>>10994003 (lb)
>>10994009 (lb)
Several of WE Charity's board members served on Counterpart International
Looks like they received ~$750M according to USASpending.gov. (TY to anon who posted this in the lb.)
RAUL HERRERA, Board Chair
Raul Herrera is Partner of Arnold & Porter’s Corporate and Securities Group where he concentrates his practice on international arbitration and international corporate and financing transactions. Mr. Herrera has been involved in transactions in every country of Latin America and the Caribbean. He represents multilateral and bilateral agencies as well as sponsors of their project financing and private equity transactions. He previously served as General Counsel for the Inter-American Investment Corporation, a multilateral financial institution affiliated with the Inter-American Development Bank.
In 2017, Mr. Herrera served as Interim General Counsel and Legal Director of the Green Climate Fund, based in South Korea. In 2019, Mr. Herrera was appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the Board of Visitors of Virginia State University.
LOIS BRUU, Board Member
Lois Bruu is Vice President on the Humanitarian & Development team at MasterCard, where she designs financial services solutions that foster financial inclusion and economic development in developing countries. She currently leads product development for the micro-commerce sector, which is focused on connecting consumers and merchants to the formal economy primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has also held key partnership management roles, including managing MasterCard’s relationship with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the grant from which funded the Lab for Financial Inclusion in Nairobi.
DR. THOMAS E. LOVEJOY, Board Member
Tom Lovejoy is an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term “biological diversity”. He currently serves as Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, teaches Environmental Science at George Mason University, and serves as the U.S. Department of State’s Climate Ambassador. He serves on numerous multilateral institution climate advisory committees (World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, etc.), corporate boards, and non-profit boards. His honors, recognitions, innovations, and publications are prodigious, and include the 2012 Blue Planet Prize — known as “the Nobel Prize for the environment.” He is credited with founding the field of climate change biology.
DIANA WALKER, Board Member
Diana Walker is the Founder and CEO of Walker Impact Strategies and works with today’s most influential global thought leaders – businesses, governments, organizations, entrepreneurs and philanthropists – to develop innovative, effective collaboration strategies to maximize their opportunities for positive social impact within their work. For over 10 years, Diana worked with the UN Foundation to build and facilitate partnerships between large corporations, governments, non-profits and foundations, entrepreneurs and high-level individuals to help further the United Nations’ work and create larger social impacts in communities around the world. In September 2012, Diana was named by the Diplomatic Courier and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy as one of the top 99 foreign policy leaders under the age of 33.
BRIAN DOTSON, Director, USDA Portfolio
Brian Dotson joined Counterpart in 2020 as Director of its USDA portfolio. Brian brings to Counterpart more than 25 years of international development experience, with expertise in applying private sector approaches to agricultural and agribusiness development in emerging markets. He has a deep expertise in financial and market analysis, enterprise development, and supply chain structuring in emerging markets, and is skilled in the development of global, regional, country, and business-level strategies that lead to sustained revenue growth and real socio-economic impact.
Previously, Brian was Chief of Party for Population Services International-Benin, where he managed a $6.5 million per year country program funded by USAID, KfW, and UNICEF and oversaw the social marketing of 12 health-related products and services.
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'Anons, Population Services International (PSI) has been awarded and granted $1.8B to date according to USASpending.gov. It's partners include Bill & Melinda Gates, Children's Investment Fund, Global Fund, World Bank, UNICEF, David & Lucile Packard foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, and William + Flora Hewlett Foundation'.
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Links here:
https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/%22Counterpart%20International%22
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/035150e4-6a43-e04e-1f99-0e53b0b375c8-P/all
https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/"population%20services%20international"
https://www.psi.org/partner-with-us/