Speakers

Mara is the Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Mara has two decades’ experience in connecting academic insights to decision making for social impact. She has provided input for decisions on Outcome funds and Outcomes Contracts in the UK, the EU, foundations, and international development agencies working in LMICs. In her previous posts she has worked with health policy makers and healthcare providers in the UK, Italy, Ontario and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria as well as policy makers at the Home Office, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Office of the Deputy Prime minister in the UK.

Mara is an economist and experienced decision modeller with an interest in impact metrics and the use of data to inform better decisions. She is particularly passionate about the ways in which governments can work with the private and non-for-profit sector to accelerate progress towards shared goals. She loves making sense of data and currently works on nurturing the INDIGO data collaborative.

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