| Michael Diamond is the President of World Resources Chicago,
a consulting firm in Chicago which helps businesses and organizations
respond to global challenges and opportunities. He is an adjunct
professor at Northwestern University and DePaul University. Previously,
he was the Executive Director of The Global Chicago Center of The
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
For more than 25 years, Michael worked with refugee, rehabilitation
and social and economic development programs around the world. For
nine years, he was the Division Manager of Humanitarian Programs
of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and in that capacity
he managed PolioPlus, Rotary’s global program to eradicate
polio. For 15 years he worked with the international YMCA and lived
in Bangladesh, Switzerland and finally came to Chicago. Through
his humanitarian work he was visited 45 countries and has worked
with people in over 150 countries.
He received his M.A. in Medical/Social Anthropology from the New
School for Social Research in New York. |