How The Resolution Project Helps Young Leaders Succeed

Oliver Libby, Chair and Co-Founder of The Resolution Project, identifies and empowers undergraduate students globally to support the creation of new social ventures. As a GLG Social Impact Fellow, Oliver has access to GLG’s network of Network Members which provides insight to create better, more informed decisions.

Delivering Healthcare to Those Who Need It Most

“400 million people around the world don’t have access to basic primary care,” according to Possible CEO Mark Arnoldy. The problem? While established approaches to healthcare in the public and private sectors—including philanthropic initiatives—can be effective, they are largely unsuited to address the unique challenges of those living in extreme poverty. Since 2008, Possible has […]

Rebuilding a Community After a Disaster

From Katrina to Sandy, SBP has been working hard to shrink the time between disaster and recovery. 2014 Social Impact Fellow Zack Rosenburg is the Co-Founder and CEO of SBP (formerly, St. Bernard Project), whose mission is to ensure communities impacted by disaster can recover in a prompt, efficient, and predictable manner. Rosenburg co-founded SBP […]

A Franchise Business Model for Clean Water

Bangladesh’s arsenic crisis has been deemed “the largest mass poisoning in human history” by the World Health Organization (WHO); Drinkwell was founded by Minhaj Chowdhury to address this crisis that impacts more than 48 million people across India and Bangladesh. Drinkwell blends patented filtration technologies with a franchise business model; to date, the nonprofit has […]

Bringing Design Thinking to Affordable Medical Technology

D-Rev is a nonprofit medical device company designing and delivering affordable products to vulnerable populations in more than 50 countries. CEO Krista Donaldson explains how she and her team use systems thinking to design products. She also discusses the importance of designing products with impact in mind. “We’re an impact driven organization,” she says, “we […]

Unleashing Students’ Potential

When Kanya Balakrishna and her Co-Founder Andrew Mangino spoke to high school students a few years ago, there was a pattern in answers they heard: school no longer felt relevant to young people. So, in 2011, Balakrishna and Mangino set about making classrooms around the country more exciting and engaging by launching The Future Project. […]

Making Inner Cities More Energy Efficient

On a cold winter day in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Donnel Baird noticed something peculiar: most of the windows in a high-rise public housing complex he passed by were wide open. “A lightbulb went off,” he recalls, how could he make buildings in America’s poorest cities more energy efficient and create jobs in the process? Seeing an […]

The Importance of Skills-Based Volunteering

Catchafire Founder & CEO Rachael Chong sits down with GLG to discuss skills-based volunteering for professionals. Rachael Chong is a 2014 GLG Social Impact Fellow, which gives Catchafire access to GLG’s network of over 600,000 experts to help make better, more informed decisions.

Inside the Lowline: the World’s First Underground Park

It’s not science-fiction. Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Lowline, Dan Barasch, plans to open the world’s first underground park in a historic, subterranean New York City trolley terminal, using advanced solar technology to transmit sunlight directly beneath the street. Barasch believes NYC is 30-50% of where it should be as far as providing free […]

Making Social Services Accessible to Those in Need

“You’re not always ready when life throws you a curveball,” says Erine Gray, Founder and CEO of Aunt Bertha. To provide assistance to those facing unexpected hardship, Gray created a search and referral platform that matches people in need with available government and social services programs. For his work, Gray was selected as a 2015 GLG […]

Creating Opportunities in Latin America Through Impact Investing

The goal of impact investing goes well beyond the promise of financial return—it’s about solving social and environmental challenges. Ben Powell and his team at Agora Partnerships realized that while there’s no shortage of energy and growth potential in Latin America, there’s a major bottleneck at the intersection of entrepreneurs and capital. Agora Partnerships is […]

Bringing Visibility to Global Artisans

Nest is a nonprofit committed the social and economic advancement of global artisans and homeworkers. By leveraging craft development as a tool for social change, Nest helps artisans achieve poverty alleviation, women’s empowerment, and cultural preservation. Nest works to bring viability and visibility to the global artisan community through hands-on tools, training, and infrastructure support. […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.