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

  A pioneer in using business models to solve poverty, Martin co-founded KickStart (pka ApproTEC) in 1991—a non-profit SE with a mission to enable millions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to earn a lot more money & climb out of poverty. Since 2000, KickStart has designed & promoted lowest-cost irrigation tools that smallholders use to transform their farms into highly profitable businesses. Over 380,000 farmers have used KickStart’s pumps to grow & sell high value crops year-round, independent of rains, & to adapt-to-climate-change. Over 1.4M women, men & children have stepped out of poverty and with almost no irrigation in SSA, millions more can irrigate to gain income & food security. KickStart; works with multitudes of partners to promote irrigation in 17 countries; innovates new irrigation techs; & advocates for system changes to irrigate Africa. 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

  As a professional, I have worked in marketing, public relations, sports management and fundraising. I co-founded Riders for Health, together with my husband, Barry Coleman, in 1996. The organisation is now 26 years old and operating nationally in four countries, working with ministries of health and other health focussed entities. The programmes in Africa have been African led from the outset and my work and focus now is to give resource support for the African leadership and to seek, with them, ways to have their authentic voices heard about their valuable health systems operations at the established global health level. Together with two social entrepreneurs, Mel Young and Chris Underhill, we have founded the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurship.

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