皮特Ondeng
经济发展战略家和作家
皮特Ondeng is a Kenyan-based economic development practitioner, 作者, 演讲者和曾经的总统候选人. He has served in very significant leadership roles with a range of private, 公营及非牟利机构.
Ondeng graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Business 政府 degree in accounting. Before returning to his native Kenya, he also earned his Certified Public Accountant credentials.
1959年出生于肯尼亚, 他就读于裂谷学院, a Christian boarding school operated by American missionaries. 在他十年级快结束的时候, he encountered a heart-breaking tragedy that God would later use to enable him to travel to the United States for his college education. 他儿时最亲密的朋友, 克拉克惠特森, was involved in an accident and died while in the United States with his family. In an unexpected twist, Clark’s parents resolved to “adopt” Ondeng into their family. 为了纪念他们已故的儿子, the family undertook to sponsor Ondeng through four years of university education in America. Both Ondeng and Hardin-Simmons University were immeasurably blessed by the Whitsons’ beneficent and generous act resulting in God’s marvellous provision.
从HSU毕业后, Ondeng moved to Dallas where he began his professional career as an accountant with the McDonald’s Corporation. He was later promoted to Internal Auditor and transferred to the company’s corporate headquarters in Chicago. 三年后, he accepted an attractive offer to join the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Senior Financial Analyst at the organization’s Nairobi office. During that time, he 作者ed and self-published his first book, entitled 如何开始自己的小生意. The book was well received, with sales of more than 25,000 copies in its first three years.
In 1990, 皮特Ondeng married May, a communications specialist and childhood friend. They have been blessed with two sons, both of whom are working in Nairobi.
Ondeng has traveled widely and has carried out short and long-term assignments in more than 20 countries. 在他的一次国际任务中, he was stationed in the Netherlands serving as Africa Director for an international impact investment organization. He was subsequently offered a high profile, public assignment by the then-President of Kenya. That assignment put him in direct contact with heads of state and governments across the Continent. In the midst of this work, he published his second book, entitled 非洲的时刻, a highly personal reflection on the challenges and hopes of Africa through the eyes of a “globalized” African.
如今，Ondeng是the 引领非洲基金会, a leadership think tank which also provides training for emerging leaders at all levels of society. 作为一个战略家, 他曾为政界提供建议和支持, corporate and organizational leaders across a range of sectors and organizations. 通过这些约定, he has contributed to shaping public opinion on a wide range of social, economic and political topics across the vast continent of Africa.
In 2017, 当时正值肯尼亚分裂的选举季, Ondeng was challenged to consider offering himself for elective office. 经过几个月的考虑, 协商与祷告, he declared his candidacy for the office of President of Kenya. 在短暂的竞选活动之后, he withdrew his candidacy and accepted the role of leading the campaign of another independent presidential candidate with whom he shared values, 谁的候选资格更可行.
His brief foray into national politics served to strengthen his resolve to work toward making Africa a more positive, 和平与进步的地方. He draws his inspiration from the words of Jesus in Mark 9:23 – “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
For his impressive career accomplishments and for his faithful dedication to public service and leadership, 这是一个很高的荣誉，为HSU引进一个自己的, 皮特Ondeng, 进入中文博彩平台领袖堂.
