About

Rob Katz is a Portfolio 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" (BoP) 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 “base of the pyramid” (BoP) market structure and spending patterns extensively.

Rob has consulted with corporations, foundations, multilaterals and non-profits on their BoP strategies, and is often asked to address conferences about the same.  He is also a contributor to Worldchanging: Another World Is Here, an online magazine/blog and print book about tools, models, and ideas to build a better future.

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