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Iain Macdonald
ICA Director-General, 1 September 2002- 31 August 2010
- Selected presentations
- DG reports
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Contact Information:
iaingordon.macdonald@gmail.com
or for enquiries on ICA EXPO 2010
macdonald@icaexpo.coop
Ivano Barberini and Iain Macdonald
Iain Macdonald congratulating Charles Gould on his appointment as ICA Director-General
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Iain Macdonald, ICA Director-General
1 September 2002 - 31 August 2010
Iain Macdonald was appointed Director-General of ICA in September 2002 and served until 31 August 2010. He is currently taking on a part-time advisor role with ICA Expo preparing for the 2010 ICA Expo to be held in Bangalore, India on 8-10 December 2010. Enquiries on ICA Expo: macdonald@icaexpo.coop
During his office he concentrated on raising the profile of international co-operation particularly in its potential for resolving some of the world's probelms. He represented ICA as an observer to the International Labour Office Governing Body and the UN Economic and Social Council. He sat on the Board of the Committee for the Advancement and Promotion of Co-operatives (COPAC) and on Freedom from Hunger's Ambassadors Council. In 2005 he was elected as President of the UK Co-operative Congress and recently was appointed to the Board of Co-operative Development Scotland. In 2008 he was appointed a GlobalScot by the Scottish Government.
Before his appointment as ICA Director-General, Iain was Head of Co-operative Strategy at the Co-operative Group where he had worked since 1986. Before joining the Co-op, he worked in Local Government and the Civil Service in London as well as a short period with the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). Iain also served for 17 years on Strathclyde Regional Council in Glasgow (Scotland). Much of his work there was involved in the development of community and co-operative enterprise through the Boards of the Strathclyde Credit Union Development Agency and Community Enterprise in Strathclyde. He was a prospective parliamentary candidate for Argyll and Bute in 1996. Iain has had extensive international experience with the Co-operative Movement, not least as co-author of the 1995 report of the International Joint Project on Co-operative Democracy "Making Membership Meaningful". He has also been very active in the international peace movement and is a board member of the United Kingdom co-operative think tank, Communicate Mutuality (MUTUO).
Iain Macdonald currently lives near Geneva with his wife Joan and daughter Giilian.
Selection of presentations (pdf)
- "The Concept of Co-operatives in the Future", presented at the EDAK Pharmacists' Co-operative (Turkey) conference on 'The Co-operatives' Past and Present in the Global Economy and the Concept of Co-operatives in the Future, Izmir (Turkey), 16-17 January 2010 (pdf)
- "Does economy globalisation
imply an erasing of identity", presented at the XXXIVth
IPSE (Institute for European Social Protection) Meeting
on "The future of the supportive supplementary social
welfare" , Stockholm (Sweden), August 31 2009
- Co-operatives and the World Economic Crisis - Co-operative Opportunity, 2 July 2009, Bangkok
- ICA
Director-General speech at ICA President Ivano Barberini's
Commemorative Service, Bologna (Italy), 8 May 2009
- "Co-operative
Advantage in the Global Economic Crisis", presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Co-operative Forum,
Hanoi (Vietnam), 4 December 2008
- "Convenience
and scope of social responsibility as public policy",
ICA Americas XVI Regional Conference, San José (Costa
Rica), 24 July 2008
- Going for Growth - UK Co-operative Congress, June 2008
- ICA
Statement to the ILO Conference, Geneva (Switzerland),
12 June 2008
- ICA
Statement to the ILO Conference on the Draft Report of
the Committee on Rural Employment, Geneva
(Switzerland), 11
June 2008
- Speech
to the Fairtrade Conference in Glascow (Scotland), 1
March 2008
- "Co-operative
communities - a strife free environment?" , Vancouver
(Canada), June 2006
- Annual
Members' Meeting, Leeds Co-operative Society Limited,
(Leeds, United Kingdom), March 2006
- "Overview
of co-operative responses at international level",
5th Meeting of Agencies, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 24-26 January
2006
- Second Review
Meeting of ICA/ILO Memorandum of Understanding,
Geneva (Switzerland)
, 15 February 2006
- Presentation to the Ministry of Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development of Malaysia, Geneva, 19 January 2006
- Regionalisation,
Geneva (Switzerland), 13 January 2006
- Co-operative
Democracy more relevent than ever (UK Congress), Glasgow
(Scotland), 2005
- Joint Meeting of ICA Board - Sectoral Organisations, Nairobi, 11 December 2004
- Presentation to Board of Co-operative Group (UK), Manchester, 10 November 2004
- ICA Regional Youth Seminar, Malaysia, 7 September 2004
- The Global Co-operative Movement - Toward Social Stability and Economic Development UNITIC Conference Centre, Sarajevo, 19-21 May 2004
- ICA and Global Trade - International Trade Fair & Forum, Beijing, 26-28 April 2004
- The Global Co-operative Movement - Co-operation and Mutuality Scotland, 20 March 2004
- Annual Meeting of ICA Sectoral Organisations, Geneva, 13 February 2004
- 7th Asia-Pacific Co-operative Ministers' Conference, 2-5 February 2004
- Presentation to National Co-operative Business Association Washington, 5 January 2004
Director-General Reports (pdf)
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Quotes
"Co-operatives are the better business"
“I hope my new regular reports will be seen as part of increased accountability by the ICA to its members”
" Let's be bold and proud about who we really are… people-based democratic enterprise.”
"There is no need to be defensive about our way of doing business"
Iain Macdonald
Ivano Barberini and Iain Macdonald
Iain Macdonald with ICA Regional Directors
Iain Macdonald at ICA Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly
Iain Macdonald at ICA Africa Regional Assembly
Interview with Iranian television
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