INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE 30 APRIL 2015 - IRC FORCED OUT OF UKRAINE According to a BBC news report the offices of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in eastern Ukraine have been closed down by pro-Russian rebels who accused it of spying. Staff working for the aid organisation were briefly detained as their office in the rebel held city of Donetsk was raided and searched by masked gunmen. Several employees were then put on a coach to the capital Kiev. The IRC - led by former British Foreign Minister David Miliband - has not so far commented on the expulsions. A spokeswoman said the group was concentrating on ensuring its staff - expats and Ukrainians - were "safe and sound". The BBC's Tom Burridge reports from eastern Ukraine that the gunmen apparently worked for the state security ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). 'EVADING TAXES' Russia's Interfax news agency cited a DPR security ministry spokesman accusing the IRC of concealing "eavesdropping equipment" in their Donetsk office. The spokesman claimed that "foreigners regularly travelled to Ukraine, but not in order to accompany [the IRC on] humanitarian missions".

"Foreign employees established contact with officials in DPR ministries and agencies, showing interest in obtaining information about the situation in the republic," he said. He also accused the agency of "hiring DPR citizens for work without signing agreements with them, evading the payment of taxes into the DPR budget". IRC says its mission is to help people whose lives have been shattered by conflict and disaster, and says its humanitarian work in eastern Ukraine includes the provision of women's hygiene and safety equipment. Heavily armed rebels have been fighting government forces for a year in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The West says Russia has armed the rebels and sent in regular soldiers - an accusation echoed by independent experts. Moscow insists that any Russians on the rebel side are volunteers. Separately, Russia has criticised French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for their decision to boycott a World War Two victory parade on 9 May in Moscow because of their misgivings over Russia's actions in Ukraine. "I think it's an ill-considered decision that contradicts the interests of both France and Germany," Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying on Wednesday.

ABOUT THE IRC The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein , the IRC offers emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution or natural disaster. The IRC is currently working in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities where it resettles refugees and helps them become self-sufficient. Composed of first responders, humanitarian relief workers, international development experts, health care providers, and educators, the IRC has assisted millions of people around the world since its founding in 1933. IAN BONE - Thought heï¿½d misheard (27-3-13) the news that David Miliband is to join ï¿½International Rescue.ï¿½ He went on: David I donï¿½t know what your brother told you but its A PUPPET SHOW ï¿½ ITS THUNDERBIRDS ï¿½ INTERNATIONAL RESCUE ï¿½ its not real.

But Miliband has that jerky, rigid, rictus smile [posterially implanted sweeping implement] stiffness that would suit Thunderbirds so maybe heï¿½s auditioned [for Mr Tracy]. Whatï¿½s the career progression after Thunderbirds? Mission Impossible . INDEPENDENTLY - David Miliband quits to join International Rescue Committee: The ï¿½Thunderbirds are goï¿½ reaction. The former foreign secretary announced this morning that he was quitting as MP for South Shields. The news comes two and a half years after the bruising Labour leadership battle which pitted the Miliband brothers against each other and was won by a whisker by Ed. Labour leader Ed Miliband said today that British politics will be "a poorer place" without his brother David. As he's set to join the International Rescue Committee humanitarian organisation in New York, Twitter has been inundated with Thunderbirds jokes and pictures. As well as our own Photoshopping efforts above, here are some other reactions (and more impressive Photoshopping): @davidschneider Here's the picture!

David Miliband's first day in his new job (via HuffPostUKCom Simonhume) Updated: How David Miliband's first day in his new job might look @RAPP_UK David Miliband turns his back on politics to join the International Rescue gang on Tracy Island. THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! @‏TheMichaelMoranDavid Miliband reveals new International Rescue team ï¿½ TWITPIC - Everyone seems to have had the same, irresistible, idea. Who can blame them. It's just a bit of harmless media fun - and is sure to boost David's career, especially as under his guidance the IRC is performing remarkably well. The current president and CEO of the IRC is David Miliband, formerly British Foreign Secretary. Until September 2013, the previous president was George Erik Rupp, who had formerly been the president of Columbia University and Rice University. It had been announced on 27 March 2013 that Miliband would succeed Rupp in September 2013. The organization is governed by a volunteer unpaid board of directors. A companion body, the IRC overseers, provides counsel to the board on matters of policy, fundraising and advocacy.

The IRC has some high-profile people among its overseers, including Madeleine Albright, Kofi Annan, Tom Brokaw, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Liv Ullmann and Elie Wiesel. In addition to its New York headquarters, the IRC also has European headquarters in London, Geneva and Brussels. As of March 2010, the IRC had over 8,000 staff members. The IRC has been awarded high marks by charity watchdog groups and major publications for the efficient use of its financial support and the effectiveness of its work. The American Institute of Philanthropy gives the IRC an A+ rating; the Forbes Investment Guide named the IRC one of 10 gold star charities, and in its 2009 review of American charities, Forbes magazine gave the IRC high ratings for program and fundraising efficiency; Charity Navigator gives the IRC its top rating of four stars; and the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance reports that the IRC meets all of its 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

IRC OPERATIONS The IRC delivers a number of services, including emergency response, health care, programs fighting gender-based violence, post-conflict development projects, children and youth protection and education programs, water and sanitation systems, strengthening the capacity of local organizations, and supporting civil society and good-governance initiatives. For refugees afforded sanctuary in the United States, IRC resettlement offices across the country provide a range of assistance aimed at helping new arrivals settling, adjusting and acquiring the skills to become self-sufficient. The IRC also engages in advocacy efforts on behalf of the oppressed and displaced, and its annual Freedom Award recognizes ï¿½extraordinary contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom." The IRC is currently spearheading a campaign urging the United States to pass the International Violence Against Women Act, which is now before Congress. The organization is also advocating for the United States to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; 193 nations have signed this UN convention. The only other non-signer, Somalia, has announced plans to ratify the convention soon. EMERGENCY RESPONSE The IRC maintains an Emergency Response Team of 17 specialists who assess survival needs and mount responses to sudden or protracted emergencies.

The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors, and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on human rights protection, the special needs of children in crisis, the prevention of sexual violence, and aid for rape survivors. Emergency Response Team members remain on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching new relief efforts or lending support to IRC teams already on the ground. Equipment and supplies are pre-positioned in key transport hubs so that the materials can be dispatched anywhere in the world on short notice. The IRC also maintains a kit with inventory necessary for the startup of an emergency program in a remote location, as well as a roster of IRC employees and qualified external personnel who are available on short notice for emergency deployment. Recent IRC Emergency Response Team deployments include Darfur, Indonesia after the South Asian tsunami, Myanmar after the 2008 cyclone , and Haiti after the 2010 earthquake . HEALTH PROGRAMS During emergencies, the IRC endeavors to rapidly reduce illness and death rates to normal levels. When the conflict subsides, the IRC works with displaced individuals and communities to rebuild their health systems.

IRC health programs assist approximately 13 million people in 25 countries, focusing on primary health care, reproductive health care, environmental health, child survival, blindness treatment and prevention, and assistance for victims of sexual violence. The IRC works in various settings such as in refugee camps, in disaster-stricken areas and in host countries where refugees have resettled after a conflict. GENDER BASED ANTO VIOLENCE PROGRAMS Gender-based violence is any harm perpetrated against a person based on power inequalities resulting from gender roles. The overwhelming majority of cases involve women and girls. The IRCï¿½s gender-based anti-violence programs aim to meet the safety, health, psychosocial and justice needs of women and girls who are survivors of or vulnerable to gender-based violence. In partnership with communities and institutions, the IRC works to empower communities to lead efforts that challenge beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that perpetuate or condone violence against women and girls.

IRC programs implement and support social work services to help individual survivors of gender-based violence, economic empowerment activities to support survivors of violence and women and girls at-risk of violence, community education and mobilization projects around gender-based violence, training and capacity-building for NGOs and governments, coordination of humanitarian services, and advocacy efforts to advance laws preventing violence against women, and the enforcement of policies ensuring survivorsï¿½ access to care and legal justice. POST CONFLICT DEVELOPMENT The IRC assists with post-conflict recovery by supporting conflict-impacted communities and countries in their transition to sustainable peace and development. In addition to the provision of humanitarian assistance, IRC post-conflict development projects aim to restore and strengthen physical and social institutions, as well as rebuild and restore social cohesion. Program areas include social programs emphasizing rebuilding the health, public infrastructure and education sectors; gender-based violence programs; economic recovery and development programs; and governance programs that support civil society, enhance protection and the rule of law, and rebuild ties between governments and their constituencies. PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN The IRC promotes the protection and development of children and youth from the early stages of an emergency through post-conflict and recovery.

Its children's and youth programs include emergency care; formal and non-formal education; rehabilitation and community reintegration of former child soldiers; psychosocial care and protection; life skills training, recreational and cultural activities; and economic and leadership development for youth. Resettling refugees The IRCï¿½s 22 regional offices help to resettle newly arrived refugees in the U.S. and provide various services to refugees, asylees and victims of human trafficking. Resettlement services include providing immediate aid, including food and shelter; assisting with job placement and employment skills; and giving access to clothing, medical attention, education, English-language classes and community orientation. In addition to integrating refugees into the U.S., the IRC also provides immigration services to refugees and people who have been granted asylum, as well as specialized services to victims of human trafficking in the U.S. ADVOCACY The IRC seeks to focus the attention of policy makers on humanitarian crises and the needs of refugees, internally displaced people and other victims of conflict.

New York, NY 10168 USA Phone: +1 212 551 3000 DAVID MILIBAND - As president of the IRC David is also co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission , a group that shares many of the aims of the World Ocean Council. On 26 March 2013 the Daily Mirror reported that David would be announcing the following day that he intended to resign as an MP and leave politics altogether - a great day for humanitarian groups. He announced he was taking up a charity post as head of the International Rescue Committee in New York where his remuneration is ï¿½300,000 ($450,000) a year. Miliband became the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee on 1 September 2013. At the IRC, Miliband oversees humanitarian aid and development programs in 40 countries, a global staff of 12,000 and 1,300 volunteers, and an annual budget of $450 million. Near the top of the IRC, Miliband again installed his former Special Political Advisor from London, Madlin Sadler.

She became the aid agency's Chief of Staff. David Miliband | International Rescue Committee (IRC) Follow David on Twitter About David Miliband David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he oversees the agency’s humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in 26 United States cities. Under Miliband’s leadership, the IRC has expanded its ability to rapidly respond to humanitarian crises and meet the needs of an unprecedented number of people uprooted by conflict, war and disaster. The organization is implementing an ambitious global strategy to bring clear outcomes, strong evidence and systematic research to the humanitarian programs through collaborative partnerships with the public and private sectors. From 2007 to 2010, Miliband was the 74th Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, driving advancements in human rights and representing the U.K. throughout the world. In 2006, as Secretary of State for the Environment, he pioneered the world’s first legally binding emissions reduction requirements. He was Member of Parliament for South Shields from 2001 to 2013.

Miliband graduated from Oxford University in 1987 with a first class honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics, and received a master’s degree in political science in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Kennedy Scholar. His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time," and as an effective and passionate advocate for the world's uprooted and poor people. Miliband’s parents fled to Britain from continental Europe during World War II and its aftermath. As the son of refugees, he brings a personal commitment to the IRC's work. He lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Louise Shackelton, and their two sons. News and features David Miliband | International Rescue Committee | ZoomInfo.com International Rescue Committee + Get 10 Free Contacts a Month Please agree to the terms and conditions I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy .

I understand that I will receive a subscription to ZoomInfo Grow at no charge in exchange for downloading and installing the ZoomInfo Contact Contributor utility which, among other features, involves sharing my business contacts as well as headers and signature blocks from emails that I receive. New York, New York 10168 United States Company Description Shop for the perfect holiday gift from the International Rescue Committee-a top charity. Help lead families uprooted by crisis from harm to home. Shop Now! ... more Find other employees at this company (4,407) Background Information Web References (178 Total References) FILE - In this Monday, Sept. ... [cached] FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, file photo, Ed Miliband, left, the then newly-elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, embraces his brother David Miliband, right, following David's speech on foreign policy during the party's annual conference, in Manchester, England. ... But things didnâ€™t go this way for David and Ed Miliband in 2010. ...

Ed didnâ€™t want to take a back seat to his more polished and articulate older brother and shocked the political world by challenging David for the leadership role and triumphing _ or so it seemed.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) ... ut things didn't go this way for David and Ed Miliband in 2010. ... Ed didn't want to take a back seat to his more polished and articulate older brother and shocked the political world by challenging David for the leadership role and triumphing â€" or so it seemed. ... avid became foreign secretary in Gordon Brown's 2007-2010 Labour government, hobnobbing with world leaders like Hilary Clinton, who as U.S. Secretary of State described David as "vibrant, vital, attractive (and) smart. ... hile David stuck closely to Blair's centrist model, based on a middle-of-the-road policy that kept business backers on board, Ed sought to return Labour to its working class, union roots, backed by Brown. ...

d's decision to challenge David for the party helm violated the traditional etiquette in political families, as exemplified in the Kennedy clan, which saw Bobby Kennedy work tirelessly to help his older brother John Kennedy win the presidency, only seeking the top job after his brother was assassinated. ... Psychotherapist Oliver James, author of Affluenza, a book about the unhappiness plaguing many wealthy people, said Ed is more in touch with his late father's ideology than David."In his heart and mind he was looking for ways to get approval from his father's ghost by remaining truer to his father's belief," James said. ... David, who heads the International Rescue Committee in New York, has attractive options, and Ed may, like many politicians before him, rebound from his defeat. David Miliband President & CEO, International Rescue Committee. Read more David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He oversees the agency's relief and development operations in over 40 countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States. In addition, he leads the IRC's advocacy efforts in Washington, Geneva, Brussels and other capitals on behalf of the world's most vulnerable people.

Miliband has had a distinguished political career in the United Kingdom over the last 15 years. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the youngest U.K. Foreign Secretary in three decades, driving advancements in human rights and representing the United Kingdom throughout the world. As Secretary of State for the Environment he UK Labour’s David Miliband joins International Rescue Committee - World Socialist Web Site World Socialist Web Site Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) UK Labour’s David Miliband joins International Rescue Committee By Dave Hyland 5 April 2013 David Miliband, older brother of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and former foreign secretary, is stepping down as the MP for South Shields and taking over the job as head of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New York. The IRC website states, “The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.

At work in over 40 countries and 22 US cities to restore safety, dignity and hope, the IRC leads the way from harm to home.” The capitalist press in Britain is reporting that Miliband’s decision is aimed at relieving the pressure on his younger sibling, who defeated him in September 2010 to win the Labour leadership. It is cited, moreover, as evidence that Labour has moved away from the right-wing social and economic nostrums associated with Tony Blair and New Labour. It is nothing of the sort. Labour under Miliband junior remains a party of big business, war mongering and anti-immigrant chauvinism. And David Miliband has by no means left the political arena, any more than has his mentor, Blair, in his role in the Middle East and elsewhere. Both continue to play a role in the political intrigues of British and US imperialism. The IRC’s charity status is used as a front behind which Washington pursues its strategic interests throughout the globe. It boasts a board of governors that includes former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and no fewer than three former US secretaries of state—Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice.

Sponsors come from among the wealthiest and most powerful of the financial elite, including Pepsi, Intel and McKenzie. The IRC covers many of the geographical areas Miliband became involved with while at the Foreign Office in the UK—South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka—where both the US and Britain have extensive business and geo-strategic interests. At the Foreign Office, Miliband oversaw an organisation employing 14,000 staff across 270 diplomatic offices. The IRC may be smaller, but its international reach is greater. It operates in more than 40 countries and within the US itself, with offices in 22 American cities. The IRC has an operating revenue of around $390 million. A look at where the majority of its funding comes from gives an indication of whose interests it serves. According to a report on the IRC from Root Cause, a non-profit research and consulting firm, published in the Independent, only 14 percent of its funding came from private sources. Government grants and contracts, in contrast, accounted for 44 percent, foreign government grants and contracts 27 percent and 11 percent from UN agency grants and contracts.

As its president, Miliband will receive £263,000 a year (US$400,000) plus £30,000 (US$52,000) from related groups—five times the salary he received as an MP. The ex-foreign secretary received a fulsome endorsement by his old friend, former US president Bill Clinton, who said, “I have known David almost 20 years. He is one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.” There has been criticism over the appointment by those who believe it will risk the IRC being exposed as an instrument of Anglo-American foreign policy. The Observer reports Michiel Hofman of Médecins Sans Frontières saying it could make dealing with groups such as the Taliban more difficult. “Assertions by humanitarian organisations that they are fully independent, there are no hidden political agenda, slowly wither away,” he said. Miliband is married to American-born Louise Shackleton, a professional violinist currently with the London Symphony Orchestra, and has two adopted sons, both born in the US.

After Oxford University, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Kennedy scholar and then began his career at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Having returned to London while Labour was still in Opposition, he became Blair’s head of policy at the age of 29. Miliband helped the future prime minister formulate Labour’s manifesto for the 1997 general election that brought the party to power. Blair made him head of the prime minister’s policy unit from 1997 to 2001, following which he was elected to parliament for the safe seat of South Shields. It was during this period that he met and became friends with Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. He occupied various junior ministerial posts until being made the environment secretary in 2006. He was a strident supporter of the Iraq war. After Blair resigned and Gordon Brown became prime minister, Miliband was promoted to foreign secretary, the youngest since David Owen in the 1970s.

Against all claims that Blair’s departure would mark a distancing of the UK from the US in the aftermath of the Iraq debacle, Miliband played a central role from 2007 to 2010 in supporting the diplomatic and military manoeuvres of Washington. In 2008, he was forced to admit, despite previous government denials, that two US extraordinary rendition flights had stopped on Diego Garcia, a UK territory. When questioned over whether the government had deliberately misled the public over rendition, he was forced to apologise and stated that the government had “made a mistake”. After a trip to India following the Mumbai attacks in 2008, he wrote an article on the dispute over Kashmir that led to an angry response from the Indian government opposing third-party involvement. His bid for leadership of the Labour Party failed precisely because he was tarnished by his support for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was never able to distance himself from it and the deaths of hundreds of thousands on the basis of Blair’s big lie about Saddam Hussein’s non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction.

His brother was chosen as Labour leader in 2010 primarily because he could claim not to have voted for the war and could be sold to the electorate on that basis by the trade union bureaucracy and marking a break from “Blairism”. In the three years since that defeat, Miliband has rejected several invitations to join Labour’s shadow cabinet. The political differences between his policies and those of his younger brother are somewhat unclear, but are bound up with the need for Labour to at least appear to represent some kind of opposition to the austerity agenda of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition. When interviewed, he appears as a petulant schoolboy waiting for something bigger and better to come along. In the meantime, he has turned his hand to making considerable amounts of money. He has reportedly amassed almost £1 million through public speaking engagements such as the recent lecture he gave in Abu Dhabi, for which he received £25,000. He set up a company, The Office of David Miliband Limited, which right-wing commentator Toby Young has attacked as a tax-avoidance scheme through which his non-parliamentary earnings are channelled.

Last year, in his role as senior analyst for risk assessment company Oxford Analytica, he helped broker an advisory role for Blair’s African Governments Initiative (a well-funded charity that claims its aim is to strengthen African leadership and boost economic growth) with the South Sudanese government. In making this move to the IRC, Miliband will be in regular contact with his former boss. Former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s New York Life - The New York Times The New York Times Fashion & Style |An Englishman in New York Search An Englishman in New York Former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s New York Life Continue reading the main story Photo David Miliband at a benefit in New York for the organization he heads. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times The speakers at the fund-raising gala in New York last month had come to praise the guest of honor: the new president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband. Amid all the charity-circuit one-liners delivered by big-ticket names like Bill Clinton, George Soros and Samantha Power, a remark by Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, hit closest to home. “I would like to dispel the rumor,” Ms.

Albright said, “that David himself has sought refuge in America from that most terrible of democratic tyrannies, the British tabloids.” She may be right, but surely no one would blame Mr. Miliband — a former British foreign secretary, candidate for leader of the Labour Party and newspaper torture victim — if escape had indeed been one of his motives for fleeing England at the end of the summer. In London, Mr. Miliband, 48, could barely venture out for a loaf of bread without some newspaper or other analyzing his purchase through the noxious prism of the most publicly traumatic thing that has happened to him in recent years: his humiliating defeat at the hands of his younger brother, Ed, now 43, in the 2010 election for Labour Party leader (Ed Miliband still holds the job). The episode injected poison into Labour’s inner circle, set up the brothers as the Cain and Abel of Westminster politics, and all but ensured that the country was not big enough for the two of them. Photo Clockwise from top, with former President Bill Clinton in November; with his brother, Ed, in 2010; outside his home in London in March after resigning from Parliament.

Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times; Christopher Furlong/Getty Images; Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Mr. Miliband is a household name in England. But in New York, where he has installed himself, his wife and their 6- and 8-year-old sons in a rented apartment on the Upper West Side, he faces the opposite phenomenon: Except for super-keen followers of semi-recent Western European diplomatic history, no one has any idea who he is. This includes fellow parents at his sons’ schools, who, initially at least, failed to notice the foreign celebrity in their midst. (Mr. Miliband asked that his sons’ schools names not be published.) Continue reading the main story “It’s a bit of a different challenge,” he said recently over lunch at a Midtown restaurant, near the organization’s headquarters. “I’m obviously much less a figure of interest for the American press. Here we’re trying to get interest,” he added, alluding to his role at the International Rescue Committee, “whereas there we were trying to shake off interest.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Miliband is a very English person, his reserve and self-deprecation intertwined with self-assurance.

He said sheepishly that he had recently apologized at the supermarket for buying just one item, a carton of milk (the checkout clerk did not understand what he was sorry about). He used “lift” during the interview, quickly switched to “elevator,” and said that his sons are moderating their accents: One recently reprimanded Mr. Miliband for mispronouncing the name of a school friend. “Grahnt,” Mr. Miliband said; “Grant,” said his son. The rescue committee, where Mr. Miliband has embarked on his second act, is one of the world’s most prominent refugee-relief charities, with a $450 million budget this year, a work force of some 12,000 people and a presence in 40 countries and 22 cities in the United States. Though a formidable force in the humanitarian world, the I.R.C., now 80 years old, has been overshadowed in the public perception by organizations like Save the Children and CARE. The plan is that with his international experience and gold-plated virtual Rolodex, Mr. Miliband can bring in new sources of funding as well as raise the group’s profile.

The position came at the right time for Mr. Miliband, once viewed as a possible contender to be prime minister. Out of a government job when Labour lost the 2010 election, and then out of a party job when his brother beat him as leader, Mr. Miliband had become that most unhappy of Parliamentary creatures, an underemployed, once-important opposition-party backbencher. Photo At a Congressional hearing on Afghanistan in 2010 when he was the foreign secretary of Britain. Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images Stuck in that unpleasant limbo, he was casting around for something that would allow him to address the kind of “big, knotty problems” that he dealt with as foreign secretary, he said. He was restless, and he had experience in the charity sector: His first job was as a policy analyst for a British group called the National Council for Voluntary Organizations. “I wanted something global, and it would have been hard for me to take a job in the U.K.,” Mr. Miliband said.

“If I was in Britain but not in politics, people would have constantly asked, ‘Why aren’t you in politics?’ ” (In fact, in a possibly conciliatory move that was clearly either too little or too late, Ed Miliband offered to put him in the shadow cabinet — the opposition team — but David turned down his brother and then quit Parliament altogether in April.) Some longtime I.R.C. staff members responded to news of his appointment with a certain wariness, mainly because of Mr. Miliband’s foreignness, his celebrity, his lack of experience running nonprofit agencies and because they did not know what his management style would be. (He started the job in September, installing two longtime advisers from Britain as top executives, and said he was spending the first few months getting his head around the organization and the job.) But he recently toured I.R.C. programs in the Middle East, and has been speaking loudly and often in the news media about a range of issues, including the humanitarian crisis in Syria. There is no doubt that Mr. Miliband cuts an impressive figure in foreign-policy circles, and not just for his policies.

When she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton once told an interviewer who confessed to having a crush on him on the basis of his telephone voice that Mr. Miliband was “vibrant, vital, attractive, smart” and that “if you saw him, it would be a big crush.” Photo David Miliband with Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times Maureen White, a member of the I.R.C. board, said that with his experience and intelligence, he had dazzled the board when he presided over his first meeting, and dazzled the 30-odd guests who met him at a dinner she held for him: people like Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Pete Peterson, Barry Diller and Mortimer B. Zuckerman. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “We had a rollicking good discussion,” she said. “We talked about things like Syria and Iran, and then he stood up and talked about his wife and their family and their multiple connections to the U.S.” There are many. Mr.

Miliband’s family spent a year outside of Boston in 1977, when his father was a visiting professor at Brandeis; later, David was a Kennedy scholar at M.I.T., receiving a master’s degree in political science in 1989. His wife, Louise Shackelton, a violinist who gave up her job at the London Symphony Orchestra to move to New York, is a dual citizen. Mr. Miliband has a special sympathy for the plight of refugees: Both his parents fled to Britain, his father from Belgium in 1940, his mother from Poland seven years later. They became a prominent left-wing family in London, and politics was one of the main topics around the family dinner table. As in the Bush family, where Jeb Bush seemed bound for the more illustrious career only to be unexpectedly overshadowed by George, the seemingly more lightweight brother, David was always thought to be the son most likely to make it to the top. Ed entered the party-leader race late, after David had already declared his candidacy; David was supposed to win, and in the end lost by the slimmest, most frustrating (from his point of view) of margins.

Photo With Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2010, when she was secretary of state. Credit Joshua Roberts/Getty Images The British news media loves a good family feud. The Labour-hating Daily Mail, in particular, delighted in the chance to exacerbate whatever trouble there might or might not be between the brothers and even their wives, publishing unnamed-source-filled articles with titles like “Look Out, Ed, He’s Behind You,” “They’ve Broken Their Mother’s Heart” and “Treachery and the Very Bitter Wife.” Mr. Miliband is not enthusiastic about discussing the matter, but he answers questions with seasoned affability. “We don’t talk about it,” he said of himself and Ed, “but we are just sure not to say things that we will regret.” He added: “You live with it and move on. What happens happens, and you can’t change it.” Advertisement He said, though, that he had little choice but to get out of town. “The permanent invidious comparisons made professional life impossible,” he said. In addition to getting used to the job, Mr.

Miliband is getting used to life in New York, including the friendlier weather, the big portions of food with their hidden doses of sugar, and the subway system with rats instead of mice. He has been trying to construct his new Ikea furniture, a universal burden in the Western world. Photo With his wife, Louise Shackelton, in 2010. Credit Carl Court/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Of his new job, Mr. Miliband said: “There are fewer wars than ever before, but more refugees than ever before. There are new pressures in the world of humanitarian intervention. There are new pressures from civil war, climate change, new players. The Islamic world is moving into social welfare in a number of different countries; there are new philanthropies in Africa and elsewhere; the private sector is wanting to play a role.” He said he does not miss politics, but rather government. “George Kennan said that leaving government is like the end of a love affair,” he said. “The thing about love affairs is that you come out of one and go into another, and I’ve gone into a new love affair with the I.R.C.” Mr.

Miliband finished his lunch, ordering a doughnut-based dessert but leaving half (all that sugar). It was Halloween , and he spoke enthusiastically about the street parade planned in his neighborhood, where his children would have a chance to show off their outfits. No costume for him, though. “You must be joking,” he said. After the stressful attention of the last few years, there is something relaxing about being an object of popular noninterest. “Am I walking around here feeling blue that people don’t recognize me?” Mr. Miliband said. “No, I’m not.” A version of this article appears in print on December 8, 2013, on Page ST1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Englishman in New York. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe David Miliband faces a diplomatic test at the IRC | Politics | The Guardian David Miliband David Miliband faces a diplomatic test at the IRC The former foreign secretary who supported the Iraq war is facing one of the biggest tests yet of his ambassadorial acumen Labour MP David Miliband is to step down and will move to New York to work for the International Rescue Committee.

Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Wednesday 27 March 2013 19.17 EDT First published on Wednesday 27 March 2013 19.17 EDT Share on Messenger Close When David Miliband steps through the marble entrance of the International Rescue Committee's New York headquarters this September he will take his place at the centre of an extraordinary US power network. The new chief executive of one of the world's leading disaster relief charities will have on tap the former UN general secretary Kofi Annan and a trio of US secretaries of state, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, who sit on the charity's overseeing committee. The board of directors includes executives from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JP Morgan while Pepsi and Pfizer are backers. It is the kind of nexus of political power, international money and good causes around which Bill Clinton and Tony Blair have forged second careers outside politics. Clinton, who runs his own global health foundation, turned on his famous charm to welcome the appointment, describing Miliband as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time".

Blair congratulated him on securing a "major international position", while adding pointedly it was "a massive loss to UK politics". Miliband and Blair's paths are likely to cross in Liberia, Rwanda, South Sudan and Sierra Leone where IRC and Blair's Africa Governance Initiative both run programmes. The IRC might not be a UK household name but the contents of Miliband's in-tray are likely to shoot down any suggestion this charity job is too small for a former foreign secretary. His 12,000 staff (the Foreign Office has around 14,000) are on the ground in 40 countries. Since it was founded in 1933 to help German Jews and other people suffering under Hitler, the IRC has become increasingly rich and influential as it has built a solid record focusing on refugee crises and getting to the scene of disasters to provide help in 72 hours. The charity's last available accounts for 2011 show it had annual revenues of $389m, as well as $107m in investments, including a $98,000 art portfolio.

Miliband's salary has not been made public, but George Rupp, the former president of Columbia University whom he succeeds, currently earns $380,000 a year. According to its last filing with the US charity authorities it had 59 employees earning over $100,000 a year. While Rupp travelled six times a year, the younger Miliband is expected to do more, applying his political skills and contacts in some of the most hostile parts of the world. Former staff predicted Miliband would enjoy a working culture at the IRC that values openness and sharing ideas, but that has developed power and influence and now realises it needs to work harder building partnerships with local organisations and governments to have a more lasting impact. Rob Bailey, senior research fellow at Chatham House and an expert in international development, said it was telling that Miliband had not chosen to pursue what he described on Wednesday as his "passionate commitment to social justice and international co-operation" through a senior job at the United Nations, such as the at the UN Development Programme, which has been run since 2009 by the former prime minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark.

"Often in the UN you are very constrained by the politics of donor governments and what you can and can't say and you can't bite the hand that feeds you," said Bailey. "As a leader of an independent NGO he should have a lot more freedom to speak out on a humanitarian agenda which isn't confined by the politics of donor countries. It will allow his to become involved in areas with highly contentious politics with more freedom." But with a key part of the IRC's work reliant on gaining quick access to disaster hit countries often in politically fraught parts of the world, a challenge is likely to be persuading governments of disaster-hit countries of his independence. "If you are seen as somehow threatening to the government or local authority, then they can be reluctant to grant access," Bailey said. And that is where Miliband's experience as Britain's top diplomat could cut both ways. The former foreign secretary who supported the Iraq war and oversaw ongoing operations in Afghanistan is facing one of the biggest tests yet of his ambassadorial acumen.

Labour leader says former foreign secretary would have been unlikely to serve under him, in glimpse of strained relationship Published: 29 Mar 2013 David Miliband Story - Bio, Facts, Networth, Home, Family, Auto | Famous Politicians | SuccessStory Politics Profile David Miliband is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament in South Shields between 2001 and 2013, and the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs between 2007 and 2010. He was the Head of Policy in Tony Blair’s office and Member of Parliament in 2001. David Miliband With Hillary Clinton Within a year, he became the minister of state for schools and the minister for Cabinet Office in 2004. In 2005, he became full member of the cabinet. He contributed immensely towards Labour’s manifesto in the 1997 elections. In 2013, he resigned from Parliament and became the CEO and President of International Rescue Committee, New York City. Childhood David was born on July 15, 1965 in London, United Kingdom. His parents were Jewish immigrants.

They had fled Belgium during the World War II. He studied at the Corpus Christi College and obtained a ‘first class’ honors degree in Politics, Economics and Philosophy. David has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Early Career David started his career editing Reinventing the Left, a 1994 collection of essays, and also co-edited Paying for Inequality with Andrew Glyn. His first job was at the NCVO as a political analyst. He worked as policy analyst and Research Fellow from 1989 to 1994 at the IPPR. He was secretary to IPPR’s commission on Social Justice. Highlights David was a Member of Parliament for South Shields, a research fellow for IPPR, Head of the PM’s Policy Unit, and Head of Policy for the Office of Leader of Opposition. After entering the Commons, he became the Minister of School Standards, Minister of Communities & Local Government, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Minister of State in Cabinet Office. In 2007, he became foreign secretary in Gordon Brown first cabinet. Miliband had supported going the war against Iraq, stating that they had weapons of mass destruction.

He believes agriculture to be an important factor in the cultural heritage, society, economy and environment of the UK, and works for supporting farmers, consumers, retailers and manufacturers alike. Personal Life Miliband is married to Louise Shackelton, a professional violinist who previously worked with London Symphony Orchestra. The couple adopted two new-born sons from the US in 2004 and 2007. Miliband’s brother, Ed Miliband, was secretary of the State for Energy & Climate Change. Know More

Question: Which famous political brother became president of the International Rescue Committee in 2013?
Answer: David Miliband