Rad Kivette

Development Consultant, Major Gifts

Rad Kivette is a consultant who has worked closely with a number of foreign governments, NGO’s, and major corporations including the Vietnamese Ministries of Education and Training, the World Bank, and the Asia Development Bank. Rad has experience in organizational development, program creation, and fundraising. He is knowledgeable on ethnic minorities, women’s issues, health, and education for underserved areas. Rad, who completed his graduate work at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, got his start in management at Hanes Hosiery in Winston Salem, NC. He later operated his own mill. After visiting Croatia and Bosnia on a humanitarian mission, he sold his business and became the executive vice president of Samaritian’s Purse International Relief, one of the largest NGOs in the world, for 12 years. He eventually started an organization that concentrated on Southeast Asia and moved to Vietnam. He joined East Meets West Foundation in 2006 and become Director of Development afterwards. In 2009, Vietnam awarded Kivette the Medal of Peace and Freedom Among the Nations, the highest honor given to a foreigner for his development work in the country.

Lisa Rice Duek, RN, MBA, Dip PH & TropMed

After completing Nurse Training in the UK in 1996, Lisa commenced her career in Bath and London as an emergency room and operating theater nurse. She also worked in the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Royal Free Hospital while studying at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Lisa then spent four years in Paris as a nurse at the British and American Hospital while studying Public Health at the Marie Curie University of Paris.

In 2000 Lisa completed a mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in northern Georgia, where she headed a refugee vaccination campaign for Chechen refugees. In 2002 she commenced her Asian adventure as part of the start-up team for the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital (FV), HCMC’s first international hospital. Lisa worked as the hospital’s Manager of the In- and Out-Patient Departments for four years, where she oversaw a team of 50 nurses and paramedical staff and trained them to international standards.

Lisa completed her MBA in 2006 at RMIT University in Vietnam. Since then, she has worked in various clinical consulting posts, spreading her knowledge and passion for improving quality in healthcare in Vietnam.