RENEW Strategies

Joshua Weissburg Director of Africa Operations

Leading RENEW’s Africa operations, Josh brings experience in social investment and entrepreneurship. He serves as Philanthropy and Innovation Project Manager at the Aspen Institute, where he works to identify models and measures of social change among leading philanthropists and public sector actors such as the White House Office of Social Innovation. Josh has helped a diverse set of organizations, including CARE, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Americans for Informed Democracy to plan and evaluate their work. He serves as a charter member of The Aspen Institute’s Venture Fund, where he assesses investment proposals. Josh’s writing on how social entrepreneurs are changing the business climate in emerging markets has appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The American and the NextBillion and the Case Foundation blogs.