Aid Agencies And Social Entrepreneurs: Natural Allies, New Bridges
Video Description
This session brings together senior staff working in development agencies that have engaged, or attempted to engage, directly with social entrepreneurs working in emerging markets. To what degree have these respective agencies facilitated the work of innovative social change agents working directly with the poor? What can be done to enhance the impact of these potentially powerful partnerships? The session will draw upon entrepreneurs in the audience who have engaged with international aid agencies.
Speakers
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Vice President, International Finance Corporation
Rachel Kyte is IFC’s Vice President, Business Advisory Services. IFC’s advisory work serves governments, industries, and companies. Ms. Kyte joined IFC in 2000. In 2004 she became Director for Environment and Social Development, where she introduced new sustainability performance standards and worked on energy efficiency finance, sustainable supply chains, labour practices and gender entrepreneurship.
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Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development
Nemat (Minouche) Shafik is Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development (DFID). She joined DFID in 2004 as DG for all country programmes. Previously, Minouche served as Vice President, Private Sector and Infrastructure, at the World Bank and in the senior management group of the IFC. She also taught at the Wharton Business Schooland at Georgetown University. She has a B.A. in Economics & Politics, an M.Sc. in Economics and a D.Phil. in Economics. She is married, has two children and three stepchildren.
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Presenter, BBC World News’ World Challenge
Leo Johnson, is the Presenter of BBC World News’ World Challenge programme which highlights the work of innovative grass-roots projects that benefit their local communities. Leo will be filming Skoll Awardees and entrepreneurs throughout the Forum. Follow Leo’s blog and watch a special Forum edition of BBC World Challenge on BBC World News in April.
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Executive Director, GTZ
Jörg Hartmann has been managing GTZ’s Centre for Cooperation with the Private Sector since 2004. On behalf of the German government, the Centre has initiated over 1000 partnerships with business in development cooperation. Integrating public and private sector perspectives Jörg chairs the German Global Compact Network and an advisory group on Germany’s national Corporate Responsibility strategy. Before joining GTZ, he held various positions at BASF. Jörg holds degrees from the Universities of Heidelberg, Germany and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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President & CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Elizabeth L. Littlefield was appointed by President Obama as the President and CEO of OPIC, an Under Secretary level position. OPIC, as the US Government’s Development Finance Institution, manages an $18 bn portfolio of financing and insurance to support private investment in sustainable economic development, especially in the world’s poorest countries. Under Littlefield’s leadership, OPIC’s annual commitments to renewable resources projects grew ten-fold in three years to $1.5 bn, while generating increasing income for the U.S. federal budget. Littlefield has also instituted major reforms of the agency’s policies, systems, and processes, and has introduced new financial innovations to augment the agency’s development impact.
From 2000 until 2010 Ms. Littlefield was CEO of CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a policy and research center housed at the World Bank dedicated to advancing poor people’s access to financial services. Prior to joining CGAP in 1999, Littlefield was JP Morgan’s Managing Director in charge of capital markets and financing in emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa, among other positions. Littlefield spent 1989-1990 in West and Central Africa consulting several start-up microfinance institutions. She is a graduate of Brown University and also attended Ecole Nationale de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
