Actions Panel
Hacking the SDGs: Partnerships + Design Thinking for Sustainable Development
Date and time
Location
M200
Cabot Intercultural Center 160 Packard Ave Medford, MA 02155Description
“Hacking the SDGs: Partnerships + Design
Thinking for Sustainable Development”
Angela Hansen
Partner
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
12:30pm
Mugar 200
The Fletcher School
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For more information, contact Dan Popko (daniel.popko@tufts.edu)
BACKGROUND
Angela R. Hansen
Partner, Dalberg
Angela is an Advisor on Agriculture & Food Security at Dalberg Global Development Advisors. She has formulated strategy for leading international NGOs, multilateral organizations and private sector companies in Europe, North America, South America and Asia and lived and worked across Africa for over a decade.
Angela helps her clients enhance performance, meet objectives, develop new partnerships and build inclusive markets. She works multilateral organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank as well as with multinational companies such as Land O’Lakes, Syngenta and PepsiCo. She also supports multi-stakeholder initiatives like Grow Africa; a collaboration of the World Economic Forum, the African Union and NEPAD. Angela has architected a number of new partnerships. One partnership, between the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and Standard Bank, created a $100M guaranteed and distributed debt fund for small farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. She also advised the collaboration of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the African Development Bank to establish the African Agribusiness and Agro-Industries Development Initiative. Angela has also worked with the World Food Programme and a number of its stakeholders to enhance the Farm to Market Alliance to include small farmers and local SMEs in the food aid supply chain. Angela has advised most leading DFIs on investing in African agriculture and the supported the development of the AfDB’s new Agriculture Transformation Strategy. She recently advised the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on their investments in gender, ICT and agriculture in Africa and India and the Walmart Foundation on investments in an inclusive global food system.
Prior to Dalberg, Angela worked in Accenture’s Global Business Solutions practice, where she specialized in strategic planning for corporate clients in North America and Asia. She was educated at the University of Minnesota (BSc), Columbia Business School and the University of Cape Town in South Africa (MBA). In addition to her role at Dalberg, Angela is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, where she teaches Human Centered Design, Inclusive Business Model Development and Strategy for Emerging Economies. She is a contributing author to two books; Corporate Citizenship in Africa (Greenleaf) and Financial Inclusion in Africa (AfDB).