Ricken Patel
- January 6, 2024
- Human Rights Activist
Quick Facts
Full Name | Ricken Patel |
Occupation | Human Rights Activist |
Date Of Birth | Jan 8, 1977(1977-01-08) |
Age | 47 |
Birthplace | Edmonton |
Country | Canada |
Birth City | Alberta |
Horoscope | Capricorn |
Ricken Patel Biography
Name | Ricken Patel |
Birthday | Jan 8 |
Birth Year | 1977 |
Place Of Birth | Edmonton |
Home Town | Alberta |
Birth Country | Canada |
Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Ricken Patel is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on January 8, 1977 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Ricken Patel, born January 8, 1977, is the Canadian-British founder President and Executive Director at Avaaz. Avaaz is a global civic organization that has the largest online activist community in the world with more than 43 million subscribers.
Intelligent Life magazine’s May/June 2013 issue featured Patel on its cover. Patel was described by The Guardian as “the global leader in online protest” and a “vaunting optimism”.
Before founding Avaaz, Patel was the Executive Director of ResPublica. This global public entrepreneurship group worked, among others, to end the genocide in Darfur, and to build progressive globalism within US politics. ResPublica’s stated purpose was to promote good governance, civic virtue, and deliberative democracy. Patel was an American citizen while he was in the US. He joined the online group MoveOn.org and learned how to campaign online.
Ricken Patel Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Human Rights Activist |
House | Living in own house. |
Ricken Patel is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ricken Patel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Patel studied Philosophy Politics and Economics at Balliol College in Oxford. He was instrumental in organizing against tuition fees’ introduction in 1998. He was the first to graduate from his university and was active in student activism and student government leadership. He holds a Masters of Public Policy degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. There, he led the campus’ well-publicized Living Wage Campaign.
Patel created the online campaigning group Avaaz in 2007 with the stated goal of closing the “gap between the world that we have and what most people want”. Avaaz campaigns online on a variety of human rights and security issues. Avaaz has over 44 million members and its membership spans every country. Patel describes Avaaz to be a technology platform and community that “has only given voice to the global hunger for greater democracy.”
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Facts & Trivia
Ricken Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Ricken Patel celebrates birthday on January 8 of every year.