Chad Bolick
CB: I lead global partnership development efforts at FSG with a focus on one of our core programs: the Shared Value Initiative. As we explore and outline the contours of the emergent field of shared value, we have to engage a wide range of constituencies—companies, nonprofits, government, and more. Exploring shared opportunities and challenges across […]
David Laurel
BFP: What do you do? DL: Coming from a seven year stint in supply chain in 2004, my most… Nestle Philippines was when my superior advised me to visit communities in different cities to look for opportunities for partnerships. One of the rural communities I was ‘lucky’ to visit was a small district in south […]
Zunaed Rabbani
BFP: What do you do? ZR: I am the Executive Director of Market Development Forum (MDF), a practitioners’ network for development professionals working on Private Sector Development, in particular, in the field of market development/ making markets work for the poor (M4P). It is primarily a membership-based association, open to development organizations and projects (and […]
Rosario Londono
BFP: What do you do? LR: I am currently part of a multi-disciplinary/multi-sectorial team that is co-creating the transformation of the world’s agricultural eco-system. We are incubating and scaling-large-scale, business-led social and environmental innovation prototypes that we believe will significantly increase the WELL-BEING of ALL. We bring to the table an “uncommon” team of partners […]
Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson
BFP: What do you do? BYR: I am a Partner, Head Of Impact at D8A/ Appfrica.D8A work to help the world’s leading companies discover business opportunities in Africa while helping African technologists serve a global market. My position as Partner at D8A means wearing many hats; I’m primarily focused on business development and sales for […]
Pauline Mujawamariya
BFP: What do you do? PM: I am a Programme Director at the African Innovation Foundation. I lead the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA). The IPA is one of the Foundation’s flagship projects, and it mobilizes African innovators and entrepreneurs by providing $150,000 to winners who deliver market-oriented solutions to the continent’s challenges and spearhead […]
Heidi Kikoler
BFP: What do you do? HK: I work on a 1-1 basis with people, either in person or over the phone, and we look at where they are today, where they want to be in the future, and we work together to create an actionable plan for getting them there. For example, in the course […]
Filippo Veglio
BFP: What do you do? FV: I work for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a CEO-led organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, bringing together some 200 of the world’s leading corporations spanning a wide range of sectors and geographies. The Council’s mission is to galvanize the global business community to create a sustainable […]
Juergen Nagler
BFP: What do you do? JN: UNDP AFIM is advancing inclusive business and market development in Africa. We bridge partnerships between public and private sectors and develop capacity along target value chains contributing to sustainable development and inclusive growth, especially through job creation and income generation. For instance, we have undertaken regional Project Facilitation Platforms […]
Ginnie Guillen
GG: I have two roles, I am a Project Manager at the Collaborating Center on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) and Vice President Sustainability Strategy at Concept Plan. At the CSCP I design and implement various programs for the enhancement of practices towards sustainable consumption and production. These programs are normally in cooperation with other […]
Tatiana Bessarabova
BFP: What do you do? TB: I work at the UNDP-based Business Call to Action (BCtA) on strategic knowledge management with the main goals of raising awareness and building knowledge around the concept of inclusive business and around the BCtA members company initiatives. Our members are market leaders and innovators, committed to developing commercially viable […]
George Manu
GM: My job is to lead and develop KPMG’s IDAS business in West Africa. This includes managing the West Africa hub of the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) – a USD 200 million private sector facility backed by some of the biggest names in development finance. For the AECF, I currently oversee 20 projects spread […]
Maggie De Pree
BFP: What do you do? MDP: I’m a catalyst, entrepreneur and mother. Right now, I’m helping to build a community for corporate change agents – or social intrapreneurs (The League of Intrapreneurs). My next project is focusing on empowering busy parents to embed sustainability into their daily lives. BFP: What is the best part about […]
Tom Morton
BFP: What do you do? TM: I run the ClimateCare’s operations in Nairobi, Kenya. We finance and deliver projects that improve people’s lives and protect the environment. These two outcomes have been at the core of what we do since we started back in 1997. I also advise governments and international donors on matters relating […]
Mary Mwanyika-Sando
BFP: What do you do? MMS: I work as a Maternal and Child Health Coordinator at Management and Development for Health (MDH). In my role I provide technical advice and facilitate the translation of new evidence based science on improving maternal and child health into implementable interventions that are applicable and sustainable in our settings. […]
Milan Samani
BFP: What do you do? MS: We run and manage high-performer leadership programmes for large companies. Recently we’ve been working in the ‘intrapreneurship’ space and were a lead partner on the Intrapreneur Lab at the Said Business School along with Accenture, Business Fights Poverty & the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. BFP: What is the […]
Pauline Ngari
BFP: What do you do? PN: I set up Hand in Hand Eastern Africa in 2010. Our aim is to reduce poverty through sustainable job creation. Our first job and business creation program in Kenya was developed in partnership with Sida and FMO, who together invested a total $1.1m. Today we have generated over 30,000 […]
Dr Ben Taylor
BFP: What do you do? BT: I develop ideas about how development could be done better, applying a more systemic approach to new fields and finding new ways of implementing development. I also provide technical assistance to development programmes on the implementation and evaluation of a more integrated approach to development problems, incorporating public, private […]
Lina Maria Salazar Ortegon
BFP: What do you do? LMSO: OMJ at the IDB was created in 2007 with the exclusive mandate of financing business models that serve the base of the pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean. OMJ is the only operational unit at a multilateral development bank that supports market-based solutions to poverty. Since I started […]
Mohamed Ali
MA: I incubate and nurture youth entrepreneurs in post-conflict countries, starting with my country of birth Somalia, as a tool to accelerate peace and promote stability. I believe that entrepreneurship can change the world and use my organization, Iftiin Foundation, connect and foster an ecosystem of young entrepreneurs doing extraordinary in countries like Somalia. Iftiin […]