Speakers

Mara is an Economist and Decision Analyst and holds degrees from Bocconi University in Milan and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is motivated by a desire to improve decision making in government, with a special interest and extensive expertise in the field of healthcare. Mara is one of the lead developers of the STAR toolkit, a socio-technical approach sponsored by the Health Foundation to improve resource allocation in healthcare organisations.

Mara has worked extensively with managers of the English and the Italian National Health Systems. She has also consulted for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in Ontario (Canada), the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence and the (then) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in England, NATO and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Richard is the Director of Triggerise Stichting and Chief Operating Officer (COO). He is responsible for the Triggerise platform and leads project implementation in African countries, having a background in global health program design, management, monitoring and evaluation.

Richard will tell us about the 'Tiko platform'. Tiko connects people with local service providers, by building ecosystems of local health services, community organisations and micro-entrepreneurs. It also generates real-time data to measure the impact of projects and evaluate how effective the incentives or nudges from the platform are.

Tom is an Associate Director in Social Finance’s digital and data team – bringing new tools to the core SF work on systems change.

Tom spent the formative part of his career working on the design and delivery of services under outcomes-based contracts, notably in welfare-to-work, and brings a ‘how will it work on the ground’ perspective to questions of new contracting models, or technologies.

Over the last five years, he has focussed on the effective use of data in non-profit settings, with a particular focus on appropriate business models, technology and governance for data infrastructure. He has recently worked on a series of projects scoping the ways in which development impact bonds could benefit from use of new technologies