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Panel discussion at the DLD conference with Saskia Bruysten, Yunus Social Business); Coen van Oostrom, EDGE; Ruma Bose, Clearco; Matthew Bishop, Social Progress Imperative; and Lisa Witter, Apolitical Foundation

Power Couples: Love & Impact

DLD Munich 2023

January 13, 2023

It’s hard to change the world all on your own. But when you find the right partner, anything is possible. This conversation features a group of speakers who have dedicated their careers to making the world a better place – by finding each other and having real impact together.

The power couples in this conversation with Lisa Witter, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical, are: Saskia Bruysten, Co-Founder of Yunus Social Business; Coen van Oostrom, founder of EDGE; Ruma Bose, the Chief Growth Officer of Clearco; and Matthew Bishop, author and innovator, currently a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute and London School of Economics.

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Matthew Bishop

Social Progress Imperative

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.

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Saskia Bruysten

Yunus Social Business

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.

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Coen van Oostrom

EDGE

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.

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Lisa Witter

Apolitical

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.

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Ruma Bose

Clearco

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.

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