Charles Gould announced as new International Co-operative Alliance Director-General
The International Co-operative Alliance has named Charles Gould as Director-General. Mr. Gould comes to the ICA after serving as CEO of Volunteers of America, a Washington-based health care, housing, and human services organisation, where he provided strategic leadership to 16,000 full-time staff and directed $1 billion in annual turnover. In announcing the selection, Dame Pauline Green, ICA Board President, said "The ICA Board recognized, with the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of the Co-operative, the need for a leader who can successfully use this platform to communicate the co-operative value. Charles Gould has shown he has both the passion for a vital mission and the business knowledge to grow an organization to scale." Charles Gould follows Iain Macdonald, who served as Director-General during the past eight years and, in anticipation of the changing economic environment, positioned the world co-operative movement to take its proper place in the global economy.
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