Edna Adan Ismail, a Somali nurse- midwife who rose in the ranks of the World Health Organization and also served as Somaliland's foreign minister, founded the hospital with her life's savings and supports it with her United Nations pension.
But these down-to-earth motives went hand-in-hand with loftier ones.America not only invented the modern liberal republic, but also a new sort of foreign policy founded on a universal ideology about human nature and human affairs.
In 1889, having obtained information from the Chicago Training School for City, Home, and Foreign Missions (founded by Lucy R. Meyer for the Northern Methodist Church a few years earlier), she won adoption by the Southern Methodist Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of a plan to establish a similar training school.
After hearing about life inside S.C.L., I said that I found it hard to reconcile the two versions of the company: one a minor player in foreign elections, founded by an Old Etonian who liked to be called James Bond; and one that had brought "information warfare" to two of the world's oldest democracies.
Her relationship and dialogue with the European Parliament will be key for an EU foreign policy founded on democratic legitimacy.
"OH, this?" I say as a visitor inspects some of my foreign-found treasures, "I picked this up in Sri Lanka.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was founded in 1810, the first organized missionary society in the United States.
After leaving office, Kissinger remained an influential author and commentator on foreign affairs and founded the international consulting firm Kissinger Associates.
TransferWise, the foreign exchange startup founded in 2011 by Estonian duo Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, is expanding.
Albert E. Jeffcoat, a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who founded the Manhattan Theater Club in New York City, died on March 10 at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Foreign Policy was founded 30 years ago, partly as an antidote to Foreign Affairs, the more staid, more establishment voice of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
