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Andrew Kuper

President, Founder

LeapFrog Investments

andykuper@gmail.com

Andy is the President of LeapFrog Investments, the world's first microinsurance fund which he founded in January 2007, inspired by his extensive experience enabling entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Launched by President Clinton and hailed by the likes of the Wall Street Journal and Private Equity International, LeapFrog has opened a new frontier for social investment and microfinance—and is now the world's largest microinsurance initiative.

Andy is a former Managing Director of Ashoka, which has financed and connected more than 2000 social entrepreneurs in 60+ countries. He worked with both Grameen and BRAC, the world's largest microfinance institutions, to market their social ventures. He also co–founded Kuper Research, which designed the Daily Sun, now sub–Saharan Africa's largest newspaper, with 5 million daily readers.

Born and raised in South Africa, Andy holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge, where he was supervised by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen—who first stimulated Andy's interest in market–based solutions to poverty.

Andy is also a global thought-leader on democracy, human rights, and innovations in poverty relief. He founded and led the Empire and Democracy Project at the Carnegie Council, in the early days of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. His two books are Democracy Beyond Borders (Oxford) and Global Responsibilities: Who Must Deliver on Human Rights? (Routledge).

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