On Monday March 8, 2010, Mr. Genesis G. Tinshu was contacted by the US Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon and informed that he had been selected for the very prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

The IVLP is the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program.  Launched in 1940, the IVLP is a professional exchange program that seeks to build mutual understanding between the U.S. and other nations through carefully designed short-term visits to the U.S. for current and emerging foreign leaders.  These visits reflect the International Visitors’ professional interests and support the foreign policy goals of the United States. More at http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/ivlp.html

Notable International Visitor Leadership Program alumni include people like:

• Gorden Brown, Prime Minister of Britain
• Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
• Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
• Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
• Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• Laurent Gbagbo, President of Cote d’Ivoir
• Pratibha Patil, President of India
• Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico
• Tabare Vazquez, President of Uruguay,
• Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan
• Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister, Sweden

…just to mention a few of some of the notable alumni. You can see a list of these and other Chiefs of State and Current Heads of Government who are International Visitor Leadership Program Alumni on this page: http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/alumni.html

Mr. Genesis was selected in recognition of his outstanding leadership and impact that Helps International (HINT), an NGO that he founded in 2003 has made in the South West Region of the country and nationally too.

If you would like to contact Mr. Genesis Tinshu to congratulate him on his selection, his email address is genesis@hintonline.org