BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260411T012145EDT-95724uvvwl@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260411T052145Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Max Bell School of Public Policy's McConnell Visiting Scholar for 2021-2022\, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli\, Amplifying the Influence of Small Businesses is an event series that explores the challenges and op portunities facing Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs). Topics includ e sustainability\, local and global policy\, utilizing data\, enabling par tnerships\, and digital technology. This session features Ravi Venkatesan\ , the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME).\n\n >>Watch the recording of this event\n\nSpeakers:\n\nRavi Venkatesan\n\nRav i Venkatesan is a Business Leader\, Author\, and Social Entrepreneur in Be ngaluru\, India.\n\nRavi is UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young Peop le and Innovation and also the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Ent repreneurship (GAME)\, a multi-stakeholder coalition which aims to create 10m entrepreneurs and 50 million jobs in India by 2030. He is a Director o f Hitachi Ltd.\, a Trustee of Rockefeller Foundation and a partner at impa ct investor Unitus Ventures.\n\nRavi has spent three decades leading organ izations in the private sector\, public sector and social sector\, across three continents and multiple industries. He is a former Chairman of the B ank of Baroda\; between 2015-18\, he led the turnaround of India's second largest public sector bank. As a board member then Co-Chairman of Infosys Ltd.\, he helped steer the company through a challenging set of transition s. Between 2004-11\, as Chairman & CEO of Microsoft India\, Ravi helped bu ild India into Microsoft's second-largest presence in the world and the mo st respected multinational company in India. From 1997-2004\, Ravi served as the Chairman of Cummins India and led its transformation into India’s l eading provider of engines and power generation solutions. Ravi has served on the boards of Harvard Business School\, AB Volvo\, Strand Lifesciences \, JCB\, ATREE and Thermax.\n\nRavi is the founder of Social Venture Partn ers India\, a pan-India network of philanthropists. He was instrumental in creating Microsoft India’s Project Shiksha\, the world’s largest computer literacy program and also helped establish the Cummins College of Enginee ring\, India’s first engineering college for women\, in Pune.\n\nRavi has a BTech from IIT Bombay\, an MS from Purdue University\, and an MBA from H arvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He is a recipient of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay’s Distinguished Alumnus Award an d Purdue University's Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. He is the a uthor of an acclaimed book 'Conquering the Chaos: Win in India\, Win Every where' published by Harvard Business Review. His next book 'What the Heck Do with My Life?' will be released in Dec 2021. Ravi was voted as one of I ndia's best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and is one of LinkedIn's Glo bal Influencers. He was voted Microsoft's AlumniHERO 2020.\n\nNdidi Okonkw o Nwuneli\n\nMrs. Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is an expert on social innovation\ , African agriculture and nutrition\, entrepreneurship\, and youth develop ment. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is a recognized serial entrepreneur\, author\, public speaker\, and consulta nt. She is the Max Bell School of Public Policy's McConnell Visiting Schol ar for 2021-2022.\n\nMrs. Nwuneli started her career as a management consu ltant with McKinsey & Company\, working in Chicago\, New York\, and Johann esburg. She returned to Nigeria in 2000 to serve as the pioneer executive director of FATE Foundation\, supporting young entrepreneurs to start and scale their businesses. In 2002\, she established LEAP Africa to inspire\, empower\, and equip a new cadre of principled\, disciplined\, and dynamic young leaders in Africa. In the same year\, she established NIA to suppor t female university students in Nigeria to achieve their highest potential .\n\nOver the past 13 years\, she has focused exclusively on transforming the African agriculture and nutrition landscape. Through her work as the c o-founder and Managing Partner of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition \, she has partnered with a range of private and public sector organizatio ns to implement ecosystem solutions in the African agriculture and food la ndscapes. As the co-founder of AACE Foods\, which produces a range of pack aged spices\, seasonings\, and cereals for local and international markets \, Mrs. Nwuneli has propelled the growth of a catalytic business. As the f ounder of Nourishing Africa\, a digital home for food and agriculture entr epreneurs operating on the African Continent\, she is accelerating the gro wth of the ecosystem and supporting entrepreneurs in 35 African countries. Her latest start-up—Changing Narratives Africa—is building bridges by sho wcasing the Continent’s contributions to the global food ecosystem and sca ling proudly African food and beverage brands.\n\nNwuneli serves on the bo ards of the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutr ition (GAIN)\, AGRA\, Nigerian Breweries Plc. (Heineken)\, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. India\, Fairfax Africa Holdings Canada\, Royal DSM Sustaina bility Board\, Netherlands\, and the African Philanthropy Forum. She previ ously served on the Boards of Nestle Nigeria Plc.\, the World Vegetable Ce nter and Cornerstone Insurance Plc.\n\nNwuneli was recognized as a Young G lobal Leader and a Schwab Social Innovator by the World Economic Forum and received a National Honor from the Nigerian Government. She was listed as one of the 20 Power African Women by Forbes\, on the 2019 100 Most Influe ntial Africans List by New African Magazine and was a Harvard Business Sch ool 2021 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award Honoree. She is a TED Glob al speaker.\n\nNwuneli is the author of 'Social Innovation in Africa: A Pr actical Guide for Scaling Impact\,' and 'Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Sca ling Resilient Agriculture Businesses\,' both published by Routledge. She is also the author of “Working for God in the Marketplace.”\n\nShe holds a n M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow.\n DTSTART:20220609T160000Z DTEND:20220609T170000Z LOCATION:Online SUMMARY:Mass Entrepreneurship - an idea whose time has come URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/channels/event/mass-entrepreneurshi p-idea-whose-time-has-come-336609 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR