Emily L Walker - World Food Programme

Emily at Citibank Bangkok which hosted WFP offices to organize aid efforts following the Tsunami of 2004.	Home \| Banking \| WFP \| 9/11 \| Recent


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UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) January 2006 - February 2007

London, England and Rome, Italy

Executive Business Advisor to the Executive Director

Emily Walker instigated, designed, created and executed Citigroup’s Corporate and Investment Bank’s global partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Asked by Senior Management of the Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank to find a way for Global Banking to assist in the relief effort following the unprecedented Tsunami of December 2004, Emily met with the World Food Programme in Bangkok and established a relationship, offering Citigroup office space to WFP staff and forging an on-going corporate philanthropic partnership. She requested a year secondment by Citigroup to WFP in Rome to design and implement the Emergency Network, a pre-planned response mechanism for corporations to donate goods to the WFP prior to disasters. The network was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2007. Citigroup has begun marketing the Emergency Network to its corporate clients and other significant programmes are being launched by Citigroup in conjunction with this WFP partnership.

1. Detailed Job Description

2. Marketing Material for Emergency Network

In order to explain the Emergency Network to Citigroup Corporate Clients, Citigroup and WFP with guidance from Emily Walker created marketing materials to hand out in hard copy and make available through the WFP website.

3. Global Finance article on the Citigroup/WFP Partnership

The first announcement of the Citigroup partnership with the World Food Programme was distributed at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Singapore through this Global Finance sponsored round-table article which Emily Walker helped write.

4. Press Release on Launch of Citigroup/WFP Emergency Network

Citigroup hosted a press conference at the tent of the World Food Programme which TNT, the Dutch Logistics Company, set up in Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum, 2007. The press release and marketing material were handed out to the press. An AP newswire story titled U.N. agency says Citibank, TNT helping to set up global disaster network was issued on January 25, 2007.

5. Davos Diaries

Professor Ngaire Woods has published an online diary of the events of the World Economic Forum of 2007, which includes reference to Emily Walker's work on the WFP Emergency Network.
"Just this morning an investment banking friend emailed me from Davos to let me know about the corporate partnership she is building between Citigroup and the World Food Programme (a United Nations agency which coordinates disaster relief). They are launching an Emergency Network for corporations to donate goods and services ahead of global disasters (their base this week is a tent in the middle of Davos). This kind of injection of the resources, dynamism and client-focus of successful business has potential for foreign aid and emergency relief. The obvious risk is that well-intentioned groups will rush in without enough heed to what actually works and why it works."

6. Financial Times Citigroup/WFP Advertisement

Following the launch of the Emergency Network, Citigroup placed an advertisement in the Financial Times of January 26, 2007.

7. Citigroup Insights Magazine Article on Citigroup/WFP Partnership

Emily Walker authored an article on the Citigroup Partnership which appeared in the January 2007 issue of Citigroup’s Insights Magazine.

8. Citigroup 2005 Corporate Citizenship Report

Emily Walker’s work with WFP was highlighted on page 28 of the 2005 Citizenship Report for Citigroup.

9. The International Forums on Preparedness in Florence, Italy

Emily Walker is a founding member of the so-called Florence Forums of the NYU International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP). Emily presented the WFP Emergency Network at the May 2006 Conference. She serves as a member of the Global Steering Committee in 2006 and 2007.

10. Site Visits

Emily participated in a number of field missions for WFP:

Tsunami: In January 2005, Emily Walker assisted the World Food Programme with office space in Bangkok, met the Executive Director in Kuala Lumpur (Subong Airforce Base) and flew with the World Food Programme staff to Bande Aceh following the tsunami. She stayed in the UN relief camp in Bande Aceh and visited the devastation in several areas along the Indonesia coast by military helicopter.

Uganda: In December 2005, Emily Walker and her daughters spent two weeks on a personal visit to Uganda which included site visits in Kampala and Gulu. They traveled from Kampala to Gulu in a UN Truck Convoy with a military escort through the war zone. They visited Olwal IDP Camp, 34 km northwest of Gulu, where WFP provides food for over 13 million beneficiaries and walked with the "nite children" to the centre of Gulu where they slept in a fenced-in community to keep them safe from the rebels. They visited many joint WFP/NGO relief and rehabilitation programmes as well as HIV/Aids Orphanages and hospitals where WFP provides food.

Dubai, UAE: In February 2006, Emily Walker visited the WFP technology logistics site in Dubai, where the technology teams are dispatched for global disasters as well as where WFP and other UN Agencies store technology equipment in a state-of-the-art warehouse.

Brindisi, Italy: In August 2006, Emily Walker accompanied the Executive Director of the World Food Programme for a site visit to Brindisi which serves as WFP's main logistics hub for global disaster recovery and food distribution.

Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa: In December 2006, Emily Walker participated in the UN Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa Mission. The purpose of the mission was to take stock of the developments that have taken place in the region since the 2002 crisis and discuss with governments and donors on how decisive long-term actions can be taken to tackle underlying causes of acute and chronic vulnerability in the region. Meetings were held with governments, heads of state, UN, donor representatives, NGO's and other key stakeholders.

The key message from Jim Morris, UN Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa, following this trip was:
"Despite major achievements in the past five years, the situation in southern Africa is still overwhelming in its scale and seriousness. It seems that the world has not yet understood the magnitude of the crisis that is affecting millions of people across the region."

11. Citigroup Gleneagles Conference

Emily Walker conceived and produced the WFP segment of the Citigroup Global Banking off-site held in Gleneagles, Scotland in June 2005. She created a video presentation in collaboration with Allison Prince. Richard Thoburn of Thoburn Associates designed and donated marketing material which complemented the video. James T. Morris, Executive Director of WFP, spoke at the event to an audience of several hundred senior Citigroup bankers. As part of this event, Emily convinced Citigroup to help fund WFP support for feeding school children in Africa.

12. Constant Gardener Event

Emily Walker created a Citigroup client event which was a private screening of the major motion picture Constant Gardener, starring Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes, which highlighted the World Food Programme. The event included over 100 clients and was designed to bring about awareness of the Citigroup/WFP partnership.

13. Presentation on public-private sector partnership to UN Forum

Emily Walker spoke to numerous groups on the key issues of public/private sector partnership in humanitarian relief.

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UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP)		January 2006 - February 2007
London, England and Rome, Italy
Executive Business Advisor to the Executive Director

Emily Walker instigated, designed, created and executed Citigroup’s Corporate and Investment Bank’s global partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Asked by Senior Management of the Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank to find a way for Global Banking to assist in the relief effort following the unprecedented Tsunami of December 2004, Emily met with the World Food Programme in Bangkok and established a relationship, offering Citigroup office space to WFP staff and forging an on-going corporate philanthropic partnership. She requested a year secondment by Citigroup to WFP in Rome to design and implement the Emergency Network, a pre-planned response mechanism for corporations to donate goods to the WFP prior to disasters. The network was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2007. Citigroup has begun marketing the Emergency Network to its corporate clients and other significant programmes are being launched by Citigroup in conjunction with this WFP partnership.


1.	Detailed Job Description

2.	Marketing Material for Emergency Network

		In order to explain the Emergency Network to Citigroup Corporate Clients, Citigroup and WFP with guidance from Emily Walker created marketing materials to hand out in hard copy and make available through the WFP website.

3.	Global Finance article on the Citigroup/WFP Partnership

		The first announcement of the Citigroup partnership with the World Food Programme was distributed at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Singapore through this Global Finance sponsored round-table article which Emily Walker helped write.

4.	Press Release on Launch of Citigroup/WFP Emergency Network

		Citigroup hosted a press conference at the tent of the World Food Programme which TNT, the Dutch Logistics Company, set up in Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum, 2007. The press release and marketing material were handed out to the press. An AP newswire story titled U.N. agency says Citibank, TNT helping to set up global disaster network was issued on January 25, 2007.

5.	Davos Diaries

		Professor Ngaire Woods has published an online diary of the events of the World Economic Forum of 2007, which includes reference to Emily Walker's work on the WFP Emergency Network. "Just this morning an investment banking friend emailed me from Davos to let me know about the corporate partnership she is building between Citigroup and the World Food Programme (a United Nations agency which coordinates disaster relief). They are launching an Emergency Network for corporations to donate goods and services ahead of global disasters (their base this week is a tent in the middle of Davos). This kind of injection of the resources, dynamism and client-focus of successful business has potential for foreign aid and emergency relief. The obvious risk is that well-intentioned groups will rush in without enough heed to what actually works and why it works."

6.	Financial Times Citigroup/WFP Advertisement

		Following the launch of the Emergency Network, Citigroup placed an advertisement in the Financial Times of January 26, 2007.

7.	Citigroup Insights Magazine Article on Citigroup/WFP Partnership

		Emily Walker authored an article on the Citigroup Partnership which appeared in the January 2007 issue of Citigroup’s Insights Magazine.

8.	Citigroup 2005 Corporate Citizenship Report

		Emily Walker’s work with WFP was highlighted on page 28 of the 2005 Citizenship Report for Citigroup.

9.	The International Forums on Preparedness in Florence, Italy

		Emily Walker is a founding member of the so-called Florence Forums of the NYU International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP). Emily presented the WFP Emergency Network at the May 2006 Conference. She serves as a member of the Global Steering Committee in 2006 and 2007.

10.	Site Visits

		Emily participated in a number of field missions for WFP: Tsunami: In January 2005, Emily Walker assisted the World Food Programme with office space in Bangkok, met the Executive Director in Kuala Lumpur (Subong Airforce Base) and flew with the World Food Programme staff to Bande Aceh following the tsunami. She stayed in the UN relief camp in Bande Aceh and visited the devastation in several areas along the Indonesia coast by military helicopter. Uganda: In December 2005, Emily Walker and her daughters spent two weeks on a personal visit to Uganda which included site visits in Kampala and Gulu. They traveled from Kampala to Gulu in a UN Truck Convoy with a military escort through the war zone. They visited Olwal IDP Camp, 34 km northwest of Gulu, where WFP provides food for over 13 million beneficiaries and walked with the "nite children" to the centre of Gulu where they slept in a fenced-in community to keep them safe from the rebels. They visited many joint WFP/NGO relief and rehabilitation programmes as well as HIV/Aids Orphanages and hospitals where WFP provides food. Dubai, UAE: In February 2006, Emily Walker visited the WFP technology logistics site in Dubai, where the technology teams are dispatched for global disasters as well as where WFP and other UN Agencies store technology equipment in a state-of-the-art warehouse. Brindisi, Italy: In August 2006, Emily Walker accompanied the Executive Director of the World Food Programme for a site visit to Brindisi which serves as WFP's main logistics hub for global disaster recovery and food distribution. Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa: In December 2006, Emily Walker participated in the UN Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa Mission. The purpose of the mission was to take stock of the developments that have taken place in the region since the 2002 crisis and discuss with governments and donors on how decisive long-term actions can be taken to tackle underlying causes of acute and chronic vulnerability in the region. Meetings were held with governments, heads of state, UN, donor representatives, NGO's and other key stakeholders. The key message from Jim Morris, UN Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa, following this trip was: "Despite major achievements in the past five years, the situation in southern Africa is still overwhelming in its scale and seriousness. It seems that the world has not yet understood the magnitude of the crisis that is affecting millions of people across the region."

11.	Citigroup Gleneagles Conference

		Emily Walker conceived and produced the WFP segment of the Citigroup Global Banking off-site held in Gleneagles, Scotland in June 2005. She created a video presentation in collaboration with Allison Prince. Richard Thoburn of Thoburn Associates designed and donated marketing material which complemented the video. James T. Morris, Executive Director of WFP, spoke at the event to an audience of several hundred senior Citigroup bankers. As part of this event, Emily convinced Citigroup to help fund WFP support for feeding school children in Africa.

12.	Constant Gardener Event

		Emily Walker created a Citigroup client event which was a private screening of the major motion picture Constant Gardener, starring Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes, which highlighted the World Food Programme. The event included over 100 clients and was designed to bring about awareness of the Citigroup/WFP partnership.

13.	Presentation on public-private sector partnership to UN Forum

		Emily Walker spoke to numerous groups on the key issues of public/private sector partnership in humanitarian relief.