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Francis Karugu is an international development specialist with a mainstay in political economy analysis, development finance, impact assessment (monitoring and evaluation), market systems, and policy analysis. He was part of the core team implementing the Business Innovation Facility, a DFID-funded market systems development program that had interventions in Africa and Asia where he served as a Technical Advisor. He has also been advising “We Can Fight Climate Change,” a project of the Climate Justice Resilience Fund/New Venture Fund in Kenya and Tanzania.
Dominic Brown is Economic Justice Program Manager at the Alternative Information and Development Centre. AIDC was formed in 1996 in response to the democratic transition in South Africa and the new opportunities and challenges it brought those seeking greater social justice within the democracy.
Gabriel Crouse is a writer and Senior Advisor of the Democracy Project at the Institute of Race Relations (IR), a liberal think tank that promotes political and economic freedom. His journalism is based on fieldwork and quantitative analysis, with a focus on land reform. Gabriel holds a degree in Philosophy from Princeton University.
The discussion was moderated by James Henry, investigative journalist, Yale Global Justice Fellow and former Chief Economist at McKinsey & Co.
These presentations and discussion took place at Yale University on 4 May 2021. Opinions and statements expressed by event moderators and participants are their own personal views and do not represent the views of the university.
Francis Karugu is an international development specialist with a mainstay in political economy analysis, development finance, impact assessment (monitoring and evaluation), market systems, and policy analysis. He was part of the core team implementing the Business Innovation Facility, a DFID-funded market systems development program that had interventions in Africa and Asia where he served as a Technical Advisor. He has also been advising “We Can Fight Climate Change,” a project of the Climate Justice Resilience Fund/New Venture Fund in Kenya and Tanzania.
Dominic Brown is Economic Justice Program Manager at the Alternative Information and Development Centre. AIDC was formed in 1996 in response to the democratic transition in South Africa and the new opportunities and challenges it brought those seeking greater social justice within the democracy.
Gabriel Crouse is a writer and Senior Advisor of the Democracy Project at the Institute of Race Relations (IR), a liberal think tank that promotes political and economic freedom. His journalism is based on fieldwork and quantitative analysis, with a focus on land reform. Gabriel holds a degree in Philosophy from Princeton University.
The discussion was moderated by James Henry, investigative journalist, Yale Global Justice Fellow and former Chief Economist at McKinsey & Co.
These presentations and discussion took place at Yale University on 4 May 2021. Opinions and statements expressed by event moderators and participants are their own personal views and do not represent the views of the university.
