Jim Taylor is the Co-founder and Chief Executive of Proximity Designs – a social business creating a small farm services platform for change across rural Myanmar. The big idea fifteen years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology, farming practices and financing so they could have a path out of poverty. After serving over 3 million people, and generating $250 million in new farm income, the idea still has legs. Jim lives in Yangon, Myanmar and has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in Southeast Asia. He is the recipient of the 2012 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Curry Stone Design Prize and the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Clean Energy • Economic Opportunity • Financial Services • Livelihoods • Smallholder Productivity • Water Management
Southeast Asia
