Power Couples: Love & Impact

Matthew Bishop is an influential author and innovator. He is a founding board member of the Social Progress Imperative and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute. Previously he spent more than 25 years as a writer and editor at The Economist, then led the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.

Saskia Bruysten is Co-Founder of Yunus Social Business (YSB), along with Nobel Peace Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. YSB Funds invests in social businesses in developing countries with affordable financing and growth support.

Coen van Oostrom is the founder of EDGE, the largest commercial property developer in the Netherlands, which aims to dramatically increase sustainability in the real-estate business and seeks to bring further change to urban development.

Lisa Witter is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical, a global peer-to-peer platform for government that helps policymakers find the policies, experts and partners they need to solve the hardest challenges facing our societies.

Ruma Bose is Chief Growth Officer at Clearco, a SoftBank-backed fintech unicorn which provides data-driven investing to e-commerce founders. She built Clearco’s international operations from scratch and scaled it to 11 countries so far.