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Abiodun Odusanwowork atAcademy for Educational Development and a Chief Executive Officer at Academy for Educational Development and are based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Executive-level communications and marketing professional with proven track record as an organizational and cultural change agent. Critical experience moving the needle on pressing social issues including equality, climate change and justice. Adept in cultivating and managing strategic engagements as well as extensive experience in management, crisis, marketing and communications across all major disciplines: media relations, positioning, branding, advertising, storytelling, social media, events and partnerships.Proud to be recognized by PR News as a "PR Gamechanger" and PR Week as a "Champion of PR." Architect of groundbreaking campaigns including the red logo equality campaign-one of Facebook's most viral campaign in its history as well as numerous others for social and environmental change. Winner of the Mashie Award for Best Social Media Campaign, SXSW Digital Campaign of the Year, Best in Show and Social Media Campaign of the Year, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, PR Week Winner Best Use of Social Media/Digital, two Shorty Social Good awards and three time awardee of the PRSA Silver Anvil Awards. Finalist for Three Social Media Icon Awards and proud to be recognized as one of PR News’ Top Women in PR. Honored to be one of Advertising Women of NY's Gamechangers and named "Digital Innovator of the Year." Featured in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Associated Press, Mashable, The Washington Post, Advertising Age, NPR and others.

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Harlan Mandel is CEO of Media Development Investment Fund, a mission-driven investment fund providing debt and equity financing to independent news and information companies. MDIF operates in countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America where a free and independent media is under threat. It invests in independent media providing the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies.With investments in over 130 media companies in 44 countries since its launch in 1995, MDIF has provided over $210 million in debt and equity investments critical to the growth of many of the preeminent broadcast, print and digital news media across emerging and frontier markets. More than 77 million people around the world get their news from MDIF's current portfolio companies.Harlan has managed debt and equity investments in over 50 news outlets on five continents. He has extensive experience working in emerging and frontier markets as an impact investment manager and attorney. In his role at MDIF, Harlan has served on the boards of various media companies in Brazil, India, Malaysia, Poland and South Africa. Harlan also has designed and raised a number of innovative impact investment vehicles for MDIF, including a series of structured debt issuances through Switzerland's Bank Vontobel in partnership with responsAbility, a debt facility guaranteed by Sida, and a private equity fund. He was MDIF’s Deputy Managing Director from 1998 until his appointment as CEO in 2011. (MDIF was named Media Development Loan Fund until January 2013.) Harlan is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment & Culture. Before joining MDLF, Harlan served from 1996 to 1998 as Deputy General Counsel of the Open Society Institute. Prior to that, he practiced law in the New York and Los Angeles offices of Morrison & Foerster, specializing in international litigation, intellectual property and new media law. He received his JD from Columbia University School of Law in 1989, and holds a BA in International Relations and Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.