Transforming Philanthropy in the Global South

Catalina Cock Duque is an expert in catalyzing systemic change with over 25 years of experience, as a serial social entrepreneur, a leadership and innovation consultant, and impact investor. As a conscious leader, she is passionate about working across sectors with purpose driven businesses and non-profits and across cultures from Latin America to North America, Europe and Africa. She has deep experience in sustainable development, peace-building, youth development, gender equity, violence prevention, and mental health.

Catalina has been distinguished multiple times in her career, including as Social Innovator of the year by the Schwab Foundation, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, an Ashoka Fellow, a Synergos Fellow, and as one of the 100 Transformative Women by leading media outlet Silla Vacía in Colombia.

Among her most important achievements, she is the Co-Founder of Fundación Mi Sangre, a
groundbreaking initiative established in partnership with multi-Grammy Award-winning musician Juanes. As the President of the Foundation, she spearheads efforts to unlock people’s potential to contribute to sustainable peace, positively impacting the lives of more than 2 million individuals in Colombia. Additionally, Catalina played a pivotal role in the creation and scaling-up of the first social and environmental certification of artisanal gold mining in the world. As a Co-Founder of Green Gold and the Alliance for Responsible Mining, she has been instrumental in driving this certification’s expansion across more than 10 countries.

Over the last 30 years, Gouthami has been part of senior management in grassroots implementing organisations as well as international donor agencies. Over time, she focussed on gender equality, and sharpened her skills in strategic management throughout the project cycle from appraisal and planning, to implementation, review, evaluation and impact assessment. (India, Timor Leste, Philippines)
As a social entrepreneur for a decade, she took the initiative in setting up, strategising and running a widely recognised and awarded responsible travel company. She quickly learnt new ways of working, with a range of stakeholders, stretching her limits and becoming self-reliant, creative and adaptive.
Her strengths and passion for gender justice, programme management, critical analysis while working with quantitative and qualitative data, people management, innovative thinking and applying participatory methods in practice. She thrives in a context of uncertainty where she needs to learn quickly to move ahead.
Gouthami has a postgraduate degree in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and an M.A. in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (IDS).

Monica leads Ruta Cívica, a backbone organization that incubates, creates and supports civic campaigns networks and leadership for social, political and sustainable transformations.
Mónica graduated from El Colegio de México, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, specializing in social policy and development. She works with bridging leadership, coalition-builders and multi-stakeholder partnerships. She has co founded Civil Society Organizations and networks, tackling systemic problems such as women’s political leadership, sustainable planning, resilience and emergency response, and citizen participation.
She has published on sustainable cities, State-society relations, social justice philanthropy, advocacy and public policies. She also has experience working for the federal and local Mexican governments.

Sumitra has close to 30-years global experience in innovation both in the private sector as well as the citizen sector. She has founded, activated and mobilized numerous innovations globally within organizations, as a social entrepreneur and within networks. She is a social entrepreneur with experience particularly in Asia. She is the founder of KAImpact which is a network-based advisory which supports the mobilisation of more resources towards the citizen sector. The heart of her approach is anchored around the relational work of unlocking high innovation that uplifts the missing voices of society and building the bridge between different change agents for greater societal impact, particularly in the field of Education, Planet & Climate, Ageing, Social Justice. She deploys participatory processes and tools in her work as a coach for individuals and teams, learning journeys, research, thought-leadership and strategy development and implementation.

Sumitra, a Malaysian, a Chemical Engineer from Cambridge University, and Masters in Business from INSEAD. She is a Skoll Forum Fellow, Co-founder & Board Member of Playeum, Board Member of the Singapore Art Museum, US Avanti Fellows (501c organisation). Senior Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of Directors. Board Advisor of Bring Change Foundation, Pratham Books and Investment Committee Member of the Sofina Covid Philanthropic Fund; YPO Exco Committee. Part of the Working Group of the OECD 2030 Learning Framework. Chevening Scholar, Lilly Innovation Scholarship (Insead) and patent holder.