Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that works to solve the problems of global poverty by delivering affordable, critical goods and services – like health, housing and water – to the poor. Prior to Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership program at the Rockefeller Foundation. She also founded Duterimbere, a micro-finance institution in Rwanda. She began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank.

Jacqueline is currently on the advisory boards of Stanford Graduate School of Business and Innovations Journal, published by MIT Press. She is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow and a Synergos Institute Senior Fellow, as well as a frequent speaker at international conferences, including the World Economic Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative and TED. Jacqueline has an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Economics/International Relations from the University of Virginia.

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October 29, 2008.