Hubs are places for meeting, working, learning and innovating, dedicated to inspiring and supporting enterprising initiatives for a better world. I was on the leadership team of the organisation for 3 years during a rapid growth phase. Today you can find Hubs around the world, from London to Sao Paulo, supporting thousands of people.
Working with Barclays Bank for 2 years I was on the strategy team behind a number of new products and services that delivered a blended value - increased financial and social returns on investment. One of them was a micro-debit card for the financially excluded.
Equator Initiative is a UNDP partnership programme. It evolved in response to the the fact that the world’s greatest concentrations of biodiversity are found in countries also beset by the world’s most acute poverty. I researched community-led projects in which the environment was being used as an asset by the poor. Here’s a case-study on Microcredit, poverty and the environment I published in LEISA with Dr. Michael Hooper.
