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Speakers
Sanjay Purohit
CEO and chief curator, Centre for Exponential Change
Sanjay Purohit is the CEO and chief curator of the Centre for Exponential Change. He has over 30 years of diverse experience spanning corporate and development sectors. Since 2016, he has been co-creating “societal thinking,” an approach to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, and sustainably. He has engaged with more than 500 change leaders across over 20 countries with societal thinking in domains such as climate action, education, gender equity, health care, and livelihoods. The core ideas of societal thinking are encapsulated in his “Think” books. He is a mentor and co-founder of apurva.ai, a platform to amplify the collective wisdom of communities with artificial intelligence. He serves on the board of advisers of Don Norman Design Award that champions humanity-centered design; Fundamentum, a scale investment fund; and Sparks & Honey, a culture consultancy.
Raj Kumar
President and editor-in-chief, Devex
Raj Kumar is the founding President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex, the media platform for the global development community. A social enterprise dedicated to ensuring global development efforts do more good for more people, Devex was born in 2000 when Raj was a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School. Today, there are 100+ Devexers around the world serving a global audience of more than one million aid workers and development professionals. Beginning as a kid in Kerala, India, Raj has witnessed firsthand determined and courageous development work in over 50 countries – it’s what drives the Devex mission to “Do Good. Do It Well.” He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a media leader and former humanitarian council chair for the World Economic Forum, and has interviewed on-camera and on- stage hundreds of global luminaries on the most important challenges of our time. Raj is the author of the book “The Business of Changing the World,” a go-to primer on the ideas, people, and technology disrupting the aid industry.
About the Devex Book Club
It seems like every day there’s an exciting new book coming out on global challenges like poverty and climate change. Are you fascinated by books like these, especially the ones that challenge preconceived notions and present bold new ideas? Then join me as I bring you conversations with authors on the most important yet underreported issues facing our world. Each month I’ll recommend one or two books and let you know when I’ll be speaking with authors so you can join in. Follow me on twitter @raj_devex where I’ll be posting about the books and conversations. And tweet me what books you suggest I read and what questions you’d like me to ask.
As an author myself - check out my book The Business of Changing the World - I love to speak to fellow-authors to uncover the latest thinking and most surprising takes in global development. Sign up to get invitations to these virtual conversations and be a part of this book club. Join me!
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Raj Kumar, President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex
