Lara Allen is the CCG Deputy Director for Country Partnerships. She is the CEO of the Centre for Global Equality (CGE), a civil society organization that enables the evolution of innovative solutions to global challenges by facilitating productive interactions between academia, civil society, government, business, and under-resourced communities in developing countries. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, where she directs the Cambridge Centre for Inclusive Innovation.
She has more than fifteen years of experience as a sustainable development practitioner, having worked with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and national and international NGOs in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ireland, and the UK. Prior to this she was an academic with nine years of post-PhD experience at the University of Cambridge and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. As head of CGE, she has led the evolution of the organization’s approach to Inclusive Innovation: impact-focused research and innovation, co-created collaboratively based on mutual regard for different types of expertise, integrated into existing ecosystems and delivered ensuring fair recompense and sufficient return.
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