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Rotary International is the organization of service clubs with the largest membership in the world, with 1.9 million volunteers, including all the members of clubs that make up the Rotary family, namely Rotary, Interact and Rotaract clubs.
Rotary International is an international service organization based in Evanston, Illinois, US. Members of Rotary clubs are called "Rotarians." Members of Rotary clubs are called "Rotarians." This is a list of notable current and former active and honorary members of Rotary International clubs:
He has also been a non-resident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy and Rule of Law Program, [4] a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. [4] [5] In 2011, he was appointed general secretary and CEO of Rotary International.
Kalyan Banerjee was the President of Rotary International, one of the largest humanitarian service organizations in the world, for the year 2011–12.He took office on 1 July 2011 from Ray Klinginsmith. [2]
By 1910, at least 15 new clubs had begun in major cities. That August, the existing 16 Rotary Clubs held a national convention in Chicago. There they unanimously chose to unify as the National Association of Rotary Clubs. Eventually, the organization became the International Association of Rotary Clubs, helping to realize Harris's dream worldwide.
First woman to be elected President of Rotary International Jennifer E. Jones (born 1967) is a Canadian communications executive. She was president of Rotary International for 2022–23, the first woman to be selected in the 117-year history of the organization.
His wife Juliet became the charter president of the Rotary Club of Hampton in 1995. [1] From 1999 to 2000, Ian Riseley was the governor of District 9810. [1] From 2017 to 2018, Ian Riseley was the president of Rotary International. [4] This was the fifth year in 112 years of existence that the Rotary international had an Australian president. [5]
The foundation was created in 1917 by Rotary International's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, as an endowment fund for Rotary "to do good in the world." It has grown from an initial contribution of US $26.50 to more than US $1 billion. It has one of the largest and most prestigious international fellowship programs in the world.