Humanitarian
Emily advises the Greater Share Foundation Innovative Private Equity Fund of Funds Chairman Paul Fletcher.
The Greater Share Project
is a PE Fund of Funds for HNW investors investing $100,000 per year for 5 years where the principal is returned and 50% of the gains. The remaining 50% (tax-deductible in the US/UK) goes to hand-selected global educational charities that can deliver impact projects. Major firms have donated people and resources, and the PE firms are donating their carry and interest. Emily has been assisting in finding potential investors and organizations where Greater Share can share its message of an impactful and sustainable funding model for charities while investors get to enter the Private Equity world of investing with significant returns as well as a philanthropic kicker with significant value for the charities.
Emily serves as Ambassador for Taki Mundo Swiss/Mexican charity school for the Deaf in Uruapan/Michoacan, Mexico
Emily has served since 2016 as an Ambassador to Taki Mundo – a Swiss and Mexican charity that serves underprivileged children with hearing disabilities in the province of Michoacán, Mexico. She became an Ambassador because her mother was a high school administrator of the hearing impaired program in suburban Chicago and she grew up surrounded by the deaf community. The Ambassadors include her friend from Citibank, Linda Walker, who is serving as the Zurich Honorary Counsel to Mexico and her partner Tim McCue – a commercial general contractor. In 2023 they are working to raise $2.5 million to build a permanent school for the children. Emily also attended the Taki Mundo Charity Event in Mexico.
Emily serves on the Board of the Cross Sector Security & Communications Charity (CSSC)
Emily assisted in the establishment of the CSSC in June 2011 as a unique partnership between the London Police Services, the Home Office, London First, and business sector groups that developed a communications structure which was implemented in the run-up to the London 2012 games and continued afterwards as a lasting enhancement to safety and security in London. Its aim is to ensure that businesses factor safety and security into their day-to-day operations and can be kept abreast of relevant safety and security activity and how it might affect them. The Charity registered in the fall of 2013 will provide the corporate governing structure to manage the communications hub that distributes official information related to public safety to businesses representing over 8 million people across the UK.
Transforming Private-Public Sector Cooperation to Improve Humanitarian Disaster Response
As a Managing Director with Citigroup, Emily Landis Walker was asked by senior management of Citi’s Corporate and Investment Bank to find a way for Global Banking to assist in the relief effort following the unprecedented tsunami of December of 2004. Emily Landis Walker was dispatched to the Citi corporate offices in Bangkok, Thailand, where she oversaw Citi’s initial response to the crisis. At Emily Walker’s request, Citi provided office space for staff and representatives of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to establish a center for operations and communications and collaborated closely throughout the response.
Citigroup Partnership with the World Food Programme
Following the crisis, Emily Landis Walker requested a one-year secondment to the WFP global headquarters in Rome, Italy to develop improved methods for preparedness that would save precious time and resources in the face of future humanitarian crises. She participated in WFP Field Missions to Kuala Lumpur, Uganda, Dubai, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa, among others.
Transforming Private-Public Sector Cooperation to Improve Humanitarian Disaster Response
As a Managing Director with Citigroup, Emily Landis Walker was asked by senior management of Citi’s Corporate and Investment Bank to find a way for Global Banking to assist in the relief effort following the unprecedented tsunami of December of 2004. Emily Landis Walker was dispatched to the Citi corporate offices in Bangkok, Thailand, where she oversaw Citi’s initial response to the crisis. At Emily Walker’s request, Citi provided office space for staff and representatives of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to establish a center for operations and communications and collaborated closely throughout the response.
Creating a Global Emergency Network
Drawing on her experiences with the 9-11 Commission and working knowledge of WFP operations, Emily Landis Walker conceived and developed, The Emergency Network. This pre-planned response mechanism for corporations to donate goods, services and funding to the WFP prior to disasters established new operational models and unprecedented partnership between global industry and humanitarian organizations. Emily Landis Walker oversaw the global launch of The Emergency Network at the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Citi has subsequently launched additional significant programmes in conjunction with this WFP partnership. Emily Landis Walker continues to act as an outspoken advocate for strong public-private sector partnership in humanitarian relief.
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