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Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests.
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Yossi Abramowitz is a renewable energy pioneer, co-founder of the first utility-scale solar fields in both the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, co-founder of Gigawatt Global, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Over the past two decades he has helped build renewable energy infrastructure across Israel and Africa, bringing clean power to communities that had long been excluded from reliable energy access. In this episode of The Impact Equation, Yossi reflects on the activist movements that shaped him, from the Soviet Jewry campaign to anti-apartheid organising, and how those experiences informed his approach to building entirely new industries. He tells the remarkable story of arriving in Israel's Arava desert intending to write a book, only to discover that one of the sunniest places on earth generated almost none of its electricity from solar power. What followed was a years-long effort to create an entirely new regulatory and commercial framework for renewable energy in the region.
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Ryan Kohn has spent the last decade answering a challenge that stumps most founders: how do you scale a massive consumer brand while leaving the planet better than you found it. As the co-founder of PROPER, he took a kitchen-table startup and built it into Europeâs largest independent healthy snacking group. But alongside selling millions of packs across 15 countries, he embedded a deep commitment to the environment into the companyâs DNA. Now, Ryan is turning his hand to climate philanthropy at scale, pioneering a new initiative called Point One to help reach more people to take responsibility for our world.
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Professor Tim Spector has spent three decades asking: why do people respond so differently to the same food? As a genetic epidemiologist at Kingâs College London and founder of the Twins UK registry, he built one of the worldâs richest long-term datasets on health, genetics, and environment. The insight that our gut microbiome may matter as much as our genes when it comes to metabolism and disease risk, helped to launch ZOE, a science-led nutrition company combining large-scale research with consumer testing to personalise diet advice. ZOEâs studies, including the large Predict trials and the widely used Covid Symptom Study app, have brought epidemiology into the era of digital health and citizen science. Tim was awarded an OBE for services to medicine. This episode explores the science behind the microbiome revolution and what personalised nutrition might mean for the future of public health.
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Edward Booty is founder and CEO of reach52, getting essential healthcare products and services to people the system doesnât reach. Edward has spent his career working across health systems in low and middle-income countries, where access isnât just about clinics or medicines, but trust, distribution, and behaviour. Through reach52, heâs building a community-driven model that combines digital platforms with local health workers, integrating public and private sectors to reach millions of people typically left out of formal healthcare. This conversation is the third in our series with our friends and partners at Save the Children Global Ventures.
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Didit Indraputra is founder and CEO of Primaku, a fast-growing digital health platform transforming how parents in Indonesia access trusted guidance on child health and development. Muhammad, or âDiditâ as he is known, began his career in finance, but a defining personal moment shifted his trajectory. Becoming a parent sharpened his awareness of how confusing, fragmented, and unequal early childhood health support can be, especially outside major cities. This is the second episode in our series with our friends at Save the Children Global Ventures.
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For nearly twenty years, Katie Oliver has been a driving force behind one of the UKâs most significant education charities, Ark. She was at the forefront of growing the Ark network from one academy to dozens of schools. In 2019, she took on a new mission: founding Ark Start, a group of five London nurseries that are built alongside the Ark schools network and is in the process of expanding across the country. Today, as Managing Director of Ark Start, she is demonstrating how to close the attainment gap from day one. This episode is part of our special series with our friends at Ark.
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JoĂŁo Abreu is a Brazilian public health innovator and the co-founder and executive director of ImpulsoGov, a non-profit scaling data-driven tools and technology into Brazilâs universal public health system - the worldâs largest single-payer public healthcare network. Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, ImpulsoGov has grown to partner with governments in hundreds of municipalities, helping health teams use data to act proactively, equitably and preventively. Joao's organisation has won international recognition, including selection to the MIT Solve Global Health Challenge, and reflects JoĂŁoâs deep commitment to closing gaps in access and quality of care by putting real-world data into the hands of frontline teams. This is the latest in our special series with our friends at 100X Impact.
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Luke Tryl is executive director of More in Common UK, the research organisation that has become the reference point for understanding what British voters actually think - and how often the political class misreads them. In this episode, Luke walks us through More in Common's seven-segment model of British values, built on Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory and Karen Stenner's work on authoritarianism. He explains why the morning of 24 June 2016 convinced him the whole political class in the UK had missed something fundamental about the country, and why the answer is not government by focus group but better listening upstream of policy.
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Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests.
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In this episode we're joined by a legend of the climate change movement. Once a Cambridge mathematician, manufacturing executive and then on to the UN high level climate champion for COP26, Nigel Topping has spent decades bridging the gap between factory floors and the likes of the Paris Agreement. Now, as chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, Nigel is steering the UK towards its 2050 targets with the same data-driven precision he once used as a Cambridge mathematician.
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This is the next episode in our latest series with our friends at 100X Impact. Kruti Bharucha is CEO of Peepul, bringing over two decades of leadership across some of the worldâs most demanding institutions from McKinsey and the World Bank, to the IMF becoming an advisor to global CEOs on finance, risk and organisational performance. She could have stayed in global boardrooms. Instead, she chose to take that firepower into the education system. Kruti leads Peepul, an NGO that works shoulder-to-shoulder with state governments to improve education at scale across India. In Delhi, they run exemplary schools while driving system-wide reform across more than 1,500 primary schools. In Madhya Pradesh, they support 300,000 teachers across 100,000 schools and help to deliver the Chief Ministerâs flagship school reform programme.
In this conversation, we explore what it really takes to make a difference in the classroom, influence governments, and make a lasting impact.
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In this episode, Adam and Rafi speak to Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, co-founder and co-CEO of Notpla, a company replacing single-use plastic with materials made from seaweed. What began as a student experiment has become a manufacturing business operating across nine countries, supplying packaging to stadiums, global brands, and major food service providers. Notpla has been recognised with the ÂŁ1 million Earthshot Prize, alongside awards from Fortune, Time, and Wired. Notpla has grown from a speculative invention to working with companies like Just Eat Takeaway and Compass Group, and replacing 35 million units of plastic so far.
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Nick Hurd is the fourth consecutive generation Conservative MP in his family, the UK's former Minister for Civil Society, and he now chairs the Foundation for Social Investment and the GSG Impact network, which spans 48 countries. In this episode, Nick shares his family's tradition of public service (his father was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary), former Prime Minister David Cameron's vision for the Big Society, the growth of the UKâs social investment market, and the creation of the National Citizen Service (NCS). Looking to the future, Nick talks about the growth of the global impact economy, the role of government, and why long-term change is dependent on patient leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and cross-party support.
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To mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on 13th April, Rafi and Adam interview three remarkable figures in British public life: Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, and Dame Tamara Finkelstein DCB. The children of two survivors who endured the camps of the Holocaust and the wastes of the Siberian Gulag, they have together risen to eminence in journalism, the civil service, and science, making a truly significant impact to Britain and the wider world. Recorded before a packed audience at JW3, Londonâs Jewish cultural centre, this is the first time all three siblings have appeared together in a public conversation of this kind.
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As Chief Executive of Yorkshire Housing, Nick Atkin leads the regionâs largest provider of affordable, eco-friendly homes. He also chairs major regional partnerships and is pushing the government to treat housebuilding as a national priority. His team is at the vanguard of using data, sensors and AI to make housing services work better for the people living in those homes. In this episode of The Impact Equation, Nick joins Adam and Rafi to talk about why housing matters so much to health, dignity and life chances, and why leaders in the sector cannot afford to get stuck in spreadsheets and slide decks.
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This is the first episode in our second series, Scaling Tomorrow's Social Unicorns, with 100x Impact. Rhea Yadav leads impact and strategy at Wysa, the AI-led mental health platform that has supported more than 7 million people across 95 countries. She founded the organisationâs impact business and now works across governments, health systems, NGOs and employers to take evidence-based mental health support into places where care is scarce.
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In their latest wash up episode, Adam and Rafi reflect on recent episodes to explore how systemic change happens at a local and global level. They discuss the "triumph of place-based localism" through Simon Caseâs work in Barrow and Claudine Blameyâs community-led flood resilience at Aviva, emphasizing that impact is most effective when rooted in the reality of people's lives. They examine the power of "harnessing capitalism for climate," contrasting Alyssa Gilbertâs focus on scaling innovation at Imperial with Luke Leslieâs investor-led approach to carbon markets and nature-based assets. The conversation also highlights the human side of leadership, from Madlin Sadlerâs evidence-based humanitarian work at the IRC and Edward Timpsonâs navigating of complex legislative systems for children's services, to Ed Daveyâs "clear-eyed hope" regarding international cooperation and land use.
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What does it really take to deliver humanitarian aid in the worldâs most fragile places? In this episode of The Impact Equation, we sit down with Madlin Sadler, Chief Operating Officer at the International Rescue Committee - an organisation working at the sharpest edge of conflict, disaster and displacement.
Madlin offers a rare, inside view of what it means to operate in over 40 of the worldâs most crisis-affected countries; where systems have broken down, need is accelerating, and resources are shrinking. Madlin shares what it looks like to deliver vaccines to children in remote conflict zones; how humanitarian organisations make impossible decisions when funding is cut; why evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scale matter when lives are at stake; and why, despite everything, she still feels lucky to do this work.
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Edward Timpson is the former Childrenâs Minister, part of the family behind Timpson, and brother of Lord James Timpson, now a Labour prisons minister. In this conversation with Rafiâs former Ministerial boss, Edward reflects on growing up in a family that fostered more than 80 children, alongside one of the UKâs best-known family businesses, recognised for both its high street services and a culture built on trust, kindness and second chances. That experience shaped everything that followed: family law, politics, reform in government, and his work today across childrenâs services and family care. Edwardâs life and career show what stability, love and belief can do in a childâs life. This is an episode about childhood, public service, fostering, politics, and the decisions that can alter a lifeâs direction.
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