Arnaud Blanchet

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Arnaud Blanchet is the co founder and CEO of Last Mile for BoP a social business based in South Africa that improves the distribution of FMCG and social innovations in townships and rural areas via a mobile application dedicated to informal traders called Shopit. Shopit won the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge Africa in 2019. Prior to starting this business Arnaud advised social businesses in 20 countries and was for 5 years the CFO of the Women s Forum (in Paris & Shanghai) a Publicis group company. Arnaud studied corporate finance at Icade (Madrid Spain) and at Edhec Business School (Lille France) and holds a Master in Management. He is a French African Foundation Young Leader (2017 promotion) and an Alibaba UNCTAD eFounder Fellow (2018 cohort). https//www.linkedin.com/in/arnaud blanchet/