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This post is originally published by the Web Foundation<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Today, we\u2019re excited to welcome Adrian Lovett to the team as he joins as our new President & CEO.<\/p>\n Adrian brings 20 years of experience working in international development and advocacy, delivering policy change on complex global issues in the Global South, North America and Europe.<\/p>\n Most recently Adrian served as the interim CEO at\u00a0ONE<\/a>, the campaigning and advocacy organisation co-founded by U2\u2019s Bono to help end extreme poverty. Previously, he played a key leadership role in successful campaigns such as Make Poverty History and the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel the debts of developing countries, and has also held senior roles at Oxfam and Save the Children.<\/p>\n Adrian\u2019s extensive experience serves him well to take the lead at the Web Foundation as we develop our work to deliver digital equality \u2013 a world where everyone can access the web and use it to improve their lives.<\/p>\n Adrian takes the reins from Jos\u00e9 Alonso who has served as our interim CEO since May 2017. Thank you Jos\u00e9, and welcome Adrian!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can follow Adrian on Twitter at\u00a0@adrianlovett<\/a>\u00a0and follow the Web Foundation at\u00a0@webfoundation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post is originally published by the Web Foundation. Today, we\u2019re excited to welcome Adrian Lovett to the team as he joins as our new President & CEO. Adrian brings 20 years of experience working in international development and advocacy, delivering policy change on complex global issues in the Global South, North America and Europe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,280,175,182],"tags":[544,545,546,212],"class_list":{"0":"post-1989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-id","8":"category-press-release-id","9":"category-uncategorized-id","10":"category-web-foundation-id","11":"tag-adrian-lovett-id","12":"tag-ceo-id","13":"tag-management-id","14":"tag-web-foundation-2-id","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}