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Funding innovation and innovative funding: Addressing the pioneer gap in fragile places
Registration required: https://alixzwane.eventbrite.com
Alix Zwane, CEO of the Global Innovation Fund, will discuss how alleviating poverty and reducing fragility requires a pro-development, market-based approach to gather in new ideas and additional financial flows. In her view, patient and long-term investment capital is a critical component for breaking the extreme poverty cycle.
Alix Zwane has 20 years of experience advancing the agenda of evidence-based aid and international development as an investor, a social entrepreneur, and an innovator herself. She has worked at the intersection of the evidence and innovation agendas from a diverse set of posts. Among her various roles, Alix was the first employee and Executive Director at Evidence Action, which under her leadership catalysed school-based deworming for hundreds of millions of children around the world, and the provision of safe drinking water for millions of people in four countries.
Date:
25 January 2018, 17:45
Venue:
Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Speaker:
Alix Zwane (Global Innovation Fund)
Organising department:
Saïd Business School
Organiser:
Corporate Events, Saïd Business School (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
corporate.events@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Corporate Events, Saïd Business School (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Distinguished Speaker Seminar at Oxford Saïd
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/distinguished-speaker-seminar-alix-zwane-registration-38102726280
Booking email:
corporate.events@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free admission
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Amalia Rusei
