Owen Barder: we need an alternative to refugee camps
"When people look back on our time they will wonder why we tolerated refugee camps for so long.” Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, talks in this episode about why we sh...
28 Aug 20181h 1min
Alix Zwane on what philanthropists can learn from venture capitalists
In this episode, we speak to Alix Zwane who is the CEO of the Global Innovation Fund – an organization that invests in generating and growing products and services that help people on less than $5 a d...
21 Aug 201853min
Paul Skidmore on the radical transformation to education in fragile states
Education in low- and middle-income countries is becoming increasingly private: as many as one in four young Africans could be enrolled in some form of private education by 2021. Paul Skidmore is CEO ...
14 Aug 201854min
David Halpern on revolutionizing policy through behavioral science
David Halpern is the Chief Executive Officer of the Behavioural Insights Team in the UK - unofficially known as the ‘Nudge Unit'. In this episode, we dive into how behavioral science works to change p...
7 Aug 201851min
Rachel Glennerster’s insights on the randomization movement
No conversation about social impact is complete without an understanding of randomized control trials, or RCTs. In this episode, we delve into what they are and how they measure impact with Rachel Gle...
31 Jul 201855min
Geoff Mulgan on how collaboration between humans and machines can help solve the world’s biggest problems
Geoff Mulgan, head of the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) talks about what he calls ‘Collective Intelligence’: how machines and humans can collaborate to solve pro...
24 Jul 201850min
Chris Elias on the radical progress we’ve made in global health
Chris Elias is the president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program, which spends $4 billion a year on health and poverty programs. With great power comes great responsibi...
17 Jul 201853min
Jan Egeland on how to broker the world’s most challenging peace agreements
Jan Egeland is one of the world’s most experienced peace negotiators, having worked on the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Peace Accords, as well as mediation efforts in South Sudan, Uganda, Guatemala, and n...
10 Jul 201845min
