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Anne Kjaer Riechert
"Extend your empathy to include the future"
I am 29 years old and originally from Denmark, although I grew up in Norway, in addition I have worked and studied for a longer period of time in Australia, Germany, Cuba and South Africa. At the moment I live in Tokyo, Japan.
I am a 2006 graduate student from the social innovation and change management education “KaosPilot”, which is located in Aarhus, Denmark. Since then I have worked as creative lead and CSR consultant for the Copenhagen-based brand strategy company Stoic, where I amongst others developed and implemented Samsung Electronics award-winning CSR strategy for Scandinavia. I decided to leave my job in November 2009, to travel through United Arabian Emirates, East Africa, Australia and South-East Asia for six months to research social development and innovation on a grass root level.
Since 2006 I have also managed my own humanitarian project called "We Have a Dream" which organize workshops for young people all around the world, where they discuss and draw their dreams for the future. So far we have reached app. 2500 children in 19 countries from Baghdad to Bangladesh, from Canada to Kenya. I exhibit the drawings in public and political places to increase awareness and raise funds for children growing up in disadvantaged areas. The exhibitions have been realized in collaboration with amongst others UNAIDS, the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs as well as Amnesty international.
In July 2010 I moved to Japan, as I, as the first Dane, have been entrusted with the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship, which is annually given to 50 young leaders, who have proven their humanitarian engagement.
As a part of my field research for my MA in Peace Studies (on the topic of open social innovation), I interned with OpenIDEO in Palo Alto from July-September 2011, and ABSOLUTELY loved it!
I am a 2006 graduate student from the social innovation and change management education “KaosPilot”, which is located in Aarhus, Denmark. Since then I have worked as creative lead and CSR consultant for the Copenhagen-based brand strategy company Stoic, where I amongst others developed and implemented Samsung Electronics award-winning CSR strategy for Scandinavia. I decided to leave my job in November 2009, to travel through United Arabian Emirates, East Africa, Australia and South-East Asia for six months to research social development and innovation on a grass root level.
Since 2006 I have also managed my own humanitarian project called "We Have a Dream" which organize workshops for young people all around the world, where they discuss and draw their dreams for the future. So far we have reached app. 2500 children in 19 countries from Baghdad to Bangladesh, from Canada to Kenya. I exhibit the drawings in public and political places to increase awareness and raise funds for children growing up in disadvantaged areas. The exhibitions have been realized in collaboration with amongst others UNAIDS, the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs as well as Amnesty international.
In July 2010 I moved to Japan, as I, as the first Dane, have been entrusted with the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship, which is annually given to 50 young leaders, who have proven their humanitarian engagement.
As a part of my field research for my MA in Peace Studies (on the topic of open social innovation), I interned with OpenIDEO in Palo Alto from July-September 2011, and ABSOLUTELY loved it!
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The Danish Minister of Culture - named his campaign after a young boy´s dream
When the Danish politician Uffe Elbæk had to name his campaign for the 2011 Danish National election, he named it after the dream of an 11 year old boy from Denmark. The campaign was called "Et Andet Schema" (eng. A Different Scheme)
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In California, the Engage4Change.com campaign used Ideavibes’ Crowd Engagement Platform to “tap into the wisdom of the crowd to build better products, engage citizens, and fund the change they want to see.
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Joined: October 18, 2010, 03:42PM
Occupation: Graduate student - Peace Studies
Company: Rotary Peace Fellowship
Country: JP
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