Singaporean Tan Chade-Meng, known affectionately as Meng and officially as Google's Jolly Good Fellow, is part of a team that's been nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
Tan is one of the chairpersons for a campaign trying to inspire one billion acts of peace worldwide in five years.
Called One Billion Acts of Peace, the project is also chaired by the PeaceJam Foundation's Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff and works with 13 Nobel laureates.
The nomination was conveyed to the team in a letter signed by six Nobel laureates: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Betty Williams, Leymah Gbowee, President Oscar Arias and Rigoberta Menchu Tum.
Tan wrote in a blog post yesterday (Jan. 8), "At first I was a little shell-shocked (in a good way). Then I was over the moon. After that the weight of the responsibility sunk in.""Wow. I work with a wonderful team of more than 100 committed individuals doing amazing, Nobel-Prize-worthy work, and I get to pretend to be their leader. I'm immensely humbled by the team. I will try my best not to mess this one up (more than usual, I mean)."
In his post, the New York Times best-selling author also appealed to corporate partners to join the cause."One Billion Acts of Peace needs you, my friends," he said, before revealing how interested parties can make contact with the team, particularly Engle (dawn@peacejam.org), who's in Tan's words "been personally nominated 14 times for the Nobel Peace Prize, probably a world record of some sort".
You can read the nomination letter on Tan's blog, Mengstupiditis.
Photo: Meng's Little Space
Singaporean Tan Chade-Meng, known affectionately as Meng and officially as Google's Jolly Good Fellow, is part of a team that's been nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
Tan is one of the chairpersons for a campaign trying to inspire one billion acts of peace worldwide in five years.
Called One Billion Acts of Peace, the project is also chaired by the PeaceJam Foundation's Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff and works with 13 Nobel laureates.
The nomination was conveyed to the team in a letter signed by six Nobel laureates: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Betty Williams, Leymah Gbowee, President Oscar Arias and Rigoberta Menchu Tum.
Tan wrote in a blog post yesterday (Jan. 8), "At first I was a little shell-shocked (in a good way). Then I was over the moon. After that the weight of the responsibility sunk in.""Wow. I work with a wonderful team of more than 100 committed individuals doing amazing, Nobel-Prize-worthy work, and I get to pretend to be their leader. I'm immensely humbled by the team. I will try my best not to mess this one up (more than usual, I mean)."
In his post, the New York Times best-selling author also appealed to corporate partners to join the cause."One Billion Acts of Peace needs you, my friends," he said, before revealing how interested parties can make contact with the team, particularly Engle (dawn@peacejam.org), who's in Tan's words "been personally nominated 14 times for the Nobel Peace Prize, probably a world record of some sort".
You can read the nomination letter on Tan's blog, Mengstupiditis.
Photo: Meng's Little Space