The institute promises to help managers turn bold ideas into practical actions. Former British Prime Minister Blair praises Marin as brave and practical.
The former prime minister Sanna Marini (sd.) future employer The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) is an organization founded by and named after the former British Prime Minister.
According to its website, the overarching goal of the organization, which acts as an advisor to governments and political leaders, is to build a better future and bring about change.
The Tony Blair Institute promises to help political leaders turn bold ideas into practical action. The institute announces that it operates in more than 30 countries, it has more than 50 partners and more than 750 employees.
The personnel includes, for example, professionals in politics, technology and planning. Marin will move into a very international group, as the Tony Blair Institute has employees from more than 50 countries and more than 45 languages spoken.
According to the organization’s ideology, the biggest opportunity for change for governments is the development of technology – the technological revolution. According to the institute, technology brings numerous opportunities for, among other things, the organization of public services.
The institute says it provides tools for governments and politicians to build more open, inclusive and prosperous societies around the world. The institute has projects related to this, such as bringing about digital change in Africa.
In addition to Africa, the institute has influenced the Middle East peace process, for example.
The organization also works on extremism and against populism.
In 2018, TBI was reported to have received funding from Saudi Arabia, which the institute later confirmed.
Blair praises Sanna Marini effusively in the announcement
According to its own description, the organization is politically non-committal, but its activities are said to be strongly based on the Labor Party, which served as British Prime Minister from 2007 to 2017 Tony Blair’s to ideology.
Marin, a social democrat, therefore moves to the service of her brother-in-law.
Marin starts at the institute as a strategic advisor. He will work in various projects and in several countries.
In the bulletin Tony Blair says that Marin knows how to help political leaders in change projects. Blair praises Marin as brave and practical.
– Marin understands the importance of technology and is able to help in the development of more efficient and citizen-friendly societies, Blair continues in the press release.
Tony Blair in brief
70-year-old Tony Blair served as British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007. When he took office, he was Britain’s youngest prime minister of the 20th century.
Blair was chairman of the Labor Party from 1994 to 2007. The man who graduated from the Faculty of Law at Oxford University was elected to the British Parliament in 1983.
During his three terms as president, Blair took the Labor Party politically to the left.
Blair’s second term as prime minister was particularly difficult. He argued with the former chairman of the Labor Party Gordon Brown’s with. In 2002-2003, Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq.
Blair is remembered for the uproar related to the Iraq war. In 2015, Blair apologized for the mistakes of the Iraq war and admitted that the war was started with insufficient intelligence.
Critics say Blair rejected the principles of the Labor Party. According to supporters, he dared to take risks even at the expense of popularity.
After his term as prime minister, Blair has worked as the UN’s Middle East envoy, among other things.
Last year in Britain there was a demand to strip Blair of his knighthood. The petition gathered more than a million signatures in less than a week.
In addition to the institute that bears his name, Tony Blair has founded a foundation aimed at mutual understanding of religions in 2008.