Africa Business Conference
2101 HBS Student Mail Center
Boston, MA 02163

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Sustainable Equitable Access to HIV and AIDS Services

Moderator: Nava Ashraf
Coordinator: Steven Porter, Darshan Mehta, Gilbert Addo

	Dr. John Sargent President and Founder, BroadReach Healthcare Dr. John Sargent has extensive experience in developing, implementing and managing large-scale healthcare programs in the US and the developing world. He is one of the Founders of BroadReach Healthcare and currently serves as President. In this role, Dr. Sargent has overall responsibility for the design and delivery of all client engagements and programs, in addition to leading BroadReach’s business development efforts. He conceived and designed the South African ARV Treatment Program and established the company’s operations in South Africa and Kenya. In addition to his work in South Africa, Dr. Sargent has worked on and led a variety of healthcare projects including strategic planning, development of public private partnerships, health systems strengthening, management and leadership training programs, and community mobilization and patient education programs for governments, multi-lateral funding and assistance agencies, global NGOs and multi-national organizations. Before founding BroadReach, he served as Senior Director and National Practice Leader at the Advisory Board Company – a Washington, DC based healthcare research, consulting firm, and think tank. Prior to this, he served as a management consultant within the New York office of APM/CSC Healthcare, a leading US healthcare consulting firm. Dr. Sargent received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Dartmouth College, his master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology as a Fulbright Scholar from Oxford University, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

	Gerald Macharia Country Director, William J. Clinton Foundation, Kenya Gerald Macharia is currently the Country Director of the William J. Clinton Foundation in Kenya. The Foundation works with the Government of Kenya to scale up programs focusing on HIV/AIDS care and treatment and Climate Change issues that affect the country’s population. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Faulu Kenya Limited, one of East Africa’s leading Micro finance Institutions for a period of 5 years. He also previously worked as the CEO at Kenfin Services Limited, an asset finance company serving the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector before joining Faulu Kenya. He started his career in marketing 23 years ago and has since traversed various sectors, having spent 4 of these 23 years in public health management, 11 in the financial services and enterprise development sectors and 8 in marketing management, all with a number of national and multi-national organizations, among them, the Colgate-Palmolive Company; a US Fortune 500 company where he spent 3 years as a Product Manager. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Moi University in Kenya, a DBA from the Edinburgh Business School in the UK, a post graduate Marketing Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK and an honours undergraduate degree from Kenyatta University in Kenya. He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in California, USA. He has extensive corporate governance experience, having served on various public and private sector Boards for the last 15 years as a certified company director and a member of the Institute of Directors (IOD) of Kenya. He has had the opportunity to facilitate local and international training in corporate governance in the East Africa region. He has also served in various positions in a number of professional bodies including as a Governing Council member of the Marketing Society of Kenya (MSK) and a Governing Council member of the Kenya Institute of Management (KIM). He was the Vice-President of the Association of Microfinance Institutions (AMFI) in Kenya and a Director of the African Micro finance Network (AFMIN). He is currently a Life Member of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in Kenya; a Trustee of the Micro-enterprise Support Program Trust (MESPT) in Kenya, and also sits on the Boards of a number of private companies in Kenya. Gerald is also a member of the National Steering Committee on the Sustainable Financing of HIV/AIDS Services in Kenya.

	Donella Rapier Chief Financial Officer, Partners in Health (PIH) Donella Rapier is the Chief Financial Officer for Partners in Health (PIH), a not-for-profit organization that operates health care and poverty alleviation programs in twelve countries in settings as diverse as rural Haiti and Rwanda, the urban shantytowns of Lima, Peru, and the prisons of Siberia. She is responsible for all financial activities of this multi-currency, multi-cultural organization that comprised of over 11,000 individuals. Donella also oversees the organization’s development activities including individual giving, foundations and corporations, and grants from governments and multilateral institutions. Donella was inspired to join PIH as an organization that is making an enormous difference in global health and the developing world. PIH provided a unique opportunity for Donella to deploy the skills she developed over many years in finance and fundraising to help address some of the world’s most pressing social issues. From 2003 until 2007, Donella served as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development at Harvard University. In that capacity, she led a staff of 600+ that raised more than $2 billion in support of the University's students, faculty, and research initiatives. Donella helped to create a new culture of collaboration across the complex and decentralized organization, opening multiple new avenues for donor involvement. From 1996 through 2003, Donella was the Chief Financial Officer for the Harvard Business School, where she developed a long range planning capacity, while retaining operational control during a period of rapid and complicated growth. In 2001 in addition to her CFO duties, she assumed the role of Associate Dean for External Relations and played a leading role in planning and executing the first School-wide capital campaign in HBS history, which concluded in 2005 having raised nearly $600 million. Previously, Donella served as a Senior Manager for Price Waterhouse. Donella has been a lecturer at both Harvard Business School and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Donella received her BS, summa cum laude, from California State University, Northridge and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

	Nava Ashraf - Moderator Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School Nava Ashraf is an Assistant Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Ashraf received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2005, and her BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University. Professor Ashraf’s research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioral economics in the context of development projects in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Her experiments address behavior change in health and health services delivery, in agricultural production, and in microfinance. She has conducted research on questions of intra-household decision making in the areas of finance and fertility, with a special focus on women’s empowerment. Her research is published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Professor Ashraf teaches a second year MBA course in Managing Global Health: Design, Delivery and Evaluation, and a University-wide Ph.D. course in Field Experiments. She has also taught in the first year MBA sequence on Negotiation, and is part of the the Executive Education program of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, where she teaches Impact Evaluation and Performance Measurement for Nonprofit Management. She is a Faculty Affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, dedicated to the use of randomized trials as a tool for learning what works in international development, and a Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining HBS, she worked at the World Bank on trade negotiations between Morocco and the European Union, as a consultant for several nonprofit organizations in developing countries, and as founder of a business skills training institute for women in west Africa. She has been awarded a Queen's Jubilee Medal for service by the Government of Canada, and is the youngest person ever to receive the Order of British Columbia. In her spare time, she enjoys opera, dancing, and skiing.