Bono
Co-founder of ONE
Lead Singer, U2
The day I first came into contact with Mohammed Jameel was a blessed one it turned out…
We met through Quincy Jones, and discovered a shared interest in tackling the structural causes of extreme poverty . . .
To try and make better sense of something that doesn’t make any sense . . . i.e. how is it the case that we as a human race can put a man on the moon, yet here on earth vast numbers die because of an accident of latitude and longitude?
Their address.
We shared an analysis that these issues were at their heart about injustice, but I was struck by his engineer-like razor focus on finding specific solutions. He introduced myself and my campaigner colleagues to Esther Duflo at the [Abdul Latif Jameel] Poverty [Action] Lab (J-PAL) at MIT in 2005.
The ONE Campaign believes strongly in ‘factivism’, and the work of the Poverty Action Lab and Community Jameel’s commitment to forensically researching evidence-based interventions has been game changing.
As we say in Ireland: “he is some man, for one man.”
75 years, countless lives transformed.
Yours with gratitude and respect,
Bono
Co-founder of ONE
Lead Singer, U2
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