Rob Katz
First Name: Rob
Last Name: Katz
Organization/Company: Acumen Fund
Sector: Venture capital / research + communications
Specialty: Business and economics
Address: 76 Ninth Avenue
Suite 315
City, State, Country: New York, NY, USA

About Me:
Robert S. Katz is a Knowledge & Communications Associate at Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Before joining Acumen Fund, he was an Associate with the Markets and Enterprise Program of the World Resources Institute.

Rob researches, writes and speaks about "base of the pyramid" business approaches to poverty alleviation and environmental degradation.

He is the co-founder and co-Managing Editor of www.NextBillion.net, a web site and blog about enterprise and development. As a principal analyst of household survey data and co-author for The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid (March, 2007), he studied BOP market structure and spending patterns extensively.

Rob has consulted with a number of Fortune 500 corporations on BOP strategy, spoken to conferences from Tokyo to Bogota, and done scenario work for institutions such as the XPRIZE Foundation and the Institute for the Future, among others. He is also an active contributor to Worldchanging: Another World Is Here, an online magazine/blog and offline book about tools, models, and ideas to build a better future.

Rob holds a B.A. in Political Economy from Georgetown University.

Areas of Interest:
Sustainable economic development / Researching business approaches to alleviating poverty / The economics of innovation and entrepreneurship / base-bottom of the pyramid
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