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Asher Hasan  

Founder and CEO of Naya Jeevan, Social Activist, Entrepreneur

Asher Hasan is founder and CEO of Naya Jeevan, a social enterprise that provides low-income families in emerging economies with catastrophic healthcare. Naya Jeevan won first prize in the 2008 NYU Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan competition.

Hasan was recently selected as a Draper Richards Social Entrepreneur Fellow, and is also an invited member of the Clinton Global Initiative. He has served as head of the US Medical Affairs Obesity Team for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and joined TEDIndia in 2009 as a TEDIndia Fellow.

"[Naya Jeevan] will act as a catalytic intermediary between insurance companies and corporations in those countries, giving naya jeevan, or "new life" as it translates from Urdu and Hindi, to two large and severely underserved communities in South Asia: low-income corporate employees and their children, as well as domestic staff members of corporate employees and their children."

Speech Topics


Ad-Venture Catalysts.

An exploration in how social entrepreneurs are creating value through innovation.

Supply Chain Optimization.

How to create triple bottom line value for global corporations.

Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

A discussion on why it makes business sense to empower the marginalized.

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