Global Future Council on the Future of the Care Economy

Global Future Council on the Future of the Care Economy

Description

Demographics will drive growing demand for eldercare, childcare and wider social infrastructure. What investments, incentives and partnerships can establish a well-functioning care economy, while creating formal jobs, advancing social mobility and closing gender gaps?

Co-Chair
Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code

Tim Allen, Chief Executive Officer, Care.com

Council Manager
Julia Hakspiel, Action Lead, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice, World Economic Forum

Kim Piaget, Insights Lead, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice, World Economic Forum

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Members

Chief Executive Officer, Care.com

Vice-President, United Arab Emirates Gender Balance Council

Mona Ghanim Al Marri

Professor, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University

Radhika Balakrishnan

President and Chief Executive Officer, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice

Founder, Champions of Change Coalition

Elizabeth Broderick

Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN)

Chairperson, SEWA Cooperative Federation, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Mirai Chatterjee

Director, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Pedro Conceição

Social Entrepreneur, Centre for the Fifth Social Revolution

Independent Researcher, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

Mercedes D’Alessandro

Employment Policies and Gender Specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Valeria Esquivel

Deputy Director; Senior Adviser on Gender, Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund

Managing Director & Partner at BCG, Boston Consulting Group

Gender Justice Director, Oxfam International

Neelanjana Mukhia

Impact Officer, Kampala Hub, MindLab

Liz Nabakooza Kakooza

Director Sustainability and Gender Solutions, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Mary Porter Peschka

Manager, Social Sector, The Inter-American Development Bank

Ferdinando Regalia

Secretary for Women’s Affairs, Office of the Mayor of Bogota

Diana Rodriguez Franco

Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi, India, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)

Founder and CEO, Moms First

Co-Leader, StreetNet International

Lorraine Sibanda

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pinetree Care Group