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Carolyne Kirabo

Carolyne Kirabo brings more than 15 years of experience in investment finance, management consulting and business advisory support. Carolyne is a recognized Impact and Gender Lens investing pioneer in East Africa, having led funds including Mango Fund, Yunus Social Business and Mercy Corps Ventures.
During her work she has successfully built expertise in supporting impact investment funds and enterprise support organizations to adopt gender smart strategies. Some of these strategies included integrating gender considerations across investment processes, designing pre and post investment support with a gender lens, and designing impact management strategies that drive fair representation of gender across value chains.
She holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and is an Alumni with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
She has served as a steering committee member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs East Africa Chapter and on the Board of Directors of Finding XY and United Social Ventures.

Carolyne Kirabo

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Carolyne Kirabo vanta oltre 15 anni di esperienza nel campo della finanza d’investimento, della consulenza gestionale e del supporto alle imprese. Carolyne è una riconosciuta pioniera degli investimenti d’impatto e di genere in Africa orientale, avendo guidato fondi come Mango Fund, Yunus Social Business e Mercy Corps Ventures.
Nel corso del suo lavoro ha acquisito un’esperienza nel sostenere i fondi di investimento a impatto e le organizzazioni di sostegno alle imprese ad adottare strategie intelligenti dal punto di vista del genere. Alcune di queste strategie comprendono l’integrazione delle considerazioni di genere nei processi di investimento, la progettazione di un supporto pre e post investimento con un approccio gender lens e la progettazione di strategie di gestione dell’impatto che favoriscano un’equa rappresentazione di genere nelle catene del valore.
Ha conseguito un MBA presso la Edinburgh Business School ed è Alumni dell’Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
È stata membro del comitato direttivo dell’Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs East Africa Chapter e del Consiglio di amministrazione di Finding XY e United Social Ventures.

Francesca Agnello

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She has over 20 years’ experience on the promotion of social entrepreneurship in Europe, Africa and Asia, with funding from European and private donors, and impact investors. Her professional roles range from project management to monitoring & evaluation and capacity development. She has worked in Kenya, the Philippines, Cambodia, Sudan and Italy for banks, multilateral organizations (UNDP, Asian Development Bank, Deutsche Bank), and international NGOs (Save the Children, World Vision, Fondazione ACRA).

Gianpaolo Barbetta

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Gianpaolo Barbetta is Associate Professor at Università Cattolica of Milan, where he has been teaching since 1992. He mainly focuses his research work in the field of non-profit and co-operative, with specific focus on the role of these players in the Italian welfare system. From 1997 he has been directing the Unit for Strategic Planning of the Fondazione Cariplo. Gian Paolo graduated in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan and was International Philanthropy Fellow at Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore (USA).

Robin Bidwell

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Mr. Robin Bidwell, CBE, founded Environmental Resources Management Limited and also served as its Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until May 2010. Along with his work at the ERM Foundation, Mr. Bidwell Chairs the Low Carbon Network Fund for Ofgem. He also Chairs the Green Alliance. He serves as a Director at Environmental Resources Management Limited, Insitor Management and Insitor Impact Fund. He served as a Director of Quarterly High Income Trust PLC. He is a Board Member of the Dutch-based Sustainability Challenge Foundation. He was awarded the CBE in 1999 for services to the environment. He also acts as liaison between the IEAF and the ERM Foundation.

Martin Burt

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Founder and Executive Director of Fundación Paraguaya, 25-year old institution promoting financial inclusion in Latin America. He was a pioneer in Paraguay in using microfinance, microfranchising and financial literacy as powerful tools to alleviate poverty. Martin is also founder of one of the first self-sufficient rural agricultural schools, a model which is currently being reapplied in several Countries around the world. He is a member of the “Education Global Agenda Council” of the World Economic Forum and a university professor on themes regarding social entrepreneurship at various universities in the United States and Africa. Martin has received numerous awards including: “WISE – World Innovation Summit for Education Award”, “Microfinance Award” assigned by the Inter-American Bank for Development, “Outstanding Social Entrepreneur” by the Schwab Foundation, “Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award” and “Ashoka Changemakers Award”.

Sjef Ernes

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Managing Director of Aqua for All, a Dutch non-profit foundation that helps world’s poorest people gain access to safe water and adequate sanitation. Previously he was Managing Director of the municipal water company in Eindhoven and Business Development Manager for a private company of the water sector. He lived for five years in rural areas of Mozambique working for the Ministry of Agriculture and contributing to the development of irrigation systems and infrastructure for access to drinking water. He has worked as a consultant of the UNEP and the Water Education Institute. Sjef has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology of Eindhoven (NL).

Alan Feldbaum

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Formerly Americas Director for the Low Carbon Enterprise Fund. Alan previously was a partner in ERM’s global mergers and acquisition practice, and directed due diligence for clients in both developed and developing markets. In 2010 he led the Strategic Review for the Equator Principles, the landmark environmental and social risk management framework in field of project finance. Alan holds a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Harish H. Hande

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In 1995 Harish founded SELCO-India, a social enterprise that aims to introduce solar energy solutions for the benefit of the poorest . For his work in SELCO Harish received numerous awards, including the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (established in 1958, considered to be a sort of Nobel Prize for Asia). Harish is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and has a PhD in engineering applied to solar energy from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA).

Sabine Hoefnagel

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Sabine is global director of strategy for the sustainability advisory firm ERM, based in the UK, responsible for driving the growth strategy in the business including promoting innovation and digital transformation. She is also part of ERM’s global Executive Committee and actively involved in client work around social impact and risk assessment across the value chain of ERMclients as well as human rights due diligence and strategy advice across a range of sectors including manufacturing, agribusiness, oil and gas, mining and the financial sector. She is also ERM’s global Liaison Delegate for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and lead ERM’s internal human rights and business network. She has worked At ERM since 2005 in different managerial roles and capacity. Before that she was legal officer at the United Nations Environmental Programme. She graduated at University of Amsterdam and attended New York University School of Law.

Carlo Alberto Marcoaldi

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Co-founder of one of the world’s leading consulting firms, specializing in advising multinationals and governments on environmental impact issues for investments and projects around the world. He is now an Angel Investor, a board member of several start-ups and impact investment expert as a member of the investment committee of the Low Carbon Enterprise Fund for a decade.

Tassilo Metternich

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Tassilo Metternich-Sandor, born 1965 in Vienna, Austria graduated from the European Business School in Wiesbaden. After working with Merrill Lynch in New York and Lazard Freres in Paris, Tassilo Metternich-Sandor joined ERM where he was responsible for the development of the company in continental Europe. He left the operational side of ERM in 2006 but remained a Director and Trustee of the ERM Foundation and later the LCEF. He now lives in Austria where he is involved in various real estate and cultural activities. He is a member of the board of the NÖ Versicherungs-AG, the Lower Austrian Development Fund and the Vienna Musikverein.

Franca Odelli

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She had extensively covered the role of Head of Accounting & Operations for Intesa Sanpaolo International Network in London, Hong Kong, New York, Dubai and Istanbul. Franca graduated in Economics from the Catholic University in Milan, she also holds a Master Degree in Public Policy and Finance from SOAS-University of London.

Jack Sim

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Founder of the World Toilet Organization, a network of 200 organizations from 56 Countries that promotes sanitation practices among the low-income population. Jack (a.k.a. “Mr. Toilet”) is Ashoka Global Fellow, a member of the Global Agenda Council (GAC) for Water Security and of the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship, both funded by the World Economic Forum.
Jack received many prizes and awards (“Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006” awarded by Schwab Foundation; “Hero of the Environment 2008” by Time Magazine; “Asian of the Year 2009” by Channel News Asia). Jack holds a Master in Public Administration from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of Singapore.

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Gianpaolo Barbetta

Robin Bidwell

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Sjef Ernes

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Carlo Alberto Marcoaldi

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Franca Odelli

Jack Sim

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