Presidents
Profile of Allan Jagger, President of RIBI 2007-2008.
The
Rotary Club of Elland
A Fabrication Engineer, Allan started his own company with his wife Rose in 1968. Allan has several business interests mainly in the mechanical engineering field. Believing in a strong UK manufacturing industry Allan has served for the past 20 years as a Director, the last 14 years as Chairman of charity that provides work based learning and education for young people in West Yorkshire.
Allan joined the Rotary Club of Elland in1983, and served as District Governor 1040 (the best part of Yorkshire) in 1999/2000. Totally committed to The Rotary Foundation Allan’s ambition is to encourage every Rotarian in RIBI to financially support their charity. Chairman of the RIBI Foundation Committee 2001-03, Rotary Regional Foundation Co-ordinator for 2001-3 and from 2001 to 2006 was the Host Area Co-ordinator at Bradford University for the Rotary Peace Centre. Allan was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 2003-04.
Allan has served RI as a past committee member and chairman, presently he serves on the RI Leadership Development and Training Committee, Rotary's US$100 Million Challenge Committee and was a RI Training Leader 2005 and 2006. Rose and Allan are Major Donors and members of The Bequest Society.
Allan and Rose have three married children and eight grandchildren. Rose is a Past President of the Inner Wheel Club of Elland. Allan enjoys Caravanning, learning computer skills, Gardening and Travel with Rose. Allan has been a lifelong supporter of the Scout Movement and is the President of the West Yorkshire County Scouts. Allan’s Achilles heel is that he is a fanatical supporter of Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Club.
President of Rotary International 2007-2008
Wilf Wilkinson
The Rotary Club of Trenton, Canada
This year's annual theme: "Rotary Shares"
WILFRID J. WILKINSON, Trenton, Ontario, Canada
President-elect, Rotary International, 2005-06
Chair, 2005 Convention Committee
Trustee, The Rotary Foundation, 1997-01 & 2002-2004
Director, Rotary International 1992-94
Vice President, Rotary International 1993-94
District Governor, 1971-72
Wilfrid J. Wilkinson has been a chartered accountant since 1958. He married Joan Hogan in 1953 and they have four sons. Wilf was a founding partner of Wilkinson & Company, a public accounting firm.
Mr. Wilkinson is a past-president of the Public Accountants Council – Province of Ontario, and a past Treasurer of both the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. He is also a member of the Institute of Charged Accountants of Quebec and the Royal Canadian Military Institute. He was chairman of the Trenton Memorial Hospital fundraising committee, was the founding chairman of the Belleville Cheshire Home for Physically Handicapped Adults, and has served as chairman of the Board for Loyalist College and as President of the District Council of the Boy Scouts of Canada. After retiring from accountancy, Wilf was the part-time Executive Director of the Quinte Ballet School of Canada.
A Rotarian since 1962, Mr. Wilkinson is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Trenton, Ontario. He has served as a Rotary volunteer on a measles immunization project in India. A past Rotary Director, Vice-president of the RI Board, Trustee of the Rotary Foundation and district governor, he has also been an International Assembly discussion leader, and a chairman and member of several committees.
As a member of the International PolioPlus Committee, Mr. Wilkinson was dedicated to the global effort to eradicate polio. Rotary’s PolioPlus program, launched in 1985, is an aggressive public/private partnership to assist international health agencies and governments to certify the world as polio-free. He was a Health, Hunger and Humanity Program volunteer to India and has visited that country for Rotary on seven occasions. He has also had Rotary assignments in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia and Pakistan as well as the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and many parts of the United States and Canada. He has served on numerous District and International committees as well as chairing several conferences including the 100th Anniversary Convention in Chicago. In 1997, he participated at the National Immunization Days in Kenya and Tanzania, in 1999 in the slums of New Delhi, India and in March 2002 administered polio drops to children of Afghan refugees in Pakistan as part of the Pakistan Afghan Refugee Project of 2001-2004.
