Next Steps On Prosocial Capital Market Development
Friday, March 31, 2006
Session Description
This capstone discussion, led by your questions, concludes the Forum with an opportunity to: review the major themes that have emerged; confirm priorities; and gain traction for your efforts to develop the capital environment social entrepreneurs need to drive social change.
Time & Location
Time:
12:15 - 13:15, Friday, March 31, 2006
BST
Speakers
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Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
After 26 years at The Economist, Matthew recently joined the Rockefeller Foundation to launch a new global institute. He is the coauthor of several books, including Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World. Co-founded the Social Progress Index and the #givingtuesday movement. Official report author, the G8 taskforce on social impact investment.
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Associate Director and manager , Rockefeller Foundation’s Program Venture Experiment
Jackie Khor is Associate Director and manager of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Program Venture Experiment (“ProVenEx”). ProVenEx is an investment fund within the Foundation that extends loan guarantees and makes program-related and private equity investments to catalyze private sector capital into underserved sectors and geographies. Jackie is responsible for making and managing ProVenEx investments and private sector partnerships in the following sectors that reflect the Foundation’s thematic programs: agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, global public health, inner city employment and community development in the US, and the arts and culture. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Jackie was Director of the New York City Partnership’s Employment Program. She was previously a Vice President in Lehman Brothers’ public finance investment banking unit in New York and San Francisco. She also worked in mergers and acquisitions consulting to the insurance industry. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management.
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Institute Director, Martin Prosperity Institute
In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers.
Roger Martin serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 25 Harvard Business Review articles.
Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Verizon.
A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.
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Partner, The Abraaj Group
Henry Obi is a Partner at Aureos Capital in London. Aureos Capital is a leading small and mid-cap private equity fund manager in the emerging markets with US$420m of funds under management. He is responsible for new investments, portfolio management and reporting activities in Africa and Central America.Prior to joining Aureos in 2002, Henry spent several years with CDC Capital Partners (now Actis) in a number of positions including managing the power loan portfolio in the Assets group and as a Senior Executive focussed on transactions in the Power Group. Before joining CDC, Henry worked in London for Dynegy, a US energy trader.Henry holds a BArch from Nottingham University and an MBA from London Business School.
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Director of Capital Studies, Milken Institute
Glenn Yago is Director of Capital Studies at the Milken Institute and a leading authority on financial innovations, capital markets, emerging markets and environmental finance. Yago is also a Senior Koret Knesset Fellow directing postgraduate research on economic and financial reform in Israel. He focuses on the innovative use of financial instruments to solve long-standing economic development, social and environmental challenges. His work has contributed to policy innovations fostering the democratization of capital to traditionally underserved markets and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and around the world
Prior to joining the Milken Institute, Yago served as a professor at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and City University of New York Graduate Center and has taught at Tel-Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center-Herzliya. He is the author of five books, including Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions (Kluwer) and Beyond Junk Bonds (Oxford University Press), and Co-Editor of the Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth (Springer). Yago created the Milken Institute’s Capital Access Index, an annual survey measuring access to capital for entrepreneurs across countries, and co-created the Opacity Index, measuring financial risks associated with corruption, legal, enforcement, accounting and regulatory practices internationally. His opinions appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. Yago earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
