Farah Ramzan Golant explores this year’s theme ‘Ecosystems’ by discussing Girl Effect’s innovative approach to disrupting engrained systems of poverty.

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Girl Effect CEO Farah Ramzan Golant’s speech focused on Girl Effect as a disruptor challenging the status quo, by breaking down the silos to raise girls out of poverty at scale.

Other notable speakers at the event included design powerhouse Karim Rashid, the GQ woman who is reinventing male cool, Pamela Kaupinen, the architect who is not an architect, Dror Benshetrit, and the entrepreneur busy rewriting the world order, Leonard Brody.