Mar 16 2017
Perspective
An estimated 83 million rural households across India still struggle for access to a dependable source of electricity, making them particularly vulnerable, as cities take precedence over “last mile” connections …
Mar 16 2017
Perspective
If the Ebola crisis in West Africa and the global Zika outbreak taught the world anything, it is that all health systems – regardless of size and available resources – …
Feb 27 2017
Perspective
In July of 2016 I traveled to Iringa town, one of the largest maize producing regions in Tanzania. Iringa has a beautiful landscape, surrounded by rocky hills with gold maize …
Feb 27 2017
Perspective
Food loss occurs when crops rot before they reach markets. This is usually due to inefficiencies in the post-harvest management system, in the form of poor harvesting and handling methods, …
Feb 27 2017
Perspective
Just months after I became president of The Rockefeller Foundation, New Orleans experienced one of the worst disasters in American history: Hurricane Katrina.
While we did what we could to help …
Feb 22 2017
Perspective
The best conferences send you back to the office with a notebook full of “notes to self”—things you want to try or think about doing differently.
Last week I had the …
Jan 31 2017
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation
Jan 10 2017
Perspective
We’ve all been there. Do we choose the apple or the cookie? The gym or the couch? The new shoes or the savings account? We often know what we should …
Dec 09 2016
The Bellagio Center
Dec 09 2016
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