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Jon Shepard

Chief Strategy & Operations Officer of EmergentGlobal Development Incubator

Biography

Jon is a director at the Global Development Incubator. GDI is a non-profit incubator of ground-breaking ideas that can reach impact at scale. GDI stays with partners through the long haul, helping with their biggest strategic decisions and the details of execution to help them build their ventures better and faster.

Jon is seconded from GDI to Emergent, a non-profit set up by the government of Norway, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation to catalyse private sector funding for protection of the earth's irreplaceable tropical forests.

Previously, Jon set up and led a global non-profit unit within EY that supported leading social entrepreneurs in low/middle-income countries, helping them build more resilient and scalable businesses.