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Julie Sunderland: Solving Problems Means Tapping Into the Private Sector

“If we’re going to solve the problems that we’re trying to solve – and it’s not just for the Foundation, it’s for all of us, we’ve got to tap into the creativity and the capability and the innovation potential of the private sector.” -Julie Sunderland of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, from her recent Big Think Interview  
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“If we’re going to solve the problems that we’re trying to solve – and it’s not just for the Foundation, it’s for all of us, we’ve got to tap into the creativity and the capability and the innovation potential of the private sector.”

–Julie Sunderland of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, from her recent Big Think Interview

For more on getting the private and public sectors to collaborate in order to solve the world’s problems, be sure to watch the following clip from Julie Sunderland’s Big Think interview:

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