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How can companies and others best work together to support MSMEs and rebuild better?

Concepcion Blanco, Senior Specialist, Client Solutions and Digital Innovation, BBVA Microfinance Foundation Cristianne Close, Global Leader, Markets Practice, WWF International Payal Dalal, Vice President, Global Programs, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth Catalina Garcia Gomez, Global Director of Corporate Affairs, AB InBev Mario Gonzalez Lupercio, Shared Value & Social Innovation, CEMEX Henning Ringholz, Senior Executive, Small […]

Fireside Chat Day 3: Siân Owen and Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi

Fireside Chat between Yvette Torres-Rahman, Business Fights Poverty, and: Siân Owen, Director of Stakeholder & Portfolio Management, BTEC & Apprenticeships, Pearson UK Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, Executive Vice President, African Center for Economic Transformation

Developing Skills and Quality Jobs for Young People

Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 Day 3: Skills This session is part of a series of webinars with Futuremakers by Standard Chartered. Speakers: Suzanne Biegel, Co-Founder, GenderSmart Investing Summit Beccy Davies, Skills and Youth Employment Policy Adviser, UK Department for International Development Ketan Deshpande, Founder & CEO, Fuel India Eunice Esther Nyadoi, student and Goal […]

What are the opportunities for reskilling and upskilling to help us all rebuild better?

Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 Day 3: Skills What are the opportunities for reskilling and upskilling to help us all rebuild better? Hosted with Pearson. Panelists: Dr. Anuj Dhariwal, Director, Global Head of Scouting & Venturing, Novozymes Patrick Hull, Strategy Director to the CHRO, Unilever Zlatina Loudjeva, Director, International Development, PwC Siân Owen, Director of Stakeholder & […]

Workshop_Florencia_Mercedes_Paulo

Hosted with The League of Intrapreneurs. Moderated by: Florencia Estrade, Global Director, The League of Intrapreneurs (moderator) Mercedes Gutiérrez Álvarez, Head of Communities Engagement, IKEA, Ingka Group, Global Paulo Bonneff, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Global Gerdau

Fireside Chat Day 4: Henriette Kolb

Fireside Chat between: Yvette Torres-Rahman, Co-Founder, Business Fights Poverty and: Henriette Kolb, Manager Gender and Economic Inclusion, International Finance Corporation

Beyond Barriers: Gender Inclusivity in the Digital Age

Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 Day 4: Equity Hosted with the IFC Digital2Equal initiative. Speakers: Natalia Cano, Head of Brand & Reputation APAC, Google Joanna Kahiluoto, European Commission  Charlotte Ntim, Digital Economy Officer, IFC (moderator) Anish Shivdasani, CEO, Giraffe

How can companies accelerate the opportunities and inclusion of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic People

Sue Adkins, Founder, The Collaborative Action Network (moderator) Dazon Dixon Diallo, Founder & CEO, SisterLove Romeo Effs, Board Advisor, Non-Executive Director, and Founder and CEO, Lumorus Antony Karanja, Information Technology Student, Zetech University-Kenya and member of The Youth Cafe Sandra Kerr, CBE, Race Equality Director, Business in the Community Landiwe Mahlangu, Former Chief Economic Advisor […]

Exploring the Complexity of Gender Inequality in 2020

Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 Day 4: Equity Hosted with CARE International UK Speakers: Sandra Fontano, Senior Global Sustainability Manager – Gender Equality, Unilever Ashika Gunasena, CEO, Chrysalis Esther Kwaku, Founder and CEO, The Nerve Network Hester Le Roux, Senior Economic Advisor, Policy and Advocacy,  CARE International UK (moderator) Hayley Morgan, Senior Global Programme Coordinator, Better Cotton Initiative

Fireside Chat Day 5: Colin Mayer

Fireside Chat between: Yvette Torres-Rahman, Business Fights Poverty Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Webinar: Recover and Rebuild Better

Hear directly from the COVID-19 Action Toolkit authors and from Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.

Kenya: Business and COVID-19: Local Action

Business Fights Poverty Briefing with the National Business Compact on Coronavirus, Kenya. This live webinar looked at the action taking place on the ground in Kenya, including through the National Business Compact on COVID-19 (https://www.covid19businessresponse.ke/), and the lessons for other countries. Speakers included: Myriam Sidibe, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy […]