Summary of the Healthcare content at the Partnering for Global Impact Conference

“Donald Trump versus Mother Teresa?” – Improving Global Health through Impact Investing

July 15, 2012

Lugano, Switzerland

“Being non-profit is a tax status, not a business model,” says Loic Sadoulet, Affiliate Professor of Economics at INSEAD. Effective business models for philanthropic initiatives were a key subject of the “Partnering for Global Impact” (PGI) conference in Lugano (Switzerland) on 9-10 July 2012.

This inaugural PGI event – organized by EBD Group and Gamil de Chadarevian in collaboration with INSEAD – brought together a heterogeneous group of some 280 social entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists and matchmakers. Other INSEAD-affiliated delegates (among them faculty, staff, students and alumni) included Christine Driscoll, Julia Hieber, Filipe Santos, Uwe Schulte, Mila Lukic, Krystian Fikert, Marc Le Menestrel, Mark Ruiz, Mae Shieh, Jack Sim and Caroline Watson.

While the presentations and discussions included a range of other topics (education, finance, housing, water), healthcare was a pervasive theme throughout the two-day conference. Below, I have therefore highlighted some of the healthcare-related discussions and presentations from PGI 2012.

For coverage of the healthcare discussions during the PGI conference, please refer to the Healthcare alumni blog here.