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PSI Names New President, Board Member WASHINGTON, DC, November 15, 2006 — PSI announced today that it has named Ambassador Karl Hofmann as its president and CEO, succeeding Richard A. Frank, who retired in August. Hofmann will take office in February 2007. Acting President and CEO Peter Clancy will continue in his interim position until Hofmann takes up his new duties. Concurrently, PSI announced that Dr. Rehana Ahmed, a Pakistani physician with wide-ranging public health experience, has been elected to the PSI Board of Directors. Hofmann, 45, comes to PSI from a brilliant 23-year career at the highest levels of the State Department. He served both Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as executive secretary of the State Department and is currently deputy chief of mission, the senior career diplomat, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Previously, President Bill Clinton appointed him as ambassador to the Republic of Togo, where he also served under President George W. Bush. Earlier, he served as director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council and acting ambassador in Lesotho. His years of living and working in Africa and the Caribbean (he also served in Morocco, Rwanda and Jamaica) have given him a deep understanding of development issues, including public health, especially HIV/AIDS. “Karl Hofmann is considered by the most senior U.S. diplomats and his peers as one of the outstanding career diplomats of his generation” said Frank Loy, chairman of the PSI Board of Directors. “PSI works in more than 60 countries and is blessed with an outstanding roster of professionals who are experienced and expert in the fields of health and marketing. Karl’s extensive work with the foreign assistance infrastructure and with governments — both donor and recipient governments — will bring an added dimension to PSI.” “Karl has an outstanding reputation as a leader and has distinguished himself as a manager of complex operations,” said William Harrop, chairman of the Search Committee. “People who have worked for and with Karl are universal in their acclaim. One said ‘Everyone who has ever worked for Karl reveres him.’” Hofmann grew up in California, where his father was a professor at Stanford University. He graduated from Georgetown University with a BS (magna cum laude) in Foreign Service. He is married to Barrie Hofmann, and has three children. Dr. Rehana Ahmed, the newest member of the PSI Board of Directors, has held positions with the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, the Family Planning Association of Pakistan and the Aga Khan University. She has advised or consulted with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and KfW Entwicklungsbank (the German development bank). Dr. Rehana Ahmed worked for many years with Greenstar Social Marketing of Pakistan, an affiliate of PSI which franchises health clinics and trains medical practitioners throughout the country, the largest such enterprise in the world, and served as CEO of Greenstar from 2001 to 2004. She now lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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