Tamara Hasan Abed, Managing Director, BRAC Enterprises—the social enterprise arm of BRAC, the world’s largest development organization—will share insights into BRAC’s history and the vital role of social enterprise in driving inclusive development. Abed oversees BRAC’s diverse portfolio of enterprises, including Aarong, BRAC Dairy, and Seed & Agro, which grew out of an opportunity to connect people with commercial markets. Today, this portfolio of social enterprises serves as engines of financial sustainability and social impact, with surpluses reinvested into operations and BRAC’s social programs.

With extensive experience in investment banking, entrepreneurship, and social enterprise, and a career spanning over two and a half decades, she is passionate about driving value-based business models, operating at the intersection of social good, sustainable business and inclusive growth. In addition, she chairs the Board of Trustees at BRAC University, a leading center of knowledge and innovation in Bangladesh.

In a fireside chat hosted by the King Center on Global Development with Professor Charles Eesley, whose research explores entrepreneurship in contexts ranging from Silicon Valley to refugee communities in Africa, Abed will reflect on the intersection of education, innovation, and enterprise in building pathways to equitable growth.

A light dinner from Zareen's will be served.