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Dear Friends,
Greenpeace International will soon have a new leader, and we wanted to share this exciting news with you, our active supporters, first.
Kumi Naidoo will take up the role of Executive Director of Greenpeace International in November, when Gerd Leipold steps down after eight years as our activist-in-chief.
Kumi was part of the successful struggle against apartheid in his native South Africa. He is an activist and a Rhodes Scholar. For ten years he was the General Secretary of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. Today he sits on the board of Greenpeace Africa and chairs the Global Campaign for Climate Action, of which Greenpeace is a member.
Kumi brings with him a deep involvement with and passion for activism, peaceful direct action, particularly with the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and a longstanding admiration for Greenpeace. His experience in campaigning, fundraising, advocacy, policy work, networked organizations and leading a major change process, will all be very important assets to Greenpeace.
Kumi will continue to address our common priority for this year, which is to do everything we can to ensure world leaders seal the right deal at the Copenhagen climate summit: one which gets CO2 emissions under control, protects tropical rainforests, and replaces dirty fossil fuel energy with renewables and energy efficiency.
If you haven't yet asked the world's leaders to personally attend the Copenhagen summit, you can help welcome Kumi by taking action here.
All the best,
Your friends at Greenpeace
P.S. You can read more about Kumi here.
Greenpeace International
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