Lunchtime Delegate-Led Discussions

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  Aaron Huey

  Founder, Amplifier

  Aaron Huey is National Geographic photographer, a Stanford Media Designer, and Founder and Chief Creative of Amplifier.org. As a photographer Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines. As one of the of the first Global Ambassadors for Stanford's d.School, and as a Media Experiments Fellow there, Huey focused on experiments using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world. His combination of art and storytelling have resulted in the creation of the global art phenomenon called "We The People" with collaborator Shepard Fairey, the Sherpa Photo Fund, and a recent series of Pre-Colonial History and Cultural Heritage lessons in virtual reality that will become part of K-12 curriculum across the US in 2020. His Bear Ears National Monument VR experience won the 2019 Webby for best VR Interactive Design. Huey was also named the 3rd coolest Dad in America by Fatherly.com after Lebron James and Kelly Slater!

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  Agnes Binagwaho

  Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity

  Professor Binagwaho is a Rwandan pediatrician who completed her MD in General Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and her MA in Pediatrics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from Dartmouth College and earned a PhD from the University of Rwanda College of Business and Economics. She returned to Rwanda in 1996, just two years after the genocide in 1994 against the Tutsi. Working in collaboration with national stakeholders, health professionals, policymakers, and international partners, she has helped to build a health system in Rwanda that is one of the most equitable and high-functioning in Africa. Professor Binagwaho was named Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in 2017. From 2002-2016, she served the Rwandan Health Sector in high-level government positions, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and then for five years as the Minister of Health. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of the Practice of Global Health Delivery at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Professor Binagwaho’s academic engagements include research on health equity, HIV/AIDS, information and communication technologies (ICT) in e-health, and pediatric care delivery systems. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles. She holds an array of leadership and advisory positions on national and international scale, including but not limited to the African Advisory Board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation; the Advisory Board of the Friends of the Global Fund Africa; the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries; and multiple Lancet Commissions.

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  Avnish Gungadurdoss

  Co-founder and Managing Partner, Instiglio

  Avnish leads and coordinates Instiglio’s global strategy and RBF Practice, and provides technical direction in key projects. He also developed and now steers the Performance Management practice. Prior to founding Instiglio in 2012, Avnish advised a large DFID challenge fund of Bangladesh on the monitoring and evaluation of a portfolio of 18 innovative NGO projects using cutting-edge technology. Previously, Avnish led the implementation, monitoring and rigorous evaluation of an information campaign in 500 villages of Rajasthan, India for the MIT Poverty Action Lab. Avnish has also consulted with the World Bank on the implementation of a large social protection program in Bangladesh. Avnish holds a MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School, a diploma in performance management for non-profits from Harvard Business School, and a BA in economics and math from Dartmouth College. He was awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship and was elected as one of the "Forbes 30 under 30" social entrepreneurs for his work with Instiglio. He is a national of Mauritius, and resides in Bogotá, Colombia.

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  Nick Moon

  Executive Chairman, Wanda Organic

  Nick lived in Kenya since 1982, working actively for economic equity and social justice in Africa. In 1991 he co-founded - and until June 2012 directed - the award-winning not-for-profit social enterprise KickStart International, (www.kickstart.org). KickStart designs and promotes productivity-enhancing technologies for smallholder farmers in Africa. In recognition of this work Nick was awarded the SASE in 2004. Since January 2012 Nick was the Executive Chairman of Wanda Agriculture, a growing for-profit social enterprise (founded by his daughter Marion Atieno Moon) that brings the latest bio-organic soil and plant health solutions to African farmers, essential for sustainable agriculture and for climate change adaptation and mitigation. www.wandaagriculture.org In July 2017 Nick took up a part-time position as Program Director for Orkidstudio LLC, a specialized ‘architectural design and build’ enterprise, that champions gender equality in the construction sector in Africa. www.orkidstudio.org Additionally Nick was actively involved with two other initiatives that promote social and economic development. • Peace building, enterprise development, and job creation for youth, with ONGOZA (formerly ‘Peace for Africa & Economic Development’), founded in 2008 by Eddy Gicheru Oketch in the wake of Kenya’s deeply troublesome period of violent civil unrest following hotly contested elections. Nick is currently chairman of the Board of this young and growing organization. www.ongozayouth.org. • The professionalization of the performing arts in Kenya - with the Theatre Company, founded by Keith Pearson and Mumbi Kaigwa (www.theatrecompany.net) The Skoll Foundation deeply mourns the loss of Nick Moon who passed away in 2018.

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  Denielle Sachs

  Senior Director, The Tembo Group

  Denielle Sachs, a senior director in APCO Worldwide’s New York office, is an impact strategist with over two decades of experience building organizations, boards and coalitions from the ground up, designing culture and thought leadership strategies that ignite movements, and leading special projects for Fortune 500 businesses. Ms. Sachs is the founder and global head of The Tembo Group, a leading social advisory firm, which she established in 2015. Sachs previously spent seven years as the director of social impact for McKinsey & Company, where she led the firm’s first global corporate citizenship strategy and helped build what is now McKinsey.org and its first program, focused on youth unemployment. Earlier in her career, Ms. Sachs served as an advance lead at The White House, worked in a number of social sector organizations, and as a corporate social responsibility, policy and communications expert at several premier agencies, both in the United States and abroad, including APCO Worldwide from 2006-2008. Ms. Sachs currently sits on several boards and advisory councils, including for the Resolution Project, Breakout Foundation and Nexus Global, which is the largest network of next gen philanthropists. She holds a master’s degree in International Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a bachelor’s degree in International Politics from New York University.

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  Elizabeth Hausler

  Founder & CEO, Build Change

  World-class social entrepreneur. Safe housing advocate. Bricklayer. Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is the Founder and CEO of Build Change and a global expert on resilient housing, post-disaster reconstruction, and systems change. Elizabeth’s strategic direction and leadership have grown Build Change from a few employees in 2004 to a global team spread across five continents. She has profoundly influenced global development policy by making resilience a major consideration for reconstruction efforts. Elizabeth’s extensive experience in post-disaster communities, including a Fulbright Scholarship in India, led her to found Build Change to ensure reconstruction efforts would be safe and sustainable. She is the recipient of many honors, and in 2011, was named the US Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. Together with Build Change, she was awarded the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2018, she received the University of California, Berkeley’s Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award. Since 2014 she has been a member of the UC-Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Elizabeth is also an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, and an Echoing Green Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley in Civil Engineering, as well as an M.S. from the University of Colorado and a B.S. from the University of Illinois. Dr. Hausler has headlined top conferences, lectured at eminent universities, and been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, BBC News, Forbes, Elle Magazine, ABC News, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

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  Nick Grono

  CEO, Freedom Fund

  Nick is the inaugural CEO of the Freedom Fund. The Fund is an ambitious effort to mobilise the knowledge, capital and will needed to end modern slavery. It is currently working with 100 frontline partner organisations around the world, and has liberated over 21,000 people directly from slavery. Nick is also a board member of Girls Not Brides. Previously, Nick was the CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, a key international actor in the fight against modern slavery, and before that he was the Deputy President and COO of the International Crisis Group, the world’s leading conflict prevention NGO. Nick is a lawyer by background and worked as Chief of Staff to the Australian Attorney-General from 1999-2001.

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  Pascale de la Frégonnière

  Executive Director, Cartier Philanthropy

  Pascale de la Frégonnière – Strategic Advisor to the Board, Cartier Philanthropy Pascale joined Cartier in July 2013 to launch Cartier Philanthropy, a grant-making foundation committed to improving the lives of the most vulnerable. Under her leadership, the foundation has invested CHF 65M to support impact-driven non-profit organisations operating in over 20 countries. Pascale’s two decades' work in humanitarian and development efforts proved an invaluable background for her work in philanthropy. She began her career as an intern at the UN in New York and soon found herself on the team of the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Mogadishu, Somalia. She later joined UNICEF in Baghdad, Iraq, and later was back on the team to lead donor relations for the USD 100M Iraq country programme. She also took part in on-the-ground efforts in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Between stints on the ground, much of her work focused on raising the funds to support UNICEF’s operations in Beirut and in France and managing funding relations with field offices in Africa and South-East Asia. In her seven years at Cartier Philanthropy, Pascale and her team have established a data-driven and outcome-oriented approach, focusing on effective interventions to provide access to basic services and livelihood solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America.

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  Paul Macek

  Vice President, Programs, World Cocoa Foundation

  Paul Macek is the Vice President of Programs for the World Cocoa Foundation, where he manages WCF’s global portfolio of projects and programs. In this capacity, Paul leads WCF’s country engagement and the technical areas of agricultural productivity, social development, and the environment. He is particularly passionate about social impact investing and entrepreneurship on the African continent where he has lived and worked for over 20 years. Before joining WCF, Paul worked with prominent international relief and development non-profits. Paul was the Senior Director for food security and livelihoods with World Vision, where he led a team responsible for the acquisition and implementation of more than 30 programs and projects worldwide. The annual $85 million portfolio of projects comprised of a diverse range of technical areas that included food security, agriculture, humanitarian assistance, climate change and adaptation, and economic development. Prior to joining World Vision, Paul held several prominent positions with Catholic Relief Services throughout sub-Saharan Africa. These positions included Country Representative (Uganda and Zambia); Deputy Regional Director for Southern Africa; Regional Emergency Representative in Southern Africa; and Program Manager in Benin and South Sudan. Paul graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) with a BA in History and Political Science and holds an MA in International Affairs from American University (Washington, DC) with a focus on development studies and political economy. When he’s not working, Paul enjoys spending time with his family, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and traveling.

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  Zak Kaufman

  Co-Founder & CEO, Vera Solutions

  Zak Kaufman is Co-Founder and CEO of Vera Solutions, a social enterprise using cloud and mobile technology to help social impact organizations worldwide work more efficiently and deliver better results. Zak has worked for 10 years at the intersection of technology and the social sector, overseeing program evaluations in Southern Africa and Latin America and architecting data systems for dozens of leading global nonprofits. Since 2010, Vera has served more than 225 organizations in more than 45 countries and has grown to a team of 50 staff on four continents. Notable clients Zak has worked with include the Gavi Alliance, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Zak holds a PhD and MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA from Dartmouth. He has been recognized as a Marshall Scholar, Truman Scholar, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, Global Good Fund Fellow, Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellow, and winner of Dartmouth's 2018 Social Justice Award. Vera has additionally been recognized through Echoing Green, Rainer Arnhold, and Dasra Social Impact Fellowships. Zak is originally from Madison, Wisconsin and lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

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