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Past Presidents: David Fraser

Fraser became head of the Aga Khan Secretariat’s Social Welfare Department, which manages the health, education, and housing initiatives of the Aga Khan Development Network. (The Development Network is a group of non-profits working to improve quality of life primarily in South Asia and East Africa; the eponymous Prince Aga Khan IV is the Imam of the Ismali branch of Shi’ah Islam.)

Living in France, Fraser worked with the directors of a variety of educational and health-care systems. The largest of these were in Pakistan, but he also oversaw programs in Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and other countries. He was also the Aga Khan’s “point person” for the Aga Khan University‘s budget.

This was, Fraser said, “an entirely different culture” from Swarthmore. “A liberal arts college,” he said, “has a kind of wonderful horizontal anarchy…it’s not always easy to run, but it is always intellectually challenging. With the Aga Khan, on the other hand, he’s the prince – he makes the decisions.” Personally, he thought that although he could “adapt to the situation,” it was not the style to which he was most naturally suited. Yet, because the Aga Khan was doing “such good work,” Fraser was happy to work within the system for a time.

Source at here: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2009/1/22/david-fraser/

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