World: changes at OM
Daniel Bullock
Date posted: 1 Oct 2013
On September 1, Lawrence Tong took over
as
the new
international director
of
Operation Mobilisation (OM). He succeeded Peter Maiden who retired from the role
after serving
for
ten years and George
Verwer who founded OM in 1957.
Everyone expects big changes when a new
leader takes the reins. So what can we expect
from Lawrence? For the first time the position of international director will be filled
with a non-Westerner, Lawrence
is
from
Singapore and with that he brings his own
certain Global South
flavour. Another
noticeable change, as Lawrence puts it, is
that there will be ‘an intentional emphasis on
the globalisation of OM — to make OM
more user-friendly for non-Westerners’.