Ryan Ubuntu Olson is a globally recognized gender and human rights expert and recently served as regional director of sustainable business at Palladium, its diversity, equity and inclusion initiative across the company. Olson serves as the co-chair of Society for Inclusive Developmentās Working Group on Inclusive Development. He also is a serving member of the Technical Review Panel, which serves the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has been a front-line champion of diversity and inclusion and gender and human rights for the past two decades.
There is still a limited understanding of how diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility can lead to positive outcomes in global development. Yet DEIA is an essential framework for the sector.