Water Scarcity: Opening the Flow for Scale and Sustainability
Friday, April 1, 2011
Session Description
Access to water is increasingly recognised as a crucial roadblock to tackling development, education, publichealth, biodiversity, climate change and other massive social challenges. To solve water issues for the long term, social entrepreneurs must have access to sustainable financing and a favourable regulatory framework. Join us as we explore how social entrepreneurs can leverage appropriate finance mechanisms and new partnerships with governments to create innovative local solutions to water issues.
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Friday, April 1, 2011
BST
Speakers
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Global Head, Water, International Finance Corporation
Usha Rao-Monari is the Global Head of Water and Environment in the Infrastructure Department of International Finance Corporation (IFC). Since joining IFC she gained substantial experience in the Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Petrochemicals sectors worldwide. Rao-Monari was the Regional Manager for Manufacturing and Services for South Asia and Country Head for India, from 1998 to 2001 when she assumed her current responsibility in Washington, DC. Prior to joining IFC, she was a Vice President at Prudential-Bache Capital Funding.
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President, Pacific Institute
Dr. Gleick is co-founder and President of the highly regarded Pacific Institute in California and a global leader on water. His work addresses the ties between water and health, human rights, climate change, globalisation, and international conflicts. Dr. Gleick has received numerous awards, among them the prestigious MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, was named “a visionary” by the BBC, and “one of 15 people the next President should listen to” by Wired Magazine.
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CEO & President, Gram Vikas USA
Joe Madiath is the Founder and Chairman of Gram Vikas. Joe has spent over 45 years working in the field of development among the poorest communities in Orissa, India. Drawn to Odisha in 1971 to help communities that had been ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, Joe stayed on as an activist focused on sustainable development. Founded in 1979, Gram Vikas utilizes a holistic model of development, based on Joe’s conviction that every family in a village needs to have healthy living practices for an improved quality of life. Gram Vikas works in the areas of renewable energy, especially biogas and solar energy. Totally inclusive water and sanitation is the flagship programme of Gram Vikas. This model has transformed more than 1200 villages and has successfully proven that the rural poor can and will pay for better sanitation and water facilities.
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Founder, The Invitation
Writing a book on Ukraine, building an Invitation to starve child welfare of children and families who have no place in that system, and welcoming each day with a smile and a bit of light.
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Expert Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company Inc.
Dr. Boccaletti leads McKinsey’s work on water economics and is part of the leadership group of McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice, and of McKinsey’s Economic Development Initiative. He has published and spoken on carbon and water economics, the role of smart infrastructure in resource constrained economies, and in 2007 co-founded and has since led McKinsey’s Global Water Resources initiative.
