Today's best ENGOs would succeed quite well as private sector consultancies, think tanks, international program managers, PR agencies, etc. Ocean Conservancy is certainly no exception to this.
She has spent her career developing a 360-degree perspective through her work as a journalist, an academic, an international civil servant, and program manager.
Rowena Selby, CBIE program manager for international scholarships, says that the applications received go through a rigorous selection process that involves both countries.
She has a background in marketing communications, public affairs and international government relations, formerly serving as the China program manager for Chicago Sister Cities International.
"To save the lake you have to cut the trees," said Ritesh Kumar, a conservation program manager at Wetlands International, which studied the lake and produced a 135-page management plan in 2007 under a state government contract.
"Does it really make sense to ask a 70-year-old to carry a 50-kilo bag of rice or to wait in line for two hours?" asked Jonathan Barden, an emergency program manager for HelpAge International, an advocacy group for the aging.
"Azerbaijan is going to be crucial in understanding how trade expanded through this region in medieval times and how much-earlier Bronze Age settlements here spread as far as southern Iraq and Israel," said Jennifer R. Pournelle, program manager for the international archaeology project of the University of California at San Diego.
"There are lots of times when I have questions that I'd like to hash out with someone," said Mr. Temple, a program manager for Honeywell International, who is getting his law degree so he can better understand the contracts his company negotiates.
Alice Hogan, a program manager in the international division who is heading up a committee that is designing ADVANCE, confesses that the panel is proceeding more on faith than on hard data.
