Carnegie Council

Andrew Kuper is the president of LeapFrog Investments, the world's first microinsurance fund which he founded in January 2007, inspired by his extensive experience enabling entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Launched by President Clinton and hailed by the likes of the Wall Street Journal and Private Equity International, LeapFrog has opened a new frontier for social investment and microfinance—and is now the world's largest microinsurance initiative.

Kuper is a former managing director of Ashoka, which has financed and connected more than 2,000 social entrepreneurs in 60+ countries. He worked with both Grameen and BRAC, the world's largest microfinance institutions, to market their social ventures. He also co–founded Kuper Research, which designed the Daily Sun, now sub–Saharan Africa's largest newspaper, with five million daily readers.

Born and raised in South Africa, Kuper holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge, where he was supervised by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen—who first stimulated Kuper's interest in market–based solutions to poverty.

Kuper is also a global thought-leader on democracy, human rights, and innovations in poverty relief. He founded and led the Empire and Democracy Project at the Carnegie Council, in the early days of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Resources by this Author:

• Empire and Democracy (2003-2004)
• Can and Should Trade Be Used to Promote Human Rights, Fairness? Part 2
• Global Responsibilities: How Multinational Corporations Can Deliver on Human Rights
• Global Responsibilities: How Can Multinational Corporations Deliver on Human Rights?
• The Impact of Corporations on Global Governance
• Promoting Democracy through International Law
• Multilateral Strategies to Promote Democracy
• Promoting Democracy in a Divided World
• Facts, Theories, and Hard Choices: Reply to Peter Singer [Full Text]
• More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the "Singer Solution" [Full Text]

• Global Responsibilities: Who Must Deliver on Human Rights? (Routledge, 2005)
• Democracy Beyond Borders Justice and Representation in Global Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• "Why Deliberation Cannot Tame Globalization," in Analyse & Kritik 25, no. 2 (2003).
• Political Philosophy: The View from Cambridge with Partha Dasgupta, Raymond Geuss, Melissa Lane, Peter Laslett, Onora O'Neill, W. Garry Runciman and Quentin Skinner, in The Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 1 (2002).
• "Serving a New Democracy: Must the Media" with Jocelyn Kuper, in The International Journal of Public Opinion Research 13, no. 4 (2001).