Episode 4: The Case For Shutting Down Organizations with Rahul Chandran

How to thoughtfully close down organizations

Why It Matters

What does a global humanitarian sector thatโ€™s fit for the many challenges of the 21st century look like? Rahul Chandran, a world-renowned humanitarian leader, talks about this and how to thoughtfully close down organizations โ€” something that people in the world of social impact don't like to open up about.

For this episode of Edge & Main, Future of Goodโ€™s podcast featuring the ideas, people, and innovations shaping tomorrowโ€™s world of impact today, we sat down with Rahul Chandran, a world-renowned humanitarian leader and recent Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation.ย 

Rahul has found himself working in some of the worldโ€™s toughest humanitarian contexts like Afghanistan and has led large scale policy, peace-building, and innovation efforts, including at the United Nations. Rahul was also the author and managing editor of Humanitarianism in the Network Age, a major report on the future of humanitarian action. The report argued that information was a basic need in crisis response and was described as a “turning point for the use of

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