Jimmy Bettcher
BFP: What do you do? JB: I am Strategic Analyst and Project Manager, Corporate Responsibility at Cummins Inc. Cummins is a global power leader, that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. I manage strategic social impact projects for […]
Edward Hanrahan
BFP: What do you do? EH: I am a director at ClimateCare. Started in 1997 ClimateCare was originally set up to help large corporates take responsibility for their unavoidable carbon emissions. Of course, since then the world has moved on. Businesses are now well aware of their carbon and other impacts and whilst we still […]
Richard Brophy
BFP: What do you do? RB: I’m Head of Corporate Responsibility for Herbert Smith Freehills. I manage our relationships with a wide range of NGOs, think tanks, schools, and academic institutions both in a domestic and international setting. This ranges from a school five minutes walk from our London office to international NGOs and developing […]
Maria Sanchez-Marin Melero
BFP: What do you do? MSM: I head the TrustLaw Connect service at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where we link the best NGOs and social enterprises in need of free legal assistance around the world with the best law firms. Our mission is to expand the practise of pro bono around the world, which means […]
Tim Bishop
BFP: What do you do? TB: Based in Vietnam, but operating across the Asia Pacific region, I work for CARE International and am developing new programming and partnership opportunities between CARE and the private sector, which address poverty and social injustice. This has come from the premise that CARE believes the private sector plays a […]
Sophia Hyder
BFP: What do you do? SH: Evolvemint’s innovative business model merges fashion with sustainable economic development approaches without compromising quality and classic style. Scarves, and accessories are crafted from silk that is ethically sourced from suppliers in Bangladesh, as well as recycled saris. (We are also currently working on a clothing collection using these fabrics). […]
Taryn Bird
BFP: What do you do? TB:I manage several issues related to corporate citizenship and CSR for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center, most of them focused on emerging-market social and economic development. My job entails working with U.S.-based multinationals such as Dow Chemical, Abbott, Chevron, and Microsoft on their social and philanthropic […]
Anisha Rajapakse
BFP: What do you do? AR: Reporting to the Board of Trustees in the UK, I have overall responsibility for strengthening the remit and strategic directions of child-focused projects and programmes of our Ugandan NGO, Ka Tutandike Uganda. This includes capacity building, mentoring and support to the Ugandan team in areas such as effective programme […]
Charles Arthur
BFP: What do you do? CA: UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. The main part of my job is producing the organization’s two flagship publications: the quarterly discussion magazine, Making It, and the newsletter, UNIDO Times. I also run the […]
Patrick Anigbo
BFP: What do you do? PA: I wear two hats. I started Diro Systems, a young IT Services business with operations in the UK and Nigeria in 2008, which I still run. I am also a member of the organising team at TEDxEuston, a TEDx programme run in London every year that focuses on Africa. […]
Mike Kubzansky
BFP: What do you do? MK: I am Partner at Monitor Group, a global management consultancy started 30 years ago by five Harvard Business School professors, including Michael Porter. I lead the inclusive markets practice. Monitor overall advises companies, governments and social sector organisations on issues of growth, in ways that matter to them most. […]
Suzanne Dagseven
BFP: What do you do? SD: I started working in international development in Australia with AusAID. When I worked there, I developed a strategy and lead a team to expand Australia’s aid to Africa from nine to fifty-three countries. I saw the benefits of that and thought the government-to-government effort was great, but seeing things […]
Simon Maxwell
BFP: What do you do? SM: This sounds like the question the Queen might ask if you were to meet her at a garden party! The answer, Your Majesty, is that I ‘do’ international development, and have been ‘doing’ for forty years: ten years overseas in Kenya, India and Bolivia, then sixteen years at IDS […]
Katleen Felix
BFP: What do you do? KF: I chair the Haitian Hometown Associations Resource Group (HHTARG) and I am the Project Director and Diaspora Liaison Officer for Fonkoze, where I am responsible for research and development for new remittance products and initiatives, financial literacy programs for new immigrants, training and capacity-building for Haitian Hometown Associations (HHTAs), […]
Kelly Mason
BFP: What do you do? KM: I recently joined the Global Communications and Public Affairs team at Google.org – a part of Google that brings together Google’s people and resources to tackle global challenges. Working in communications, my job is to help tell the Google.org story to different audiences, from tech reporters to non-profit leaders […]
Anita Yang
BFP: What do you do? I am a consultant based in London. For the past year, I have been part of the Virgin Unite team, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group in the Business Development & Investments Team, where many of Virgin Unite’s leadership initiatives get developed and launched. I have been working on […]
Alison Griffith
BFP: What do you do? AG: I lead the work on markets and private sector engagement for Practical Action, an international NGO set up by E. F. Schumacher, a radical economist in the 60s. I’m based at Head Office, we have seven regional and country offices in Africa, S Asia and Latin American. My job […]
Darian Stibbe
BFP: What do you do? DS: I am the Director of the Partnering Initiative, at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). IBLF is a forum of multinational companies focusing on critical sustainability, leadership and growth issues. IBLF works at the interface of business and society on the understanding that sustainable business requires sustainable societies and […]
Katharine Teague
BFP: What do you do? KT: I am the Senior Private Sector Adviser at Christian Aid – my role consists of developing policy positions and advocating to companies and government on issues related to business and poverty. At the moment my business engagement is predominantly focused on our Tax and Climate Change/Sustainability campaigns. At Christian […]
Pedro Eikelenboom
BFP: What do you do? PE: I am a Senior Advisor Partnerships at the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) in The Netherlands. The Dutch government has granted from it’s development budget IDH with € 105 million for the period 2011-2015 to forge public private partnerships that transform international markets towards sustainability. Focusing on key commodities in […]