H.H. The Aga Khan receives the David Rockefeller Award

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LAHORE, Nov 18: His Highness Karim Aga Khan has been awarded the internationally-acclaimed David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award 2012 in a ceremony held under the aegis of “University for a Night”, sponsored by Hashoo Foundation, Kim Samuel Johnson and Shell.

A press release by Hashoo Foundation says the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award is given each year to a personality for outstanding contribution in bridging social gaps and helping out civil society in strengthening the social fiber. This year’s event was held in Europe for the first time in which 155 renowned personalities from across the world were gathered in London.

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is carrying out various projects in different countries around the world, including Pakistan.

Speaking on the occasion, Aga Khan emphasized the importance of civil society in development particularly in countries with fragile governments.

The press release said that people like Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Queen Rania of Jordon and Bill Gates have won the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award before Aga Khan.


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Agha Khan receives David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award 2012

LAHORE: Karim Agha Khan has been awarded the internationally acclaimed David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award 2012 in an auspicious ceremony under the aegis of University for a Night, sponsored by Hashoo Foundation, Kim Samuel Johnson and Shell.

The David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award is given each year to a personality for outstanding contributions in abridging social gaps and helping out civil society in strengthening the social fibre. This year’s event was held in The Europe for the first time in which 155 renowned personalities from across the world were gathered in London. Founder and Chairperson of University for a Night Peggy Dulany, while honouring Agha Khan, apprised the participants about various projects being carried out by the Agha Khan Development Network (AKDN) in different countries around the world, especially in Pakistan. pr

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Complete transcript of His Highness the Aga Khan's Acceptance Remarks and Conversation with Peggy Dulany at the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award Ceremony hosted by the Synergos Foundation (London, United Kingdom)

In October this year His Highness the Aga Khan was awarded the "David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award." Following the award ceremony, Peggy Dulany, Founder and Chair of the Synergos Institute, engaged the Aga Khan in an important and lengthy conversation which covered a wide variety of topics including the transfer of philanthropic values within his family, impact investing -- a concept the Aga Khan characterised as "one of the most important" he could recollect in the "last 50 years" -- and the underlying ethic behind Islam's notion of help.

Earlier only a small fraction of the conversation was available, but we are pleased to inform our visitors that the full transcripts of both the Aga Khan's acceptance remarks and his conversation with Peggy Dulany have been released and we are now able to bring them to you in their entirety.
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http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/10256/

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Transcript of a Conversation between His Highness the Aga Khan and Synergos Founder Peggy Dulany at the Synergos University for a Night Event

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