Ben Powell '05
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Agora Partnerships

Ben Powell is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Agora Partnerships, a social enterprise dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries, as well as a director of the Agora Venture Fund, an angel fund supporting socially responsible small businesses in Nicaragua. He has extensive experience as a small business investor and entrepreneur in Mexico, where he co-founded a successful family entertainment park. Ben was an examiner in the International Affairs Division of the White House Office of Management and Budget and has worked at Ashoka on its Full Economic Citizenship initiative.  Ben holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a BA from Haverford College. He lives in Washington DC with his wife and two sons.