Crossing the ‘Last Mile’: Delivery Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
Speakers
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Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Aung Din has engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar. She lived and worked in Mississippi, Cambodia and Indonesia, and holds a MA from Harvard University in public policy and development economics. She received social entrepreneurship awards from the Schwab Foundation (World Economic Forum) and the Skoll Foundation. Proximity designs and delivers new and critical low-carbon farm products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and disease, save irrigation water and grow food in more productive and sustainable ways. Products and services support regenerative farming while boosting farm incomes by USD 250 annually. Since 2004, its services have spanned over 10,000 villages in Myanmar, enabling 5 million people to grow their farm enterprises and afford food, healthcare and education for their families.
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President Bayer Group Greater China, Bayer Thai Co Limited
Since 1 September 2014, Celina Chew has been the President of Bayer Group Greater China and Chairman of Bayer (China) Limited.
She joined the Bayer Greater China Legal Department in 1997 and assumed the posi¬tion of Head of Legal for Bayer in Greater China in 1998. Prior to her assignment at Bayer, she spent 8 years working as a lawyer at international law firms.
During her term as Head of Legal from 1998 to 2011, Celina Chew provided legal support to the Bayer Group of companies in relation to investments and operations in Greater China, and was also a member of the Bayer (China) Ltd. Corporate Manage¬ment Team where she had special responsibility for additional topics such as Sustainabil¬ity. In this period, Celina was also a member of the Bayer China Country Council. In July 2011, Celina took over the position of Country Group Head for Bayer Group in the North ASEAN Region and Managing Director of Bayer Thai Co. Ltd, as well as Head of Bayer MaterialScience for North ASEAN Region. In this role, she was responsible for Bayer’s operations in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
Celina holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) degree from the University of Western Aus¬tralia and a Masters of Laws (Distinction) degree from the University of Hong Kong.
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Jordan Kassalow is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of VisionSpring, the co-founder of EYElliance, and a Partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates. Jordan also founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo New York. Prior to his position at the Council, he served as Director of the River Blindness Division at Helen Keller International. Jordan is a fellow of Draper Richards Kaplan, Skoll, Ashoka, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was named one of Schwab Foundation’s 2012 Social Entrepreneurs, was the inaugural winner of the John P. McNulty Prize, and was recognized in Forbes Impact 30. VisionSpring has been internationally recognized by the Skoll Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the World Bank; is a three-time winner of Fast-Company's Social Capitalist Award; and a winner of Duke University’s Enterprising Social Innovation Award. Additionally, he co-authored Dare
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Global Program Leader, Technology Solutions Global Program, PATH
Dr. Anurag Mairal is Program Leader, Technology Solutions Global Program at PATH. Dr. Mairal provides strategic leadership and technical guidance to projects that focus on technologies for diagnostics; maternal, neonatal and reproductive health; water and sanitation; health management information systems; and vaccines and immunisations. He holds the following degrees: MBA, University of California, Berkeley; PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder; MS, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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Deputy Director of Communications, McKinsey & Company
Andrew Whitehouse is Deputy Director of Communications for McKinsey & Company, where he oversees engagement with a wide range of constituents and stakeholders, and helps lead the firm’s communications and publishing activity. Previously, he was a UK government official, leading teams in the Prime Minister’s Social Exclusion Unit and the Department of Health. He is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a trustee of the education organisation, SAPERE. Andrew is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Christ Church, University of Oxford.
