Michael Elliott

In 2008, ONE launched its first call for applications for the newly created ONE Africa Award. Five years later, we have been overwhelmed with the depth of creativity, enthusiasm and innovation coming from the continent; awarding the prize becomes more difficult each year. Through this process, certain applicants have stood out. We’re particularly interested in recognising organisations that can tie direct service delivery elements—let’s say providing pro bono legal knowledge to women fighting for their rights —to innovative advocacy efforts that will result in systemic transformation of their nation’s prospects.

We had some great news at ONE today, announcing that we have added three new fantastic board members who are leaders in their respective fields and have also played an important role in the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease: former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and

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

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

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