Funding Impact at Scale Through Market Segmentation
Speakers
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Founder + CEO, Global Development Incubator
Andrew Stern is the Founder and CEO of the Global Development Incubator (GDI), a non-profit incubator for transformational development ventures, working to build and scale the next generation of social impact solutions. GDI has designed and launched numerous groundbreaking efforts, including: building the first investor platform for blended finance in Convergence; putting global mental health on the map through citiesRISE; guiding the startup strategy and operations of the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; and expanding financing for the world’s half billion smallholder farmers with ISF Advisors and Aceli Africa, among other initiatives.
Prior to GDI, Andrew was a Partner at Dalberg Advisors where he worked for 10 years, including as the Global Operating Partner and head of the Inclusive Growth Practice. Andrew helped start, design and launch the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a program at the Aspen Institute that propels entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Andrew previously served on ANDE’s Executive Committee and also as the founding Co-Chairperson for mothers2mothers, an internationally recognized health program preventing HIV transmission from mothers to children.
Andrew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Economics from Princeton University.
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Director of Integrated Delivery, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
As the Director of Integrated Delivery, Dana works with both the Global Development and Global Health programs to speed up the launch, improve the delivery, enhance integration, and scale up the use of life saving and life changing products, services, technologies, and service delivery innovations.
Dana has broad experience in healthcare delivery and has designed, launched and managed successful health programs on five continents. Most recently, he was Chief Executive of Marie Stopes International, leading a global network of family health, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention programs operating in 40 countries. Prior to that role, he was Senior Vice President of Population Services International (PSI). Dana has spent nearly 10 years living and working in Francophone West Africa and Pakistan.
Dana received his BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and his MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.
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Debbie Aung Din is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business operating in Myanmar that delivers affordable and innovative products and services for farm families living in poverty. Aung Din has been engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar since 1995. She has also lived and worked in Mississippi, Cambodia and Indonesia. She has worked for NGOs, USAID, the UN and the World Bank. Aung Din holds a MA from Harvard University in public policy and development economics. She received awards from the Schwab Foundation (World Economic Forum) and the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Director, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Graduating from Oxford University in 1983, Sam worked in business for 17 years, first in international agrochemicals and then in commodities trading. In 2002, Sam moved to the International Save the Children Alliance and in 2006 joined Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), as its first CEO. WSUP is a not-for-profit company, which brings together private sector and NGO expertise to address the pressing global challenge of delivering water and sanitation services to the growing number of people who live in urban slums. In 2015, Sam was appointed Director of the Shell Foundation, which co-creates and supports the growth of social enterprises in the access to renewable energy, SME finance and mobility sectors.
