What responsibility does private enterprise have for addressing public problems? How can capitalism be harnessed to increase global prosperity and solve social problems?

Come find out from Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Binta Brown at the Portman Lecture: "Private Answers to Public Challenges: Innovating Market Solutions to Humanitarian and Social Problems"

Natural disasters, violent civil conflicts, food shortages…extreme poverty.   Every corner of the globe is experiencing or vulnerable to a humanitarian crisis of some sort.  Traditional responses to humanitarian crises rely heavily on the tools of policy and diplomacy, NGOs, governments and global institutions or private charitable giving, in each case operating on the assumption that all humanitarian crises are policy or political failures.  Binta Niambi Brown, advisor and humanitarian, will propose that humanitarian and social problems are not necessarily the consequence of policy failures, and will discuss how emerging business models and market solutions can effectively solve social problems.