Speakers

Daniella is a finance lawyer with extensive experience of outcomes contracting having advised on over thirty-five SIBs and DIBs in the last 7 years. She has been involved in previous updates to the UK Outcomes Contract template and supporting the GO Lab develop guidance for contracting with SIBs. More recently she has helped the Education Outcomes Fund develop their template for use in outcomes programmes.

Ruairi is a lawyer in both in the US (Attorney, New York) and the UK (Solicitor, England and Wales). Since May 2018, he has worked part-time with the GO Lab, where his research is focused on public procurement and public contract performance. Ruairi convenes the Oxford Procurement of Government Outcomes Club (Oxford POGO Club), an online peer learning initiative to which all are welcome.

Ruairi has almost two decades of experience negotiating and managing US federal government contracts with a wide range of agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, US Department of Education, US Department of Health and Human Services, and US Environmental Protection Agency. He has a master of laws (LLM) degree in government procurement law from the George Washington University and a bachelor of laws (LLB) degree from Queens University Belfast. His master's degree included placement at the US Congress House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where he focused on implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act). He has previously worked for the Open Contracting Partnership to promote the use of the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). Ruairi was a participant on the prestigious Washington Ireland Program and was an intern with Congressman (now Senator) Edward Markey. He is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and travels there often. Ruairi is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration.

Dr Slingers is a medical doctor who has specialised in Family Medicine and has an Executive MBA. She has extensive experience in programme leadership, design and implementation and working with multiple stakeholders in government, civil society, donors and private sector.

She has worked in the Western Cape Department of Health to lead the rollout of antiretroviral services from 2004 to 2006, the Treatment Action Campaign and Re-Action to design and implement Public Private Partnerships, and as the Executive Manager for Resource Mobilisation at the South African National AIDS Council. Dr Slingers is the Executive Manager of the Imagine Social Impact Bond.

Pompy is the India Director of MSD for Mothers. She is a strong advocate for using market-based approaches to tackle social challenges. She has two decades of experience working in healthcare and financial sector solutions in India. While with ICICI Lombard for almost a decade, she led the development of health and micro insurance products to increase access to affordable healthcare and insurance products. She has been providing technical assistance through GIZ and the World Bank on several projects to the Microfinance Institutions, Government, Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar). More recently, she offered advisory services for the development of The National Health Insurance (RSBY) for the Government of India. She also anchored development of Aadhaar-enabled solutions for the healthcare and insurance. Her experience ranges across the public, private and the development sectors.

Pompy is a health and a management graduate. She went to the London School of Economics on Chevening Scholarship for a course on Leadership and Globalization. Pompy has also served as a faculty for the Wharton Executive Education program. She has won the NABARD AWARD for Innovation from the Union Finance Minister of India in 2012. Since 2017 Pompy has been engaged with FOGSI, India for conceptualization, roll out and National Scale of the Manyata program.

Serena is an expert in innovative finance, impact investing and inclusive business models. She brings 20 years of experience advising clients on the design, structuring and evaluation of impact investment strategies and vehicles.

She has designed and launched a number of pioneering impact bonds and other result-based finance instruments, including but not limited to the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond, the ICRC’s Humanitarian Impact Bond, and the Refugee Impact Bond. She also designed and supported the launch of Convergence, a blended finance platform focused on emerging and frontier markets. Her past work also included strategy consulting with McKinsey and humanitarian assistance with Mercy Corps in Darfur. Serena holds a PhD from Caltech in Social Sciences with a specialization in Behavioral Finance.

Further to completing an MA at Liverpool University, Philip worked in education and social care in London, local governments and the voluntary sector for over 18 years. Then he joined the New Opportunities Fund in 2002, and subsequently transferred to The National Lottery Community Fund in Newcastle.

Philip has worked on a number of different social investment contracts, grant programmes and related initiatives since 2010. This has included secondments and support to various government departments, and support of the programme development of the Life Chances Fund. Since 2013, one of Philip's main work projects has been to take care of the programme oversight and evaluation of the Commissioning Better Outcomes fund.