Ophelia Dahl

Judge + Counsel

Female

Born May 12, 1964

Age 49

Other Names 'Minnie'

Ophelia Magdalena Dahl is an Anglo-American social justice and health care advocate. As of January 2008, Dahl is the president and executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit health care organization dedicated… Read More

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Her Father's Tales
Wall Street Journal - Apr 04, 2013

'Story time was special when you were a child of author Roald Dahl. A Cultural Conversation with Ophelia Dahl, whose father wrote such classic books as "Matilda," the musical adaptation of which opens on Broadway April 11.'
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Getting Life Off The Page And Into The Reader's Imagination: An Interview With ... Dowser
Google News - May 11, 2011

'I remember once the book was done having a conversation with [Partners in Health Executive Director] Ophelia Dahl about how I needed to be careful not to seem too partial. And then after the book was done, I thought, really, why was that?'
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Office Space: The Boss; Imagine Big, Start Small
NYTimes - Jun 11, 2006

'I HAD extraordinary parents, Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, who were both adventurous, and that filtered down to me. My father went off exploring as a teenager, and my mother left her Southern town to pursue acting. I decided to leave my idyllic childhood in the English countryside to go to Haiti at age 18. Before that, I had always thought I wanted'
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Cash Collectors For Kerry Race Run The Gamut
NYTimes - Aug 16, 2004

'Behind the story of John Kerry''s extraordinary turnabout -- one that catapulted him out of debt into becoming the best-financed presidential challenger in campaign history -- are people like Bobby Savoie. A New Orleans executive and nuclear waste expert, Mr. Savoie began raising money for Mr. Kerry after Richard A. Gephardt, whom Mr. Savoie counts'
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1964 Birth Born on May 12, 1964.

THIRTIES

2003 39 Years Old Dahl is the daughter 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, and is currently writing a memoir of her father. … Read More

FORTIES

2006 42 Years Old Dahl graduated from Wellesley College as a Davis Scholar and delivered Wellesley's 2006 commencement address.

2008 44 Years Old As of January 2008, Dahl is the president and executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor." … Read More

2010 46 Years Old This was mainly due to her and the charity's response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. … Read More

2011 47 Years Old In 2011, she was named by the Boston Globe as one of the three Bostonians of the Year, along with her Partners in Health co-founder, Paul Farmer and a senior member of Partners in Health, Louise Ivers.

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