SANTA FE, NM, November 23, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Diana MacArthur has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mrs. MacArthur's professional and volunteer lives have, over the years, taken parallel paths, each reinforcing the other. She was Co-founder, Chair, and CEO of Dynamac International Inc.; CEO, Research Analysis and Management Corp.; President, Consumer Dynamics, Inc.; Program Manager, Space Division, General Electric; Vice President, Thomas J. Deegan Co. (a public relations firm in the InterPublic group); and Director, Office of Private and International Organizations, the Peace Corps. She has served as a consultant to Westinghouse, Eastman Kodak, Lever Brothers, the Hearst Corporation, the National Youth Conference on Natural Beauty and Conservation, and the National Recreation and Park Association.
Complementing her professional accomplishments, Mrs. MacArthur was a member of or served on the boards of various organizations in the realms of public policy, science, education, and business. These include the following: President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology; Citizen's Advisory Board, President's Council on Youth Opportunity; Center for Strategic and International Studies; University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Chancellor's Advisory Council, University System of Maryland; Tech Council of Maryland; Council on Competitiveness; Business-Higher Education Forum; Atlantic Council; Santa Fe Institute; Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation; Science and Technology Corp., University of New Mexico; Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; Menninger-Baylor College of Medicine-The Methodist Hospital Foundation; Business Advisory Committee, Center for China-U.S. Cooperation, University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies.
Now retired and drawing on her wealth of experience, Mrs. MacArthur has embarked on a project in one of the most beautiful and daunting regions of the world, the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan. On a visit to the village of MurtazaAbad, she was asked for help in constructing a building for the local school, and she agreed because her daughter had taught there. Mrs. MacArthur is now undertaking a remarkable effort to build a Center for Educational Excellence along the newly developed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, bringing modernity to a small but economically and strategically important area of the world.
She serves as the principal donor and volunteer project director of the Center, working with the local community and its representative, the Al-Murtaza Educational and Social Welfare Organization. The Center's co-ed primary/secondary schools, now under construction, will be housed in a state-of-the art, earthquake-resistant, high-tech school building, and will provide low-cost education, without discrimination based on religion, gender, ethnicity, or social status. Because a school is more than a building, the outstanding educational precepts of the Aga Khan Educational Network are being followed, and emphasis is being placed on teacher training, curriculum development, parental involvement, and efficient management and administration. Working closely with local families, Mrs. MacArthur has successfully encouraged the bringing together of the Ismaili, Shia, and Sunni Muslim communities, with the goal of providing an outstanding education to the children of the region and creating a vital civil society. Mrs. MacArthur's contributions, in time, expertise, and funding, demonstrate just how much she cares about the world and its citizens, especially children.
Mrs. MacArthur has been recognized through features in Who's Who in Finance and Business, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.
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