Ophelia Dahl

In 1983, Dahl first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen-year-old volunteer in Haiti. Dahl served as executive director of PIH from 2001 to 2005, and chairs its board of directors. The organisation continues to build health care systems and raise standards in global health in remote areas of the world. Since the development of PIH in 1987, the organisation has expanded its health care services around the planet. Under Dahl's leadership, PIH is strengthening the public health system for over 800,000 people in Rwanda. In Malawi, Mexico, Russia, and Lesotho, PIH works with the countries' respective ministries of health to fight diseases in certain rural areas. along with Paul Farmer and a senior member of Partners in Health, Louise Ivers. This was mainly due to Dahl's role in the charity's response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. to be given on 30 March 2011. In 2013, Dahl was a distinguished speaker at the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Williams College. == Personal life ==

Dahl was born on 12 May 1964, at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, United Kingdom. She is the second-youngest child of actress Patricia Neal and author Roald Dahl. Dahl contributed to the 2003 book The Roald Dahl Treasury, a collection of her father's stories, memoirs, letters and poetry. She is writing a memoir of her father. She is a trustee and vice president of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, a registered charity with the mission of "telling Roald Dahl's life story, to care for his archive and to promote a love of creative writing in everyone." She also is the chair of Dahl & Dahl LLP, which manages her father's literary estate. In 1994, Dahl graduated from Wellesley College as a Davis Scholar and delivered Wellesley's 2006 commencement address. Dahl has one son with her wife, Lisa Frantzis. ==References==