2019 ANNUAL REPORT GLOBAL FELLOWS As part of Google’s effort to provide Mohamed Abou El-Enein a pioneer fast and affordable Internet to the in the clinical development of cell world’s Next Billion Users in Africa, and gene therapies, leads a team Saidu Abdullahi is responsible for of researchers who are transforming creating and managing the ecosystem promising scientific discoveries in the partnerships for rolling out Google field of regenerative medicine into Station, a platform for providing free, clinical applications at Charité, one high-speed WiFi hotspots in public of the largest university hospitals in places. Google will partner with local Europe. Dr. Abou El-Enein is committed FELLOWS service providers for infrastructure to addressing the global rise of and locations while it offers a cloud- clinics marketing unproven stem cell based platform to provide and therapies, as well as emerging health manage hotspots. Already live in technologies beyond stem cell, several locations in Lagos and Abuja, through establishment of a consensus the service is schedule to expand to within and across transnational 200 locations across four additional stakeholders to take action to limit the Nigerian cities—Port Harcourt, Kaduna, spread of these potentially dangerous Enugu and Ibadan—by the end of phenomena. As a result of his 2019. Previously, Abdullahi served fellowship, he looks to develop a global as a Director with Oracle, where he governance framework to address was responsible for public-sector the challenges associated with the engagement in Nigeria, which has permissive regulatory environments for the largest population in Africa with stem cell research in low and middle- 190 million people. On fellowship income countries, and to guide global Abdullahi developed an education stem cell use, protecting global health and entrepreneurship initiative to and public safety. productively engage Nigeria’s youth. As chief executive of a center Carson Chen oversees technology mandated to build the entrepreneurial development, competitive strategy ecosystem in Sharjah and support and corporate culture at a mobile entrepreneurs as they build and grow health tech startup in Chinese Taipei. innovative startups, Najla Al-Midfa Chen was trained in optics and signal has led Sheraa’s development of a processing at MIT and Caltech. His portfolio of over 70 startups. These new company utilizes smartphone camera ventures have raised over $37M in technology to enable ordinary people investments, created over 500 jobs and to conduct instant health checkups on generated over $24M in cumulative their mobile devices. Their first product, sales to-date. Sheraa also hosts the the PixoTest Blood Glucose monitor, annual Sharjah Entrepreneurship was developed to help treat diabetes, Festival, a two-day gathering of over a chronic disease that affects 30 million 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, mentors Americans at an annual cost of $176 and ecosystem supporters. As a result billion. On fellowship he investigated of her fellowship, Al-Midfa intends to the U.S. healthcare ecosystem with the continue building the entrepreneurship higher goal of introducing the world to ecosystem in Sharjah by exploring healthcare innovations originating in how governments can spur early- Chinese Taipei, one of Asia’s leading stage investments in startups. Her health tech pioneers. goal is to create an in-house university academy that will empower the next generation to be the changemakers of tomorrow by providing programs in entrepreneurship, critical thinking and adaptability. 2 GLOBAL FELLOWS Burak Dalgin is a Managing Director As the senior innovation advisor to the Collin Haba is a journalist at Rwanda’s at Darby Private Equity, the emerging President of Paraguay, Jazmín Gustale only English-language newspaper, market principal investing arm of Gill leads five of the President’s priority which was founded in 1995, one year Franklin Templeton Investments. initiatives, by articulating policies after the explosion of ethnic hatred He co-leads Darby’s Central & between public institutions and that produced the Tutsi genocide. Southeastern European funds, which civil society. These programs aim to In addition to the daily’s traditional have made two dozen investments improve Paraguay’s environment for role of informing, educating and and eighteen exits. He sits on the business, foster a national innovation entertaining its readers, The New Times investment committees of two ecosystem and attract technological feels a responsibility to foster unity and regional funds and on boards of investments. Furthermore, her work reconciliation in Rwanda’s once highly several portfolio companies. Prior includes boosting competitiveness divided society. He is responsible for the to joining Darby, Burak worked at and increasing productivity of creative overall management of the paper, with McKinsey’s New York and Boston industries. She is especially interested an emphasis on its transition to digital- offices for over three years. He sits in how technology and innovation first operations. Haba is president of the on the boards of Turkey’s Harvard can help a country go from an Rwanda Journalists’ Association and Alumni Association, Keiretsu Angel agricultural and livestock economy to formerly worked at Imbuto Foundation, Investment Network and EDAM think a knowledge economy. On fellowship implementing the initiatives of the First tank, and is a Steering Committee she conducted a study to be called Lady of Rwanda. member for a U.N.-Turkey social “Innova Paraguay,” to gather data impact accelerator initiative. On and make recommendations for fellowship Dalgin explored impact how to best advance an innovation investing with a focus on refugees. He ecosystem in her country. is particularly interested in potentially leveraging fintech capabilities (e.g. crowdfunding, payment systems) to make impact investing more effective. As the interim director of Amnesty A leading politician in his native Motivated by her personal experience International in Hungary, Júlia Iván Colombia, Rodrigo Lara has served in as someone living with a large (Hungary) was responsible for speaking both houses of his country’s Congress. birthmark on her face, Rozella Mahjhrin out on human rights issues in her country. He spent four years in the House of turned her struggles with bullying In 2017 more than 4,200 Hungarian Representatives, and was elected and depression into a Facebook children participated in Amnesty’s Speaker in 2017. Currently he is a forum for open conversations about human rights lessons in more than senator with the Cambio Radical disfigurement and other difficult 60 schools. She supervised Amnesty party, and member of a commission conditions. Created in 2015, True Hungary’s campaigns on restrictive that addresses constitutional, territorial Complexion uses storytelling and legislation on non-governmental and other issues. Lara is the author of photography to raise awareness about organizations (NGOs), human rights laws that reformed the rules governing health conditions, disabilities and body defenders, rule of law, refugees and organ donations and repayment of image issues. On fellowship she wanted transgender people. On fellowship she student loans. He was instrumental in to expand the forum into a full-fledged interviewed state agents, academics, legislation on the peace agreement website to grow and sustain the and individuals at major rescue with the country’s FARC rebels, one initiative. As a secondary objective she committees and refugee councils and of Colombia’s most divisive issues. would like to start a conversation with visit U.S. cities and communities that On fellowship he learned about best the Malaysian Ministry of Education have been successful in integrating practices in adapting military research about expanding school access for and empowering refugees. Her goal is and development to help advance differently-abled children. to produce a series of case studies that the broader economy. can be applied in a European context to change the discourse on migration. 3 GLOBAL FELLOWS A university lecturer, Darlene An associate professor of public health Aisha Nawaz Chaudhary leads Mutalemwa focuses on improving at one of the largest autonomous the effort to revamp and optimize employment prospects for college universities in Indonesia, Sudirman government-run schools as Chairperson graduates in Tanzania. To address Nasir trains students for jobs as health of the Standing Committee on what she calls a “disconnect” between promotion officers, epidemiologists, School Education in Pakistan’s largest graduates and the needs of employers, community nutritionists, Ministry of province. Before the elections, she in 2015 she founded Graduate Sales Health workers and other related was the lead on media strategy and Bootcamp, an interactive training careers. In the provincial capital where coordination in the province for her course to practice the skills required his university is located, he has played party. She is a founding member of of successful job seekers. By 2016, 60 a key role in the creation of a needle- the Pakistan Policy Forum, a caucus percent of the Bootcamp graduates exchange program to cut down on HIV of young political leaders across party found employment within six months. and other blood-borne viral infections lines focusing on evidence-driven On fellowship she acquired the among people who inject drugs, policy making. She leverages her knowledge needed to scale up the despite