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IACD has Awards presented to members deemed by the Board to have made a significant contribution towards the work of the association and to the field of community development. These Awards, called Lifetime Achievement Award and Global Community Development Ambassador Award are presented at our international conferences. At our most recent conference in Dundee this June, four members were awarded the Global Community Development Ambassador Award.
Paul Lachapelle, President of IACD from 2016 – 2019 was also thanked for his hard work and dedication to his role within IACD during the AGM.
Stewart Murdoch is a past Vice President and treasurer and the key partner for WCDC 2019. Stewart also chaired the Glasgow 2014 IACD conference planning group. For ten years Stewart played a very leading role in ensuring the association’s continuation, providing extensive support from Dundee City Council throughout that time and securing the first grant from the Scottish Government.
KK Fung is currently the longest serving Board member. He has been promoting IACD across China and East Asia over several years. KK was chair of the Publications Committee and edited the East Asia Practice Insights Special and a special edition of the Community Development Journal on CD in the region.
Hung Suet Lin was IACD’s first ever Country Correspondent (for China) and has worked consistently with KK Fung on raising IACD’s profile across China and the Far East. The roadshow of IACD presentations to university students they have both been making across China in recent years was a first for IACD. Hung Suet Lin was presented in absentia.
Mini Bedi is a former Vice President of IACD. She served on the Board for 12 years. Mini designed and hosted the very first, of three Practice Exchanges, held in India. Mini worked for many years with Oxfam in India supporting numerous local community projects tackling poverty. She played an important role in raising the profile of IACD across India since the mid-1980s.
Paul Lachapelle was President of IACD from June 2016 to June 2019 and he has served on the Board for five years. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Montana State University-Bozeman and serves as the Extension Community Development Specialist. Paul has conducted research and taught in both Montana and internationally with applied research, development work and language training in Nepal as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. Other research and training includes work with Inuit in several arctic national parks with Parks Canada in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut, review and consultation of forest management and community development projects in Guinea, West Africa through the U.S. Forest Service International Programs, and research on the role of community governance in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
