Join the Global Business School Network and co-host Business Call to Action (BCtA), with the Aspen Institute and Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) for an interactive discussion about the fundamentals of inclusive business strategies. Barclays and Vodafone will share how they’ve been able to incorporate these innovative models into core operations to generate new revenues and reach new market segments.

Join us for a Webinar on Thursday, June 9 at 10:00 EDT

Panelists

William Derban
Head of Community Relations, Barclays Africa
Dr. William Derban is the Head of Community Relations with Barclays Africa where he manages the Community Investment Strategy across 10 countries in Africa. This involves developing partnerships with NGOs that provide innovation solutions to social issues that matter to the community and Barclays.

With a unique combination of theoretical and practical experience in corporate social responsibility development, poverty reduction and microfinance strategies, Dr. Derban demonstrates a consistent record of creating sustainable market based solutions to development. In 2009, he was a member of the Investment Panel of experts for the UK Department of International Development (DFID) Financial Education Fund. In 2006, he received the Ghanaian Professionals Award (GPA) 2006 for Banking and Finance in recognition of his work in Ghana and the UK in terms of financial inclusion.

Prior to joining Barclays as a Senior Financial Inclusion Manager in 2006, Dr. Derban earned his PhD in Microfinance and Development from the Nottingham Business School in the UK. Dr. Derban’s specialties include strategy, research, and project management, setting up public and private partnerships from conception to execution on development and poverty reduction with special expertise on microfinance.;

Laura Crow
Sustainability Analyst, Vodafone Group
Laura Crow is a member of Vodafone’s Group Sustainability Team and works with Vodafone markets in Asia, Pacific, Middle East and Africa with a focus on their target to be “recognised as a communications company making one of the most significant contributions to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Laura worked at CSR Asia in Singapore and AccountAbility in London. Laura has a MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and has a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Laura is interested in how commercial communication services can support development.

Moderator

James H. Johnson Jr.
Willam R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School

Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Dr. Johnson's research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, urban poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues.

Dr. Johnson and Dr. John D. Kasarda coauthored The Economic Impact of the African American Population on the State of North Carolina and a study on the economic impact of North Carolina's Hispanic population. With support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Johnson published research on the economic impact of Sept. 11 on U.S. metropolitan communities. Currently he is researching the economic and employment impact of white collar job shifts offshore on U.S. competitiveness.

Dr. Johnson examines the causes and consequences of growing inequality in American society, particularly as it affects socially and economically disadvantaged youth; entrepreneurial approaches to poverty alleviation, job creation, and community development; interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies; and business demography and workforce diversity issues. Fast Company profiled him in Hopes and Dreams.

He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. His latest book is "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles".

He received his PhD from Michigan State University, his MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BS from North Carolina Central University.

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