APPC - Announcement from Darwin Chen

It is with deep regret that I announce the resignation of APPC’s Chief Executive, Rory Francisco-Tolentino, effective 1 August 2008, due to family commitments that require that she relocate to the US before the end of the year.

Rory was a very significant part of the APPC family, having been one of its four founders in 1994, and having served as Co-Chair and then as Chair of APPC before she became its Chief Executive in the second half of 2002.

She has been instrumental, in the time that she has been in the leadership position, in making APPC much more widely known in the philanthropy world, with a wide range of accomplishments that have helped make it the premiere source of information about philanthropy in Asia.