AR-News: (UK) BUAV's new CEO

[AR-News]

> THE BRITISH UNION FOR THE ABOLITION OF VIVISECTION APPOINTS ADOLFO
> SANSOLINI AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
> 
> Leading animal rights campaigners the British Union for the Abolition of
> Vivisection (BUAV) announced today (Wednesday 19th May 2004) that Adolfo
> Sansolini is to become its new CEO in August 2004. 
>  
> "We are delighted to welcome Adolfo to the vital role of CEO at the BUAV
> and feel confident that he will bring strong leadership, an inspiring
> vision and continue the organisation's commitment to achieving the
> abolition of all animal experiments through dynamic and peaceful
> campaigning," said Chris Deacon, Chair of BUAV's Executive Board. "Adolfo
> has been a dedicated and passionate advocate for the rights of animals for
> many years and is well respected around the world for his energy, passion
> and commitment. His appointment marks an exciting new episode in the
> BUAV's long history."
> 
> As President of Lega Anti Vivisezione (LAV), Rome, Italy, Adolfo has spent
> many years specialising in the area of anti-vivisection campaigning and
> lobbying. A vegetarian for over twenty years, he comes to BUAV from
> Eurogroup for Animal Welfare where he has been a consultant since 2001.
> Adolfo has also spent eight years as a radio broadcaster presenting "Un
> habitat per tutti i viventi" on animal rights, human rights and the
> environment on Radio Vaticana, three years as consultant with the
> International Fund for Animal Welfare (Italy), four years as the Southern
> European Campaigns Co-ordinator for the European Coalition for Farm
> Animals co-ordinating the campaigns and lobbying efforts of member groups
> in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. In 2003 he was awarded the RSPCA's
> Michael Kay award 'in recognition of services to European animal welfare.'
> "I am extremely proud to be joining the BUAV and look forward to leading
> the organisation's excellent team into the future," said Adolfo Sansolini,
> "The BUAV has a long history of thought provoking and successful
> campaigns, challenging and often shocking undercover investigations,
> highly professional political lobbying and excellent legal and scientific
> work. The BUAV is the world's leading organisation campaigning for an end
> to animal experiments; I am determined to make a difference for laboratory
> animals around the world and to achieve that goal there could be no better
> place to be than the BUAV.  Choosing for the first time in its history a
> CEO coming from a country outside the UK is evidence of the BUAV's
> commitment to campaigning with an international perspective and I shall do
> my very best to be an ambassador for the BUAV and laboratory animals
> around the world."
>  
> Adolfo's appointment to the BUAV comes in the year (2004) of the one
> hundredth anniversary of the death of Frances Power Cobbe, the BUAV's
> original founder. As an Italian national, Adolfo's appointment is symbolic
> of Cobbe's early years spent campaigning in Florence, leading an
> Anglo-Italian  protest against vivisection at the Specola Institute in
> 1863 (the first of its kind in the world) and spearheading the
> anti-vivisection movement which the BUAV is proud to uphold in the
> twenty-first century.  
> 
> The BUAV is the leading organisation campaigning to end animal
> experiments; Adolfo will take up the leadership of the organisation from
> the Acting CEO, Bob Garner, who will return to the Executive Board after
> the appropriate transitionary period. 
> 
> For more information about the BUAV visit our website  www.buav.org
> <http://www.buav.org>
> 
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