Interviews

 

Astrid Bonfield

Interview - Astrid Bonfield

1 January 2009
Alliance magazine

The ground-breaking Oslo Treaty banning cluster munitions was adopted by 107 states in Dublin inMay 2008 and signed in Oslo on 3 December. The Diana, Princess of WalesMemorial Fund has been supporting the campaign for a global ban on clusterbombs since 2003. Caroline Hartnell talked to Chief Executive Astrid Bonfieldabout the challenges of supporting campaigning, especially for a foundationcommitted to spend out by 2013; what it feels like to have funded a successfulcampaign; and what failing to achieve a ban would have felt like. Click here to read ...

Uday Khemka

Interview - Uday Khemka

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

The special feature in this issue of Alliance looks at why foundations on the whole are failing to respond to emerging issues such as climate change in any way that is commensurate to the scale of the challenge. The Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation is one that, faced by the realities of climate change, did decide on a real change of direction. Click here to read ...

Peter Heller

Interview - Peter Heller

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

In 1997, Peter Heller and his family established the Canopus Foundation, whose support for clean energy encompasses grantmaking, social investment and networking. For Heller, it was ‘a logical way to go’. His own private equity company, set up in 1996, invests exclusively in solar, wind power and  energy efficiency companies. Prior to that, he was deputy mayor for environmental protection in Freiburg. Added to this was ‘the strong entrepreneurial background of my family [the family business is printing] and the strong commitment of myself and my family members to environmental protection.’ Click here to read ...

Jane Wales

Interview - Jane Wales

1 November 2008
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The new ‘On the Grapevine’ column in the September issue of Alliance wondered whether Jane Wales was the most powerful woman in global philanthropy. So Alliance went straight to the source and asked her about it – and about other things, too, such as what her four jobs involve, how much they complement one another, and – inevitably – how philanthropy will respond to the current financial crisis.

Are you the most powerful woman in global philanthropy? Click here to read ...

Matthew Bishop

Interview - Matthew Bishop and Michael Green

1 October 2008
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Are the super-rich the new super-heroes of the world stage, as Matthew Bishop and Michael Green claim in Philanthrocapitalism: How the rich can save the world? Are there limits to what philanthrocapitalists can achieve? Is the philanthrocapitalist approach likely to tip the power balance even more in favour of funders? Isn’t it undemocratic for the super-rich to have so much unaccountable power? Caroline Hartnell talked to Matthew Bishop and Michael Green about their new book. Click here to read ...

Luis Ubinas

Interview - Luis Ubiñas

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

There’s an old saying that new brooms are inclined to sweep clean. Luis Ubiñas came from outside the philanthropy sector (he was previously at McKinsey) to become President of the Ford Foundation in January this year. As he explained to Caroline Hartnell, however, this ‘new broom’ is concerned to maintain and build on the strengths of the Foundation as a global institution and to ensure that fairness continues to be its core value. Click here to read ...

Alain Merieux

Interview - Alain Mérieux

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Both Mérieux Alliance, the Mérieux family's holding company, which brings together five international companies in the field of health, and the two family foundations, Fondation Mérieux and Fondation Christophe et Rodolphe Mérieux, work to combat infectious diseases in developing countries. Are there advantages in having company and foundation working in the same field like this, Alliance asked Alain Mérieux, who is president of both. Click here to read ...

Wolfgang Hafenmayer

Interview - Wolfgang Hafenmayer

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

In September 2007, LGT Venture Philanthropy, funded by the LGT Bank and the Princely house of Liechtenstein, was launched. Based in Zurich, the fund will invest around $10 million over the next two years in Africa, Latin America and Asia. What kind of organizations will the new fund support and how will venture philanthropy’s high-engagement approach operate at such a distance? What are the main challenges to applying business precepts to the non-profit sector? Click here to read ...

Alex Pryor

Interview - Alex Pryor

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Guayaki is an Argentine and US company that exports yerba mate, a kind of tea, to the US but its real aims are ‘social transformation and the environmental restoration of the rainforest’. Though it operates in classic non-profit territory, it’s a business, if an unusual one - one indicator Guayaki uses to measure its performance is the number of species of birds found in its growing areas. As Alex Pryor, its co-founder, explained to Alliance, his decision to use commercial means to achieve social and environmental ends stemmed partly from his qualms about the pure profit motive of business and his fear that foundation money sometimes comes from questionable sources. Click here to read ...

Alan Gegenschatz

Interview - Alan Gegenschatz

1 July 2008
www.alliancemagazine.org

Alan Gegenschatz is Country General Manager of TNT Argentina. Staff turnover is 4 per cent as opposed to 10 per cent for the company worldwide and annual growth is in double digits. How is this possible when so much of his time seems to be taken up with TNT’s global CSR programmes, country programmes in areas such as hunger, diversity and recycling, and meeting global certification standards, including the Global Compact. Everything he’s doing is 100 per cent aligned with the corporate strategy, he tells Alliance. Click here to read ...

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