Council appoints new coordinator through LGT Venture Philanthropy Impact Fellowship

[Johannesburg, 8 July 2022]: The High-Level Council on Leadership and Management for Development announces the appointment of Chané J. R. Varney as Coordinator in its Secretariat and therewith celebrates its increased capacity to operationalise the Council's mission and mandate. Recruitment of talent to this post has been made possible through an existing partnership between AMP Health - the convenor of the Council - and LGT Venture Philanthropy’s Impact Fellowship.

 Chané J.R. Varney joins the Council with a decade of experience in international partnership development, cooperation, and trade between Southern Africa and other countries and regions of the world. Among these, she has notable experience working with/in Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom, as well as with the Group of Latin America and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC). She steps into her role after graduating from the Diplomatic Studies Programme at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She holds further postgraduate degrees in cultural studies and gender studies from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Karl-Franzens University of Graz (Austria) respectively. Chané is fluent in English, German and Afrikaans, and is a student of Brazilian Portuguese, Zulu and French. She is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The High-Level Council is the only platform of its kind advocating for investment in leadership and management on a global scale and across all sectors. After its inception in September 2019 on the sidelines on the 74th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Council Members compiled a report to share its conviction and evidence that investment in leadership and management will unlock progress on the path to achieving the SDGs by 2030. The report is a key tool to changing the conversation in development. As such, the Council’s Coordinator will take on the important task of its global dissemination while working with the Council Secretary and Council Members to expand active advocacy so that funding practices, development approaches and discourse reflect this urgent need to capacitate people and teams in new ways.

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