Sponsors
Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME)
CEME was founded at The Fletcher School in 2007 the first global center to: be a leading global hub for research, study, and networking devoted to enterprises in the emerging markets; and promote understanding and engagement that contributes to global prosperity and stability. CEME draws on an extensive network of leading professionals in private, public, academic and non-government enterprises in emerging and developed countries. CEME’s research program in Enterprises Serving the Base of the Pyramid and Entrepreneurship examines the rapid growth of micro-financial services and local small and medium-sized businesses as a force for economic development, as well as the role of the private sector in their growth.
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
As the United States’ first professional graduate school of international affairs, The Fletcher School has for decades prepared the world’s leaders to become innovative problem-solvers in government, business, and non-governmental organizations. Since 1933, Fletcher’s multi-disciplinary education in business, law, international relations, and regional studies has offered individuals and organizations a unique global perspective on the day’s most pressing issues.
Oxfam America
Oxfam America is committed to creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. Oxfam America believes that:
- The lives of all human beings are of equal value and all have equal rights.
- In a world rich in resources poverty can be overcome.
- Poverty makes people more vulnerable to conflict and natural calamity (including climate change).
- People’s vulnerability to poverty and injustice is increased by inequality based on, for example, gender, race, ethnicity, class, caste and disability; women are especially disadvantaged.
- Overcoming poverty and injustice involves changing ideas and beliefs, institutions, policies, and practices.
- Technology and markets are part of lasting solutions to poverty; but people must be empowered to harness them.
- To overcome poverty and injustice people must take control of their own lives.
- Working together as global citizens we can build a just and safer world.
Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
The Feinstein International Center's research — on the politics and policy of aiding the vulnerable, on protection and rights in crisis situations, and on the restoration of lives and livelihoods — feeds into both its teaching and its long-term partnerships with humanitarian and human rights agencies.
Through publications, seminars, and confidential evidence-based briefings, the Feinstein International Center seeks to influence the making and application of policy in the countries affected by crises and in those states in a position to influence such crises.