Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 6:30 pm – Red Room, Student Services Building
Join us for a discussion. Panelists include:
Scott Edward Anderson - Founder of the popular blog, the green skeptic: blogging the new green economy.™ He is currently developing a green energy investing start-up. He has been a vice president with Ashoka, the global association of leading social entrepreneurs, and for 15 years served in a variety of management positions with The Nature Conservancy, where he was a member of its Global Climate Change and Marine Habitat strategy teams and the Philanthropy Cabinet. He was part of the first cohort of John Sawhill Conservation Leadership Fellows, is currently a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program, and serves on the advisory board of Green Microfinance, LLC, which develops and markets green energy products and certifies microfinance institutions through its branded certification product.
Robert Katz – Knowledge & Communications Associate at Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Before joining Acumen Fund, he was an Associate with the Markets and Enterprise Program of the World Resources Institute. Rob researches, writes and speaks about “base of the pyramid” business approaches to poverty alleviation and environmental degradation. He is the co-founder and co-Managing Editor of www.NextBillion.net, a web site and blog about enterprise and development. As a principal analyst of household survey data and co-author for The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid (March, 2007), he studied BOP market structure and spending patterns extensively. Rob has consulted with a number of Fortune 500 corporations on BOP strategy, spoken to conferences from Tokyo to Bogota, and done scenario work for institutions such as the XPRIZE Foundation and the Institute for the Future, among others. He is also an active contributor to Worldchanging: Another World Is Here, an online magazine/blog and offline book about tools, models, and ideas to build a better future.
Rex McKenzie – Assistant Professor of Economics at Purchase College, SUNY. Professor McKenzie has worked in the banking industry and served as a Small Business Consultant at the Self Start Fund in Kingston, Jamaica. He has presented and written extensively on social and economic development in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Refreshments will be served. Event open to the public. Moderated by Leah Massar Bloom.
Questions? Contact Leah Massar Bloom at (914) 251-6413 or leah.massar@purchase.edu
See the flyer for the panel discussion.
Curious? Want to know what Social Entrepreneurship is? See the PBS page: What is Social Entrepreneurship?
These events are possible due to a grant from Frontline/World and the American Library Association. Campus sponsors include the Purchase College Library, the Economics Club, the Environmental Studies Program, the Sociology Program, and the Office of Sustainability.
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Discussion moderated by Professor George Kraemer.