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Being the Change Maker in the Mirror

Advances in global development have helped lift hundreds of millions from poverty in recent decades, but major challenges in fighting poverty remain. Billions of people continue to have little or no access to the basic necessities of life: clean water, food, shelter, education, and medical care. 

The accidental geography of their birthplace limited much of what is possible in many of their lives, while expanding opportunities for others who have been much more fortunate. 

Legions of fearless, focused people are proving that the major challenges of poverty can indeed be overcome. 

In An Accident of Geography, author Richard C. Blum profiles many of them in narrating his inspiring personal story—accomplished private-equity investor, humanitarian, public policy advocate, and creator of an unprecedented, multidisciplinary curriculum in poverty and development studies that has attracted thousands of students on the ten campuses of the University of California. 

Blum offers practical guidance on what works best in the field: giving poor people a greater voice and applying key principles of 21st-century management and engineering. Put your accident of geography to work in helping others. Be the change maker you see in the mirror. 

?All author proceeds from the sale of An Accident of Geography will be donated to projects advancing global development.

Richard C. Blum is the founder and chairman of the University of California’s Blum Center for Developing Economies, founder and chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation, Honorary Consul to Nepal and founding trustee of the Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty. A private-equity investor, he is founding partner and chairman of San Francisco-based Blum Capital Partners, a founding partner of Latitude Capital Partners, and former chairman of CBRE Group. He was co-founder and partner for several years in Newbridge Capital, an investment group focused on Asia. 

Richard has been a Regent of the University of California since 2002, serving more than two years as chairman, and is on the advisory board of UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he earned undergraduate and master’s degrees. He is married to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, of California, and serves on the boards of The Carter Center, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the President’s Global Development Council, and Central European University, among other organizations.  

Thomas C. Hayes is a principal with Finsbury, a global consulting firm in strategic communications, and a former award-winning New York Times economic correspondent. This is his fourth book, collaborating on each as writer with authors in business, investing, management and philanthropy. He and his wife live in Bethel, Connecticut.