Saadia Madsbjerg on Changing the Status Quo with Innovative Finance

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Mike talks with Saadia Madsbjerg, a Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation. Ms. Madsbjerg's work focuses on innovative finance solutions that change the status quo and raise private sector investment capital to further the Foundation’s goals of building greater resilience and promoting inclusive economies. In this episode, Mike and Ms. Madsbjerg discuss what the Rockefeller Foundation does, why government programs alone can't meet the economic needs of communities across the globe, the importance of private sector involvement in helping to build more resilient and inclusive economies, and the challenges of developing partnerships with the private sector. We hope you'll check out the sponsors of today's show: SeatGeek. Politics Guys listeners get $20 dollars off their first SeatGeek purchase. Just download the SeatGeekor go to https://www.seatgeek.com and enter promo code POLITICSGUY Casper. Politics Guys listeners get $50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by going to https://www.casper.com/tpg and using promo code tpg. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to http://www.politicsguys.com and click on the Patreon link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:29.6	My guest today is Sajie Mansberg, a managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work focuses on innovative finance solutions that change the status quo and raise private sector investment capital
0:36.6	to further the
0:38.2	foundation's goals of building greater resilience and promoting inclusive economies.
0:43.2	Ms. Mazberg, welcome to the show.
0:45.3	Thank you so much for having me on the show today.
0:48.0	You know, while I'm sure that most listeners of the show are familiar with the name
0:52.0	Rockefeller, who wouldn't be. I'm guessing that
0:55.1	they're probably a little less familiar with the foundation that John D. Rockefeller started
0:59.7	way back in 1913. And so I thought before we get into your work specifically, I was hoping
1:06.3	you could maybe tell me a little bit about the Rockefeller Foundation in general, you know, sort of what it does,
1:12.0	where it does it,
1:12.9	and what its goals are,
1:14.1	that sort of thing.
1:15.4	Perfect.
1:16.6	So John D. Rockefeller,
1:18.7	because of his personal beliefs and convictions,
1:22.8	had always been committed to charitable giving
1:25.3	and to helping those around him who had less.
1:28.6	And that was, you know, way, way before the rogophilic name came to be known for what it is
1:33.9	today.
1:35.4	Over time, he took those beliefs and convictions and tried to reshape his giving into a more
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