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SUMMARY:Inside Afghanistan: Mellissa Fung on Reporting from One of the World's Most Fragile States
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event was co-presented by Aga Khan Foundation Canada and our partner journalism schools across the country. Mellissa’s presentation included an audience Q&A. \nEvent details:This event has taken place at University of King’s College\, Carleton University\, Mount Royal University\, the University of British Columbia\, the University of Regina\, Concordia University\, and Humber College. \nJoin the conversation: #InsideAfghanistan \nDownload the poster here. \nSpeakers:\nMellissa Fung\nAward-winning journalist and former CBC correspondent Mellissa Fung has been on the frontlines of a wide range of stories on both Canadian and world affairs for the last 20 years. She covered the war in Afghanistan\, and produced the award-winning documentaries Canada’s Ugly Secret and No Country for Horses. She received the prestigious Gracie Award for her interview Comparing Notes from Captivity. Her bestselling first book\, Under an Afghan Sky\, chronicles her experience as a hostage after she was kidnapped while on assignment in Afghanistan in 2008. In 2013\, Fung returned to Afghanistan to report on the continuing challenges that exist there for women and girls. In addition to the CBC\, her work has appeared in The Walrus\, The Toronto Star\, GlobalPost\, and PBS among other publications. She has been featured as a keynote speaker for organizations as diverse as the Women for Women in Afghanistan\, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting\, and the American Bar Association. Fung lives in Washington\, DC \nThis series was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Foreign Affairs\, Trade and Development.
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LOCATION:Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat\, 199 Sussex Drive\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1N 1K6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Webcast: Development Finance Institutions and the Canadian Development Context
DESCRIPTION:This webcast is the first of a series of events that AKFC hosted on topics related to emerging economies. \nEvent details:This event has taken place. \nWatch the webcast: \n \nWebcast presenters included: \nBrett House\, Senior Fellow with CIGI\, is a Visiting Scholar at Massey College\, University of Toronto and Lecturer in the Economics Department and a Senior Fellow at the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation at McGill University. His research looks at the effects of trade liberalization on growth\, the rise of emerging markets\, and options to improve sovereign debt restructuring. He is also an advisor to and partner in Tau+ Investment Management\, a start-up impact fund. \nGerhard Pries\, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer\, is founder and CEO of Sarona Asset Management Inc.\, formerly MEDA Investments Inc. In over 20 years of frontier market investing\, Mr. Pries has been a founder of a number of firms and funds\, including Sarona\, MicroVest Capital Management\, MicroCap Capital\, and the Latin America Challenge Investment Fund. He currently serves on the Investment Committee for Grand Challenges Canada and on the boards of MicroVest Holdings\, ImpactAssets\, and numerous companies in the Sarona portfolio. \nKarim Harji is a co-founder and partner at Purpose Capital\, an impact investment advisory firm that mobilizes all forms of capital — financial\, human and social — to accelerate social progress. Karim is a Senior Research Associate at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University\, and teaches social entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is the co-founder of SocialFinance.ca\, and serves on the Boards of the Responsible Investment Association\, Small Change Fund\, and CanadaHelps. \nDr. Linda Jones is the Director of SME/Investment at MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) and an international expert in the field of inclusive private sector development including. Linda has extensive strategy and implementation experience across Asia and Africa through long-term positions and consulting assignments for implementing agencies\, multi-lateral organisations and private sector entities. Following a successful career as a business executive\, Linda was Senior Technical Advisor at the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva\, Technical Director at MEDA in Canada\, and Director of the Centre for Women’s Leadership at the Coady International Institute. She has contributed to the overall advancement of the pro-poor economic development field through positions such as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the SEEP Network\, Editor of the Enterprise Development and Microfinance Journal\, Founder and Chair of Women Advancing Microfinance\, Canada\, and Advisor to the Eurasia Foundation on women’s entrepreneurship. Linda has published extensively on inclusive economic development – including the primary resource on Agricultural Value Chain Finance with the FAO –  and has been a facilitator/trainer with the Southern New Hampshire University\, the SEEP Network\, the Boulder Institute\, and the International Labour Organisation among others. Linda was a Commonwealth Scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from McMaster University and a diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies from Conrad Grebel College. \n  \nUndertaken with the financial support of:
URL:https://www.akfc.ca/event/dfi-webcast/
LOCATION:Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat\, 199 Sussex Drive\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1N 1K6\, Canada
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