Kumi Naidoo to 2008, he was the Secretary General and chief executive officer of Johannesburg-based Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, which is dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. He also served as the founding chairperson of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. Kumi Naidoo joined Greenpeace in 2009. He had been persuaded by his daughter Naomi to take on the role. Greenpeace's commitment to direct action and civil disobedience was what attracted Naidoo to the organisation. Naidoo saw his role as the executive director of Greenpeace as that of an alliance builder and an agent
King's Group King's College school) to be able to study abroad for an academic year or attend a summer camp to learn English. In 2007, a third school in Madrid was purpose-built on the new development of land in the residential area of La Moraleja in Madrid. In the same year the sixth school was added to Group, and the second in the south of Spain. In 2009, the Group celebrated its 40th anniversary, which was shortly followed in September 2012 by the opening of the seventh school in the network. While opening King's College, The British School of Panama, the Group