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Moral leadership in imperfect times: a conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz (CEO, Acumen)
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About the speaker, Jacqueline Novogratz:
In 1986 Jacqueline Novogratz quit her job on Wall Street to co-found Rwanda's first microfinance institution, Duterimbere. Her experience there inspired her to write the bestseller, "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World", and to create Acumen. Indeed, when she founded Acumen in 2001, few had heard of the words impact investing. Nineteen years later, under Jacqueline's leadership, Acumen has invested $128 million to build more than 128 social enterprises across Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States. As a pioneer of impact investing, Acumen and its investments have brought critical services like healthcare, education and clean energy to hundreds of millions of low-income people.
Jacqueline has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world's 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, which also honored her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2020, Jacqueline published her second book "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World".
She holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Economics/International Relations from the University of Virginia.
About the book "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World"
Just as Jacqueline Novogratz's new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World, makes its way to readers, a series of major social and health crises have thrown into sharp relief the gaping wounds of our era, from a broken health system to climate change and skyrocketing inequality and growing divisiveness. Our inadequate systems and institutions are slumping beneath a host of modern crises. Most urgently, moral leaders are proving a scarce commodity.