Oxford Policy Management, Oxford
A presentation by serial entrepreneur Nicholas Colloff, a member of the senior management team at Oxfam GB and a Trustee of Transparency International. Previously, Nicholas was Oxfam GB’s Country Director in Russia, where the programme focused domestically on urban livelihood and access to basic services, and internationally, on Russia’s resumed global role as donor and climate change actor. He has also been involved in launching a new SME impact investment fund; a partnership between Oxfam and Swiss-based company Symbiotics, aiming to tackle poverty by providing SME finance in the global South and addressing the dichotomy between big winners and small losers.
Fighting Poverty and Corruption – 3 December 2013
Resource Revolution: Can the World Cope? – 20 September 2012
McKinsey Global Institute London A presentation by Dr. Fraser Thompson, a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey. Dr. Thompson leads research on sustainable development and natural resource economics globally, as well as productivity and growth issues in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. |
AFRICA: What’s happening? – 22 November 2011
World Bank London Office, Millbank Tower
A lunch time talk to hear former Director of the World Bank Institute (WBI) Darius Mans talk about his new role as President of Africare, a private charitable organization with more than 200 programmes reaching families and communities in every region of Sub-Saharan Africa.