{"id":26244,"date":"2025-12-04T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wise.staging-dev.com\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=26244"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:23:46","slug":"mr-martin-burt","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/wise.staging-dev.com\/ar\/biography\/mr-martin-burt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Martin Burt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"speaker-intro\">\n<div class=\"social social-share\">Martin Burt is Founder and CEO of Fundaci\u00f3n Paraguaya, a 26-year old NGO devoted to designing worldwide social innovations to the eliminate poverty through\u00a0 entrepreneurship and self-reliance. Fundaci\u00f3n Paraguaya operates from offices in Paraguay, Tanzania, and the US.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p class=\"p1\">He is a pioneer in applying microfinance, microfranchise, youth entrepreneurship, and financial literacy methodologies to address chronic poverty. He has also developed one of the world\u2019s first financially self-sufficient agricultural schools for the rural poor. He is co-founder of Teach a Man to Fish, a global network based in London (2,000 members -125 countries) that promotes \u201ceducation that pays for itself\u201d and which is partnering with more than 65 organizations from 31 countries to establish self-sufficient schools, mostly in rural areas. He participates in the Education Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and is a university professor of Social Entrepreneurship in the US and Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He is a pioneer in environmental protection in Paraguay, having co-founded the Bertoni Nature Conservancy and the Mbaracayu Forest Reserve Foundations, two of the country\u2019s largest nature conservation institutions. He has served as Vice Minister of Commerce, and was elected Mayor of Asunci\u00f3n. Burt has received the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Award, the Microfinance Award from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award from the Schwab Foundation, the Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award, the Ashoka Changemakers Award, the Oikocredit Award, the Templeton Freedom Award, and the distinguished alumni Award from the George Washington University and University of the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He is an Avina Foundation leader and a Synergos and Eisenhower Fellow. Burt has been awarded the UNESCO Orbis Guaraniticus Medal and the Inter American Development Bank and UNESCO Best Practice Award. He serves as a Board Member for Junior Achievement Worldwide. 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