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Sangu Delle        

Entrepreneur, Author, Clean Water Activist, Soros Fellow & TEDGlobal Fellow

Dr. Sangu Delle is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Author.

Delle is CEO of CarePoint (formerly Africa Health Holdings), a tech forward healthcare system operating across the continent, focused on "building Africa's healthcare future." He is also the Founder and Chairman of Golden Palm Investments Corporation ("GPI"); an investment holding company focused on building world class technology companies in Africa. GPI has backed startups such as Andela, mPharma and Flutterwave and GPI portfolio companies have raised over $1.2 billion in venture financing.

Delle co-founded Cleanacwa, a nonprofit which worked in underdeveloped communities in Ghana to ensure that water and sanitation, basic human rights, were provided. Cleanacwa operated from 2007 until 2022 and its projects impacted over 200,000 people across 160 communities in Ghana. In 2022, Delle launched the Sangu Delle Foundation, a grant-making non-profit focused on education, mental health and job creation.

Delle is a Trustee of the Peddie School, a board member of Ashesi University, a member of the Harvard Medical School Dean's Global Health and Service Advisory Council, Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of Harvard's Center for African Studies, a board member of Ghana International School and a member of Harvard University's Joint Committee on Alumni Affairs and Development. He is a member of the Selection Committee of the Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa. Delle previously served as an Elected Director on the Board of Harvard's Alumni Association and a member of the Stakeholder Advisory panel at AXA.

Delle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Highest Honors) in African Studies and Economics from Harvard College, a Doctor of Law from Harvard Law School, a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master's in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University and a PhD in African Studies and Anthropology from the University of Birmingham. He is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Delle is the author of Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times / McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book by an author under age 40.

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