Interviews

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cherie Nursalim is Executive Director of GITI Group. She lives in Singapore and was born in Singapore but she’s Indonesian by nationality. The greatest influence on her giving, as with most of the other donors …

‘When I was young I saw the gaps and differences between rich and poor people,’ explains José Ignacio Avalos Hernandez, when asked how he got started as a donor. ‘I asked my parents why this …

James Chen’s father grew up in Qidong, Jiangsu Province, then a very rural, poor part of China. Once he had made it in business terms, he started giving back to his home village, building schools, …

Ginny Jordan, Devin Hibbard and Torkin Wakefield founded BeadforLife in September 2004. They first met the women rolling beads – refugees from war in Uganda, struggling to feed their families on less than a dollar …

For Ikram Mian, it all starts with the family: the philanthropic ideals he inherited from his parents from early childhood permeate his whole life. ‘It’s in our value system,’ he says, ‘it’s in our blood. …