Interview with John Keane, Head of Programmes, SolarAid Q: Could you tell us about your organization, how it started and the philosophy behind it. Yes. SolarAid is a charity which was established in 2006 in order to help poor communities in developing countries use solar power to fight climate change and poverty. We want everyone in the world to have access to clean, renewable energy and we feel that solar power is well placed to help us achieve this…
Rashid Khalikov, a graduate of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, started his career as a diplomat with several postings to his credit. However, it was not in diplomacy that he was going to conduct an interesting career, but as a humanitarian. At the time that the United Nations created the Department for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Khalikov was in a posting in New York, and Jan Eliasson, the first Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Assistance, called Mr Khalikov in to…
