Can Digital Innovations Unlock Partnerships to Scale Impact?

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  Robert Annibale

  Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.

  Bob Annibale Global Director, Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance financial institutions, corporations, investors and municipalities, working across Citi’s businesses and geographies to expand access to financial services in underserved communities. Since joining Citi in 1982, Mr. Annibale has held a number of senior regional and global treasury, risk and corporate positions in Athens, Bahrain, Nairobi, London and New York. Bob serves on the U.S. FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisory Council on Financial Education and Inclusion. He serves as a Founding Member of SAGE’s Housing Advisory Council supporting the senior LGBT community, and serves on the board of the Citi Foundation, Accion International and the Bedford Stuyvestant Restoration Corporation. In 2014, Bob was honored by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change for his work leading Citi’s programs promoting immigrant integration and citizenship in the United States. His leadership contributed to Citi’s recognition by Euromoney as the inaugural “Best Bank for Financial Inclusion” and “Latin America’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance”. Bob was individually recognized by Euromoney as a “Global Impact Banking Champion”. In 2018, he was again named by the Financial Times as one of the OUTStanding Top 100 LGBT Business Leaders for the fifth consecutive year. Bob, a U.S. and U.K. national, holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Vassar College, New York, and an M.A. in African Studies (History) from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

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  Andrea Coleman

  Founder and President, Riders for Health

  Andrea Coleman has always a gimlet focus on 'closing the distance' to enable access to goods and services for health care at the last mile. Her emphasis is on the woefully overlooked issue of transport and mobility for real access to the last mile. This requires behavioral and systems changes and the outcome is efficiency, transparency and predictable and traceable delivery. Andrea Coleman is co-founder of Riders for Health and President of Riders for Health ll. Riders for Health has played a vital role enabling public health information, contact tracing and sample transport for rapid diagnosis during the COVID crisis. The need for appropriate, reliable transport with experienced riders and drivers will increase as vaccine distribution becomes necessary. Andrea founded Two Wheels for Life in 2016 to create nimble funding streams for Riders for Health's work in Africa. She has recently co-founded the Transport and Mobility Alliance together with Susan Bornstein from World Bicycle Relief. Andrea's focus is on institution transport and mobility for health while Susan brings the issue of individual mobility particularly for women and girls in education and agriculture. Their goal is to raise the profile of the crosscutting issue of transport on the UN SDGs. Andrea is also a founding member of The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs. Her organisational guiding principles: Working with government, other partners and collaborators Collaborative systems change African leadership Gender balance Environmental awareness

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  Andrew Youn

  CEO, One Acre Fund

  Andrew Youn started One Acre Fund in 2006. One Acre Fund only serves smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa – and provides farm inputs, finance, and training that helps farmers to succeed. One Acre Fund has 8,000 staff who serve 1.2m families per year, plus 1.5 million more families via partnership. The organization will double in size in the next five years, and aims to be the most impactful distribution network for life-improving goods in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

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  Jason Lamb

  Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Jason Lamb is the Deputy Director, Digital Enabling Environment in the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation in November 2009, Jason spent 6 years at Washington Mutual Bank where he managed the Consumer Checking portfolio, product strategy, and team. In addition, he spent time managing the operational risk strategy for the retail bank and as an organizational consultant to the Executive Committee and their teams. Jason gained experience in the financial institutions sector during his seven years at McKinsey & Company, where he spent time advising banks in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and North America. He was a founding member of the McKinsey Budapest office. Jason holds a BA in Economics and History from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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  Luis Guzman Pardo Figueroa

  Treasurer, SABMiller plc

  NAME : Luis Manuel Guzmán Pardo Figueroa ORGANIZATION : SABMiller – UCP Backus & Johnston SAA (Peru Operation) TITLE : Treasury Director Economist MBA in Peruvian University

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