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The Master of Business Administration Association presents
United Nations Diplomat, Fale Andrew Lesā
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
University Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg Campus Library Theater (ELIBR 1.308) Map: https://goo.gl/maps/YtDUMemWEzH628ca6
For RSVP click here or use the QR code in the attached flyer.
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Fale Andrew Lesā JP is a 32-year-old diplomat with more than ten years of experience at the United Nations. He is currently a policy consultant at the Asian Development Bank where he works alongside some of the world's fastest-growing economies. In his tenure as a diplomat, Fale has visited more than a hundred countries and every continent except Antarctica. He was recently appointed a director at NCD Child, a global coalition funded by AstraZeneca, where he's actively involved in the COVID-19 recovery effort.
Fale was recently published by Georgetown University in Washington DC and is a Pacific fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
At home, Fale was appointed by the government to the MIT (Manukau Institute of Technology) university council. He was also elected to the city council and to a high school board where he was deputy chairman for ten years. Fale is indigenous to Samoa and wears tribal tattoos on more than a third of his body. He migrated to New Zealand with his family for a better life.
Fale stumbled on a career in diplomacy after being selected to attend a Japanese youth exchange program as a teenager.