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Derek is a Managing Editor for NextBillion.net and a Research Analyst with the New Ventures team where he studies the impact of small- and medium- sized-enterprises (SMEs) on environmental and social conditions in emerging economies. Derek is most interested in observing trajectories of sustainable growth in a world where the supposed divide between global/local interrelationships is being increasingly transgressed.

Derek holds a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University where he studied International Development and Socio-cultural Anthropology.

Derek can be reached at dnewberry AT wri DOT org

Entrepreneurship / power structures in the global marketplace / the "Green-BoP" nexus / Latin America