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Sawa Energy empowers East Africa’s small and medium businesses by reducing electricity pricing and volatility. Sawa Energy builds, owns, and operates solar systems for their clients, enabling them to go solar and save money without any upfront costs.Jordan is an active entrepreneur and investor in the climate tech space. Most recently, he led the restructuring of East African Power, supporting a $10M capital raise for projects across the region. He has advised and invested in energy startups ...

Doreen Ndishabandi is the Chief of Staff and Director of Government Relations for One Acre Fund, Rwanda. One Acre Fund supplies smallholders farmers with the financing, training, and market support they need to increase their yields and generate a gain in farm income. Globally, One Acre Fund employs more than 8,500 staff who serve more than 1.3 million farm families each year, with an additional 1 million households reached through private and public partnerships. In he...

Arun is a Kiwi-Indian entrepreneur living in Kigali, Rwanda. He co-founded Hence, a tech startup that is helping to create a fair, efficient and transformative knowledge economy for people everywhere, initially by bringing data to the way companies work with their lawyers. Arun also helped set up the Rwandan Mathematics Olympiad Program, working with the top mathematical problem solvers from across Rwandan high schools. He believes that talent is universal but opportunity is...

Sarah is a lawyer who advises developing country governments on laws, policies, contracts and treaties relating to responsible investment, particularly in agriculture. Sarah is based in Rwanda where she worked for two years as a legal advisor to the Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Industry providing legal and policy advice on investment, competition, trade, industrial policy, intellectual property, and other areas of economic law. Sarah has also worked as an embedded legal advisor t...

This episode was recorded on 6 January 2020 at the Posner Center for International Development in Denver, Colorado. Emily Karol is the Senior Manager of Fund Development with iDE. Emily first joined iDE in the Digital Media Manager role curating iDE's presence online to engage supporters and reach new audiences. In 2019, she transitioned to the Fund Development team where she helped launch iDE's Corporate Partnerships program and "100 Farmers" Legacy Society.Chris Nicoletti ...

Roy Joseph has a degree in Economics from University of Delhi and worked in Management Consulting in New Delhi. Roy moved to Rwanda to work with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) on Tuberculosis and has worked closely with governments in East and West Africa to scale up Tuberculosis access programs. He has also helped design and implement health programs in Malawi, Kenya and India; incorporating new digital technologies to aid in finding people with Tuberculosis. ...

Dr. Iwona Bisaga is a Research Associate at Loughborough University on the Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme where she leads research on humanitarian energy access. Prior to that, she was a Research Associate at University College London where she worked on resilient recovery of displaced communities in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. She also worked with Chatham House- a UK international affairs think tank, where she led on the harmonization of humanitarian energy access indicators.Iwona...

Join Meg as she sits down with Isreal Bimpe to discuss his work with Zipline - a high-tech, on-demand national drone delivery service that provides medical supplies to rural health facilities. From blood and bull semen flying through the sky, to the role of governments in development, and the criticality of African youth empowerment, this episode is sure to kickstart conversations around innovation and how to "debunk" commonly-accepted development practices.Israel is Director of Africa ...

Meg sits down with David Spielman, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He joined IFPRI in 2004 and is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda, where he leads the Rwanda Strategy Support Program. David’s research agenda covers a range of topics including agriculture and rural development policy; agricultural science, technology, and innovation; plant genetic resources and seed systems; agricultural extension and advisory services; and commun...