Mar 13th, 2012 3:38 PM UTC
By Michael Elliott
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As the UK Prime Minister David Cameron visits Washington, Michael Elliott, ONE’s President and CEO responds to today’s joint article by the Prime Minister and US President Barack Obama in the Washington Post. In the article they make clear that they “embrace their responsibility as leaders in the development that enables people to live in dignity, health and prosperity.”
ONE welcomes the support of the Prime Minister and President for investment in food security, their work to improve maternal health and reduce the preventable deaths of children, and their ‘renewed commitment’ to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria and reaching the ‘beginning of the end of AIDS’. We also applaud their recognition of the importance of the Open Government Partnership, which will help to make governments all over the world more transparent and accountable.
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Jan 25th, 2012 11:06 AM UTC
By Michael Elliott
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As the world’s business, political and media elite made their annual trek to the Swiss town of Davos -– blanketed in more snow than I have seen there for a decade -– conventional wisdom had it they should have all the lightheartedness of a gray, winter, Alpine sky. The Eurozone crisis, the difficulty of getting tough political decisions in the United States, and worries in some of the champions among emerging markets – the chance of a property crash in China, for example, or of runaway inflation in India –- were all said to contribute to a note of pessimism among Davos devotees.
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Sep 22nd, 2011 4:39 PM UTC
By Michael Elliott
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Please welcome ONE President and CEO Michael Elliott to the ONE Blog. In his first piece, he writes about ONE’s commitment to the famine at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative.
As a consequence of the famine in Somalia and the wider crisis in the Horn of Africa, more than 30,000 children have died in just three months — and the lives of more than 13 million men, women and children are at risk. None of us can simply stand on the sidelines and watch, and it is for that reason that at ONE we made a commitment today at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) — an annual meeting in New York that brings together global leaders to implement solutions to the world’s most pressing issues — to launch a multi-year campaign called “Drought is Inevitable, Famine is Not.”
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