On Friday 20 September we held a dynamic hybrid event at Hotel 48Lex in Manhattan, New York. The focus was on raising awareness about the impact of population growth through multi-modal participatory education. Learn about actionable solutions and empower yourself to make a difference in our shared future – for people and planet. 

Speaker Info

Harsh Jaitli – CEO of  Voluntary Action Network, India.
Harsh is an expert in policy planning and management. With an enriching experience of 30 years working on themes like environment, health, local governance, Right to Information, organizational development among others.

Dr Monique Oliff – Founder of Critical Conversations, Kenya.
Monique has worked in international health for 25 years, as a clinician, researcher and public health consultant in rural and urban East, Southern and West Africa. Her passion for hands on approaches to wellness in Africa looks closely at the root cause of disease

Auwal Ibrahim Musajoan – Executive Director of CISLAC, Nigeria.
Auwal is the ED of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre. He is a human rights, anti-corruption, policy and legislative advocacy activist interested in positive transformation of Nigeria and Africa.  He coordinated a successful Population Conversation in Nigeria with Population Matters.

Josh Hill – Chief Research and Operations Manager of Population Matters, UK.
Josh is a Behavioural Economist, with a research focus concerning social norms, misperceptions and multilingualism, specifically investigating how these affect decision making in development contexts. Josh also has 14 years of experience working in Finance, including Audit, Transaction Services and External Reporting across both large multi-national corporates and within the charity sector.