Grant Gordon: Podcast Interviews

Grant Gordon, PhD

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Interview host, Public official, Business executive, Media Personality

3 Interviews

Grant Gordon's Interviews

Ravi Gurumurthy + Grant Gordon & Mary Robinson • 09 Apr 2019 • EN

Climate Change: Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson on Climate Justice

The cruel irony of climate change is that it disproportionately impacts those who have contributed least to global warming—the world’s poorest and most marginalized groups. For Mary Robinson—former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, president of the Mary Robinson Foundation–Climate Justice, and the former, first fe

Grant Gordon + Ravi Gurumurthy & Rachel Glennerster • 31 Jul 2018 • EN

Rachel Glennerster’s insights on the randomization movement

No conversation about social impact is complete without an understanding of randomized control trials, or RCTs. In this episode, we delve into what they are and how they measure impact with Rachel Glennerster, the new chief economist at the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK. In an episode record

Ravi Gurumurthy + Grant Gordon & Reshma Saujani • 26 Jun 2018 • EN

Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, on innovation and failure

As a social entrepreneur and founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani is uniquely placed to talk about innovation - and the role of failure in that process. She talks to Ravi and Grant about creating ideas, taking them to scale, and the culture of ‘failing fast’, and what that looks like when you’re running a global n