DDI Appoints Ian Rowe as Executive Director

By Rapaport News / August 19, 2019 / www.diamonds.net / Article Link

RAPAPORT... The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) has promoted IanRowe to executive director. He will replace Doroth?(C)e Gizenga, who will lead theorganization's new Africa office.  Rowe, who has served as deputy executive director of the DDIsince September 2018, was previously a director with the United Nations. He hasworked with civil-society organizations in the areas of development,socioeconomic recovery and conflict prevention, the DDI said last week. During his time at the DDI, Rowe has managed theorganization's field operations in Sierra Leone. He also led a six-monthstrategic-planning process to help the Canada-based organization prepare forfuture development challenges related to artisanal mining. The DDI was created in 2005 to address the social and economic issues faced by artisanalminers in Africa and South America. Rowe will begin his new position on September 2. Image: Ian Rowe. (Diamond Development Initiative)

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