Our first meeting on this Friday
Ken Endo
It was great meeting you all and welcome to the soket boston email list.
Our first meeting will on this Friday having Toshi Nakamura, a
co-founder of kopernik as a speaker. His bio is following later in
this mail.
date: 9/16
time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
location: E14-240
see you soon!!
Bio
You can think of Toshi Nakamura’s NGO, Kopernik, as an online
marketplace offering low tech with a higher purpose. Since 2009,
Kopernik—a member of the Clinton Global Initiative—has delivered
simple yet life-changing technologies like the Q-Drum rolling water
transport and clean cookstoves to nearly a dozen developing nations,
transforming the lives of the poorest of the poor.
Toshi got plenty of experience dealing with governance reform, peace
processes and post-disaster reconstruction—including the tsunami in
Aceh and the Yogyakarta earthquake—during a decade-long career at the
United Nations. A management consultant for McKinsey and Company in
Tokyo prior to joining the UN, Toshi has a law degree from Kyoto
University and a master’s degree in comparative politics from the
London School of Economics and Political Science.