ICRW Speaker Series

ICRW

DATE
June 20, 2019
TIME
5:30 PM
LOCATION
ICRW, 1120 20th St NW, Suite 500 North, Washington, DC 20036

Join us for our very first ICRW Speakers Series event, presenting Raj Kumar, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Devex, as he discusses his new book The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry (preorder here).

Light refreshments will be served. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m., after which Raj will be signing his books.

Books can be purchased at a local bookstore or preordered here through one of the listed retailers: https://pages.devex.com/the-business-of-changing-the-world.html.

We look forward to seeing you on the 20th!

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Speaker Bio

Raj Kumar is the founding President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex, the media platform for the global development community. A social enterprise dedicated to ensuring global development efforts do more good for more people, Devex was born in 2000 when Raj was a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School. Today, there are 100+ Devexers around the world serving a global audience of more than one million aid workers and development professionals.

Beginning as a kid in Kerala, India, Raj has witnessed firsthand determined and courageous development work in over 50 countries – it’s what drives the Devex mission to “Do Good. Do It Well.” He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a media leader and former humanitarian council chair for the World Economic Forum, and has interviewed on-camera and on-stage hundreds of global luminaries on the most important challenges of our time. Raj is the author of the book “The Business of Changing the World,” a go-to primer on the ideas, people, and technology disrupting the aid industry.