David Green

Green helped Govindappa Venkataswamy and his team to establish Aurolab in South India, a nonprofit manufacturer of low cost intraocular lenses for treating cataracts. He also developed suture and surgical blade manufacturing for Aurolab.

He is known for developing many eye care programs and for making them self-financing from user fees while serving the lower economic strata. These include: the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India; the Lumbini Eye Care Project and the Tilganga Eye Institute in Nepal; the Grameen Eye Hospitals in Bangladesh; the SadGuru Trust in Chitrakoot, India; the Al Noor Magrabi Eye Hospital in Egypt; and the Visualiza in Guatemala.

He co-founded Sound World Solution, a social enterprise to make affordable hearing devices with a novel fitting named LegWorks, which makes high quality prosthetic knees affordable. He also co-founded the Eye Fund, a $15M social investing fund in collaboration with Deutsche Bank, Ashoka and International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, that provides affordable loan financing for sustainable eye care programs.

His work has been profiled in Fortune Magazine, NPR, the Economist, Forbes, on CNN and in the PBS documentary series, "The New Heroes".