Introducing Kumi Naidoo as new Greenpeace International Executive Director

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Kumi Naidoo takes over as the new executive director for Greenpeace International. Kumi is a well-known activist, involved with the anti-apartheid struggle from the age of 15. As he continuedto have a strong involvement in South African politics, in 1986 was arrested and forced into exile in the UK in 1989. He is a Rhodes Scholar and earned a doctorate in political sociology at Magdalen College Oxford. For the last ten years he has been the Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and has also sat on the board of Greenpeace Africa.

[Globe animations by Ole Sturm at www.innit.tv]

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