All aboard. This session will set out the spectrum of opportunities for social investing and leading efforts to forge the way. As such, it will examine new investment instruments, new strategies and the ways philanthropists and social investors can work together. It will begin to explore some of the differences and shared learning from working in developed and emerging economies and ask how these innovations are really making a difference. This session provides a structure for thinking about the landscape of finance for change and is designed to contextualise the breakout sessions that follow.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
09:30 - 10:45, Thursday, March 30, 2006 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerSenior Fellow, Generation FoundationJed Emerson is a Senior Fellow Generation Foundation, of Generation Investment Management (London/Washington, D.C.). From 2001 to 2004 he was Senior Fellow with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a Lecturer in Business at Stanford…
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SpeakerPresident and COO, Omidyar NetworkMr. Paroo's expertise lies in complex health care systems, academic health care institutions, technology companies, and venture-funded startups. He specializes in business turnarounds, transition management of academic health care centers, market strategy formulation and execution, and…
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SpeakerIndependent Consultant,David is an independent consultant working with charities, companies and the government on the funding and governance of charities and social enterprises. He has worked within the Association of Charitable Foundations and with individual Trusts and Foundations on the development of…
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SpeakerFounder & CEO, AshokaBill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka’s over 4,000 leading social entrepreneurs, “Ashoka Fellows,” operate in 100+ countries to create an “everyone a changemaker” world. Working in fields like health and human rights, three-quarters of…
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Speaker, RBS/NatwestAndrew is a key member of a cross-RBS group team responsible for re-thinking the provision of financial services for those not well served by the UK banking industry. The current emphasis of his work is enterprise in the 5% 'most disadvantaged' wards in the UK. He is currently a director of a…
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SpeakerFounder & CEO, AcumenJacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen. Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies and leaders with character, competence and moral leadership. Acumen invests pioneering philanthropic capital in sustainable businesses addressing the toughest…