In April 2015, I received the call that no CEO wants to receive.
The bodies of five Save the Children staffers working on one of our Australian-funded programs in Afghanistan had been discovered.
The staffers had been kidnapped by an armed opposition group about five weeks earlier when they were traveling through Uruzgan province, about 7 or 8 kilometers from the provincial capital of Tirin Kot, to assess a new community development project.
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Paul Ronalds
Paul Ronalds leads Save the Children Global Ventures, the dedicated, in-house team at Save the Children responsible for taking innovative finance and new technologies to scale. Paul has served as a senior adviser to two Australian prime ministers, was deputy CEO of World Vision Australia and, for nine years, served as CEO of Save the Children Australia.
