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John Weakliam
Chief Executive Officer
Vita
Presentation
John has a financial education and initial career before working with HSBC in Eritrea where he established bank training programmes and completed a master’s degree on Financing for Eritrean Firms. John set up the Vita programme in Eritrea in 2000 and travelled to Ethiopia to establish Vita’s first programmes there in 2005. He returned to Ireland in 2007 and has been CEO of Vita since 2008. John focuses on developing next generation models of development such as the Irish Potato Coalition which was set up in 2014 and the Vita Green Impact Fund which was launched in 2016. John is married with five children, while enjoying languages as well as a tune on the guitar.
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