Realizing the Promise of Clean Cookstoves

Monday, March 24, 2014
Speakers
Radha Muthiah

Executive Director, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Gary Hattem

Managing Director, Community Development Finance Group at Deutsche Bank; President, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

Jonathan Cedar

Chief Executive Officer and Director, BioLite

Presider
Isobel Coleman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Isobel Coleman, Radha Muthiah, Gary Hattem, and Jonathan Cedar discuss how finding innovative solutions for clean cooking can not only save lives, but also promote economic growth and development progress.

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