Oren Ginzburg is a French-Israeli writer. He was the director of the Access to Health Fund inYangon,Myanmar and is now the UNOPS director of business and digital transformation in Copenhagen. He has written several books, includingThere You Go!.
Ginzburg studied law in Grenoble and then attended theÉcole supérieure de commerce in Paris.[1]
Ginzburg worked for a decade atSave the Children and then joined theGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. As of 2018, he was directing the Three Millennium Development Goal (3MDG) Fund inMyanmar and living inYangon.[1] He then became director of the Access to Health Fund, a project aimed at improving healthcare in Myanmar.[2] This followed on from 3MDG.[3]
Ginzburg is also a writer and cartoonist. His bookThere You Go!, was published bySurvival International. It concerns officials who intend to bring sustainable development to an unnamed tribe, but only bring them misery.[4] Christine Hogan writes "In There You Go!, Ginzburg challenges the arrogant assumption that Westerners can teach 'sustainable development' to tribal people by introducing (imposing) impractical and short-sighted 'income-generating' projects which ultimately lead to economic collapse of the environment or bare-faced theft of mineral, timber, and other resources by companies from the outside."[5] It was later adapted into a two minute film.[6]
The Hungry Man (2004) "follows an unnamed and earnest-faced bespectacled male development worker teaching the eponymous hungry man how to improve his lot" ("The Power of Good Satire", The Fiji Times 2022 ).
Le destin (presque) timbré d'Etienne Durillon (2016) was reviewed inLibération and was awarded the Deutsch-Französischer Jugendliteraturpreis in 2018.[7][8]
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