Christine Svarer
Profile:
Christine Svarer was formerly Head of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Private Sector Engagement at CARE International (until April 2016). Christine and her team led CARE’s work to economically empower 30 million women by 2020 with particular emphasis on financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, dignified work, women and value chains and economic empowerment in fragile contexts.
Before this, Christine headed up CARE’s work on Private Sector Engagement overseeing innovative partnerships with global companies such as Barclays, Mondelez and Anglo American. She has previously worked in a number of NGOs and for the UN on business and market development and leadership training for sustainable development.
Blog posts
Calling for an Industrial Revolution 2.0 – powered by women
Thursday, 24 September 2015 10:49On Friday 25 September, together with DFID and
Out of Poverty and Into Profit
Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:13To many people, charities and huge multi-national companies will always be strange bedfellows. As such, there can be a gossipy appetite to hear of a mighty culture clash when the two worlds come together in partnership – the sandal wearing NGO
