The Dark Side of M&E

Speakers

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  Carlos Miranda

  Chief Executive, I.G. Advisors

  Carlos is the Founder and CEO of I.G. Advisors, a strategy consultancy working for the social impact space. I.G. focuses on providing philanthropy, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and fundraising consultancy. I.G.’s clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Old Vic, the Guardian Media Group, Riders for Health, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Carlos is also the Founder of Social Misfits Media, I.G.'s sister company. Social Misfits Media advices charities and social enterprises on how best to use social media to interact with those critical to their success. Social Misfits creates dynamic social media strategies for marketing, campaigning, and fundraising purposes. The company also publishes widely used guides to social media. He is a Trustee of Vital Regeneration (a charity working to improve the lives of people living in some of London's most disadvantaged communities) and of the H Club Foundation (the corporate foundation of the Hospital Club, a private members club in London). Carlos is also a member of the Guardian's Voluntary Sector Network Advisory Panel and of the London Children's Museum Digital Advisory Group.

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  Martin Fisher

  Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KickStart International

  As a pioneer in using business models to solve poverty, Martin is the co-founder & CEO of KickStart, a non-profit SE with a mission to enable millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to pivot from rainfed to irrigated farming, earn a lot more money, adapt-to-climate-change & climb out of poverty. KickStart designs & promotes lowest-cost irrigation technologies & to-date over 390,000 farmers have used its pumps to grow, harvest & sell high-value crops year-round, independent of rains. Their highly profitable & resilient farms have lifted 1.5M people out of poverty. With almost no irrigation in SSA, millions more can irrigate & gain income & food security. KickStart partners with hundreds of organizations to promote irrigation, develop new technologies, innovate new ways to reach & finance farmers, & advocate for system changes. With a Cornell BSc, a Stanford MSc & PhD, a Fulbright in Kenya, and many awards, Martin is a Skoll & Schwab SE & a Stanford Engineering Hero.

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  Ehren Reed

  -, Individual

  As Director of Analysis & Insight for the Skoll Foundation, Ehren Reed is responsible for assessing the impact and effectiveness of the foundation’s efforts in order to support ongoing learning and evidence-based decision making. He was previously a Director of Innovation Network, a Washington, DC-based evaluation consulting firm. He brings over ten years of experience managing research and evaluation projects for grantmakers and grantees in the fields of human services, human rights, and advocacy. He is a diehard promoter of evaluation use and a firm believer in the power of evaluation and learning as a support for effective strategy. He speaks frequently on emerging trends in evaluation and has presented at many sector conferences including Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Council on Foundations, Grantmakers in Health, the American Evaluation Association, and the Communications Network. Ehren earned both a B.A. and M.S. in Education from the University of Connecticut. He is an avid fan of craft beers and Nationals baseball, especially when combined.

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  Andrea Coleman

  Founder and board, Riders for Health

  Andrea Coleman is co-founder of Riders for Health and founder of Two Wheels for Life. She is life-long motorcyclist and co-founded Riders with Barry Coleman, her husband, and motorcycle sporting hero, Randy Mamola in 1996. She has worked for 30 years to show that a systematic approach to managing motorcycles and motorised vehicles in Africa means health care can be delivered – predictably and reliably, however harsh the conditions or however remote the community - money saved and people employed and trained to a very high standard. Andrea’s motorcycle racing life and her work in promotion and sports management provided her with a practical outlook and a set of skills that have helped to guide the financial and advocacy development of the work of Riders for Health. In 2013 Andrea won the Women of the Year Award, sponsored by Barclays Bank for her part in revolutionising medical provision across Africa. In 2006 she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award. Andrea was select

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