Throughout the COVID-19 Crisis, the Actis global network of more than 300 employees in 16 countries has been an invaluable resource.

Margaret Keenan – a 91-year-old grandmother – is an unlikely history maker.

Actis surveyed the senior leadership of its portfolio companies and its own professionals in early April 2020.

The cost of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rise. Millions of people have lost their lives; many more of them have been thrown out of work.

From its beginning in March of last year we have reported that this pandemic, like those that have come before, has accelerated inequality.

Just over a year ago, we were preparing for our 2020 Annual meeting. This would be my eighth Annual meeting.

Actis Acts is Actis’ foundation supporting charitable activities linked to Actis investee companies, local charities and humanitarian crises.

We are over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the global community still confronts extreme social and economic strain.

One of the most densely packed places on earth has recorded only 11,700 infections and 210 deaths out of a population of 7.5 million.