Lord Mark Price
Life peer, The Lord Price CVO, Baron Price of Sturminster Newton – also known as Mark began his career at The John Lewis Partnership. Working his way up from graduate trainee for 33 years to Waitrose’ Managing Director and then Deputy Chairman of The John Lewis Partnership. During this time Mark was also founding Chairman […]
Gib Bulloch
Through the Business Fights Poverty Challenge on Corporate Social Innovation we are focusing on how companies can develop systems that drive commercial innovation with social impact. That is, how they can help “intrapreneurs” – those pioneering people within companies – survive and thrive, and more broadly how they can embed an intrapreneurial culture. As part […]
Teodora Berkova
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Teodora Berkova, Director of Social Innovation, Pearson. Teodora talks about our Social Innovation Challenge, supported by Pearson, Barclays and CEMEX. The Challenge focuses on the question: What know-how do employees need to drive corporate social innovation?? A growing number of companies seek to develop […]
Julie Wallace
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Julie Wallace, Global Head, Community Engagement, Standard Chartered. This interview sets the scene for a new Challenge being run by Business Fights Poverty on Investing for Impact, supported by CDC, Standard Chartered and Shell. The Challenge focuses on the question: How can we further […]
Andrew Palmer
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Andrew Palmer, Stakeholder and Policy Manager, CDC, the UK’s Development Finance Institution. This interview sets the scene for a new Challenge being run by Business Fights Poverty on Investing for Impact, supported by CDC, Standard Chartered and Shell. The Challenge focuses on the question: […]
Tim Fort
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Tim Fort, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. This interview sets the scene for a new Challenge being run by Business Fights Poverty and Indiana University on Business and Peace. The Challenge focuses on the question: What role can […]
Jeric Sevilla, Manilla Water
Manila Water in the Philippines recently won The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. What do you think impressed the judges the most? The Company’s social focus on giving greater access to the low-income communities is a major motivation given the large percentage of urban poor communities in eastern Metro Manila. Technically, […]
Peter Roberts
Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Peter Roberts, Academic Director, Social Enterprise @ Goizueta at Emory University. Peter spearheads Goizueta’s Social Enterprise Initiative, which seeks to better understand how business principles and market-based solutions can be applied to address a range of important social issues. Much of his time is focused on […]
Breanna DiGiammarino
Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Breanna DiGiammarino Senior Director of Social Innovation at Indiegogo. Learn about Indiegogo’s story and why it was set-up. Hear about Breanna’s work and key campaigns such as the Kuli Kuli campaigns: first and second and the Blogger Humans of New York’s fundraiser: Let’s Help Fatima End […]
Brian Sullivan
As part of our focus on Business and the Sustainable Development Goals, we interviewed Brian Sullivan about the work he is doing at Google to tackle deforestation and overfishing. BFP: Tell us about your role at Google Brian: I am a Program Manager for Google Ocean & Earth Outreach, a team dedicated to leveraging and […]
Liisa Petrykowska
Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Liisa Petrykowska, Managing Director of Ignitia, a member of Business Call to Action. YTR: Ignitia helps small-scale farmers in West Africa to increase their yields by providing them with highly accurate weather forecasts straight to their mobile phones. Please tell us more about how Ignitia first […]
Terri Bresenham
Yvette Torres-Rahman, Director of Partnerships at Business Fights Poverty interviews Terri Bresenham CEO, GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, a Business Call to Action member company. YTR: You recently announced a plan to reach more than two million healthcare professionals worldwide by 2020. In what way are you going to be supporting these healthcare professionals? TB: We […]
David Auerbach and Ross McLean
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty interviews Ross McLean, President of Dow in Sub-Saharan Africa and David Auerbach, Co-Founder of Sanergy. Thanks to an introduction by Acumen, Sanergy who are tackling the sanitation crisis in Kenya have been able to work closely with Dow, a leading global chemical company. Sanergy collects […]
Peik Stenlund
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Peik Stenlund, Co-Founder and CEO of Pamoja Cleantech. Hear about how Pamoja Cleantech, a Business Call to Action member, was founded around the idea that by creating scalable and sustainable business solutions you can solve pressing environmental challenges. Pamoja Cleantech uses a biomass fuel […]
Chris Loxley and Tim Rump
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Chris Loxley, Open Innovation at Unilever R&D and Tim Rump, Marketing Director at d.light. Hear how Unilever, one of the largest consumer goods companies in the world, and d.light a social enterprise that offers distributed, affordable solar energy solutions for homes and businesses, came […]
Jon Shepard and Joe Shields
This Week Yvette Torres-Rahman interviews Joe Shields, Co-CEO of EthioChicken and Jon Shepard, the Global Director for Enterprise Growth Services at EY. EthioChicken is the only private company in Ethiopia focused exclusively on reaching smallholder farmers, and has created an innovative, economically viable, and replicable agent based distribution model to reach rural households. In 2015, […]
Jon Samuel
This week Yvette Torres- Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Jon Samuel, Group Head of Government and Social Affairs at Anglo American. The recent launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the UN General Assembly, will set the development agenda until 2030. Hear from Jon what he thinks the rational is for […]
Zelda Bentham
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnership Director at Business Fights Poverty, interviews Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability at Aviva plc. Aviva was the first insurance company to become carbon neutral nearly 10 years ago. Zelda recollects a speech by the Prince of Wales in which he challenged the insurance industry to be more proactive about […]
Bob Annibale
This week Yvette Torres-Rahman, Partnerships Director at Business Fights Poverty interviews Bob Annibale, Citi’s Global Director of Inclusive Finance and Community Development. Hear about what is Citi doing to enable greater financial inclusion and the trends that Bob is seeing from their microfinance clients, helping them serve the unbanked or the under-banked. These days new […]
Marjolaine Chaintreau
BFP: What is your purpose? What drives you? I want to drive the economic empowerment of underserved communities by applying business solutions and resources, so these communities become the center of long-term sustainability. BFP: What do you do? I am currently Vice President for Citi Inclusive Finance providing financing opportunities, banking solutions and digital payment […]