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Ted Rogers School Management Toronto Ryerson University and Global Diversity Exchange

Maytree Foundation: The GDX, as she calls it, will do research and exchange information about diversity and the inclusion of immigrants and visible minorities – not just in Canada but all over the world, according to Globe and Mail. It is essentially a think-and-do tank, Ms. After years of running the poverty-fighting Maytree Foundation, last fall she was named head of the new Global Diversity Exchange housed at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Ryerson University. Omidvar, 65, tells me over lunch at one of Toronto best Chinese restaurants – Lai Wah Heen. While national governments function as the gatekeepers for immigration – letting people in or keeping them out – it is local efforts, usually at the city level, that make the difference in getting immigrants to prosper, she said. As we tuck into the dim sum, she talks about how the GDX will tap into the great minds who have studied immigration and settlement, while sharing concrete strategies and experiences that have worked effectively. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.