italian fellows during a visit to Italy and Fiach Mac Conghail (MNP 04, Ireland) visiting Philadelphia to promote a touring production of The Terminus.

2010 Irish Fellow writes about her trip

Salome Mbugua, CEO of the African Woman’s Network AkiDwA has written an article in Metro Éireann about her experience as an Eisenhower Fellow.

Irish Fellow Leads Talks on Disabilities and Unemployment

Caroline Casey, ’07, Ireland, spoke at the Global Competitiveness Forum 2011 in Riyadh. Discussions included global challenges for unemployment, firms’ innovations in different areas of the globe in employment practices, jobless claims figures for 2011. Casey spoke about the disability business case and the as of yet untapped disability market.

In a separate project, Casey’s organization, Kanchi, is teaming up with Telefónica SA to lead a world-first global business movement for 100% inclusion of people with disabilities by promoting the disability business case on a global scale while establishing best practice for the employment and inclusion of people with disabilities within business. This will launch in five countries in the next five years. The first of the five international Telefónica Ability Awards took place in Madrid earlier this week at the Telefónica Spanish Ability Awards, in the presence of HM The Queen of Spain. Although the other countries have not yet been selected, initial discussions have identified opportunities within Europe and Latin America in particular.