Fran Perrin stepped down as Chair of the Board at Publish What You Fund at the June 2015 meeting. We are hugely grateful to Fran for her support to the organisation over the past two years and are pleased to say she will remain a member of the Board until March 2016. We are happy to […]
This post has been written by Publish What You Fund’s CEO Rupert Simons and Head of Policy and Advocacy Jeannet Lingán. Two months remain until the third international conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) in Addis Ababa. The conference is intended to agree actions in the implementation of unfinished past financing for development commitments (Monterrey […]
Last October, I went to Sierra Leone to work on Ebola. I helped set up a National Situation Room to compile data on the Ebola response, and use that data to drive decision-making. With its big projector screens and maps on the wall, it looked a bit like Mission Control. The Government of Sierra Leone […]
Years ago, I spent a summer working in the research department of an investment bank. My job was to analyse company data and spot long-term trends in equities markets. As finance professionals know, the data can be overwhelming: numbers blinking on Bloomberg terminals, scrolling across TV screens and clogging up your email in endless reports. […]
