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The World Bank Institute and the Institute for Corporate Responsibility present an online Conference on Business and Peace.
Profile Information
- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I am a social entrepreneur
- Website:
- http://www.mentori.org
- About my work:
- I feel passionately that business can make a major contribution to fighting poverty and I believe the day will come when it will be the norm not the exception for companies to consider the impact of their core business -their people, products and processes -on international development. May that day be soon!
Work
I was a Marketeer at GlaxoSmithKline for eight years. More recently I co-founded INSPIRIS (www.inspiris.co.uk), where I now lead the company's work on marketing fair trade products. I also led the development of Mentori (www.mentori.org) the initiative that helps SME's in developing countries grow. Mentori supports a network of business professionals who volunteer from their desks and support SMEs online.
Languages
Fluent: English, Spanish, French
Business: Catalan, Italian
Conversational: German
Countries
I have lived and worked in England, Spain, France and Guyana
Yvette Torres-Rahman's Blog
Let's welcome the new African free trade zone!
In a BBC article it was estimated that the new African free trade zone of 26 countries has a combined GDP of $624bn (£382.9bn).
The coming together of these countries should also help them cope better with the adverse e… Continue
Posted on October 25, 2008 at 12:35pm —
Scaling-up Action to Fight Poverty
When I first started working with Inspiris in the field of business fighting poverty, I did some pro-bono marketing work for a great consumer brand called Heart of Africa. All profits made from the brand are re-invested in business development projects in Africa. The organisation behind it is Traidlinks whose vision is to "diminish poverty in developing countries by inspiring,… Continue
Posted on October 15, 2008 at 11:30pm —
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