{"id":1473,"date":"2012-09-07T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2012-09-10T17:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:41:57","slug":"kent-mba-alumni-paralympic-torchbearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/09\/kent-mba-alumni-paralympic-torchbearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent MBA Alumni &#8211; Paralympic Torchbearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kush Kanodia is the Director of Accounts\/Fund Raising with Choice International, an international NGO addressing issues of discrimination and inequality throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>A Kent MBA alumni, Kush had the pleasure to be a Paralympic Torchbearer.<\/p>\n<p>Kush said of his experience:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful honour to carry the Paralympic Torch and is a great privilege to be in a team with such accomplished and extraordinary individuals. It&#8217;s also rewarding to know that tireless dedication to Disability Rights can be recognised.<\/p>\n<p>I was born in London and to have this honour in London 2012 is truly special. To carry the Paralympic torch is even a greater honour to me than for the Olympics, as Paralympic athletes have the added challenge of competing with a disability. Hopefully this will now stem the rise in disability hate crime, as we as a nation honour our new Great British Paralympic Heroes. Who have now even surpassed our London 2012 Olympic Champions!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we can now begin to fulfil our legacy and Inspire A Generation and keep our Spirit In Motion&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kush has an MBA, with Distinction, from Kent Business School and was a graduate of the Scope Leadership Programme. Kush has helped pioneer and develop best practices in equality and diversity for a number of large multinational organisations including Lehman Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Kush has also gained significant experience in both management and leadership whilst being the team leader for the European data operations for Morgan Stanley Capital International.<\/p>\n<p>He also has a special interest in international business and development and has gained first hand expertise in the emerging economies of India and China through his work and study in these respective countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kush Kanodia is the Director of Accounts\/Fund Raising with Choice International, an international NGO addressing issues of discrimination and inequality throughout the world. A Kent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/09\/kent-mba-alumni-paralympic-torchbearer\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2299,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,9889,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}