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Hand in Hand in the media
Why investing in women small and micro business owners will help the global economy recover – World Economic Forum
If if is broke, do fix it – Business Fights Poverty
Rebuild better. Rebuild now – Business Fights Poverty
Want to halt climate change? Empower women – Wired
Hand in Hand fundraiser: why I love my job – Guardian
Hand in Hand’s Seema Ghani wins Outstanding Individual award – Thomson Reuters
Safaricom Foundation and Hand in Hand Eastern Africa partner with Sh20m fund for the unbanked – Standard Media Kenya
Percy Barnevik interview – The Social Enterprise Podcast
Pauline Ngari appears on Power Breakfast – Kenya Citizen TV
Percy Barnevik: How to Eliminate Extreme Poverty – Milken Institute: The Power of Ideas 2016
Pauline Ngari: Let’s talk about poverty (International Women’s Day) – Huffington Post
Pauline Ngari: What does Davos mean for women in Kenya? – Huffington Post
Percy Barnevik: How to reduce the number of refugees in Europe – City A.M.
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild of EL Rothschild talks Hand in Hand International – Spear’s
Microfinance for employment and security – European Microfinance Platform
Tackling poverty with savings, training and microfinance – 100MillionIdeas.org (Microcredit Summit blog)
Interview with Hand in Hand International CEO Josefine Lindänge – Business Fights Poverty
Pauline Ngari: women’s empowerment in Rwanda – Huffington Post
Solving unemployment in Afghanistan – Thomson Reuters
Transforming Afghanistan with women’s economic empowerment – The Solutions Journal
Why micro-businesses are so important for Afghanistan – Forbes
Percy Barnevik’s bet on poverty reduction – Forbes
Seema Ghani TV interview – BBC World News
Interview with Hand in Hand Afghanistan CEO Abdul Rahim Nasry – The Guardian
Our speakers

Percy Barnevik
Hand in Hand International Honorary Chairman Percy Barnevik knows a thing or two about enterprise. Before co-founding Hand in Hand with Dr Kalpana Sankar in 2004, a move that would catalyze the creation of millions of small businesses, Barnevik ran some of the biggest companies in the world.

Seema Ghani
Seema Ghani’s story begins like millions of others: on the crowded road out of Afghanistan at the outset of war. But the path she took was utterly her own.

Josefine Lindänge Gutman
Josefine was appointed as CEO of Hand in Hand International in February 2014. A family background in entrepreneurship and a passion for development led Josefine to start her career at the United Nations Global Compact,a platform for the UN to engage with global business.

Abdul Rahim Nasry
Abdul Rahim Nasry knows first-hand the struggles faced by Hand in Hand’s members. In 1982, as the Soviet war in Afghanistan spread across the country, a 16-year-old Nasry fled his native Parwan Province to neighbouring Pakistan. Far from home and with little hope of returning, he and his family had no choice but to start from scratch.

Dr Kalpana Sankar
Most Hand in Hand leaders have backgrounds in finance or development. Not Hand in Hand co-founder Dr Kalpana Sankar, who earned her PhD not in economics or development studies, but in nuclear physics.

Albert Wambugu
has served as CEO since February 2017. He has played a major role in the creation of more than 235,000 businesses and 315,000 jobs in Kenya, as well Hand in Hand’s expansion into Rwanda to help create 115,000 jobs. Before joining Hand in Hand Eastern Africa he spent 13 years in senior roles with CIC Group, one of Kenya’s fastest-growing insurance companies, including five years as HR Manager.
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For all media and events enquiries, including interviews with our speakers, please contact Head of Marketing and Communications, Jen Glyn

Head of Marketing and Communications
Jen Glyn Head of Marketing and CommunicationsJen is responsible for our public profile in the media and at events. If you would like to interview someone or if you would like us to speak at an event then she would be delighted to hear from you.
jglyn@hihinternational.orgTel: +44 (0)20 7514 5091