Skoll World Forum 2018
Thursday, January 1, 1970
Speakers
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Gemma is an award-winning thinker and practitioner in transformative, systemic change. She is founder and co-creator of New Constellations, which exists to help people envision and create futures of human and planetary flourishing. New Constellations creates immersive experiences for diverse groups to explore transformation in specific places, specific systems and for their own personal leadership. She is a co-founder and chair of More In Common and sits on the advisory council of Yale University’s International Leadership Centre. She was previously Chief Global Officer at Change.org and CEO of Crisis Action – an organisation that won the MacArthur Award and Skoll Award for its innovative systems model.
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Director, Global Media Partnerships @ Ashoka, Press
Laxmi Parthasarathy is the Director of Global Media Partnerships for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Laxmi is also a media development professional, a former Boehm Media Fellow, and the current Vice Chair of the board of Crossroads International, a leading Canadian international development organization.
Laxmi worked in Swaziland as the communications leader for the country's only gender-based violence prevention NGO, where she developed and executed national media campaigns, co-produced a national radio program, and built local journalism capacity.
In 2007, Laxmi founded MY ROOTS, a Toronto based newspaper, and has worked on media, communications, and development projects in Canada, India, Rwanda, Mexico and the UK. She has delivered lectures on Social Entrepreneurship, Media Development, and the Future of Journalism at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. She received a BA from Carleton University and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2008 she was awarded Top 20 Under 20 in Canada.
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Jessica is a current Global Health Corps fellow serving as the Family Wellness Center Coordinator at Boys & Girls Club of Newark. Her role is to spearhead an initiative to promote holistic family wellness through behavioral health and family support services offered at the Club. Prior to joining Global Health Corps, Jessica worked to connect survivors of torture with medical, legal, economic, and mental health services as a case manager at Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago. Jessica is originally from San Francisco and holds a degree in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago.
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Senior Associate Dean for Global Health, Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University
Michele Barry, MD, FACP is Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and is Senior Associate Dean for Global Health at the School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute and the Woods Institute for Environmental Studies. As one of the co-founders of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar Award program, she has sent over 1500 physicians overseas to underserved areas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low resource settings. As a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), she led an educational initiative in tropical medicine and travelers health which culminated in diploma courses in tropical medicine both in the U.S. and overseas, as well as a U.S. certification exam. Dr. Barry is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and National Academy of Sciences since 2002. She has been selected for Best Doctors in America and currently sits on the NAM Board on Global Health, the Advisory Board for NIH-Fogarty Center, the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). She is the 2010 recipient of the Ben Kean Medal given every three years by the ASTMH and the 2018 recipient of the AMWA Elizabeth Blackwell Award. She has over 180 publications in the areas of tropical diseases, travel medicine, ethics of research overseas and impact of globalization on health.
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, Said Business School
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CEO, Generations For Peace
Mark Clark MBE
Mark is passionate about transformational change in individuals, communities, and organisations. He has been CEO of Generations For Peace (GFP) since 2011. GFP is a Jordan-based international peace-building NGO empowering youth leaders to transform conflict and reduce violence at grass roots in communities across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe, by promoting youth leadership, community empowerment, active tolerance, and responsible citizenship. GFP is ranked “#34 in the Top 500 NGOs in the World" (#2 ranked peace-building NGO in the world) by NGO Advisor.
Mark’s diverse experience includes humanitarian emergency relief work; sustainable community development; sustainable livelihoods; water and sanitation; community health programmes; sport-for-development programmes to address HIV/AIDs, violence against women, and to promote healthy lifestyles and youth leadership; inter-tribal conflict transformation; post-conflict transition; democratic governance and election education programmes; and capacity development of governmental and non-governmental organisations, including National Olympic Committees.
Mark is from Scotland and has also worked in Papua New Guinea (2006-2010), D.R.Congo (2005-2006); Iraq (2003-2005); and India (2001-2002). Formerly a corporate lawyer in the UK and India, Mark is a Solicitor (Law Society of Scotland), and Member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet.
Mark has an LLB(Hons) & DipLP (University of Edinburgh); an MA in Executive Management (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1); an MSc in Consulting & Coaching for Change (HEC School of Management Paris and Oxford University’s Saïd Business School); and certificates in Transformative Dialogue (Nansen Centre for Peace and Dialogue); Community Dispute Resolution (Colorado State University); and Non-Violent Communication (Centre for Nonviolent Communication). Mark also passed out from RMA Sandhurst, serving as a British Army Officer for 10 years.
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RFH-Lesotho Country Director and RFH-I Board Chairman, Riders for Health International
Mahali Hlasa is the Country Director at Riders for Health Lesotho since January 2008, and the Chair of the Riders for Health International Management Council. Before joining Riders, she worked for the Ministry of Health Lesotho as an Environmental Health Practitioner.
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Deputy & Program Director, Open Contracting Partnership
Kathrin’s journey as a social entrepreneur started in an unlikely place – the World Bank. Surrounded by experts in technical assistance who structured loans for governments, she was part of a small team at the World Bank Institute, an incubation lab and ‘internal agitator’ testing out how the Bank could have more impact on good governance and public accountability. Kathrin worked in diverse countries, including Nigeria, Uganda and Mongolia using her skills in collaborative design and facilitation to bring representatives from government, business and civil society together to solve complex governance issues in high impact but challenging areas such as mining, construction and service delivery.
Public contracting was the key issue that kept arising across countries and industries yet it received very little attention. Once she realized the huge potential impact that more accountable procurement processes could have, there was no turning back. Kathrin corralled her team to begin a consultative process for a global organization to open up government contracting that would be better equipped than the World Bank to work internationally across stakeholder groups. She led the spin-off process, from securing buy-in and funding to setting up the infrastructure for what became the OCP. Kathrin now co-manages the Partnership with Gavin and is still thrilled by the daily opportunity to change how contracting can deliver value for everyone.
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President & CEO, Financial Health Network
Jennifer Tescher is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Health Network (formerly the Center for Financial Services Innovation), the nation’s authority on financial health. The Financial Health Network is a trusted resource for business leaders, policymakers, and innovators united in a mission to improve financial health for all. As an entrepreneur, innovator and forceful voice for change, Jennifer has focused her work and career on the idea that, by aligning consumer and provider success, business can be a force for good in the lives of consumers, communities and the economy.
Tescher founded what was then CFSI in 2004 to champion increased access to high-quality financial products and services for underserved consumers. Over two decades, she has cultivated a robust network of relationships to raise the profile of financial health, and today the Financial Health Network has built a Network of over 150 organizations committed to financial health.
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Director of Strategic Partnerships, Aspen Institute
Jacqueline Shiff is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Aspen Institute’s Youth & Engagement Programs. In this role, Jackie builds partnerships with individuals and entities across sectors focused on young people and their engagement in civic society.
Jackie came to the Aspen Institute from the University of Chicago Urban Labs, where she was the Director of Civic Partnerships and worked alongside Timothy Knowles to build a nationally-recognized institution that uses science in service of cities to improve lives in five key areas: Crime, Education, Health, Poverty, and Energy & the Environment. Prior to the University of Chicago, Jackie was the Director of Operations at a philanthropic foundation focused on youth violence.
A lifelong Chicagoan, Jackie recognized from a young age that too many children in her city lack access to the opportunities she had growing up, and she has spent her life committed to strengthening under resourced communities. Her exposure as an attorney to the criminal justice system reaffirmed her commitment to empowering young people and helping close the opportunity gap in America. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and served for two years as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Mary L. Mikva.
Jackie serves on the Board of Directors of the Mikva Challenge, a national organization that develops youth to be informed, empowered, and active citizens and community leaders. She previously served on boards for the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern School of Law and the American Constitution Society. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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Director of Scheduling and Advance, Jeff Skoll Group
Corey Ganssley serves as Jeff Skoll’s Director of Scheduling & Advance at the Jeff Skoll Group where he strategically coordinates all travel and logistics.
Prior to joining the Skoll family, Corey was responsible for coordinating and executing hundreds of extensive and complex schedules and travel plans for both President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair, traveling with each principle across the globe. Corey prides himself on creating smooth travel logistics in some of the world's most underdeveloped locations, as well as dealing with last-minute changes and unexpected conditions on the road.
Corey is originally from the Great Lakes State and graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in political science.
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Senior Manager, Social Innovation, Global Community Impact, Johnson & Johnson
Zack Langway is a communications professional with broad experience, domestically and globally, across consumer healthcare, healthcare advocacy, global health and development, and healthcare innovation. Throughout his career, Zack has worked with nonprofits, businesses, and change agents to combine science, storytelling, and community engagement into communications strategies that help advance health and wellness. Zack currently leads strategic communications for Johnson & Johnson’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer. Prior he has held leadership roles in digital strategy, advocacy and strategic communications at agencies and nonprofit organizations. He graduated with a BA from Brown University and an MA in Communication from Johns Hopkins University, and serves as an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University and Towson University.
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Secretary-General, Narada Foundation
Yanni Peng has over 20 years of experience in the field of non-profit management, social enterprise and social investment, and public services to vulnerable groups. She is CEO of Narada Foundation which is a leading grant-making foundation in China. As a member of the strategy committee of the Board of Directors, she was involved in developing Narada Foundation’s 2017-2019 strategy. She sits on the boards of a few non-profit organizations including AVPN, China Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Forum, China Foundation Forum, China Alliance for Fundraising Professionals, China Foundation Center, China Donors Routable and New Citizens Center.
Yanni Peng holds a master degree in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from London School of Economics and a Bachelor degree in Business Management from Renmin University of China.
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Founder & CIO, Kytabu
Huge fan of the what education in the future will look like. Stumbled into the tech scene in 2005 and I have never looked back (sorry International Relations and Journalism Folks!). Playing my part in building what will be the future of education in Africa. On my second upstart "Kytabu" and happily building a conversation around what innovation looks like in Africa. Undefined dyslexic.
Adventures in my previous life: Founder of the largest IT incubator in Kenya, raised €5 Million for it, avid dad, adventurer and keen education policy advocate.
Current adventure: Building Kytabu Inc., a digital textbook leasing application for mobile devices in the developing world. Innovation speaker and strategist.
A fan and contributor of TED talks speaking at TEDxNairobi, TEDxKibera, TEDxPSU and TEDxChange Amsterdam.
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Managing Director, Lean Data, Acumen
Tom is Managing Director of Lean Data. Launched in 2014, Lean Data was conceived to help Acumen and its companies better understand the impact of their work through the voice of the customer, thereby enabling the enterprises to better meet the needs of the poor. Lean Data has grown rapidly since its inception, empowering social enterprises and investors beyond Acumen to build impact measurement and customer-centricity into business as usual. The service is now widely recognized as one of the social sector’s most innovative approaches to impact measurement.
Prior to Acumen, Tom worked for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), first as Country Economist in Nigeria and subsequently leading its Wealth Creation and Climate Change team in Ethiopia. Tom has also worked as a diplomat for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and as an Economic Advisor to various UK Government departments. He began his career working at Credit Suisse pricing equity derivatives.
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Senior Program Officer/Relationship Manager, The Giving Pledge
Taryn Jensen works on the Philanthropic Partnerships Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she is the relationship manager for the Giving Pledge. She previously supported a portfolio of grants focusing on vaccine development and health in the developing world. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Taryn managed largescale fundraising programs at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Taryn earned a Bachelor of Science at the University of Washington. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding, trying Seattle’s many new restaurants, supporting the University of Washington’s football team, and traveling to new places around the world.
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Founder & Director, Long Term Foundation
Tony has been involved in social justice programs in Dublin’s inner city for almost 30 years on a voluntary basis. He is a member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul and Gorta Self Help Africa.
In 2007 he joined the board of Small Foundation at its inception, and he has supported development in Sub-Saharan Africa for a number of years. Small Foundation is focused on innovative scalable solutions to famine and hunger.
In Nov 2017 Tony set up Long Term Foundation to support initiatives that seek to improve food security and nutrition, increase access to international markets, and create opportunities for small business development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tony’s career is in global financial markets, and he is the CIO of Abbey Capital Ltd, a leading managed futures investment company, which he co-founded in 2000.
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Director, New Initiatives, Azim Premji Foundation
Sweta Gupta currently works on supporting the development of new initiatives in Azim Premji Foundation. She was responsible for the operations of India Philanthropy Initiative for over eight years before this, working under the umbrella of Azim Premji Foundation. The India Philanthropy Initiative is a principal led effort to enable informed and increased philanthropy among the wealthy in India. Sweta has close to nineteen years’ experience spanning corporate and development sectors. She has worked in corporate and strategy offices of IBM and Tata Motors across geographies and has a master’s in business management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
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Journalist, British Broadcasting Corporation
World Hacks, where I work as a senior journalist, is a BBC World Service programme that reaches millions of people with radio, podcast and video reports about innovative projects that make the world a better place. Come and find me if you've got one of those.
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CEO, Paul Ramsay Foundation
Simon Freeman became the inaugural CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation in 2015 after five years as Group CFO and Company Secretary of the Paul Ramsay Group. Simon was heavily involved in the formation and development of the Paul Ramsay Foundation and has overseen the allocation of over $200m worth of funding commitments during the Foundation’s first three years of operations.
The Paul Ramsay Foundation is Australia's largest philanthropic fund, distributing $100m per annum to health and education causes within Australia.
A qualified chartered accountant, Simon moved to Australia from the UK in 2004 with Deloitte, and has since worked for a variety of financial institutions in banking, funds management and private equity.
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Founder & CEO, Komaza
Africa's wood demand is accelerating quickly, with no end in sight. Most natural forests are gone or disappearing fast: a top cause of climate change. Traditional plantation forestry is severely growth constrained by limited land & high costs. With this business-as-usual, Africa's wood supply deficit will be $30 billion/year by 2030. This is a big business opportunity.
Africa has millions of poor farmers eager to make more money growing anything, including trees. Komaza's core innovation is simple: partner with thousands of farmers to collectively grow enough trees to feed a vertically-integrated industrial wood business. Once mature, Komaza buys and harvests the trees, returning life-changing income to farmers and supplying sustainable wood to market.
Critically, Komaza's model also delivers disruptive cost savings. Because farmers provide all land and labor, Komaza plants trees for 80% less than plantations, ultimately yielding much higher unit economic returns. Superior profitability means tremendous potential to scale, inspiring Komaza's long-term ambition to grow into Africa's largest forestry company.
After nearly a decade of slow bootstrapping, Komaza's growth has accelerated significantly over the last three years. By planting over 3,000 acres in 2018, Komaza is now among the largest active forestry planters in Africa. To date, Komaza has planted over 2 million trees with 14,000 farmers in Coastal Kenya, with operations currently on track to plant another 1 million trees with 7,000 farmers in 2019.
Tevis Howard, Komaza's Founder/CEO, grew up in the California Bay Area. Following his parent's footsteps, he was a biotech science nerd in his youth. After a quarter-life existential crisis, Tevis started Komaza while in university and has been maniacally driven ever since.
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Founder and CEO, RefugePoint
Sasha leads RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that finds lasting solutions for at-risk refugees and supports the humanitarian community to do the same. He is the co-author of the book From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions. Sasha is a recipient of the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Harvard Gleitsman Award, the Charles Bronfman Humanitarian Prize, and a fellow of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Ashoka, and Echoing Green. He is a board member of the Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID) Global, was a founder and an advisor to The Good Lie Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Warner Bros. film The Good Lie about the resettlement of the Sudanese Lost Boys and Girls, and is a goodwill ambassador for the million dollar Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He is focused on elevating the leadership of refugees in humanitarian and philanthropic action.
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Investment Principal, Mulago Foundation
Sarah is a Senior Investment Principal with the Mulago Foundation where she supports a broad portfolio of entrepreneurs across the development (education, healthcare, agriculture) and climate/conservation sectors. She's been with Mulago for 5 years, and before that was on the portfolio and investments team at the Skoll Foundation. She's worked for a range of funders over the past ~10 years yet started her journey in the social sector in a public health nonprofit focused on global eye care.
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Chief Development Officer, Amazon Conservation Team
Sarah is a strategic leader with more than a decade of experience managing complex, socially conscious partnerships for corporations, foundations, and not-for-profit organizations. She is an international development expert utilizing a unique blend of programmatic and resource mobilization skills to develop formidable relationships with key stakeholders and donors. Sarah possesses an outstanding ability to analyze linkages between programmatic priorities and fundraising goals to develop overarching strategies that accomplish both. She’s lead high-performing global teams, promoting collaboration and maintaining cohesion amid competing priorities and the pursuit of ambitious goals. As the primary relationship manager with many of the world's largest corporations and individual donors, Sarah guides catalytic partnerships through complex systems and helps ensure sustainable impact through proactive stewardship and project engagement.
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Senior Advisor, SELCO INDIA
Sarah is a Sr. Advisor with SELCO, an organization that seeks to alleviate poverty and create assets for the poor via last mile energy access solutions. Sarah leads the organization’s inclusive investment advocacy program and global replication of an ecosystems approach to energy access. With close to 10 years of experience in the energy access sector, Sarah has worked on multiple programs at the confluence of energy access, sustainable development and poverty. She has previously presented at various national and international programs to propagate the concept of an energy access ecosystem.
Sarah holds an MSc in Conservation Biology from State University of New York (SUNY), College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry.
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Head of Programmes, Stone Family Foundation
Sarah is the Head of Programmes at the Stone Family Foundation, a UK funder committed to supporting entrepreneurial and market-based solutions to water and sanitation in Africa and Asia. The Foundation provides grants, investment and non-financial support to innovative ventures, as well as support to wider market development work.
Sarah previously spent six years at New Philanthropy Capital, a think tank and consultancy, advising charities and funders on their strategy and impact. Prior to that, Sarah worked for Intelligent Giving, a website that assessed the transparency and reporting of the top 500 UK charities.
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Head of the Street Food Program, National Association of Street Vendors of India
Sangeeta Singh
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sangeetaleo@hotmail.com
Date of birth-18-02-1973
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Sangeeta Singh advocates the cause of Street Vendors and along with the rights of Women and Children. She heads the Street Food Program of National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI). She consolidated the Street Food Festival initiated by NASVI and curates it yearly as a mega event .with her effort street food program has become signature event of the national capital.Her vision to mainstream street food vendors and create an ecosystem which works for them has started bearing fruits . Advocacy being her strength she was actively involved in the campaign for law for street vendors and is facilitating its implementation wherever needed. she heads many forums and platforms of unorganized workers ,women and children. .She played key role in mainstreaming street food vendors into ministry of tourism and other departments. Protecting livelihood of street food vendors ,preserving food culture and promoting gastronomy tourism by engaging street food vendors is her mission. National Street food festival ,an advocacy event curated by her is being implemented by other government agencies in different part of the country besides by Housing and Urban Development department ,Govt. Of India.
She was semifinalist in Masterpreneur of the year- a program of CNBC Aawaz 2014.She is developing a social enterprise of street food vendors. She was given “Bihar samman”award by Nitish kumar,Chief Minister of Bihar for her work on livelihood of street food vendors .She was awarded safe and nutritious food ambassador award by food safety and standard authority of India in 2017.She was invited as key speaker to UNWTO program held in Bangkok to highlight the importance of street food vendors in gastronomy tourism .She has been panelist and speaker at many national and international platforms like New York University ,WSFC
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Director of Global Partnerships, CAMFED USA ,
CAMFEDSandra is a Co-Director of Camfed USA, leading on strategic relationships with US-based government, corporate and foundation partners who seek to co-invest in girl’s education and young women’s programs in Africa, alongside Camfed’s extensive network of community partners in rural districts across Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Ghana. Prior to joining Camfed in 2011, Sandra earned a master’s degree in Public Health with a focus on global health and the private sector, following a twelve-year career in product development and marketing for medical technology and scientific instruments.
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Vanessa works on the Community and Convenings team, supporting the curation and care of the Skoll World Forum delegate community. She has been working in the nonprofit field for over ten years developing community engagement and workforce development programs. Most recently, she served as the Communities Manager at Benetech, a Skoll Awardee. Previously, Vanessa worked at the Downtown Women’s Center, where she managed their volunteer program and started three social enterprises (a café, retail store, and product line) that created job training and employment opportunities for homeless women in the Los Angeles Skid Row Community.
Vanessa holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine. Vanessa enjoys the adventures of parenting two energetic and mischievous kids with her partner. She is passionate about food, community building, and social innovation.
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Vice President, Fair Trade USA
Ruskin Hartley leads Fair Trade USA’s resource development team, collaborating with individuals, corporations and foundations to innovate and grow Fair Trade’s model for change. As an experienced leader in the nonprofit sector he has spent more than 20 years working on environmental protection, land and water conservation, and management of public lands.
He served as Executive Director of the San Francisco-based Save the Redwoods League, one of the Nation’s oldest conservation groups. Under his leadership, the organization raised $100 million in public and private funds to advance protection and restoration of the redwoods, and launched the ground-breaking Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative. While serving as President of Heal the Bay – southern California’s leading environmental advocacy organization – he secured passage of the nation’s first state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. Through working on these issues, Ruskin came to appreciate that at the root of most environmental challenges are a complex suite of social issues rooted in people’s livelihoods. It was a desire to work on these root causes through market-based solutions that brought Ruskin to Fair Trade USA.
Born in the United Kingdom, Ruskin has also worked in Britain, Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman. A graduate of Cambridge University, Ruskin lives with his wife and four sons in the East Bay. In his spare-time he serves on his local Planning Commission to make his community more livable and sustainable.
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Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
Roy Steiner, PhD, is the Senior Vice President for the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he leads a team focused on creating a more nourishing, regenerative and equitable food system.
Roy comes to The Rockefeller Foundation from the Omidyar Network, where he served as Director of the Intellectual Capital team since 2015, focused on helping Omidyar achieve its strategic objectives at all levels including in the agriculture space. He dedicated nearly a decade of his career to leadership positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was a founding member of the Agricultural Development initiative and was instrumental in working to develop the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, the creation of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency, and dozens of other partnerships which addressed food insecurity around the world.
Before the Gates Foundation, Roy spent eight years in Africa where he was founder and CEO of Cyberplex Africa, one of the largest web development and knowledge management companies in southern Africa. Early in his career, he was an original founder and managing director of Africa Online, which pioneered the delivery of Internet service in Zimbabwe. Additionally, he was a founding member of CH2MHill’s Strategies Group and has consulted for McKinsey & Company in the areas of technology innovation, growth strategies and international development. Roy holds a PhD and a Master of Science in agricultural and biological engineering with minors in economics and international development from Cornell University, as well as two degrees in mechanical engineering and biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Founding Partner, Derraik & Menezes Advogados
Rodrigo is founding partner at Derraik & Menezes Advogados, chairman of the entrepreneurship and venture capital Committee of ABVCAP (Brazilian Venture Capital and Private equity association), board member of the Brazilian Social Task Force and of Anjos do Brasil. As an attorney, Rodrigo represents foreign and local VCs, corporate ventures, startups and entrepreneurs in several venture capital and impact investment deals. He is a professor in several universities in Brazil, such as FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas and INSPER, teaching legal aspects of venture capital and private equity investments for graduation and post-graduation programs. He is also a panelist in several conferences and seminars regarding legal aspects of venture capital and private equity investments from distinct schools and associations in Brazil and Internationally. He is author and contributor of several articles on venture capital and private equity, including the Guide - Venture Capital Chapter for Brazil, published by Practical Law Company (the “PLC Handbook”).
Rodrigo holds a master in law from IE – Madrid and attended the Venture Capital Executive Program at Haas School of Business, UC- Berkeley.
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Nonprofit Program Lead, Y Combinator
Robby leads the nonprofit program for YCombinator. YCombinator funds early stage nonprofits and programs that have the opportunity to massively scale high impact programs, often through the use of technology and software. Program participants include Watsi, No Lean Season, The Centre for Effective Altruism, New Incentives, 80,000 Hours, New Story, Zidisha, CareMessage, and many more.
Robby is also a board member of Shining Hope For Communities (SHOFCO).
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Writer/Consultant/Producer, Individual
Richard Klagsbrun is a writer, consultant, filmmaker and media commentator. He was personally recruited and hired by Jeff Skoll to be part of the original team of Executives at Participant Productions. As Creative and Strategic Planning Executive, he worked on Participant's first slate of films which garnered 11 Academy Award nominations in categories including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. He was instrumental in conceiving Participant's social action planning, which was used for the campaigns of films such as An Inconvenient Truth.
More recently, Richard was one of the co-founders, along with former Sony Pictures co-President Jeff Sagansky, of the social viewing company View2gether. He has been a featured conference speaker and as a writer on social, political, health and education issues, Richard's writing has appeared in the National Post, The Walrus, and other publications.
Currently, Richard is in the process of producing a play he has written on freedom of speech, political bias, and stereotyping in academia. It's a comedy. Richard also currently is on the Advisory Board of the Screenwriting and Narrative Design Program, at George Brown College in Toronto.
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Senior Lead, Maverick Next, Maverick Collective
Rena leads Maverick Next, an initiative of PSI's Maverick Collective. Maverick Next is a movement of emerging leaders who are transforming philanthropy. In collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics, and a circle of peers, next generation philanthropists help PSI revolutionize girls' and women's health through a hands-on funding and fellowship program in social impact. Rena brings 15 years of experience leading programs to advance the sexual and reproductive health of girls and young people around the world. As PSI's Global Youth & Girls Advisor, she led the organization's work in design-thinking and private sector approaches to adolescent health, playing a lead role in its flagship project Adolescents 360. Rena has published and presented extensively on adolescent health globally. In 2009, she published a World Health Organization report on the psychosocial needs of adolescents living with HIV, inspiring her to start an award-winning program that builds leadership, life-skills and mentoring support for young people living with HIV in the U.S. She has served as Chair of the Youth, Health and Rights Coalition and the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, and currently sits on the board of Next Step. Rena holds a Master’s of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Rajshri Sen is Director of Resource Mobilisation at Breakthrough and is responsible for building a strong resource base for the organisation. Her responsibilities include strengthening Breakthrough’s fund flow from institutional agencies and diversification into corporate and major donors. Spearheading the corporate fundraising function, she has been able to build a corporate engagement program from funds to employee contribution with skills, funds and advocacy. As a key member of the senior leadership team at Breakthrough, Rajshri brings more than 10 years of understanding of the social sector and the role of strategic partnerships to deliver impact. She has a comprehensive understanding of Breakthrough programs and strategies along with an initiative and ability to look for opportunities and creatively forge linkages with prospective/potential partners. This has helped Breakthrough mobilise support for its programs in the most innovative ways. Rajshri has a post graduate degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
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Executive Director, Thousand Currents
Rajasvini Bhansali is the Executive Director of Thousand Currents (formerly IDEX) and a passionate advocate for participatory grassroots-led social change and movement building. In her wide-ranging career devoted to social, ecological, and economic justice, she has led a national social enterprise, managed a public telecommunications infrastructure fund addressing digital divide issues, and worked as a researcher, planner, policy analyst and strategy consultant. Vini also worked alongside community leaders as a capacity builder for youth polytechnics in rural Kenya for over two years, an experience she credits as motivating her to work to transform international development and philanthropy towards more people-centered practices. Born and raised in India, Vini earned a Master’s in Public Affairs with a focus on technology and telecommunications policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor′s in Astrophysics and Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences from UC Berkeley. Vini has been involved in community organizing and volunteer board roles for the last two decades including serving on the boards of Greenpeace USA, Agroecology Fund, CUSO International and Voice of Witness. Currently, she serves on the advisory board for the Women’s Building in New York City and is affiliated with the Master’s of Leadership in Sustainability Program at the University of Vermont. In 2015, she was honored with a Leaders in Action award by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), and she was a Social Entrepreneurship (SEERS) fellow at Stanford University in 2016. Vini is also a published poet, essayist, storyteller, popular educator, and a trainer with the Rockwood Leadership Institute. When not engaged with community organizations, Vini can be found nesting in her home with her family in Richmond, CA.
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President, Cieds
I am restless by nature, always in search of new paths, partners and knowledge to inspire new ideals and effective actions that can better create solutions to problems related to poverty and the lack of opportunities for all, especially for younger people.
I founded Cieds 25 years ago, today one of the largest social organizations in Brazil and Latin America. We promote strategic networks that generate prosperity, i.e. more income, more health, better education, more citizenship and above all, greater confidence in the future. We are a team of about 2000 employees working across the country in partnership with local governments, development agencies, large private companies and international institutions.
I am a member of TENDREL Brazil and the Catalyst network. My volunteering experiences are responsible for much of my professional and personal learning. I was a volunteer and Director of the AFS Intercultural, member in the Social Council of the Inter-American Develp. Bank.
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Project Management Consultant, Pallium India
Medical doctor at Wellington Hospital. Seconded for pandemic response in New Zealand. Alum Said Business School MBA 2015-16,
Harvard School of Public Health MPH ‘17
Mass General Innovation Fellow 2018
Social enterprise for bettering health outcomes in impoverished communities.
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Executive Director, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Thane Kreiner, PhD, is Executive Director of Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Howard & Alida Charney University Professor at Santa Clara University, the Jesuit university in Silicon Valley. Miller Center accelerates entrepreneurship to end global poverty and protect the planet. Through its Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) programs, Miller Center has worked with over 800 social enterprises in 65 countries, which have collectively impacted the lives of over 259 million people worldwide and raised more than $580 million in capital to scale their impact. Thane co-leads Miller Center’s Global Social Benefit Fellowship, which engages high-potential undergraduates in interdisciplinary action research projects that help social enterprises scale their impact.
Before joining Miller Center in 2010, Thane was Founder, President, and CEO of Second Genome (previously Phylotech), a microbiome analysis company; Founder, President, and CEO of Presage Biosciences, Inc., focused on bringing better cancer drugs to market; and start-up President and CEO of iPierian (formerly iZumi Bio, Inc.), a regenerative medicine venture acquired in 2014 by Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Prior to his endeavors as a “parallel entrepreneur”, Thane spent 14 years in senior leadership roles at Affymetrix, Inc., the DNA chip industry pioneer acquired by Thermo Fisher in 2016.
Thane earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1994; his Ph.D. in Neurosciences from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1988; and his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin in 1983.
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Managing Director, Smarter Good
Priscilla Heffelfinger is the Managing Director of Smarter Good, a social enterprise whose mission is to help global social sector organizations start, sustain, and scale their impact. With offices in San Francisco, USA and Manila, Philippines, Smarter Good acts as the hub of smarter fundraising for social enterprises by providing strategic fundraising, communications, customized research, finance, and organizational support services for the social sector.
Along with her team that includes former executive directors, corporate philanthropists, journalists, researchers, and development veterans, Priscilla believes that freeing up social sector innovators to focus on their missions will accelerate the search for solutions to the world’s problems, create a ripple effect, and lead to global impact. To date, Smarter Good has helped over 60 social enterprises around the world focus on creating more impact in issue areas ranging from youth development to poverty alleviation, while supporting one of Asia’s rapidly growing social enterprise scenes.
Priscilla has over 20 years of development expertise and arrived in Manila following a lead role on a USAID-funded project at BRAC University in Bangladesh. She is the co-founder and President of Thrive, a nonprofit organization that delivers healthy food to children in informal settlements in Dhaka and Manila. She oversees all operations including finance, fundraising and the implementation of sustainability plans. She has also conducted research and fundraising for nonprofits and universities, including for the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
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Tanja Collavo is a postdoctoral fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University. Her doctoral research focused on how networks of heterogeneous stakeholders are managed within the social entrepreneurship sector in order to advance both the creation of social impact and a specific vision of what social entrepreneurship is about. At present, she is working on connecting academics and practitioners involved and interested in social impact and social innovation in Oxford.
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Steve Drummond heads up two teams of journalists at NPR. NPR Ed is a nine-member team that launched in March 2014, providing deeper coverage of learning and education and extending it to audiences across digital platforms. Code Switch is an eight-person team that covers race and identity across the network, and in an award-winning weekly podcast.
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Development Director, Crisis Action
Pranjali is a development and fundraising professional who has more than a decade of experience working for international NGOs working on conflict prevention and human rights.
She joined Crisis Action in 2011, where leads on the organisation’s fundraising efforts from private foundations and individual donors and support’s the team’s monitoring and evaluation.
She previously worked on fundraising and communications for the London-based Kurdish Human Rights Project. She made the transition to the not-for-profit sector after periods working in local government and having begun her career working in marketing communications in the City. Pranjali holds a post-graduate degree in International Relations from Warwick University, where she focused on international security and human rights, and globalisation and development.
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Director of the Arnhold Institute, Chair of the Department of Health System Design & Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD is Director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and Chair of the Department of Health System Design and Global Health at the Mount Sinai Health System, as well as Special Advisor for Strategy and Design at the Peterson Center for Healthcare. Previously, he was professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and co-chair of the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign. He is also a primary care physician and community health advocate.
He is the author of Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise (Johns Hopkins Press). His next books focus on global rural healthcare delivery (Columbia University Press) and US healthcare investment (Columbia Business School Press). He is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation young leader, Presidential Leadership Scholar, term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Truman National Security Fellow.
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Co-Founder, Heal Initiative
Internist, Pediatrician, Associate Professor at UCSF and UC Berkeley, Dr. Le is also a social entrepreneur in the global health space. In 2014 he co-founded the HEAL Initiative at UCSF, a global health delivery fellowship program that trains and transforms front line health providers to make service to the poor their first career choice. After 3 years of operation, the HEAL Initiative has over 60 fellows working with partner organizations in 7 countries, seeing nearly 1,000,000 patient visits per year.
Dr. Le graduated from Dartmouth College, Stanford Medical School, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and completed his residency at Harvard. He was named one of the top 10 hospitalists in the US in 2015, was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the Society of Hospital Medicine in 2016, and was an Eisenhower Fellow in 2017.
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CEO, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Dr Patrick Moriarty is a strong champion and recognised global advocate for a systems approach to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene [WASH] crisis. He is an authority on sustainability, local water governance and applying systems thinking to the wicked problems of providing safe water and safely managed sanitation to people.
He is passionate about providing leadership to the global WASH community; ensuring that IRC contributes to igniting and supporting sector wide change that creates the strong national and local WASH systems that deliver improved services to all. He builds teams and networks that challenge the status quo in WASH, inspiring people to work effectively to purpose: bringing water and sanitation services to everyone, everywhere that last forever.
As a senior Leader, respected voice, writer and blogger with more than 25 years of global experience in water, sanitation and hygiene, Patrick inspires and empowers partnerships to effective collective action. He has a wide and deep knowledge of the use of research, learning and evidence to drive change in policy and practice. He provides high-level strategic advice and support to a broad range of governments, the private sector, organisations, and networks. Currently, Patrick is the Chair of the steering committee of water and sanitation’s global partnership, Sanitation and Water for All
Over the last six years, as IRC’s CEO, he has led a successful process of organisational change, restructuring and rebranding creating a family of strong district, country and global programmes united around a common vision and strategy.
Patrick holds degrees in Geography (Phd), Environmental Technology (MSc) and Civil Engineering (BAI). He has ample experience working across domestic water and sanitation and water resource management in Africa and South Asia, including more than ten years living in Ghana, Zimbabwe and Niger.
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Head of global Policy Partnerships & Learning, Leonard Cheshire Disability
Ola Abu Alghaib is head of influencing, impact and learning at Leonard Cheshire Disability, based in London.
Ola is a disabled person and has almost two decades of experience in the field of disability, development, and inclusive social policies in LMICs.
Her responsibilities have encompassed policy analysis, program design, management and evaluation, formulation of advocacy strategies, capacity development, extensive use of qualitative methods, and research with the World Bank, UN agencies (WHO, ILO, Unesco), NGOs (including disability organisations) and INGOs.
She has been a member of advisory bodies to support governments in social policy reform. Recently Ola was involved in providing technical expertise around effective reforms towards inclusive social protection policies.
She is completing her PhD on social protection and disability in LMICs.
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CEO, Impact Manhattan/ Impact TLV
A veteran of the Israeli start-up environment, where she successfully positioned ventures for growth and acquisition by NASDAQ-traded entities, Nirit Harel possesses 20+ years of management, branding, PR and consulting experience- including 5 negotiating partnerships with world leaders for bids in the European Framework Program/ Horizon 2020.
Ms, Harel now focuses her efforts on bringing innovation methodology to the social space, applying high-impact start-up and IR methodology to assist entities in non-profit, impact investing, social mobility- and life-transforming emerging tech in becoming viable, self-sustainable, efficient businesses. Recent projects include leaders in academia, arts and social change such as Afrika Tikkun, Gorilla Doctors, Combatants for Peace and the Museum of the Jewish People.
Over the last 9 years she has served as founding exec, and at the helm of 2 of the world's largest nonprofits: Maccabi World Union, where she established the North American entity, infrastructure, 501c3 status, and operations for the world’s largest Jewish sports organization and served as VIP liaison to the 18th Maccabiah (Jewish Olympics), the world's 3rd largest sporting event; and The Jewish Agency, the most formidable Jewish non-profit and Israeli public institution, where she assembled the first global external affairs infrastructure and team across geographic, language and cultural divides.
Ms. Harel holds a BS/BA with high honors from UCLA, an MBA with distinction from Tel Aviv University, and studied corporate strategy and decision science, earning merits and distinctions in all subjects. She is also an alumnus of the highly-competitive Banco Santander/ UCLA Anderson W50 board leadership program for next gen global women execs. She is a member of YPO, founding member of Tendrel Israel, and speaks frequently on social innovation and women's leadership/ entrepreneurship.
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Nicole Wickenhauser is the Director of Strategic Alliances at Water.org, an innovative nonprofit organization that has been part of the Skoll Foundation awardee community since 2009. Wickenhauser forges and oversees partnerships that fuel the organization’s work around the world.
Water.org addresses a top barrier to safe water and toilets for the poor– access to affordable financing. By transforming local financial markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America to work for the poor, Water.org has reached 10 million people and mobilized more than half a billion dollars in commercial financing. For over a decade, Wickenhauser has advanced Water.org’s exponential growth by providing strategic input into it evolution and serving in senior roles across the communications, marketing and development functions.
Previously, Nicole managed communications, PR and public affairs at organizations including Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare. With a Master’s in Public Administration and Bachelor of Arts degrees in English Literature and Communication, she has found her life’s focus in the water and sanitation cause.
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CEO, Queen Rania Foundation
Nafez is founding CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation London office where he oversees the foundations strategic partnerships and talent development. Nafez is also Executive Chairman and co-founder of Edraak.org, an Arabic online education portal that reaches well over 1.5 million learners across the MENA region. An initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation, Edraak’s learners come from all across the region and include disadvantaged youth in Gaza, Syria, and Iraq. Edraak has played a pivotal role in the setup of other open learning platforms across the region. Nafez was recognized for his work at Edraak as one of the top 50 “Makers+Shakers” in education technology globally by the EdtechXGlobal and the World Innovation Summit in Education (WISE) in 2016.
Previously, Nafez was a strategy consultant working with different governments across the GCC, focusing on education to employment transitions. Nafez writes on education reform and technology regularly in Arabic and English publications. While at Yale he completed a yearlong, award-winning, thesis on the Obstacles towards Curriculum Reform in the Middle East, using Jordan and the UAE as case studies, of which the Mohammed Bin Rashed School of Government published an executive summary.
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Special Development Counsel, Grameen Foundation USA
Myka serves as Special Development Counsel to the leadership team at Grameen Foundation, where she leverages her two decades of experience in international economic development, inclusive finance and livelihoods to broker strategic partnerships and support Grameen’s innovative cross-sectoral programs to enable the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger.
She has consulted to CGAP/World Bank, USAID projects, SEEP, the European Microfinance Platform, United Nations Capital Development Fund, Chemonics International, ARD Inc., Grameen Foundation USA, FHI-360, The New York Public Library and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (a financial intermediary for underserved communities in the US), among others. Myka also currently guides the business development efforts of Ayani Inclusive Financial Sector Consultants and serves on the board of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) MRI Development Institute in the Philippines.
Myka spent six years at Freedom from Hunger, where she served in various roles including Vice President of Programs, Director of Microfinance and Health Protection, and Senior Technical Advisor—providing direct training and technical assistance to financial service providers in West Africa and Southeast Asia. She led a four-year project funded by the Gates Foundation to test innovative combinations of microfinance and health protection services on three continents, resulting in five pioneering models that have gone on to reach millions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Myka has an MBA in Development Economics and Nonprofit Management from Columbia Business School and a degree in Linguistics from Vassar College. She has lived and worked in a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and currently resides in France.
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Global Development Reporter, Devex
Molly is the UK Correspondent for Devex, the media platform for the global development community.
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Director, Impact Investing, Echoing Green
Min leads Echoing Green’s impact investing program. She provides capacity building support to Fellows seeking or receiving investment and engages investors in the Echoing Green community. She also manages research and data sharing to elevate the profile of emerging social entrepreneurs, highlighting trends in early stage investment and support. Previously she worked at the Global Impact Investing Network, researched economic and workforce development issues, consulted in impact investing, and received a Fulbright. She has a BA in Economics from Whitman College and a MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Managing Partner, Mission & co
Shariha is Managing Partner of Mission & Co, +SocialGood Connector and Global Good Fund Ambassador, and received her degrees in design, medicine and health systems research in the United Kingdom
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Founder and CEO, ZanaAfrica
Ashoka Fellow Megan Mukuria is an award-winning leader in the field of gender equity, with 22 years’ experience in non-profit and for-profit leadership in Kenya. She built ZanaAfrica from ideation into scaling impact, creating RCT-strength outcomes in menstrual management and sexual and reproductive health and rights (MSRHR) knowledge, and social and gender norms. Their work covers policy, eco-friendly sanitary pad product innovation, national product sales reaching 150K, MSRHR school-based education serving 280K this year, and paired social and behaviour change communication which includes a hotline and AI chatbot for health systems strengthening and referrals. ZanaAfrica’s MSRHR programming for young adolescents and is being scaled into the government curriculum – including addressing MSRHR’s intersection with trauma and mental health. Megan was the youngest President of a Rotary Club in Kenya and is a Founder and past President of the Harvard Club of Kenya.
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Executive Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
As the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Megan Price drives the organization’s overarching strategy, leads scientific projects, and presents HRDAG’s work to diverse audiences. Her scientific work includes analyzing documents from the National Police Archive in Guatemala and contributing analyses submitted as evidence in multiple court cases in Guatemala. Her work in Syria includes collaborating with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) and Amnesty International on several analyses of conflict-related deaths in that country. She has also contributed to analyses of “risk assessment” models used to make recommendations about pre-trial supervision in the United States.
Megan is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and a Research Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science. She is the Human Rights Editor for the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and on the editorial board of Significance Magazine. She earned her doctorate in biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also holds a master of science degree and bachelor of science degree in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University.
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, Individual
After University I spent 10 years working in children's publishing and magazine photography in London and Madrid.
Back in London I ran my own contemporary art gallery.
Now living in Somerset I run Scott Williams Villas.
4 teenage children.
Having had lymphoma 2 years ago I have set up a charity for chemotherapy patients.
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Chief Executive Officer, UBS Optimus Foundation
Maya Ziswiler is the CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation, which leverages philanthropic capital to help unlock more private and public funding to build an impact economy. The Foundation focuses on the areas of education, health, child protection and the environment, with a strong focus on innovative and blended finance solutions. Maya spearheaded the successful launch of the first Development Impact Bond in Education and other innovative social finance initiatives and has made a significant contribution to the Foundation’s leading reputation in this space.
Prior to joining the UBS Optimus Foundation, Maya was responsible for managing private sector partnerships at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNICEF in Peru. Before that, she held various market development roles at Procter and Gamble's in markets such as Iran and Tunisia; and Peugeot in China.
Maya holds a Bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Canada and an MBA from the University of Geneva.
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Chief Executive, WaterAid
Tim believes water, sanitation and hygiene underpin all progress in development and is committed to WaterAid’s global strategy to transform lives by ensuring everyone, everywhere is reached with services that last. In today’s challenging world, this requires renewed energy and collaboration with partners from civil society, governments and the private sector.
Tim also serves as the chair of Bond, the consortium of UK international development agencies. Before joining WaterAid, Tim spent six years as Chief Executive of ADD (Action on Disability and Development) International, an NGO working to promote independence, equality and opportunity for disabled people in poverty in Africa and Asia.
He spent two years as Director of the English Regions for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the UK, and before that held a range of senior roles with Oxfam and VSO in the UK, Beijing and Bangkok.
Tim began his career at British Airways, spending eight years in operational research and marketing roles, after completing a degree in maths at Cambridge and a masters at Lancaster.
Tim lives in Oxford with his wife and two daughters, where he has been a school governor and, when time permits, removes the larger weeds that grow between the vegetables in his allotment.
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CEO, Alima
Matthew Cleary is the CEO of the NGO Alima, The Alliance for International Medical Action since 2016. ALIMA brings professional medical expertise to international humanitarian work that combines capacity and knowledge of national medical associations and global research institutions to provide quality care to the most vulnerable and develop innovative solutions for populations of humanitarian medicine today in 10 countries across Africa.
Initially trained as an emergency nurse training in Australia, Matthew Cleary start of his career (1998-2004) in trauma hospitals and remote Aboriginal Communities, his desire to help the most vulnerable populations: emergency and spécialisation in intensive care for people suffering from addiction (drugs and alcohol), with mental health problems and trauma and remote populations.
Quite naturally, he turns to the humanitarian from 2004. He successively held the positions of manager monitoring and evaluation, medical coordinator, and hospital manager of leading humanitarian organisations such as the World Food Program, the chain of hope, or Doctors without Borders. Working for the most affected regions of the world by emergencies and crises:Sudan, Niger, Somalia, and Egypt thus acquiring a mastery of the most volatile international contexts.
The Strategic Leadership Matthew Cleary is reinforced by the complexity of different courses of action forcing a managerial agility (management of multidisciplinary and multi-cultural teams).
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Digital Campaigns Specialist, Skoll Foundation
As the Digital Campaigns Specialist, Robyn amplifies the work of social entrepreneurs through social media and other digital channels. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, she interned on NPR's marketing and communications team in addition to a startup incubator and digital agency.
Robyn holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing and a minor in journalism from the George Washington University, where she volunteered at a financial literacy program for youth. She has lived in Chicago, Houston, Seoul, Phoenix, Washington DC, and now the Bay Area (which may be her favorite place so far).
Robyn is passionate about the role of storytelling in inspiring ideas and creating social change, and strives to elevate the work of socially driven brands and organizations. Off-hours, she enjoys playing the piano, trying out new coffee shops, and petting strangers' dogs.
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Chair of the Board of 1001fontaines, a not for profit that creates social enterprises to supply clean drinking water to underserved and vulnerable populations in Asia and Madagascar. Trustee of the Board of CAMFED International, a not for profit the supports girls to complete their secondary school education and beyond and supports their transition into the workplace in many cases via the creation of their own enterprises. Also support other education initiatives and an initiative to transform the delivery of social services. Prior to these roles, I was a partner at Accenture and worked with clients around the world in the implementation of Information Technology systems in support of their business strategies.
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As Executive Administrative Assistant to Don Gips, CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Martina provides high-level tactical and administrative support to both the CEO and other executive office staff. Her role is multi-faceted, including planning and coordinating a wide variety of on and off-site meetings and events, managing executive office calendars, optimizing executive file organization, preparing communications reports, and maintaining contact with Skoll constituents.
Prior to her Executive Administrative Assistant role, she provided similar support to the Public Engagement and Global Partnerships teams. Prior to joining Skoll, she worked closely with Account Executives developing and implementing strategic marketing concepts.
In her spare time, Martina enjoys exploring the outdoors, traveling, and baking.
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Mara serves as the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and its signature initiative, the OneVoice Movement. Mara first joined OneVoice as its International Organizing Director, based in the Middle East. In that position she focused on professionalizing and expanding its grassroots work, incorporating best practices and focusing on training and empowering local staff. She previously served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration and before that was Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s (CA-06) Deputy Chief of Staff & Communications Director. A campaign veteran, Mara has served in leadership positions on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD).
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Managing Director, Refugee Open Ware
Marko Oroz is the Managing Director at Refugee Open Ware (ROW), a social enterprise that harnesses advanced technology to reduce suffering and accelerate inclusive development in conflict-affected areas. It consists of an impact investing and capital advisory arm (ROW Ventures) that invests in startups developing technical solutions to solve humanitarian challenges, and a non-profit arm (ROW Labs) that builds fabrications labs, startup incubators, and accelerators as platforms for entrepreneurship, job creation, and skill development for vulnerable populations (refugees, migrants, asylum-seekers, etc).
Marko is currently supporting the development the Ascend Venture Fund, an employment-focused impact investment fund for refugees and vulnerable Greeks. Previously, Marko oversaw the development of a fabrication laboratory and incubator for vulnerable populations (migrants, asylum-seekers, etc.) in Athens. Prior to joining ROW, Marko was a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting in Washington D.C. specializing in operations, business model development, and financial consulting for social enterprises.
Marko graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a degree in Science, Technology, and International Relations. Originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marko immigrated to the United States with his family in 2001. Marko’s passion lies in utilizing emerging technology and entrepreneurship to empower others in conflict-affected countries.
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Founder and Director, Fundacion Kaleidos
Ricardo Gorodisch is the Founder and President of Kaleidos Foundation, an organization that promotes health and gender equality and human rights as a whole. He is also Vice President of Retama Foundation and was formerly part of the Advisory Board of Torneos Foundation (2014-2016). He was a consultant for UNICEF Argentina, where he was part of the team focusing on Early Child Development. Ricardo holds an MD from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), where he specialized in Psychiatry. He is also a psychoanalyst and has trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis from Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina. Additionally, he is a member of the World Association of Infant Mental Health and the Asociación de Psiquiatras Argentinos. Prior to his current roles, Ricardo was a visiting fellow at Cornell University's Department of Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents. In addition to his training and academic work, he has developed a specialization course of study on the psychopathology of infants for the Leo Kanner Institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil in combination with the University of Paris, Nord-Bobigny.
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Founder, African Youth Action Network
Malual Bol Kiir is a South Sudanese Peace and Human Rights Activists; He founded the African Youth Action Network (AYAN), which recruits youth as agents of peace and conflict prevention. He participated in WRC’s and UNHCR’s Global Refugee Youth Consultations that brought together youth from 22 countries to discuss the most pressing challenges they face and their recommendations on how to best address these challenges. Malual is also a member of the UN Secretary General Advisory group of experts for the progress study on youth, peace and security study mandated by the UN Security Council in its Resolution 2250(2015).. Malual is an Honoree for the Women’s Refugee Commission’s 2017 Voices of Courage Award.
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Luis M Garcia
Water For People. CFO
Newly moved to Colorado for my assignment as CFO in Water For People. I am a career Finance person who began his career as Treasurer and Accountant for two regional associations in Spain before becoming a Financial Advisor at Bilbao Vizcaya Bank. For the past twenty years, I have been dedicated professionally to serving those that suffer hunger or don’t have access to clean water at Action Against Hunger in three of their five International sections. I started as the Financial and Administrative Director in Haiti from 1997-1999. From there I moved to oversee financially all the Madrid-managed missions worldwide as the Field Operation Finances Director, a position I held until the end of 2005. In early 2006 I moved from Madrid to New York, joining Action Against Hunger USA as the Director of Grant Compliance & Field Financial Controller. In 2012, I took the CFO role (called the Director of Finance).
I grew up in Bilbao, Spain, and earned degrees in economics from universities in Bilbao and Lille (France). I have also taken Ph.D. courses in International Economy and Development from the Basque Country University in Spain. I speak five languages and they all have my Bilbao accent in common! Living in the US for 11 years. I have worked and traveled to 25 different countries.
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Trustee/Founder, DAK Foundation
University dropout, who found the commercial world more enticing, went from a market stall to partnering in a retail, wholesale and import company with over 3,000 employees.
Kerry and husband Dave were co-founders and Directors of Crazy Clints Bargain Stores in Australia from 1979-2001. After the sale of the business in 2000, we embarked upon a personal journey of giving. Together, we set up the DAK Foundation in 2010.
Inspired by a meeting with Chuck Feeney and his mantra of ‘giving while living’ DAK has distributed millions in the last seven years. We have used our business principles in our giving.
The main areas of the foundations interest and activity are
1. Eye surgery- free surgery to the poor using local surgeons
2. Medical equipment for Health clinics
3. Maternal and Child Health, focusing on birth injury repair ( prolapse and fistula) and family planning
4, Assorted livelihood, agricultural and CBO projects
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Founder, Peter Möhrle Foundation
I’m CEO of the Peter Möhrle Foundation in Hamburg, Germany.
Our main focus is in the area of mental health. We work with two organizations in these issues.
CORESZON in Hamburg, Germany and SHOFCO in Nairobi, Kenia.
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Trustee, San Jose Museum of Art
I am a board member of 4 private family Foundation.
One of the private foundation is based in Palo Alto.
I also currently served, as a Trustee, at the San Jose Museum of Art.
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Manager, Compliance & Business Operations, Capricorn Investment Group
Lisa Wilhelmy is a Compliance & Business Operations Manager at Capricorn Investment Group, LLC. She has been a part of their Operations team since October 2011. Prior to Capricorn, Lisa was a Portfolio Accounting Analyst for Deutsche Bank. Prior to Deutsche Bank, she was a Mutual Fund Account at Capital Research and Management Company. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Finance with a Minor in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
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Trustee, Turner Foundation
Laura Turner Seydel is an international environmental advocate and eco-living expert dedicated to creating a healthy and sustainable future for our children. Laura is chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation, which has worked worldwide, for twenty-five years, to activate generations of environmentally literate children empowered to protect and sustain the natural systems upon which all life depends. She is a director of and works with the Environmental Working Group to limit the toxic chemicals in food, air, water and consumer products. In 2004, she co-founded and is Board Chair of Mothers and Others for Clean Air, an official program of the American Lung Association Southeastern Region. In 1994, she and her husband co-founded Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Laura serves on the boards of her family’s foundations: the Turner Foundation, Turner Enterprises Inc, Jane Smith Turner Foundation, the Turner Endangered Species Fund, and Ted’s Montana Grill. She serves on the national boards of the League of Conservation Voters, Waterkeeper Alliance and the Carter Center Board of Councilors; she also serves on the advisory board for the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and board of directors of the Rotary Club of Downtown Atlanta.
Laura lives with her husband and three children in Atlanta. Their home, EcoManor, is the first LEED-certified Gold residence in the southeastern United States.
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Executive Director, LifeNet International
Stefanie specializes in empowering business leaders in the developing world to make a positive local impact. She is currently focused on leading LifeNet’s social franchising of health centers in Burundi, Uganda, Eastern DRC, and Malawi, building their capacity to deliver quality primary health care sustainably. Stefanie has a vision to help the most people possible to have access to quality health care and medicines through a system that is financially sustainable. Expanding LifeNet’s work in Africa in the next several years is her chief creative and mental occupation.
Stefanie holds a BSFS in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from Georgetown University, an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, a certificate in Development Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and is pursuing a MPH at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She speaks English, French, Japanese, and some Swahili. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and two small children.
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Head of Marketing, Autodesk Sustainability & Foundation, Autodesk Foundation
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Country Director, Palestine, Global Communities
Ms. Lana Abu-Hijleh is an accomplished development expert with over 32 years’ experience working with international development agencies and the private sector in the West Bank and Gaza (WBG). She has been the WBG Country Director for Global Communities since 2003, leading the successful development and implementation of multiple development and humanitarian assistance programs. For seventeen years, Lana fulfilled a series of roles with progressively increasing responsibility with the United Nations Development Program/Program of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP). Lana is the first woman to be join the Boards of Directors of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) and the Bank of Palestine focusing on building cooperation bridges between the private sector and civil society. She is a fellow of the Aspen Institute Middle East Leadership Initiative (MELI) through which she designed, and successfully launched the globally acclaimed Youth Local Councils (YLCs) Initiative focusing on preparing the future good governing leaders of Palestine and took the model to Honduras and helped introduce it to Ukraine. Lana and the YLCs won the prestigious John P. McNulty Prize for 2017 for impactful leadership. She is the founder of the Palestinian Youth Development Organization- SHIAM. In 2015, the BBC named Lana as one of the 100 most inspirational women in the world for the positive example and hope she provides for young Palestinians. She is a member of the global Young Presidents Organization (YPO/WPO), co-founder of the Partners for New Beginning, helped launch the Celebration of Innovation initiative and Ibtikar Investment Fund. Lana also serves on the Boards of the Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), a co-founder of Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, is a member of the Business Women Forum and a founder and chairwoman of the Palestinian highly acclaimed popular dance troupe El-Funoun engaging thousands of youth in culture and art activities.
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Kevin Duco Warner is an American entrepreneur operating at the intersection of food, agriculture, and the environment. Focused on the social impact of food, he has worked to develop market-driven solutions to climate change through the advancement of the local food movement.
Kevin has spent the past eight years growing his family’s food hub start-up, Fair Shares: an aggregator of local food that works with more than 90 local farmers and food producers to distribute sustainably produced food to families in Saint Louis, Missouri. In that time he has led various projects and initiatives that have contributed to sustained growth for the organisation, while putting more than 7 million dollars into the local food economy.
In addition to his work at Fair Shares, Kevin created a tortilla company, La Tortilla Buena, that used locally grown organic corn to produce tortillas for a market that included grocery stores, restaurants, and a school lunch programme.
Concurrent to his time spent in the business of food, Kevin has taken on leadership roles in his community and region. He served a three year term on the USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Administrative Council (SARE), representing agribusiness for the Midwestern United States. His role with SARE included setting agricultural policy for the region as well as making decisions on the review and funding of several hundred sustainable agriculture grants.
He also spent three years on the board of Slow Food Saint Louis, and one year as president of the organisation.
In recent years, Kevin has sat on the steering committee for the Saint Louis Food Policy Coalition, helping to guide efforts to decrease hunger and increase food access.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Assistant Professor/Africa Director, UCLA Center for Tropical Research
I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am also the Associate Director and Africa Director at the UCLA Center for Tropical Research. My current research interests are in ecology and evolution of emerging tropical diseases as well as examining the link between biodiversity and human health. I also serve as a visiting Professor to the National University of Rwanda and to the International Bilingual Academy (IBAYSup) in Yaounde Cameroon where my major focus is on critical overview of the theory and practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) relative to biodiversity conservation, ecotourism and sustainable development. I also serve on several professional bodies including the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology; Council Member of the Pan African Ornithological Congress Committee (PAOCC), and member of the editorial board for Austin Environmental Sciences, a newly initiated peer-reviewed open access journal with an aim to develop a platform for innovative researchers working in the areas of Environmental Sciences Articles related to the most recent advancement in the field. I also review several peer-reviewed journals.
I grew up in Cameroon, a country of enchanting beauty and rich biodiversity but poor governance, high aptitude for environmental destruction and poverty. As a child, I suffered from constant malaria attacks that may well have resulted from inefficient health policy and corruption. Over time, I have come to believe that the only way to solve our environmental and health issues was to use the "big tent" approach, where environmental biologists, community health workers and policy analysts work alongside epidemiologists and other scientists.
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Executive Director, McCance Foundation
Katie Cutler is the Executive Director of the McCance Foundation, a private family foundation guided by a venture philanthropy approach to grant making. The Foundation funds primarily in the areas of education, the environment and conservation, medical research, and social entrepreneurship.
Katie has over 20 years experience in management, fundraising, and relationship building in a diverse range of sectors. She spent much of her career in the non-profit world raising funds and awareness at organizations such as Harvard Business School, Cure Alzheimer's Fund and the Jett Foundation. She has a proven track record of creating meaningful change, from increasing research funding for Alzheimer's disease to raising awareness of a rare disease.
Katie's early career was in outdoor recreation and education. She graduated from Middlebury College and has an MBA from Babson College.
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Director, Co-Founder, EarthRights International
Katie is the Co-Founder and Director of EarthRights International, based in Washington DC. She is an international human rights lawyer by training, and has focused her career on serving clients and communities who have experienced grave human rights and environmental harms at the hands of corporate and financial elites. She is a graduate of Colgate University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights and Public Service. Katie received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1995 to establish ERI, and since that time has split her time between ERI’s Asia and U.S. offices. She is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Massachusetts State Bar, and has served as counsel to plaintiffs in ERI’s various human rights and environmental lawsuits including the landmark case Doe v. Unocal. In addition to working on ERI’s litigation and teaching at the EarthRights Schools, Katie serves as an adjunct professor of law at both UVA and the Washington College of Law at American University, and also on the Boards the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) and the Slingshot Development Fund. In 2006, she was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow and in 2007 as a Rockwood Leadership Fellow. Katie has been profiled in a variety of media including the books Be Bold and Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes, and the award-winning documentary film Total Denial.
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CEO, Helen Keller International
Kathy Spahn is President and Chief Executive Officer of Helen Keller International (HKI), a global development organization working in 21 countries to save and improve the sight and lives of the world’s vulnerable by combating the causes and consequences of blindness, poor health and malnutrition. Prior to joining HKI, she was President and Executive Director of Orbis International, a non-profit dedicated to the prevention and treatment of blindness in developing countries. Before that, she served as Executive Director of God’s Love We Deliver, an organization committed to combating malnutrition and hunger among people living with HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses.
Ms. Spahn is a member of the boards of directors of the Access to Nutrition Foundation, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and InterAction, the last of which she chaired from 2010 - 2013. She also serves on the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Leadership Council Compact of 2025. Previously, she served on the boards of directors of the AIDS Service Center NYC (now the Alliance for Positive Change), Association of Nutrition Services Agencies, and Bernadotte Foundation for Children’s Eyecare, as well as on advisory bodies for GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition), 1,000 Days and the Global Network for NTD Control. She has been a frequent panelist and guest speaker on global health, nutrition and blindness at such venues as the Global Philanthropy Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative and at key side meetings of the UN General Assembly.
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Lecturer and Author of Social Startup Success, Stanford Program on Social Entrepreneurship
Kathleen Kelly Janus is a social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship. As an expert on philanthropy, millennial engagement and scaling early stage organizations, her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book – Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference – is a playbook for nonprofit organizations based on a five-year research project interviewing hundreds of top-performing social innovators.
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Director and Head, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership
Katherine Milligan is the Director and Head of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the sister organization of the World Economic Forum. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she was the recipient of the Pforzheimer Scholarship for Excellence in Nonprofit Management. Katherine’s previous work experience includes a Sheldon Knox Research Fellowship at Harvard University (2004-2005); a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum (2005-2009). Before that she was a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and a strategy consultant for several non-profits. Her work has been published in the International Institute of Economics, Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT journal Innovations, and the Harvard Business School.
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As Chief of Staff, Kathara Green helps the Executive Office operate at its highest level, all in service of the Skoll Foundation vision and mission. Before stepping into this role, Kathara curated programming for the Skoll World Forum and other events, as well as supported strategic partnerships.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Kathara worked for Net Impact, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, the State Department, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Women for Women International.
Kathara graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she focused on international development and gender. When she's not working, she loves to travel, cook, and create.
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Director, Global Partnerships - Mama Hope // Co-founder - Glorious, Mama Hope
Katie leads innovative social impact initiatives for companies and non-profit organizations making global impact.
She is the Director of Global Partnerships at Mama Hope where she leads business development, strategic partnerships and the organization's marketing & media programs. Katie is also co-founder of Glorious, a holistic community development organization that invests in the vision of strong women leaders to build sustainable communities. Because of the organizations' similar missions, Glorious and Mama Hope created a joint-venture partnership to scale the Global Advocate Fellowship and expand impact globally.
Prior to Mama Hope, Katie worked at The Coca-Cola Company building strategic partnerships for the Foundation and managing a portfolio of grantees. She also launched and led EKOCYCLE, a sustainability-focused venture & eco-fashion brand partnership with music artist will.i.am. Coupled with her past experience with NGOs in Tanzania, Guatemala, and Peru, Katie has a strong conviction in the power of meaningful cross-sector partnerships to disrupt the cycle of poverty and ultimately change the future of our world.
Coming from a family built through adoption, she is passionate about creating a world where each child is provided with the resources and opportunities to pursue his or her dreams. A Boston native & Boston College graduate, Katie recently relocated to San Francisco with her husband, Antoine. Katie is a proud member of the World Economic Forum Shapers, Summit Series, Women's Funding Network, New England International Donors, and Bleeker Network.
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Senior Research Fellow, Mutuality in Business Project, Said Business School
Kate Roll is a Senior Research Fellow at Saïd Business School and manages the Mutuality in Business Project. Bringing a background in international development, she is particularly interested in inclusive business and the politics of emergent, private sector approaches to poverty reduction. She also serves as a Lecturer in Politics, Somerville College, University of Oxford.
Kate’s current work as part of the Mutuality in Business Project focuses on corporate practices designed to improve the lives of those living in poverty, including the development of new products, efforts to enhance productivity, and the creation of new routes to market. She has conducted field based research on ‘base of the pyramid’ route to market programmes in Southeast Asia, and Kate is currently conducting experimental work on the impact of micro-financing contracts on entrepreneurial performance in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kate completed her doctorate in Politics, writing her thesis on the reintegration of former guerrillas in Timor-Leste. She also holds an MPhil (distinction) in International Development Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in International Relations (magna cum laude) from Brown University.
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Interim Director, Partnership for Economic Inclusion, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
KATE MCKEE As Transition Director for the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI), Kate leads start-up of this new global partnership to accelerate scaling up, innovation and systems change for the “graduation approach” and other targeted interventions that expand economic opportunities for extreme poor households and vulnerable individuals. Rigorous research has documented sustained gains in income, assets and economic empowerment for program participants, who have been primarily very low-income rural women. PEI is hosted by the World Bank and supports the governments, international agencies, NGOs and researchers that promote sustainable livelihoods for extreme poor households and other vulnerable segments. PEI focuses on rapid scale-up of programs and associated systems changes through: policy advocacy; testing of innovative solutions and approaches; a robust learning agenda; and development of good practices, metrics, operational tools and impact evidence. Deepening women’s empowerment effects through gender-intentional innovations is a major priority, as is adaptation of graduation-type approaches to new segments including refugees and displaced persons, extreme poor urban people and households affected by climate change and humanitarian crises. From 2006 - July 2017 Kate was a senior professional at CGAP, the premier financial inclusion think tank and resource center, where she led initiatives on graduation, consumer protection, responsible finance, savings, and client-focused financial services. Kate has broad policy, practitioner, and donor experience in enterprise development, women’s empowerment, agriculture and development finance through her leadership roles at the US Agency for International Development, the US Treasury Department, Self-Help in North Carolina, and the Ford Foundation. She trained as an economist (Bowdoin College, Princeton University).
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Scarlett began her career in journalism and comes to Sundance from the Open Society Foundation, where she worked in both the Communications department and the Burma Program. She manages all aspects of Sundance Institute’s Creative Partnerships including Stories of Change, a partnership with the Skoll Foundation, and the BBC World Service/Sundance Nonfiction Audio Collaboration. She has also supported the Sundance/CNEX labs in Beijing and Sundance Institute/Knight Foundation artist development programs in cities around the U.S. She also holds a staff advisory role with the Sundance Documentary Fund.
Scarlett holds an MA in journalism from Syracuse University.
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Programme Director, Impact Measurement, University of Oxford
Karim Harji is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School. He is also the Managing Director at Evalysis, which supports organizations to describe, measure, and improve their social impact; and Founding Partner at Mondiale Impact, which works with Boards to align governance practices with their impact ambitions. He was previously a co-founder of Purpose Capital, where he established and led its Impact Investment Advisory practice.
Karim has made influential contributions to field building, research, and practice related to social impact measurement. He was the Co-Chair of the Impact Measurement Task Force convened by the Government of Ontario; Member of the Impact Measurement Working Group of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force; Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation on social impact measurement; and Co-Founder of the Social Impact Measurement TIG at the American Evaluation Association.
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Founding Director, The Gem Foundation
Karen Mercaldo is founding director of the Gem Foundation, supporting community- and dignity-driven development around the world. Gem’s primary investments are through Tostan, where she serves on a Leadership Advisory Council for their community empowerment program in West Africa, and through Global Communities/PCI, where she and her co-investors launched and advise their women empowerment program, organizing and supporting savings groups in 15 countries.
As an operating foundation, Gem also works In the US to convene and connect people across multiple boundaries. In 2015, Gem initiated “humankind”, a network of initiatives to build the capacity of people in the San Diego/Tijuana region to have meaningful, if difficult, conversations, in response to a global series of conferences, in partnership with the Women Peacemakers’ Program and USD, on countering extremism. She is a member of the Global Philanthropy Forum and San Diego Grantmakers.
Karen’s past professional lives include international banker at Chase Manhattan, strategic planner and consultant at McKinsey & Company, breakthrough change facilitator at Robert Schaffer & Associates and leadership developer at the University of British Columbia. She moved to San Diego from Vancouver (where she initiated the merger of the Canadian Outward Bound schools) in 1999 and is energized by its potential as a diverse, dynamic bi-national region. A graduate of Middlebury College, Karen has lived and traveled extensively internationally and is a citizen of the U.S. and of Canada. She and her late husband, Ed, are proud parents of two young adults who are making the world a better place.
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In a world full of innovative software, applying technology to solve social problems is Padmaja’s passion. As the Managing Director of Information Technology at the Skoll Foundation, she is chartered with defining and architecting technology solutions to support the foundation’s initiatives and further its mission of creating large scale change.
Padmaja has more than 20 years of experience in managing global Information Technology organizations and providing solutions across enterprise business operations. Prior to Skoll, Padmaja was the Senior Director of Business applications at Brocade Communications, enabling business transformation and delivering enterprise wide technology solutions.
Padmaja is also a member of the National Coordinating Committee of India Literacy Project (ILP), a non-profit organization working towards 100% literacy in India. She has been volunteering with ILP for over a decade and supported numerous initiatives that have benefited thousands of villages in India. She has also built and supported technology applications for various non-profits.
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Senior Philanthropy Advisor & Executive Director for Latin America, UBS Switzerland AG
As a Senior Strategist with UBS Philanthropy Services and Family Advisory, Kai helps families understand philanthropic aspirations, money and values in the complex family wealth context.
Philanthropy Services and Family Advisory provides advice on strategic giving vehicles and building and enhancing philanthropic legacies, as well as family wealth education, communication and decision making, generational transitions, and family governance.
Prior to joining UBS 15 years ago, Kai worked at the ILO’s International Program for the Eradication of Child Labour, where he was responsible for the design of projects that were later implemented in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Previous professional engagements include work as the Chief of Staff of the Minister of Labor of Ecuador and Junior Consultant at the Attorney General’s Office of Ecuador.
Education
Kai holds a B.A. in Political Sciences from the Universidad Católica de Guayaquil. He earned an M.A. in International Relations from Kent University and an M.B.A. in International Organizations from the University of Geneva.
Languages
English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese
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Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, BNY Mellon
Jyoti Chopra is a Global Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability Leader. She currently serves on the Diversity Advisory Board of Toyota Motor North America and on the Global Talent and Diversity Council for the Asia Society.
Jyoti was most recently the Head of Global Citizenship and Sustainability and Chief Diversity Officer for BNY Mellon. She joined the company in 2012. Jyoti was responsible for leading the company’s comprehensive award-winning diversity and inclusion program and promoting a culture of inclusion that created pathways for the continued recruitment, development and advancement of a diverse workforce. Her responsibilities included overseeing BNY Mellon’s diversity strategy and execution, leading gender initiatives and employee resource groups, advancing internal diversity training and hiring, and serving on the company’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Council. She was a member of BNY Mellon’s Senior Leadership Team. She served on the boards of the BNY Mellon Foundation (New York) and the BNY Mellon Foundation of South Western Pennsylvania. She oversaw the company’s corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and social investing areas and managed the corporate art collection.
Previously, Jyoti served as the global leader for communications and public relations at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, where she was responsible for external relations, executive and internal communications. In 2011, she initiated and spearheaded the development of Deloitte’s first global diversity report. She joined Deloitte in February 2009 working for the Office of the CEO and the Global Chief of Staff where she was responsible for leading and managing strategic projects and supporting the Global CEO and Executive team.
Jyoti worked at Merrill Lynch from 1998 until 2009. She holds an MBA from the Said Business School, University of Oxford and a BA Honors in journalism from New York University.
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Former CEO, Washington Office on Latin America
For more than 20 years I have been a non-profit director and policy advocate working on migration, human rights, Latin America and US foreign policy. I stepped down from my last position and have taken a sabbatical to think about advocacy for social change, considering questions like: what tools are being used in other fields that could be used in advocacy; how do polarized political environments influence how we should think about advocacy; and can we construct more effective multi-sectorial approaches to social change. In recent months, I have focused on drugs, the addiction crisis and organized crime.
From 2003-2016 I was the Executive Director of WOLA (the Washington Office on Latin America), a human rights advocacy organization that works in close collaboration with counterpart organizations throughout Latin America. Realizing that violence and organized crime were not being addressed within the traditional human rights framework, WOLA developed an innovative program on human rights and organized crime. We worked with local and international organizations in the development of first of their kind mechanisms to combat corruption and organized crime in Guatemala (the CICIG) and Honduras (the MACCIH).
We addressed drug policy from a human rights perspective, building collaborative dialogues, research networks and communications strategies. WOLA: facilitated international drug policy dialogues with governments, NGOs and academics throughout the Americas covering topics from public health to incarceration to legalization; built an exchange of practice and experience between those creating laws to implement marijuana legalization in Colorado, Washington State, Uruguay and Canada; and developed a regional Working Group on Women, Drug Policy and Incarceration.
I lived in Mexico and Central America for 6 years; am fluent in Spanish and English; and have a MA in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Founder, Jasmine Social Investments
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which became New Zealand’s biggest Internet business when it sold in 2006.
Jasmine Social Investments fund high-performing social ventures and outstanding social entrepreneurs who are solving a basic need of the very poor.
Our mission is to find extraordinary organisations and fund them. We provide advice and connections. We visit the ventures we fund and really get to know them. We actively advocate for those we fund and share our diligence efforts with like-minded funders.
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Writer and Editor, The Bridgespan Group
Zach Slobig is a member of the editorial team at The Bridgespan Group. Prior to joining Bridgespan, he was the Writer and Editor at the Skoll Foundation and worked across its many initiatives. Previously, he worked on the staffs of Agence-France Presse, WIRED, National Public Radio, and GOOD. Before his career in journalism, he served both with City Year and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. He is a product of California’s public higher education system: Masters of Journalism from UC Berkeley, BA in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude from UCLA, and he got his start at mighty little Santa Monica College.
Zach is drawn to stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. He has written documentary news features and story-edited independent documentaries that have screened internationally. In 2009 he co-wrote 180˚ South, a feature film about a Pan-American adventure and the quest for conservation from California to Patagonia. Shortly after, he and his wife traced a similar path down the entire Pacific coastline in a pickup truck loaded with camping gear and surfboards. They now live with their young daughter in the westernmost sandy fringes of San Francisco.
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Partner, Capricorn Investment Group
William Orum is a Partner and member of the Investment Committee of Capricorn Investment Group. He joined the Firm in 2004 and has been based in its New York office since 2008. William has primary responsibility for leading marketable investments, portfolio construction, and risk management across asset classes. Prior to Capricorn, he was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in their global industries group focused on corporate finance and M&A advisory for technology clients. William received a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.
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Executive Director, UWC International
Jens Waltermann is the Executive Director of UWC International since June 2015.
Jens is an alumnus of Pearson College UWC (1985) in Canada. He worked with the UWC National Committee in Germany since 2006 and served as its pro bono Chair from 2008 to 2015.
In cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation, he was one of the founders of UWC Robert Bosch College in Freiburg, which opened in 2014. Jens is admitted as an attorney in Germany and holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. His career includes senior roles in the German policy think tank Bertelsmann Foundation and building, as a senior partner, the blue chip strategy consultancy Solon Management Consulting with offices in Munich, London and Warsaw.
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Social Entrepreneur, Rodrigo Baggio is the president and founder of Recode, a global NGO with presence in 7 countries and 642 centers of digital empowerment. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Trendel, a global professional association of leading social entrepreneurs headquartered in San Francisco, California, with 194 members from 34 countries in 18 local forums. Since 2016, he has been leading ta pioneer purpose-driven a reality show on digital inclusion, broadcasted to more than 5 million people by TV Globo. Due to his work, Rodrigo has been recognized with more than 60 awards from organizations such as UNICEF, UNESCO, Time, Fortune, CNN and the World Economic Forum. He is also a fellow of the four leading organizations that support social entrepreneurs: Ashoka, Skoll, Schwab and Avina. In 2014, Rodrigo won the Entrepreneur for the World Award (World Entrepreneurship Forum), named one of the hundred "Young Global Leaders", and considered one of the 50 Latin American leaders who will make a difference in the third millennium (Time Magazine) and one of the 10 personalities in the world chosen as "Principal Voices" in the economic development field (CNN, Time and Fortune) along with the Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus and the economist Jeffrey Sachs.
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Vu serves as Associate Director for the Portfolio & Investments Team, particularly engaging with the Skoll Awardee community and Profiles Platform. He was actively involved within the Vietnamese American community, serving on the board of a regional nonprofit aimed at fostering cultural awareness, youth leadership and civic engagement. Prior to joining Skoll, he managed an SAT prep academy, providing guidance and counseling to parents and students on their path towards higher education, targeted towards first generation immigrant families.
Vu earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA, and is the proud father of two young daughters.
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Co-founder, Synergy Social Ventures
Jana has a professional background in the financial industry in wealth management and business banking, which inspired her interest in socially focused business. She worked as Investment Manager for one of Asia’s first impact investments funds based in Hong Kong, conducting due diligence on investment opportunities and providing post investment support to ventures throughout Southeast Asia and China.
Recognizing the need for more support for young social ventures in the region Jana co-founded Synergy Social Ventures, a Hong Kong-based nonprofit organization that supports the development of the social venture sector of the region. She has worked with entrepreneurs in Asia and North America providing capacity building support and advisory and with philanthropists and other investors on developing philanthropic investment strategies.
Jana is the Fund Manager of the UBC Impact Fund, an impact fund of the University of British Columbia which invests in seed stage social ventures of the university community. She holds a BA in International Relations and an MBA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Seed Global Health
Dr. Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit that focuses on the power of investing in health and the health workforce for social well-being, economic growth, equity which transforms countries. Through partnership with governments and in-country academic institutions, under Vanessa’s tenure Seed has helped train more than 20,000 doctors, nurses and midwives and has impacted hundreds of thousands of lives. Seed's impact is rooted in its unique leveraging model that not only provides better care to patients, but also trains future generations, supports the health sector and catalyzes change in the health system.
Dr. Kerry’s work has been featured at conferences, in print, online and media including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the United Nations, the World Health Assembly, NPR, PBS, MSNBC and Marie Claire, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times and The Lancet.
She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, completing her clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her Master’s in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London Schools of Economics and of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently a critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and serves as the Associate Director of Partnerships and Global Initiatives at MGH Global Health. She directs the Global Public Policy and Social Change program at Harvard Medical School where she has focused on links between security and health. She is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She as awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Public Policy from Northeastern University in 2015. She was recently appointed to the prestigious President’s Council for International Activities at Yale University, as a Global Advisor to the Wellbeing Foundation Africa. She is the mother of a six- and nine- year old.
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CEO, Opportunity Collaboration
Topher has been convening and connecting people for the purposes of social change for 20+ years, starting at the Highland City Club, a membership community of 300 change-makers in Boulder, Colorado. He then managed Dunton Hot Springs, one of North America’s top all-inclusive resorts and retreat centers, and founded Conveners.org, a group of 150+ impact conferences and accelerators. Topher now leads the Opportunity Collaboration’s global network of 2,000+ nonprofit executives, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers, impact investors, corporates, media and academics building sustainable solutions to poverty and injustice.
Ask Topher about the Lunar University and Lab to Land Institute!
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Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives, Aspen Institute
Tommy Loper is passionate about building a better future by bringing people together in meaningful work and relationship. He is Vice President, Office of Operations & Strategic Initiatives, for the Aspen Institute’s Leadership Division. Since joining the Institute in 2008, Tommy has launched multiple endeavors to broaden and deepen Aspen’s mission for a more just, free and equitable world. Such initiatives include supporting the launch of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, founding the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, and co-founding Weave: The Social Fabric Project with David Brooks of the NYTimes. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Tommy worked at two start-up event production agencies and at age 35 was recognized as a top 20 conference producer in the United States on the BizBash 1,000. He serves on the boards of Friends of New Orleans and The Quorum Initiative. Tommy is a graduate of the School of International Service at American University, he studied at La Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, L’Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and most recently participated in Georgetown University’s Nonprofit Executive Management program. Originally from Massachusetts, he resides with his husband Dirk Sellers, in Washington, DC. Tommy is an avid runner, aspiring chef, space enthusiast and dog lover.
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M.Sc.in Environmental Assessment and Management from Oxford Brookes University, the UK. Specialized in the field of environmental management, she served in leading technical positions with several international agencies in the areas of infrastructure development, mainly water and sanitation, solid waste management, sustainable and clear production as well as various tasks on institutional capacity building and policy advisory support. As a strong believer in the impact of proactive dialogue that brings parties in conflict closer, she had been part of several affiliation of Palestinian-Israeli youth groups as a moderator and activist including the OneVoice Movement and the Palestinian-Israeli Young Entrepreneurs Forum. In 2019, Mrs. Majdalani presented the EcoPeace work before various prestigious international platforms, including the UN Security Council, NATO, Planetary Security Conference, Berlin Climate Security Conference and Brookings Institute.
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Venture Advisor, Individual
Tom has over 25 years of professional experience as an operator, investor and advisor in both the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. His current advisory work includes advising institutions and families on optimizing their philanthropic and investing resources for impact; working with social enterprises on building sustainable/impactful organizations; and advancing the field of social entrepreneurship.
Tom currently serves on the boards of Genesys Works, Out Teach, Seed Global Health, Strive Together, Raising The Village, Matriculate and the Knowledge Works Foundation. He has served on 24 non-profit boards and advised dozens on non-profit CEOs. Tom received his MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and holds a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Boston College. Tom lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Anu, and enjoys trail-running, cooking, yoga, and international travel.
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Director, Global Philanthropy, Street Business School
Director, Global Philanthropy - Street Business School (SBS) & Owner - Red Philanthropy Consulting
Tifany leads philanthropic partnerships, thought leadership, and stakeholder engagement for SBS as they scale their entrepreneur training and self-efficacy program through a social franchise model to ignite the potential in 1 million women globally. She also owns a consulting firm where she advises on sustainable, philanthropic impact.
Tifany has previously worked with corporate foundations, such as Western Union Foundation, and multi-lateral NGOs, such as UNICEF, to foster an environment in which women and children can achieve equality and overcome injustice. Tifany holds a Bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University and a Master’s degree in Philanthropic Studies, concentrating on impact investing for gender equity, from the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is also certified in Women’s International Health and Human Rights through Stanford’s Center on Social Innovation.
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Senior Vice President of Sustainability, BP
Ivanka is the Senior Vice President of Sustainability at bp. She recently joined bp us from Target Corporation, where she was the Vice President of Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability. In that role she was responsible for establishing and driving Target’s strategy for sustainability across the manufacturing supply chain. Ivanka led global teams focused on driving positive social and environmental impact across all product categories of Target’s business.
Prior to this, Ivanka spent nearly 15 years at the United Nations, working for the International Labour Organisation. She served as the ILO’s Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist providing technical leadership and support on sustainability policies and activities including the ILO/IFC Better Work programme as well as the ILO’s Green Jobs programme in Asia and the Pacific. Ivanka has extensive experience in the field of corporate social responsibility, sustainability and human rights in global supply chains. In 2004, Ivanka published Implementing Codes of Conduct, a seminal research piece based on corporate sustainability practices that has formed the backbone of many of the ILO’s brand and factory focused improvement initiatives.
Ivanka holds a PhD and Masters of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge together with Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Economics degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her work on CSR has been published in several books as well as in leading journals, based on collaborative research on CSR undertaken with leading academics from Columbia University, Harvard University, Sydney University and others.
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Student, Simon Fraser University
Iman is an MD candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Prior to studying medicine, he worked as a research technician at the BC Centre for Disease Control studying the gut microbiome.
He has also served in a variety of humanitarian roles with the Canadian Red Cross and Canadian Blood Services, including responding to natural disasters and actively recruiting blood and stem cell donors.
Iman is a strong proponent of taking an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex problems. In 2017, Iman and his two colleagues won the Skoll Global Challenge for their work on solid medical waste reduction within tertiary hospitals.
He is looking forward to learning and connecting at the 2021 Skoll World Forum.
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Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup, Inc.
Hui is a Vice President in Citi's Corporate Sustainability team. She leads Citi's ESG reporting strategy, including Citi’s implementation of the TCFD recommendations on climate-related risks and opportunities. She also supports sustainable finance and other cross-functional initiatives that drive environmental and social impact with clients and other stakeholders. She currently serves as the North America Representative on the UN Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Banking Committee. Previously at Citi, she was the Impact Analytics and Planning Officer at the Citi Foundation.
Hui has prior work experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors. Before joining Citi, she advised clients across a variety of industries at Sagent Advisors, Inc. and Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman Group). She also served as a Program Officer for the William J. Clinton Foundation’s pediatric HIV/AIDS program in Beijing, China, and was a Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow and Associate Director at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, focused on strategic planning and business development.
Hui is based in New York City. She received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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President - Fossil Foundation, EVP Asia, Fossil Group, Fossil Foundation
Randy C. Belcher is currently the Executive Vice President of the Fossil Group based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for leading the Fossil Group’s commercial sales and distribution businesses in the Asia Pacific region, the global supply chain and product development operations based in Asia and the Company’s global sustainability programs. He also is the President of the Fossil Foundation, the Company’s non-profit foundation focused on youth empowerment.
Prior to moving to Hong Kong he was the Senior Vice President – Europe based in Switzerland (Basel) where he led Fossil’s EMEA commercial business. Previously Randy worked in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) with Novartis Consumer Health (NCH) as the President of NCH Brazil and Vice President of the Mercosur Region and in Chile (Santiago) as the Managing Director of NCH Chile. He also held financial and general management positions with the Gerber Products Company and Ernst and Young.
In addition to his non-profit work with the Fossil Foundation, Randy is a board member of the One Sky Foundation based in Berkeley, Beyond Vision International based in Hong Kong and Soko, Inc. based in San Francisco and Nairobi. He previously served on the board of Helen Keller International based in New York City.
Randy received a BS degree from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the University of Miami.
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Director of Impact Investing, Chemonics
Tara Sabre Collier is a global strategist, advisor, impact investor and speaker.
She is a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University (focusing on impact investment), as well as strategic advisor to impact funds and development finance institutions. She is the Director of Impact Investing at Chemonics UK and leads the ecosystem building for MOBILIST, the UK government's flagship climate finance programme for developing economies. Observing a clear racial and gender equity gap in the impact investment landscape, she is also an angel investor and advisor for various impact start-ups led by under-represented founders.
She has over 15 years of international experience across impact investment, international development and management consulting industries. She has worked for the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations, Ernst & Young, Shell Foundation and GroFin Capital, among others.
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economics Correspondent, Individual
Helia Ebrahimi is the Economics Correspondent for Channel 4 News, covering the changes in business and the economy and how they'll influence the world people live in.
Before joining Channel 4 News, Helia was UK Business Editor for CNBC and before that the Senior City Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, where she broke a number of exclusive stories and wrote about the fall out from the financial crisis
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Director, Mosaic, The Boardroom Africa
Tamsin is a social entrepreneur and venture catalyst who has been involved in the design and expansion of a string of high-social impact initiatives in Africa, the UK and Australia. She is a regular commentator on innovation ecosystems, women in leadership and good governance.
Based on her track record of building new and innovative initiatives, Tamsin advises corporate leaders, investors and policy makers with a focus on turning a transformative idea into reality. She is currently helping to launch Capital Connect, the largest ever matching of gender lens funds with potential investors from around the world. Tamsin has co-founded an innovation hub for ventures in Cape Town and the leading solution to bring more exceptional female talent into boardrooms across Africa through the creation of most extensive network of board-ready women on the continent. She has been senior advisor to the leading innovator in last mile cellular and internet connectivity and the UK Government development finance institution, CDC Group, where she contributed to the launch and expansion of The Africa List.
Earlier in her career, Tamsin contributed to the establishment of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation in Cape Town as Deputy Director, expanded care services to pregnant women living with HIV in southern Africa, served as political and policy advisor to the Premier of South Australia and helped drive the London 2012 Olympic Games’ jobs and enterprise legacy strategy on behalf of major corporates in the City of London and Canary Wharf.
Tamsin is a proud trustee of TheFlipFlopi, an organisation determined to end single use plastic in Africa.
She holds an MBA from the Said Business School of the University of Oxford with a merit scholarship awarded by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Deputy Executive Director, UWC International
Hannah is the Deputy Executive Director of UWC (United World Colleges) International, a global education movement with the mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and sustainability. The UWC movement currently consists of 18 schools on four continents and selection committees in over 155 countries worldwide. Access to a UWC education is independent of the student’s socio-economic background and over 80% of UWC’s students attend the school on a full scholarship.
UWC has been a part of Hannah’s life for many years, as she attended UWC Adriatic in Italy as a student and volunteered with UWC national committees ever since graduating from UWC.
By background, Hannah is a lawyer, holds a MA in Mediation and Conflict Management and is an accredited mediator in Germany and the UK (CEDR). Prior to joining UWC International, Hannah was Senior Counsel and Manager of the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) working from ICC's headquarter in Paris. Hannah has been invited to speak at conferences across the world on mediation and dispute resolution and teaches mediation at universities in Germany and the US. Current and past roles include being a member of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association, of the Investor-State-Mediation Taskforce of the International Mediation Institute and of MediatEUr, a not-for-profit organisation focusing on peace mediation. In 2009, she was recognized by the International Board Association with an honorary mention as “Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year” has been designated to the Panel of Conciliators of the World Bank.
Hannah has lived in Italy, Belgium, France, Portugal and the US and speaks English, French, Italian and her native German. Her passion for education and enabling the next generation of changemakers for a better world gets her out of bed in the morning.
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Senior Advisor, Communications & Outreach, King Baudouin Foundation United States
Hafeeza E. Rashed is the Senior Advisor, Communications and Outreach at the King Baudouin Foundation United States. At KBFUS, she is responsible for the outreach to individual donors and the development of our partnerships with African nonprofit organizations.
Previously, she worked at Gbowee Peace Foundation USA, which was founded to support the work of Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee.
Hafeeza has worked in education, law, social justice and philanthropy for the last 15 years. Hafeeza leads KBFUS’s efforts to increase and support direct resourcing of African-led organizations on the continent. She speaks regularly at conferences on African-led civil society organizations, and is published in the African Philanthropy Forum’s Toolkit for African Philanthropists.
Hafeeza earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Spelman College, and her JD from the University of Richmond.
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Managing Director, Good Corps
Grant studied public policy, leadership, and community organizing at Duke and University of Cape Town. He then joined the Rockefeller Brothers Fund—first as Special Assistant to the President and then as Associate Program Officer with responsibility for youth civic engagement nationally, in New York, and in Serbia and Kosovo. Ready for a change, he moved to San Francisco and consulted with foundations like the Haas Jr. Fund on strategic planning and Blue Shield of California Foundation to design a leadership and capacity-building initiative for the domestic violence field, as well as nonprofits like Glide Church's Children, Youth, and Families center in the Tenderloin. During 8 years at GOOD (now Good Media Group), he has led dozens of engagements with leading companies, foundations, and nonprofits.
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Managing Director & COO, elea Foundation
Stefan Kappeler is Managing Director & COO at elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization (www.elea.org), an active philanthropic impact investor fighting absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means supporting social enterprises and entrepreneurial organizations in creating sustainable and measurable impact. As a member of elea’s leadership team, Stefan is responsible for elea’s investment process and serves as a board member of some of elea’s portfolio companies in Kenya, the United States, and Zimbabwe. Prior to joining elea, he worked at Infosys, a business process outsourcing giant, in India, and Esri, the global market leader of geographic information systems (GIS), in Africa and Europe. For Esri, he established a business in Rwanda and significantly contributed to the adoption and countrywide roll-out of GIS. Stefan holds a Master of Science from the University of Zurich and a Master of Business Administration from the University of St.Gallen.
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As Managing Director of Creative Services, Phil Collis is responsible for any creative / multimedia products for the Foundation, and oversees in-house films, website properties, social media and syndicated channels in direct support of the Foundation’s strategy. In addition, Phil also manages the online strategy and media initiatives for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
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Founder and CEO, Gina’s Collective
GINA SANDERS
Gina Sanders is Founder and CEO of GINA’S COLLECTIVE, an Advisory providing coaching, connections and creativity to tech-enabled nonprofit startups. She also serves as a Venture Partner at independent venture capital firm Advance Venture Partners, a subsidiary of Advance Publications, Inc; and as an Advisor to Y Combinator’s nonprofit startups.
From 2010-2014, Ms. Sanders was President and Chief Executive Officer of Fairchild Fashion Media, a diversified trade and consumer media company. She led the company to high double-digit, bottom-line growth prior to its sale to Penske Media Corporation.
A 29-year veteran of Condé Nast, Ms. Sanders previously served as Vice President and Publisher of Lucky, as the founding Vice President and Publisher of Teen Vogue, and as Vice President and Publisher of Gourmet and Details. She received numerous accolades during her tenure in these posts, including multiple placements on AdWeek’s Hot List and AdAge’s A-List, Condé Nast’s coveted ‘Publisher of the Year’ award, as well as the prestigious Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications.
Ms. Sanders currently serves as an advisor to four Y-Combinator-backed nonprofit startups: New Story, mRelief, Dost Education, AnnieCannons and Sirum. In addition, Gina is an advisor to two additional award-winning nonprofit start-ups, Konexio and Almost Fun.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University, where she taught in 2016 and 2017 as an instructor at “The Experimental College.” Ms. Sanders is a competitive equestrian and an amateur painter.
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Founder/ Executive Director, BarefootLaw
Gerald Abila is an American Bar Association Legal Rebel and a pioneer of the Legaltech/ Innovation movement in Africa. He founded BarefootLaw which, through the innovative use of digital technology, empowers people to develop legal solutions for their justice needs.
He is steadfast in the belief that access to the law for all is fundamental to a just and equitable society and new technologies play a significant role towards this.
He was named a Legal Rebel by the American Bar Association for his use in using technology to transform global legal practice. Other honors include the 100 leading Legal Consultants and Strategists in the world for 2018 by the Law Dragon in New York, Echoing Green fellow, Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur, and a Laurette of the Africa Development Prize by the King Baudouin Foundation. He was recently named a Rainer Arnhold Fellow by the Mulago Foundation.
In addition to BarefootLaw, Gerald likes to solve problems, teach the law, speak about the law and technology and how these can be used to meet the global goals more so SGD16.
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Founder/Director, Peter Bennett Foundation
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Co-Founder and CEO, EarthEnable
Gayatri Datar is the co-founder and CEO of EarthEnable, a social enterprise that aims to make living conditions healthier for the world’s poor, first by eliminating dirt floors. Dirt floors make people sick, and concrete is unaffordable to billions of people. EarthEnable solves this problem by selling a proprietary floor that is 80% cheaper than cement. Prior to founding EarthEnable, she worked at Dalberg Global Development Advisors and the World Bank, and also consulted for the Government of Liberia’s Department of Revenue, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Finance Corporation, and grassroots NGOs in India, Namibia, Nicaragua, Albania, and the United States. She holds a BA in Economics from Harvard College, an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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, Individual
1991-2005 Managing Director at UBS in London and Madrid where I was a financial analyst in the oil and technology sectors. From 2005-13 fund manager at Millennium Partners in London. I live in Somerset with my wife and 4 children. Now a private investor, school governor, amateur cyclist and philanthropist.
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Co-Founder, Human Rights Measurement Initiative
Anne-Marie Brook is an economist and social entrepreneur with a passion for helping to bring about systemic change. She is one of the co-founders of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), and currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Her sense of social justice was sparked as a child, observing ethnic disparities at her primary school. She left New Zealand for the first time when she was 16 to spend a year living with a local family and attending high school in Arequipa, Peru, as an AFS exchange student. That experience was formative, sparking a life-long interest in learning what drives some countries to do so much better than others at creating the conditions that allow their people to truly flourish.
Anne-Marie has degrees in Psychology and Economics from the University of Otago and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, which she attended on a Fulbright Scholarship. Prior to making the jump into human rights, Anne-Marie worked as a senior economist for the OECD in Paris, and in the New Zealand public sector. She has lived in six countries, travelled extensively, and speaks rusty Spanish and French. In 2016 she co-founded the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. She and her global team of human rights experts believe wholeheartedly that what gets measured gets improved, and their vision is a world where everyone can see what’s going on through a human rights lens.
As an Edmund Hillary Fellow, Anne-Marie is part of a network of global change-makers building solutions for positive impact from Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020 she was a finalist in New Zealand's Woman of Influence awards, in the Global category.
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CEO, Raising The Village
Shawn is the founder and CEO of Raising The Village, a nonprofit working at the intersection of livelihoods and data analytics to end ultra-poverty for last-mile communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Raising The Village was launched in 2015 with the goal of identifying and addressing key barriers trapping the ultra-poor. By applying analytics to agriculture and community participation, Raising The Village increases household incomes through low-cost community-led interventions. By the end of this year, Raising The Village will cross the milestone of 1 million lives impacted since founding, and has an ambitious goal of reaching 1 million each year by 2027.
Shawn holds a B.Comm from McMaster University and an MPA from Harvard University. Shawn's expertise in program implementation and data analytics shapes RTV's vision to change how non-profits design, and measure impact. In 2020, he was recognized among Canada's Top 40 under 40 as an innovator challenging the status quo.
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Member of the Board, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Meet Patrick Kern – a dedicated member of the board at Peter Möhrle Foundation, a Hamburg-based foundation with a focus on mental health. He is also a founding member of UNICEF NextGen Germany and a board member of other organizations, including Gefangene helfen e.V., a crime prevention NGO, and Edmund Siemers-Stiftung. Patrick is a manager for sustainable real estate at Union Investment and a proud Oxford alumni. He's passionate about strategic philanthropy and collaboration, but above all, he loves his family more than anything.
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Founder & CEO, Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results
Sharath studied at Cambridge and Oxford and received his MBA from INSEAD. He was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to global education, and serves on the Education Commission’s workforce group – the pre-eminent institution chaired by the UN’s Gordon Brown.
Sharath was founding CEO of Teaching Leaders – an initiative that raised $25 million in government funding to increase attainment for every disadvantaged secondary school in the UK. He was also Head of Social Ventures at eBay UK, a Project Leader at Booz & Co, and a Senior Manager at Action Aid.
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CEO, BNP Paribas
Frédéric Janbon has taken up his new responsibilities on 20 October 2015. His main task is to further accelerate the development of BNP Paribas Asset Management. Frédéric has over 25 years’ experience in financial markets. With the BNP Paribas Group he served in various management positions in the interest rate, derivatives and options markets, before being appointed global head of Fixed Income in 2005, an activity which he successfully steered until the end of 2014.
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CEO and Founder, Dalberg Data Insigths
Frederic Pivetta is the CEO at Dalberg Data Insights (DDI), which is the Big Data subsidiary of the Dalberg Group.
The objective is to use Big Data sources from the public and private sectors in emerging countries to address social questions through innovative algorithms (using machine learning, deep learning etc) and tools. DDI has been active over the last 7 years, where it has experienced collaboration with major funders and local end-users across Africa, Asia and Latin America, such as USAID, the Gates Foundation, the MasterCard Foundation, the UN or the World Bank. DDI leverages different data sources, such as telecom data, satellite imagery, bank and transaction data. More specifically, DDI has set in place agreements with telecom operators in various countries to access and use their data to address social questions. DDI has been building a portfolio of Big Data algorithms and front-end tools addressing social questions (e.g. crop yield, gender gap, spread of communicable diseases, road/infrastructure network) that are gradually transformed into scalable products.
Frederic has been invited as keynote speaker or panelist at multiple events on Big Data, such as World Economic Forum panels, OECD conferences. He has been senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company for 7 years and His core areas and industries were banking and financial institutions and telecom, where he developed the strategy for banking, telecom and media.
Frederic holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and has graduated in Business Economics and in Econometrics from Brussels University (ULB and Solvay)
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Founder & Executive Director, StrongMinds
Sean Mayberry is a former diplomat and social marketer who believes that treating depression in women in Africa is the most simple and cost-effective way to address systemic poverty. Sean implemented successful HIV/AIDS and malaria programs in Africa for years, and saw firsthand how undetected, untreated depression negatively affected people’s lives. As a result, in 2013, Sean founded StrongMinds, a social enterprise with the mission of improving the mental health of women in Africa.
Sean has served as a SOCAP Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Cordes Foundation Fellow, and a GLG Fellow. In addition to that, in 2020 he won the Humanitarian Award from the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health. Sean has been interviewed about his work with StrongMinds in the Fall 2018 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Forbes. StrongMinds’ work has been covered by The Guardian, the BBC, and The New York Times.
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Founder and CEO, Spire Ventures
Mr. Faisal Butt is an entrepreneur and investor based in Mayfair, UK. His investment focus has a recurring theme in property, property services, and property related technology. He invests through his vehicle Spire Ventures and through his PropTech investment fund Pi Labs.
Faisal’s investment portfolio includes 20+ companies, spanning a diverse range of ventures including 90 North, a real estate investment management business with over £1bn assets under management, The Accouter Group, a furniture supply business, emoov, one of the UK’s leading online estate agents, Trussle, the UK’s first digital mortgage advisor, Hubble, an office space marketplace, and Pi Labs, Europe’s first ‘PropTech’ investment platform.
Faisal is a recipient of several noteworthy industry and academic awards, including the Estates Gazette Power List, the 40 under 40 award by Property Week, and Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Shell Livewire. Faisal is also a recipient of the Skoll Scholarship for social entrepreneurship, awarded by the University of Oxford.
Faisal completed his Bachelors degree at UCLA in 1999 in Business Economics and Computer Science and earned an MBA with Distinction from the University of Oxford in 2009.
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Director of Special Projects, Greenbaum Foundation
Meghan O’Brien Lowery is the Director of Special Projects for The Greenbaum Foundation. Meghan has spent the last six years working in the philanthropic and non-profit sectors. She focuses on animal and human rights and the intersectionality of where those issues often collide and create an immense amount of suffering. Meghan previously worked in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, leading a team of 250 staff which provided a suite of holistic social services. She has a passion for empowering her colleagues, staff and youth with finding their voices and creating narratives. Meghan’s work at the Borough of Manhattan Community College allowed her six years to tailor a public speaking curriculum that she now uses to help others create their own two minute elevator speeches and share their missions. Meghan is a warrior for the marginalized, follows a plant-based diet, is a hot-yoga addict and is always laughing. Meghan holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Shenandoah Conservatory and a MFA in Acting from the University of Florida.
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Executive Director, Goradia Foundation
Sapphira Goradia is the Executive Director of the Vijay and Marie Goradia Foundation. As Executive Director, Sapphira leads the Foundation’s efforts to improve health and educational outcomes in India through the support of innovative, measurable and scalable initiatives. Prior to assuming her role at The Goradia Foundation, Sapphira worked for a number of NGOs focused on the prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic diseases, including UNAIDS and Population Services International. She holds a BA from Pomona College and a Masters of Public Health from The George Washington University. Sapphira serves on the advisory board of Pratham USA and the board of directors of the global health NGO Antara International. She also serves on the board of directors of Dasra, Women Moving Millions, and TPW.
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Development Officer, Wilstar Social Impact
Whilst at university, Emily worked with CARE Norway on a project aimed at promoting women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship in Rwanda, a project with which she is still deeply involved. After graduating, she decided to assist her family in creating their new social impact venture, Wilstar. Wilstar is the non-profit social impact arm of the Arne Wilhelmsen family office. Wilstar´s primary focus is education, human dignity, women’s rights and the marine environment. She has been working to forge relationships with other likeminded institutions and evaluates projects that fall within the scope of Wilstar´s vision.
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As Director of Contracts and Legal Affairs, Sangeetha provides support for the execution of responsibilities of stewardship and governance for Skoll Foundation. Sangeetha also provides occasional active support for other programmatic imperatives.
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As a Sr. Analyst on the Portfolio & Investments team, Elyssa helps identify investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, and support the work and impact of portfolio partners, particularly in the areas of effective governance, inclusive economies, and promoting healthy and equitable information ecosystems. With a background in learning and evaluation, she is passionate about building authentic relationships with social innovators, learning together about what it takes to advance equity, racial justice, and long-term social change. In her spare time, you can often find her in the kitchen cooking up a storm or out on one of the Bay Area’s fabulous hiking trails.
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Board Member, McCance Foundation
Elizabeth McCance serves as a Trustee of the McCance Foundation, a philanthropic grant making institution focused on the areas of education, the environment and conservation, social entrepreneurship and medical research. Elizabeth developed the Foundation's priority area of the environment and conservation, where the focus is on climate change and the conservation of Long Island Sound.
For the last 25 years, Elizabeth's career has centered on the environment. Prior to teaching biology and environmental science at the collegiate level, Elizabeth was the Conservation Director for Chicago Wilderness, a consortium of more than 200 organizations working to protect and manage natural areas and habitat in the greater Chicago region. Before becoming conservation director, she facilitated a two-year process to develop the region's biodiversity recovery plan. Elizabeth also worked for IUCN's Species Survival Commission, promoting communication and leadership throughout the global network to develop red lists, species recovery plans and conservation policies.
In addition to serving as a McCance Foundation Trustee, Elizabeth currently is the President of the Board of Trustees at the Henry L. Ferguson Museum, a natural and cultural history and archeological museum, and a Board Member and Conservation Chair for the Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. She is also co-leading a project to manage and protect seagrass in Long Island Sound, a joint project of both the Ferguson Museum and The Nature Conservancy.
Elizabeth graduated from Yale University with a BS in Biology, has a MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Maryland, and a PhD in Natural Resources and the Environment from the University of Michigan.
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CEO, Jasmine Social Investments
Nina Gené is CEO of Jasmine Social Investments, a private foundation in New Zealand that funds high-performance social ventures solving big problems in the poorest geographies. Nina’s role is to evaluate opportunities (grants, debt, and equity), advise portfolio organizations, and collaborate with a network of social investors. Jasmine is an early and long-term funder of One Acre Fund, Last Mile Health and Educate Girls.
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Co-Artistic Director, Found Sound Nation
Elena Moon Park is a musician and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a co-artistic director of Found Sound Nation, a collective of artists who use collaborative music-making to connect people across cultural divides. She has also served as a co-director of the OneBeat global music exchange program since its inception in 2012. Elena is a lifelong musician and advocate of social justice and the arts, with degrees in urban policy, ethnomusicology and anthropology from The New School and Northwestern University. She also actively freelances in New York City, specializing in contemporary classical music and folk music for families. Several years ago, she released Rabbit Days and Dumplings, a family music album featuring folk and children's music from East Asia.
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Director of Development, The Elders
Edith joined The Elders in October 2016 as the first Director of Development.
Her previous role was Director of Development at The Open University, where she was responsible for all fundraising for the OU and also for the OU’s ground-breaking capacity building programmes in the developing world. Prior to this she worked at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford as Deputy Director for Development and Outreach.
A Dutch citizen, Edith has a background in International Economics and Politics and has worked in teaching, in advisory roles and in fundraising. Previous roles have included Development Advisor at the UN in Fiji, Fundraising manager at Oxfam and Economic Advisor to the Union of Industrial Workers in the Netherlands. Edith is a trustee of Ethiopiaid and the British Institute of Human Rights.
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Chairman, The Big Issue Group
Nigel Kershaw OBE is a leading social entrepreneur and impact investor who, since 1974, has had first-hand experience of creating, building and scaling social enterprises and social investment. He joined The Big Issue in 1994, subsequently becoming its CEO and Group Chair. He is also Co--Founder and Director of The Big Exchange.
The Big Issue (TBI) is one of the world’s most successful and best-known social enterprises. More than 200m copies of the magazine have been sold in the UK by street vendors and it has inspired over 100 similar publications around the world.
TBI set up Big Issue Invest, a social merchant bank, by social entrepreneurs - for social entrepreneurs, and has now invested in over 400 social enterprises across the UK. It currently manages or advises on over $½bn of social funds from its innovative early-stage venture funds and lending to regulated investment funds.
Nigel set up a public market arm that advises on public market impact funds, co-founded with Columbia Threadneedle (2013) and Aberdeen Standard Investments (2018) with a third Multi-Asset Climate Solutions Fund launched in February 2021.
Nigel co-founded The Big Exchange which is a transformative, fair, accessible and transparent investment platform for social and environmental impact rated funds. People can use their savings to invest in 46 rated funds from 13 asset managers with a combined Assets Under Management of over $60bn.
Nigel trained as a litho colour printer and previous to joining The Big Issue, Nigel founded three printing and publishing social enterprises. Nigel is a Social Enterprise UK ‘Champion of Champions’ and winner of the Institute of Directors’ Good Enterprise Award. He currently sits on the Impact Investing Institute’s Advisory Council. In 2010, he was awarded an OBE for services to Social Enterprise.
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CEO, Summer Foundation
Di Winkler is an occupational therapist who has worked with people with severe brain injury for more than twenty years. Di was the Chief Occupational Therapist at Ivanhoe Manor Private Rehabilitation Hospital prior to developing a private practice working with people with brain injury in the community.
Di completed a Masters by Research at La Trobe University and a PhD at Monash University, which involved a series of studies that focused on young people in nursing homes. Di founded the Summer Foundation in January 2006 to solve the issue of young people with disability living in nursing homes. Summer Foundation is a systems entrepreneur organisation that uses research, stories, and prototypes to change health, disability, housing and aged care policy and practice.
Summer Foundation developed two housing demonstration projects for young people in nursing homes that bring people with severe disability back into the mainstream of society. In 2017 Di founded a for purpose business called Summer Housing. Summer Housing is partnering with residential developers to build apartments for people with severe disability that are peppered throughout mainstream developments across Australia. Summer Housing aims to commission 300 apartments for people with disability by 2022.
Di and her husband Craig founded a charitable Trust, which focusses on systems change and impact investment.
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Senior Charities Manager, Hong Kong Jockey Club
Mr. Dennis Ngan is the Senior Charities Manager at the Hong Kong Jockey Club since 2014, responsible for events and engagement works. The Hong Kong Jockey Club donates around US$ 500 million annually to the community through the Club’s Charities Trust for the betterment of Hong Kong.
Mr. Ngan has had extensive public administration experience before joining the Club. He joined the Administrative Service of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2008, the Administrative Service being the lynchpin of the Hong Kong Civil Service. He was appointed as the Senior Administrative Officer of the Home Affairs Department from April 2012 to June 2014, spearheading district administration, district signature projects, and liaison with District Councils. Prior to that, he was appointed as the Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development from April 2010 to April 2012, and as Assistant Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs from July 2008 to April 2010.
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Debbie Santos is the Vice President, Finance at the Skoll Foundation where she has primary responsibility for the Foundation’s financial matters and oversees the grants management, legal, accounting and finance functions. Debbie has spent most of her career helping organizations optimize across finance and operations to advance their mission.
In her spare time, Debbie enjoys spending time with family, listening to audio books, and hunting for her next favorite podcast.
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Founder and Executive Director, Nest
Rebecca van Bergen is the Founder and Executive Director of Nest, a nonprofit bringing transparency, business development and advocacy to the global artisan community, including the millions of people who work from home. Rebecca founded Nest immediately after receiving her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Washington University and has since grown the organization to improve the lives of more than 60,000 artisans since the organization’s inception. In partnership with recognized philanthropic partners as well as brands like West Elm, Target, Maiyet, PVH, Mara Hoffman, Patagonia, and Eileen Fisher, Nest’s Standards for Ethical Compliance for Artisans and Homeworkers are radically improving transparency and development in complicated decentralized and home-based supply chains. Rebecca is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Levi Strauss Collaboratory and Ashoka Fellow, and has led Nest to receive numerous awards such as the C&A Foundation’s 2016 Fabric of Change Award.
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Trustee/Founder, DAK Foundation
David, together with his wife, were the founders of the largest “bargain store” operator in Australia, with 115 retail stores, supply contracts with 5 major retail chains and over 3,000 employees. After the business was sold in July 2000 Dave joined the Board of the Acquiring Group (The Warehouse Limited), New Zealand’s largest retailer at that time.
In 2002 Dave and Kerry began travelling to developing countries and assisting grass roots organisations providing health and education facilities for vulnerable children. Through 2005-6 many trips were made to visit women’s micro enterprise groups. By 2007 they were travelling overseas 10 times a year, visiting 2-3 countries per trip and over 100 various projects, employing many of the techniques used in their business life for building networks and assessing opportunity.
By 2010 they had decided to commit most of their wealth and all of their time to efficient and cost effective programs to provide sustainable improvement in the lives of the severely disadvantaged in poor countries.
Dave volunteers most of his time to the work of Partners For Equity and other international development work through his family’s private Foundation.
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Chair of Advisory Council, Transparency International
Following an executive career in international organisations in the private and NGO sectors, I now have a portfolio of non-executive and trustee board roles.
I'm the Chair of the Transparency International UK Advisory Council; Senior Independent Director of Drax Group plc; a Board member of the Value Reporting Foundation where I chair the Finance & Compensation Committee; a Board member of the International Budget Partnership; a member of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group of the Church of England; a member of the Advisory Council of Blueprint for Better Business; and an independent Councillor on my local Parish Council.
I was for five years the Chief Executive of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders – mainly former Presidents and UN Secretary Generals – founded by Nelson Mandela working together for peace and human rights, until October 2021. Prior to that I was Chief Executive of WWF-UK from 2007 and chaired WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative. My previous roles include serving as Chief Executive of the global anti-corruption organisation Transparency International based in Berlin; as Finance Director and a Deputy Chief Executive of Oxfam, where I also headed up Oxfam’s operations in India for a period; and as Finance Director of the European packaging business Field Group plc, through its management buyout and subsequent successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange. I originally qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC, moving into venture capital with 3i, and then into manufacturing.
I have previously served as non-executive Chair of Traidcraft plc, non-executive Director of Low Carbon Accelerator, Vice-Chair of Shared Interest, Chair of Transparency International UK, Deputy Chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council, and on the Marks & Spencer plc Executive Advisory Board on Sustainability.
I have two degrees in theology, one in finance, and an honorary doctorate.
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Senior Advisor, The Omidyar Group
Randy Newcomb is a Senior Advisor at The Omidyar Group. The Omidyar Group is a diverse collection of global companies, organizations, and initiatives founded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar that strive to catalyze social impact globally.
As Senior Advisor Mr. Newcomb explores future trends, new and alternative thinking, and diverse points of view to address the challenges we face in the 21st century. Drawing from twenty years of leadership at international levels, Mr. Newcomb supports the mission of The Omidyar Group by weaving together networks of individuals and organizations working together towards a common purpose.
Previously, Mr. Newcomb was the founding President and CEO of Humanity United for fifteen years. Working closely with the Omidyar family, Randy grew HU as a values-based organization dedicated to cultivating the conditions necessary to address intractable problems like violent conflict, atrocities, human exploitation, and modern slavery.
During his tenure, Mr. Newcomb expanded Humanity United’s work throughout the world, with programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Liberia, Nepal, Malaysia, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, and Thailand. Under Randy’s leadership, HU has fostered relationships and collaborated closely with a network of individuals and organizations – at global, regional, national and local levels – to bring greater levels of dialogue, understanding, action, and new solutions to address the complex systemic problems that are the organization’s focus.
Previously, Mr. Newcomb was a Vice President of Omidyar Network, a philanthropic and social investment firm. Prior to Omidyar Network, Mr. Newcomb served for 14 years as CEO of Golden Gate Community Inc., a community-based, social impact organization based in San Francisco.
Mr. Newcomb was a Fellow at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University and an International Development Fellow at the University of Bath, Bath, England. He holds a Doctor of Education from the University of San Francisco, a Master of Science degree in development economics from the University of Bath, a Master of Arts degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from the University of Bath.
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Managing Partner, CARE Enterprises
Marilia is an experienced shape-shifter, having worked with every size and type of organization, and across the range of social and environmental causes. After establishing an arts education nonprofit in Brazil; spending six years as a leading member of the Clinton Global Initiative; managing Partnerships at Purpose.com, founding Aldeia works--an impact consultancy that served foundations, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies--she took the helm at CARE Enterprises, Inc. (CEI) in 2016. At CEI she has created a $50 million dollars impact first, gender just fund. She graduated from law school in her native Brazil and holds a Master’s in Global Affairs from NYU. She is a mother of teenage girls, has a history of political activism and ran away with the circus circa 1995.
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Fund Manager, Triodos Investment Management BV
Our Emerging Markets investment funds finance organisations in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe that use financial services to deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental development. As a Fund Manager, I am responsible for setting up a new investment fund that aims to increase access to and quality of education in developing countries. The fund is a partnership between Triodos Investment Management and Opportunity International.
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CEO, Kepler
Dan Gwinnell joined the Kepler team as CEO in October 2017. Prior to joining Kepler, Dan spent six years working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in various countries across sub-Saharan Africa, most recently as Country Director of the Sierra Leone office. He has also worked in Liberia, DRC, Cameroon, Malawi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia, among other countries across Africa and Asia. Before joining CHAI, Dan worked with Global Health Strategies, a New-York based consultancy focused on advocacy, communications and policy analysis for global health issues. He holds an MPA in Nonprofit Management and Public Policy from New York University, and teaches occasionally at the Institute of Humanitarian Affairs of Fordham University.
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Director, Individual
Craig Winkler was a co-founder of accounting software firm MYOB, serving initially as joint Managing Director until public listing, and then as CEO for nine years. Craig now divides his time between business pursuits and philanthropy. He and his wife Di founded a charitable Trust, which focusses on systems change and impact investment. Craig serves on the Philanthropy Australia Council and the board of Xero Ltd.
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Executive, Change.org + Founder - Nguvu Collective , Change.org, Nguvu Collective
Preethi is a social impact entrepreneur who specialises in building ecosystems for positive social change. She is transitioning out as Global Executive Director of the Change.org Foundation to set up a new social impact organisation - Nguvu Collective - to support emerging leaders from marginalised communities to unleash their leadership and social change making powers across Asia and Africa.
Preethi is an Obama Fellow for global civic leadership and Senior Skoll Fellow. Preethi established Change.org as the people's platform in India. She then founded She Creates Change - a leadership accompaniment program that combines civic organizing with online technology to create and sustain powerful women leaders.
At Change.org Foundation, she has led a team engaging over 100 million people in citizen-led campaigns across Asia, Europe and Latin America. Her vision is to catalyze a global women's movement that brings together the reach of technology with the power of community organizing.
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CEO, Girl Rising
Christina is passionate about narrative storytelling as an engine of social change. In 2009, she helped found Girl Rising, serving as its Managing Director and in 2017 led its transition from a film production company to a non-profit. Christina is responsible for the strategy and execution of Girl Rising’s expanding work around the globe including the production of new films and other media, implementation of GR’s on the ground programs and ongoing engagement with public and private sector partners, foundations, media partners, educators, and grassroots supporters. Her passion for storytelling is founded upon decades of experience in documentary film and television, having contributed to and/or produced films for CNN, ABC, Bill Moyers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, among many others. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and a Masters in International Community Planning from the University of Texas, Austin. She lives in New York’s Hudson River Valley with her husband and three children.
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Director, Peter Bennett Foundation
Chris Coldham is a programme manager with experience in the commercial, academic and NGO sectors. He has degrees in Humanities (BA Hons), Information Management (MSc) and Epidemiology (PhD). Chris has managed public health research projects in Latin America, commercial projects in Asia and is currently based in Hong Kong with Peter Bennett Foundation. Our interests include early childhood education, universal healthcare and Public Policy.
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Lydia Darley is the Team Administrator at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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Chief Executive Officer, Zoona
Mike Quinn is Group CEO of Zoona, an African Fintech that leverages technology, entrepreneurship, and partnerships to enable essential financial services for those who need them most. Since launching in 2009, Zoona has grown to an customer base of over 3 million consumers and 2,000 agent outlets in 3 countries, has processed $2 billion in transactions, and has raised has raised more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2015, the Nike Foundation and Unreasonable Institute selected Zoona for the inaugural Girl Effect Accelerator as one of the top start-ups in the world helping girls out of poverty based on our micro-franchise model that empowers girls and young women to become entrepreneurs.
Mike holds an MBA with Distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Skoll Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, along with an MSc in Management Development from the London School of Economics. His entrepreneurial journey started as a volunteer in Ghana and Zambia with Engineers Without Borders Canada, and he has now lived and worked in Africa for 12 years. Mike grew up in Calgary, Canada, and completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2018 and Accion’s Edward W. Claugus Award for Leadership and Innovation in Financial Inclusion in 2017.
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Executive Director, Toilet Board Coalition
Appointed as the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC)’s inaugural Executive Director in 2015, Cheryl is an experienced business, investment and sustainable development professional. Cheryl brings over 20 years of experience developing innovative approaches to responsible business strategies, impact investment strategies, and high performing multi-stakeholder collaborations. Before joining the TBC Cheryl was the Sustainability Investment Partner and Head of Impact at Quadia Impact Finance in Geneva. Throughout her career Cheryl has held several positions with sustainable development platforms, and worked with fortune 500 global companies, investors and start-ups across sectors such as healthcare, consumer goods, food, forestry, chemistry, and renewable energy. Cheryl began her career in corporate sustainability with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Executive Director, Entrepreneurial Citizenship Institute
Since April 2012 Celia has served as ED of the Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial (ICE). Before joining ICE, Celia served as Director of Ashoka Canada (2009-2011), Managing Director of Ashoka Global Fellowship (2007-12) and Director of Ashoka in Brazil and Paraguay (2002-07). Before Ashoka, Célia worked with the Institute for Development of Social Investment as Program Coordinator for two years, creating community foundations. She founded the fundraising consulting firm Philanthropics (1994- 2013), the Brazilian Association of Fundraisers and served as fundraising coordinator for Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP/FGV), until 2000. Célia taught fundraising (1995-2007) in the first management nonprofit program in Latin America at EAESP/FGV and in several other schools. Célia has a master degree on Economic (EAESP/FGV), which included exchange programs at ESSEC, Paris, France (1990) and York University, Toronto, Canada (1993).
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Managing Director, Open Road Alliance
From building pipelines of sustainable investments in Africa and Latin America to structuring innovative finance mechanisms such as blended finance impact funds, Caroline Bressan is an expert in impact-oriented financial product design, deal structuring, and portfolio construction.
With a commitment to pushing the limits of impact investing, she joined Open Road in 2015 and now leads its Investment team as the Managing Director. In her role, Caroline oversees the Open Road Impact Fund portfolio, providing bridge financing to social ventures at step-up moments of growth.
Open Road eliminates funding delays and accelerates growth for impact-first companies. As an industry leader in providing short-term bridge loans, Open Road offers fast, flexible, and affordable financing to companies across geographies and sectors facing unforeseen financing gaps that threaten to derail their work. Since its founding in 2012, Open Road has loaned more than $45 million to over 130 social ventures, keeping $450M of impact and follow-on financing into these ventures on track.
Prior to Open Road, Caroline was an Investment Principal at Dalberg Capital, the investment advisory wing of the management consulting firm, Dalberg. Previously, Caroline was an Investment Officer at Calvert Impact Capital, where she originated and managed a loan portfolio focused on the sustainable trade, social enterprise, and financial inclusion. She received her MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a BBA from the University of Michigan.
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Chief Advancement Officer, Tennyson Center for Children
Brandon Young, served 11 years in the US Army, nearly 10 of which as a Special Operator primarily with the 2nd Ranger Battalion. He joined the Army in 1997 and attained the rank of Sergeant First Class (E-7). Brandon has conducted 4 Combat rotations to Afghanistan, to include serving as a Jumpmaster for a Combat Parachute Assault into Afghanistan and placed 3rd in the 2006 Best Ranger Competition. He has been awarded 4 Meritorious Service Medals, The Order of St. Maurice for lifetime service to the Infantry and the Combat Infantryman's Badge. Some of his qualifications include Advanced Special Operations Tactics, Master Breacher (Explosives), Advanced Marksmanship, Jumpmaster, Pathfinder and Ranger. Brandon served as a key leader in the 75th Ranger Regiment's Assessment and Selection Program, a Primary Trainer in the Ranger Regiment's Pre Ranger course, contributing to an 80% graduation rate in the US Army Ranger School (the military's premier combat leadership course). Upon exiting service, Brandon worked in Cancer Diagnostics and Commercial Leadership for Quest Diagnostics and served as the National Director of Development for Team Red, White and Blue, building transformational partnerships and impact frameworks that enriched veterans’ lives. Brandon currently serves as the Chief Advancement Officer of the Tennyson Center for Children, building a movement that fundamentally transforms the way abused, neglected and traumatized kids stabilize, heal and reintegrate back into their community. Brandon lives in Littleton, CO with his wife, Kelly, and their children Jaden and Elli. They fill their days with running, hiking, skiing, mountain biking, faith and community.
Brandon was named to “The Mighty 25: Veterans to Watch in 2017” for his work as a writer, speaker and leader in the veterans community.
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Grants Manager, Planet Wheeler Foundation
Linda is a grants manager at Planet Wheeler Foundation with a particular focus on African projects. The foundation supports practical and effective organisations making a difference in the alleviation of poverty. Internationally our major focus is on health, education and livelihoods, in East and West Africa as well as specific areas of South East Asia.
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Director, UK Office, Ubuntu Pathways
Beth Honig is Ubuntu Pathways’ UK Director and has dedicated her career to social change and redefining impact in the non-profit sector. With strong personal ties to South Africa, she brings over a decade of experience in Ghana, South Africa and the UK to conversations on philanthropy, sustainable community-led development, and the theory of ‘going-to-scale’.
Ubuntu Pathways (www.ubuntupathways.org) breaks the cycle of poverty by providing South Africa’s most vulnerable children with what all children deserve––everything, every day, from cradle to career. Founded in 1999, Ubuntu has grown into a thriving community institution in the heart of Port Elizabeth’s townships as well as a global model for poverty alleviation, garnering recognition from the World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Institute, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Wharton Business School. The Ubuntu Centre, their 24,000 square-feet state-of-the-art health and education facility houses everything children need to thrive: a paediatric clinic and on-site pharmacy, a community theatre, the region’s first early education centre, computer labs, a vocational training hub, and a counselling wing.
Beth provides strategic leadership to Ubuntu Pathways’ office in London. Working closely with philanthropists, foundations, and corporate partners, Beth continues to strengthen Ubuntu’s support base in the UK. Her team drives our global data-driven strategy, generating over £1 million per year through award-winning galas, gran partnerships, major donor relationships and outreach within the South African, British and American philanthropic community. In April 2016, Beth won the prestigious NGO Promotion of Development Award at the UK’s South African Chamber of Commerce. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and French from Trinity College, Dublin.
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Managing Director, Segal Family Foundation
Martin Segal
Martin graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2004 and currently serves as principal for real estate investing company, B&D Holdings and is the chairman of the board for Segal Family Foundation.
In 2010, Martin took on the role of Managing Director of Segal Family Foundation, which makes grants to over 200 exemplary partners designing effective, locally appropriate solutions to poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Segal Family Foundation’s annual giving has grown from $2 million in 2010 to over $12 million in 2017, with a focus on driving resources to African visionaries and grassroots organizations. Martin serves as chairman of the board, manages the endowment, and oversees the foundation’s growing interest in impact investments.
In addition to Martin’s role on the Segal Family Foundation, he also is on the board of Tugende. Tugende is a social enterprise in Uganda that finances productive assets unlocking growth in East Africa and empowering people previously considered to be too risky for credit.
When Martin is not working or spending time with his lovely wife Kristen and their two daughters, he enjoys fishing, skiing, playing tennis, and spending time with family and friends.
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Founder and President, Think Equal
Leslee was voted by the NY Times the No 2 Most Impactful Woman of 2015 (second to Hillary Clinton), and has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright). She has also been named Safe’s Global Hero of 2015, Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.
A filmmaker and Human Rights Campaigner, Leslee is no stranger to successful campaigning films. “Who Bombed Birmingham?” (starring John Hurt) for HBO and Granada TV, directly led to the release of the ‘Birmingham Six’ after 17 years of wrongful imprisonment. Her feature film "East is East" (35 prestigious awards worldwide, including British Oscar for Best Film) did much to promote tolerance and the celebration of diversity as between the Asian and British communities and has become a classic film taught in schools across Europe. Her documentary "India's Daughter", has been critically acclaimed around the globe, won 32 awards (including the Peabody Award and the Amnesty International Media Award for Best Documentary 2016) and sparked a global movement to end violence against women and girls.
The searing insights yielded by the 2½ journey making “India’s Daughter”, led Leslee to found UK-and-US-based Not for Profit global education charity “Think Equal”, of which she is the Founder and President.
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Founder THINKMD, Professor of Pediatrics University of Vermont, ThinkMD
Barry Finette MD. Ph.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Global Health and Humanitarian Opportunity Program at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He is the Founder of THINKMD, a Vermont based benefit corporation, whose mission is to eliminate premature deaths through the development of next generation healthcare solutions that disrupt the healthcare delivery paradigm. He has over 30 years of experience as a translational research scientist and physician in the areas of emergency and critical medicine, global health and humanitarian assistance. He has worked in the US and 16 low and middle income countries (LMICs). He is currently a Rainer Arnhold Mulago Fellow.
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Cofounder & CEO, Resonate
Ayla is Co-founder and CEO of Resonate, an organization that unlocks leadership potential for women and girls in East Africa, and is pioneering a new approach to capacity building worldwide. She is responsible for leading strategy, partnerships, program expansion, and curriculum innovation. She has a background in communications, community organizing, and leadership development. Along with her co-founder, she adapted proven community organizing tools to build capacity and leadership among underserved women in East Africa.
Prior to starting Resonate she was a Field Organizer and Program Manager at Groundswell in Washington, DC, where she led and managed the launch of a city-wide energy efficiency and financing program for low-income residents. She has also worked as a strategic communications consultant and specialized in stakeholder engagement and facilitation. She brings these skills to her work at Resonate, leveraging the influential power of storytelling for positive change.
Ayla was a Mary Maples Dunn scholar at Smith College, where she graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Spanish Language. Ayla was awarded the 2014 Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling for her work with Resonate and was named one of Conscious Company Magazine’s 17 Rising Social Entrepreneurs. She is a 2015 Unreasonable Institute Global Fellow, a 2016 recipient of the Cordes Fellowship, and represents Resonate as part of the 2017 GSBI Accelerator Program and the 2017 cohort of the SPRING Accelerator. Ayla serves as an International Grant Advisor for The Pollination Project, and as a member of the Global Advisory Board for the Women’s Global Leadership Initiative.
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Unknown, Individual
Nancy McGuire Choi is a social sector executive with 15 years of experience in international development, technology innovation, and nonprofit management. Nancy specializes in building the teams, systems, and business models to take mission-driven organizations to their next level of impact and development.
Nancy served as Interim CEO and COO at Polaris, an award-winning nonprofit that uses data-driven strategies to disrupt and prevent human trafficking. She previously served as COO at Development Gateway, an international non-profit that creates digital tools to support data-driven decision-making in international development, and as Co-Executive Director of AidData, now a research lab at The College of William and Mary.
She holds an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a BA in Anthropology from Harvard University.
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Financial Advisor, Elystone Capital
Lavinia has been a Financial Advisor at Elystone Capital, a family office, since 2014. There she is in charge of ESG and Impact Investing activities for the firm's clients. She is actively sourcing impact projects, using a diverse set of financial instruments to solve problems for the poor and the environment.
Prior to this Lavinia worked in an entertainment marketing company, Propaganda GEM, where she was in charge of production resources.
Lavinia is based in Switzerland where she grew up with Argentine parents. She studied in a Swiss boarding school before attending university in the UK.
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Aurora Kazi Bassett is the Business Development Manager for Proximity Designs, a Myanmar social enterprise founded in 2004. Proximity provides a platform of knowledge, ag tech and farm finance that creates a path out of poverty for rural families. This work is done by designing, making and selling irrigation systems, financial services, and farm advisory services across Myanmar. Aurora grew up between New York City and Harare. She joined Proximity after completing a Masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University. She has worked for a Tanzanian social enterprise focused on urban heritage preservation, conducted research for the government of Zanzibar and been a teacher and farmer at a school in rural Vermont.
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Senior Associate, Macro Advisory Partners
Aaron Bartnick has spent ten years advising senior government and business leaders at the intersection of politics, technology, and international affairs. He is currently a senior associate at Macro Advisory Partners, where he advises organizations on a range of global issues. Before joining MAP, he served in several senior leadership roles for Congressman Seth Moulton, including as digital director on his presidential campaign. He previously founded the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani's Entrepreneurship Initiative and served as a nonprofit executive. Aaron holds master’s degrees in business and public administration from the University of Oxford and Harvard Kennedy School, and an AB with honors from Brown University.
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Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School and an advisor to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Graduate School of Business. A reformed M&A investment banker, she began her impact investing career in 2010 with Unitus Capital in Bangalore and has since worked with start-ups, intermediaries, funds, family offices, foundations, corporates and governments across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Aunnie has designed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of innovative financing instruments including the first social impact bonds in Africa.
Currently, Aunnie lectures on Innovative Finance and Impact Investing at UCT, Oxford and the London School of Economics and consults globally on the intersection of emerging technologies for impact finance and the creation of innovative financing and impact investing strategies for organizations. Aunnie's work has been published throughout the world, including by the Oxford University Press, the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), the World Economic Forum, Impact Investing Policy Collaboration and as a Massive Open Online Course on Coursera titled Innovative Finance.
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Chief Executive Officer,
OneSkyMorgan has had the privilege of spending the last two decades helping NGOs with projects in Asia, Africa and South America raise funds and tell their stories. She is honored to serve as OneSky’s first CEO following our visionary founder and Skoll Awardee, Jenny Bowen, and to share Jenny’s passion for making high quality care and early education available to children living in low-resourced communities in Asia.
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Chief Engagement Officer, DOLIUM
Laura Giadorou Koch, Esq. Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of laws
Laura is a system social entrepreneur, creative changemaker and disruptor on gender parity, an advocate and practitioner on regenerative and inclusive businesses, a passionate about effective tools on conflict resolution, impact investor, a philanthropist in education for innovation on empathy skill, and lawyer (license in NY State and Argentina). For over three decades she has focused on the positive impact on gender parity, microfinance, innovation technologies in social-emotional education.
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Chairman of the Board, Awilhelmsen AS
Chairman of the Board of Awilhelmsen AS and Board member of Royal Caribbean Cruises
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Head of Global Partnerships, British Broadcasting Corporation
I am the Head of Global Partnerships at the BBC World Service.
In this position, I commission special editorial projects for the whole BBC World Service Group in English and all the other 40 Language Services we operate in --and in all media platforms. The projects are always produced in partnership with external organizations such as big international bodies and foundations. In this position I have to handle all aspects of the partnerships: from creating the editorial projects to managing all the teams and budgets required for their implementation. As a result, I am constantly developing new ideas and interacting with different teams of professionals within and outside the BBC and in several parts of the world.
I have developed some editorial projects in partnership with Skoll Foundation and we are very proud of the results.
Previously, I worked as a Journalist and Media Executive in Brazil and in the UK, including some high level positions such as Superintendent of News and Sports at a Brazilian TV Network and as Director General and President of Brazil's public broadcaster.
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Vice President, Citigroup, Inc.
Kyla has been a member of the Citi Inclusive Finance team since 2017, and has a background in small to mid-sized corporate banking with the Citi Commercial group. Citi Inclusive Finance is a specialist team that works across Citi businesses globally to develop solutions that enable the bank, its clients, and partners to expand access to financial services and advance economic progress in underserved market segments.
Citi Inclusive Finance works across Citi to serve more than 150 inclusive businesses and microfinance institutions (MFIs), networks and investors as clients and partners in over 50 countries. The team works with clients engaged in the microfinance, MSME, sustainable agribusiness, affordable housing, clean energy, and education, healthcare, and sanitation sectors to provide financing which spurs economic growth in low income communities across Citi’s global footprint.
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Independent Consultant,
NidanAnurag focuses on using mobile technology/ Social Media to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and he has spent the last 10 years in UK. His interests include social media, social entrepreneurship and being a positive change agent in his society.
A seasoned IT professional who has worked in various IT companies in UK, and currently is the Head of ICT at NIDAN and also responsible for expansion of NIDAN operation in neighboring countries. He holds a Master Degree in Business Administration and Business Information technology and has been involved in several organizations, such as "Youth Leadership Think Tank", Go India Foundation, Electronic Immigration UK, Africania (Solidarity Tourism) Africa and Youth Democratic Front.
He likes to call himself a reformed Management Guy who saw the light before it was too late. After 8 years in the software industry, he decided he wanted to do something a bit more inspiring.
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President & CEO, BoardSource
Anne Wallestad is president and CEO at BoardSource, a globally-recognized nonprofit focused on strengthening nonprofit leadership at the highest level — the board of directors. Acknowledging the critical partnership between boards and executives, and the impact of that partnership on overall organizational success, BoardSource helps nonprofit leaders invest in their leadership partnership by providing research, thought leadership, and practical supports that help transform board structures, dynamics, and perspectives.
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Executive Director, Media Impact Funders
Before joining Media Impact Funders in 2011 as executive director, Vince was program director for Nonprofit Sector Support at the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation based in New York City. Prior to joining Surdna, Stehle worked for 10 years as a reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where he covered a broad range of issues about the nonprofit sector. Stehle has served as chairperson of Philanthropy New York and on the governing boards of VolunteerMatch and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Currently, he serves on the board of directors of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
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Founder & CEO, Audacious Futures
A lover of all things blueberry and/or avocado, Hamoon is the Founder & CEO of Audacious Futures, a global launchpad for bold innovation re-imaging the future at the intersection of technology, humanity, and philosophy. Previously, he was the Director of Strategy and Innovation for the Executive Vice President at a $30B telecom and technology company. Prior to that, Hamoon was the Founding Director of Studio [Y], a leadership and innovation academy at MaRS, Canada’s largest innovation hub. He has also founded a social enterprise which raised $1M in its first year, helped build Deloitte’s consulting business in the Caribbean, and taught as adjunct faculty. Hamoon is a member of the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference, an AdR Fellow at University of Cambridge, a recipient of University of Waterloo’s Alumni Achievement Medal, and a Canada Millennium Scholar. He is passionate about unlocking the potential of people, organizations, and societies to re-imagine and invent the future.
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Executive Director, Tata Center for Technology and Design, MIT
Dr. Angeliki Diane Rigos is the Associate Director for Graduate Programs at MIT Energy Initiative and Program Manager for the DOE Center for Enhanced Nanofluidic Transport.
Dr. Rigos began her career as a Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences Inc. where she worked on defense and energy contracts. She transitioned to an academic position as Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Merrimack College where she taught courses in chemistry, women in science and sustainable energy at the undergraduate level and science and energy policy at the graduate level. Her areas of research have included corrosion studies of supercritical water oxidation reactors used to destroy military toxic waste, Brownian dynamics simulations of order-disorder transitions in sheared colloidal suspensions, modeling of diffusion-controlled reactions and conformational interconversion in protein crystals. For twelve years, she also worked as an energy consultant at Levitan & Associates, Inc. with a focus on power price forecasting, LNG, fuel cells, and renewable technologies including onshore / offshore wind and solar photovoltaics. In 2017, she gave up her tenured position to become the Executive Director of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design.
Dr. Rigos has volunteered in startup accelerators, as an industry mentor in Cleantech Open and an industry champion at MassChallenge. She is currently the President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and has developed and launched a series of leadership workshops for AWIS members.
Dr. Rigos received a B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from Northeastern University and is an alumna of HERS Denver 2015.
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Anant’s experience in health care started when working with Sir Muir Gray on the QIPP Right Care programme in the England Department of Health. This involved helping localities across England to design and implement high value population-based healthcare systems, including building the first national system for stroke prevention for patients with Atrial Fibrillation, which was a joint venture with NHS England and Public Health England.
Anant is working on the value based healthcare theme within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and is also a Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government's Government Outcome (GO) Lab. He is interested in understanding and implementing value based healthcare, particularly focusing on the Triple Value framework:
Allocative value, determined by how the assets are distributed to different sub groups in the population
Technical value, determined by how well resources are used for all the people in need in each sub group
Personal value, determined by how well the decision relates to the values of each individual
Before working in healthcare, Anant was a molecular immunologist studying gene regulation and epigenetics in B and T cells. He completed his undergraduate studies at Brandeis University and his doctoral studies at Yale University.
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CEO and Founder, Inclusion Ventures
Amy Lazarus is the Founder and CEO InclusionVentures. InclusionVentures helps organizations bring out the best in their people so that together they can bring their world-changing ideas to life. Helping organizations make good on their promise of diversity, inclusion, and equity, InclusionVentures decreases bias and enhances inclusion through the workforce, work culture, and work product. Amy is a master facilitator who consults on strategy, unconscious bias, productive workplace culture, employee engagement, Millennial leadership, inclusive interview practices, and implementing theory-to-practice. Select clients include: Deloitte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Salesforce, Twitter, Pandora, Omidyar Network, IndieGogo, Arabella Advisors, Stanford's Design School, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, the Fetzer Institute, the James Irvine Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Kendeda Fund.
Born and raised in a diverse community where it was "cool" to try out for the high school's race relations dialogue group, Amy brings 20 years of experience in the diversity and inclusion field to enable people and organizations to contribute, thrive, and grow. Prior to launching InclusionVentures, Amy served as Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, increasing earned revenue from 6% to 33%, quadrupling the number of organizations served, and founding a neuroscience-based leadership retreat to catalyze an inclusive employer-ready pipeline. Amy holds a bachelor's from Duke University and a Masters in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School. Recipient of numerous awards for diversity and social justice, Amy is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, TEDx speaker, and serves on the boards of Coro National and the Harwood Institute of Public Innovators. Amy lives in San Francisco, practices tai chi, and has sung back up for Aretha Franklin. Amy first presented at Skoll in 2007 on social innovation & economic development.
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Assistant to Jeff Skoll, Jeff Skoll Group
(please use a past bio)
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Director of Programs & Evaluation, Global Partners for Development
Amy Holter is a program strategist and manager with a focus on the integration of community-driven practices and robust evaluation techniques at small-to-medium-sized nonprofits. She is driven to authentically incorporate local communities and government in the work of international NGOs to address systems that perpetuate poverty in East Africa.
Amy is the Director of Programs & Evaluation at Global Partners for Development and has worked for Global Partners since November 2013. Amy holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in International Development from American University. Before starting a career in development, her interest in global service grew during time working and consulting in South Africa and Latin America.
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Founder & CEO, Nasra Public School
Entrepreneur, educationist and philanthropist, Amir Fancy draws upon his experience of the past 25 years in working for and establishing successful business ventures in the United States of America, the Middle East and Pakistan.
His vision is simple - to continue and further build the dual legacy established by his grandparents. His late paternal grandfather, Amirali Fancy, patriarch of the Fancy family (a well respected and successful business family who had migrated from East Africa in order to set up industry, business and philanthropy in the newly born nation of Pakistan) as well as from his maternal grandmother, Nasra Wazir Ali (recipient of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz - third highest civilian meritorious award in recognition for her lifelong service to education in Pakistan.)
An entrepreneurial spirit inherited from both sides of his lineage give him a unique advantage and a deep personal insight towards building organizations and institutions with a core focus to lead for the future. With a strong foothold in building the not-for-profit Education Trust Nasra Schools (ETNS), Amir moved on to found and manage a private venture along the same low cost model, the Nasra Public School (NPS), which was established in 2004 under the Patronage of Nasra Wazir Ali. As the CEO of NPS, he has lead the growth, development and execution of the company’s long term strategy and continues to be responsible for delivering on both NPS’s academic and financial goals in strategic partnership with the Acumen Fund.
Amir is passionate about creating a social impact with a quest to grow, earn, learn and then give back. His various personal commitments to actively serving on several boards is a testimony to his personal mandate.
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Board Member and Director, Barefoot College International
Currently Entrepreneur in Residence for CARE and Director of Climate Justice. Founder of Step Up Advisers and creator of Soli; the worlds first digital learning management system for smallholder farmers. CEO Emiritus of Barefoot College & Barefoot college International. Schwab Foundation SE.
Dedicated Social Innovation and Development Professional with proven track record of innovative approaches to solving "wicked challenges" through design thinking and strong execution rigour. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges across cultures, to best achieve success. Passionate, committed to action and results in the Energy Transition, Agriculture, Climate Change, Women's Empowerment, Social and Economic Justice, focal areas. Pioneer in developing cross sectoral collaboration and systems change approaches to institutionalising development at scale of transformative human centric models. Thought leader, connecter, writer, speaker and mobiliser.
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Country Director, Ukraine, PACT
Ms. Alyona Gerasimova holds a Master’s Degree in Education. She is a Ukrainian citizen with nearly 25 years of experience on international development projects through which she has gained a deep understanding of local and national issues and ways of engaging citizens and strengthening governmental policy and service delivery.
She led and oversaw program implementation in areas such as health and social services, child welfare, orphans and vulnerable children.
Ms. Gerasimova has over ten years of experience engaging and strengthening government at all levels. Much of her work has involved educating government officials and functionaries on specific issues, and providing skills in planning to improve service delivery.
Her work on the program implementation has given her significant experience in the development of policy and legislation; she was honored with the Ukrainian President’s Award in 2008 and by the Ministry of Family, Youth and Sports in 2009 for her significant personal contributions to policy development promoting family welfare and child protection.
Her work experience allowed her to develop strong skills in building and supporting networks of counterparts and professionals, dissemination and roll-out of model programs and best practices, community mobilization, and establishing public-private partnerships.
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Co-founder and Scientific Director, PIVOT Madagascar
Matt Bonds is Co-Founder and Scientific Director of PIVOT, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellow at the Mulago Foundation. He has a PhD in economics and a PhD in (disease) ecology. Since its founding in 2014, PIVOT has worked in partnership with the Madagascar government to establish a district level model health system for over 200,000 people. This model system intervention has driven among of the most rigorously evaluated population-level impacts in the world. With novel data systems at all levels of care (community, primary, and secondary care), PIVOT is pioneering a new science of health system transformation.
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Senior Policy Adviser, Climate Change, The Elders
Trained as an development economist, Allison has worked in the environmental space since 1995. Over the past 20 years, she has focused on the intersection between economic development and environmental protection through a variety of roles in the NGO, government and commercial sectors. Most recently she has worked in the advisory and philanthropic space, heading up the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation and at Zennström Philanthropies, and has provided strategic advice to foundations based in Europe, the US and the Middle East. She is currently, the Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Change at The Elders Foundation and sits on a number of advisory boards and juries at the intersection of environment, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her work focuses on supporting innovative approaches to addressing climate change and entrepreneurship globally. She holds an BSFS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and an Msc from the London School of Economics.
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CEO and Founder, Solar Sister
Katherine Lucey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister, an innovative last-mile distribution solution for clean energy technologies in rural Africa that taps into the power of women entrepreneurs. Under Katherine’s leadership, Solar Sister has brought clean energy access to over 1.8 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by investing in a network of over 5,000 women entrepreneurs.
Katherine is a Schwab Foundation Entrepreneur of the Year, an Ashoka Fellow, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur. She has received recognition and awards for her work with Solar Sister including Clinton Global Initiative, Social Venture Network, C3E, and International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Champion of Change Award. She holds an M.B.A. from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia. Prior to becoming a social entrepreneur, Katherine spent over 20 years as an investment banker on Wall Street providing structured finance solutions to the energy sector.
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Executive Director, Ongoza
Alexei has led Ongoza for the past three and half years. Before coming to Kenya, Alexei spent time in South Africa, Brazil, and Mozambique supporting young entrepreneurs, coordinating the world pilot of a youth community advocacy project and conducting policy research. After several years as a philanthropy strategy consultant, he started his own boutique consulting firm in 2013 that participated in several successful human rights trials, designed and funded a youth-led community TB prevention initiative, and provided policy research for clients like the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated with honors from Stanford University and is a Fulbright Scholar ('13) and GSBI Fellow ('18).
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Deputy Executive Director, The Trafigura Foundation
Céline Yvon is passionate about innovative and creative approaches to social change.
As Deputy Executive Director of the Trafigura Foundation, Céline supports social entrepreneurs around the world in tackling root causes of poverty with a particular focus on creating fair and sustainable jobs, promoting clean and safe value chains, and Climate Action. The Foundation’s portfolio currently encompasses more than 30 partnerships across 30 countries. Céline is also the founder of a boutique consultancy leveraging creative actors as agents for change -- she is supporting the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and has lectured at the Zurich University of the Arts on the matter.
Working first for the Swiss Foreign Ministry, Céline then moved on to advisory and executive positions at private foundations working globally – building up 20 years of experience in international cooperation (e.g. Iraq, Mozambique, Central African Republic or Uzbekistan). Céline was involved in various Boards and associations, among which the UNWomen National Committee for Switzerland.
Céline holds a M.A. in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a certificate on Innovation & Sustainability from the Harvard Business School. She also has a music background and has published fiction and non-fiction.
The Trafigura Foundation
Established in November 2007 as an independent philanthropic entity, the Trafigura Foundation provides long-term funding and expertise to improve socio-economic conditions of vulnerable communities around the world. It joins forces with experienced organisations working on the field to achieve long-lasting impact with programmes tailored on local realities. The Trafigura Foundation is active in all continents with projects in more than 30 countries.
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Trustee, Planet Wheeler Foundation
Mark works with a number of Australian based funding entities to support social entrepreneurs with a problem to solve.
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Journalist, USA Today
International correspondent for USA TODAY.
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Founder, The Clara Fund
Lorene Arey is founder of the Clara Fund, a family foundation focused in two key areas: supporting gender equality and sustainable markets.
Prior to establishing Clara Fund, Lorene was head of Worldwide Communications at Cisco Systems where she was she played a key role in shaping and positioning Cisco’s public image. The accomplishments of Lorene’s team were spotlighted in the Wall Street Journal in 2000 when Cisco was recognized as the company with the best publicity across all industries worldwide for 1999.
Lorene currently serves on the Board of Directors for B Lab, is a founding board member for Healing Cultures, is a Guarantor for MicroCredit Enterprises, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Leadership Studies, Loyola Marymount. She’s a member of Women Moving Millions and The Philanthropy Workshop. She has served on the Board of Directors for Unitus, Women Thrive, Count-Me-In and the Lucile Packard Foundation. Lorene holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with Highest Distinction.
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Senior Program Officer, Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Akruti Desai is a Senior Program Officer on the Philanthropic Partnerships team where she leads the team’s investment services offerings providing opportunities for individual philanthropists to learn, engage, and invest in BMGF issue areas.
Akruti began her career in asset management advising some of the world’s largest public pension funds on their private equity investments. After several years in the field, her desire to find a more meaningful career led her to Mumbai where she briefly worked as a Fellow at Dasra. Most recently, Akruti spent over four years at the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (an initiative of the Clinton Foundation) where she helped create and incubate social businesses and led the initiative's expansion into Asia and Africa.
Akruti holds an MS in Investment Management from Boston University and a dual BA in Economics and English from University of California, Los Angeles.
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Married, mother of two, living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Design; Technical license in Technology and Marketing; MBA in Design and in Project Management.
After a few years working in a corporate environment, working in the areas of Technology, Administration, Events and Sales, I joined Associação Saúde Criança, where I have been for 5 and a half years.
Today I am the Operational Director of the organization, leading the areas of Attendance of families, Funding, Volunteering, Processes and Technology.
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Director, Communications & Marketing, Gradian Health
Adam Lewis is the Director of Communications and Marketing at Gradian Health Systems—a nonprofit social enterprise that works to transform the impact of medical equipment in low-resource hospitals around the world. At Gradian, Adam leads communications for the company’s operations in 25 countries—primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. He also manages marketing for Gradian’s products—technologies that enable safer surgical and critical care—and oversees the organization's advocacy and program development efforts.
Prior to joining Gradian, Adam consulted for global health organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Merck for Mothers and several social enterprises. His work focused on communications strategy and advocacy for maternal health, including speechwriting for heads of state and companies.
Adam is also a freelance researcher and writer covering global health and social justice. His articles have been published in the Washington Post, Guardian, VICE, Huffington Post, Colorlines and several others. Adam received a BA in English from Washington & Lee University.
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Executive Director, The Ihangane Project
Dr. Leonard founded The Ihangane Project in 2008 as a means of inspiring local health system innovation within existing national health systems to ensure lasting improvements in health outcomes. She has twenty years of clinical experience and has served as both the Director of HIV Quality Management and as Tuberculosis Controller for the County of Santa Cruz, California for over ten years. In this work, she has successfully collaborated with Public Health around HIV and TB care, including program design, management and evaluation, and individual patient care. She has extensive experience as an end-user of electronic medical record systems and serves on the Infectious Disease Review Committee for Epic software use in OCHIN Inc's network of public health facilities throughout the United States. Dr. Leonard received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology, with a minor in Health Care, Social Issues from University of California, San Diego. She went on to earn her Medical degree at Albany Medical College. She has been certified as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine for over 10 years.
In Ruli, Rwanda, The Ihangane Project acts as a social innovation laboratory for creating effective and resilient frontline health care delivery systems. Our approach successfully merges the mandates of upstream global health policy makers with community priorities and limitations to ensure lasting positive health outcomes in the homes of families everywhere. Our model provides a mechanism for local innovation within the existing infrastructure and opportunities to provide feedback to policy makers and allow integration of frontline voices into the larger system.
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Victoria is a clean energy and sustainability specialist. She learned the intricacies of environmental science and policy while pursuing a B.S. in Earth Systems at Stanford University. She also completed a Ph.D. at UCLA during which she authored 12 peer-reviewed publications, won a university award for Outstanding Graduate Research, and received competitive grants from National Geographic, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. During her dissertation fieldwork in rural Southeast Asia, Victoria fully recognized the intimate relationship between energy poverty and environmental degradation. As a result, she focused on applying her systems science background toward projects with immediate social and environmental impact. With Angaza, she has the opportunity to demonstrate that smart, scalable technology can greatly benefit both people and planet.
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Chief Integration Officer, The Philanthropy Workshop
Over the past 10 years, Tony Tolentino has worked in the philanthropic, non-profit, and government sectors with a focus in entrepreneurship and economic development. He most recently served as Vice President with the Blackstone Charitable Foundation from 2010-2019, based in New York and San Francisco. He was responsible for the implementation of the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, a $60M+ philanthropic commitment to create programs to support entrepreneurs and startup communities globally. He also developed and launched Blackstone Connects, the firm’s community service and volunteer program.
Prior to joining Blackstone, he worked at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency created to help plan and coordinate the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan after September 11. He managed a portfolio of over $240M in grants to various community and cultural non-profits and city agencies.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University in Urban Studies and Geography and his Master of Science degree from Columbia University in Urban Planning. Appointed by San Francisco Mayor London Breed, he currently serves on the Market & Octavia Community Advisory Committee, and formerly served on the board of Tumml, a non-profit startup hub for urban tech.
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Director, Blackstone Charitable Foundation
Tracy MacKenzie is a Director with the Blackstone Charitable Foundation.
Since joining Blackstone in 2015, Ms. MacKenzie has overseen the Blackstone Connects program, where she runs nonprofit volunteer and board service programs for employees, as well as the Blackstone Innovation Grants program, a signature program within the Foundation's Entrepreneurship Initiative. Prior to her work at Blackstone, she worked in external relations and development at New Classrooms, an education startup, and at ReWork. She began her career as a middle school teacher through Teach for America in Washington D.C.
Ms. MacKenzie holds a BS from Northwestern University and a Master’s in Education from George Mason University. She currently serves on the Young Partners Board at the Public Theater.
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Global Partnerships Specialist, Tostan
Suzanne is leading Tostan's Global Mobilization Team, a community of visionary partners committed to an equitable future through empowering education and community-driven development. This movement strives to overcome fixed mindset and co-design the communities of the future.
Tostan's network of support reflects the interconnected dignified movement sparked by Tostan in West Africa. It advances the story of love, respect and inclusion as the foundation of positive social transformation. The Global Mobilization Team seeks partnership with other community-driven development orgs, strategic investors, and visionaries who will help achieve "Dignity for All" through expert grassroots leadership and radical generosity around the world.
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Head of Corporate Partnerships, Saïd Business School
Note that my job title is Associate Director of Fundraising.
My primary responsibility is to manage and lead fundraising initiatives and operations to secure philanthropic support for the agreed priorities of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford Saïd in 2014, I worked for the charity Oxfam for fourteen years as a Major Gifts Fundraiser. I have a bachelor’s degree in Communication from Bournemouth University, and a master’s degree in Studies in Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Additionally, since 2012 I have been a Trustee for Cecily’s Fund, a charity based in Oxfordshire that supports orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in Zambia.
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Partner, Mission 2020
Tom Rivett-Carnac is an experienced professional in the fields of international diplomacy, energy policy and climate change with more than 15 years experience. Currently he serves as Senior Advisor to the Board of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, a network of more than 7,500 cities, and to the Climate Leaders of the President of the World Bank Group. He is also a Founder and Chief Strategist of Mission 2020 and a Fellow at Stanford Law School
Prior to these positions, Tom was Senior Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Convention, Christiana Figueres. From this position he was responsible for political strategy and for the integration of non state actors into the international negotiation process. Leading an independent strategy team inside the Office of the Executive Secretary, he held this position up to and during the successful negotiations in Lima (COP 20) and Paris (COP 21), which resulted in the historic Paris Accords.
Prior to this role Tom was President and CEO of CDP North America, and entity that utilises the financial markets to drive greater disclosure of climate change related risks and opportunities in the operations of listed companies. Currently more than 7,000 companies report climate information to CDP, which is then reflected back to investors for use in valuation and asset allocation decisions. Tom also held other roles at CDP, including founding the Cities Program and serving as Director for the first global process to support disclosure by cities.
Earlier in his career Tom held roles at Dyson and also spent two years as a Buddhist monk. Tom has held or continues to hold Advisory positions at the Clinton Global Initiative, NY Stock Exchange, Leaders’ Quest and the Global Impact Investment Network.
Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Economics from the University of Bath and an MSc in Systems Science from Plymouth University. He is married with two children and lives in London.
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President and CEO, Tech Museum of Innovation
Tim Ritchie is president and CEO of The Tech Museum of Innovation. Tim joined The Tech in 2011, with a mandate to breathe life into its mission – inspiring the innovator in everyone. Since then, the institution has transformed its exhibits and programs to make them more relevant to schools, families and the community. Tim came to The Tech from McWane Science Center, in Birmingham, Ala, where he was president and CEO. A varied career led him to the science center world. After earning his B.A. from Davidson College and his J.D. from Duke Law School, he worked as a clerk for the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, represented defendants on North Carolina’s death row, practiced law in Birmingham and was president of Louisville Diversified Services, a Kentucky non-profit supporting adults with developmental disabilities. He also has an M.P.A. from Harvard
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CEO, POLLEX GmbH
As the CEO of POLLEX GmbH, Julie spends her time finding impact investments across all asset classes, with a personal passion for direct deals in Africa. Julie studied medicine and health economics at Heidelberg University, with a diploma in tropical medicine from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. She should be finishing her doctorate on malaria vaccine research, which she performed at the Centre de Recherches Médicales in Lambaréné, Gabon. However, the impact investing world grabs most of her attention.
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Julian is interested in designing and implementing systemic strategies for tackling social and environmental challenges - bridging community activism to corporate intrepreneurship to policy change and everything in between. He is particularly motivated by the pressing need to address the widespread and rapid breakdown of the ecosystems and processes that support the abundance and diversity of life on earth.
In his current role at the Skoll Centre he helps to guide and manage educational and research programmes that equip students and changemakers with the hard and soft skills needed to understand the self in relation to complex social and environmental challenges, develop theory of change, and prototype and implement interventions. He is interested in the tension between the use of research and evidence to guide action and rolling up sleeves and getting on with it!
Julian's background is in food systems challenges, as a consultant, at responsible business advisory firm 3Keel, researcher, at the Environmental Change Institute, and social entrepreneur, co-founding successful community-owned social enterprise Cultivate and sustainable food network Good Food Oxford.
Julian has an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences and an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, both from the University of Oxford. Given the opportunity, he would probably choose to be up a tree.
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Head, Co Productions, ITVS
Tamara Gould is a documentary filmmaker, media executive and partnership builder. She is the Head of ITVS' UK office - focusing on co-productions, strategic partnerships and international opportunities. She previously served as Senior Vice President at ITVS based out of the Washington DC office.
Tamara has served as the Production Executive for over 200 documentaries and series. In addition, Tamara has spearheaded ITVS' international work, including the Global Perspectives Project, an international documentary exchange program between U.S. and global filmmakers with major support from philanthropic and government partners and Women and Girls Lead Global, a public-private partnership to bring the power of documentary film to work for women and girls in countries around the world. She has also developed multiple partnerships with journalism outlets, media outlets and NGOs to amplify documentary storytelling.
Among Tamara’s credits include: TED TALKS LIVE, a three part television series in partnership with TED TALKS and PBS, HALF THE SKY, a four hour television special for PBS based on the best selling book, and AMERICAN GRADUATE LATINO, a bilingual television program. In addition, Tamara has developed numerous distribution partnerships for short form content and long form documentaries and is currently serving as production executive for StoryCast, a new digital channel developed in partnership with PBS Digital Studios.
She has directed and produced multiple films including the award winning HELL OF A NATION and NOBEL: VISIONS OF OUR CENTURY. Prior to joining ITVS Tamara served as an Executive Producer in Television at KQED and as Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition.
Tamara holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and Film, where she graduated with honors from Brown University. Tamara also earned a Master’s Degree in Cinema and Social Change from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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WEF, World Education Fund
I have been an active member of SV2 for many years. SV2 is a collaborative NGO where we pool our resources to invest in social ventures.
I have a background in both for-profit technology for 15 years with Sun Microsystems, and founding the US and African-based NGO. I am the CEO of TSF in Tanzania, an educational NGO where I have run the Tanzanian educational arm for the past 10 years. We are focused on infrastructure and IT development in rural Tanzania for promising high school and University
In order to expand our successful educational efforts, we have founded The World Education Fund to continue our work in Africa and to expand to India and Nepal as well as working locally in the Palo Alto Ca Area to offer a broader range of educational visual aids to students.
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Roeland Monasch is the CEO of Aflatoun. Aflatoun International is a Social Franchise delivering Social, Financial & Entrepreneurship Education through a network of 300+ partner organizations. Its mission is to inspire children and young people to socially and economically empower themselves to become agents of change for a more equitable future. Aflatoun’s programmes are implemented in 100+ countries, reaching more than 10 million children and young people in 2019. In addition to the content itself, Aflatoun provides all the technical support necessary to develop, implement, evaluate and scale-up Social, Financial and Entrepreneurship Education.
Until June 2015 Roeland was the UNICEF Representative in Sierra Leone. He was responsible for the UNICEF response during the unprecedented Ebola outbreak in the country. In this capacity he also co-led with the Ministry of Education the reopening of all schools. He also worked as UNICEF Representative in Georgia (2009-2012) focusing on the de-institutionalization of all children living in large orphanages established during the Soviet Union era. He served as UNICEF Representative in Zimbabwe during the Humanitarian Crisis (2008–2009). He joined that Country Office in 2004 as Programme Coordinator.
Previously, Roeland worked in the Strategic Information Unit in UNICEF/HQ on Monitoring the Situation of Children around the World (1998-2004). From 1993-1998 he worked for WHO (Strengthening of Health Systems Department & Department of Emerging and other Communicable Diseases – Switzerland & Lesotho). Before joining the UN he worked in Pakistan, Zambia and Bhutan.
Roeland is a national of the Netherlands, holds a Masters’ degree in Sociology (University of Groningen) and has an additional degree in Development Economics. He has published extensively in the international scientific literature, especially on issues related to Orphans and other Vulnerable Children.
Roeland is married and has a sixteen-year-old daughter.
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Friend, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Member of the Board of Trustee of the
Merck Family Foundation
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Director, RADIUS, Simon Fraser University
Shawn is the founding Director of RADIUS SFU, a 10 year old Canadian social innovation hub operating at the intersection of deep equity, innovation and systems change, and supporting over 1000 community innovators to date. Prior to this he has been part of the founding team of multiple social purpose ventures including an impact focused coworking community (2012) a crowdfunding platform supporting scholarships in the global south (2008), a youth leadership organization running 3000-4000 km cycling tours (2007), and an impact investing seed fund (2010). He is also an active educator and consultant in related fields.
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Managing Director, Portfolio Impact, The Audacious Project
Lucien is the Managing Director for the Portfolio Impact team at the Audacious Project. In
this role, Lucien ensures that Audacious finalists are thoroughly prepared for investment
and that funded projects receive the support they need to achieve their intended impact. Prior to Audacious, Lucien was a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investment team at the Skoll Foundation. There he led Skoll’s investment practice, including the Skoll Awards
for Social Entrepreneurship program. During his tenure, he directly led investments for a
$40M portfolio spanning five continents and multiple sectors, including climate, health,
smallholder agriculture, human rights, education, and employment. Before Skoll, Lucien spent over twelve years at Gap Inc. with the majority of his time at the Gap Foundation leading grantmaking, strategy and signature initiatives. A Bay Area native, Lucien received a B.B.A. in Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
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Vice President, African Leadership Group
Spencer Ton is Vice President of Strategy at the African Leadership Group and leads strategy and product development for the African Leadership University’s accelerated schools (ALX) and education finance company (ALFC).
Spencer is also a Partner of the Vitrum Group, a strategy and investment firm focused on disruptive solutions and technologies that address supply chain innovation, workforce development, and education in emerging markets.
Prior to this role, Spencer was the first Executive Director of the Cordes Foundation, a private, family foundation based in New York & San Francisco. In this role, Spencer was charged with overseeing the foundation’s strategy in building out a more safe and secure world though the advancement of the foundation’s philanthropic, impact investing, and field building work around women and girls.
Spencer is a member of the United Nations Global Accelerator and serves on the board of Ashesi University, Educate!, Design Capital, and the Millennium Campus Network.
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Commissioning Editor: Culture, Faith Programming, and Documentaries, BBC World Service Group
Simon is currently responsible for BBC World Service arts commissions including In The Studio, The Arts Hour on Tour, The Cultural Frontline. He also looks after ad-hoc series, including the forthcoming BBC World Service-Sundance Institute audio documentary collaboration, as well as the faith strand Heart and Soul, other documentaries and digital programming for BBC World Service.
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Managing Director, Co-Impact
Silvia Bastante de Unverhau is a global philanthropy expert and senior advisor, with close to 20 years of experience working across the business, non-profit, international development and government sectors. Silvia works with Co-Impact as Managing Director focusing on partnerships and strategy.
She is the former Global Head of Philanthropy Advisory at UBS where she led an award winning team of specialists helping wealthy families realize their philanthropic aspirations. Her advice encompasses the full spectrum - from developing philanthropic strategies, scaling up successful models, to maximizing impact, and covers further areas such as impact investing. In that role, she created and developed the largest community of billionaire and UHNW philanthropists and social impact investors, the Global Philanthropists Community, with over 400 members worldwide.
Prior to joining UBS, she was an Associate Partner at the global strategy consulting firm Monitor Group where she worked with national leaders, business executives and social entrepreneurs on social change and strategy. At the beginning of her career, Silvia held management roles at the Organization of American States in Washington DC, the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London, and the Office of the President of Peru.
Silvia serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich. She also serves on the Board of the I AM WATER Ocean Conservation Foundation, a global organization fostering ocean conservation through human experience both as a non-profit and social mission business.
Silvia graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a B.Sc Government and Economics and holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. Silvia brings a unique and global perspective to her work. Originally from Lima, Peru, she has visited and worked in over 70 countries across five continents.
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Network General Manager, Unjani Clinic
Sue Hoosain joined the company in 2011 as an HR project Manager, overseeing the group and divisional HR policies and practices as well as the employment equity profiles and compliance.
After having successfully coordinating and assisting with the change of ownership and transfer of employees to the Imperial group, she joined Unjani Clinics NPC as the Network General Manager.
Sue is responsible for the advertising of clinic opportunities available within the Network as well as recruitment and selection of the nurse owners in the Network. She conducts interviews and site visits with possible Clinic Operators as well as provides guidance and support in respect to opening a new Clinic.
Operationally, Sue facilitates the training and development of new Clinic operators and their employees prior to ownership of the Clinic. She also oversees the clinic construction onsite.
Sue ensures that Clinic Operators operate their clinics in compliance with NPC standard, all systems, processes and policies and tools are utilized by Clinics to assist in achieving patient numbers and profit targets, operational excellence and superior customer experiences.
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Director, Impact Investing, Surdna Foundation
Shuaib A. Siddiqui serves as the Director of Impact Investing at the Surdna Foundation where he manages Surdna’s impact investing portfolio, leading an effort to better align the foundation’s investment policies and practices with its mission. He works with the program teams to investigate ways to realize both social and financial returns through program and mission related investing.
Prior to Surdna, Shuaib spent 9 years at Acumen where he most recently was the Director of Global Portfolio. He managed the organization’s global investment process, management of its global investment committee, and helped manage is $100m portfolio. He also directly managed a portfolio of companies and represented Acumen’s investment on several boards. Acumen, an impact investing pioneer, raises charitable donations and investor capital to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.
Prior to Acumen, Shuaib worked for two years in the Quantitative Alpha Generation Group at Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund based in Chicago, where he focused on developing trading strategies utilizing fundamental company data. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch working on The Global Analytic and Thematic Research team. He holds a BA in Economics from New York University.
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Shruthi Vijayakumar is a Global Shapers Scholar on the MBA programme at Said Business School, and passionate about developing leaders and enabling businesses to be more purpose driven and aligned to achieving social & environmental outcomes. Shruthi has explored this interest through various roles over the last decade.
Shruthi was most recently managing a social enterprise accelerator as well as her own leadership coaching and facilitation business in New Zealand. Previously, she was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group advising large corporate and government clients in Australia, and also led operations for Better World Ed, building a global social change curriculum from India.
Shruthi has been recognised as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, a Global Changemaker by the British Council and a Semi Finalist for the Young New Zealander of the Year Award. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics & Economics from the University of Auckland and is a Certified Leadership Coach from Coach Masters Academy. Shruthi also blogs for the Huffington Post, and enjoys playing music, hiking, photography, and travel.
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Sherrie is ID’s Director of Development and External Relations, managing fundraising, donor relations and external relations for the organization.
Sherrie has broad experience in the fields of media, strategic fundraising and non-profit management. Prior to joining ID, Sherrie was Associate Director of Development at the Stephen Gaynor School, a private, non-profit, independent school in Manhattan.
Sherrie brings more than eight years of fundraising experience working with non-profit institutions in the field of education, health and social advocacy. Prior to working in the field of education, Sherrie served as a consultant with CCS, a fundraising consulting firm that manages fundraising campaigns for non-profits. During her time at CCS, Sherrie managed several capital campaigns, including playing an integral role in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s $200 million dollar capital campaign.
Before embarking on a career in fundraising, Sherrie worked in the media sector as a reporter and producer, covering international business, economics and law. Sherrie worked for print, digital and television news outlets as a reporter and producer covering notable events such as the Mexican Presidential elections in 2000 and the trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006. Prior to working in the media, Sherrie worked for a non-governmental organization that managed election monitoring initiatives in Africa and Eastern Europe, particularly in post-conflict situations.
Sherrie earned her Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Political Affairs and Bachelor’s Degree from George Washington University. She also serves on the US Board of Peace Direct, an international non-profit dedicated to local peace-building initiatives.
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Founder, The globalislocal Fund
Liz is Founder of The globalislocal Fund, an educational and funding vehicle investing in solutions to poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. globalislocal drives educated, aggregated capital to global development issues by making high-impact global investing accessible and relevant to philanthropists, social investors and foundations.
Ultimately, globalislocal’s goal is to increase dramatically the number of investors and volume of investments actively engaging these issues. To this end, globalislocal is exploring expanding its proven model through strategic partnerships in the United States and abroad.
Liz has served as advisor, partner and board member in the fields of economic development, education, and leadership. She is alumna of The Philanthropy Workshop, and a member of The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Liz has received awards for pioneering work both with the Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development and The globalislocal Fund.
In her prior life, Liz was an investment banker. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in International Relations from UCLA. Liz has lived in Mexico and Brazil, where she studied economics and international development at Universidad de Sao Paulo.
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Nazia manages a range of initiatives at the Skoll Centre, aimed at equipping high potential individuals with skills to help them create positive impact. Her mission is to ensure that graduate students who are committed to solving social or environmental problems are equipped to do so through exposure to pioneering thinking on contemporary social and environmental themes. Personal interests include working on migrant issues around the world.
Prior to joining Skoll, she worked in social entrepreneurship, enterprise development and strategic partnerships. Nazia created a range of immersive learning programmes for intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs and worked with Founders to scale and grow high potential social impact organisations. She was involved in developing an ecosystem of social enterprise support with key stakeholders and institutions.
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Shaun’s first career was in the financial markets. He worked for Goldman Sachs in London and later
managed his own hedge fund in San Francisco. Noticing there was more to life than government bonds,
Shaun was drawn to the non‐profit sector. One year led to two years led to ten. He worked with street
children in India and for fistula patients in Africa. And, at mothers2mothers, he led the launch and
scaleup across Southern and East Africa of a program preventing mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV.
Shaun then joined Living Goods as Kenya Country Director. He was quickly promoted to COO where he
oversaw all operations and partnerships. After a one‐year break, Shaun returned in 2016 as President of
Living Goods. Shaun received a B.A. in Economics from Cambridge University.
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Co-Founder, President, NewGlobe Education
Dr. Shannon May is the President and Co-Founder of NewGlobe, the largest supporter of technology-enabled government schools across Africa. NewGlobe supports national and state governments and communities by creating powerful technology-enabled education systems. NewGlobe has unequaled experience in transforming educational outcomes at speed and at scale, delivering increased learning gains in often marginalized and under-served communities. Core to NewGlobe’s approach is a holistic approach to school and school system support, providing integrated teacher support, school management practices, capacity building for ministerial leadership, and scientifically-tested digital and print learning materials. Custom software applications and digital publishing enable digital transparency for ministerial leaders, empowering data-driven decision making at both the school and national level. NewGlobe’s government and community programs serve 1.4 million children each school day in six countries.
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Skoll World Forum Coordinator, Skoll Foundation
Shaanika supports Skoll World Forum planning and production including delegate communications, registration operations, and experience design.
Previously, Shaanika has worked at Singularity University, Net Impact, and other organizations at the intersection of business, social impact, and civic engagement, holding roles in project management, program operations, and business development. A Bay Area native, she grew up in Sunnyvale and graduated from Santa Clara University with degrees in Political Science and International Business.
She's passionate about utilizing technology as a force for sustainability, political representation for underrepresented groups, Harry Potter, and binge-watching TV.
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Vice President & Executive Director, Public Programs, Aspen Institute
I have worked at the Aspen Institute for 18+ years, largely producing forums, round table discussions and large scale conferences (namely, Aspen Ideas Festival). My professional background includes marketing, strategic planning, and policy research; and a fun part of the work I do includes networking people together.
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Global Portfolio Manager, Peery Foundation
As Portfolio Manager, Lindsey is responsible for guiding the International Grantmaking strategy at Peery Foundation. Day to day, she manages relationships with global and regional, current and prospective grantees, including conducting due diligence, reporting to the Board of Directors, and seeking out opportunities for Peery Foundation to build the leadership and organizational capacity of grantee partners. Her previous experience includes research and evaluation in community-based healthcare delivery in Salt Lake City and San Francisco.
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Founder, TEDx
Sartaj is an entrepreneur with an unreasonable dream to positively impact 1 billion human lives within his lifetime. He enables individuals and organizations all over the world to create exponential social and economic impact. Sartaj believes the mix of systems thinking, emerging technologies and conscious capitalism can resolve our greatest challenges. He has traveled and worked in more than 50 countries so far and now focuses on delivering results that can scale.
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Managing Director, World We Want Foundation, The
Kirsten began her career with Procter & Gamble where she held numerous brand management positions. Wanting to get involved in International Development and poverty alleviation, she went on to study International Affairs at The Fletcher School in Boston and received her Master’s in 2009. Kirsten is a member of the 3W and Ture Invest boards in Stockholm, a director for the T3 Recycling board in Kenya and ENLA Haiti, as well as a board observer for OMC Power in India. Kirsten has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the University of San Diego.
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Global Partnerships Program Manager, Skoll Foundation
Kimberly serves as the Global Partnerships Program Manager, supporting the development and deployment of partnerships that expand and extend the Skoll Foundation mission. She provides intelligence building and analysis, internal project management, and relationship stewardship across the global partnerships team, and helps ensure Skoll develops and maintains best practices in cultivating mutually beneficial strategic relationships.
Kimberly has spent most of her career working in the public sector. In 2010 Kimberly spent 2 months in South Africa as a volunteer participating in community development projects across Johannesburg. This experience left her with a conviction to do whatever she could to help alleviate suffering and contribute to positive change. Over the years she has helped run a grantmaking organization that provided support to women’s and children’s causes, project managed socially focused projects for both non-profit and for-profit businesses, and, most recently, worked in corporate philanthropy at the Citi Foundation in New York. Her first job was with Aspen Film a non-profit that hosts an annual independent film festival, amongst other programming, that features and connects storytellers from around the world.
In her free time Kimberly loves to explore, whether it be checking out a new neighborhood in the Bay Area or travelling across the world. Kimberly has visited 20 countries internationally and 30 states domestically. She only wishes that she could bring her dog Jax with her wherever she goes.
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Executive Director, New Growth Markets, GE Business Innovations, GE
Robert Wells
Executive Director, New Growth Markets, GE Business Innovations
Robert leads the GE New Growth Markets team exploring key opportunities to develop shared value partnerships with governments, funding agencies, the private sector, NGO’s and philanthropies to bring growth to emerging markets.
Prior to joining GE, Robert served with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 2009 to 2012 as head of the Biotechnology Unit in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. There he covered a broad range of policy-related topics in various emerging fields, such as innovation in human health and biomedicine, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, biosecurity, and the development of knowledge networks and markets using intellectual property.
From 2001 to 2007, Robert was Vice President for Corporate Affairs and International Markets with Affymetrix, Inc. Previously he was Vice President for International Government Relations with Citigroup, based in Washington, DC.
Robert did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and holds a J.D. degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law. He resides in Boston with his wife and daughter.
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Co-Founder and Managing Director, XChange
Rico is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of xchange, an impact-first social enterprise incubator in the Philippines, investing in and mentoring high potential early-stage social enterprises, to help them become financially sustainable and achieve scale of impact. He likewise serves as the chairperson of the board of Ashoka Philippines. Through both these roles, he hopes to bring about the growth of a robust ecosystem for social innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.
Rico began his career as a teacher of philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University, before becoming an investment analyst at Asia Equity, the first foreign-owned investment house in the Philippines. In 1997 he moved to Hong Kong to work at JP Morgan and subsequently at Cazenove where he supervised a team of analysts covering Asian financial institutions. In 2003, Rico returned to the Philippines where he, together with his wife and their partners, ran Information Gateway, a pioneering mobile content company that grew to become one of the largest players in the space. Here he gained much practical experience around running and scaling an enterprise under emerging market conditions. In 2009 Rico began to focus his efforts on building the social enterprise sector in the Philippines. He got his early exposure to the sector as the initiator of the Ateneo Center for Social Entrepreneurship where he served as director until his departure in 2011. He founded xchange with his wife that same year. Today, supported by a small team of professionals and based on insights and challenges from their active engagement with the enterprises in the portfolio, they continue to collaborate on initiatives and experiments to address the still substantial gaps in the start-up ecosystem for social enterprises.
Rico is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University.
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Chief Executive, The British Asian Trust
Richard Hawkes is Chief Executive of the British Asian Trust, which was founded by HRH The Prince of Wales to drive positive change across South Asia. He has held a range of senior roles in the UK and international not-for-profit sector for more than 25 years, including working for the United Nations and being Chair of BOND (the umbrella body for UK international NGOs) for five years. He is a Trustee of UNICEF UK, a member of the Advisory Board of the World Humanitarian Forum and of the UK’s Charity Bank. He is Chair of international NGO Motivation and a member of the judging panel for the UK Charity Awards.
In addition to leading various organisations, Richard has a vast experience of social finance. As CEO of Scope he was responsible for launching the first social investment bond in the UK, a £20m bond that was listed on the Luxembourg Stock Market. Scope was the only UK charity involved in the G8 summit on social investment, as well as being listed on the Social Stock Exchange. Under his leadership the British Asian Trust has launched the world’s largest education Development Impact Bond and is currently developing a number of other innovative products across South Asia.
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Executive Director, David and Anita Keller Foundation
As the Executive Director of the David & Anita Keller Foundation, Kim Keller manages a global portfolio of investments in global health, human rights policy and advocacy, and environmental justice. She serves on the boards of Directors of Accountability Counsel, New Media Advocacy Project, UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center, and the National Asia Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). She previously served on the board of Last Mile Health and Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Kim holds degrees from Wellesley College, London School of Economics, and Harvard Kennedy School.
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VP of Business Development and Partnerships, Dharma Platform, Inc.
As both a student (Oxford SBS MBA, Skoll Centre Associate Fellow, '11) and practitioner of social entrepreneurship (Founder, CEO of EduCrate and VP of BD and Partnerships at Dharma) I've been fortunate enough to experience first-hand a wide range of social impact organizations in a variety of roles, stages, and sectors. I look forward to helping social entrepreneurs at every phase of their journey be even more impactful, from compelling storytelling to a sound data practice.
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Director of Programs, GLG Social Impact, Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.
Rachel Wald is a strategic advisor and capacity builder. Currently, she leads GLG’s Social Impact Fellowship. Prior to joining GLG, Rachel was the Metrics Manager at Grassroots Business Fund in Washington D.C., where she focused on collecting and analyzing social impact data. She has also developed impact metrics strategies and strategic plans for various organizations across the sector. Rachel earned a Masters in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin and holds a bachelors degree from Duke University. Before pursuing her graduate degree, Rachel was on the founding team of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that empowers post-9/11 veterans to transform their lives by serving others and directly impacting their communities.
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Consultant, Resources Legacy Fund
Ruth Norris is a consultant whose practice includes executive coaching, communications, and conservation leadership. Over more than three decades, she has worked as a journalist, manager of organizational capacity building and training programs, consultant to bilateral and multilateral aid agencies supporting conservation projects and national environmental endowments, and program officer at the Packard and Skoll foundations. She has facilitated planning processes, organizational and network development projects, and board strengthening initiatives. She is a former board chair of the Institute for Conservation Leadership and serves on the Kinship Conservation Fellows’ faculty and Advisory Council. She speaks English and Spanish and lives in Santa Clara, California.
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HR Director, Skoll Foundation
Judy Parkman is responsible for managing the foundation’s employment life-cycle processes with the purpose of recruiting and engaging people who live our values and who collectively will achieve our mission. She plays a lead role in the foundation’s imperative to be a high-performing sustainable organization.
Judy has held a variety of HR positions, which have cut across all of the disciplines of HR. Most recently she was a senior HR leader at HP where she was the business partner for several large global organizations. Before working at HP, Judy worked for Octel Corp. and also ran her own consulting business.
She holds a BA in Psychology and an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
In her words, “It’s all about the people.”
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President (India), Villgro Innovations Foundation
PR Ganapathy is the President of Villgro, a well-known funder and incubator of social enterprises, and a co-founder of the Menterra Social Impact Fund. He is also the co-founder of Haqdarshak, a social enterprise.
Prior to moving to the development sector in 2011, he worked at large Indian corporations such as the Tata Group and Infosys, and co-founded a US - head-quartered venture-funded start-up.
He has an MBA from IIMA and Honors degree in Mathematics from Hindu College.
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Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - Finance Coordinator
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Author, Individual
Kyle Westaway is the author of Profit & Purpose, Managing Partner at Westaway - an innovative Brooklyn law firm that counsels social entrepreneurs - and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches a course on social entrepreneurship. Every Saturday morning he sends out the Weekend Briefing - an email on the impact of innovation on society. Kyle serves on the board of the Closed Loop Foundation and is a mentor at Harvard's I-Lab.
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Founder & CEO, Villgro Innovations Foundation
Mr. Basil is Founder and CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation. Over the last decade, Mr. Basil has incubated over 130 innovative enterprises, creating over 4000 jobs, touching around 5 million lives in villages across India.
Mr. Basil also co-founded Menterra Venture Advisors, a seed stage, impact fund that makes venture investments in for-profit, impactful enterprises.
Apart from the core of his mission, which is incubating early stage, innovative businesses, Paul also has contributed to building the social enterprise eco-system in India. Unconvention, India’s leading conference on innovation and social entrepreneurship is organized in 15 cities across India, a Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT-Madras that focuses on research and education, the ANDE India Chapter (Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs) a network of intermediaries that support small and growing businesses etc., are some of his achievements in building the eco-system in India.
Mr. Basil was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for his outstanding social entrepreneurship in setting up Villgro. He has also been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award and the Star Entrepreneur Award
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Executive Editor, Huffington Post
Jo Confino is executive editor, Impact & Innovation and Editorial Director of What’s Working, at the HuffPost.
He develops long-term editorial projects that are based on social, environmental and economic justice and is a member of the six-strong senior leadership team.
He is currently running several major editorial projects ranging from This New World, which focuses on systems change and the transformation of capitalism, to Project Zero, which is highlighting the 1.5 billion poorest people who suffer from neglected tropical diseases. I
Jo has chaired events and conferences all over the world for the past 15 years ranging from 1500 people down to much more intimate events.
Before joining HuffPost, he was an executive editor of the Guardian and chairman and editorial director of the Guardian Sustainable Business website. During his 23 years at the Guardian, he set up and managed a unique multi-stakeholder development project in the Ugandan village of Katine, and helped create the Guardian global development website.
Jo also created and managed the sustainability vision and strategy for the Guardian and its parent company Guardian Media Group.
He has completed an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice at the University of Bath and is also a qualified executive coach and a trained facilitator. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Jo is an associate of Leaders’ Quest, a social enterprise that works with leaders to create a more equitable and sustainable world, and is on the faculty of the Singularity University.
He is an advisory board member of Parallax Press, a nonprofit publisher, founded and inspired by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, that publishes books on mindfulness in daily life and is a trustee of Theatre for a Change, whose purpose is the empowerment of women and girls, particularly in their sexual and reproductive health.
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Manager, Community Enterprise Program, World Wildlife Fund US
Noah Walker leads WWF's Nature Pays, a global initiative focused on supporting community enterprises in critical ecosystems through provision of investment, market links, and technical assistance. Noah is on secondment at WWF from his role as a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group where he is a member of the social impact and consumer practices.
Noah's experience prior to BCG includes impact investing with DBL Partners, a venture capital firm in San Francisco; energy and environmental policy work for former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in Washington, D.C.; project work for the Primus Power, the Nature Conservancy and Sun Edison; and managerial roles on several political campaigns.
Noah played professional baseball in the first year and only year of the Israeli Baseball League. He holds a MBA and a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University and a BA from Middlebury College.
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Managing Director, Project X-ITE, University of Denver
Nina Sharma has dedicated her career empowering others. She is currently the Managing Director of Project X-ITE, the innovation, tech, and entrepreneurship initiative at the University of Denver, where she also a guest lecturer and is working toward her Executive MBA. At Project X-ITE, she launched the Colorado Solutions Summit to accelerate social entrepreneurs working on the SDGs, as well as Pioneering Summer, an accelerator for student-led ventures.
In 2016, Nina co-founded The Whole Truth Booth, a tech company that aims to bridge social, political, and cultural divides through a mobile storytelling platform. In 2017, she co-founded Kahani, a software company that enables companies and causes to collect user generated video content from their constituents. In 2018, she launched The Sh*thole Project, an online platform to highlight the beauty and boost the reputation of countries in the developing world.
Nina spent 15 years working in institutional fundraising and partnership development, at the New York Public Library, Carnegie Hall, Yale University, and the Ad Council. After getting her MPA from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, she worked for Millennium Villages Project. In 2012, moved to Denver where she worked for various nonprofits including First Descents and Global Education Fund, launched her own consultancy, and worked for a boutique reputational consulting firm building collaborative partnerships between companies and international nonprofits.
Nina is a co-founder of +Acumen, serves on the board of directors of Global Dental Relief, and is on the Hamilton College Alumni Council. She was nominated for the Denver Business Journal 40 under 40 in 2018, and is an active alumni of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation. She was selected as a mentor for the German Marshall Fund's Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative, and is an acceleration partner of the United Nations Solutions Summit.
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Co-founder and Executive Director, Campaign Bootcamp
Johnny is the co-founder and Executive Director of Campaign Bootcamp a charity dedicated to building a world in which people impacted by injustice have the tools and skills they need to end it.
The charity works across the UK and Germany supporting people to run effective campaigns that challenge injustice. The trainings are carefully designed to give activists the skills, networks, resilience and confidence to run effective campaigns in the modern era.
Before Campaign Bootcamp he was the founding campaigner at 38 Degrees, Director of Campaign Innovation at Change.org and Senior Campaigns Advisor at SumofUs.org.
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Professor of Business, Minerva
Dr. Nikki Eberhardt's life goal is to empower people with audacious solutions in order to tackle the globe’s most intractable challenges. She seeks to disrupt at the intersection of technology and scalable social impact. She is Assistant Professor of Business at Minerva—teaching startup finance, marketing and global business. She has an M.A. in International Development from Brigham Young University, an M.B.A. from Said Business School at Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Global Sociology from the University of Utah.
Eberhardt currently serves on Delta’s Global Talent Team to craft leadership development and mentor culture strategies. She is EVP Impact eThree + Director Partnerships at ZSchool, a digital platform promoting generational change. She also works with Global Citizen—a movement harnessing voices of global citizens, influencers, world leaders, and corporations to fundraise and advocate for the end of extreme poverty.
Accomplishments
Presenter TEDx Oxford
Emcee and host for NASA Space Center Cross Industry Innovation Summit, Vienna Pioneers Technology Summit, and Grenada Ecosystems 2030
Moderator and convener for San Francisco Professional Business Women of California Conference, Oxford Said Business School Capstone, Davos World Economic Forum event, and the Skoll World Forum on "Blockchain, AI, Impact Investing”
Event producer Global Citizen, Sundance Film Festival, Nelson Mandela Foundation peace film promotion, and the Vatican social entrepreneurship summit
Curator and editor for the “Responsible Business” Progress Daily
Co-Founder and President of United Nations Women Chapter
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Member, Board of Directors, ReSurge
Kathryn currently serves on three non-profit boards: ReSurge International, which provides reconstructive surgery for the poor in Africa, Asia and South America; Downtown College Prep (DCP), which is a 4-school charter group serving low income Latinos who are first generation to college; and Creating Hope International, which serves women and girls in Afghanistan. She has served as a board member on several for-profit companies, including Trident and Tab Inc., as well as on boards for several non-profit companies in the education space, including ALearn and RAFT. In her board capacity, she helped to build effective, diverse boards with expertise, candor, and collaborative problem-solving capabilities. She has led boards on Nominating and Governance issues, from strategic guidance to board assessment to board composition and recruitment.
She also founded and was CEO of Alearn, a non-profit which provided education services to underserved students to get them on the path to college, and has served as a mentor to first generation students. Kathryn has over 30 years of executive management and consulting experience in high tech companies, with an excellent track record in launching new products, new companies, and new channels.
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Nikhil Dugal works as a Consultant at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship where he has been instrumental in building the Systems Change Observatory, a long-term empirical study of systems change efforts in the social impact space, including pathways, challenges and solutions.
Previously, Nikhil was the co-founder of Aadhan Infrastructure, a company engaging in eco-friendly construction practices (www.aadhan.org). Aadhan engaged in building modular container infrastructure for development sector organizations operating in rural and urban areas in northern India.
He also has previous experience working in financial inclusion and impact evaluation at IFMR LEAD in India. As a Policy Outreach associate, he helped with the clear communication of complex research outcomes to policymakers, bankers and other stakeholders. He was also the Principal Investigator for a study on the graduation of long-term microfinance clients to formal banking in Tamil Nadu.
Nikhil's interests include applied systems thinking, public speaking and facilitation. He is also a Skoll scholar, having completed his MBA from the Saïd Business School at Oxford University in 2018.
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Founder, BRAVA Investments
Nathalie Molina Niño, CEO, BRAVA Investments
Nathalie Molina Niño is the CEO and founder of BRAVA Investments, which targets high-growth, scalable businesses that can make a catalytic economic impact on women. A technologist and coder by training, she’s a consummate entrepreneur, and a storyteller at heart, passionate about gender parity.
Prior to launching BRAVA, as interim CEO of SELF MADE, Nathalie led the launch of SELF MADE, the company, mobile app, learning platform and NY Times Best Selling book by Telemundo's former Entertainment president, Nely Galan. In 2015, Nathalie stepped in as interim Chief Revenue Officer of PowerToFly, a startup aimed at closing the gender gap in tech. In 2012, while on sabbatical at Columbia University, Molina Niño co-founded Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership studies of Barnard College, with the mission of leveling the playing field for women entrepreneurs. Nathalie launched her first tech startup at the age of 20.
Molina Niño has advised industry leaders in both the for- and non-profit sector ranging from multinationals (Disney, Microsoft, MTV, The Discovery Channel, Mattel), early stage startups (Cranium, Onvia) and non-profits (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Affairs Council, Seattle International Film Festival, Athena). She writes and is quoted widely in the media, from best selling books like Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Workweek to diverse media outlets ranging from Bitch Magazine to Forbes, Time Inc and CNN Money.
Keith Ferrazzi called her a “super-connector” in his updated best-selling classic, Never Eat Alone. Nathalie is the “fuel core of a network that makes it easy for her to tap the resources to get stuff done, and done quickly.”
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CEO & Founder, BOMA Project
Kathleen Colson is a former refugee worker and safari guide who wanted to a see a long-term solution to drought and famine in the drylands of Africa. After decades of traveling and working in Africa, Kathleen invested two years of extended visits to northern Kenya to understand the unique challenges facing women and children.
Driven by a desire to disrupt the status quo—the repeated cycles of drought, chronic hunger, dependence on humanitarian aid, and extreme poverty—Kathleen’s quest has been to develop a holistic, evidence based approach to ending extreme poverty in the arid lands of Africa (40% of the African continent). The result is BOMA’s Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP). REAP is an innovative, evidence-based, gender-focused, data-driven poverty graduation program that invests in and empowers women to break the cycle of extreme poverty and build resilient households.
Under Kathleen’s leadership, BOMA has reached over 94,000 women and children. BOMA is now scaling their graduation model through government adoption (Kenya) and partnerships with humanitarian organizations with a goal of reaching 1 million women and children by 2022. Ultimately, Kathleen’s vision is to see an end to extreme poverty for women and children in the drylands of Africa in her lifetime.
Kathleen is the recipient of the Sol Feinstone Humanitarian Award and Cordes and Rainer Arnhold Fellowships. BOMA has received a Lighthouse Activity Award by the United Nations Climate Change Conference, one of six organizations recognized globally for their work with women impacted by climate change, and a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Award. Kathleen is also a regular panelist and speaker at conferences and events, including SEEP, the World Bank, the Foreign Policy Association and the London School of Economics.
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CEO, CBM UK, CBM Global
Kirsty Smith is CEO of CBM UK, part of the disability and development federation CBM Global, which aims to improve the quality of life of the world’s poorest people with, or at risk of, disabilities. CBM Global does this through influencing development and humanitarian interventions to be more inclusive, and through working with local diseases and disabled people’s organisations on prevention and treatment of diseases which can lead to impairment, improving access to education and rehabilitation services, and advocating for the rights of people with disabilities to full inclusion in all aspects of life. CBM UK employs 40 staff, has a turnover of over £8m, and is based in Cambridge, UK.
Kirsty has over 25 years of experience in the development sector and joined CBM in Sept 2012 after 12 years as CEO of MRDF, an organisational development catalyst agency based in London. Kirsty has played a key role in the formation of the new federal structure of CBM Global and has led change processes in the governance, structure and business model of CBM UK, MRDF and as Chair of the International CBM Federation.
Kirsty is an expert in disability inclusion and participatory community development techniques that encourage people who have no voice, to find a voice. She has worked with many mainstream agencies, management consultancies, government stakeholders and civil society organisations to build their capacity in all areas, acting as a catalyst to strengthen their systems and structures in order to increase their impact. This has included the development of the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards, aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian response, and the Humanitarian Hands On Tool, a mobile app providing technical guidance on how to make relief services inclusive. As International Development Studies module co-ordinator on the MA Theatre for development course at Southampton University, she taught on a range of areas including gender, monitoring and evaluation, and social accountability.
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CEO, World Central Kitchen
A seasoned entrepreneur and gifted storyteller, Nate knows what it takes to turn words into action and ideas into impact. Thanks to his extensive experience in the fields of technology, filmmaking and activism, he understands the power of a well-crafted story to bring people together and change the world.
Nate serves as CEO of World Central Kitchen, where he works hand-in-hand with the non-profit’s founder, world renowned activist and humanitarian Chef José Andrés. Nate oversees all WCK operations, leading the organization’s emergency and disaster relief efforts, as well its long-term impact projects. He formally joined WCK after helping to create and lead the #ChefsForPuertoRico effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria that served nearly 4 million meals to people in need.
Prior to taking on the role of CEO at World Central Kitchen, Nate produced the HBO Documentary film "Baltimore Rising.” His career as a filmmaker has led him to produce, direct, shoot and edit projects in Somalia, Haiti, Colombia, Panama, Uganda, Kenya, Iraq, and Liberia. He has worked with a myriad of prestigious clients including UN Women, USAID, UNDP and the World Bank, along with smaller NGOs and startups.
In 2013, Nate was tapped by former president Bill Clinton to travel throughout Africa and document the president’s 8-country humanitarian tour. In 2015 he conceived and directed the documentary “Undiscovered Haiti” with chef José Andrés, a project that was co-produced with National Geographic and PBS.
Nate spent his early career as an entrepreneur in the technology and software industries. Before the age of 27, he had founded/co-founded three tech-based companies, including online publisher BetaNews, and digital B2B service provider Localist.com. Nate has also worked extensively with TED, curating and organizing events and conferences in locations including Doha and Washington, DC.
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Founder/CEO, Needslist
Natasha Freidus, Founder, is a social entrepreneur with fifteen years of experience applying human centered design for social good and a long-standing commitment to refugee and migration related issues. She is the founder and CEO of NeedsList, the world's first marketplace for communities in crisis. Natasha spent the majority of her career implementing participatory storytelling methodologies for social change organizations. In the autumn of 2015, her concern about the refugee crisis propelled Natasha to co-found a local solidarity effort near her home Southwest France, from which her vision for NeedsList emerged. In early 2016, Natasha to co-founded Prosper Community, a global consortium of partners and individuals who have developed the largest, publicly available database of migrant related social startups in Europe. Natasha also speaks regularly about the role of tech in the refugee crisis and blogs about refugee issues for the Huffington Post. Prior to NeedsList, as founder of Creative Narrations, Natasha consulted and developed training modules for a wide client base including HP’s Office of Global Social Innovation, the University of Arizona, and a range of federally funded coalitions for diabetes and obesity prevention. She is the founder of Mapping Voices for Equity, a Center for Disease Control’s “Community Champion. Natasha has a Master’s degree in Urban Studies from M.I.T. and a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University.
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Natalie has seven years of experience in finance, hedge fund investing, and impact investing across Canada, Hong Kong, Uganda and Kenya. She is currently an MBA candidate at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, where she leads the Social Impact Oxford Business Network.
Previous to Oxford, Natalie served as Engineers Without Borders Canada's Venture Fund's Investment Officer, investing seed stage capital into pioneering, scalable ventures serving underserved communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Her team's work in de-risking and proving out impact investing at the untested early stage allowed the fund to catalyse nearly 12 times its investments from third-party investors, and led to the fund being recognised as Impact Investor of the Year by MaRS Centre for Impact Investing.
Natalie holds a BA with Honours in Economics from McGill University, and is a CFA Charterholder.
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Founder & Executive Director, Accountability Counsel
Natalie Bridgeman Fields is the Executive Director of Accountability Counsel. She leads the organization of community-driven lawyers engaged in direct case support, advocates working at the systems level to shift policy, and researchers working to improve transparency and tools to amplify the voices of people around the world to defend their human rights and environment. Natalie has dedicated her career to advocating alongside people harmed by internationally financed projects.
Natalie founded the organization in 2009 with early support from Echoing Green and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. Before that, she was a consultant on accountability to two development banks, had a solo human rights and environmental law practice, and was a litigator at a major law firm. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and three kids.
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As a Principal on the Skoll Foundation's Portfolio & Investments Team, Jess seeks out innovative solutions for Skoll engagement and investment. In particular, she explores solutions that will help advance healthier information ecosystems and reduce the harms of disinformation across Skoll’s strategic priority areas.
Previously, Jess led Skoll’s convening programming, including the Skoll World Forum, Skoll’s flagship annual event that spotlights innovations and sparks collaborations in social and environmental impact. Additionally, Jess co-curated Rethinking Possible, a podcast produced in partnership with Aspen Ideas. She also helped launch the Skoll World Forum Fellowship; the TEDxSkoll Conversations series; Skoll Week; and We the Future.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Jess worked at Net Impact, the World Affairs Council, and Council on Foreign Relations, and the California Appellate Project.
Jess earned a BA in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She has studied abroad in San Jose, Costa Rica and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Social Venture Practitioner in Residence, Center for Social Innovation,
myAgroNaomi Baer is as an advisor to social impact organizations, specializing in building organizational effectiveness for scale. She currently serves as a Practitioner in Residence at the Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Naomi is active as a founding board member of myAgro, an award-winning West Africa-based social enterprise working to move 1 million smallholder farmers out of poverty by 2025.
As an independent advisor, Naomi develops solutions for social impact organizations at pivotal stages of growth. With over a decade of hands-on experience in social sector executive roles, Naomi partners with organizations to identify key barriers to growth and impact at scale, sequence internal investments, and equip leadership teams with tools to advance to the next stage.
An early employee and member of the executive team at Kiva, Naomi led Kiva’s Global Partner Operations, building capacity for rapid growth and scale-up across 70 countries, over 180 Field Partners, and $120M of annual lending. She brings a global perspective to her work with social ventures, drawing from her experience managing teams on 5 continents and building programs in partnership with microfinance institutions and social enterprises in over 70 countries worldwide.
Naomi has also served as Chief Operating Officer at Net Impact, where she led organizational effectiveness and program strategy, mobilizing a global network of over 80,000 students and professionals to drive transformational social and environmental change.
Naomi currently lives in Oakland, California, and holds a B.A. from Brown University.
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CEO and Founder, 1847 Philanthropic
Rashida Petersen is the CEO and Founder of 1847 Philanthropic. Ms. Petersen’s career has been built on expertise gained from leading major fundraising and development initiatives in Africa as well as expanding U.S. trade and investment in developing countries. Working within the development departments of international nonprofits, she has been responsible for annual funding goals of over $16 million dollars in institutional funding and over $1.3 million dollars cumulative in unrestricted sponsorship dollars. In 2022, Ms. Petersen raised over $25 million dollars for clients in the United States.
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Unknown, Individual
I have served on numerous boards in a development position. The boards include Psoraisis Research Foundation, Parkinson's Research Institute, Eastfield Ming Quong, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, Services for Brain Injury, Junior League of San Jose, Summit League, Green Valley Corporation.
I am a wife, mother and grandmother and happy to serve both my community and my family.
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Executive Director of Global Policy, United Nations Foundation
Minh-Thu Pham is Executive Director of Global Policy at the United Nations Foundation, where she develops and leads strategic initiatives to strengthen the UN’s ability to solve global problems. She frequently brings together governments, civil society and thought leaders to help reach global agreements and push them toward bolder aims. Over the last few years, she has led UNF’s effort to support the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She recently taught international policymaking at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and has almost 20 years of experience in foreign policy, international diplomacy, global development, and fieldwork.
Minh-Thu served in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General for Kofi Annan in strategic planning and executive capacities, leading initiatives to reform and strengthen the UN and improve relations between the U.S. and the UN. Her past experience also includes working with global leaders and philanthropists to deliver on the Millennium Development Goals, implementing the peace accord in Bosnia and advancing refugee and humanitarian causes in Ethiopia, Vietnam and Washington, DC. She has a background in documentary work and oral histories.
Minh-Thu is 92Y Women inPower fellow and a fellow of the Truman National Security Project. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a member of the Board of the Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families, and she was selected a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2007. She holds an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and graduated in 1998 with a BA in History from Duke University. She came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam and currently lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
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Senior Consultant, Bayer Foundation
Dr. Michael Schwall is a Senior Consultant at Bayer Foundation supporting the initiation and management of Health- Agriculture- and Women Empowerment Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. For more than 20 years he was working at Bayer AG in various business functions and had been active in developing business strategies for Africa. He started his carrier as a plant physiologist and a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg and at the University of Adelaide. After managing several startup companies in plant biotechnology and vegetable seeds Michael worked for a German company as a biotechnologist and a breeder in maize, vegetable and canola.
When joining Bayer, he was working in chemical research, global regulatory affairs and marketing in Germany and the USA.
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President, Stone Steps Foundation
As president of Stone Steps Foundation, Karen is focused on advancing economic and social justice through bold and sustainable solutions to the problems of poverty. She partners with frontline social innovators to support change at scale. Prior to Stone Steps, Karen was a founding director of Moxie Foundation in San Diego, CA where she led the organization's impact-driven initiatives in global development and social entrepreneurship for nine years. In addition to her work in philanthropy she had a long career in marketing, including senior exec positions in niche ad agencies and large department store chains before co-founding The Sutherland Agency, a southern California advertising agency where she was CEO.
Karen is on the board of Acumen and a trustee of Global Communities; recent board service includes Street Business School and Project Concern International (PCI).
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I work in the business development team of Bioregional, creating and fundraising for projects that will enable us all to live healthier, happier lives within the means of the planet. The projects I work on focus on scaling solutions for holistic sustainability, typically looking at the role of cities and local authorities in shifting the way citizens live and interact with their enviornment.
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Co-Founder, Ghana Hernia Society
I'm Michael Ohene-Yeboah, and I am a hernia surgeon from Ghana. I am currently Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Ghana in Accra. I have spent my entire career working to increase access to essential surgery for the poorest patients in my country. In 2013, I founded the Ghana Hernia Society to raise awareness about inguinal hernia, which debilitates 1 in 10 men in Ghana. I have advocated for policy change in Ghana, which resulted in health insurance coverage for inguinal hernia surgery. With the help of my partners, I created a training program for hernia surgery for non-surgeons and am working to scale this around Ghana. In 2018, we plan to bring our training program and "Tool-kit" for hernia surgery to district hospitals in Ghana in order to sustainably and effectively build capacity for hernia repair in my country and beyond.
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professor, Ross School of Business / University of Michigan
Professor of "good business" -- social entrepreneurship, impact finance, community finance. University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. Ann Arbor, MI< USA
Main interest today: getting past our different beliefs so we can work together and live together.
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Director, Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School
Matt Segneri is the Director of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI). SEI's mission is to educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to solve society's toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Matt oversees SEI’s strategy and operations, including MBA and executive education programming, alumni and practitioner engagement, and faculty research and curriculum support.
Prior to returning to HBS, Matt was a senior leader on the Government Innovation team at Bloomberg Philanthropies and a senior advisor to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, whose office he joined as an HBS Leadership Fellow. He also worked in the Special Advisor Program at the FBI and led projects at Monitor Group for clients across the private, public, and social sectors.
Matt was recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s “Top 40 under 40” and by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce as one of Boston’s “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders.”
Matt holds an A.B. with honors in Psychology from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves on the national board of directors of Generation Citizen and is a Truman Security Fellow and an Advisor to Fuse Corps, New Politics, and Project 351. He lives in Newton with his wife and three children.
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Founder & CEO, Whole Child International
Karen Spencer founded Whole Child International in 2004 when, as a single mother of two, she discovered an absence of services to address the social-emotional well-being of children living in orphanages. For the past 15 years, she has led an international team to improve systems of care, advocate and influence policy, and conduct related research. She has provided the vision and strategic direction for the organization’s growth, with a passion for systems change, sustainability, scalability, research, and third-party evaluation. The organization’s scope has expanded to reach an even broader group of vulnerable children, while retaining the original focus on emotional well-being. She is co-author of articles published in the peer-reviewed Infant Mental Health Journal and Perspectives in Infant Mental Health, contributing important insights and realistic solutions to the public debate. In 2010, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama came to Los Angeles, especially to lend his personal support to Whole Child. In 2015, she was elected an Ashoka Fellow for identifying and filling a gap in care for orphans and vulnerable children. In 2016, she was made a Fellow at the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom. In 2017, People Magazine named her one of “25 Women Changing the World.”
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Executive Director, HARNESS
Marya Bangee is the Executive Director of Harness, an organization that works within Hollywood to center the narratives of marginalized communities in popular culture. Started by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams, Harness envisions a world where human rights are protected by the power of the people through fostering collaborations between artists and activists and driving the conversation for social change within the entertainment industry.
Marya is passionate about helping build communities. She started her journey as a community organizer in the Muslim-American community, including leading a national advocacy campaign for the protection of free speech on college campuses. Through her organizing, she has often represented the Muslim-American voice in national media like the New York Times and NPR.
She served as a Project Director at UCLA, working to increase access to higher education in impoverished areas of the city. Seeing the need for communal solutions to the challenges posed by poverty, she completed a six-month residency with the Industrial Areas Foundation. There, Marya studied the works of Saul Alinsky and Marshall Ganz while helping organize a mayoral town hall with a thousand Angelenos and carrying out a series of mobile enrollment clinics for the Affordable Care Act with low-income communities.
Marya was selected for the prestigious Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs, where she worked on a national senate campaign, staffed California's Speaker of the Assembly, and helped develop part of the ten-year strategic plan for the California Community Foundation. Marya graduated as a Dean’s Merit Scholar from the University of Southern California (USC) with her Masters in Public Administration in 2015, specializing in nonprofit management and public policy. In 2017, she was selected by the Ford Foundation as a Public Voices Fellow, which aims to dramatically increase the impact of spokespeople from underrepresented communities.
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Head of Programs, CRI Foundation
Kara Weiss is the Executive Director of CRI Foundation, a strategic philanthropic foundation focused on cost-effective, high impact interventions geared to those living in poverty in low- and middle-income countries in Africa.
Kara has led CRI to develop a strategic philanthropic strategy which has positioned the foundation as a key catalyst in the community health space and as a pivotal voice in strategic philanthropy. She led CRI to co-found the Risk Pool Fund, an innovative mechanism to address some of the most enduring risks of philanthropy, and is always looking for the next best idea. She is the CRI lead on system-change initiatives, as well as government partnerships, including CRI’s ongoing partnership with Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at USAID.
Kara is on the board of Spark MicroGrants, Seed Global Health, the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, CRI Foundation, as well as the allocation committee of the WAM Foundation.
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Director of Digital Media, Durst Organization
Experienced Creator with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. Strong entrepreneurship professional skilled in Research Design, Experience Design, User-centered Design, Lecturing, and User Interface Design.
Professional teaching experiences at Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.
Creator of Spireworks, an urban scale lighting interactive experience.
Continues to look for ways that creativity and technology can come together to excite, inspire, and motive us to make the world a better place for everyone.
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Partnership Manager EMEA, Johnson & Johnson
Marion works for the Johnson & Johnson Foundation and is collaborating on the delivery of the Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact strategy in EMEA and for realizing its vision of supporting and championing the people on the front lines of delivering care. Marion is a seasoned global health and partnering professional with close to 12 years’ experience spanning a career working for leading organisations across the private, public and non-profit sectors. Throughout the years Marion built a career co-creating, facilitating and managing partnerships across big and small organisations and discovered that social change and improvement of health is not enough. Privileged to work with some of the leading health innovators, system’s thinkers and entrepreneurs, she has been challenging the status quo by advocating for new ways of partnering with the belief that collective action and impact approaches are needed to drive transformation and systemic change. She has also been exploring how to best invest in resilience at individuals, communities and health systems level to shift from curing bad health to sustaining good health. Marion obtained a Degree in Literature and Philosophy in France and Germany and graduated with a Master’s Degree in International Business in London where she specialized in Corporate Social Responsibility in the pharmaceutical industry. Marion is a native French speaker and is fluent in German and English. She is passionate about swimming against the tide, bringing up her son as responsible global citizen, and finding inner peace thanks to yoga!
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Founding Director, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures
Mario serves as the founding Director of the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures (TFC) at Vanderbilt University, a center that serves as a thought leader for people across the university interested in combining revenue-generating businesses with social impact. He was honored as a 50 Under 40 Social Enterprise Leader by American Express and also selected to represent Nashville as one of Harvard Business School’s Young American Leaders - bringing together some of the country’s top leaders who are working across sectors to help their communities prosper. Most recently, he was honored as one of Nashville’s 40 Under 40 business leaders in 2020.
Mario was the CEO of Emerge and founder of Contigo Financial, a socially responsible consumer lender. His management experience includes finance, education, and consulting in three different countries. He teaches various classes on Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship. Mario is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Vanderbilt.
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Director, Mercy & Justice Ministries, Anglican Deaconess Ministries
Margo leads the social sector programming of an endowed foundation seeking to see women in poverty and exclusion flourish. Building on Anglican Deaconess Ministries’ (ADM) 127 year history of mercy and justice work, Margo has re-envisioned and re-focussed the program to serve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, who on every measure are the most disadvantaged in Australia. ADM walks alongside Australia’s First Nations women in several important ways: through co-designed programming, by profiling Aboriginal women speakers, by engaging Aboriginal women to project management positions, and offering bursaries. ADM has an increasingly important role linking funding and implementing organisations working to raise up indigenous Australian women.
Prior to her current role, Margo worked in the design and implementation of social change projects for bilateral and multilateral international development funder clients in the INGO and development consulting space. In an almost 20 year career in development, she designed or implemented social change projects across 20 developing countries, and most recently managed a USD60million portfolio of institutional donor funded projects. Margo holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (Hons1) and Master of Development Studies.
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CEO, Futures Unbound
Peter Zahn serves as CEO of Futures Unbound, a foundation focused on climate and environment, family wellness, and democratic engagement. He brings three decades’ experience as a leader and innovator across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. An attorney by practice, entrepreneur by blood, and environmentalist by passion, Zahn has served in a range of capacities, including owner of a business law firm, Deputy Mayor of Solana Beach, California, founder of the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce, and company CEO.
Zahn cares about growing engaged and sustainable communities. He is involved both on a global scale, and in his local communities of Solana Beach and San Diego, California. He serves on Solana Beach’s Climate Action Commission; and the boards of Cleantech San Diego, the ZIP Entrepreneurship Platform at San Diego State University, City College of New York’s Zahn Innovation Center, and the clean technology Rocket Fund at California Institute of Technology.
In addition to the outdoors, Zahn enjoys craft beer brewed in Solana Beach.
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Vice President, Social Enterprise, Population Services International
Manages PSIs growing Social Enterprise portfolio of businesses and is a leader in Innovative Financing at PSI. In her role as Vice President for Social Enterprise Marcie leads organizational change management, business model evolution and strategy development and execution that sits at the intersection of financing, health, and innovation. She is recognized for strategic vision, driving change, entrepreneurship and system thinking across a diverse portfolio of businesses, organizations, locations, and cultures with long-term experience in East and Southern Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia, including significant time living and working in Afghanistan, Malawi, South Sudan, Pakistan and India. Experience at managing to a double bottom line using proven business and marketing practices for public and private sectors.
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Editor of NPR's digital publication "Goats and Soda," which covers global health and development. Author of "Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) Through Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond."
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Co-Director, Environmental Justice,
NamatiManju Menon has researched and written on Environment, Law and Development in India for over two decades. Her main areas of work are environmental law making, regulatory institutions and public participation in environmental decision-making. She collaborates with local, regional and thematic networks on resource governance and environmental compliance. She currently co-directs the CPR- Namati Environment Justice Program and is writing her doctoral thesis.
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Founder, Instituto Phi
Social entrepreneur, graduated in advertising, she studied MBE in Sustainable Business Management at UFF. Founder and executive director of Instituto Phi, a social organization that bridges social investors and social projects. Responsible for moving 28 million dollars in the last 8 years of activity, supporting more than 1000 social projects throughout Brazil.
She is part of the Responsible Leader network of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt and is a Senior Fellow of the Skoll Foundation and Nexus Global, she is part of the strategic committee of Latimpacto. She was elected social entrepreneur by Folha de São Paulo in 2020.
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Paul Radu is the co-founder of OCCRP, a global network of investigative journalists with staff on six continents, He leads its major investigative projects as well as develops new strategies and technology to expose organized crime and corruption across borders. He initiated and led the award-winning Russian, Azerbaijani, and Troika Laundromat investigations and was part of the Panama Papers team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Paul is a winner of the European Press Prize.
Paul is an Ashoka Global Fellow and has held a number of other fellowships, including the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Knight International Journalism Fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is a board member for the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
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As Vice President of Portfolio and Investments, Jude O'Reilley is responsible for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship and funding within the Skoll community.
When he joined the Foundation in 2014, Jude had more than 18 years of experience in technology, management and entrepreneurship in the private sector. From working with Fortune 500 companies to being the first employee of a health-focused startup, he has launched more than 100 consumer and enterprise products.
Jude's professional background includes more than four years at Amazon.com, where he was responsible for product management of the photos experience on the Amazon Kindle Fire, Amazon Cloud Drive and Checkout by Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon.com, he spent the majority of his high-tech career in startups of 5 to 150 people, including Trusera, a place on the web for people to share their personal medical experiences. At Trusera, he helped the CEO raise more than $3.2 million in angel investments and built the team that designed the original product from scratch. He began his product career at Aventail, an early pioneer in the SSL VPN space that was later sold to Dell Inc. Hard won lessons learned along the way included some high profile failures, like the Amazon Fire phone, and the indescribable feeling of bringing together an extraordinary group of people together to solve a very hard problem.
Jude earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors in History from Swarthmore College. He lives with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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I am a Masters student in International Development at the University of Oxford where I am currently working on a thesis that looks at the use of local ecological knowledge in social innovation and its translatability into large-scale organizations. Alongside my studies I am working on a start-up called Boresha as part of the first cohort of the Oxford Foundry's Accelerator, LEV8. Boresha is working to increase access to lending to smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through partnerships with informal aggregators.
Previously I worked for the social enterprise Sparknews where I launched and managed a solutions journalism event with student newspapers from the US, Canada, Mexico, France, and the UK.
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Leslie Flinn is an entrepreneurial, pragmatic leader, with over 25 years of international development experience in helping organizations, donors and governments better align their strategic, operational and philanthropic goals, while working at the intersection of health, economic growth and social justice.
Leslie currently has her dream job as the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for Partners In Health, where she overseas PIH’s partnerships with the public, private and academic sectors. Ms. Flinn began her career at Shorebank Corp., a groundbreaking social enterprise financial enterprise, where she started its first microcredit program, and managed its impact investing program in Russia with EBRD. Since then, she held leadership roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cardno Emerging Markets and Save the Children, where she helped develop new ways of partnering, and leveraging relationships.
Leslie is a single mom to a spectacular ten year old boy; she has BA from Colgate University, and an MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
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Associate Publisher, NewsDeeply
Laura is responsible for platform development and operations at News Deeply, with a focus on our work on refugees and migration, peacebuilding and women's economic advancement. Prior to joining the team, she worked in syndication and licensing for The New York Times, as well as in fundraising for the New Israel Fund. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in History and French and is passionate about human rights, women's rights and the intersection between faith and social impact. Currently based in New York, Laura has lived and worked in both Paris and Jerusalem.
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COO, Charity Navigator
Larry Lieberman is Chief Operating Officer of Charity Navigator where he provides strategic direction and actionable thought leadership that improves the quality of information available to donors of all levels. During 2017, more than 11 million Americans relied on the research and insights provided by Charity Navigator before making their giving decisions.
Charity Navigator’s work is supported through the generosity of its users, private foundations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and strategic partners including IBM and Nielsen Analytics.
Larry began his career touring with Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson and others. Since then Larry has established himself as a formidable voice in tech and social media including senior marketing and strategy positions with Comedy Central, MTV, and Time Warner. His entrepreneurial endeavors include key roles as co-founder of Dynamite Labs, Chief Marketing Officer of ooVoo Video, and Chief Marketing Officer of the True[X] digital advertising platform (acquired by Fox).
For more than 12 years, Larry has been a member of the board of directors of The JED Foundation, America’s leading mental health resource for college students on more than 2,500 campuses. Larry is an advisor to DoSomething.org and a member of the board of directors of Better World Education, creator of engaging curriculum resources teaching empathy, global literacy, and civic engagement.
Larry earned his MBA from the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University and BA from Union College in Schenectady, NY.
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CEO, dlo Haiti
Jim is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist with over 25 years in IT and operating in emerging markets.
In the 90’s and 2000’s, Jim worked in the global technology sector in the US and Europe. He transitioned to emerging markets in 2010 and founded dloHaiti in 2013 to provide clean water to underserved communities in Haiti. Today, dloHaiti sustainably serves over 200,000 Haitians with safe water while boosting the incomes of hundreds of local entrepreneurs. More at dloHaiti.com
Untapped Global spun out of dloHaiti to bridge the financing gap in emerging markets with Smart Asset FinancingTM, a technology-backed financing solution for SMEs. Today, Untapped has offices in E-, W-, and S Africa and provides Smart Asset Financing to companies with assets ranging from electric motorcycles and delivery vehicles to PAYGO solar irrigation pumps and safe drinking water systems. He is especially focused on electric mobility in Africa. Jim also manages equity funds for early-stage companies in frontier markets. More at untapped-global.com
Jim is also the founder of The Nest, an international investment network connecting investors with emerging-market startups from around the world. The Nest hosts virtual and in-person events as well as in-country investment missions to regions with high-growth potential. During the pandemic, The Nest helped facilitate investments over $3M to early-stage companies in over 2 dozen countries.
Jim is on the boards of Watering Minds, a US public charity supporting youth in emerging markets (more at wateringminds.org), and MCE Social Capital, a non-profit impact investment firm driving economic empowerment in developing countries. More at mcesocap.org
Jim has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and has run companies and teams in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Aside from his native English, Jim speaks French, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese.
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Associate Dean and Shanna and Eric Bass '05 Director of Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management
Kyle Jensen is an entrepreneur, developer, and scientist. Before joining the Yale SOM faculty, he co-founded Agrivida, a venture-backed biotechnology company based in Boston; PriorSmart, a patent analytics provider (acquired by RPX, Nasdaq:RPXC); and Pit Rho, a leader in motorsport analytics. In addition to teaching, Kyle works with numerous Yale start-ups as Associate Dean and Director of Entrepreneurship. His research interests include entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and innovation.
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TEDxYerevan Organizer, TED Conferences LLC
Kristine Sargsyan is a professor of Business Communication in American University of Armenia. She is a public speaking coach and an organizational development consultant. She brings together more than 20 years of coaching and consulting experience in NGO and private sectors. Kristine is the author of several organizational development (OD) tools, which have been recognized by a number international organizations. She has also established a small OD library for local professionals. Previously Sargsyan worked for TACIS, World Learning, USDA, Unicef, UNDP, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Caritas Armenia, Real Medicine Foundation and TED. With a background in foreign languages, Sargsyan obtained her MBA from the Carlos Magnus University.
She is the Founder and Licensee of TEDxYerevan conference in Armenia. More than 30 successful TEDx events have been organized under her supervision in Armenia. She also developed a personal growth coaching program through impactful speaking – called “Think” and used it to coach high ranked state officials and dozens of Silicon Valley startup leaders. In 2010 Sargsyan became an International Visitor Leadership Program fellow – a US Embassy program, financed by the US Department of State.
She is also a TED OTP Project fellow and TED Global Participant. (here is a TED video about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxEgJIMwbfc )
In 2015 she has been recognized as one of the 28 TED-Ed Innovative Educator of the world who have been selected from 250000 educators, trainers and teachers. Here is a TED blog post about it: http://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/09/01/meet-the- first-cohort- of-ted- ed-innovative- educators/
In 2017 she has been recognized as one of the 21 remarkable women who change the
Eastern Europe by different networks of European investigative journalist:
http://ostpol.de/beitrag/4828-21-remarkable-women-who-are-changing-eastern-europe.
Kristine is also writing a book called "Tracing My Brain" for kids, parents and educators.
Presently Sargsyan is working on establishing THINK Studio S*cool and is also developing a TV project called “Future is Talking” aiming at rising kids and youth voice in Armenia.
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President, Africa-America Institute
Kofi Appenteng is the President of the Africa-America Institute (AAI), a 66-year-old organization with a mission of promoting enlightened engagement between Africa and America through education, training and dialogue. With more than 15,000 African alumni from more than 50 African countries, AAI has tremendous reach and is a trusted brand. Appenteng has 30 years of domestic and international experience as a corporate lawyer, investment banker and board director. He previously served as senior counsel at Dentons, a global law firm, and is a senior advisor to The Rock Creek Group, a global investment and advisory firm.
Throughout his career, Appenteng has been active with numerous civil society organizations. He is currently a member of the board at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and previously served as board chair of the Ford Foundation. Additionally, Appenteng serves on the board of the International Center for Transitional Justice and on the International Advisory Board of IE University. In recognition of his work in business and philanthropy, he was named a “Great American Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation in 2013.
Born in Ghana, West Africa, Appenteng began his education in England where he completed his primary and secondary education and then came to the United States to attend college at Wesleyan University. At Wesleyan, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree; was awarded the Butterfield Prize for character, leadership and intellectual commitment; and captained the soccer and athletic teams while earning recognition as a member of the All-American soccer team. He earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia University where he was an international fellow. Appenteng then began his career as a corporate lawyer and, in 1994, became the first Black African to become a partner at a major New York City law firm.
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Chief Strategy & Operations Officer of Emergent, Global Development Incubator
Jon is a director at the Global Development Incubator. GDI is a non-profit incubator of ground-breaking ideas that can reach impact at scale. GDI stays with partners through the long haul, helping with their biggest strategic decisions and the details of execution to help them build their ventures better and faster.
Jon is seconded from GDI to Emergent, a non-profit set up by the government of Norway, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation to catalyse private sector funding for protection of the earth's irreplaceable tropical forests.
Previously, Jon set up and led a global non-profit unit within EY that supported leading social entrepreneurs in low/middle-income countries, helping them build more resilient and scalable businesses.
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Student, Simon Fraser University
Kimberley is an engaged third-year undergraduate student and Business Ethics Teaching Assistant a the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, where she is pursuing concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Management Information Systems and a minor in Health Sciences. Curious about social impact and the health-care industry, Kimberley worked as a Research and Business Analyst on a consulting team at McKesson and Change Healthcare, and studied as a part of the interdisciplinary SFU Health Change Lab Cohort. In 2017, Kimberley worked closely with two team members to compete in The Skoll Global Challenge, an international research and social entrepreneurship competition, where they won first place for their analysis on medical waste management in Vancouver’s hospitals.
Passionate about giving back to her communities, Kimberley has led a Vancouver-based financial literacy, employability, and meal-planning program for at-risk youth and young mothers, empowering them to gain necessary skillsets to earn money and independence. This year, Kim worked as Vice-Chair for CaseIT, SFU’s Premier International Management Information System’s Undergraduate Case Competition, where her team created an exceptional platform for business students across the world to showcase their diverse skills.
Upon graduation from Beedie, Kimberley is planning to pursue a career in either international humanitarian law or social impact consulting. What inspires her promoting and improving sustainability, development, and confidence amongst individuals, organizations, and communities.
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I'm a policy and management professional recognised as a leader in the field of humanitarian innovation. I’m driven by a desire to help stimulate innovation and social change across society. From 2013 to 2016, I was manager of the Humanitarian Innovation Fund at Elrha, a unique mechanism providing funding for organisations to develop, test and share innovations to assist people affected by crisis. I was a co-founder of the fund in 2010, taking over the leadership in 2013 and expanding the fund’s income, building a team of innovation management professionals, and cementing the HIF’s reputation as a leading player supporting innovation in the humanitarian aid system.
For the year prior to starting the MBA, I was based in Cape Town, South Africa, working as a consultant focused on supporting organisations to improve and innovate in the world’s most challenging settings. This included designing a fund to support mobile telecommunications innovation in crisis settings, and advising a start-up developing off-grid micro-servers.
Building on my professional background and academic interests on the MBA, I'm interested in exploring how we can use innovative social finance models to drive impact in emerging markets and fragile contexts.
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Managing Director, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Institute
Managing Director, Killeen Brettmann is responsible for the Aspen Ideas Festival, a week-long conference that is hosted annually each summer in Aspen. Brettmann is responsible for corporate fundraising and Underwriter management as well as the production of the festival.
Prior to joining The Aspen Institute Brettmann held executive marketing positions with the Aspen Skiing Company and FIJI Water where she served as Vice President, Communications and Marketing, respectively. She also founded her own marketing firm based in Aspen, CO, focusing on travel and tourism business.
Brettmann and her two teenage daughters reside in Aspen, CO, where they spend as much time as possible in the mountains, skiing, hiking and biking. She sits on the Aspen Community Foundation board and is a strong proponent of education and environmental causes.
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Director Global Partnerships, Unilever Global
Katja Freiwald has been working with Unilever for over 10 years and has built her career around a broad expertise in consumer/ B2B marketing and sales. Within Unilever´s Chief Sustainability office she is now the Global Director, Partnerships and Advocacy responsible overseeing Unilever´s programmes on women´s economic empowerment and enhancing livelihoods across Unilever´s value chain. Her areas of expertise include inclusive business modelling, blended-finance, financial inclusion, women´s economic empowerment and enhancing livelihoods in agricultural value chains.
Katja uses her business acumen and partnerships expertise to develop innovative partnership models delivering sustainable impact for business and society.
She is managing various transformational partnerships with different iNGOs, UN agencies, social enterprises, impact investors and other private sector companies to create the greatest possible joint impact. Examples are UN Women, Oxfam, Acumen, Vital Voices etc. .
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CEO, Rock Health Foundation
Katie is an entrepreneurial leader committed to equality and justice who has launched groundbreaking, inclusive programs that address complex global issues with a focus on public health innovation and the role of innovative financing and leadership in systems change. As the CEO of RockHealth.org, she leads a team of experts in health equity, social enterprise and design to encourage more equitable innovation in digital health. Previously, Katie curated health content for the Aspen Ideas Festival and was Managing Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group, where she led global leadership programs to address poverty alleviation and human rights. Katie has worked nationally and around the world on initiatives including HIV/AIDS treatment strategies in Romania, private health services delivery in Myanmar, and the scale up of Kenya’s national emergency medical system. She also built a range of start-ups, designing a network of charter schools, and developing Good Capital, a venture fund
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Candidate for a MSc on Social Anthropology. Looking to apply the techniques and skills to positive environmental impact, intercultural exchanges and sustainable economic development. Firm believer that a good mix of new structures (innovation), "pathological collaboration" and getting stuff done is critical to reach our goals. Systemic thinker, cultural/social interventionist with a psychological agenda for inclusion.
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Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees, Said Business School
Kathy Harvey is Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In this role she is responsible for the success of the School’s graduate management programmes. She is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.
Kathy is also responsible for articulating and developing the School’s international strategy for its graduate programmes, including developing academic partnerships. She takes a lead role in supporting the professional development of women students at Oxford Saïd. In her teaching role she leads the Entrepreneurship Project for the Executive MBA and teaches crisis and stakeholder management on programmes within the Executive Education portfolio. She is also a member of the Oxford Coaching Community, working with senior executives to achieve their professional goals.
Previously she held the position of Director of Open Programmes. In this role she designed the School’s postgraduate diplomas, developed a number of short finance programmes and launched an innovative, modular, Oxford Transition to Leadership Programme. Before joining Saïd Business School she worked as a journalist and consultant, coaching senior executives and leading the strategic development of executive programmes for managers across the private and public sectors. She began her career working for the BBC as both a producer and reporter for thirteen years. As a political correspondent, she has interviewed many leading political figures including Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Brown. She has also worked as a freelance producer for Channel 4 TV and has written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times and the Independent.
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Executive Director, King Baudouin Foundation United States
Jean Paul Warmoes is the Executive Director of the King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS), a public charity which works with U.S. individuals, families, corporations and foundations, and helps them support their favorite causes across the globe. Jean Paul joined KBFUS’ Brussels-based parent foundation, the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF), in 1994, where he served as Director for International Relations and as Secretary to the KBF Africa Prize. Before joining KBF, Jean Paul was in charge of Business Development for Transtec, a consulting firm specializing in overseas development assistance, and before that, he worked in Tokyo, Sydney and Paris. Jean Paul graduated in 1988 from the University of Brussels (VUB) with a Master’s degree in Management Science (Solvay Business School) and subsequently earned degrees in foreign trade and in international comparative management. He is fluent in French and Dutch.
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Executive Director, Seva Foundation
Kate Moynihan is an impassioned leader and decision-maker who has overseen programs in networked organizations and social enterprises in resource-constrained settings, internationally and in the United States. She is a catalyst for institutional and systems change, partnering successfully with diverse international organizations to deliver world-class leadership for mission-based social justice around the globe. Throughout Kate’s career, she has shown an unwavering commitment to improving the lives of people living in disadvantaged, marginalized segments of the world. Kate currently serves as Executive Director of the Seva Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California that transforms lives by restoring sight to individuals in areas with limited access to eye care.
Prior to her work with Seva, Kate served as Vice-President of Development with Planned Parenthood of Northern California, where she secured more than $25MM in funding, tripling the largest amount the affiliate had ever raised in one fiscal year. She has also served as Vice President of Partnerships & Development with Samasource; Chief of Development, Communications and Innovation with San Francisco Goodwill; and for nearly two decades served in executive positions with international relief and development organizations in Africa, the Middle East, Albania and Kosovo. Kate currently lives in Oakland, California with her daughter and an energetic Labrador retriever.
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Principal, YouTube Social Impact, YouTube
Jaya oversees global social impact team at the world's largest video platform, YouTube. Through partnerships with NGOs, social activists and content creators, Jaya has built relationships across the social impact community and led YouTube's content strategies in crisis response, climate & sustainability, girls education, and responsibility. Jaya is a subject matter expert in corporate social responsibility, social good content, digital fundraising, and impact storytelling.
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Co-Director, Environmental Justice,
NamatiKanchi Kohli is researcher and writer working on environment, forest and biodiversity governance in India. Her work explores the links between law, industrialization and environment justice. She seeks to draw empirical evidence from sites of conflict and locates it within national legal and policy processes. Kanchi is presently Co-Director at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR)-Namati Environment Justice Program.
Since 2004, she co-coordinates an Information Dissemination Service for Forest and Wildlife cases in the Supreme Court of India and also the Campaign for Conservation and Community Control over Biodiversity related to the implementation of the biodiversity regulation in India. She has individually and in teams authored several publications, including the recent book Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis published by SAGE.
Kanchi regularly teaches at universities at law schools in India on subjects related to biodiversity, environment and community development.
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Executive Director, The Clara Lionel Foundation
Justine Lucas is the Executive Director of Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation which supports and funds education, emergency response and climate resilience programs around the world. Previously, she was the Global Director of Programs for Global Citizen where she oversaw the GlobalCitizen Festival, events, programs and strategic partnerships. She was a Producer and key force behind the 2012 - 2015 Global Citizen Festivals in Central Park and the 2015 Global Citizen Earth Day event on the National Mall in Washington,D.C. An expert in campaign mobilization, strategic partnerships &developing and leveraging creative campaigns around complex policy issues, she has consulted for both international and domestic nonprofits and worked extensively on grassroots program development around human rights and access to justice issues in Cameroon. Justine is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has a B.A. in History and Anthropology and an M.A. in Global Affairs and Nonprofit Management, both from New York University. Justine resides in New York City.
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Director of Development, Medic Mobile
Julie Smith is the Director of Development at Medic Mobile and works with funding partners to sustain Medic’s programming and organizational capacity. Previously, she worked as the Director of Development and Strategic Partnerships for Emory University at the Rollins School of Public Health. In her role, she worked with corporate, foundation, and other strategic partners to build programs and student and faculty support for the School. Prior to her position at Emory, Julie was at Georgia State University as the Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. For 10 years prior to working in academia, Julie served as the Director of Public-Private Partnerships at the CDC Foundation. As such, she was charged with helping to connect outside resources and partners with scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to build effective public health programs. At the CDC Foundation, Julie worked with federal, bi-lateral, and corporate and foundation funders.
Julie received a master’s degree in urban policy studies from Georgia State University in 2008 and holds a bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University in Clarkesville, TN.
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Head, Enterprise & Livelihoods, Vitol Foundation
Jane has over 20 years of experience working in private sector development across sub-Saharan Africa catalysing economic growth through market-based interventions and inclusive business models. In her current role as Head of Enterprise and Livelihoods at the Vitol Foundation, she focuses on building co-funding partnerships to support innovative models and businesses which promote wealth and job creation across MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining Vitol Jane headed up Comic Relief’s Trade, Enterprise & Employment and Social Investment work focusing on agricultural supply chains and enterprise development. Now based in London, Jane spent 10 years living in Zambia working in both the non-profit and private sectors, having previously worked in marketing communications. She holds an MSc in International Development.
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Executive Director, Vitol Foundation
I have served as CEO of the Vitol Foundation since 2018.
The Vitol Foundation provides funding in four focus areas (health, education, WASH and livelihoods), with no particular geographic limitations and operates independently from the company of the same name that provides its funding.
I hold an MSc in Development and Social Anthropology from Birkbeck College, London, where my dissertation was on the subject of anti-corruption NGOs, and an MA in modern languages from the Queen’s College, Oxford.
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Editor, Humanosphere
Tom Paulson is a Seattle-based journalist who specializes in reporting on science, medicine, development and poverty matters. He is the founding editor of Humanosphere, an online news site now on hiatus that is focused on issues of poverty, equity, philanthropy and progress (or the lack of it). He has reported for National Public Radio, for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, for Nature magazine and was for many years on the board of the National Association of Science Writers. He is now exploring long-form projects targeting inequality.
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TEDxAkure Organizer, TED Conferences LLC
Joel Ogunsola has strong passion for sustainable development, technology and social entrepreneurship.
Professionally he serves as the founder/managing partner for Prunedge an enterprise technology solutions provider based out of Nigeria. Prior to him co-founding Prunedge he was the Microsoft Education Technical Advisor for Microsoft Nigeria where he worked for two years.
He is the curator for TEDxAkure, an independently organized TED events. He also co-founded Ng HackerSpace, an open source hardware development community. As Microsoft Student Partner, he was one of the organizers of the Maker Faire Africa, Lagos, 2012 event, the first Maker Space event in Africa.
A graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Joel founded Tech4Dev - a technology non-profit organization that seeks to create proactive and reactive solutions to the world’s greatest problems, with primary focus on public health, education & Civic engagement.
He also most recently based on his passion for development across the African continent, founded a non-profit – Emerging Communities TechUp initiative; focused on helping to grow intentionally the technology ecosystem within emerging underserved communities across Africa, through a multi-dimensional approach.
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Chief of Staff, Skoll Foundation
Joanna serves as the Chief of Staff at the Skoll Foundation. She works behind the scenes to manage processes that ensure the effective leadership of the organization in a cross-functional, collaborative manner.
Previously at Skoll, she supported the Chief Strategy Officer and provided project support to several teams within the organization, furnishing her with a well-rounded, intimate familiarity with the Foundation. Prior to joining Skoll, Joanna spent 11 years as a bilingual Victim Advocate at the New York County District Attorney’s Office.
Joanna earned her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. and In her spare time she enjoys baking, running and craft cocktail-mixing.
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Global Director, The Philanthropy Workshop
Jo Ensor is Global Director of The Philanthropy Workshop, an educational provider and network of 450 philanthropists and social entrepreneurs committed to being more strategic with their giving. Jo leads TPW’s global programming and has an interest in systems change, policy influencing, public private partnerships and using the market to achieve social change. Jo has over twenty years experience working in social change, and a background in livelihoods, health, education, and child protection programming. She has worked at the community level in more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia, and was a CEO of the African health organisation, AMREF.
More recently, Jo has worked in the philanthropy sector, advising Foundations and individuals on their strategies, promoting effective philanthropy in emerging markets. Jo was CEO of a venture philanthropy fund in the Middle East, and is currently trustee of UBS’s Optimus Foundation, committed to supporting entrepreneurs, new technologies and new models to transform, scale and sustain child development. Jo is a graduate of Oxford University and has a Masters in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London.
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Co-Founder/Director Social Impact, Equileap
Jo Andrews is one of the Co-Founders and Director of Social Impact at Equileap, a social venture that aims to accelerate gender equality in the workplace using the power of investments, knowledge and donations. She and Diana van Maasdijk set up Equileap in 2016 in the UK and the Netherlands.
Equileap (www.equileap.org) is recognised for its global expertise on gender balance and gender equality in public companies. It publishes an annual Gender Equality Global Report and Ranking, which lists the Top 200 companies globally for gender equality. Its database is used to create change in companies around the world, and as the basis for new financial products that enable investors to align their values with their funds. Equileap seeks to grow the global community of investors using a gender lens to create impact and generate a return.
Jo was previously Founder and Director of Ariadne, a network for European social change and human rights donors. The aim of Ariadne, which has over 700 members, is to increase the impact and effectiveness of social change funding in Europe by providing better information and skills for donors. Jo was also the first Director of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, a British based foundation that gives away over £20 million a year to support human rights, women’s rights, migrant rights, and environmental projects. She is currently a board member of the Fund for Global Human Rights, and Open Democracy.
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Tim is a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. He is responsible for identifying high-potential social entrepreneurs and applying the Foundation’s assets to help social enterprises create large scale and lasting change to social injustice and inequity around the world. Prior to joining Skoll, Tim spent more than a decade as a management consultant - most recently with Dalberg Advisors where he helped corporate, multilateral, foundation and NGO clients develop effective solutions to the world's most pressing social problems. Tim holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and a BA in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Founder & Managing Director, Greenbaum Foundation
“Being a bystander to suffering is not an option,” is my motto. I’m in my 24th year as a full time philanthropist and have committed to contributing in excess of 85% of my wealth to charitable projects during my lifetime, and the remainder soon thereafter.
My primary philanthropic focus is on ending factory farming and moving the world to plant based diets and vegan lifestyles. To that end, my foundation assists and funds approximately 150 organizations throughout the world, and our annual grantmaking is currently in the $6 - $7 million dollar range.
I am also an executive producer of several documentary films including Seaspiracy, The Game Changers, What The Health, Cowspiracy, Slay and others.
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CHAIRPERSON & CO-OWNER, VERTEX INC., Vertex Inc.
After 30 years in the corporate tax software business, I have formed MeaningSphere, Inc., a platform and collection of tools and services designed to help anyone who wants to create greater meaning in their work life.
With the help of a remarkable array of mentors, coaches and authors over the breadth of my career, I came to see the larger meaning of tax software and of business itself. And, thanks to my courageous colleagues at Vertex, I was able to lead with a deep commitment to our shared value of respect, guiding us toward a collaborative approach in all aspects of the business, from governance to customer engagement.
For the past 26 years, I have seen business through the lens of meaning and interconnectedness, with all work ultimately devoted to the sustenance and advancement of humankind. We all work to ‘make a living’ while also contributing something, no matter how small or mundane (like tax software) to the betterment of the human condition.
If we take all of our efforts and join them together, what emerges is a sphere of meaning. I call that sphere of meaning, MeaningSphere and soon it will become a vehicle for anyone to create a career that truly matters and in so doing create a world inspired by the meaning of life.
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Executive Director; Board Member, Sall Family Foundation
Jason Haggins is Executive Director and board member of the Sall Family Foundation. He brings more than 15 years of experience in philanthropy, finance, and business.
As Executive Director of the Sall Family Foundation, he is committed to a world where our common natural heritage is valued, human needs are balanced with sustainability, scientific inquiry enriches us, and decisions are made with the best information. To promote this vision, he focuses on making grants or investments to test new ideas, to catalyze change that should happen, to promote the collaboration among people and institutions, and to sustain those institutions that innovate, inform and empower others toward this vision. The Foundation’s tradition is to invest for worldwide human development, conservation and the environment, public health, and science, especially when these areas intersect.
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Senior Producer, ABC News Network
Teri Whitcraft, Senior Producer for ABC News’ Special Units, develops and produces exclusive, original content for all of ABC News’ top-rated broadcasts (Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, 20/20 and This Week with George Stephanopoulos).
In addition to developing investigative news stories and human-interest features, Teri regularly produces division-wide primetime specials, such as Diane Sawyer’s year-long investigation into Isis in America, the first virtual town hall with Pope Francis, the first exclusive interview with Malala Yousafzai, and President Obama’s townhall on race and policing. Teri also helps spearhead the network’s coverage of major breaking news events such as the San Bernardino and Pulse Nightclub shootings, the devastating impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the Ferguson riots, etc.
Teri’s work has been recognized with multiple Emmy Awards, Cine Golden Eagle Awards, Amnesty International and NAACP Awards, the Front Page Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Christopher Award and the South Asian Journalists Association Award.
Her personal passion is to shine a light on individuals and social entrepreneurs who are changing the world. She was the coordinating producer for ABC News’ year-long, division-wide global health series "Be the Change: Save a Life” sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a Board Member of the Fistula Foundation and a member of the Resolution Project's Advisory Board.
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TEDxLuanda Organizer, TED Conferences LLC
Januario Jose (Jano) Artist and Designer, founder of Coconote Studio, a design and branding communication agency, spreading the word of visual communication, visual culture to help communities get the best of the creative industry. Graduated with honors in Design Studies in 2005, from London Metropolitan University former Guildhall University (London - England).
Art Direction, Branding, Illustration, Characters Design, Fashion, Graphic Design, Typography, Publishing, Social integration and Education are the main areas of expertise, as these areas leads to a full engagement with people which the touching point are to elevate the awareness of how design can make a substantial difference in people´s lives.
Januario Jano is founder member of the Cultural Collective Pés Descalços and mentor and organizer of the TEDxLuanda since 2012 to present.
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Executive Director, Kenya Community Development Foundation
Janet Mawiyoo (Ms) is the Executive Director of KCDF (Kenya Community Development Foundation), a foundation that has demonstrated commitment to the promotion of sustainable development of communities for social justice, through local institution building, policy influencing, local resource mobilization, as well as building partnerships and collaborations with other like-minded actors.
Janet has in the last 30 years distinguished herself as an experienced development practitioner, very knowledgeable on the management of effective development programmes, institution building, strategic management, community asset development, partnerships and collaborations etc., just to mention a few. Janet has been at the helm of KCDF for nearly 14 years, making it one of the leading and respected community foundations in Africa. Previously she worked for ActionAid International in both Kenya and Tanzania, rising through the ranks to become Country Director of ActionAid International Tanzania.
Janet is a certified Organization Development consultant, with a Masters in Development Administration and Management (MA-Econ) from the University of Manchester (UK), and a post graduate diploma in Organization Development Consultancy from the Swiss Institute of Applied Psychology, Switzerland. She serves in a couple of non-profit Boards including TrustAfrica and the African Philanthropy Network both of which are pan African philanthropic organizations; she chairs Viwango a CSO certification body in Kenya, and is a board member of AccountableNow, a body that promotes accountability of International NGOs. She is also a Board member of the Open Society Initiative of East Africa, and a Director of the KCDF Investment Holdings.
Janet has received several awards, among them being the Exemplary Women’s Leadership Award in Mauritius in December 2015, and the Outstanding Leadership Award in 2017, when KCDF celebrated 20 years since its inception.
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Jill is the Director of Event Production at the Skoll Foundation. Jill's work centers on building bridges for the social entrepreneurs and innovators dedicated to advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work, she plays a key role in helping connect and celebrate this dynamic community. She focuses much of her time envisioning how to build a meaningful and impactful experience for delegates at the Skoll World Forum and other Skoll convenings, collaborating across the Foundation to create the framework for these events, and finally implementing that vision.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Jill spent much of her career conceptualizing and producing memorable experiences for clients at special events such as the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Tony Awards, and the Kentucky Derby. In her free time, she can often be found on the local Pickleball courts. She has acquired a new nickname, “Coach Jill,” stemming from her love of teaching the fundamentals of pickleball to novices. At home Jill’s great passion is cooking and baking too, much to her family’s delight.
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Founder and CEO, Amani Global Works
Jacques Sebisaho is from the island of Idjwi, on Lake Kivu between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. While the remote island has largely been untouched by direct conflict in the region, Idjwi has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world and a life expectancy of just 25 years. A doctor by training, Sebisaho is building a health care system to change that. His organization, Amani Global Works, is pioneering a primary health care model that develops hospitals, clinics, and community-health outreach programs that save lives by bringing treatment to the people who need it most.
He is an Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, a Harvard School of Public Health Bernard Lown Scholar, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellow.
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Head of Marketing, Code for America
Elizabeth Smith is head of marketing for Code for America. She is a veteran integrated marketing and communications professional with experience in branding, media relations, issues management, volunteer recruitment and engagement, donor relations, fundraising communications and customer acquisition. Elizabeth has most recently served as a chief marketing officer in a diverse set of higher education institutions.
Elizabeth holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Auburn University. She is proud to hold, with hundreds of other Oaklanders, the Guinness World Record for the largest Soul Train line.
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Senior Director, Johnson & Johnson
Ian Walker is a Senior Director within the Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact team and guides the company's strategy and execution in the area of Social Business Practice, mainly in EMEA and Asia Pacific. The Global Community Impacts team is tasked with “Supporting and championing the people on the front lines, who are at the heart of delivering care”.
Prior to joining the Global Community Impact team in September 2014, Ian was Managing Director of the Johnson & Johnson MISSA (Maghreb, Iran and Sub Saharan Africa) business for Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Device business for seven years. During this period, the business enjoyed significant growth, culminating in the award of the 2014 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. Ian has also held positions as UK Marketing Director for Ethicon, EMEA Marketing Director for CardioVascular and Marketing Director based at Ethicon’s World wide head office in Somerville, New Jersey, USA.
Ian is also member of the UK’s Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd Statutory Board of Directors.
Ian has a great passion for Africa and has a particular interest in the area of Obstetric Fistula prevention and repair, and Surgical capacity building.
Ian has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Aberdeen, MBA from University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Ian is married and lives in Fife with a wife, two boys, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog, two kittens, and six chickens.
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Executive Director, Lorinet Foundation
Sumit is a social impact advisor, committed to driving thought leadership and action on diverse socio-economic issues. He traversed various roles in his career from running his own social enterprise to working with the UN and consulting in the development sector.
Currently, Sumit leads Lorinet foundation’s mission to support sustainable initiatives on early childhood education and youth employment for vulnerable communities in Mongolia and SE Asia. Previously, he worked with global foundations, corporate, govt., multilaterals, and social-purpose organisations in designing and scaling their social impact initiatives.
Sumit is an alumnus of the University of Oxford where he studied MBA as a Skoll Scholar.
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I am a current Executive MBA candidate at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
I am originally from South Africa, now living in London. I have worked in the debt capital markets, corporate finance and most recently social impact investing. I co-founded an inclusive lending business in South Africa in 2013 which supported Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) in a variety of sectors. I am currently founding a new business focused on overcoming the over reliance on collateral in lending to SGBs across developing markets. I am also involved in the creation of an environmental impact bond to fund fire prevention strategies in some of the world's most vulnerable forest areas.
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Social Innovation Manager, Saïd Business School
Hildengard Allgaier works as a Social Innovation and Employer Engagement Manager at Oxford University, Saïd Business School. She has over 12 years of professional experience in global teams in Latin America, UK and Europe, including positions in the Steel and Mining, IT and Chemical sectors working across marketing, communications and sustainability. Hildengard holds an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University and sits on the Board of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR).
From her background as a corporate intrapreneur she has supported start-ups, foundations, multinational organisations and boutique firms to reach their full-potential by designing educational programmes that help business to connect with their customers and wider stakeholders considering sustainability factors.
She also has extensive experience fostering long-term cross-sector partnerships with universities, NGOs, media organisations and think tanks. She is currently working on implementing workshops in Rio de Janeiro (BR) and London (UK) that inspire, engage and equip young people with relevant content and local role models for them to be able to be more resilient and committed when choosing a career path.
Previously to Saïd Business School, Hilden worked as a Senior Sustainability and Innovation Specialist for Dow Chemical in São Paulo, Brazil and coordinated communications strategies and stakeholder engagement initiatives for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Before working at Dow, she concluded a Research Fellowship at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), an incubator of academic projects specialising in research and teaching on issues of social inequity, based in Boston, US.
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CEO, Caspian Agency
Heather founded Caspian in 2005, intent on bringing a scientifically-based strategic discipline to white-glove event production. Her expertise in the innovation and social good business space have led to successful projects around the globe for the Skoll Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Omidyar Network, Ford Foundation and many others. Prior to launching Caspian, she managed events for Charles Schwab, producing conferences across the country. Previous pursuits in film and marketing include time with Fox Studios, Fox TV, the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals. She is an instructor in the Masters program at San Diego State University for Meetings & Events teaching Finance and Economics. She is on the board of the American Sustainable Business Network, and Utah Entrepreneur Organization. She is a frequent speaker and MC.
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Gianna is a Project Manager specialising in social impact education. She works with international clients in the higher education, charitable and corporate sectors to develop learning programmes and manage cross-sector partnerships. Her current work with the Skoll Centre includes leading Map the System, a global competition that encourages students to develop a systems-thinking approach to tackling social and environmental challenges, run in partnership with 34 universities around the world. Previously, Gianna has managed a portfolio of projects, events and educational programmes relating to social entrepreneurship and social finance, including Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK, the DFI Gender Finance Collaborative, the Skoll Scholarship and Emerge Conference. Gianna holds an MA in Gender & Culture from the University of Leeds and is passionate about advancing women and girls’ leadership across the globe.
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Head of Philanthropy Advisory, EMEA, J.P. Morgan Philanthropy Centre
Sheryl leads J.P. Morgan’s award-winning Philanthropy Centre in Europe, the Middle East & Africa. She advises individuals and families on how to meet their philanthropic goals by providing support on mission, focus, strategy and governance as well as sharing best practices from across the field. She also facilitates connections with likeminded philanthropists, and provides unique opportunities for clients to learn from thought leaders in the social and environmental issues they are passionate about.
Sheryl read Economics & Management at Cambridge University and completed her postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, she advised institutional asset managers and hedge funds on their cross-asset, macroeconomic strategy and equity allocations at UBS Investment Bank in London and Hong Kong.
She then shifted career by pursuing a Masters degree in International Development and joining a UK social enterprise, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. Here she ran a flagship programme providing educational support and career coaching to talented, young people from underserved and minority backgrounds.
Sheryl serves on the Board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and is an advocate and champion for innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to global development, having grown up in Kenya as part of an Indian entrepreneurial family. She is frequently featured in the media (Financial Times, Sunday Times, Professional Wealth Management, amongst others) for her views on philanthropy.
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Founder, Chairman, CEO, Care.com
Sheila founded Care.com in 2006 after her personal challenges as a young working mother finding care for two small children and ailing parents shed a spotlight on the massive care needs of families everywhere. Today, the company is the world’s largest online destination for finding and managing family care, serving more than 26 million people across 20 countries.
Committed to building a company that can be both profitable and mission-based, Sheila continues to drive innovation across Care.com’s platforms and services to enable families to find care and caregivers to find meaningful work, while also leveraging the company’s data and reach to drive systemic change across the care economy as a whole.
Prior to founding Care.com, Sheila was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Matrix Partners and held executive positions at Upromise, helping families save for college and at executive search engine TheLadders.com. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston Children’s Hospital, sits on the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and is a member of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership. Sheila graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received her J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University.
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Director, Resource Security, New America
Sharon E Burke works to balance human security and environmental sustainability. Her focus is on producing and promoting ideas that scale through public policy. She’s a former senior official in the Obama Administration and runs a program on natural resources at New America, a civic organization.
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Coordinator, Individual
Entrepreneur, Activist, Politician
Received BS from Istanbul Technical University and MBA from Michigan State University. She worked in multinational companies in Turkey and Russia, founded her own technology companies on data mining, community portals, and online ticketing.
One of the founders and president of Entrepreneur Women Association of Turkey, KAGİDER.
She served as Assembly Member and vice president of CHP, Republican People’s Party.
Founder of SES Equality and Solidarity Association which aims to promote equality and solidarity to reach gender equality and sustainable development goals. www.sesdernegi.org
She is the founder of SES Equality, Justice and Women Platform, a digital women news platform. www.esitlikadaletkadin.org where she also writes weekly columns.
She is the 2019 – 2020 fellow of Vital Voices Engage Program.
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Gladys C. Ngetich is a Rhodes Scholar from Kenya and a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Science. Before joining Oxford, she pursued a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya graduating with distinction. At Oxford, Gladys is a member of thriving Oxford Thermofluids Institute researching on novel advanced cooling technologies for jet engines and working in close partnership with Rolls-Royce Plc. Gladys is passionate about mentoring and empowering girls. She has cofounded an organisation that works to mentor and empower girls in Kenya.
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Chair Woman, Dentons Muñoz
Gisela Porras is the managing partner of Dentons in Panama. Her practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and international finance, with an emphasis on helping clients in transactions between multiple jurisdictions . She has held several positions in the public sector (2004-2009), including those of the General Director of the Tax Authority, Vice Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce and Industries. In 2009 the French Government decorated her as a Cavalliere of the French Legion for her efforts in preventing money laundering. In 2016, following the filtering of the Panama Documents, the President of the Republic designated her as one of only seven expert advisors in the adoption of best practices to strengthen the national platform of Panama. Gisela also works with the communities in her role as President of Voces Vitales de Panamá, an NGO that works on the empowerment of women.
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COO, Burning Man
As COO of Burning Man Project, Heather oversees Burning Man's program development, operations and affiliations. She also manages strategy and infrastructure, supporting the people and teams that drive Burning Man’s work in the world.
For over 20 years, Heather has focused on helping organizations with strategy, operations and partnerships specifically in creative endeavors. Throughout her life and career, she collaborates with people on projects and practices that actualize human potential.
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Trustee, Aman Foundation
Falak Naqvi is a Trustee of the Aman Foundation, one of the largest social sector enterprises based in Pakistan. Aman Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives by focusing on the key pillars of health and education, to positively impact the lives of millions of marginalized Pakistanis.
Falak is an advocate for social justice and has been looking at innovative ways to catalyze social impact, including bringing the creative arts into focus. An example is a forum at Art Dubai where she brought artists and philanthropists together, highlighting the need for public awareness of social issues whilst shining a light on their creative efforts making an impact towards change.
Using her management experience, working at Harvey Nichols and Bloomingdales Dubai as a luxury retail buyer, and her interest in the arts, she is passionate about using creative advocacy as a means of building a positive image of Pakistan internationally. To this end, Falak has completed several courses in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute in New York and London and currently sits on the MENAAC Acquisitions Committee at the Tate Modern. She is also a member of The Philanthropy Workshop.
Falak is committed to learning further on using the power of storytelling to advance systemic change and understanding the opportunities in this for long term impact.
She holds a Bachelors in Art from the University of the Arts, London.
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Chairman, Transforming Philanthropy Initiative
Felipe Medina leads the Transforming Philanthropy Initiative. This initiative creates a community of strategic philanthropists to facilitate collaboration and exchanges of best practices and lessons learned with the objective of increasing volume of effective social investments in Latin America. Felipe has been studying best practices and mistakes of philanthropy in the United States and Europe to help jump-start philanthropy in the region. He also has been researching how to create a culture of strategic philanthropy in Latin America.
Felipe is a member of the Steering Group of the Global Philanthropy Forum and the Aspen Institute Colombia Initiative. He serves in the Advisory Board of Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Felipe is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Enseña por Colombia and a member of the Global Advisory Council of Acumen and Teach for All. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of L’Atelier, a Reggio Emilia inspired pre-school that he founded with his wife Simonetta. L’Atelier is working with several organizations to establish Reggio Emilia inspired early education centers.
Felipe began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1990, managing assets for Latin American clients. Between 2000 and 2003, he was the regional director for Latin America’s private wealth management. Currently, Felipe manages relationships with some of the most influential families and individuals in the region. He is a member of the Private Wealth Philanthropy Advisory Committee and the Top Advisors Council of Goldman Sachs. Medina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Emmanuelle has been working with Friends-International (FI) since 2009. FI is a social enterprise saving lives and building futures of the most marginalized children and youth, their families and communities in South East Asia and accross the world. In 2014, Emmanuelle opened FI's first operational office in Europe to promote the ChildSafe Movement, a global child protection initiative aiming at providing everyone with the tools to protect children in their daily environment (the office is based in Geneva). The ChildSafe Movement provides the highest standards of protection to children and youth by delivering concrete measures and advice to tourists, businesses in the tourism industry, schools and universities, NGOs. We are developing creative and innovative programs, undertaking vigorous awareness-raising activities and encouraging behavioral change with one objective in mind: to make children and youth safe.
In Switzerland, Emmanuelle is also implementing a pilot project on the professional integration of young migrants. This project is part of Futures, Friends-International's program for youth employment and entrepreneurship. It aims to enable young refugees to enter the Swiss labour market through a series of internships. These internships will allow them to gain experience, practice and improve their French, acquire skills (soft skills, company skills) and develop a professional network in Geneva. Working closely with state agencies, the project will support young refugees enrolled in school to maximize their chances of accessing an apprenticeship or a job after graduation. The project will as well enable young refugees who are no longer in school to develop a life plan that will help them to integrate the workforce and achieve independence.
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Assistant Vice President, Social Innovation, Barclays Bank
Emily Fry is the AVP of Social Innovation at Barclays, based in New York. In this role, Emily manages the Social Innovation Facility which invests in products and services with an environmental or social impact whilst yielding a financial return. Last year, the SIF supported the launch of Barclays Multi Impact Growth Fund - a unique impact investing product that received seed funding from Big Society Capital. Previously, Emily managed Barclays strategic charity partnerships, and served as a credit risk analyst for Barclays Investment Bank in London.
Emily is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum where she focusses on sustainable finance, and co-founded Barclays Environment Network in the Americas. She graduated from Keble College, Oxford with a BA Hons in Economics and Management.
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Founder and CEO, TAAP Foundation
I am passionate about promoting peaceful coexistence, well-being, and social entrepreneurship through the visual arts and innovation in education.
I am co-founder of the TAAP Foundation, Art Team Lead at RoundGlass Learning, and former CEO of the Aid Live Foundation. I have co-created and directed programs and organizations that impact more than 4,500,000 beneficiaries in vulnerable communities in Latin America and the world.
My goal is to promote peace, generating social development projects and social enterprises that increase the well-being of communities—using collaboration, creativity, and social innovation as tools to develop critical thinking and understanding to drive systemic change.
I am an Ashoka Fellow, Rotary Peace Fellow, Perennial Fellow, OC Fellow, and co-founder of the Weaving Lab, Catalyst 2030, and Colombia Cuida Colombia. I support the Collective Change Lab, Tendrel, and the Ecosystem Network of the Wellbeing Project in Latam, all of them collaborative projects
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Emily has spent the last six years building programs for start-up social enterprises, solving ambiguous problems through a combination of operations and technology.
Most recently, at a health tech start-up in the United States, Emily launched 3 operational teams and piloted 4 clinical care programs. Simultaneously, she managed product teams to develop risk profiles based on machine learning algorithms, and test impact through randomized control trials. Her work decreased hospitalization rates for elderly populations by 50% and improved data quality by 75%.
Before returning to the US, Emily built operations and data systems for social enterprises in Kenya, Senegal, and India. As an early employee at Sanergy, she developed the pilot brand and marketing strategy for toilets in Nairobi's slums. Later, at myAgro and Vera Solutions, she used human-centered design to develop and program data systems, improving the insights and decisions of international start-ups.
Emily is currently an MBA student at Said Business School, where she is studying the ecosystems around social enterprises, and leading a program that connects graduate students interested in social impact. She also holds a BSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
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Emilie McDonnell is a lawyer from Australia with a background in refugee and human rights law. She is currently an MPhil in Law candidate at University College at the University of Oxford and is the 2016 Tasmanian Rhodes Scholar. Her MPhil research focuses on protecting the human rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants when migration control has been offshored and outsourced to third states and non-state actors.
Prior to the MPhil, she completed the Bachelor of Civil Law with Distinction at Oxford. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Criminology, and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in Law from the University of Tasmania. She has also been admitted to the Tasmanian Supreme Court as an Australian lawyer.
In 2013, Emilie co-founded Tasmania’s first community legal centre for refugees, the Tasmanian Refugee Legal Service, with a group of Tasmanian lawyers and community members. The service provides free legal assistance to asylum seekers and refugees within the Tasmanian community.
While at Oxford University, Emilie has been the Co-Convener of Rhodes to Asylum, a Rhodes Scholar group in Oxford focused on asylum seeker and refugee related issues, contributes to the Oxford Human Rights Hub blog and undertakes occasional research for Oxford Pro Bono Publico.
Emilie has previously worked as a tutor, researcher, unit facilitator and lecturer at the University of Tasmania law faculty.
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CEO, DigDeep Right to Water Project
George McGraw is a human rights advocate specializing in the human right to water and sanitation in the United States. George is founder and CEO of digdeep.org, the only WaSH (water, sanitation and hygiene) organization serving the 2.2 million Americans without access to basic plumbing. Founded in 2011, DigDeep develops education, research and infrastructure projects aimed at extending access to clean, hot-and-cold running water to every American.
Under George's leadership, DigDeep won the 2018 US Water Prize for its Navajo Water Project, which has brought clean, running water to hundreds of Native families across New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. In 2019, George led an effort to publish Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States, the first national study to outline the domestic water crisis and propose a way forward.
George has written for The New York Times, SSIR and The Nation, and his work has been featured in every major news outlet, including Emmy and Deadline award-winning pieces by CBS Sunday Morning. George is an Ashoka Fellow and former Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University. George holds an M.A. in International Law and Conflict Management from the United Nations University for Peace. He is also a Civil Society Fellow at The Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Managing Director, WaterSHED
Geoff is the founder and Managing Director of HappyTap (happytap.net), a social enterprise and the global leader in handwashing solutions for low-income settings. This group is expanding globally in response to the Covid19 pandemic.
Geoff is also the co-founder of WaterSHED, a leading actor in the WASH sector, recognized globally for its pioneering systems approach to make water, sanitation, and hygiene markets work better for everyone. WaterSHED has set a global benchmark for cost-effectiveness and sustainability in rural sanitation.
He previously worked at the World Bank Group on water sector projects in Cambodia, India, and in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to that, Geoff spent four years on the start-up team at a software firm based in Canada, now a unit of CA, Inc.
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Founder & CEO, Red Dot Foundation (Safecity)
ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Founder of Red Dot Foundation (India) and President of Red Dot Foundation Global (USA). Its' platform Safecity, crowdsources personal experiences of sexual violence and abuse in public spaces. Since Safecity started in Dec 2012, it has become the largest crowd map on the issue in India and abroad.
ElsaMarie is a 2020 Gratitude Network Fellow, 2019 IWF Fellow and a Reagan Fascell Fellow, a 2018 Yale World Fellow and an alumni of the Stanford Draper Hills Summer School, the US State Department’s Fortune Mentoring Program, Oxford Chevening Gurukul and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Leadership Program. She is also a fellow with Rotary Peace, Aspen New Voices, Vital Voices and a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. She co-founded the Gender Alliance which is a cross-network initiative bringing together feminists from various German networks including the German FFO’s GDL.
She is listed as one of BBC Hindi’s 100 Women and has won several awards including Government of India Niti Aayog’s #WomenTransformingIndia award and The Digital Woman Award in Social Impact by SheThePeople. In 2017, she was awarded the Global Leadership Award by Vital Voices in the presence of Secretary Hillary Clinton. She is also the recipient of Gold Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year - Government or Non-Profit -10 or Less Employees in 2016.
Her work has been recognised by the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations through the Intercultural Innovation Award, SDG Action Festival and the UN Foundation at the Solutions Summit 2016.
She is a co-editor and author of “The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth” published by Anthem Press on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office’s Global Diplomacy Lab. She has penned articles that have appeared in CNN, Huffington Post, WIP amongst others. She has spoken about her work at the Rotary International Assembly 2019, Aspen Ideas Festival , at TEDx MidAtlantic, UN Women, State Department and others
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CEO, Trillium Asset Management
Matt Patsky is CEO and Lead Portfolio Manager of the Trillium ESG Global Equity strategy and Portfolio Manager of the Trillium Sustainable Opportunities strategy. Matt has over three decades of experience in investment research and investment management. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1984 as a technology analyst. In 1989, while covering emerging growth companies for Lehman, he began to incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors into his research, becoming the first sell side analyst in the United States to publish on the topic of socially responsible investing in 1994. As Director of Equity Research for Adams, Harkness & Hill, he built the firm’s powerful research capabilities in socially and environmentally responsible areas such as renewable energy, resource optimization, and organic and natural products. Before Trillium, Matt worked at Winslow Management Company in Boston, where he served as director of research, chair of the investment committee, and port
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SVP Documentary Films, Participant Media
Elise Pearlstein is Senior Vice President, Documentary Film & TV for Participant Media, the global media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires and compels social change. An Oscar®-nominated, Emmy®-winning film producer, prior to joining Participant as a full-time employee, Pearlstein produced four feature documentaries for the company including FOOD, INC., STATE 194, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS, and MISCONCEPTION. Pearlstein’s additional credits as a producer include PROTAGONIST, THE LIVING MUSEUM, THE GUIDE, MEET MR. TOILET, and multiple network specials. She also co-produced and co-wrote SMOKE AND MIRRORS: A HISTORY OF DENIAL that was short listed for the 2000 Academy Awards.
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TEDxKabul Organizer, TED Conferences LLC
Eijaz Hosham, MD, is a Resident Ophthalmologist and Social Entrepreneur. In addition, he is the Curator of TEDxKabul Conferences, a series of independently organized events that create new platforms for Afghanistan's sharpest thinkers and visionaries to inspire conversation and collaboration.
In 2017, he founded - ACADEMIA.academy - a non-profit focusing on Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Education. ACADEMIA is a community of Thinkers and Creators that promotes Entrepreneurship as a way for social development.
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Founder, Dharma Life
Gaurav Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Dharma Life, a social enterprise with the mission to improve the lives of the poorest segments of society through a rural entrepreneurship model. He also runs a small family office private equity portfolio focusing on seed-funding eDarly stage, highly innovative enterprises.
Prior to founding Dharma Life, Gaurav spent three years in the private equity space at General Atlantic, a large growth capital investment firm (until 2008). He focused his efforts on opportunities in the consumer and media, and healthcare sectors across Europe. Gaurav started his career with Morgan Stanley in London in investment banking, where he specialized in European capital products and healthcare investment banking. While he was working with Morgan Stanley, he became the Founder/President of the German Chapter at Pratham (which works towards providing education to under privileged children in India), Dusseldorf, Germany. As the Chapter Lead, he raised awareness and funding support by organizing multiple large-scale business conferences and events.
Gaurav has been recognized as a Young Global Leader, Class of 2018 by World economic forum for his exemplary efforts in the field of social development. He has also won BMW Foundation Young Leaders Awards – 2013 at the Munich Economic Summit for addressing social issues through innovative high potential initiatives that can become sustainable in the mid-to-long term.
Gaurav graduated with a BA degree with honors in International Business Studies and French from the European Business School, London. He then pursued his MBA degree from London Business School.
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Director, Civic Compass
Gaston Wright has an extensive experience in social innovations and technology for social change. He recently formed Civic Compass, a new think-tank for Latin America dedicated to studying digital rights and their impact on the civic space, as well as other pressing issues such as data protection, content moderation, AI and political polarization. In 2012 he started Change.org Argentina, turning the local operation into one of Latin America's fastest-growing social change platforms with more than 10 million users. After a long tenure working for influential NGOs, he moved to the private sector, where he was Public Policy Manager at Facebook for the South Cone.
Previously, he worked at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in the US and Canada for 12 years, where he founded and led the global expansion of Changemaker.com. He also worked as a consultant on digital transformation for the Womanity Foundation in Switzerland and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.
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CEO, International Justice Mission
Gary Haugen is CEO and founder of International Justice Mission.
Before founding IJM in 1997, Gary was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he focused on crimes of police misconduct. In 1994, he served as the Director of the United Nations’ investigation in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. In this role, he led an international team of lawyers, criminal prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and forensics experts to gather evidence that would eventually be used to bring the perpetrators of the genocide to justice. Gary received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Gary has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership. His work to protect the poor from violence has been featured by Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, the New Yorker, The Times of India, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, the Guardian and National Public Radio, among many other outlets. He is the author of several books, including Good News About Injustice (Intervarsity Press) and, most recently, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press). Gary was invited to share the themes of The Locust Effect at the annual TED Conference in a talk entitled: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now.
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Board Member, Segal Family Foundation
Dolly was born and educated in the Philippines. She went on to college at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, and graduated at nineteen years old with a Degree of Bachelors of Science in Commerce majoring in Accounting. She immediately began working with Philippines Banking Corporation in Cebu City, Davao City, and later in Manila. In 1967, she passed the national examination for Certified Public Accountants and became a member.
Dolly came to New Jersey in 1970 as a professional with a resident alien visa. She later elected to have dual citizenship, and she became a U.S. citizen in 1980.
Dolly took a job in New York City as a staff accountant for a real estate management firm overseeing over 100 buildings. Three years later, she accepted a position as an assistant to the Chief Accountant for a national Wholesale Pharmaceutical Distributor with headquarters in NYC where she stayed for 10 years.
After tiring of the commute, Dolly entered the real estate profession, as an associate in MCAR (Middlesex County Association of Realtors). She received the “Realtor Associate of The Year” award in 2000. Dolly also was a member of the Board of Directors for MCAR.
She participated on the community service committee, which helped children with terminal illness, raised funds for disabled college students, collected food for the homeless, and placed abused women in “safe homes.” She remains a strong supporter of Realtors Political Action Committee, NJ Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Children’s Miracle Network.
Dolly met her husband Barry on the tennis courts. They have been together since 2005. Dolly’s given name is Dulcita, which means “sweet.” She is an important part of the team. She has a quick mind in both tennis and business, and her big forehand makes up for the fact she can’t cook.
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Vice President - Global Philanthropy and Sustainability, Fossil Group Inc.
Janiece leads Fossil Group's efforts to make the biggest impact that Fossil can through global giving and sustainability. Fossil is on a journey to become a more sustainable company through focused initiatives which impact the planet, its employees and global communities. Janiece has led the Fossil Foundation since its inception in 2013. The Fossil Foundation partners with social entrepreneurs to unleash the power of youth. Since its launch, the Fossil Foundation has impacted over 250K young lives.
Prior to joining Fossil, Janiece was Assistant Vice President of Community Engagement at AT&T. Her cross-functional work experience also includes 20+ years at Hewlett-Packard Co. From 2006-2008, she was V.P./General Manager of HP's Imaging and Printing Attach Organization and successfully launched and grew this business to $600M+. From 2003-2006, she was HP’s Global Director of Corporate Philanthropy and e-inclusion and led the transformation of HP’s portfolio of strategic philanthropy programs with programs and projects in 18 countries.
Janiece currently serves on the Board of Directors of numerous non-profit organizations, i.e. College Summit, Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance, AT&T Performing Arts Center (Dallas), and Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas.
She earned a B.S. in Social Science/Organizational Behavior at the University of California at Berkeley, an Executive M.B.A. at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and executive training certification at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Executive Education Program.
Janiece is in love with her family and close friends! Family time, social activities, making an impact, and spirituality matter most in her life.
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Rob is a former partner of McKinsey&Company (1990-2005). After that he was an executive in the insurance sector for 9 years. Rob now holds a number of non-executive board positions such as board-member of the Netherlands Financial Conduct Authority (AFM), chairman of the board of the Red Cross hospital, Chairman of an occupational health company and member of the supervisory board of The University of Amsterdam.
While at McKinsey, he was the lead partner on a pro-bono client engagement with Child Helpline International working closely with Jeroo Billimoria. Jeroo subsequently invited Rob to join the Board of Aflatoun as treasurer. Rob has been chairman of the Aflatoun board since September 2014.
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CEO, Wetherby Asset Management
CEO, Board Member, Philanthropist, Mother, Sister, Friend, Partner, Student, Teacher, Potter, Skier, Reader, and Traveler.
Through the years, Deb has been recognized in her field, being named one of the Top 50 Women in Wealth Management with the firm being listed in the Top 50 Fee-Only RIAs, and Top 50 Wealth Management RIAs. She loves to teach and has spoken on topics ranging from impact investing to the collective power of women helping women. Deb’s community and board work reflects her belief in philanthropy and charitable service. Her current or prior service includes the Marin Community Foundation; the Advisory Board for the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the Haas School at the University of California, Berkeley; BRAC USA, which works to improve the well-being of the poorest people in Africa and Asia; the National Endowment for Financial Education; and the UC San Francisco Foundation.
CEO and Founder, Wetherby Asset Management, a certified B corporation
M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Commerce from McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia
Certified Financial Planner™ certificant
Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder
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CEO, Geneva Global Performance Philanthropy
David is passionate about helping individuals and organizations release their potential and increase their effectiveness. He is an advocate for the social sector and the role that it plays in creating vibrant and healthy society. He has extensive global experience and cross-cultural skills having led a staff of more than 3000 in over 30 different countries. His interests are broad and integrated, ranging from international development to arts and culture, from human rights to environmental sustainability, from health and fitness to spirituality and philosophy. He believes that individuals and communities need a wide diversity of experiences and broad options of expression to thrive and achieve their potential. He has expertise in strategy development and change management for both individuals and organizations. David is a nonprofit executive, a management consultant, an executive and personal coach, and a trainer and facilitator.
+ 25 years of nonprofit organization leadership and management
+ 10+ years in C-Suite positions
+ Consulting and coaching
+ Extensive global experience and perspective
+ Fund development, major gifts and philanthropic advising
+ Program design and implementation
+ Marketing and branding
+ Strategy development and organizational alignment
+ Strengths-based approach to people and organizations
+ 15+ years of board development and board relations
+ Excellent public speaking, written communications and interpersonal skills
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CEO, Underdog Foundation
David Berge is the CEO and Founder of the Underdog Foundation. The Underdog Foundation and makes grants and impact investments and advises intermediaries, asset owners and entrepreneurs on impact investing and community investing.
David is the CEO and Founder of Underdog Ventures, LLC, which created a fund investing in impact entrepreneurs gifting parts of their equity for charitable ownership. Underdog Ventures was recognized as one of ten U.S. financial institutions providing especially strong benefits to the environment and one of the top five funds supporting social mission. In his previous consulting firm, David advised high net worth individuals and social venture institutions on deal structures, negotiations and strategy while providing one third of his work on a pro bono basis for community development organizations.
He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Community Investment at Vancity, North America’s largest community development credit union with over 500,000 members and $21.7 billion in assets, where he oversaw $3.5 billion in loans and over $750 million in impact deals.
Previously, David was the Director of Vermont National Bank’s Socially Responsible Banking Fund, which he grew from $38 million to $208 million U.S. in targeted deposits and impact loans. David was the Senior Loan Officer at the Institute for Community Economics.
David is a former board member and Chair of the Social Investment Forum, the trade association for institutions and professionals in the $17 trillion sustainable, responsible and impact investing industry in the US. He is a former board member of the Social Venture Circle.
David speaks frequently on issues of social venture investing, unique deal structures, and community investment. His work has been highlighted on NPR’s Marketplace, CBS and NBC news, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Nations Business, and Fast Company.
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Co-Founder and CEO, World Savvy
For 20 years, Dana Mortenson — Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of World Savvy — has been influencing and changing the conversation about education with educators, administrators, parents and community members. The world is changing, and educators need the freedom and the resources to help our systems of learning change along with it. We can only rise to meet our biggest challenges if our students learn to think through complex problems, and design solutions from a global perspective. Problem-solving, comfort with ambiguity, collaboration, empathy, critical thinking — all are essential tools in today’s global knowledge economy. And a big part of educational equity is ensuring all students have access to those tools.
Dana is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of World Savvy, a national education nonprofit working to educate and engage youth as responsible global citizens. World Savvy supports change agents in K-12 education to create more inclusive, adaptive schools that ensure all young people can develop the skills and dispositions needed to thrive in a more diverse, interconnected world. World Savvy programs provide support at three critical levels to deeply integrate global competence into teaching, learning and culture: student engagement, educator capacity, and school and district leadership support. Since 2002 she has led the organization through significant national expansion, reaching more than 800,000 students and 6,800 teachers across 45 US states and 32 countries, from offices based in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York.
Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014.
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Founder & CEO, Greenwood Place
Rebecca Eastmond is Co-Founder and CEO of Greenwood Place, which provides strategic advice and execution support for a community of entrepreneurial philanthropists. Rebecca began her career as a charity lawyer, then became CEO of The Prince’s Foundation for Arts & Kids - taking it from a start-up to working with 33,000 children. She was a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan Private Bank, leading the bank’s philanthropy advisory offering in EMEA for almost a decade. In addition to her work with impact-focused philanthropists and investors at Greenwood Place, Rebecca serves on the board of two grant-making foundations and chairs the Impact Committee for Impact Bridge, an impact investment fund of funds. She is a trustee of Peek Vision and of Acumen Academy UK, and a global council member for Acumen.
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Founder, Mayday Rescue
James Le Mesurier is a passionate social entrepreneur. In 2013 he founded The White Helmets programme in Syria, a volunteer rescue organisation that since then has grown to be an organisation of 3,500 volunteers who operate throughout Syria and who have saved 104,000 lives. He is the founder of Mayday Rescue Foundation, a not for profit organisation committed to protecting civilians from conflict and natural disaster. In addition to the White Helmets in Syria, Mayday is active in Mogadishu, developing the city's emergency services network, and exploring the development of similar community-based resilience initiatives in other fragile and failing states.
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Founder, Skafte Global Law, P.A.
Marie-Louise Skafte is the founder of Skafte Global Law, P.A., a boutique consulting firm. She is licensed to practice law in Canada, the United States and England with over 20 years of success across the transportation, aviation, financial services, marine container leasing and logistics industries as well as supporting professional services firms. She serves as Consultant and provides general advice to global companies, executive management teams and acts as outside General Counsel.
Prior to forming the firm, Marie-Louise worked in San Francisco as Vice President – Global General Counsel, Head of HR and Corporate Compliance with The Cronos Group leading teams in 19 countries. She also worked for Deutsche Post DHL, with operations in 220 countries holding the position of General Counsel for Canada. She has previously held key management positions for DHL Express (USA), Inc., American President Lines Limited, MasTec, Inc., and the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Marie-Louise obtained a JD from Suffolk University Law School, a BA in Labor/Management Relations & Business from the University of Toronto and Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned academic and athletic scholarships.
She serves on various boards, has received numerous industry awards. Marie-Louise is also a commercial pilot and resides in Florida with her husband Roger Martin.
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CEO and Cofounder, Team Rubicon USA
Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon, the only nonprofit disaster response organization that utilizes the skills of military veterans to rapidly deploy emergency response teams. In giving veterans an opportunity to continue their service, Team Rubicon provides them with a sense of purpose, community and identity. Since the organization’s founding in 2010 following the massive Haiti earthquake, Team Rubicon has responded to over 200 disasters and grown from eight to 50,000 volunteer members. Under Wood’s leadership, the organization has responded following the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, Hurricane Sandy, the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the 2014 wildfire in Pateros, Washington, and the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal.
As a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, Wood deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a Scout Sniper and earned the Navy-Marine Commendation Medal. A leading veterans’ advocate, Wood has briefed President Obama on veterans’ issues, met with former Presidents Bush and Clinton on veteran transition and disaster response and testified before a Senate committee to improve mental health care services for returning veterans. He has also appeared in the major media, including MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, US News & World Report, Forbes, Fox News and penned an op-ed for The New York Times. In 2014, Crown Publishing published Wood’s book, Take Command: Lessons in Leadership.
Wood has received numerous awards including: Chronicle of Philanthropy’s “40 Under Forty”; Goldman Sachs “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” award; and was selected as a CNN Hero in 2012.
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CEO, Nuru International
Jake Harriman graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy and served seven and a half years in the Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander in both the Infantry and a special operations unit called Force Recon. During his military career, Jake led four operational deployments, including two combat tours in Iraq and disaster relief operations in Indonesia and Sri Lanka after the Asian tsunami. Jake was awarded the Bronze Star for actions in combat during his second tour in Iraq. From his experiences, Jake came to believe that the “War on Terror” wouldn’t be won on the battlefield alone: the contributing causes of terrorism—disenfranchisement, lack of education and extreme poverty—must also be eradicated. Jake left his career in the Marine Corps and enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) to build Nuru International, an organization focused on ending extreme poverty in remote, rural areas. Jake graduated with an MBA in June 2008 and led a team to launch Nuru Kenya later that year. Since then, Nuru Kenya and Nuru Ethiopia have enabled over 60,000 people to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. As founder and CEO of Nuru International, Jake has received several honors: Rainer Arnhold Fellowship (2009); Unsung Hero of Compassion presented by His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2014); Gerson Lehrman Group Social Impact Fellowship (2014); Ballard Center Social Innovator of the Year (2014); TEDxBYU speaker (2014); story told in 40 Chances by Howard G. Buffet (2014); White House Champion of Change (2014); Senate resolution in his home state of West Virginia for efforts in addressing global poverty (2015); Presidential Leadership Scholar (2015); and coverage in The New York Times, BBC, Forbes, ABC, Devex, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, among others. When not in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jake stays in San Clemente, California. Jake is 40 years old and is fighting to end extreme poverty in his lifetime.
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Consultant, The Peter Cundill Foundation
Christopher Risso-Gill is a Consultant to The Peter Cundill Foundation. Established in 2012, the Foundation honours the legacy of renowned Canadian investment fund manager and philanthropist, F. Peter Cundill, FCA, CFA, 1938-2011. The emphasis is on promoting the health, education and well-being of young people.
Christopher is the author of There's Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach, a book about the legendary mutual fund manager and philanthropist, Peter Cundill.
Christopher is a graduate in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. He became a director of Burns Fry International, a Canadian investment banking firm and later joined Prudential-Bache to run their risk arbitrage operation and convertible debt trading. He was a director of the Cundill Value Fund for ten years.
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Vice President, Omidyar Network
Christopher brings Omidyar Network over 20 years of global marketing experience and a deep understanding of emerging technologies, social media, and integrated communications. As vice president of the firm’s marketing and communications function, he manages public relations, internal communications, brand development, and strategic marketing programs.
Immediately prior to Omidyar Network, Christopher was senior vice president at GMMB, a cause-related communications firm that is committed to having a real and lasting impact on individuals, communities, and the world. Christopher led GMMB’s digital and social media practice, and was a senior member of the branding practice.
Previously, Christopher served as managing partner at Full Contact, a marketing and communications agency, which he founded in 2001 to offer premium, fully-integrated services to a range of global brand leaders. Responsible for all facets of Full Contact’s strategy and operations, he provided the overall vision for the firm and oversaw planning, research, media, production, technology, and analytics. Earlier in his career, Christopher held increasingly senior positions at digital marketing agency Digitas in New York, advertising network Modem Poppe in various locations across Asia, and public relations agency Ogilvy & Mather in Barcelona.
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Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Saïd Business School
Marc Ventresca is an academic researcher and teacher, on faculty at Oxford Said Business School / Wolfson College since 2004, with focus on innovation, infrastructure, and impact. Before that, on faculty at Kellogg/Northwestern, Naval Postgraduate School, U of Illinois, U of California and with visiting posts at Copenhagen Business School and Mediterranean Business School (Tunis, Tunisia). His work focuses on early moments in markets as well as market-building initiatives in several sectors, in the context of 'unsettled spaces', that is economic and cultural world reshaped by emerging technologies, change in regulatory and governance regimes, and platform capabilities. Prior work is on entrepreneurial activity and social networks, on the rise of alternative financial markets and protocols, and social innovation in a range of complex contexts. He is PI for an Oxford initiative investigating dynamics of space commerce and governance. He has a long, varied affiliation w our Skoll Centre.
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CEO, The Garden of Hope Foundation
Chi Hui-Jung is the CEO of the Garden of Hope Foundation and a well-known Taiwanese activist, who pioneered advocating for the establishment of laws to prevent gender violence, initiated plans to build shelters for domestic violence survivors, and founded the Formosan Daughter Awards to encourage girls to challenge gender stereotypes.
Over two decades ago, when Chi entered the Foundation, it consisted only of a dozen staff members, one shelter room, and one tiny office area. At the very start, the Garden of Hope’s focus was primarily providing shelter services for sexual assault survivors. However, Chi felt more radical change was needed to improve the overall situation of survivors. That was why she decided to combine policy advocacy and social services into the Foundation’s missions, initiating a series of campaigns to push for the establishment of laws in relation to gender violence.
In line with the broadening its mission, she expanded the Foundation’s structure to include departments in charge of public relations, research, educational activities, international affairs, advocacy, publications, and marketing. The Garden of Hope has grown to become a well-established organization with a total of 13 branches in Taiwan and one office in New York. It now has more than 500 staff members and has provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of survivors of gender violence.
Furthermore, Chi brought the Garden of Hope Foundation onto the international stage. She launched an English version website to introduce the Foundation to international audiences, set up branch offices overseas to conduct exchanges between social workers, and has participated in global forums. In 2005, under Chi’s leadership, the Garden of Hope Foundation won the prestigious Citigroup #1 Asian NGO Excellence Award.
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Co-founder, Imago Global Grassroots
I founded IMAGOGG, a nonprofit that works with grassroots, social entrepreneurs and governments around the world to scale up innovations from the Base of the Pyramid.
I also teach “Scaling up for Development Impact” at Harvard Kennedy School since 2014, executive education for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and for the Bernard Van Leer Foundation.
I am an economist, worked at the World Bank for most of my professional life, including as VP for South Asia where I managed a 39 billion dollar portfolio, between 2008 and 2013. Before that I was a Country Director for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Peru and Paraguay.
I am part of the UN HIgh Level Panel on Digital Cooperation and frequent guest at CNN Dinero.
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CEO and Warden, Rhodes Trust, The Rhodes Trust
Before taking up the Wardenship, Mr Conn was Senior Advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. At the Moore Foundation his conservation projects included the preservation of wild salmon ecosystems and the Palmyra Atoll biological research station. His investment company, Redjuice Capital, focused on technology and clean energy companies and he sits on several company and non-profit boards or advisory committees, including Patagonia, the Arcadia Foundation, the Oxford Internet Institute and the Atlantic Salmon Foundation. Charles is also a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.
Earlier in his career, Mr Conn was the CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch, having co-founded Citysearch in 1995 and overseen the merger with Ticketmaster and the company’s public share offering. Prior to starting TMCS, Charles was a Partner with McKinsey & Company, and a leader of its growth strategy and energy practices. In 2001 he was selected as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Mr Conn holds a BA from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. During his time in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he achieved First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Mr Conn is a citizen of both Canada and the United States.
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Chair Trawalla foundation, Individual
Carol Schwartz is a leading Australian business identity who has been involved in government, private and corporate boards for over two decades. She is the founding chair of the Womens Leadership Institute Australia and is a member of the Reserve Bank Board of Australia.
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President, MSI United States
Marjorie Newman-Williams
President of MSI United States
Marjorie joined MSI Reproductive Choices in January 2016 with more than 30 years of professional and executive management experience, including work at UNICEF, the PAHO Foundation, the Children’s Defense Fund and Family Health International.
She has lived in six countries and worked extensively in international development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Marjorie leads the External Affairs department, which integrates advocacy, public policy, private fundraising and partnerships.
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Chief Communications & Impact Officer, GoodWeave
Bruce Moats, GoodWeave’s Chief Communications & Impact Officer, has extensive experience working in the private and public sectors in strategic communications, brand building, public policy, and labor rights. Prior to being named to this positon, Bruce served more than a decade as the Director of Corporate Communications for the International Finance Corporation at the World Bank Group. He also was Corporate Vice President of Public Policy at Levi Strauss & Co., where he served as the company's principal advisor on external relations - including labor, human rights, and ethical sourcing. He spent almost 15 years at AT&T in various management positions. Bruce has held Board positions at Fair Labor Association, Levi Strauss Foundation, and US Council for International Business, and was co-chair of UNC Kenan Institute on CSR. He holds a degree from American University in International Relations.
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Secretary-General, Roberto Marinho Foundation
Hugo Barreto has been the Secretary General of Fundação Roberto Marinho since 2001. Prior to that he was FRM’s creative director. He has wide experience in the field of educational television and was responsible for the creation of pioneer science and environmental tv series in Brazilian television. He coordinates the Telecurso, one of the largest education projects in Brazil, that has enabled 1.5 million people to complete their basic education. Hugo is also responsible for the Futura Channel - an educational tv totally supported by private corporations, watched by more than 35 million Brazilians, including 1.8 million teachers and educators. Under his leadership FRM implemented some of the most visited museums in Brazil – the Museum of Portuguese Language and the Museum of Football, the Museum of Art of Rio and the Museum of Tomorrow
He currently leads the creation of the Museum of Image and Sound, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and the reconstruction, after the fire (in 2015), of the Museum of Portuguese Language
Mr Barreto holds a Baccalaureate degree in Philosophy and was chairman of the Board of GIFE, Group of Institutes, Foundations and Companies, 2004-2007. GIFE is a model in Latin America in the area of private social investment
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Paloma Roldán (40) is a pedagogue, expressive arts therapist, artist, environmental educator, environmental activist and feminist. She is executive director and partner of Ciudad Saludable and Director of Urban Interventions and Performance of the Peru Gender Observatory.
With postgraduate studies in Environmental Teaching for Sustainable Development from the University of Querétaro, Mexico; in Community Relations and Social Responsibility diploma from the ESAN University, Peru and in Anthropology & Photography diploma from the Image Center in Peru, diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy from TAE Peru. She is currently in the master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with spatiality in Peace building anf conflict transformation at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Worked on inclusive recycling, circular economy, health, art, education, gender, and environmental communication projects in urban, rural, and indigenous communities for more than 20 years in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.
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Head of Technology Investing, TPG / The Rise Fund, TPG Growth
Brian Dunlap
Head of Technology Investing, The Rise Fund
San Francisco
Brian Dunlap is the Head of Technology Investments for The Rise Fund. Mr. Dunlap is also a member of the broader Technology, Media & Telecommunications investment team at TPG, where he leads TPG’s efforts in growth-stage technology companies globally, with a focus on software / SaaS, FinTech, big data / analytics and cyber-security.
Prior to TPG, he was at General Atlantic and JMI Equity, where he led growth-oriented investments in consumer internet, financial technology, enterprise software & SaaS, digital media & communications and financial services. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Mr. Dunlap moved to São Paulo in 2010 to help launch General Atlantic’s Latin America practice, and executed investments in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. Prior to General Atlantic, he worked in M&A at Morgan Stanley IBD in New York. Mr. Dunlap served as Co-Chair of the Social Investment Committee of Echoing Green, a leading non-profit providing funding to social enterprises globally.
Mr. Dunlap sits on the boards of directors for EverFi, Noodle AI, Dharma, Resultdos Digitais, and HotSchedules. He is also responsible for TPG’s investment in McAfee.
Mr. Dunlap received a BA in Public Policy from Stanford, with a concentration in Economics, and a Master’s in International Affairs from the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford. He also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Managing Director, Co-Impact
As Managing Director of Portfolio, Brendan oversees Co-Impact’s investment sourcing, selection and support. Brendan brings over 20 years of experience in social impact work including philanthropy, start-up, and large-scale systems change efforts. Prior to joining Co-Impact in 2016, Brendan served as a Managing Director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation where he led efforts to select and support a global portfolio of investments in education, health, agriculture and economic development. Previously, Brendan served in a variety of leadership positions in the social sector including as a founding team member and Vice President of Education Pioneers, a founding Campus Director of Citizen Schools, Director of the SEO Scholars Program, and a project manager for the New York City Department of Education. Brendan began his career with Teach for America in Baltimore Maryland.
Brendan has served as a Board member and CEO coach of nine high growth NGOs globally with a focus on education, healthcare and livelihoods in Africa, India and the US. Brendan currently serves on the Boards of iCivics, Nest and as Chair of the Future Project. Brendan received a BA from Cornell University, an MA from Harvard Divinity School and is an alumnus of Coro. Brendan lives in Boston Massachusetts with his wife and son.
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CEO & Founder, KARAMA
Hibaaq Osman is the founder of Karama, a movement to end violence against women, and deliver sustainable, inclusive peace and democracy in Africa and the Middle East. Taking grassroots issues to the global stage, Hibaaq’s career has encompassed reconciliation and peacebuilding in Somalia and Sudan, to campaigning for justice and recognition for Korea’s ‘comfort women’, and supporting grassroots women activists to build constituencies and secure their rights in the wake of the revolutions across the Arab region. Named one of the world’s 500cMost Influential Muslims, Hibaaq is a member of the UNAOC’s Women’s Alliance for Peace and has previously served on a number of advisory groups and boards, including UN Women’s Civil Society Advisory Group, and the board of Donor Direct Action. Hibaaq is a senior fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and a member of the Yale African Women’s Leadership Network. Hibaaq also recently founded the Global Women's Think Tank, in partnership with the University of Central Florida.
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Nikki Verhoff is the Director of Development for Health Care Without Harm, a global organization that works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint and becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. Prior to joining Health Care Without Harm in 2016, Nikki spent 13 years in the development department at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), where she was focused most recently on integrating program planning with the organization's fundraising efforts. Nikki has also served as the Director of Institutional Giving for the School of American Ballet and City Harvest, a hunger organization based in New York City.
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Executive Director, Republicen
Bob Inglis was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998, unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998, and then returned to the practice of commercial real estate law in Greenville, S.C. In 2004, he was re-elected to Congress and served until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010.
In 2011, Inglis went full-time into promoting free enterprise action on climate change and launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”) at George Mason University in July 2012. E&EI is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt, educational outreach that lives to demonstrate the power of accountable free enterprise. E&EI believes that climate change can be solved by eliminating all subsidies, including the implicit subsidy of the lack of accountability for emissions. By creating a level playing field in which all costs are transparently “in” on all fuels, E&EI believes that the free enterprise system will deliver innovation faster than government regulations could ever imagine.
E&EI supports an online community of energy optimists and climate realists at republicEn.org. You can say you’re “En” on free enterprise solutions to climate change at republicEn.org.
For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt and in the Showtime series YEARS of Living Dangerously (episodes 3 and 4), and he spoke at TEDxJacksonville (watch) and TEDxBeaconStreet (watch).
Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and a Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014.
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CEO and founder, Roots of Impact
Bjoern Struewer is founder and CEO at Roots of Impact, a specialized advisory firm dedicated to making finance work for positive impact on people and planet. He has more than 20 years of experience in the finance sector, including 12 years at Credit Suisse, most recently as a Managing Director. After leaving the banking industry he started working closely with public funders and impact investors across the globe to scale high-performing enterprises and innovations with strong potential for impact.
With his team at Roots of Impact he developed pioneering solutions such as Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) and Impact-Linked Finance as well as the Social Finance Academy. He leads the Initiative for Blended Finance at University of Zurich and is Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth as well as mentor at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Impact Investment for the Next Generation Program. He is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the recently established Impact-Linked Finance Fund and Co-Founder of the Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship (FASE).
Bjoern is a strong advocate for unleashing the potential of business and finance for positive impact recognizing that every business and every investment has an impact.
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MBA Student, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures
Binet is an MBA candidate at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management focusing on strategy, operations and entrepreneurship. She has been part of various initiatives in school including The Turner Family Center for Social Ventures which challenges students to use market-based solutions to alleviate poverty. Originally from Ethiopia, she holds a bachelor's degree in Business Management from Addis Ababa University.
Prior to starting her MBA, Binet worked in agricultural development in Ethiopia and was part of a strategy and analytics team at the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency. The agency was established by the Ethiopian Government to help transform the lives of its smallholder farmers, and in her capacity as an analyst working there, she was involved in projects spanning multiple agricultural areas. She also took part in leading strategic advisory and consulting projects for senior clients in areas such as strategy development, policy and regulatory analysis, stakeholder engagement and coordination, and program design and incubation. Her experience in impact has been further enriched through a summer internship at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she contributed to the organization's global growth and opportunity program with a focus on Asia.
With a passion for social impact work, she plans to pursue careers that will enable her to contribute to and learn from various businesses in diverse industries aiming to influence change. She is an aspiring social entrepreneur hoping to make a difference herself in her hometown in the future.
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Board Member, Sall Family Foundation
English Sall holds a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology and is a board member of the Sall Family Foundation and several global health and development organizations. English is also the co-founder of Embark, a gender justice initiative serving grassroots feminist movements, and is currently serving as a post-doctoral fellow at the Carolina Health Informatics Program at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.
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CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Trained as a physician and development economist, Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is an award-winning social entrepreneur, CEO, and global health funder who is passionate about making global health efforts as impactful as possible. Dr. Shah is the CEO at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries.
Dr. Shah was previously the Managing Director of GiveWell, a research and funding organization that directs hundreds of millions of dollars per year to programs in global health and development. He is the co-founder, former CEO and now Board Chair of IDinsight, a global development data analytics and advisory firm with offices across Africa, Asia, and the US. He worked previously at the World Bank and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Dr. Shah holds degrees from Harvard, Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Co-founder, WeClycers
Bilikiss is the General Manager of the Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK). LASPARK is responsible for planning, developing and maintaining parks to promote the health and welfare of Lagosians. In addition, LASPARK is responsible for landscaping and beautification of all open spaces in Lagos State. LASPARK is also responsible for mitigating the effects of climate change through an aggressive statewide tree planting campaign.
Bilikiss also co-Founded Wecyclers Nigeria Limited (Wecyclers), a for-profit social enterprise that promotes environmental sustainability, social welfare, and community health by utilizing low-cost cargo bicycles called “wecycles” to provide convenient recycling services to households in densely populated low-income neighborhoods. Wecyclers motivates families to recycle through an SMS-based incentive program that rewards them with points for consistent recycling that can be converted to cell phone minutes, basic food items, and household goods.
Bilikiss completed an MBA at the Sloan of School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as a student she was a Legatum Fellow at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and Vice President of the MIT Sloan Africa Business Club. Additionally, she holds an MSc. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and a BSc. in Computer Science from Fisk University. She is a Carroll Wilson Fellow, an Echoing Green Fellow and a 2013 recipient of the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards.
Bilikiss is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), which was established by the Lagos State Government to provide financial support to residents of Lagos State, for job, wealth creation and to tackle unemployment. LSETF serves as an instrument to inspire the creative and innovative energies of all Lagos residents and reduce unemployment across the State.
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Bernard Soubry is a writer, a researcher, and a hiatused farming apprentice torn between Oxford, UK, and Eastern Canada.
His current research focuses on how food systems can adapt to climate change by building the capacity of all actors to have a seat at the table.
He has worked as a farming apprentice and farm manager in Eastern Canada's Maritime provinces, where he specialized in heirloom tomatoes and chicken-wrangling; as a museum manager; and as a professional croissantier.
He's also very much into small-scale agriculture, teaching and facilitating, bicycle mechanics, improvisation, and seeking the perfect crust in breadmaking, among other things. He's very sus
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Acting Executive Director, CASH Coalition: Climate Action for Small Holder Farmers
Heiner Baumann is the Acting Executive Director of the newly founded CASH Coalition. CASH’s goal is to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers.
He is also a Board member and Co-Founder of Precision Development (PxD). PxD delivers critical information and digital services to > 6 million smallholder farmers in developing countries.
He has over twenty years of experience in starting, funding, managing and advising high growth social change organizations focused on climate-smart, sustainable and restorative agriculture, clean energy, community health, education, and mobile phone based advisory services in developing countries through PxD, Pilot House Philanthropy, the Barr Foundation, The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and New Profit, Inc. Heiner worked for 5 years with McKinsey & Co.
He has written about and been a speaker on disruptive innovation in the social sector, nonprofit capacity building and venture philanthropy.
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Founder and CEO, Minerva Project
Ben Nelson is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions across 22 countries, nearly five times greater than its closest competitor, Snapfish is among the top e-commerce services in the world. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million.
Prior to joining Snapfish, Nelson was President and CEO of Community Ventures, a network of locally branded portals for American communities.
Nelson’s passion for reforming undergraduate education was first sparked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he received a B.S. in Economics. After creating a blueprint for curricular reform in his first year of school, Nelson went on to become the chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE), a pedagogical think tank that is the oldest and only non-elected student government body at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Emily Bancroft is a global leader in systems change, dedicated to working with governments and partners to solve health care delivery challenges to ensure quality primary health care for the most under-reached. With a staff of 200 situated in eight countries across Africa and in the US, she leads a high-performance leadership team focused on the development, scale and replication of high-impact primary health care delivery initiatives. Emily has been instrumental in VillageReach’s growth since 2010, helping the organization expand its reach and collaborations to impact health systems serving more than 58M people.
Emily is a contributor to Forbes Nonprofit Council, writing on issues of equity, collaboration, and leadership in the nonprofit sector. She is also a Clinical Instructor at the University of Washington School of Public Health, a faculty member of Connected Women Leaders, and a 2022 UBS Global Visionary.
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Partner, Earth Capital Partners
Ben is currently an independent consultant working on mandates within the sustainability industry, whilst building a new business for transaction management.
He was, until recently, the founding partner and partner responsible for global external relations at Earth Capital Partners LLP and the SET3 global group of investment managers. The group invests in growth capital for sustainable technology companies, renewable energy infrastructure development and construction, energy efficiency and sustainable agriculture/forestry.
ECP was a pioneer, incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts into all investment evaluation, portfolio management and reporting processes with for-profit asset management.
Ben started work in the 1980s on equity derivatives at several banks including Société Générale and Merrill Lynch, but has spent most of his career working to build relationships with those banks’ key clients. Amongst others he helped to create Société Générale’s Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of Société Générale Group, was founded in 1998 and now numbers 600 professionals worldwide managing US$ 120bn+ of assets), SGAM’s Fund of Hedge Fund business and significant components of SG Hambros’ Private Banking approach to asset management. He raised several billion dollars of investments into projects, products and funds, but his key role was in creating specialised, bespoke solutions for specific client needs. Man Group plc was one such client and they hired him in 2005. Ben continued to work to build client relationships, but was also a founder member of the steering group that took Man Group plc into environmental finance.
He has advised governments, supranationals, NGOs, funds, corporates and others on the creation and use of instruments for environmental finance.
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Executive Director, Linked Foundation
Nancy Swanson is a founding member and the executive director of Linked Foundation, a private foundation that invests in solutions that improve the health and economic self-reliance of women in Latin America and the United States. She served as board chair of the Eleos Foundation where she directed the foundation in investing in pioneering business solutions to eliminate poverty in the developing world. Prior to her decade of work in impact investing, she held senior roles in the private and entrepreneurial telecommunications sector in strategic sales, marketing, and new business development. Nancy has served on several boards including Pro Mujer, the Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund, Leading from Within and the Carpinteria Children’s Project and is a current board member of MCE Social Capital and the Solidarity Dental Foundation. Nancy received her M.A. in from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and her B.A. from UC San Diego
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Founder & VP, Segal Family Foundation
Barry has touched many lives in many ways in his past, present and future. As a father, he has been a terrific provider. His children have enjoyed the access to a lifestyle and education that any parent would desire to provide.
As a business person, he was one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States. Bradco grew to become much more meaningful than its humble origins, affecting literally thousands of lives. He was respected by Bradco vendors, employees, contractor customers and even his most aggressive competitors.
Barry’s talents are in two primary areas. He builds loyalty because people trust him and know he’ll try to do the right thing. He invests in people, and they invest in him. Barry is very pragmatic, getting to core issues quickly, and supporting conclusions and creating change based on a passion for logic and numbers.
Barry started Bradco in 1966. Prior to that, he worked with his father at the H. Verby Company for 15 years. His dad joined him two years later and soon after they opened in Lakewood, NJ and Hartford, CT; they were on their way. In 2006, Bradco sales peaked at over $1,900,000,000 and pre-tax profits of 90 million with 150 branches. In August 2008 he sold control of the company.
Barry is a man who can’t sit still. He got involved in Africa and the Segal Family Foundation. Like he approaches everything in his life, this foundation received his total focus to make a difference by solving problems and getting things done more efficiently and effectively. Aid to Africa is a broken system that is not working. With Barry’s focus and approach to problems, the Segal Foundation will try to make a difference by focusing on preventing causes.
Unexpectedly, Barry got involved in government transparency, social determinants, rise in chronic illness prevalence and social injustice, focusing again on the causes, more than the cures. You can visit the Focus For Health’s website at: www.FocusForHealth.org
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Writer, Producer, Director and Distributor of Independent Film, Individual
Ava DuVernay is the first African American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award as a director in any feature category. Winner of multiple Emmy, BAFTA, NAACP and Peabody Awards, her feature film directorial work includes the “Selma,” “13th” and “A Wrinkle in Time,” which made her the highest-grossing Black woman director in American box office history. DuVernay is currently writing, directing and producing the narrative film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent.”
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CEO, TO:
Nachson Mimran is an entrepreneur, investor, and creative activist dedicated to inspiring collaborations and creating the spaces necessary for community-building. In 2015, Nachson and his brother Arieh co-founded to.org, a private fund and foundation established to address global challenges and to accelerate the world’s most vital ventures.
Based in Switzerland and Senegal, Nachson runs the Alpina Hotel in Gstaad. He previously ran the agro-industrial business at Groupe Mimran in Senegal alongside his brother David. In 2012 Nachson and Arieh established the Fondation Marie-Louise Mimran, a charitable foundation named after their grandmother, with the mission of developing education, health, and sports in Senegal. Nachson has also served as the Head of International Affairs on the Senegalese Olympic Committee.
As CEO of to.org Nachson spearheads a broad array of creative initiatives. Deploying his endless curiosity and deep desire to serve humankind, Nachson connects diverse communities around the world and facilitates collaboration and co-creation in the most unexpected spaces.
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Director, Strategic Initiatives, Jeff Skoll Group
Molly Parker is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Jeff Skoll Group. In her role, she oversees and manages key partnerships and projects across the Jeff Skoll Group portfolio of organizations, including the Skoll Foundation, Participant, and Capricorn Investment Group.
Molly began her career in the technology sector, working in e-commerce and business intelligence, before transitioning into impact. Prior to the Jeff Skoll Group, Molly worked at the national anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength in Washington, DC known for its No Kid Hungry Campaign, which is committed to ending child hunger in the United States.
Molly holds an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School a B.A. in Government from Cornell University. She lives in New York City and volunteers with the United Nations and the Cornell Alumni Ambassador Network.
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Supervisor for International Affairs, The Garden of Hope Foundation
I am a British national and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese, with over a decade of experience in the non-profit and government sectors of Taiwan. I ran an office for an international NGO in Taipei for six years, worked as an advisor to the government, organized and hosted numerous international conferences and events, lobbied at the local government and UN levels, and anchored a news program on Taiwanese television. I currently run the international section of the Garden of Hope Foundation and serve on the board of a number of other non-profit organizations in Taiwan.
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Founder, Care2Communities
Advocate for women at the intersection of climate change, health and justice. Founder, funder , investor and networker.
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Executive Director, IKARE Ltd
Anne Holm Rannaleet is part of the team that built IK Investment Partners (“IK”), a leading European Private Equity firm, founded in 1989. She retired as Partner of IK in 2008, currently serving as Senior Advisor. Anne is also a founding member (2006), and the Executive Director of IKARE Ltd, the venture philanthropy operated UK charity whose main donor is IK.
IKARE sees its role as catalytic in de-risking and piloting innovative solutions, working closely with its investees over a number of years and providing both funding and non-financial support in order to increase impact. IKARE's main focus is to strengthen health services delivery infrastructures, through innovative approaches and which solutions lead themselves to scaling and systemic change (SOS Uganda/3V vets for control of sleeping sickness as well as Shifo/Smart Paper Technology for digitizing health data for Mother and Child, including immunizations).
Anne is also board member of Unicus Holding A/S, an IT-development and testing consultancy operating in Norway, Sweden and Finland, employing only consultants diagnosed with Aspbergers as their skills provide an unique match for the job, while at the same time providing a route out of unemployment. She also serves on the board of non-profit Effektfullt, dedicated to drive and support impact measurement and management best practices on the Swedish market, as well as on the boards of Insamlingsföreningen Kinondo Kwetu Support in Sweden, Polaris Management AS, Denmark and is a previous board member of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA). She is also a member of the steering group of Filantropiskt Forum in Sweden and of the Swedish Securities Council (Aktiemarknadsnämnden).
Holding a MSc in International Economics and Business Administration from Uppsala University in Sweden, Anne spent ten years working at Svenska Peugeot AB and Atlas Copco AB before joining SEB/Enskilda Fondkommission in 1987 as an investment banker.
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Chief Innovation Officer, Evidence Action
Anne is the Chief Innovation Officer at Evidence Action, a global development organization dedicated to scaling cost-effective interventions backed by rigorous evidence. In this role, she leads the organization’s efforts to “incubate for scale” promising, evidence-based innovations through a process of designing, prototyping, rigorously testing, and delivering measurably impactful, cost-effective programs that are ready for implementation at scale by Evidence Action and our partners. Before joining Evidence Action, Anne led Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at the Global Development Lab of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). DIV is USAID’s venture capital-inspired, tiered, evidence-based innovation fund that invests comparatively small amounts in relatively unproven concepts and continues to support and scale only those that prove they work. Anne has worked across the private, public, and social sectors on evidence and innovation in government and international development, helping to launch the Innovations for Poverty Action operation in Kenya; advising companies, governments, and philanthropies as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.; advising the former Deputy Secretary at the U.S. State Department as an Obama Administration appointee; and, serving on the board of IDinsight. She has a JD and a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard and a BA from Princeton.
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Michelle is the Donor Engagement Manager at Girls Not Brides. Michelle works with donors to increase international funding to end child marriage and to support Girls Not Brides’ own fundraising. In this role she has supported the development of the Girls First Fund, which funds community-based organisations championing girls’ rights, and VOW – To End Child Marriage, an innovative initiative leveraging the US wedding industry to raise funds and awareness to end child marriage.
Prior to joining Girls Not Brides, Michelle was a Senior Development Officer at Camfed International, developing and maintaining relationships with Camfed’s major donors and partners, and supporting programme management in order to multiply opportunities for girls and young women. Michelle holds an MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies from Cambridge University.
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Global Director, Social Innovation, Global Community Impact, Johnson & Johnson
Alice Lin Fabiano
Johnson & Johnson
Global Director, Social Innovation, Global Community Impact
Alice Lin Fabiano is a Global Director at Johnson & Johnson, Global Community Impact. In this capacity, she leads its social innovation efforts and drives strategy and partnerships to support and champion people on the front lines who are at the heart of delivering care.
Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Ms. Lin Fabiano worked at The Bridgespan Group, a strategic nonprofit consultancy, where she worked with leaders to accelerate social change, with a focus on women’s empowerment and education. Ms. Lin Fabiano was the Harvard Business School Fellow at Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), a $5bn global philanthropic institution focused specifically on improving children’s lives. She began her career in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division and was part of the founding team that launched the firm’s Social Finance and Microfinance Institutions Group, raising more than $100 million for women entrepreneurs around the globe.
Ms. Lin Fabiano holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University. Alice is the youngest daughter of immigrant parents, a mother of two little humans, and a self-identified introvert. She is a proud board member of Prakti Design(a social enterprise that designs cook stoves for the world's poor) and Funders Concerned About AIDS. Alice is a founding member of the U.N. Women Global Innovation Change Coalition and a board observer for Patients Knows Best, a UK based electronic patient record social business.
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Anjana Rajan is the Chief Technology Officer of Callisto. Previously, Anjana worked at Palantir Technologies in London, leading new product development in the Middle East. Before that, she worked as a technologist at Johnson & Johnson and was a founding employee of Instinctiv, a machine-learning tech startup. Additionally, Anjana was a triathlete on Team USA and earned her status as a professional athlete for USA Triathlon in 2015. Anjana was a Knight Scholar at Cornell University, receiving her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Operations Research Engineering.
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Strategic Director, Meltwater
Greg Coussa is MEST’s Strategic Director, focusing on the organization's scale strategy and partnerships opportunities. Currently, Greg oversees MEST's partnership with Mastercard Foundation, including MEST’s three new, innovative programs: Pre-MEST, MEST Express, and MEST Scale.
Greg is a Senior Fellow in strategy for the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow for the Human Rights organization, Tostan.
Greg serves on the board for The BOMA Project, a high-impact nonprofit for ultra-poor women in the drought-threatened arid lands of Africa – the true “last mile” of economic and social isolation.
Previously, Greg founded and scaled the U.S. business of Spring Impact, a consultancy focused on guiding social ventures to scale geographically. During his time at Spring Impact, Greg worked with a variety of social ventures across the globe, established and managed the board of directors, built the US team, and grew annual earned revenue to over $1M.
Greg earned his MBA from Said Business School at the University of Oxford and his bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from UCLA.
Greg's published works include:
- Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR): To Impact Millions, the Social Sector Needs to Scale Scaling Up
- Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR): Enough Innovation Already!
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Managing Director, Global Impact Investing Network
Giselle Leung is Managing Director at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), where she oversees the development of strategic partnerships to advance the GIIN’s work in scaling impact investing with integrity. Giselle joined the GIIN in 2010 as the founding manager of the Investors’ Council, a leadership group of experienced, large-scale impact investors, and has overseen a number of the GIIN’s field-building initiatives.
Giselle began her career at Cambridge Associates, a global investment advisory firm; was a business strategy consultant at Braun Consulting; and helped build inclusive business strategies for multinational corporations in India, Columbia, Mexico, and China at Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama advising rural artisan groups. Giselle holds an MBA and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia Business School and School of International and Public Affairs.
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Chief Financial Officer, Participant
As Chief Financial Officer at Participant Media, Andy Kim oversees all financial activities including accounting, finance, information technology, and real estate.
He is a key contributor to shaping and implementing strategic initiatives in line with the company’s mission to create entertainment that inspires social change. Kim plays a vital role in driving results for all business areas including film, digital, and social impact.
Kim joined Participant from The Weinstein Company, where as CFO he led financial operations and identified strategic growth, capital raising and business opportunities. In addition, he was responsible for corporate and business development, financial analysis, forecasting, planning, accounting, reporting, international and M&A transactions.
Prior to his tenure at TWC, Kim was Sr. Vice President of Finance at Miramax Films, and Assistant Vice President at Marsh (subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies).
He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an MBA from Stern School of Business, New York University.
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Founder, Welcoming America
David Lubell is the Founder of Welcoming America, and recently shifted his full-time focus to the organization's international efforts as the Founding Director of the Welcoming International program. An accomplished social entrepreneur, David inspires people to build a different kind of world -- one that embraces immigrants and refugees, and fosters opportunity for all. Welcoming America, established in 2009, works with over 200 cities and towns across the U.S., supporting NGO's and local governments to transform their communities into inclusive places where everyone thrives. The Welcoming International Initiative that David leads partners with entities that want to build bottom-up movements for welcoming in their countries. It is currently working with partners in Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
David is also the founder, and former Executive Director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), which has grown into a model for immigrant rights organizing throughout the U.S. At TIRRC, David helped found Welcoming Tennessee, the model for what is now Welcoming America.
Welcoming America has gained significant recognition. In 2014, the White House honored the organization as “Champions of Change” for their innovations in immigrant integration. That same year the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and BMW Group distinguished Welcoming America as a recipient of their Intercultural Innovation Award.
A graduate of Wesleyan University , David received a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the recipient of several social entrepreneurship fellowships, including Ashoka, Draper Richards Kaplan, and Harvard. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and was named to the 2016 Chronicle of Philanthropy's 40 under 40 list. In 2017, David was awarded The Charles Bronfman Prize, which recognizes young humanitarians.
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Georgia works as the Communications Lead at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She brings creativity and a diverse skillset to the Centre, helping to drive the mission and message forward.
She graduated with a BA(Hons) in Costume Design at the Arts University College Bournemouth and has worked within different industries and sectors around the UK. Georgia has a keen interest in Anthropology; curious about social culture and its impact on the collective community and individual identity.
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TEDxLaçador Organizer, TEDx
I have a degree in Advertising and Propaganda, with more than 20 years of experience in Communication, I had my trajectory modified when I met TED, and started to organize TEDxLaçador, an event I have been organizing since 2010. My experiences at TEDx and TEDActive and Global, led me to the expertise in training speakers, in addition to the experience in curating speakers and organizing events with a purpose.
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Chief Executive Officer,
TostanElena is an Italian national with more than 20 years of professional experience in Africa, specializing in the field-based management of development programs, specifically focusing on women leadership, community health and economic empowerment. Since her appointment as CEO of Tostan in 2017, Elena has focused on unlocking the organization's deepest strategic potential: to support the scale of community well-being. Under Elena's leadership Tostan is working in partnership with a range of local, national, and international actors -- and setting the stage for major breakthroughs for well-being in the organization's soon-to-launch Strategy to 2030. Elena is also a co-founder of Catalyst2030, a collaborative movement of joint action for systems change to achieve the SDGs. Elena holds a Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University/ESADE Business School, a Masters of International Relations at Sciences Po Paris and University of Trieste, Italy. She currently lives in Dakar with her family.
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Chief Dreamer, Building Tomorrow
George Srour is the co-founder and Chief Dreamer of Building Tomorrow, Inc. (BT). Under Srour’s leadership, Building Tomorrow has constructed over 80 schools with classroom space for over 25,000 students in Uganda while recruiting and training more than 7,000 Community Education Volunteers (CEVs) to deliver the organization’s Thriving Schools program to an additional 100,000 children nationwide. Since 2014, Building Tomorrow has brought back to school more than 54,000 formerly out-of-school children. Through its construction and Thriving Schools work, Building Tomorrow reaches over 125,000 students daily. Srour graduated from The College of William & Mary with a concentration in government and international relations. Srour has been recognized for his work in the field of social entrepreneurship by being named an Echoing Green Fellow, a member of the GOOD100, Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 and winner of the International Center of Indiana’s Global Impression Award.
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Executive Director & Co-Founder, Healing Hands of Joy
Allison Shigo received an Emmy Award for her work on "A Walk to Beautiful" a documentary following the lives of women suffering from obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. In 2009, Allison co-founded Healing Hands of Joy, a non-profit working in Ethiopia to empower former fistula patients and eliminate fistula. She developed the innovative Safe Motherhood Ambassador Training program to provide reintegration and rehabilitation services to fistula survivors. To date, over 1,200 fistula survivors have graduated as Safe Motherhood Ambassadors. Healing Hands of Joy is a member of the Fistula Task Force and co-leading the strategic design in the Campaign to Eliminate Fistula in Ethiopia by 2020. In partnership with USAID, World Vision, EthiopiAid and others they have expanded nationwide in Ethiopia. She is a graduate of New York University and Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Student, Simon Fraser University
Alec is an MD candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He's worked in the past as an innovation officer at one of Vancouver's tertiary care hospitals, and has also served as a director and the co-founder of a non-profit organization supporting youth engagement with humanitarian issues. Together with two team members, Alec won the Skoll Global Challenge, an international systems analysis and social entrepreneurship competition, in 2017.
A passionate problem-solver, Alec loves combining his interests with his lived experiences to start grassroots initiatives in his community. His current projects include building a patient-centred discharge pathway for homeless patients at a regional hospital, re-engineering the medical device reprocessing capabilities of British Columbia's children's hospital, and creating a solid waste reduction strategy and intervention for a tertiary care centre.
Alec is excited to be attending the Skoll World Forum, and is looking forward to a week of learning and connecting!
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Working across 400+ health facilities in India and Bangladesh and rapidly growing, Noora Health improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Noora Health's programs have reached over 3 million patients and caregivers to date, and they were honored as a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.
Prior to Noora Health, Edith was a Design Innovation Fellow and Entrepreneur Instructor at Stanford and worked at the Aspen Institute and Population Services International. Edith has been an Ashoka Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow at Mulago Foundation, DRK Foundation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs at Harvard. She holds a BA from Tufts and MA in International Policy Studies and Global Health from Stanford.
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Faculty, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Gayle Northrop is a consultant, coach, educator and lifelong student of social enterprise, innovation and impact. She is on faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where she teaches a course on “Sector-Agnostic Models of Impact” and a global immersion course, “Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa.” She is Senior Faculty Advisor to Impact@Anderson and faculty advisor in Anderson’s field study programs, specializing in international pro-social projects.
As Senior Advisor and former adjunct faculty at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Gayle helped launch and was Associate Director of Spark Health, a program assisting government officials in Africa strengthen their health systems and improve health outcomes, including the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV. She currently works with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship on systems change work and scaling social innovations in health in the global south.
Gayle is also President of Northrop Nonprofit Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy, governance and organization development for social enterprises and NGOs worldwide. She is a coach for Red Bull Amaphiko, a growing, global social entrepreneurship program; she teaches in the Institute for High Quality Health, a training program for community health clinics; and she speaks frequently on business for social good, planning for social impact, and leading change.
Gayle received her MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and two BA degrees from Stanford University. She has served on numerous boards, including PATA, The Giving Keys, United Friends of the Children, New Media Advocacy Project, and Generation Ubuntu. When not on a plane, Gayle lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two teenage boys.
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Chair, Individual
Alan Schwartz is a successful entrepreneur and investor across industries as diverse as publishing, manufacturing, professional services, finance and software. His involvement in the not-for-profit sector includes Volunteering Victoria, Jewish Care and Philanthropy Australia.
Currently, Alan is the Managing Director of Trawalla Group. He is co-founder and director of the property investment bank Qualitas Property Partners and of Armitage Associates, a growth equity investment fund.
Over the years Alan has enjoyed the complex satisfaction of contributing to the not-for profit sector. He contributed to the creation of Jewish Care, a merger of Jewish Community Services and Montefiore Homes, and was appointed its inaugural President.
Alan and his wife Carol Schwartz established the Trawalla Foundation in 2006 – a Prescribed Private Fund that “invests” in the arts, ideas and innovation.
Alan graduated as a Williamson Fellow in 1995. In recognition of his contribution to community and business, Alan was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003, followed by an Order of Australia (AM) in 2007.
Alan is currently the President of Philanthropy Australia and a council member of Swinburne University.
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Jordanian Director of EcoPeace Middle East which is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. The organization has offices in Amman, Ramallah and Tel-Aviv.
As Jordanian Director, Ms. Abu Taleb leads EcoPeace activities concerning the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, the Good Water Neighbors and the Water Energy Nexus Projects. Her responsibilities include supervising international project development and management, serving as a liaison to and lobbying of governmental and private sector figures and organizations on major regional policy issues relevant to environmental protection and transboundary water. She is heavily involved in promoting and facilitating national and regional dialogue to advance policy processes needed for sustaining peace. She co-authored many reports and policy papers and speaks regularly at local and international conferences.
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Wolfgang Mueller is the Chief Financial Officer of DDD. He started his career in Albania in the early post-communist years as a finance consultant to the dairy industry and as a consultant and successful entrepreneur in the fast-growing printing industry. For the next 14 years, he lived in Switzerland and worked at the Geberit Group, a Swiss Blue Chip company and the European market leader in sanitary technology. He rose to Chief Corporate Controller in their finance department before moving to Geberit’s Swiss subsidiary to lead marketing and product management. Wolfgang studied Business Administration at the European School of Business in Reutlingen, Germany and Reims, France and earned his Master’s degree in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Editor-in-Chief, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Eric Nee is editor-in-chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review, a position he has held since 2006. SSIR produces a quarterly magazine, website, webinars, podcasts, and conferences, all serving leaders of organizations engaged in social change. SSIR has partners around the world who publish local-language editions of SSIR in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. Eric has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing industry. Before joining Stanford University, he was a senior writer for Fortune. While there, he helped Time Inc. launch eCompany Now, which later became Business 2.0. Before joining Fortune, Eric launched Forbes’s Silicon Valley bureau, where he was bureau manager. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside and held positions at a variety of other technology publications. He earned a BA in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Executive Director, Rays of Hope
Willie is the C0-founder and Executive Director of Rays of Hope in Malawi. He champions for quality education for children in under-resourced communities. Willie leads one of the largest teacher networks, and afterschool activities in Malawi – training over 5,000 in-service teachers, serving 287,000 students at $2.50 per student a year! With this work, three education districts have improved their performance. Also, he is passionate about inclusive education. In this work, he leads a transnational alliance advocacy work in Malawi, Kenya, and Tanzania. The work uses a digital platform to track policy implementation in South-East Africa. He is an Urban Promise International Fellow, the 2017 African Visionary Fellow, the 2018 Praxislabs Fellow, the Global Alliance for Communities founding member, and received the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Segal Family Foundation. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in International Development from Eastern University, U.S.A.
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Gabriel is the staff filmmaker & photographer at the Skoll Foundation where he helps tell stories of social change agents around the world.
He got started working in video at age 13 at KDOL-TV in Oakland, CA, and then went on to study theater at Trinity Rep Conservatory. He was Creative Director of the Youth Sounds’ “Factory", an advanced filmmaking lab for Bay Area youth. Works created under his mentorship won top prizes at dozens of national festivals, including an Emmy. He was an adjunct professor of film production at San Francisco State University.
His indie narrative feature film "Less" is an urban fairytale about a man who has chosen to live on the streets in San Francisco. It received an honorable mention for the Grand Jury prize at the Dances With Films Festival.
His short documentary “We Are In The Field: Adventures of a Nepalese Environmental Activist” has played in numerous festivals.
In his personal work as a social artist, Gabriel co-created the Vulnerable Rally as a radical experiment—blending street theatre, shadow work, community building, and social/political commentary.
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Suzana helps drive the Skoll Foundation’s “Connect and Champion” strategy and operations, optimizing the Foundation's brand, platform, and network—some of its largest catalytic assets.
Guided by a core belief in storytelling and advocacy as important change agents, Suzana leads the Champion team, including the public engagement, communications, and creative services practice areas. The team focuses its efforts on engaging and activating audiences to mobilize cross-sectoral support for social innovators driving systemic solutions to the world's most pressing problems.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Suzana built and directed marcom departments and brands for philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, NGOs like the International Center for Transitional Justice, and corporations like IBM/Lotus.
With justice and equity as her north stars from an early age, Suzana started her career as a human rights investigator in her home country of Croatia, working to bring to justice human rights violators during Yugoslavia's civil war in the 1990s.
At the International Center for Transitional Justice, she developed public engagement strategies for national transition efforts including: truth commissions in Peru and Morocco; advocacy initiatives for tribunals in Iraq, the Former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda; and campaigns for human rights in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Syria.
Suzana received a Masters of International Affairs in Human Rights from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
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Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Wendy Chamberlin is an Associate Program Officer on the Financial Services for the Poor (FSP) team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her work focuses on government safety net Programs nd mulitisectoral interventions focused on poverty alleviation. Wendy joined the foundation in 2006 and the foundation’s FSP team in 2010. Prior to that time she spent several years as teacher. She holds an MA from Antioch University, and a BA from the University of Washington.
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Senior Vice President- Office of Policy Development and Integration, American Association of Retired Persons
Dorothy Siemon is responsible for the development and oversight of AARP public policies that address major issues facing older Americans. Dorothy is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She also served as a Commissioner for the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging.
Ms. Siemon served as Director of Health and Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) from 2007 through 2013 and then served as Vice President of the Office of Policy Development and Integration through 2017.
Prior to joining the OPDI, Ms. Siemon was a senior litigation attorney for over ten years for the AARP Foundation, writing amicus briefs in federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, she served as counsel in numerous class action cases involving Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care facilities. Ms. Siemon graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Creative Director, I-AMVOCAL
Donald Okudu, is a creative director and Social Entrepreneur. In addition, he is the primary licensee & Curator of TEDxPortharcourt . In 2017, he founded - I-AMVOCAL - an NGO focused on youth engagement in community leadership & stewardship through technology, advocacy & related creative offerings.
I-AMVOCAL is currently dedicated to mapping causes around Nigeria , measuring sentiments through engagement metric and focus groups and developing a voting platform that provides transparency and audibility .
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Dr Vik Mohan is the Medical Director of Blue Ventures Conservation and a practicing doctor. He is passionate about marine conservation, environmental sustainability and global social justice.
Whilst working with communities in Madagascar on Blue Ventures’ community based marine conservation programme, his interest in community health led him to uncover a huge unmet need for health care, and sexual and reproductive health care in particular. Responding to this need, he led the development and implementation of the region’s first sexual and reproductive health service, and oversaw its integration into the portfolio of Blue Ventures’ projects, to form an award winning People, Health and Environment (PHE) programme.
After over ten years of supporting the implementation and growth of this programme, he has witnessed first-hand the multiple benefits of working in this integrated and holistic way, from improved natural resource management and community resilience, through to improvements in maternal and child health. His work with Blue Ventures now focusses on supporting others to adopt this approach. As well as supporting scale up in Madagascar, Vik is working to enable replication in Mozambique, Kenya, the Comoros, India, Indonesia and East Timor.
Recognising how challenging the work of doctors and social entrepreneurs can be, Vik is increasingly interested in the resilience and wellbeing of his fellow practitioners. He is currently collaborating on a pilot programme to foster greater resilience among doctors in training, with a view to supporting its replication for doctors and social entrepreneurs alike.
When he’s not working to support the wellbeing of doctors, coastal communities or marine ecosystems Vik can be found DJing for his community radio station, mountain biking or looking after his beautiful baby daughter.
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Assistant to Pat Mitchell, Individual
A recent magna cum laude graduate from the University of Georgia (UGA) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Vasser Seydel is continuing the family legacy of promoting & supporting environmental responsibility and sustainability through philanthropic events and speaking engagements. Vasser sharpened her business skills as UGA Student Sustainability Ambassador, Membership Director and Rush Chairperson for Phi Mu Alpha Alpha Chapter Sorority. She deepened her passion for the environment and philanthropy through internships with the United Nations Foundation, TEDWomen in Monterey, CA, and Ted’s Montana Grill in Atlanta. Most recently, Vasser worked for UGA’s Office of Sustainability working on grants and engagement.
Previously she participated in the Semester at Sea program gaining a study abroad experience while living, studying and traveling aboard a floating campus. During this time, she traveled across 11 countries exploring the cultures, languages and traditions of each country while gaining academic knowledge and understanding of marine biology.
Additionally, she is a Turner Foundation Associate Trustee, Georgia Hope Scholar, member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, and member of the National Honor Society of Collegiate Scholars.
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TEDxSãoPaulo, TED Conferences LLC
Conflict mediator today, former corporate world employee, former journalist.
Brazilian, British father, have lived in Boston, Paris, London and Milan, but I always come back home to São Paulo.
TEDxSãoPaulo organizer, coaching participants in their TEDx talks.
I like people, I love babies but I´m not crazy about pets.
Night time is my time. Not a morning person.
Spent my youth in CISV, spending large chunks of time with kids from all around the world and learning to find similarities and enjoy differences in people. This experience shaped my vision of life.
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Director, Citibanamex
nessa has a bachelor’s degree in law by UNAM and in Political Science by ITAM. In 2012 she was certified in Corporate Law by UNAM; and in 2013 she attended an executive course on Corporate Social Responsibility at Harvard Business School.
Vanessa has been with Citibanamex since 2009 where she started working at the Corporate Social Responsibility office. In 2013 she led the development of a new social responsibility strategy and was responsible for the sustainability reports from 2011 to 2013.
On December 2013 she was appointed as Director for the Social and Environmental Foundations, where she works supporting productive projects and social entrepreneurship to help vulnerable communities increase their income. The foundations also support natural disaster relief, housing, water and conservation projects.
Previously she worked at the National Elections Institute in Mexico from 1999 to 2008 as Advisor for the General Council. This same General Council appointed her for an honorary role at the State of Mexico´s local election from 2011 to 2017.
She is part of the Women´s Council at Citibanamex since 2017 and has participated in different panels on productivity, social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility; has also been speaker at different conferences and events and is part of ANDE Central America and Mexico Advisory Board.
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Journalist, Sarah Jones Reports LLC
Sarah Jones is an award winning journalist with a large social media presence and a decade of experience in mainstream TV news. She is one of the top twenty North American Young Leaders chosen by Friends of Europe. Sarah received the Women Economic Forum's highest honor on International Women's Day 2018 in the Hague when she was named one of their "Women of the Decade" in News & Social Engagement. She is an International Women's Media Foundation (IWFM) Fellow and two time International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellow. Sarah was selected as one of the top one thousand most influential Twitter profiles. And on more than one occasion she has been invited to advise senior level military planners and government officials - in the US and allied countries - on social technologies. In 2014 she was voted Best Journalist in Social Media by a panel of industry leaders at the Shorty Awards. While Sarah covers a range of world and US news stories - she is among the top forty female social media influencers for conversations surrounding artificial intelligence. Sarah has been an Online Media Awards judge and Skoll World Forum delegate since 2015. She also founded the international moment of silence and online event "Remembering Fallen Journalists" with co-partners like the Committee to Protect Journalists, Foley Foundation and the UN Foundation's Plus Social Good. The event reached over 9 million people in it's first year and in person events were held around the world. Sarah has worked with Reuters Trust; VICE; Al Jazeera America; TRT World, CNN; ITN's Channel 4 News; Gulf News; BBC World Service; Brook Lapping Productions on the documentary "9/11: The Day That Changed the World"; and ABC 7 News in her hometown of Chicago on a biweekly feature called "Someone You Should Know." Sarah Jones is a graduate of City University London's International Broadcast Journalism Masters program with merit.
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CEO, Columba Leadership
A not-for-profit leader with more than 20 years in the development sector in South Africa. Tracy’s passion lies in removing the obstacles that hold youth from tough realities back from succeeding in life.
Currently CEO of Columba Leadership an organisation that develops the values- =based leadership capability so they can lead change in their own lives whilst making a social contribution to their schools and communities. Columba works in some of the poorest schools in the country and our approach serves no not only develop youth but bring change to these schools to better nurture the inherent potential of youth.
A key focus area for Columba is the development of a replicable whole school model that can be easily embedded into high schools that turn schools into environments that nurture and development youth as people holistically.
Tracy has a Masters in Development Studies as well as undergraduate degrees in Psychology.
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TOPAZ ADIZES IS AN AWARD WINNING WRITER, DIRECTOR & EXPERIENCE DESIGNER. HIS FILMS HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO CANNES (BOY), SUNDANCE (TRECE AÑOS, LAREDO TEXAS, {THE AND} MARCELA & ROCK), IDFA, SXSW, CINÉMA DU RÉEL, AND OTHER FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD.
HIS INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY {THE AND} WON THE EMMY FOR NEW APPROACHES TO DOCUMENTARY 2015 AS WELL AS THE WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD FOR BEST INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY 2015. {THE AND} WAS ALSO A VIRAL SENSATION REACHING #1 ON REDDIT AND BUZZFEED AND EXPERIENCED BY OVER 70 MILLION USERS, FEATURED ON THE CBS MORNING SHOW AND GOOD MORNING AMERICA AND SELECTED TO NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL STORYTELLING COMPETITIONS. HIS SECOND INTERACTIVE PROJECT, THE DIG, ALSO WON THE TOP PRIZE AT WORLD PRESS PHOTO FOR IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING. TOPAZ'S FIRST VENTURE INTO VR PREMIERED AT IDFA WITH {THE AND} VR EXPERIENCE.
TOPAZ’S WORK HAS EXHIBITED AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU IN PARIS, THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK, AS WELL AS FEATURED IN THE NY TIMES AND THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE. HE HAS ALSO DIRECTED COMMERCIAL WORK FOR CLIENTS INCLUDING NETFLIX, MOUNTAIN VALLEY SPRING WATER, DELOITTE, AND VOGUE. EARLY IN HIS CAREER, TOPAZ HAD THE VALUABLE EXPERIENCE OF LEARNING UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF RIDLEY SCOTT, STEVEN SPIELBERG, AND PT ANDERSON.
THE LAST FOUR YEARS, TOPAZ’S PRIMARY FOCUS HAS BEEN AS THE FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SKIN DEEP - AN EXPERIENCE DESIGN STUDIO FOCUSED ENTIRELY ON HUMAN CONNECTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE. {THE AND} IS THE FIRST EXPERIENCE CREATED BY THE SKIN DEEP. SENIOR ORIENTATION, THE WINDOW, THRESHOLD, TSD UNCUT, {THE AND} VR AND THE DIG ARE THE SUBSEQUENT PROPERTIES RELEASED BY THE SKIN DEEP.
TOPAZ GRADUATED IN 1999 WITH A BACHELORS DEGREE IN PHILOSOPHY FROM UC BERKELEY AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN THE UK. HE HAS WORKED AROUND THE WORLD RANGING FROM MEXICO, SWEDEN, ZAMBIA, JAPAN, VIETNAM, ALBANIA, CUBA, AND SPEAKS FOUR LANGUAGES - ENGLISH, HEBREW, SPANISH AND SWEDISH.
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Lisa joined Living Goods in 2014 after five years at Chemonics International Inc.,where she led strategy and design for large-scale development projects in Africa. Asthe former Business Development Director for Living Goods, she oversaw allbusiness development for East Africa, managing relationships with donors,implementation partners, foreign governments, and the private sector. She securedUSAID funding opportunities up to $50 million in value and coordinated programsfor PlayPumps International and Save the Children. Lisa holds a B.A. in InternationalDevelopment Studies from UCLA
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CEO, Good Work Foundation
In 2003 South African-born educator, Kate Groch started the nonprofit, Good Work Foundation (GWF), and focused her dream of bringing access to wonder-filled learning to rural South Africans.
Together with experts from around the world, Kate has pioneered 6 digital learning campuses designed to infuse entire communities with access to a new way of thinking and learning. Kate with her growing number of staff at Good Work Foundation are creating an Ecosystem of Learning and working bringing opportunity and access to young rural South Africans. Using advances in technology to ensure that no matter where someone is born they have access to world class and wonder filled Education and opportunity.
Kate is a firm believer in the potential of Africa and its people and the opportunities that the digital age bring to both
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Director, Aviso Advisors, Ltd
Tom King is currently head of development at openDemocracy.
He is also an advisor to the Global Forum for Media Development, and the founder-director of Aviso Advisors. He works with non-profit media, technology and civil society organizations to help them strategise and scale, and helps to build partnerships and collaborations for more impact. He was previously head of partnerships at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, where he helped to create the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium. He has also worked as a political due diligence analyst, and began his career as a researcher and speechwriter in the UK Parliament.
He aims to improve systems where possible and replace them where necessary.
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Head of Investments, Small Foundation
Karina Wong is Head of Investments at Small Foundation, a philanthropic foundation aiming to catalyse the proliferation of sustainable income-generating opportunities for extremely poor people in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Karina has over 20 years of experience in finance and international development working with a wide range of organizations from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to non-profit community-based organizations. Her interest lies in the intersection of entrepreneurial development and poverty alleviation. Karina has a Bachelor’s degree from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Masters degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics
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Co-Founder and President, Pillars Fund
Kashif Shaikh is the Co-Founder and President of Pillars Fund. Under his leadership, Pillars has invested more than $7 million in grants to create opportunities for Muslims in the United States to tell their own stories, build community, and fight injustice through the media, arts, public discourse, and civil society. Prior to launching Pillars, Kashif was a program officer at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, where he helped manage a portfolio that distributed more than $20 million annually and helped scale a variety of Chicago nonprofits working at the intersection of racial justice, poverty, and education. Kashif’s expert insight and writing has been featured in The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Variety, NPR, and Vice, among others. He currently serves on the board of the Peabody Awards (East Coast division), Color Congress, Donors of Color Network, and Mortar, a Cincinnati nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs from historically marginalized communities.
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Head, International Collaborations,
PrathamDevyani leads Pratham's International Collaborations with partners in different parts of the world with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. She also leads Pratham's fundraising efforts with foundations and the organization's marketing and communications activities. Until recently, Devyani was leading Program Management for Pratham's education programs in India.
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Executive Director, Sanergy
Lindsay is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Sanergy, a pioneering social enterprise which is building healthy, prosperous communities by making safe sanitation affordable and accessible in Africa's low income urban areas. Previously, she was a manager at Google in Sales & Operations, co-founded a charter high school in post-Katrina New Orleans, and was a Teach for America Corps Member. Lindsay holds an MBA from MIT Sloan where she was a Seibel Scholar and President of MIT Sloan Net Impact, and an BA from Yale University, where she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
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Social Enterprise Correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Lee is the Social Enterprise Correspondent at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the world’s biggest news and information providers, where a global team of journalists covers under-reported stories on humanitarian issues, women’s rights, trafficking and slavery, property rights and climate change. He is the first dedicated Social Enterprise Correspondent to be appointed by a mainstream organization and oversees the Social Innovation section of the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website news.trust.org. All stories in this section are distributed via the Reuters news service to a network of publications reaching an estimated one billion readers daily.
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Climate change editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation USA
Laurie Goering is the climate change editor for Context, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's news website focused on climate change, technology and society and efforts to build more "inclusive" economies. She is based in London and has been covering climate change for two decades. Based in London, she created and mentors a string of freelance climate change journalists in some of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries. Previously she was a Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent based in New Delhi, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and London.
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Director of Research, Stop AAPI Hate
Theresa leads the Evaluation & Learning team, which collaborates closely with Foundation staff and externally with grantees, funders and others to generate thoughtful program analysis and link learning to strategy and actions.
Theresa brings to her role over a decade's experience in research, evaluation, and analysis in the public and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, Theresa was the Assistant Director of Research and Policy at The Education Trust--West, where she authored full-length research publications and oversaw in-house analytics on California’s neediest students. She has also led and supported research, assessment, and evaluation of other United States-based programs at KIPP Foundation and the United States Government Accountability Office. In the international space, Theresa served as a Global Monitoring & Evaluation Officer with Room to Read and as a microfinance researcher with the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India.
Theresa has a BA in History from UC Berkeley and an MPA from Indiana University – Bloomington.
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Managing Director, Falling Walls Foundation
Tatjana König studied law at University in Berlin and Bonn, specialising in International and European Law. She holds a postgraduate degree in Mediation. Her professional career started with positions in the field of politics. Later she worked for a leading international communication agency in Berlin, where she headed a PR Unit with clients from the public and the private sector before setting up her own communication business. In 2013 she was appointed Managing Director of the Falling Walls Foundation.
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Author, Individual
Esha is a journalist who covers sustainability, development, women's issues, and mission-driven brands. She contributes to a number of international and national publications such as The Guardian, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, Forbes, and more. She has been awarded multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting as well as two reporting fellowships from the UN Foundation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and a Rotary Scholar from The London School of Economics. Currently writing a book for Patagonia on mission-driven companies.
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Head of Innovation, Department for International Development
Tamara is the Head of Innovation at the Department for International Development (DFID), which is leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty and address humanitarian crisis. She joined DFID in 2016 from 22 years working in the private sector in design, strategy and innovation consulting and as a founder and director of a number of technology and impact ventures. She has worked with corporations such as P&G, Orange, Nokia and Telefónica, and start-ups such as Trillion Fund (crowdfunding for renewable energy) and most recently Product Health (Internet of Things meets batteries and energy storage) on innovation, product development and business development. Tamara was named one of “35 Outstanding Businesswomen Under the Age of 35” by World Business Magazine and INSEAD. At DFID she was (co)awarded the Civil Service Award for Innovation for the ‘Frontier Technology Livestreaming programme’ - trialling the use of emerging technologies in development programming.
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Reporter, The Guardian
Writer and editor, specialising in global development and social issues, and reporting on the Skoll World Forum for the Guardian.
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Partner and CFO, Capricorn Investment Group
Eric Techel is a Partner, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Capricorn Investment Group. He joined Capricorn in 2007. Prior to Capricorn, Eric was a Senior Manager with Deloitte in the Special Acquisition Services Group, which focused on due diligence for potential acquisitions of KKR. He spent 11 years with Deloitte in San Francisco, Bermuda, and Los Angeles. Eric is a CPA (inactive) and received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Stephanie is a Managing Director of the DRK Foundation. DRK builds a deep partnership with organizations over three years to help them craft the engine to get to impact at scale. She is an active board member for several DRK portfolio organizations with widely-varied missions and geographic focuses. Stephanie has also been an advisor and board member for several other nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Prior to joining DRK, Stephanie co-founded three social ventures: Strategic Grant Partners, Project Healthy Children and the Maranyundo Initiative.
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Chief of Staff to Sheila Marcelo, Care.com
Latoya serves as Chief of Staff to the Founder, CEO and Chairwoman of Care.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care. In this capacity, Latoya is responsible for the company’s corporate social responsibility portfolio, including all social impact initiatives. She also oversees Care.com’s policy and corporate communications functions, as well as strategic external partnerships.
Latoya brings with her a wealth of experience from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She has served in various roles in federal, state and local government and has held senior roles in Fortune 50 companies.
Prior to joining Care.com, Latoya served as the Deputy Executive Director and Managing Director of Operations for the New York State Governor's Office of Storm Recovery, overseeing a $4.4 billion economic development program. Prior to statewide public service, Latoya served as Director of the Office of the Executive Secretariat for the U.S. Department of Commerce where she managed operations and budget for the Office of the Secretary for three presidential cabinet secretaries. Prior to receiving her political appointment to the Department of Commerce, she worked for Citigroup, where she held various senior titles, including Community Development Vice President, Senior Project Manager, and Director of Operations. Latoya also worked in Federal and State Government Relations for Verizon.
A veteran of numerous political campaigns, Latoya possesses an extensive campaign finance background. She is a graduate of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA) and lives in New York City with her family.
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Chief Executive Officer, Dharma Platform, Inc.
Stefan Nagey is CEO and CTO of Dharma, a first-of-its-kind, end-to-end software as a service technology. As its founding CTO, Stefan led the charge to create Dharma’s minimum viable product in 2016. Since the initial product launch, he has overseen the rapid expansion of Dharma’s feature-set. This has led to Dharma’s deployment in mission-critical applications around the world, transforming the way organisations interact with data, and helping to improve aid distribution. This includes those operating on the front-lines of the Syrian refugee crisis, hurricane recovery, and the recent earthquake in Mexico. A member of the management team he now leads, Stefan has been instrumental in the company's fundraising and growth, most recently in the round led by The Rise Fund founded by Jeff Skoll, Bono and TPG Growth’s Bill McGlashan which is committed to reaching measurable, positive environmental outcomes alongside achieving competitive financial returns.
Prior to Dharma, Stefan started his career by leading companies in the Internet infrastructure and strategic communications sectors. He built payment processing products and teams that handled many millions of dollars per day, he has advised sovereign nations on alleviating and preventing humanitarian and political crises, and was crucial in the design and application of numerous successful marketing and public affairs campaigns.
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CEO / Founder, Tiny Totos Kenya
Emma has 20 years’ experience operating at the nexus between financial innovation and social entrepreneurship.
Emma spent a decade in community development in Central America, before running a global impact investment fund for ERM. After moving to Nairobi in 2010, she provided impact advisory support to clients including the Kenya Bankers’ Association, UNDP and Palladium.
In 2014, Emma founded Tiny Totos, a Kenyan social enterprise tackling the childcare crisis by turning informal babysitters into profitable childcare entrepreneurs. Tiny Totos has served over 20,000 children, while extending reach in Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Tiny Totos’ childcare innovations have won many accolades, including being on Yale’s 2022 Start Up List of African ventures transforming the continent.
Emma has a 1st class BA from Oxford University, a Masters in Resource Management from UBC and an MBA with Distinction from Oxford, where she was a Skoll Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship.
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Co-Founder, Heal Initiative
Sri is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and co-founder and faculty director of the HEAL Initiative, a health workforce strengthening fellowship working in Navajo Nation and 9 countries around the world. HEAL currently has over 180 fellows, over the last five years, half of whom are Native American and from low and middle income countries(LMIC).
He was awarded the Young Physician of the Year in 2010, by the Northern California Chapter of the American College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow by the Asia Foundation in 2012, a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India in 2012 and a Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur in 2016. He is a Emerson Dial Fellow.
Dr. Shamasunder led the HEAL UCSF response during the ongong COVID surge in Navajo Nation spending several weeks with HEAL's partner site hospital taking care of COVID patients and supporting UCSF nursing and doctor volunteers. Sri is a published poet and studied and taught with the poet June Jordan.
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President and Founder, Criterion Institute
Joy Anderson is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change. She began as a high school teacher in New York City Public Schools. She went to New York to understand how power works in big systems and stayed for eight years because she fell in love with the students.
Joy’s leadership and expertise have been at the forefront of the development of the social capital markets over the last 12 years. Her interest in the role of finance in changing the world was sparked during her eight-year consulting relationship with the General Board of Pensions of the United Methodist Church. As her interest deepened so did her leadership, co-founding Good Capital with Tim Freundlich and Kevin Jones in 2006 and serving as founding chair on the board of Village Capital. She was instrumental in her board position at InFaith Community Foundation in their recent allocation to social investment and launch of a $10 million Gender Lens Investing portfolio, and as founding
investment committee chair. As a recognition of her business leadership, in 2011, Joy was ranked 51st in Fast Company’s annual of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Joy’s intellectual interests draw on her research for her Ph.D. in American History from New York University. Her dissertation examined prison reform in the 1830s and how individuals and organizations in democracies claim expertise in order to shape public institutions.
Joy lives with her husband and daughter in a Connecticut apple orchard, and can be found in the fall pressing cider and boiling apple syrup.
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Impact Investment Professional, Capricorn Investment Group
Kunal Doshi is an impact investor on Capricorn’s investment team. He helps conduct required diligence, evaluate investments, capital raise and assist existing portfolio companies within Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund. He acts as a Board Observor on portfolio companies such as Embrace Innovations, Got It, and Pagatech.
Prior to Capricorn, Kunal was an Associate at Greentech Capital Advisors where he focused on projects in the clean energy and sustainability sector. He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst within Citigroup’s Mergers & Acquisitions team. He is also the Founder of Brighter Children, a non-profit organization focused on delivering primary education to children in impoverished communities. Kunal earned his Bachelors of Science from the McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia. He will earn his Master's of Science in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Investment Professional, Capricorn Investment Group
Konrad is an entrepreneur in residence at the Capricorn Investment Group where he provides analysis for Capricorn Libra investments and works with their portfolio companies on strategy and business development. In 2016 Konrad launched Sunlight Inside (www.sunlightinside.com) to deliver the health and wellness benefits of natural light. Prior to joining Capricorn, Konrad led Passport Capital’s public market (long-short) and venture investments in clean-tech/energy, materials and nanotechnology. While at Passport Konrad developed a deep understanding of markets, supply chains, and business models which informs his approach to generating risk-adjusted investment returns. Konrad has been investing across the technology life-cycle, from experimental early-stage companies to mature commodity markets, while working closely with other investors to share perspectives and build syndicates. Before becoming an investor, Konrad led product development and marketing efforts for Hitachi’s analytical instrumentation division where he worked with semiconductor, materials, solar, battery and nanotechnology researchers and companies. Konrad started his Silicon Valley career in the late 90s working on a development line at Intel Corporation. At Intel he managed the failure analysis group in the yield organization, and led cross-functional teams to drive manufacturing, process, product and materials improvements. Prior to joining Intel, Konrad worked at Sandia National Laboratory where he focused on the characterization and synthesis of nanomaterials. Konrad has a PhD in Materials Science from North Carolina State University where he was trained as a microscopist to study the structure-property relationships of materials. Throughout his career Konrad has sought-out opportunities to integrate skills from different disciplines to solve complex problems and create value.
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Chief Network Officer, Institute for Nonprofit News
Jonathan Kealing is the executive editor for PRI.org. He is responsible for overseeing the editorial decisions made by PRI's digital editorial team, including reporters, editors and the company's social media journalists. He also manages strategic partnerships with other journalism outlets and various PRI shows. Since joining PRI in 2011, Kealing has moved up the ranks through various editorial leadership roles until being named executive editor in late 2016.
Previously, Kealing was the assistant director of digital media strategy for The World Company, a newspaper and TV company in Kansas that has been hailed for its innovative efforts around convergence journalism and new media. In particular, he was integral to the launch of several niche journalism sites that make the community part of the storytelling. The first was a health journalism site that focused on solutions-storytelling.
Prior to that, he worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World, covering higher education in the state of Kansas for web, print and TV. His work has been recognized by Editor and Publisher, the Associated Press Media Editors, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Radio Television Digital News Association and other national and regional organizations. In addition, Kealing is a past president of the board of directors of the Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.
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Founder & Executive Director, Fast Forward
Shannon Farley is an experienced social entrepreneur. She was the founding Executive Director of Spark, the world's largest network of Millennial philanthropists. Prior to joining Spark, Shannon co-founded The W. Haywood Burns Institute, a MacArthur Award-winning juvenile justice reform organization. Shannon holds a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and an MS in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics.
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Board Director, Seydel Companies
CIO, Founder, Board Chair Seydel.com; Board Trustee Ellen MacArthur Foundation; Board VIce-Chair Container Recycling Institute; Founder former Chair, GreenBlue Institute, Elemental Impact, Atlanta Recycles; Former Chair Atlanta YMCA, Georgia State University, Robinson College, Global Green; former Director Green Cross International.
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CEO, The END Fund
Ellen serves as the CEO of the END Fund, working to see an end of the suffering caused by five neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting 1.7 billion people. The END Fund has supported local partners across more than 30 countries to deliver over 700 million NTD treatments to hundreds of millions of people since its founding in 2012.
Ellen has worked in global health and humanitarian response for over 20 years in more than 70 countries, for organizations including International Medical Corps and Operation Smile.
Ellen holds graduate degrees in International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
Ellen currently serves on the boards of Global Institute for Disease Elimination, Uniting to Combat NTDs, Legatum Institute, the World Economic Forum’s Global Health Security Advisory Board, and Panorama Global.
Ellen’s book, Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (with foreword by Bill Gates) was published in January 2019 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Ellen was also recently named as one of Fortune Magazine’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” for 2019.
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John grew up in Mississippi and lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He is a board member of International Bridges to Justice. IBJ, which is led by Karen Tse, works to guarantee all citizens the right to competent legal representation, the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment, and the right to a fair trial.
John is also the founder and President of Winning Connections, a Washington DC political consulting firm. Our clients include Everytown for Gun Safety, Open Society, PEW and American Cancer Society.
John earned a BA from Millsaps College, a JD from Duke Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, Playboy and Campaigns & Elections. He has served on the boards of Christ Episcopal Church, International Bridges to Justice, the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center, and United Planning Inspire..
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Co-Founder / Executive Director, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)
Sasha is an ecologist and human rights advocate who has been living and working in Haiti since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University in 2006 and co-founded SOIL that same year while also completing a postdoctoral research position with the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford. While Sasha spends the majority of her time living and working in Haiti, she is also a global advocate for the recycling of nutrients in human waste, helping others implement sustainable sanitation projects and inspiring people around the world to participate in the sanitation revolution. Sasha is also an Ashoka Fellow, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, an Architect of the Future with the Waldzell Institute, a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and the recipient of the 2017 Sarpharti Sanitation Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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VP, Social Innovation, Case Foundation
Sarah Koch is Vice President, Social Innovation at the Case Foundation, which invests in people and ideas that can change the world.
At the Case Foundation, Sarah leads the inclusive entrepreneurship portfolio, which works to create the opportunity for women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color to grow and scale their businesses. Sarah also heads up the Foundation’s Be Fearless campaign to encourage more innovation and risk taking in the nonprofit sector. Sarah has a particular interest in issues such as technology for social good and prizes and challenges.
Previously, Sarah worked in Nonprofit Services at Causes.com and in health education at La Clinica del Pueblo in Washington DC. Originally from Wisconsin, Sarah earned a bachelor of arts in sociology and Spanish from Luther College. She has spent time working with Latin American immigrants to the United States, particularly in the areas of culturally competent education and healthcare.
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Journalist, The Guardian
Commercial features editor at the Guardian
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Associate Program Manager, Youth Livelihoods, MasterCard Foundation
Sarah provides program development and management support across the Youth Livelihoods portfolio at the Mastercard Foundation. Prior to this role, she was Coordinator for the Foundation's Program Excellence team that designs, implements, and manages operational processes across the organization. Sarah has previously worked in Ethiopia with an NGO focused on building the export capacity of women-led businesses, and increasing their access to international markets. She has also worked with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business on public policy issues related to small and medium sized businesses. Sarah holds a Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (with a focus on Economic Development, Public Policy, and Migration Studies) from York University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons BA) in International Development and Economics from the University of Toronto.
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Founder and CEO, More Than Me
Katie Meyler is the Founder and CEO of More Than Me, a leading education network in Liberia working in partnership with the Ministry of Education to rebuild the Liberian education system. More Than Me Academy is rapidly growing their school model called (S)HE Matters, which focuses on safety, health, education and monitoring with a focus on gender equality. They serve over 4,300 students across 19 schools, with the goal of reaching 20% of Liberian children by 2021.
Katie started More Than Me in 2009 to get vulnerable girls off the street and into school by providing scholarships for school fees. In 2013, More Than Me opened the first tuition-free, private school for girls in Monrovia. When Ebola hit in 2014, Katie transitioned More Than Me to respond to Ebola and galvanized the community to help end the epidemic. She was named 2014 “TIME Person of the Year” for her contributions on the front lines of Ebola. She helped catalyze Liberia's growing national education reform along
side the Ministry of Education which is impacting 200 public schools, and over 50,000 children with quality education to date.
Katie was named among People Magazine's 25 women changing the world next to Sheryl Sandberg and Oprah, she's a Nelson Mandela Changemaker, one of Global Citizen's 17 Badass Women, and Glamour's 4 inspiring Women to follow on Instagram.
Katie stresses, “Before I'm American, I am human, and no little girl, regardless of where she was born, should be forced to work the streets when her biggest dream is just to go to school."
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Chief Curator, Societal Platform
Sanjay has over 30 years of global experience spanning business management, digital transformation and sustainable development. Since 2016, at EkStep Foundation, he is leading the evolution of Societal Thinking (societalplatform.org), a systemic approach to orchestrate and sustain exponential social change with speed, at scale. He advises change leaders applying Societal Thinking in domains such as education, healthcare, livelihoods, equity and climate. This includes initiatives supported by global philanthropic collaboratives such as Co-Impact (co- impact.org) and Co-Develop (codevelop.fund), and global networks of change leaders such as Ashoka (aspire.ashoka.org). Passionate about mentoring young entrepreneurs, he advises startups supported by Fundamentum (fundamentum.co.in), a scale investment fund, and Nudge CSI (csi.thenudge.org), a not-for-profit accelerator. He Chairs the Innovation Advisory Board at UNLEASH (unleash.org), a global talent initiative focused on achieving SDGs.
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Project Co-lead, Wellbeing Project
Sandrine has a degree in Economics and Business Management from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (with an exchange at ICADE, Madrid). She has worked for ten years at Grupo Vips and was part of the team that opened Starbucks coffee shops in Spain and France. In her last stage at Grupo Vips she developed the Corporate Social Responsibility department. She then studied Naturopathy in Madrid and decided to use this knowledge to support the health of her family and friends.
Her interest in the social innovation sector has led her to support different organizations in various roles.
Since 2015 she co-leads The Wellbeing Project, a global project that aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing in the social innovation sector. She is also a member of the board of trustees of Chillida Leku and of the Carlos de Amberes Foundation.
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Director, Investments, Luminate
Melanie Hui leads Luminate’s portfolio in Southeast Asia. Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation with the goal of empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
She was previously Vice President of the Chandler Foundation, where she managed the organisation from its inception, devised its grant-making strategy, identified high-impact development grantees, and led its strategic engagements with other funders and partners. Prior to this, Melanie was Vice President at the Clermont Group. Here she managed corporate communications for the multibillion-dollar investment firm.
Her previous experience also includes leading the CleanWater Foundation, where she launched a safe water micro-franchise serving rural communities in Bangladesh. She started her career in external affairs at the World Bank, and served as the Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of the Asian University for Women.
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Sandra is an activist, social entrepreneur and 2018 Skoll Scholar at Oxford University. She co-founded Asymmetry, a fund that connects social activism with the capital markets, using short selling as a tool for corporate accountability.
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Director, Corporate Services, Kenya Climate Innovation Center
Ruth is the Corporate Services Director at Kenya Climate Innovation Center. She provides leadership in the corporate services directorate; directly serving finance, sustainability, monitoring and evaluation, operations, knowledge management and communication. She is passionate about mentoring her team.
Ruth has over 19 years work experience in both for profit and not for profit organizations specifically in Finance and Administration. Prior to joining KCIC she worked for a USAID funded program –Africa Lead, Implemented by Development Alternatives Incorporation as a Finance and Administration Manager, East Africa and Regional Director for Finance and Operations East and Southern Africa. She served for six years. Before that she worked for Cementers Limited as a Finance Manager for two years having transitioned from Skytech Communications and Resources after six years as the Head of Finance and Administration.
She holds a CPA-K; a degree in International Business Administration (finance & accounting option) and an MBA in finance. When she is not working she enjoys reading material on leadership, international economies, technology and listening to webinars.
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Senior Communications Manager, Stockholm International Water Institute
Rowena Barber is responsible for the Stockholm International Water Institute's (SIWI) outreach and media relations. She is also communications lead for World Water Week - the world's leading annual event on water and development, organized by SIWI.
Rowena joined SIWI in 2014 after managing public and digital diplomacy for the British Embassy (UK Foreign Office) in Stockholm. Rowena holds a Bachelor in International Relations and Public Relations from the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Prior to moving to Sweden, she worked as a marketing and communications manager for a multi-national consultancy firm.
An Australian national, she speaks English and Swedish.
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Managing Director, Virgin Unite
Rosanne Gray, COO Virgin Unite
Virgin Unite is the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, which connects great people with entrepreneurial ideas to reinvent how we live and work in the world. Unite incubates new approaches to leadership such as the Carbon War Room, supports entrepreneurs around the world, and works to drive business as a force for good.
Prior to Unite, Rosanne was founder and CEO of CottonConnect, a pioneering business creating more sustainable cotton supply chains. Rosanne started her career at Shell, building her business acumen in marketing and sales roles in Africa and Europe before joining the Shell Foundation, where she brought development ventures to scale.
When not at work Rosanne can most often be found swimming in the lochs of Scotland, finding a hill to climb or returning to Southern Africa which is her second home.
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writer, Financial Post
Rick is a business writer, speaker and consultant in Toronto specializing in entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. He has been chronicling entrepreneurship for more than 25 years, as a freelance writer, editor and publisher of PROFIT magazine, and a columnist for the National Post. He also writes for Corporate Knights, The Magazine for Clean Capitalism.
Rick is also author of Secret of Success from Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies (published by Wiley), a leading-edge book on scaling your business.
He is also a director of Startup Canada and a volunteer mentor with the Toronto-based Centre for Social Innovation.
He blogs at www.canentrepreneur.com and tweets new-economy news at @RickSpence
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Research Director, TED Conferences LLC
Danielle Thomson is a consultant for The Audacious Project, a collaborative funding initiative housed at TED that seeks to unlock social impact on a grand scale. Danielle also previously worked on the organization’s $1 million TED Prize, an award given to leaders with creative, bold wishes
to spark global change. Prior to TED, Danielle worked at Late Show with David Letterman and received two Emmy nominations for writing on the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Danielle earned her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and M.A. in Cinema
Studies from NYU. She’s available to discuss women in film and celebrity trivia at any time.
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Visiting Executive, B Team
Rajiv S. Joshi is an activist, economist & social entrepreneur and is a Visiting Executive at Oxford Säid Business School.
Raj has spent the last seven years serving as a founding member and Managing Director of The B Team, where he continues to serve as an Advisor. Co-Founded by Sir Richard Branson and ex-Puma CEO Jochen Zeitz, The B Team, which is currently chaired by Paul Polman and Trade Union Leader Sharan Burrow, brings together some of the worlds leading CEOs alongside civil society leaders to help redefine the role of business in society and increase ambition amongst businesses to advance the wellbeing of people and the planet alongside profit.
Rajiv is a movement builder, advocate and emerging thought leader. Over the past 15 years, he has supported groundbreaking CEO activism, led youth movements and pioneered multi-stakeholder initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sector to address inequalities, advance human rights and tackle climate change.
Before joining The B Team, he served as Executive Director of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and as a Trustee of Oxfam GB and CIVICUS, based in Johannesburg. He also served two elected terms as Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament.
In 2014 and 2015 he served on the Founding Board of We Mean Business, driving business-led action on climate change to help secure the Paris Climate Agreement while also playing a key role in shaping the development of the SDGs as Co-Founder of the "World We Want 2015" initiative.
Rajiv holds a First Class Honors in Economics from Strathclyde Business School and a Masters in Public Policy and Administration (MPA) from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York.
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Daniela Terminel is the CEO of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes the movement for health equity by building the next generation of health leaders. Since 2009, GHC has placed and developed creative young professionals from diverse backgrounds into high-impact health positions in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia. GHC’s vibrant, global community of emerging leaders is nearly 1000-strong and growing.
Daniela pairs extensive global strategic and operational expertise with a strong commitment to the principle that leadership can change the world. For more than 15 years, she has worked with leaders around the world to transform entrepreneurial ecosystems and create long-term economic development in the for-profit and non-profit spaces. Before joining GHC, she served on the executive team at Endeavor, where she led the organization through a period of expansion across five continents and multiple industries. She was responsible for launching offices in Europe and Africa and managing operations in 10+ markets. She has also held executive roles in the private sector, serving as Managing Director at Biblomodel-Allsteel, a multi-national furniture enterprise.
Daniela was born and raised in Mexico City, where she learned the importance of being an active part of society in order to catalyze change. She’s devoted her career to fostering strong leadership in social innovation, which is critical to sustainable development and transformation.
Daniela holds a BA in International Business from Universidad Anahuac Norte in Mexico City, and has completed executive leadership programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School and Thunderbird School of Global Management. Alongside living her life with purpose, she loves to cook and is passionate about sports, especially soccer and tennis. Daniela is based in New York City.
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CEO, Institute for the Development of Social Investment
Paula Fabiani is IDIS’s CEO (www.idis.org.br). Previously, she has worked in the financial sector and organizations such as FMCSV and Akatu Institute. Paula is an economist from FEA-USP, holds an MBA from NYU and has executive education from London Business School, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge and FGV. Author of three books about Endowments and Early Childhood, Paula is the only Brazilian accredited SROI practitioner by Social Value UK and a member of the board of WINGS, Mol Institute and Vladimir Herzog Institute. Paula was awarded for creating a Coronavirus Fund in 2020 the Social Entrepreneur Award from Folha de São Paulo and Schwab Foundation.
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Paul Fletcher has a wealth of experience in financial services, in the emerging markets, and most recently in the private equity industry. He was the Senior Partner of Actis, the leading pan emerging markets investor having previously led CDC, the UK development finance institution. He led the groundbreaking privatization of CDC to create a mainstream, purpose driven private equity firm.
He is Chairman of Teach for All, the global education movement ,Chairman of LeadersQuest , and on a number of non profit and advisory boards including Greenwood Place, Crisis Action, Systemiq and GIC. He is a regular teacher at London School of Economics.
Paul began his career as a trader at Cargill in Minneapolis, and subsequently held various positions at Bankers Trust, SBCI and Citibank where he worked for 12 years in Japan, USA and Kenya. He studied Geography at Oxford University.
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Chief Operating Officer, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
As COO Paul oversees CIFF’s corporate support functions, including Finance and Operations, IT, Human Resources, Governance, Legal and Change Management.
Paul is an internationally experienced business leader, with significant experience of leading change in the telecommunications sector in emerging markets. Most recently he has led a number of private equity backed turnarounds as Chief Executive.
He is CEO of CIFF’s sister organisation the CH Foundation, which is the personal philanthropy vehicle of Sir Christopher Hohn.
Paul holds a BA in Scandinavian Studies from University College London, and an MBA from the University of Bradford where he is an Honorary Doctor.
As a certified practicioner in Coaching and Leadership Development from the Tavistock Institute and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute Paul is passionate about helping others achieve their potential.
He is a Director of e-commerce company Upstream SA and Milton Keynes Dons Football Club.
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Managing Director, DataKind
Julia Rhodes Davis joined DataKind as managing director in 2015 and leads efforts for company growth and sustainability, including building an ecosystem of individuals and institutions working to leverage the power of predictive technology for the greater good. Before joining DataKind, Julia was a partner at Citizen Engagement Laboratory, an incubator and accelerator for tech-fueled social impact startups. Earlier in her career, she founded Production Collective, a New York-based social change consultancy that served organizations across the nonprofit sector. In 2012, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Julia launched resilience efforts in Brooklyn, NY and served on Gov. Cuomo’s New York Rising Reconstruction Program. Julia currently serves as board chairperson of Vote.org.
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Senior Advisor, Impact Practice, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Patrick leads RPA’s Impact Investing Practice, advising a diverse set of asset owners on values-aligned investment strategies across asset classes. He also oversees five customized impact portfolios including direct debt, direct equity, and fund strategies. He leads RPA’s impact investing training and thought leadership including the 180-page Impact Investing Handbook published in June 2020. Patrick has an investment management background as head trader and investment analyst of a $900M portfolio. He studied Engineering at Berkeley and has an MBA from Yale. Fun fact that he played professional tennis, participating in Wimbledon 2008.
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Vice President, Grant Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
EDMUND J. CAIN
Vice President, Grant Programs
Edmund J. Cain oversees all domestic and international grant programming at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, including overall responsibility for the Foundation's strategic planning. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cain served for five years as director of The Carter Center’s Global Development Initiative, which facilitated national development strategies in post-conflict countries. A senior member of The Carter Center’s Peace Program team, Cain advised former President Carter on global development issues and participated in election monitoring missions. During his 30-year tenure with the United Nations, Cain served in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Afghanistan, and was a U.N. Resident Coordinator in Turkey and in Egypt. He was also the first Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Emergency Response Division—predecessor to the current Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery. In that capacity he oversaw the formulation of UNDP’s disaster response policy and led missions to war-torn and disaster-affected countries. Cain also served in the U.N. Secretariat as the Chief of Staff to the U.N. Undersecretary General for General Assembly and Political Affairs. A Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs and Senior Fellow at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, Cain holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Oregon and a bachelor’s degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Delaware.
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Kayode Ajayi joined the organization in 1999 as the Technical Development Manager in Nigeria, when he developed a national maintenance network system for the World Health Organization- led polio eradication campaign. He was instrumental in setting up our country offices in Democratic Republic of Congo and The Gambia. He was posted to the Headquarters in 2002 as the Deputy Operations Director before assuming the position of Performance Director in 2008 to oversee the standards and across the organization. He was appointed as the country director in Nigeria in July 2016. With a background in Marine Engineering, he is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport He is an Alumnus of the International School of Management and a certificate in Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management from the Harvard Business School.
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CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Jules Kortenhorst is the Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute. He is a recognized leader on global energy issues and climate change. His background spans business, government, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit leadership.
Since 1982, Rocky Mountain Institute (http://www.rmi.org) has advanced market-based solutions that transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous and secure future. An independent, nonprofit think-and-do tank, RMI engages with businesses, communities and institutions to accelerate and scale replicable solutions that drive the cost-effective shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables.
BACKGROUND
Prior to RMI, Jules was the founding CEO of the European Climate Foundation (https://europeanclimate.org), the largest philanthropic organization dedicated to policy development and advocacy on climate change in Europe. Before launching ECF, he served as a member of the Dutch parliament for the Christian Democratic Party.
During the first 20 years of his career, Jules worked in the business world. He was the CEO for International Operations of ClientLogic Corporation, a global leader in outsourced customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. He worked for almost 10 years for Royal Dutch / Shell, among others as managing director of Shell Bulgaria, and he began his career as an analyst at McKinsey & Co.
Jules currently serves on the Energy Transition Commission http://www.energy-transitions.org, on the WEF Future Council on Energy and on the Board of Stedin Holding NV. Jules is married to Searl Vetter and has four children.
EDUCATION
• Masters of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Baker Scholar
• Masters in Economics, Erasmus University, Netherlands
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Team Liaison, Ending Pandemics
Oona Buckley serves as Liaison for events, partners, advisors, and the Ending Pandemics team. Upon returning from volunteer work in Nepal, Oona dove into the world of philanthropy working for Dr. Larry Brilliant during Google.org’s start-up phase in 2007. Oona went on to help start-up the Center for Compassion at Stanford University Medical Center before heading to Washington, D.C., to work in private philanthropy and development. She came to the U.S. via Dublin, Ireland, where she was guiding startups in their infancy. Oona spent 10 years working in Washington, D.C., and New York City in International Business Development.
Oona has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Marymount University. She credits her family and global upbringing in Asia, Ireland, and the United States for her quest to help unite people and increase their impactful work.
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Regional Chapter Manager, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
Olatunji Ajani is a Business Developer and a Social Innovator with strong passion for building businesses and solving community pressing problems. He was a 2014 US Consulate Carrington Fellow, winner of the Nigeria - America Partnership award and a Washington DC 15 StartingBloc Fellow.
He currently works at Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE); a global membership network of organizations (head quarter in DC) that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. His past work spans across business development, management consulting and social development.
Prior to joining ANDE, he was a Lead Consultant with Green Insight Solutions and a Business Development Manager for E-Green Services. He also co-founded an online resource portal call asejere that helps micro businesses connect with funding opportunities, resources and tools to grow their businesses.
His overall career goal is to become a leading business and social development consultant, helping organizations and Government institutions implement high impact social and business development programs that will stimulate job creation and promote economic prosperity.
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Strategy and Learning Manager, MasterCard Foundation
Noura Kamel works with the Strategy and Learning team at the Mastercard Foundation. She manages projects in support of strategic planning and evaluation and learning in Africa. She has 10 years of experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, and applied research with a focus on economic development. Before joining the Mastercard Foundation, she was the Policy Program Manager at a social initiative that connects young people to economic opportunities across the Middle East and North Africa region. Prior to that, she was a Researcher with the International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for Arab States. Noura holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut.
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VP, Corporate Partnerships, Prison Fellowship
Natika Washington leads Prison Fellowship’s efforts to engage corporations, helping these entities invest in solutions to crime and incarceration, and strengthening the organizations financial foundation. An international development expert, she has worked to ensure equal access to human rights opportunities around the world, especially for women and girls. She comes to Prison Fellowship after serving as the chief development officer at Polaris, a leader in the fight to eradicate modern-day slavery. Before that, she was the director of global programs and gender integration at the U.S. Department of State for eight years. There, she managed the implementation of several multi-million-dollar initiatives in more than 90 developing countries. She liaised with foreign governments, foundations, and private-sector partners, including Delta Airlines, the Gates Foundation, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, and the Danish government, to build joint women’s empowerment partnerships. Washington is a decorated war veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
She holds a master’s degree in business administration with a minor in cybersecurity and a bachelor of science in business communications.
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Senior Advisor - Global Partnerships, The Citizens Foundation Pakistan
Nadia is a senior advisor to The Citizens Foundation (TCF). She is also a nonresident fellow with the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. She is the author of "Why Can't Pakistani Children Read: The Inside Story on Education Reforms Gone Wrong," as well as several articles and opinion pieces about public education reforms and financing in Pakistan.
Nadia moved to Islamabad in 2012 as Pakistan Country Representative for the United States Institute of Peace. At USIP, she started the Peace Innovations Fund to give small, flexible support to social startups. Prior, she served as a Pakistan Desk Officer at USAID and a National Security Aide in the U.S. Senate.
Nadia holds a Masters in Public Policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School. She holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She has written for the New York Times, Foreign Policy, NPR, Devex, and Dawn, and her work has been cited in the Economist.
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After 17 years at The Gannett Company/USA TODAY, Jodi recently joined public radio as the head of the new Engagement Lab at Public Radio International. Over the years, she has worked in a variety of areas across many disciplines, but always with a focus on innovation and engagement and is excited to put her unique background to use in this new endeavor. Her attention to audience and her skills with digital engagement fit perfectly with PRI's mission as a global non-profit media company focused on the intersection of journalism and engagement to effect positive change in people’s lives.
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Programme Manager, Cartier Philanthropy
Before joining the Cartier Philanthropy in November 2016, Muriel worked for the last 15 years within UN agencies (UNCTAD, UNOG, ITC) and Foundations (International Cocoa Initiative, Trafigura Foundation and Puma Energy Foundation), and has extensive experience of programme management, with a specific focus on monitoring and evaluation of projects in developing countries. Muriel holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Grenoble and a diploma in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics, and is fluent in both English and French.
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Associate Program Manager, Financial Inclusion, MasterCard Foundation
Mike is an innovative professional working in the field of community investment and development at the domestic and international levels for 8+ years. Mike holds an MBA in Innovation Leadership and an MA focused on program design and evaluation in the international development field. His current work is aimed at the transformation of the financial sector across Africa through various institutional, technology, policy, product and process levers for positive impacts on low-income segments. Mike is also an Instructor in the Human Services Department at a Canadian College and sits on the Board of Directors at Catalystsx, an organization aimed at supporting and growing changemakers in Canada.
Mike's experience has developed a diverse skill set characterized by effective engagement across program lifecycles, executive level capacity building, strategic and analytical thinking, innovative and effective programmatic and investment approaches, practice in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, as well as a distinct ability to work with communities to collaboratively address social and economic issues.
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Co-Founder, World Spine Care
Joan Haldeman is a graduate in physical therapy from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has practiced in South Africa, Canada and USA. She has specialized in neurologically impaired children and people with spinal disorders. She is co-founder of World Spine Care (WSC), a non-profit organization endorsed by the Decade of the Bone and Joint, an initiative of the WHO. This Foundation has the goal of helping people in underserved regions of the world who suffer from spinal disorders. WSC has established clinics in Botswana, India, Dominican Republic, and Ghana. The WHO featured the WSC Botswana program in the Integrated People-Centre Health Services (IPCHS) Framework.
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Chief Executive Officer, Play Verto
I am a social entrepreneur playfully weaving collective impact initiatives. I have 12+ years experience of strategising & co-creating projects that increase community engagement for social impact.
I see vulnerability as a strength and have been exploring my own inner journey & consciousness since 2016. Each layer unpeeled is a lesson learnt, an opportunity for wisdom to come from the most difficult of situations. The journey continues.
Play Verto seeks to spin traditional research on its head by using play and gamification to generate a sense of belonging from our players. We devise strategies that meaningfully engage our players & support leaders & decision makers to act with confidence on the actionable insights.
With over 50 languages within our own fully customisable tech platform & an 80% completion rate, we are perfectly placed to collect data from diverse audiences that bring an authentic voice to your insights.
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CR Strategy & Innovation, Novartis AG
With close to 20 years of experience in CR and business ethics, Michael is currently having responsibilities for CR Strategy and Innovation at Novartis AG. He has significant experience in CR Strategy, access to healthcare, inclusive business model innovation, base of the pyramid strategies, measurement & evaluation, investor relations re ESG, stakeholder engagement, materiality, impact valuation, Human Rights and behavior-based integrity & compliance management. Michael is strongly involved in the development and deployment of Novartis Social Businesses such as Novartis Access, Healthy Families etc. Michael is the Secretary of the CR Board of Novartis.
He is author and editor of articles and books in the areas of CR, social entrepreneurship, integrity management, risk and good governance and has a PhD with honors, awarded for his academic work (PhD thesis) with the Max Weber-Price for Business Ethics (2006).
Michael is a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD and a recognized lecturer and speaker to students and executives at leading universities and business schools (e.g. INSEAD, IMD, Thunderbird, Cambridge University, HSG, Copenhagen Business School etc.).
He also extensively collaborated with faculty from Harvard Business School, Thunderbird et al. over a number of years to build skills of Novartis management population on topics such as integrity & compliance management and inclusive business model innovation.
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Director, TEDx
Co-founder and Director-General at TEDxTukuy, the largest TEDx event in Perú. Co-founder and Board member at Kunan, the largest social entrepreneurship accelerator in Peru, providing small grants, support services and research on social entrepreneurs in the country. Leading a new resilient infrastructure project, that connects and strengthens multi-actor collaboration. Tech entrepreneur and co-founder at a videogame company, a consumer hardware company and a B2B SaaS and marketplace startup. World Economic Forum Global Shaper Alumni.
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Co-founder and Chair, B8 of Hope
Mehra Rimer is a peace advocate, co-founder and chair of B8 of Hope. After her studies at the Ecole de Traduction et d'Interprétation de l'Université de Genève and at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, she worked in education, training and as a translator for different entities, among those are peace-building organizations such as Search for Common Ground in Washington DC and Fondation Hirondelle/Justice Info in Lausanne. In 2016, she co-founded B8 of Hope with 7 other co-founders, all from different origins and backgrounds. B8's mission is to promote Israeli and Palestinian grassroots initiatives of dialogue, bridge-building and non-violence by giving them: better visibility (through conferences in schools, universities and other venues), networking opportunities, funds for specific projects on the ground (through fund raising events in Geneva), better structure and governance.
Having a central role in the organization, Mehra is involved in almost every aspect of its work.
In two years of existence, B8 of Hope has supported several projects including those of : Judur/Shorashim/Roots (Israeli and Palestinian children summer camps, Pre-Army Academy meetings), Taghyeer/Change (Non-violent development projects linked to the environment), Combatants for Peace (Role play workshops), Women Wage Peace (Politics of Acquaintance meetings and the Women Wage Peace March of Hope 2017), Karama Center (incubator for non-violent initiatives), Polyphony-Keshet Eilon music seminar of bridge-building.
This year, the focus will be on creating a synergy among the initiatives in Israel and Palestine (through workshops and by encouraging joint actions) and reinforcing the current collaboration with other organizations in Switzerland and the US, whose work is complementary to B8's, with the objective that synergy will result in a bigger impact on the ground.
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Editor, Matthew Beighley
Matthew Beighley is a Director, Editor, and Cinematographer specializing in documentary work for clients like PBS, OECD, United Nations, Skoll Foundation, Edutopia, The MacArthur Foundation, producing episodes of “Behind The Music” and “True Spin” for VH1, as well as music documentary work for MTV, Coachella, Warner Bros, Nonesuch, Univision News, Sony Music and more.
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TEDxExeter Organizer, TEDx
After a law degree I spent a year as a UK delegate to the European Youth Parliament focussing on the then crisis in Nicaragua. My subsequent LLM at LSE focussed on human rights law. I became a refugee lawyer, leading a specialist team representing survivors of torture and unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK. I was part of the team to set up the Refugee Legal Centre, and also chaired the board of a therapy centre for refugees.
Life intervened and I moved to Devon. Ten years ago I co-founded TEDxExeter and have since built and led a team to establish Exeter’s Festival of Ideas. Those early strands - justice, hope, interconnection - are at its heart.
We’re licensed by TED and organised by volunteers who are passionate about sharing great ideas and building community. Our events have a strong focus on social justice, migration and refugees, mental health, climate justice, human rights, extremisms and radicalisation as well as AI, data and the arts.
We bring together a community of speakers, volunteers and partners with an actively engaged audience. Half of our tickets are low cost, hundreds of young people attend. Alongside the talks we invite activists to inspire positive action. We facilitate meetings between speakers and policy makers, decision makers and thought leaders to make a lasting difference. Tickets sell out in minutes so we livestream widely around the world. With over 25 million views of our talks online the ripple effects are endless.
With Bandi Mbubi I co-founded Congo Calling, a campaign for fair trade technology which uses ethically-sourced, conflict-free minerals from the DRC.
In 2018 I worked with UNHCR to support refugees preparing for TEDxKakumaCamp, the first TEDx in a refugee camp.
I’m also a Director of Egremont Group, an international change management consultancy.
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Chief Executive Officer and President, Village Enterprise
Dianne Calvi joined Village Enterprise as president and CEO in 2010. Since joining Village Enterprise, Dianne has grown the size and the depth of the organization’s impact by developing strategic partnerships, innovations and technology, rigorous evidence of impact, and an exemplary African team. She has led the organization’s expansion in multiple countries in Africa, launched the first development impact bond for poverty alleviation, and completed a randomized control trial with Innovations for Poverty Action. During her tenure, the organization reached the significant milestone of one million people lifted out of poverty and has been recognized for excellence by Charity Navigator, Guidestar, The Life You Can Save, The Drucker Institute, Million Lives Club, and The Rockefeller Foundation. Dianne is a member of the board of directors of InterAction, the largest alliance of international NGOs, and has served on several nonprofit boards. She has written articles for The Hill, Huffington Post, Next Billion, World Bank, and international development blogs and has been featured in the NY Times, NPR, and in other international publications.
Prior to joining Village Enterprise, Dianne served for five years as President of Bring Me A Book Foundation, a literacy nonprofit. She brings business acumen, marketing and technology expertise to the nonprofit sector from her 13 years of experience working for Microsoft and Xerox Corporation. She graduated with a BA in political science from Stanford University and an MBA from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. She is fluent in Italian, conversant in Spanish, and is learning some French and Kiswahili.
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Columnist, Les Affaires
I am impact reporter and brand ambassador for business media "Les Affaires", in Montreal, Canada. Les Affaires reaches a community of 800 0000 buisness leaders with its web and printed edition and its 50 annual events.
It has been a journey to migrate from business reporter to impact reporter. It means that with my stories, I aim for impact, not outrage. It means taking the road many people still consider "marginal", "cute" or "idealist". I like to consider myself as a pragmatic dreamer. The challenge is to find the right balance between optimism and naiveté. And never fall in love with you stories. As well as never demonize people who choose another journey.
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Senior United States District Judge and Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, Integrity Initiatives International
The Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, Mark L. Wolf, is a Senior United States District Judge, and the former Chief Judge, of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to his appointment in 1985, Judge Wolf served as a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States after Watergate and as the chief federal public corruption prosecutor in Massachusetts. In a 2011 editorial, The New York Times commended Judge Wolf's for exposing the corrupt relationship between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its informant James "Whitey" Bulger.
A graduate of Yale College and the Harvard Law School, Judge Wolf is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he teaches a seminar on Combatting Corruption Internationally, and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights.
In 2014, Judge Wolf published articles two advocating the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court to combat grand corruption -- the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation's leaders. The proposal has gained the support of, among others, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, leading international prosecutors, and courageous young people throughout the world. In 2016, Judge Wolf, Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa, and other colleagues created Integrity Initiatives International to advocate for the creation of the International Anti-Corruption Court, to develop and strengthen other measures to combat grand corruption, and to forge a network of young people dedicated to combatting
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Senior Fellow & Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Prof. Sir Mark V. Vlasic, KHS, KCEM
Mark is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University and leads the international practice at Madison Law & Strategy Group. He is Executive Producer of the action-adventure series BLOOD & TREASURE for CBS/AmazonPrime, having served as a pro bono advisor to the UNSECO Director-General on “blood antiquities” issues, and as the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative’s first Head of Operations. Mark served as a White House Fellow/Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Advisor to the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan. He practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and served on the Milosevic/Srebrenica genocide prosecution teams in The Hague and on the U.S. Delegation to the Pan Am 103 “Lockerbie” bombing trial. As a U.S. Army officer, Mark was attached to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Knighted by the Vatican and Ethiopian Crown, awarded the SECDEF Medal for Exceptional Public Service, honored as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and commissioned a Kentucky Colonel, he is published widely and advises numerous boards. Mark studied at Georgetown (B.S. and J.D.) and Leiden University (NAF-Fulbright Scholar).
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Head of Special Projects, The Guardian
Journalist working in international news for 25 years, as correspondent and now editor. Currently head of the Guardian's special projects team, investigating global trends and themes, and creator of the Guardian's 'Upside' solutions journalism series. Also author and mental health advocate.
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Managing Director, IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV
Åsa Skogström Feldt, managing director of IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV.
IKEA Social Entrepreneurship supports social entrepreneurs all over the world, to create greater opportunities for vulnerable people and communities, through impact investments, partnerships and development programs. Åsa has a combination of business and NGO background, now focusing on the intersection between philanthropy and business development to contribute to solutions to the big challenges of our time.
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Associate Communications Director, Yidan Prize
Marina possesses extensive experience of working in both the commercial sector and with NGOs, and has gained wide knowledge of public relations, copywriting and project management.
Her knowledge in media operation and strategic planning of publicity initiatives assisted Hang Seng Bank's winning Silver Award from China's International Public Relations Association (CIPRA) in 2016. The biennial award is considered the most prestigious public relations competition in Mainland China.
Her versatility was fully demonstrated in fulfilment of her roles in Sun Hung Kai and The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, to assist senior management in completing a wide range of tasks she was entrusted with. Her skills and top efficiency was fully displayed.
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Founder & CEO, Plus One
Artists have always been at the forefront of social change, and for violinist and violist Marika Anthony-Shaw, driving social engagement has been at the core of her musical endeavour. While initially gaining recognition in the Grammy-winning Montreal-based band Arcade Fire, Marika also saw an opportunity to harness and direct the energy of a passionate fan base and founded Plus1 - a global initiative that empowers artists to partner with their fans to drive awareness, advocacy, and resources for organizations doing proven, measureable work for the world’s most disenfranchised populations. Through this initiative, over $6M million has been raised for leading social justice organizations by nearly 100 artists including Arcade Fire, The National, Sam Smith, The XX, CHVRCHES, Flume, Grizzly Bear, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Marika was raised in B.C. by her mother - a linguist and academic who works with First Nation communities in language revitalization - who taught Marika the value of identity and the power of language. Marika has two degrees from McGill University. She sits on the Board of Directors of Partners in Health Canada, POP Montreal, and is a trustee of Partners In Health in Boston. She frequently speaks about the power of collective impact and philanthropy in the arts, including appearances at C2 Montreal, the Forbes Under 30 Summit, and universities and engagements around the world. She lives in Montreal with her husband, record producer Marcus Paquin, and their young daughter.
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Executive Director, SNHU's Global Education Movement (GEM), Southern New Hampshire University
Chrystina Russell is the executive director of Southern New Hampshire University's Global Education Movement, providing US accredited Bachelor's degrees and pathways to employment across 9 sites in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Lebanon, and Rwanda. Previously, she was the chief academic officer of Kepler, a nonprofit university program based in Rwanda. In that role, she launched the organization's no-cost-to-students US-accredited degree program in two campuses -- one in Kigali and the other in Kiziba refugee camp. Previously, she was a founding principal of Global Tech Prep, a high-performing, innovative public school in Harlem, New York. Chrystina started her career as a bilingual special education teacher in the Bronx.
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Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Jennifer Walske is an assistant professor (adjunct) at UCLA Anderson, and serves as the faculty director of Impact@Anderson. As a writer, researcher and investor, Dr. Walske sits on numerous for profit and non-profit boards. Her research centers on the funding and scaling of startups, with an emphasis on social startups and social venture capital firms. Dr. Walske has received numerous research and teaching awards including the “best paper” award from NYU Stern’s Social Entrepreneurship Conference and the Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence at Berkeley-Haas. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Walske was an institutional All American ranked investment banking securities analyst and a regular commentator on both CNN and CNBC. Prior to investment banking Dr. Walske served in product marketing roles at Synopsys and Intergraph. She holds a doctorate in strategy and entrepreneurship from Boston University, an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA in Communication Studies from UC Santa Barbara.
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Chief Executive Officer, Naandi Foundation
Manoj Kumar is the founding CEO of Naandi Foundation, arguably India's largest multi sector non-profit social enterprise created in Hyderabad, India. In the last 17 years Naandi has impacted over six million lives, mostly girls and women.
Manoj is a John P McNulty laureate. The McNulty foundation recognised Manoj’s pioneering entrepreneurial work in reversing climate change in the tribal mountains of the Araku region to uplift the Adivasis (Tribals) from poverty, by creating a world-class gourmet luxury coffee, which is retailed in Paris, by the name Araku coffee He is also a moderator of the Aspen Institute, Colorado, USA.
A Robert S McNamara Fellow of the World Bank, Manoj was named by Financial Times, London, as one of the 25 people to watch out for.
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Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation
Christine Stoner has spent much of her career with Autodesk, joining the Autodesk Foundation in 2015 as the Head of Engagement, then stepping into the role of Executive Director in 2021. Christine’s role is multi-faceted, strategic, and dynamic – helping Autodesk realize its strategic vision to leverage philanthropic capital to catalyze industry-wide transformation to create a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable world. During her career, she has partnered with nonprofits and startups globally to advance measurable impact outcomes across the Autodesk Foundation’s impact opportunity areas: Energy and Materials, Health and Resilience, and Work and Prosperity. Through the deployment of catalytic capital and harnessing the in-kind resources of Autodesk’s technology and talent, the Autodesk Foundation helps to de-risk innovations that change the world.
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Head, Energy and Power Group, University of Oxford
In 1993 Malcolm moved to Oxford University to start up the Electrical Power Group.
Climate change, resource depletion and social inequity are the big challenges facing our civilisation. The group’s focus is to develop, and commercialise, sustainable energy technologies. Malcolm has active research programmes in the four sectors of developing world, domestic, transport and renewable generation. He is the Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewables. (http://www.renewableenergy.ox.ac.uk)
A key challenge is to develop new technologies to meet the need of providing sustainable electricity to the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity. This provides a triple benefit – the end users benefit from the provision of the service, lack of large incumbents means rapid deployment and many of the core ideas are relevant to developing world. Malcolm’s approach is to deeply understand the end users current and future needs and their capabilities and to develop an energy system that grows with the end-user. Specific projects include the battery as distribution grid, the weak hybrid grid, the dual use of DC and AC in the home, and the use of effective thermal energy stores.
Malcolm has spun out four for profit companies and two not for profit enterprise. He has over 120 publications and over 20 patent and patent applications.
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Stanford GSB, MSx Fellow, UBS
Lyndsey is currently a Sloan MSx Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is focused on social innovation and the role that companies, entrepreneurship, and technology can play in creating a more equitable economy and society. While at Stanford she is helping lead the Blockchain for Good research initiative and is involved with the GSB Impact Fund, investing in impact-driven businesses across education, healthcare, urban innovation, and energy.
Prior to Stanford, she spent the last 12 years at UBS as a business strategy and communications leader with global experience in Europe (Zurich, London), Asia (Hong Kong) and the US. She led strategic initiatives at the CEO level as well as global projects and corporate partnerships focused on social impact and employee engagement. During the six years she spent in Asia, she discovered her passion for supporting entrepreneurs and leaders with the capabilities and capital to build their own businesses and to transform local communities. She is also committed to helping others find ways to achieve greater social impact through their careers and personal lives.
Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is an avid adventurer and traveller and spends her free time exploring the outdoors.
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Medical Doctor and Founder of Generation Medics, Generation Medics
Dr Hinnah Rafique is the Founder and Director of Generation Medics, a multi-award winning social enterprise based in the UK that inspires and empowers the next generation of health professionals.
Her aim is to ensure that every child, no matter the circumstances they were born into, is able to achieve their potential. Generation Medics (formerly Help Me, I’m a Medic) is now the largest social enterprise community run by medics for medics in the UK.
In 2016 Hinnah was awarded ‘Highly Commended Social Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Santander UK, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Universities UK and UnLtd jointly. This honour was bestowed for founding and leading Generation Medics using an ethical and sustainable model; the impact it had created and the disruption it caused the sector.
She was selected to enter an exclusive incubator programme for twelve leading Social Entrepreneurs in the UK. Since then her organisation has continued to grow, gaining exceptional support from within the medical community, with even the NHS Medical Director, Prof Sir Bruce Keogh joining as a volunteer.
Away from Generation Medics, Hinnah holds a medical degree and was chosen to be one of the first NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow’s. She is a recognised leader in Healthcare Innovation, speaking internationally on this topic and many others. She is a lecturer and curriculum developer across a plethora of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including Medicine, Public Policy, Business and Health Innovation at institutions including the University of Oxford.
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Social Impact Partnerships, Pearson
Luisa is a social impact and partnerships specialist with a background in journalism and human rights. She has 17 years of experience in the communication and innovation fields and spent 10 years working in the non-profit sector in both the UK and South America.
Luisa joined Pearson in 2017 to manage the company’s social impact partnerships as part of Project Literacy, Pearson’s flagship social impact campaign. She leads on the campaign's social innovation programmes across the globe, which includes partnerships with the World Bank, USAID, and UNESCO.
Before joining Pearson, Luisa was Head of Business Development at Apps for Good, the leading UK edtech social enterprise. As part of Apps for Good's founding team, she designed and managed complex social impact partnerships with some of the world’s most innovative companies such as Google, Thomson Reuters, Samsung, Facebook, and Barclays.
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Luis Sanabria has over 30 years of experience working at Fundación Paraguaya (FP) in institution building, microfinance, and social development. He oversees the operations of all FP programs by leading a team of 500 people to implement poverty elimination programs, entrepreneurial education and self-sustainable schools in Paraguay and other countries. He also exerts direct supervision to the office in Tanzania and programs in countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia where FP works. Under his leadership, FP has received numerous awards: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize (2009), GDN/Japanese Ministry of Finance prize for Most Innovative Development Project (2009), Nestlé Shared Value Prize (2012), ILO Good Practice in Youth Employment (2014), SPTF/Truelift completed a Microfinance, Social Performance Assessment assigning FP a grade of "Leader Milestone" achieving the highest overall score (2016) and Atlas Network's Think Tank Shark Tank (2022).
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Manager, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley
Helena Brykarz is part of the senior management team at Global Footprint Network, where her responsibilities include fundraising, human resources and developing partnerships. Her background has primarily focused on strengthening NGOs and promoting leaders who provide innovative solutions to ennvironmental challenges. She has several years of experience recruiting senior management staff for NGOs around the world, having led at least 100 successful searches. She has also consulted for international foundations, including the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship from 2005 to 2008. Plus, she was the Programs Manager for UNEP’s World Environment Day in San Francisco in 2005. As Program Executive for the Goldman Environmental Foundation, Helena helped develop the world’s largest international prize for grassroots environmentalists. For 14 years, she researched and promoted hundreds of environmental leaders around the world, often working to protect their human rights. She also contributed to the Goldman Fund’s grantmaking program and created a unique human rights and environment initiative that led to collaboration between the two movements. Helena is a co-founder of Rainforest Alliance, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and later worked on Peace Corps staff as a recruiter and administrator. Helena earned a Master’s in Environmental Studies from Yale University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Russian studies from the University of Rochester.
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Founder and Director, Kajo Keji Health Training Institute
Lou Louis Koboji born in Kajo Keji South Sudan, is the Founder and Director of Kajo Keji Health Training Institute.
At 5 Years old, Louis became a refugee in Uganda and had opportunity to study in Uganda, graduating from Makerere University Kampala with Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Technology and completing numerous other public health and management courses including; Perennial Fellowship-Seattle Washington State, African Visionary Fellowship, Unreasonable East Africa Fellowship and United Nation Alliance for Civilization fellowship in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Louis has over 10 years of experience working with local government and the Ministry of Health, along with other health institutions in East Africa. Louis established KKHTI in 2013 and is the first South Sudanese founder of a private not for profit health training institute in South Sudan. He believes that the country's health system and capacity will be strengthened by educating Human Resources for Health. Louis is passionate about instilling the Institute's core values in his students for them to serve and save more South Sudanese lives. Currently he is in his third year study Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) in Kampala International University.
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Senior Advisor Grand Challenges for Development, United States Agency for International Development
I am a highly creative and enterprising professional leading development, launch, and outreach around new Grand Challenge for Development opportunities at USAID, supporting existing programs as they seek to accelerate innovations, capturing data and sharing learning around the model, and strengthening the growing global network around Grand Challenges. Previously, I led engagement and outreach at the U.S. State Department's Office of Global Partnerships and managed the LIONS@FRICA partnership geared towards supporting the start-up ecosystem for young tech entrepreneurs in Africa. In addition, I've led communications and knowledge management activities for the United Nations Development Programme's Business Call to Action, and USAID's Global Development Alliance. My first career was in journalism - broadcast, print and online - and I've still got a passion for news.
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Director, Forest Peoples Programme
James is currently Oxfam's Global Innovation Lead supporting the organisation to develop new and creative solutions to overcoming poverty and suffering. He leads Oxfam's thinking and practice on bringing about change at scale and exploring alternative models of delivery. He also supports country programmes to effectively develop and scale cutting edge programmes, as well as initiating collaboration with new stakeholders to accelerate innovative solutions to the world's most pressing social issues.
Prior to this he was Oxfam's Regional Programme Manager for the Middle East responsible for a wide range of humanitarian and development programmes in the region. These include the start up of the Syria Crisis Response, resilience work in Yemen, economic justice in Palestine and gender programming across the region. During this time he also supported organisation-wide initiatives on fragile states and working in partnership.
He has an MBA and wide experience of the sector. Before joining Oxfam he was the International Director for Progressio, a UK-based INGO, managing global programmes and policy on sustainable livelihoods, climate change, civil society and governance. He also ran VSO's country programme in Cambodia, working closely with government ministries, multi-laterals and civil society.
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Chief Innovation Officer, CARE
As Chief Innovation Officer, Ms. Stoll leads CARE’s thought leadership, innovation, digital, scaling, and market-based approaches teams, with the goal of enabling CARE teams around the world deliver 10x impact. Prior to joining CARE, Ms. Stoll worked as a consultant to The Rockefeller Foundation, and held senior leadership positions across the United States Government. In these roles, she led organizational change processes, provided technical leadership to over $6 billion in active programs, and sought to foster greater impact and agility. Most recently, Ms. Stoll served as Deputy Vice President at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, where she oversaw the Office of Strategic Partnerships and five technical practices groups including agriculture, health, and gender.
Previously, Ms. Stoll served as Senior Advisor to the Administrator of USAID, with responsibility for the establishment of the U.S. Global Development Lab. She served in a variety of roles in the Lab, including acting E
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Andes Amazon Director, Nia Tero Foundation
David is the Andes Amazon Director for Nia Tero, a grantmaking organization that supports Indigenous peoples in their self-determined vision for guardianship of their collective territories. Prior to Nia Tero, at the then newly-formed Fossil Foundation, David led development of new philanthropic systems and overall strategy. From 2008-2014, at the Skoll Foundation, he led environmental partnerships and the strategy to address deforestation. Before turning to philanthropy, David worked with Indigenous peoples in the Amazon from his positions at the Inter-American Development Bank, the Field Museum, and the Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples.
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Managing Director Draper Richard Kaplan Foundation, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Lisa Jordan is a senior philanthropic executive with a twenty year career focused on impact and systemic change. She is a Managing Director for the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the largest venture philanthropy in the United States. She has served as CEO of Bernard van Leer Foundation, CSO at Porticus Foundation and in leadership positions at the Ford Foundation. She acts as a consultant for many foundations on issues of strategy, venture philanthropy and blended financial approaches to achieve impact.
Prior to her engagement in philanthropy Ms. Jordan was a founding director of the largest parliamentary body in the world focused on global environmental challenges (the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE). She started her career as a legislative assistant to Congressman Jim Scheuer (8th NY) and has led multiple non-profits in Europe and the United States.
Ms. Jordan graduated cum laude in 1992 with a Master’s Degree in Development Studies.
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Managing Director of Philanthropic Collaboration, Co-Impact
Anna-Marie is a global philanthropy expert bringing two decades of experience across the civil society and private sectors to her role leading the Philanthropic Collaboration team at Co-Impact. She is passionate about the potential for philanthropy to do more and do better by supporting just and inclusive systems change so millions of people live fulfilling lives.
In her role she fosters collaboration, mobilizes philanthropic funding to support Co-Impact’s goals, and advocates for more and better funding that centers gender equality and women’s leadership. Anna-Marie’s prior roles span philanthropy advisory, practical experience and academic rigor, contributing to her global view on philanthropy’s potential and its challenges.
She holds an MBA from IESE Business School and an MA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics from Oxford University. She serves on the Board of World Bicycle Relief and is an avid triathlete and road cyclist.
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Co-Founder & Executive Director, Orkidstudio
Visionary architect James Mitchell founded Orkidstudio in 2007, determined to bring the benefits of professional design and high quality construction – healthy, safe and dignified spaces – to those who really need them, disadvantaged urban and rural communities around the world.
Orkidstudio is based in Nairobi, Kenya, with a team of over 30 professionals (>70 women, >80% Kenyan) creating high quality, affordable and healthy buildings, through an exceptional end-to-end design and construction process, which use local materials and promote opportunities for women.
James recognizes the design-and-build process as an economic empowerment opportunity for women, and to drive for gender equality in this vital and growing sector Orkidstudio employs and trains at least 50% women at all its construction sites.
In 2018, James founded Buildher along with Skoll Awardee Nick Moon (Kickstart Intl), which equips disadvantaged young women in Kenya with accredited construction skills, leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality within the construction industry.
Celebrated in Impact Design Hub’s 40-under-40 in 2017, James has also led Orkidstudio to international recognition, including the Royal Scottish Academy Medal for Architecture in 2013, honoured as a Curry Stone Design Prize Social Design Circle member in 2017 and being shortlisted for the Swiss Architectural Award 2018. In 2017, James was selected for the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship GSBI program and in 2018 as an Aspen Institute Spotlight Health Scholar.
James has previously worked for renowned architects, Shigeru Ban in Tokyo and Theo Hotz in Switzerland, and lectured at the Mackintosh School of Architecture (Glasgow School of Art) in Architecture in International Development. James holds two Masters degrees: in Architecture from Cardiff University, and in Fine Art (Visual Arts) from Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London.
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Vice President, Development,
myAgroLiezl is myAgro’s Vice President of Development where she is developing and executing a 3-year strategy to raise $30M in support of myAgro’s growth plan. Liezl is a fundraising expert with 16 years experience in increasingly demanding roles with international and national non-profit social enterprises, with a track record of securing multi-year, 7-figure funding partnerships with corporations, foundations, and governmental agencies. Career highlights include leading the effort to secure 7-figure grant and PRI partnerships with the PepsiCo Foundation, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, the IKEA Foundation, and major grant from the OPEC Fund for International Development. While at Kiva, where she was hired to build out Kiva’s NYC office, Liezl spearheaded the launch of 3 major Kiva City campaigns — Kiva New York City, Kiva Philadelphia and Kiva Louisville, raising millions in grants and revolving loan funds to support U.S. based entrepreneurs. Liezl also established Kiva’s first 7-figure partnerships in Europe with Pearson PLC. Prior to Kiva, Liezl was the Director of Development for KickStart, a social enterprise NGO that enables smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to increase income through sustainable irrigation. While at KickStart, Liezl supported the Founder in developing the KickStart + Skoll + Citi Working Capital partnership to expand production of MoneyMaker pumps across Sub-Saharan Africa. Liezl received her B.A. with honors in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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CEO, NetHope
Lauren Woodman is Chief Executive Officer of NetHope, a consortium of 50-plus global nonprofits that empowers committed organizations to change the world through the power of technology. For over 16 years, NetHope and its members have united with technology corporations and funding partners to design, fund, apply, adapt, and scale innovative approaches to solve development, humanitarian, and conservation challenges.
With the launch of The Center for the Digital Nonprofit, NetHope will lead its members and the sector on a path of digital transformation that will yield exponential impact. The Center provides the guidance, resources and tools, and grantmaking needed for nonprofits to achieve the efficiency of tomorrow today. Together, the NetHope community can build a platform of hope for those who receive aid and those who deliver it.
Lauren’s career has been defined by the intersection of technology, development and policy. Prior to assuming the leadership role at NetHope in 2014, Lauren held a variety of high-level positions, including: managing Microsoft Corporation’s global education and government programs for more than a decade; serving as an executive at the Software and Information Industry Association; and shaping policy at the United Nations. Lauren holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree from Smith College.
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Managing Director, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Lara Driscoe serves as Managing Director in the Office of External Affairs at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. Government’s Development Finance Institution. In this role, Lara is responsible for identifying emerging market investment opportunities, developing public and private sector partnerships and catalyzing private capital through innovative financial products to achieve development goals. Prior to OPIC, Lara was the Senior Director, Government Relations at the Managed Funds Association, an association representing the alternative investment industry. Lara previously served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. Congress and a Senior Policy Advisor for financial services and banking issues. Lara worked in business development at Squire Patton Boggs. During law school, Lara clerked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Lara received her J.D. from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and B.A. from the University of Maryland.
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Founder & Creative Director, Studio ZRO
Kyle Gordon (AKA ZR0) is a multidiscipline digital artist, creative director, and experience designer currently residing in San Francisco. Over the years, Kyle has brought countless creative concepts to life, ranging from international event productions to massive music festival/ touring musician stage productions.
The past few years Kyle has worked closely with the Skoll Foundation to provide motion graphics, video operation, and LED content for the Plenaries occuring Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday of the event, helping develop a cohesive theme and vibe to strengthen the Skoll brand.
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Director of Social Impact, Spotify
As the Director of Social Impact, Kerry Steib uses music to create social change. She builds programs with creative changemakers, awesome nonprofits, and the power of Spotify’s platform.
At Spotify, she’s developed I’m With the Banned, to support the free exchange of ideas and shift perception of immigrants and refugees through artist stories, Daytime Emmy Award-nominated Clarify, to encourage Spotify’s audience to vote, Here to Stay, where donated materials from Spotify’s SXSW experience were used to build a recording studio for Kealing Middle School and the Webby Award-winning short First Song featuring Spotify’s partnership with the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
Kerry’s previous experience spans product marketing, sales development, and business marketing at Spotify, AOL and Google. She believes the best solutions are ones created together and that there’s no such thing as music that’s a guilty pleasure. She was named to Refinery29’s “Rising Female Tech Stars.”
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Food & Agriculture Impact Lead, The Rise Fund, TPG Growth
Joy Basu is The Rise Fund’s Impact Sector Lead for Food and Agriculture. Prior to joining TPG, Joy was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on agricultural development. Ms. Basu served as Project Manager to the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture, a collaboration amongst multinational companies to improve the social, environmental and economic impact delivered by the private-sector. Ms. Basu also advised the Agricultural Transformation Agency in Addis Ababa, a special-delivery unit focused on better enabling the agricultural sector as a driver of economic growth and social opportunity. Ms. Basu earned a JD/MBA from Stanford University with a Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation. While at Stanford, Ms. Basu served as an Arbuckle Leadership Fellow and the President of the Women of Stanford Law. Ms. Basu earned a BA in Public Policy and Economics from Duke University. She serves as a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
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Founder / Senior Manager, s.e.e.d.
In 2009, José Miguel founded s.e.e.d, where he coordinated legal matters for outstanding companies in different fields of the investment spectrum, such as: sustainability, technology, conservation, microfinance, fair trade, culture, education, volunteering, health, sports, and development. He has also actively promoted socially responsible investment and the improvement of the social and business ecosystem in Latin America.
Additionally, since the end of 2016, José Miguel was hired to provide legal advisory services to Carao Ventures and its portfolio of companies, in legal matters ranging from day-to-day financing issues to mergers and acquisitions.
In 2018, s.e.e.d became seed by EY, the business unit of EY Central America that is in charge of strategic growth markets, venture capital, emerging companies, SMEs, social enterprises, impact investments. With the integration of the firm, seed by EY Central America has been able to increase its presence in Latin American markets, leverage
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Faculty, UC Berkeley Haas (Social Entrepreneurship & Social Venture Fund) & Founder/CEO of Eddily, Haas School of Business
Jorge is a career entrepreneur, management consultant, venture investment professional & educator. Mr. Calderon is the Founder and CEO of Eddily (formerly Carett), a learning-as-a-service education tech startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is reimagining the bridge between college and careers. He is currently on leave from Impact Strategy Advisors (ISA), a boutique social venture & investment design consulting firm where he was the founding Managing Director. Jorge’s practice focused on helping capital sources & operating companies transform intentional social purpose into economic & positive impact value. Mr. Calderon has broad expertise in a variety of social themes, including education, economic development, diversity/inclusion, job creation, poverty alleviation, access to food, technology for change and the field of impact investing.
Jorge is the author of the Purpose Centered Design methodology and its related philosophy and frameworks. He is also a lecturer at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business, where he built the Social Lean LaunchPad and Startup Disco curricula, is a Fellow within Berkeley’s Institute for Business and Social Impact, is part of the faculty team for the LAUNCH accelerator, was previously the Faculty Director for the GSVC, and is actively working on developing a campus based inclusive innovation program. Jorge recently founded the Berkeley-Haas Social Venture Fund initiative. Through Berkeley-Haas, he received the Richard H. Holton Teaching Fellow (2015-2016) Award and 2016 Berkeley-Haas Best Case Award. Mr. Calderon previously founded Springworks, a program lab that was committed to developing paths for women and minorities in innovation related careers. Earlier he was the founding Director for the West Coast office of a tech focused seed stage venture capital firm and has had roles in top tier management consulting, banking and technology companies. Mr. Calderon is a Univ. of Michigan and Kellogg (Northwestern) alum.
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Partnerships, University of Global Health Equity
Since 1993, John C. Urschel, MPA, CFRE, has dedicated his professional life to the nonprofit sector. Working with organizations focused on early literacy, human services, healthcare, and higher education, Mr. Urschel has helped teams of all sizes build philanthropic infrastructure. Published on the subject of philanthropic behavior, Mr. Urschel has also been a graduate school faculty member where he has taught nonprofit management and philanthropy studies. Mr. Urschel holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Lewis & Clark College, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Johanna Hamilton is an award-winning director/producer whose work explores cultural, political and historical stories by focusing on the human experience. In 2007, she worked with Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker to co-produce PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL, the account of a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades old civil war. It won Best Documentary at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award. The film is broadly credited with helping lead figure, Leymah Gbowee, win the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Subsequent to that, she directed and produced Sundance-supported 1971, a feature documentary about a group of citizens that broke into a small FBI office outside Philadelphia that revealed the existence of COINTELPRO, a massive illegal surveillance operation. Never caught, the burglars revealed themselves for the first time in the film. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the IDA’s ABC News VideoSource award and Cinema Eye’s Spotlight Award, and was nominated for an Emmy after airing on PBS’s Independent Lens. Hamilton contributed to PARCHED, a The National Geographic Channel series about the politics of water, executive produced by Alex Gibney. She recently completed production on WRONG MAN, a series for STARZ on wrongful convictions, co-directed with Joe Berlinger. She is currently at work on two short films with Field of Vision. Hamilton has produced non-fiction programming for PBS, the Washington Post/Newsweek Productions and New York Times Television, amongst others.
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Membership & Programming Director, The Conduit
Joanna Sparber is the Programme and Membership Director at The Conduit. The Conduit serves a home for people interested in social change and a catalytic platform aimed at tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges. Previously, Joanna was the Deputy Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL) at the World Economic Forum with responsibility for the strategy, growth and impact of the Community. Her role included the creation and management of the YGL Leadership portfolio, which included developing tailored executive education modules with universities such as Oxford University, Stanford University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Harvard Kennedy School. She was additionally the Head of the Foundation Communities for Europe, heading up the engagement and relationship management with all constituents based in Europe from the 3 Foundation Communities: The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Young Global Leaders and The Global Shapers. She has a proven record of designing and facilitating innovative interactions that mobilize multi-stakeholder groups to achieve change and is passionate about building communities.
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Executive Director, Open Contracting Partnership
Gavin Hayman is the Executive Director of the Open Contracting Partnership (www.open-contracting.org), a silo-busting collaboration across government, businesses, civil society and technologists to open up the trillions of dollars spent every year on public contracts around the world. His ambition is to make the entire flow of government contracting better and smarter through radical transparency, open data and improved business and civic feedback. OCP is currently working in over 30 countries from Argentina to Zambia.
Before OCP, Gavin was an Executive Director of Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org). He oversaw their ground-breaking and award-winning investigative, campaigning and advocacy work uncovering secret deals, corruption and conflict around the world. He helped create the international Publish What You Pay campaign and helped negotiate the intergovernmental Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
He is an expert on illicit financial flows, and helped lead global efforts to end the abuse of anonymous shell companies for money laundering and financial crime and has a Doctorate from the University of Reading on global environmental crime.
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President & Co-Founder, Telos Group
Through Telos, Greg has helped build a vibrant community of leading conservative and liberal influencers in America--a community committed to bridging seemingly intractable divides to transform conflict. While Telos has focused almost exclusively on addressing America’s unhealthy relationship to the Middle East, it is now applying its unique model of conflict transformation to other issue areas globally.
Telos’ guides cohorts of leaders through immersive experiences to build relationships and spark creative, action-oriented conversations. Since 2009, Telos has lead more than 1400 American leaders on unique trips to the Middle East. It then leverages these transformative experiences to equip leaders to build "pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, pro-peace" movements in mainstream America, which is necessary to shift American cultural, economic and political engagement on the conflict. Now that Telos has proven its model it is scaling nationally.
Additionally, Telos is in the process of launching a for profit travel arm, which will scale its trip offerings in the Middle East and replicate the model globally and also domestically within the southern United States. Illumine, the new company, is launching later this year.
Before founding Telos, Greg was a legal and communications advisor to Palestinian negotiatiors on peace talks with Israel. Greg is also a founding member/board member of Narrative 4, a global literary exchange organization that develops empathic leaders. His writing has been featured in The New York Times and The Review of Faith and International Affairs. He is a graduate of UCLA and Yale Law School.
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Director of Development, Code for America
Jessica is an experienced non-profit professional, fundraiser, and liaison to the public sector, who is passionate about ensuring equitable access to arts and social services, and basic human necessities. She currently is the Development Director for Code for America, where she leads the fundraising efforts to make government work in the digital age. Prior to joining Code for America, she worked for Carnegie Hall, where she worked with all levels of government developing programs and aligning policies to bring music to underserved populations. In her spare time, she enjoys singing, attending live music, and exploring the many hills of San Francisco.
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Jessica Mack is Senior Director for Advocacy and Communications, Global Health Corps (GHC), where she is responsible for developing a global cadre of powerful voices for health equity. Before joining GHC, Jess managed a large grant portfolio as a Program Officer on the Global Tobacco Control Policy and Advocacy team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, Jess spent five years as an independent consultant specializing in reproductive rights, working in Asia, Africa, and the United States. She worked with UN Women in Thailand to leverage national and regional studies on gender-based violence as advocacy tools for Asia-Pacific Member States ahead of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; she produced a report on methods of costing the economic impact of violence against women in the region. She conducted research in Ghana on the impacts of the U.S. Helms Amendment on access to safe abortion for the global rights group Ipas. Jess was a Manager at Global Health Strategies, where she led strategic media and advocacy efforts for the 2010 Women Deliver conference, hailed by The Lancet as “the most significant event for the future of women in 20 years.” She got her start at Planned Parenthood Global, first as a part-time intern and later as Program Officer for Communication and Learning; she worked as an abortion counselor at an NYC clinic on the weekends. Jess has written widely on these issues, published in The Lancet, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Ms. Magazine, among others. She previously served on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Northwest Abortion Fund. Jess earned her Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School and a BA in philosophy and religion from Boston University. She is currently based in New York City.
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Associate Professor of Education, Individual
Dr. Jerusha Conner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Counseling at Villanova University. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in English Literature. She has held positions as an admission officer, a high school English teacher, a college counselor, a coach, and a research analyst. She received her Ph.D in Education: Administration and Policy Analysis from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.
Dr. Conner’s research focuses on student engagement, student voice, youth organizing for education change, and youth activism. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and op-eds. Her most recent book is Contemporary Youth Activism: Advancing Social Justice in the United States
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Director of Programmes, The Elders
Jenny joined The Elders in June 2015. She worked for the previous 12 years at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID): leading the UK Government’s efforts to help Indonesia address climate change, based in Jakarta; and also working for DFID in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and in the Communications Division in London. Prior to that, Jenny worked in NGOs and with the governments of Uganda and Swaziland, including working with Oxfam in Mozambique and as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow in the Ministry of Agriculture in Swaziland.
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As Senior Director of Grants Management at the Skoll Foundation, Cristina is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient grantmaking operations, systems, and policies to support the foundation’s mission and strategic goals. She is recognized nationally for her expertise and speaks regularly on technology, grantmaking best practices, legal compliance, and international grantmaking. She was one of the first employees of the Skoll Foundation
In addition to working at the Skoll Community Fund and the Skoll Global Threat Funds, Cristina held positions at Stanford University and Walt Disney Internet Group focusing on content delivery and user experience design.
Cristina currently serves on the advisory council and committee of NGOsource and Technology Affinity Group. She is a former board member of PEAK Grantmaking, the nation’s leading association dedicated to advancing the knowledge and skills of grants management professionals. She was also a principal contributor to the GM Guide, a comprehensive online publication on best practices in grants management.
Cristina has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women and Gender Studies and a minor in Film Studies.
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Head of Division, KfW Development Bank
Jenny Scharrer is head of division for financial sector development and education with KfW Development Bank. Her work has focused on agri-finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. In that capacity she has been responsible for setting up several fund such as the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund, the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria and Lending for African Farming Company (LAFCo) on the Board and Credit Committee of which she is serving as a member. Before joining KfW in 2011, Jenny was working with the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, helping to administer the German Stimulus Pact issuing federal guarantee schemes for distressed companies during the financial and economic crisis. Prior to that, Jenny worked for OXFAM Hong Kong as a strategy team manager in Vietnam on improving agricultural value chains to increase income for smallholder farmers. Before moving to Vietnam, Jenny has worked for McKinsey & Company in Germany and Bahrain on economic reform projects.
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Social Impact Director, Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.
Jen Field is Director of Social Impact at GLG where she develops and leads the company's partnerships with nonprofits, foundations and social enterprises. Previously, Jen was a Vice President in the Office of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs, which houses the Goldman Sachs Foundation. Jen's experience also includes serving as Special Assistant and Personal Aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, as a Foreign Affairs Advisor in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and as the John Whitehead Intern at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Jen earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and holds a bachelors degree from Yale University. She is on the Advisory Boards of The Resolution Project and Concordia Summit.
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COO, Saude Crianca
Cristiana Velloso is COO of Instituto Dara (formerly Associação Saúde Criança) where she has been working since 1999. She started at the Institute as a volunteer working directly with the families participating in the program, she was hired as a project manager, focusing on the replication of the methodology, and since 2008 she has been a director. She has a B.S. in Nutrition Science from UNIRIO ( Universidade do Rio Janeiro) with specialization in maternal and infant nutrition and post-graduation degrees in Social Responsability and the Third Sector and in Project Management.
She is Brazilian, married, has one son and two daughters and lives in Rio de Janeiro.
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Founding Partner, Raise Up Advisory
Jenna Rogers-Rafferty is a strategic fundraising consultant and KickStart International's Chief Partnership and Strategy Advisor. She has dedicated much of her career to accelerating community-based organizations during their startup phase and held leadership positions with grassroots groups in Uganda, Liberia, and Staten Island, NY. Jenna began working in East Africa while pursing her undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics at the University of Notre Dame and, upon graduating, helped the university to launch the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies & Solidarity. Jenna’s on-the-ground experience working with founding teams and local communities to identify needs and advantages, then design and execute programs, has enabled her to successfully fundraise for and communicate impact. Jenna earned a Master's in International Development from The New School and is passionate about replacing traditional charity with models that empower individuals to be the agents of their own change.
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Shema is the Country Director for Global Health Corps in Rwanda. His role involves leading and managing the day to day program and Operations of Global Health Corps (GHC) in Rwanda, and in coaching and mentoring a yearly average of 26 multi-cultural Professionals tackling systemic priorities and gaps in Global Health area. Shema joined the GHC team full-time in August 2011 to launch the GHC office in Kigali, which supports fellows and partner organizations in Rwanda and Burundi. He has previously worked as the National Volunteering Program Manager at Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Rwanda, where he also managed a Multicultural Global Exchange program and nurtured and managed a Diaspora volunteering scheme bringing Rwandan experts living in North America to work in Rwanda. Shema also worked with Partners in Health in Rwanda for more than 3 years managing PIH growth in Kirehe District regarding health care services, health access systems and health infrastructure. He also served as Chief of Staff and Public Relations for PIH/IMB Rwanda.
Shema, who represented the Rwandan Youth in the second sitting of the International Youth Parliament held in Sydney, Australia in 2004, is deeply passionate about social justice, health equity, youth leadership, and developmental solutions uplifting people from poverty. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Roehampton, London; and a bachelor’s degree in History and Politics from the National University of Rwanda, where he served as Secretary General for the General Students Union from 2003 to 2004.
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European Director, Global Fund for Human Rights
James Logan is the Director of the European Office since 2017 and brings a range of experience promoting social change and human rights—as an activist, a researcher, and as a grant maker. He is committed to empowering and supporting activists and movements and was previously the Associate Director at the Human Rights Initiative of Open Society Foundations where he was responsible for developing grant-making practice, strategy, and learning. Prior, he was part of Oak Foundation’s International Human Rights Program where he supported organizations working to investigate and achieve justice for human rights violations around the world as well as managing portfolios related to new technologies and communications. He has worked with the Panic Button, a technology-based initiative for human rights defenders and started his career as a country specialist at Amnesty International, investigating and campaigning against abuses in Turkey. He serves or has served as an adviser to Benetech’s Human Rights Program, the Human Rights Funders Network, and the Thomas Paine Initiative, a collaborative initiative using strategic communications to build support for human rights in the UK. James is a Turkish-speaker and has a first degree in Turkish and Arabic from Oxford University and an LLM with Distinction in Public International Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Chair and CEO, Small Foundation
Conor Brosnan is a founding Director of Small Foundation (SF), an Irish-registered charity (www.smallfoundation.ie). SF’s vision is Africa permanently free from extreme poverty by 2030. It seeks to catalyse income-generating opportunities for extremely poor people in rural sub-Saharan Africa by supporting initiatives that improve the business ecosystems that proliferate income opportunities for those in extreme poverty by expanding the access of MSMEs to knowledge, skilled human resources, finance, technology and markets. (MSMEs are micro, small and medium-sized enterprises including smallholder farming.)
Since joining Small Foundation in an executive capacity in 2015, Conor has focused on growing the capacity of the organisation to deliver on is vision. Conor became CEO and Chair of Small Foundation in March 2018.
Prior to this Conor was Head of Research at Abbey Capital, an investment management company specializing in global managed futures.
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CEO, Community Reinvestment Fund
FRANK ALTMAN is CEO for Community Reinvestment Fund, USA. As CRF’s founder, Altman pioneered the development of a secondary market for community and economic development. Since 1988, under Altman's leadership and in partnership with a network of local community partners, CRF has funded over $2.4 billion in loans to job-creating small businesses, nonprofits, charter schools and affordable housing projects in 49 states plus the District of Columbia and more than 1,000 communities across the United States. Altman helped design the creation of a federal tax credit to encourage private investment in low-income communities and is a founding member and first President of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition. He is also a member of the Center for Community Development Investors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and an advisor to the Social Innovation Initiative at Brown University. His work has been featured in Inc. Magazine, where he was named one of its Entrepreneurs of the Year and he received Fast Company’s Social Capitalist award. More recently Altman has been awarded the Economic Development Innovation Award from GIS Planning Inc. and fDi Intelligence for his contribution to the field of economic development. Altman is a Senior Fellow at Ashoka, the world-wide network of social entrepreneurs.
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Chief Executive Officer,
VidereJackie is the CEO of Videre est Credere, where she has spent the past decade building it into a highly respected human rights documentation organization. Under her leadership, Videre has exposed genocide; revealed systematic political violence; uncovered widespread corruption affecting the lives of millions; and spurred concrete policy changes and action.
Jackie’s experience spans start-ups and large institutions; the public and private sectors; and work across justice, human rights, technology, and climate. A keen strategist, she has conceptualized, built, and led internationally-focused initiatives at a wide range of organizations, including the Brookings Institution, US State Department, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and American Bar Association. She is a member of the International Criminal Court’s Technology Advisory Board and a sought-after advisor and speaker on security and documentation efforts in complex human rights environments.
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Head of Strategic Partnerships, Middle East and Africa, Wikimedia Foundation
Jack Rabah is the Head of Strategic Partnerships for the Middle East and Africa at the Wikimedia Foundation, based out of Amman, Jordan. He works on building strategic partnerships to expand Wikipedia’s awareness and reach in his regions. These partnerships range from working with mobile operators, to non-profit organizations, governments, educational institutions, and the private sector. Before joining Wikimedia, he held management roles across a range of industries—from mobile tech to international trade and education—in North America, Middle East, and Africa.
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Animated by the power of connection, Claire cultivates the global Skoll Foundation network of social innovators, funders, private, and public sector leaders. Claire collaborates with partners to help unlock resources and bridge ecosystems. Claire co-leads network engagement for the Skoll World Forum, founded and now oversees the Skoll World Forum Fellowship and TEDx Skoll Conversations. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, a co-host of the Wasan Network, and an advisor to multiple organizations.
Prior to Skoll, Claire managed the San Diego Zoo’s internal innovation lab under the CFO. She worked with corporate R&D teams, co-led organizational experiments, and developed community programs to help deepen human connection with biodiversity. She is an alum of Seth Godin's altMBA, AVPN Impact Investing Fellowship, RSA, and JPCatholic University. After 15 years of studying and teaching contemporary dance, Claire now choreographs spaces for people to connect and co-create a more just future
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Executive Director, Center for Civilians in Conflict
Federico Borello is the Executive Director at Center for Civilians in Conflict as of July 2014. He brings to the team more than fifteen years of experience working on human rights and international justice issues. Federico previously served as Director of Investments at Humanity United where he managed the International Justice and the Democratic Republic of Congo portfolios. Prior to this, he worked with the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ).
With the United Nations, Federico was the coordinator of the Transitional Justice and Anti-Impunity Unit at MONUC, the UN mission in Congo. He later joined the UN Mapping Team in Congo as investigations coordinator and legal advisor, the UN Commission of Experts in Guinea as legal advisor, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Burundi to finalize a report on transitional justice. With ICTJ, he worked on several transitional justice situations, including supporting the Moroccan Truth Commission from 2003-2005.
Federico holds a law degree from the University of Milan, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also earned a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University in New York.
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Chief Operating Officer, Elman Peace And Human Rights Centre
Ilwad Elman is a young female leader at the forefront of the Somali peace process, and a global authority on peace and security. Aged 19, she felt the responsibility to leave the safety of Canada and return to the Somalia she fled as a child, still steeped in violent conflict. At just 20, she co-founded Somalia’s first rape crisis centre with her mother. Since then, Ilwad has become a champion of building peace through giving all those impacted by conflict — particularly women and girls — a seat at the table. Through the Elman Peace Centre, she has designed interventions aimed at security sector reform to create an inclusive space for women in peace building and developing programs for the disarmament and rehabilitation of children and youth soldiers for their socio-economic rehabilitation and reintegration. She serves on various board and is an expert advisor to scores of UN Agencies on themes related to youth development, human rights, peace building, gender equity + more.
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Founder and CEO, Bright Success Capital
Hilton Tam is the founder for Bright Success Capital, a Hong Kong based family office focus on cross-border technology investment. Aim to provide strategic value on area of expertises such as manufacturing & supply chain, market strategy and Operational guidance. The fund focus in sector such as Robotics, IoT, Enterprise Software, healthcare and clean tech.
Prior to Bright Success Capital, Hilton Tam has worked Seagate Technology and Cisco System. He earned a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University - West Lafayette.
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Global Programs Manager, Bohemian Foundation
Erin Ricci serves as Global Programs Manager at Bohemian Foundation, a philanthropic, grantmaking institution based in Fort Collins, Colorado that empowers citizens and is committed to the care and enrichment of local, national, and global communities. Bohemian Foundation’s Global Programs identifies and supports organizations that address some of our most serious global challenges at the intersection of health, poverty, and the environment. Global Programs funds organizations and entrepreneurs around the world that are dedicated to making a significant impact and are on the path to a sustainable and scalable business model.
Erin currently serves on the Executive Committee of Big Bang Philanthropy and on the Ten Thousand Villages Fort Collins Board of Directors. As a Foreign Service Officer for USAID, Erin supported global U.S. Government efforts to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies, serving in Central America (Deputy Program Office Director), Central Asia (Deputy Country Office Director), and in D.C. (Deputy Director, Office of South and Central Asian Affairs). She received Meritorious Honor Awards for her service in Central America and Central Asia. As a Program Officer at Heifer International, her work supported the USA Country Program’s efforts to link low income consumers with local food producers. Erin has held several academic appointments at the University of Kentucky, Transylvania University, and Eastern Kentucky University. Her doctoral dissertation in cultural anthropology at the University of Kentucky examined livelihood strategies of small farmers in rural Costa Rica. Early in her career she served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer for the Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union, supporting their mission to provide affordable financial services to low-income and rural communities in Appalachia. Erin was born and raised in rural Kentucky. Today, her family calls Fort Collins, Colorado home.
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Programme Advisor - Executive Education - Social Impact Programmes, Said Business School
We work with faculty and industry experts to market test, commercialise, design and launch executive education programmes to the global marketplace.
We helped create and commercialise the world's first social impact executive education portfolio consisting of social impact investing , impact measurement and social finance.
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Social Innovations Director, Mercy Corps
Chris Walker works to scale up innovative, entrepreneurial solutions to development challenges and provides advice on various innovative finance initiatives at Mercy Corps. He also advises Mercy Corps’ impact investment arm, Mercy Corps Ventures, which invests in and accelerates impact-oriented, for-profit businesses. He previously managed the Innovation Investment Alliance, a funding and learning partnership between the Skoll Foundation and USAID that financed the scale-up of social enterprises. In addition, Chris is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he teaches a graduate course on impact investing and innovative finance.
Previously, Chris was the head of the Innovative Finance Program at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), where he designed and built initiatives that attracted investment capital to address malnutrition. These included partnerships with impact investors to provide equity and debt financing to businesses having a positive impact on nutrition, and incubation support for African food and agribusiness companies. He also led the creation of the Access to Nutrition Index (www.accesstonutrition.org), a ranking of the world’s largest food and beverage companies on their nutrition practices which serves as an assessment tool for the sustainable investment community. Prior to GAIN, Chris was a Fellow with Acumen, a non-profit social venture capital fund, and worked for one of Acumen’s investments, Ziqitza Health Care, in Mumbai, India. He has also worked on international economic and development policy issues at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the U.S. State Department. Chris has a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College.
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Founder, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Christopher Hohn is the founder of a hedge fund called The Children's Investment Fund based in London. Through donation of the hedge fund's profits he endowed the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), which today has over $6 billion in assets. CIFF is focused on improving the lives of children in poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and India. Key areas of focus include climate change, family planning, malnutrition, neglected tropical diseases and anti-human trafficking work. He has an MBA (high distinction) from Harvard Business School.
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As a Senior Program Manager at the Roddenberry Foundation, Gurpreet contributes to the design and implementation of the +1 Global Fund and other Roddenberry programs. Prior to joining the Roddenberry Foundation, Gurpreet contributed to the Evaluation and Learning teams at the Skoll Foundation and David and Lucile Packard Foundation, as well as to multiple non-profit organizations and government agencies. An explorer at heart, he enjoys diving into new books, music, cuisines, urban and outdoor adventures, and more. He is thoroughly enjoying his journey through life, while attempting to fulfill his obligations to the community of life on Earth that makes his journey possible.
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Chair of the International Board, Fisheries Transparency Initiative
Valeria Merino chairs the Fisheries Transparency Initiative. FiTI, a global multi-stakeholder organization, makes the fishing industry more sustainable by making it data transparent. The fishing sector is quite opaque, not necessarily by design but by practice, complex and highly technical. Governments voluntarily join the FiTI and apply the FiTI Standard to improve sustainable fisheries management and participatory governance, promote employment and food security, fulfill international obligations, connect to markets, and prevent IUU fishing. At the core is the. It contributes $500> billion to the economy and employs 58> m. & 600 million livelihoods depend on it. As a social entrepreneur, I am delighted to lead this systemic and transformational initiative after working at the SCOs I founded, at Skoll, Ashoka, and PADF. I served on the Board of Transparency International and UN University. If you are interested in talking to me, please reach out. www.linkedin.com/in/valeriamerino/
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Senior Vice President, Winrock International
For over 20 years, I have developed strategies, mobilized resources, and created and grown organizations for social impact and public benefit. I am currently SVP of Growth and External Affairs at Winrock International where I serve on the Executive Team, manage corporate affairs and have built new teams and practice areas for brand strategy, public affairs, corporate partnerships, blended finance and philanthropy.
I began as a policy aide in the White House Office of Social Innovation where we designed the $400-million, public-private “domestic Peace Corps” initiative, AmeriCorps. As a founding AmeriCorps program officer, I managed a $20-million portfolio of education, health, community and environmental projects.
At CSR pioneer Odwalla Inc. I managed public affairs, communications and supply-chain environmental impact through a high-profile crisis and turnaround, leading to our successful corporate sale to the Coca-Cola Company. Later, as president of Social Venture Network, I recruited women, youth and technology entrepreneurs to increase revenue by 45 percent and accelerate global movements for sustainable business and impact investing.
After a five-year stint as a composer and recording artist, I created and led the Music National Service Initiative and MusicianCorps – a domestic “musical peace corps” with operations in six states and DC. I was honored with awards for leadership and social impact from Aspen Institute, GQ Magazine, James Irvine Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, St. Paul’s School Alumni Assoc. and elsewhere. My work has been profiled on NBC News, PBS NewsHour, NPR All Things Considered, Voice of America, Chronicle of Philanthropy and other local and national outlets. My music is licensed commercially worldwide.
Additional highlights: I've been a...frequent public speaker/ guest lecturer on business, innovation, social impact and public policy; active equity investor for 15yrs; paid adviser to the Gates Fdn, State Dept., two winning U.S. presidential campaigns and media, tech and investment companies.
I'm deeply grateful for and inspired by this co-creative journey. Thank you friends, teachers, mentors, teammates, dreamers and do-ers for life. What's next?! -Kiff
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Co-Founder, Lunt Foundation
From San Francisco to Mumbai, from the Amazon forest to the European countryside, Guibert del Marmol works with entrepreneurs who change the world and reconcile the notions of economy, ecology and sense. For over 15 years Guibert directed various service companies operating in Europe and also in the United States. Since 2006, he helps Ceo's, executive boards, shareholders and family offices to develop a conscious capitalism based on the principles of shared value and noble purpose. Today, he works as a mentor, author and speaker specializing in the field of "Regenerative" Economy and Inspired & Inspiring leadership. He also co-manages the Lunt Foundation that supports social and environmental innovations. Living in Brussels, he's active in Europe, in Asia and in the US. He published two books dealing with individual and collective resilience. Active also in the academic world, he holds the chair in "Regenerative economy" at the Louvain School of Management.
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Director, Saving Lives, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Georgina leads the Saving Lives team, incorporating CIFF’s work on severe acute malnutrition, perinatal survival, and paediatric HIV prevention and treatment.
Before joining CIFF in 2013, Georgina held several positions with the United Nations Development Programme over the course of the last 15 years. These included UNDP Deputy Country Director for Programmes in Zambia, overseeing a $80 million programme portfolio in HIV&AIDS and health, poverty reduction, governance, environment and climate change; two policy and advisory roles to the UN Under-Secretary General and UNDP Associate Administrator, and the Head of the Policy Bureau in New York, and a partnership/liaison role with the European Commission in Brussels. Georgina has an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & London School of Economics and MA/BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge
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Christine is Director of Development at Global Witness
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Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Gayle directs Oxford Impact Investing Programme and Oxford Social Finance Programme and co-founded Women Transforming Leadership. These highly successful executive education programmes have reached more than 1000 students from 80 countries. The programme has spurred impact partnerships worldwide from Dubai and Zambia to Brazil and India. Gayle’s course content is based on interviews with more than 1,800 senior executives in social investing in 20 countries. Research has resulted in more than 20 programmes of study and 50 case studies analyzing the first-in-field. Gayle asks students to tackle the world’s most complex issues—poverty, climate change and conservation finance, equality, modern day slavery, gender. She challenges students to find their moral compass and leadership teaches ethics, leadership, and complexity, gender lens investing, and performance measures for impact at a community and leadership level.
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Former Program Coordinator, Skoll Foundation
Christina serves the Asian markets and communities in the United States and abroad in event management, marketing and logistics roles. With a focus on the entertainment industry, Christina’s clientele uses music and the arts to create positive messages for the underrepresented. She worked previously at the Skoll Foundation providing support to the Community & Convenings and Portfolio & Investments teams. Christina earned her Masters of Science in Management from Notre Dame de Namur University.
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Founding Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Emily is a donor-activist engaged in promoting human equality, justice, and peace around the world. She is particularly passionate and engaged in the nexus of faith, gender, and development and working to mobilize our faith traditions to more fully and unambiguously embrace gender equality. In her role at the Imago Dei Fund, Emily has helped the foundation to adopt a “gender-lens” in its grantmaking with a particular focus on partnering with inspired female change agents, locally and around the world, to build bridges of peace and create a world where girls and women can thrive and achieve their full human potential. Emily brings a contemplative posture to both faith and philanthropy and is passionate about supporting the inner lives of change agents to lead with love and be their best selves in the challenging work they do.
Emily is actively engaged in the women-led philanthropy movement, and is the author of numerous articles. She is the recipient of the Christians for Biblical Equality 2013 Micah Award and was named a 2014 Women’s eNews “21 Leaders of the 21st Century” honoree.
Emily has served on various boards including the Boston Women’s Fund, Women Thrive, New England International Donor Network, Girl Rising, Union Theological Seminary, Nomi Network Campaign Leaders Council, and Sojourners Founders’ Circle.
Emily has a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and a Master’s in Educational Policy from Boston University. She is a trained Spiritual Director through both the Selah Spiritual Direction Certificate Program and the Still Harbor Spritual Direction Practicum.
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Director World Water Week and Prizes, Stockholm International Water Institute
Gabriela Suhoschi is the recently appointed Director of World Water Week and Prizes at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Previously responsible for World Water Week logistics, Gabriela has over 10 years of experience in international events and business, including with Business Sweden.
In its 28th year, World Water Week is the leading annual event on water and development issues. Gabriela has been instrumental in developing the World Water Week concept, for example by introducing showcases in 2017. She has also introduced initiatives to reduce the environmental footprint of the Week. Looking forward, Gabriela wants to expand the water conversation beyond the water sector to include big water user groups, such as the energy, food and agricultural sectors. She also wants to strengthen engagement by youth and women.
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TEDxUnisinos Organizer, TEDx
I'm a very excited person. I believe in people, in a better future. I believe that I can do many things for my students and for my children. Well, I'm communication and entrepreneur professor. It's curious, but my career as a professor happened quite by accident and I have been in love with it since 2001! In 2016 I started my PhD of Strategic Design and I'm researching about Emotional Design. I have been always developing other concomitant activities, but all related to communication. At Unisinos University, I had been the Public Relations course coordinator, the organizer of communication coursework and Professor Consultant of relationships with high schools. Nowadays, I'm teaching Design, Digital Communication, Business School and Public Relations undergraduate courses at Unisinos. Moreover, I'm the TEDxUnisinos licensed organizer.
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Technology Director, Vulcan, Inc.
Gabe's role at Vulcan LLC is to identify and cultivate novel technological approaches to Ocean Health, Climate Change Mitigation, and Wildlife Conservation. With the goal to diversify methods and techniques to realize Paul Allen's vision to 'make and leave the world a better place,' he provides leadership and support in management of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation's Science and Technology portfolio in collaboration with program leads.
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Tim Cross is the founding President of YouthBuild International (YBI). He joined YouthBuild USA in 1996 holding several positions including Vice President of Field Services over seeing the national domestic field operation and then served as YouthBuild USA’s Chief Operating Officer for three years before launching YouthBuild International.
In YouthBuild programs, out of school and unemployed young people, ages 16-25, acquire basic education, job readiness, technical training and leadership skills while building permanent community assets such as housing, community centers, schools, playgrounds and ‘green’ infrastructure. YouthBuild was established in the United States 40 years ago and has expanded to 360 program sites in 45 US states and 23 countries, enrolling 16,000 young people each year. YBI in-county partners include NGOs, global development institutions, governments, bi- and multilateral donor organizations, and private-sector companies. These partners are working in industrialized nations, emerging economies, and developing countries. YouthBuild manages global partnerships with firms, including Prudential, Starbucks, JP Morgan Chase, and Saint Gobain, and over the last ten years has grown its partnership with Catholic Relief Services from one country to eight, on two continents.
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CEO, SaCoDe
Grace Françoise NIBIZI is the Founder and Executive Director of SaCoDé, a nonprofit Organization based in Burundi in East Africa. She created SaCoDe in her garage with a passionate vision to help disadvantaged women raise their youth children in dignity. She takes a vision and makes it reality through sound strategy development. She leads mainly by example, always doing her best and encouraging others to do the same. While easygoing by nature, no one doubts her authority. She is direct and decisive when she needs to be.
Today, Grâce Françoise oversees programs that use mobile phone SMS for reproductive health education and hygiene; provide counseling and services in SaCoDé youth centers, public schools and among Communities; and produce education and information videos, many of which focus on the needs of youth and women’s empowerment. She is recognized for her innovation of the Agateka sanitary pads for Menstrual Hygiene Management which are changing lives of underprivileged school girls, and which has now received two awards and recognitions. She is an inspirational leader who tells stories that inspire action. She is respected as a credible voice in policy making and that allows her to earn a seat at the table where norms and standards are implemented.
Before creating SaCoDé, Grâce Françoise held positions with different International organizations such Catholic Relief Services, UNIFEM, UNHCR, UNDP, and the European Union. She also volunteered in Kenyan refugee camps.
Grâce Françoise was born the third of 10 children. She is married and has two sons and one granddaughter. Grâce Françoise completed university degrees in International Business Management and Administration and International Business Communication. She also completed the medical Institute and served as an anesthesiologist nurse before doing her Business Administration and Management degree.
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Director, Applied Recovery Co
Chris Raine is an Australian social entrepreneur with a focus on mental health and addiction. He is the founder and former CEO of Hello Sunday Morning and the current CEO of Australians for Mental Health. He is also the co-founder of Clean Slate Clinic, a home telehealth alcohol detox service with a mission to safely detox 10,000 Australians by 2025. Chris is a Young Australian of the Year, a Westpac Social Change Fellow, a Skoll Scholarship recipient, and has completed an MBA at Oxford University. In 2023, he was awarded a John Monash Scholarship.
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Senior Lecturer, Archbishop Mihayo University
A catholic Priest from Moshi-Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, has a Bachelor's Degree in Theology from Urbaniana University in Rome, Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from St Augustine University in Tanzania, MBA and PhD from Marquette University in Wisconsin USA. Now working as thePrincipal/ President of Archbishop Mihayo university College of Tabora.
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Executive Director, Shule Direct
Faraja is a resourceful social entrepreneur passionate about developing cutting edge social and educational programs that support children and women’s development. In 2013, she established Shule Direct, a thriving not for profit social enterprise providing comprehensive web and mobile educational platforms offering national curriculum based learning content across multiple subjects to over a million in and out of school youth. It is the official e-learning content provider in public secondary schools (Government owned) in Tanzania.
Faraja is an elected Chairperson for the Tanzania Education Network, the official national education CSOs network. Recently, she was elected to the Board of the Global Campaign for Education representing the Africa region. She is also a World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader.
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Chief Catalyst, Catalyst at Large Ltd.
Suzanne Biegel, Chief Catalyst at Catalyst at Large, and Co-Producer of the GenderSmart Investing Summit
Suzanne is a globally recognised expert on gender-smart investing. Her work has influenced hundreds of institutional and family investors, and billions of dollars in capital to move with a gender and impact lens. Her work spans research, field building, and advisory in gender-smart investing.
Suzanne was a founding board member of Confluence Philanthropy. She was Vice Chair of Liberty Hill Foundation. She is passionate about the role of investors and funders to shift market systems and invest for impact with a gender lens.
Suzanne is Senior Gender Lens Investing Adviser at Wharton Business School, is a Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and she teaches Getting Gender Smart at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She sits on the Investor Advisory Council for the Equality Fund, and on numerous advisory boards including Cornerstone Capital and SheEO. She also leads the Women, Girls, and Reduced Inequalities group at Toniic ,where she is an active member.
She has been coming to Skoll World Forum for 10 years, now, as a funder, as an investor, and as a field builder.
Suzanne was an award winning entrepreneur for the e-learning company that she built in the 1990s, and has won numerous awards throughout her 30+ year career, including the Beacon Award for Philanthropy and Social Investment, in the UK.
She is based in London.
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Evan Marwell is founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, the leading non-profit focused on upgrading the Internet access in every public school classroom in America. Since its launch in 2012, EducationSuperHighway has helped connect 35 million students to the broadband they need for digital learning. In addition, the organization has secured commitments from 46 governors to upgrade their schools for the 21st century and $2.5 billion per year of federal funding to make these commitments a reality.
A recipient of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Visionary of the Year award and a serial entrepreneur, Evan launched companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, hedge fund, and consumer retailing industries including INFONXX and Criterion Capital Management. Collectively, these businesses created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars in revenue and investment returns.
Evan is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. He is the past board president of the Katherine Delmar Burkes School and is currently board chair of myAgro, an NGO helping smallholder farmers in Africa move out of poverty.
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Secretary General, Association of Consecrated Women of Eastern and Central Africa
Student of Notre Dame University pursuing Executive Masters in NonProfit Administration. Worked as the Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa-ACWECA (www.acweca.com). Passionate about transformation and integration of business in current ministries of Catholic Sisters in Africa through the Sisters Blended Value Project (https://www.millersocent.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sbvp-web.pdf).
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Edwin Ou leads Skoll's strategic engagements with aligned funders and manages a variety of key relationships with funded social entrepreneurs, domain experts, policy makers and corporate partners. Edwin develops and structures funding opportunities to drive large-scale change in the focus areas of the foundation. Edwin has also held previous roles of increasing responsibility at Skoll, including Principal.
Prior to working at Skoll, Edwin amassed a diverse set of leadership skills and experience in organizational and business planning, program and personnel management and financial development in the field of social entrepreneurship. Most recently, Edwin led programmatic efforts for the Marine Aquarium Council (MAC), where he managed the spin-offs of MAC’s regional capacity-building programs as newly-formed NGOs in Indonesia and the Philippines. Prior to MAC, Edwin led the business development efforts at Benetech, where he built a team that evaluated and drove the early-stage development of social ventures and fueled the organization with funding and partner resources. Prior to social entrepreneurship, Edwin assumed roles of increasing responsibility in product management for a SoftBank-funded technology startup and as a mergers and acquisitions advisor for an energy investment bank.
Edwin earned his B.A. in Economics at Rice University and M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused his studies in social entrepreneurship and was a Packard Environment Fellow. He has served on regional boards of three nonprofit organizations: the Red Cross, Surfrider Foundation and Taiwanese American Citizens League.
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Emma established the European office of m2m in 2011. Emma began her career as a project finance lawyer at the International Law Firm, Allen & Overy. She has served in various board roles in national and local charities, including as Vice-Chair of Amnesty International UK. Emma is currently a trustee of the Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust. She has also served as a Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School whilst consulting with charities around strategy and change. Emma leads m2m’s global donor and strategic partnerships strategy, and takes responsibility for shaping our advocacy, public engagement and policy positions. She holds day-to-day responsibility for m2m’s European and North American Resource Mobilisation operations.
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Emily developed her passion for drawing since she was a child and had won multiple awards early in her design career before moving to Toronto, Canada and earned her BFA with Honors at Ryerson University. She later returned to Hong Kong to further develop her professional design career and gained her design reputation with numerous awards in London and South East Asia before moving to San Francisco where she now lives.
Through her agency and corporate work, Emily is well versed in graphic design, print, web / UI design, social graphics, corporate identity, project management, and more. She also worked as the Art Director for TEDx Hong Kong and was the social media specialist for TEDx Hong Kong Ed.
Emily believes that visual communication is a powerful tool to spur meaningful changes. Her international experiences inspire her to have a mission to elevating global social entrepreneurs' ideas by using impactful images and graphics online and offline. In her personal time, Emily is both extrovert and introvert: she loves hiking and loves art, fashion, and pop culture.
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Head of Philanthropic Projects, The Guardian
In her role as Head of Philanthropic Projects at Guardian News and Media, Elli oversees operations and day-to-day management across the Guardian's global philanthropic portfolio. She joined the Guardian as a project manager in the philanthropy team in October 2014, having spent two years previously at a content agency.
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Director for Africa & Middle East, Yale University
Eddie Mandhry
Director for Africa & The Middle East
Working out of Yale’s Office of International Affairs, Eddie advances the University’s global engagement by working with faculty and administrators across Yale to develop strategic partnerships between Yale and Centers of academic excellence, as well as the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Yale, Eddie was the Associate Director of NYU Africa House an interdisciplinary institute focused on economic development research around the impact of Market Information System technology in improving livelihoods of small holder farmers across Africa. Before that he was Washington D.C. Director of Global Kids Inc., an organization that educates, activates and inspires youth from underserved communities to take action on critical issues facing our world. He is a Carnegie New Leader and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He's a member of Aspen Institute's Society of Fellows, and Chatham House. He holds a BA in Political Science/African Studies from Hampshire College, and a MSc. in international relations from the London School of Economics.
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Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement Lead, Saïd Business School
Sorina currently leads on Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement for the Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School. She is responsible for developing the Centre’s network of external collaborators to accommodate entrepreneurs and business leaders of varying seniority levels and their involvement in the Centre’s activities.
Sorina has a history of successfully working with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels, having previously served as Leadership Programs Director for the Aspen Institute office in Bucharest. During her 5 years engagement with the Aspen Institute, her main responsibilities were focused on creating and developing networks through educational programs attended by business and civic leaders from across the world. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Sorina worked for General Electric, on internal and external communication as well as with several local NGOs on good governance and social inclusion projects.
Sorina completed her BSc in Bucharest, specialising in International Business and Economics. She then moved to Barcelona to pursue a Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University. Sorina is also an alumna of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community.
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Village Health Works
Deogratias "Deo" Niyizonkiza, VHW's visionary founder and CEO, is a leading advocate for the most impoverished people in the world. His compassion, expertise, and life experience have made him a key voice in global health and international development.
An American citizen, Deo was born in rural Burundi, where he attended grade school and part of medical school. He left the country during the catastrophic war that lasted more than a decade and took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Deo survived not only this man-made tragedy and poverty, but also homelessness in New York City.
Deo’s life journey is told in Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder’s book, Strength in What Remains, a New York Times best seller named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
Despite the hurdles he faced in the U.S.—homelessness, illness, and low-paying work delivering groceries— he eventually enrolled at Columbia University, where he received his bachelor’s degree. After graduating from Columbia, he attended the Harvard School of Public Health, where he met Dr. Paul Farmer and began working at the medical nonprofit organization Partners In Health and Harvard Medical School. He left Partners In Health to continue his medical education at Dartmouth Medical School.
In 2005, guided by his unwavering conviction that humanity’s progress should be measured by how we honor the dignity of others, including those a world away, Deo traveled back to Burundi. There, in the remote village of Kigutu, he established Village Health Works, with the goal of removing barriers to human dignity and progress by creating a model health care system and education based on critical thinking. Deo's passion rallied the community of Kigutu into action. Thanks to community-donated land, a small amount of seed money from American fellow medical students and supporters, a community of compassionate volunteers, and Deo's l
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CEO, Walker Impact Strategies
Diana works in market based and philanthropic social impact strategy, ESG, partnerships, and thought leadership. She works with corporations, governments, investors, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists to develop innovative and measurable environment, social and governance business lines as well as large scale philanthropic investment allocation. Diana has spent more than 15 years building impact initiatives and partnership alliances in climate change and corporate sustainability, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, risk mitigation of social impact endeavors, new market opportunities and market research, and impact investment funds.
Diana founded Walker Impact Strategies in 2012, which focuses its work as a boutique firm to support private and public sector clients across multiple industries to help them grow and measure their social impact work sustainably and most effectively. Diana also works with companies and investment funds to help to build out effective models of social impact measurement.
Diana is Co-Chair of the Independent Advisory Group of Travalyst, Chair of the Social Sector Accelerator, and sits on the Board of Counterpart International and Maverick Next. She is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader and a Member of The Conduit and Nexus Global, She is certified and trained by the McKinsey Corporate Management Leadership Academy. She has spent time mentoring young social entrepreneurs through the Resolution Project’s Guide Program.
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Vice President, Investing in Inclusive Finance, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION
Deborah Drake has been with the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) since its inception in 2008. As Vice President, Investor Engagement and Research, she leads CFI’s investor engagement and governance efforts to strengthen the inclusive finance ecosystem. She also directs the Financial Inclusion Equity Council (FIEC), a membership organization of private entities making equity investments in financial institutions in the developing world. Deborah also leads CFI's research work in the impact investing space.
Prior to the establishment of CFI, Deborah held multiple leadership roles at Accion focused on developing and implementing financial initiatives to facilitate access by microfinance institutions to capital. She managed Accion’s $9 million guarantee fund for Latin America and the United States and led the financial analysis unit dedicated to data collection and analysis to achieve greater financial transparency and establish international standards of financial performance for microfinance institutions. Deborah also was responsible for the development and delivery of training to microfinance institutions in the areas of transformation, governance and investment readiness.
Deborah is co-editor of The Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development, and the co-author of Alchemists for the Poor: NGOs as Financial Institutions. Before joining Accion, she was a banking specialist at the World Bank and a commercial banker.
Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from Babson College. Deborah speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese and is a board member of Vista Ventures Social Impact Fund and Director Emerita of Root Capital.
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Executive Vice President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
David Bohigian serves as the Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation after being confirmed by the Senate in August 2017.
Bohigian joined OPIC after being the Managing Director of Pluribus Ventures, an advisor to innovative financial services firms and investor in impact-driven companies. Earlier, Bohigian served on the core management team of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. Prior to Bridgewater, Bohigian founded E2 Capital Partners, which developed new financing models for energy efficiency projects.
Bohigian previously served as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, focusing on eliminating barriers to trade and investment for US companies. Earlier, Bohigian led the Department's Policy Office as the lead economic and energy advisor to two Secretaries.
Before the Commerce Department, Bohigian served as a Managing Director of Idealab. Bohigian joined Idealab after it acquired the venture capital firm he founded, VenCatalyst. Prior to founding VenCatalyst, Bohigian was a partner at Jefferson Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm.
Bohigian received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a journalism degree from Washington & Lee.
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COO, Hala Systems, Inc.
Dave Levin is Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Operating Officer of Hala Systems, Inc. Founded in November 2015, Hala develops advanced technology solutions for civilian protection, accountability, and the prevention of violence before, during, and after conflict. Through the development and implementation of innovative technology, Hala aims to reduce harm, increase security, and stabilize communities. For instance, Hala created an early warning system for airstrikes against civilians in Syria that reaches 2.1 million civilians, has saved hundreds of lives, and has prevented thousands of injuries. Sentry Syria, as the system is called, was developed with and for the White Helmets and provides 7-10 minutes of advanced warning, which has been correlated with a mean reduction in casualties of 10-30%.
Prior to Hala, Dave founded Refugee Open Ware, which catalyzed over $30 million of social investment into humanitarian technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior to that, Dave was a Sr. Advisor to the Founder of LeapFrog Investments, where he helped craft the strategy for their successful $400 million raise. He specialized in mobile banking and financial inclusion as a Fulbright Scholar in India, focused on building some of the first mobile payment products for the unbanked in 2009-10. Furthermore, Dave spent four years in the NY office of McKinsey; he left as an Engagement Manager in the Social Sector Office. He was also a strategist and speechwriter in the office of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Dave is an Unreasonable Fellow and Yale Global Justice Fellow. He holds an MBA from Wharton, an M.Phil. in Political Thought & Intellectual History from Cambridge University (where he published award-winning research on the philosophy of human rights and global justice), and a BS/BA in Economics and International Studies (summa cum laude) from the Huntsman Program of UPenn/Wharton.
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Founder & CEO, Operation Fistula
Seth loves data and he’s focused his career on using it to help people and the planet.
He is the founder of Operation Fistula, a data-driven NGO working to dismantle systemic gender inequality leveraging by helping the world’s most vulnerable women. He is also the founder of Impact Intel, a social enterprise using data analytics to help organizations scale impact. Seth has also helped found other high impact organizations like miraclefeet and elderabuse.org.
This year at Skoll, he is keen to listen, learn, and collaborate on the following topics:
- Mentoring emerging women leaders and data analysts into executive leadership
- Connecting accounting data to program outcomes to reveal cost-effectiveness
- Using data to dramatically improve program and operational performance
- Carbon sequestration through composting and regenerative agriculture
- Evidence-based methods to rapidly improve personal wellbeing
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President and CEO, American Refugee Committee
Daniel Wordsworth is the President & CEO of the American Refugee
Committee (ARC), an international humanitarian aid agency operating relief
programs throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Wordsworth is an entrepreneur who came to ARC after several years leading for-profit start-ups in China. At ARC he has applied those principles of entrepreneurship to the humanitarian world. Wordsworth has ingrained in ARC's worldwide teams a bias for action and put in place the framework and culture for new ideas and approaches to emerge. Under Wordsworth, ARC received the Drucker Prize in 2011. He has led the formation of several breakthrough humanitarian enterprises and platforms, and organizational revenues have more than doubled in his 9-year tenure. Wordsworth has 20 years of experience in the field, having risen through the ranks of Christian Children's Fund and established emergency response programs throughout Africa and Asia. He has also lived and worked with the urban poor in Australia and Hong Kong. He started his career in the Royal Australian Navy.
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Investment Director, RippleWorks
Rippleworks is a private foundation that connects leading expertise from Silicon Valley and the larger US tech sector with high-growth social ventures around the world. Rippleworks also makes direct investments into social ventures through grants and PRIs (debt and equity). As Portfolio Manager, Sara is responsible for sourcing, executing, and monitoring investments into high-impact social ventures to grow our portfolio with our Head of Investments. Additionally, Sara is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with like-minded investors to drive pipeline and learnings.
Before joining the RippleWorks team, Sara was a full-time consultant with Integrity Ventures, where she advised social enterprises, impact investors, family foundations, and corporations on how to maximize impact and effectively deploy capital. Prior to Integrity Ventures, Sara ran Operations at Good Nature Agro, an early-stage social enterprise working with small-scale farmers in Zambia. Before she relocating to Southern Africa, Sara managed the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program at the Mulago Foundation, a two-year fellowship that teaches social entrepreneurs with great ideas how to design their work so that it can scale up to benefit millions.
Sara graduated from the University of San Diego (USD) with a BA in Political Science and minors in Psychology and Peace & Justice Studies (2011), and an MA in Economic Development (2012). She also serves on the USD Kroc School of Peace Studies Board of Advisors.
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Program Officer for International Philanthropy, Pilot House Philanthropy
Bennett Rathbun leads the global philanthropy initiative at Pilot House, a private single-family office in Boston, MA. In his role, Bennett is responsible for finding, funding, and supporting a growing portfolio of high-impact social entrepreneurs focused on combatting global poverty, with specific emphasis on rural livelihoods, climate, and gender equity. Bennett has been leading Pilot House's global philanthropy in a full-time capacity since 2020, having previously served as an advisor to the family's international giving since 2017. Prior to joining Pilot House, Bennett spent a decade building and leading Hope on a String, a youth and community development organization based in rural Haiti. Bennett attended Amherst College and New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. He is fluent in Haitian Creole in addition to English.
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CEO and Founder, Alterna Impact
Daniel Buchbinder is the Founder and Director of Alterna, a social innovation platform advancing social and environmental change in Latin America. Since Alterna´s conception Daniel has led the cultivation of +4000 entrepreneurs and impact SMEs in Central America. He leads a fantastic 50+ international team that share his passion to cultivate change from the ground-up. Since 2018 Alterna is an active impact investor solving the “missing middle” with its funds Devela and Acceso. Daniel is an Ashoka Fellow since 2016 and has received recognitions from organizations such as Skoll, ROI and ADEL. He is co-Chair of the steering committee for the Mexico and Central American Chapter of ANDE and belongs to a range of boards in companies and is a founding member of the Central American Impact Investment Platform (PIIC), part of the GSG. Daniel holds a BA in Business Administration (ITAM) and MSc´s in Environmental Technology and Business (Imperial College) and Environmental Geography (UNAM).
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N/A, Individual
Young Saudi woman, new to philanthropy but willing to make an impact and be of value and add value to the world. I attended an International University, I am fluent in four languages (Arabic, English, French and Italian) and currently learning German. I have traveled around the world and have been exposed to diverse cultures. My diverse background and experiences have introduced me to new cultures and perspectives, allowing me to see beyond the expectations and limitations imposed by the society I was brought up in and the way of life it is accustomed to. One of my goals in life is to start a foundation which focuses on world hunger and human trafficking, the two issues which I genuinely want to impact.
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Founding Partner & Trustee, Imago Dei Fund
Ross is a Managing Director at Berkshire Partners LLC in Boston. He earned a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Ross has worked in private equity for over 25 years. He has represented Berkshire Partners’ interests in a number of portfolio companies, including: Advance Drainage Systems, AVW-TELAV, Inc., Bare Escentuals, Carter’s Inc., Melissa & Doug, Thomas Built Buses, Inc., NEW Asurion Corporation, and Tower Development Corporation.
Before joining Berkshire Partners, Ross worked at Bain & Company and in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co. Ross is on the Board of Visitors at Park Street Kids and Park Street School.
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Founder and Executive Director, Haitian Education & Leadership Program
Conor's work history includes stints as a commercial fisherman, bartender and line cook, house painter and carpenter, teacher, Deputy Director of the National Democratic Institute in Haiti, and Director of Haiti Programs for the American Institutes for Research.
Working as a volunteer secondary school teacher in Haiti, one of his top graduating students, Isemonde, asked him for $30 to register for secretarial school. Conor encouraged Isemonde to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor, paid for the entrance exam, and HELP was born. Under his leadership, HELP has grown from a single student to the largest university scholarship program in Haiti and a model scholarship program for brain gain in the developing world. HELP students and graduates have won numerous awards including two Fulbright Scholarships in the last three years.
Conor is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the RSA. He has a B.A. in History from Brown University.
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Global Managing Director, Unreasonable Group
Guided by impact, human-centeredness, a learner's mindset, and the need to make work work better, Colman and his team at Unreasonable repurpose capitalism to drive lasting and scalable change.
Working with Accenture, Johnson & Johnson, Barclays, and the U.S. State Department, among others, Unreasonable builds community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems.
Over the past six years, Unreasonable has grown a community of 230 ventures, which have raised $4.5 billion in financing, $3.5 billion in revenue, and positively impacted more than 350 million lives.
In addition to Unreasonable, Colman serves on multiple Boards, including ReGenerate's Advisory Board and The Science Museum Group's Sustainability Board. Previously, Colman taught at Stanford University's d.school and Columbia University, as well as served as Senior Innovation Director at Nike, a senior HIV/AIDS official in the Botswana government, and a Founder of two start-ups.
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SVP, Chief Development Officer, Americares
As Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Christine Squires leads all fundraising efforts for Americares health programs worldwide. She is responsible for all corporate, foundation and individual giving, including more than $500 million in annual product donations from pharmaceutical and medical supply companies.
Christine brings to Americares nearly 20 years of senior development and outreach experience. She previously served as chief operating officer at Physicians for Human Rights, where she oversaw all of the organization’s global development and strategic planning efforts. Christine also headed up growth and fundraising for Human Rights Watch and spent 10 years at the United States Fund for UNICEF.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Delaware and is a graduate of the Center for Creative Leadership’s Executive Development Program.
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Journalist, The Guardian
Chris Michael is the editor of Guardian Cities. He was previously an editor at the International New York Times in Tokyo, before joining the Independent in 2007 in London, and the Guardian in 2008
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Director of Communications, GHR Foundation
My purpose is to work in partnership to create racially-conscious spaces that foster radical collaboration and meaningful impact. Recognizing how race matters in my life and work, I aim to lift up the voices and ideas of Black, Indigenous and people of color to accelerate the change they seek.
At GHR Foundation, my role is responsible for global platforms and engagement strategies that advance innovative, community-centered impact initiatives. I champion racial consciousness and intersectional equity within the social sector as a member of the GHR's management team, co-lead of the foundation's $1M BridgeBuilder global innovation challenge, and collaborator with platforms including World Economic Forum, Skoll World Forum, Devex, Racially Conscious Collaboration, OpenIDEO, and more.
Previously, I worked in global social impact at communications agency Weber Shandwick. My prior role was a strategy partner to social entrepreneurs and purpose-driven organizations—many with a global focus—through my consultancy Berger Brands. For two decades, I have worked with visionary changemakers on pressing international issues such as child labor, fair trade, migration, global health, press freedom, and more.
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Executive Director, World Relief
Chitra serves as Executive Director at World Relief Seattle. Prior to this, she spent time in India consulting for Justice Ventures International (an anti-trafficking organization) on strategic planning and fund development and as a Philanthropic Advisor for the Seattle Foundation. While her career started in corporate advertising, public relations and media relations, she has spent most of the last twenty five years working for local and international non-profits. She was the founding Executive Director of Emerald City Jobs, an employment program for African-American men released from prison. She, also, was Senior Consultant for Karnataka Health Promotions Trust and Aperian Global in Bangalore, India and Rainier Scholars, Rainier Beach Community Empowerment Coalition and Landesa, in Seattle.
Ms. Hanstad holds a Masters of Arts in Marketing Communications from Wheaton College and a Masters of Science in International Developemnt from Eastern University. She recently completed a certificate program in Accelerating Social Transformation from the University of Washington. Chitra serves on the Civic Council for University of Washington Jackson School. Chitra has a passion for seeing at-risk communities thrive. She has served on many boards including Landesa, Covenant World Relief & Urban Impact, and volunteers with The Stability Network.
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Cofounder and CEO, Watsi
Chase is Cofounder and CEO of Watsi, a startup that builds technology to administer health insurance systems in low-income countries. Prior to Watsi, Chase worked in private sector intelligence in Washington DC, started a micronutrient program in Haiti, served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, and launched a small business loan fund in San Francisco. Chase was named Visionary of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and is a Forbes 30-under-30.
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Co-Founder & Chairman, All Hands and Hearts - Smart Response
David Campbell has been a technology executive, board member, investment banker, and humanitarian field volunteer.
Maximum impact. Minimum bureaucracy. That’s David Campbell’s motto for All Hands Volunteers. David was on the verge of retirement when a massive tsunami hit Thailand in 2004. Armed with donations he collected from friends and 35 years of business management leadership, David traveled to Thailand determined to help. The experience was life-changing and led David to create and lead the nonprofit natural disaster response and rebuild organization, All Hands Volunteers. The organization enables volunteers to provide hands on assistance to survivors of natural disasters in the U.S. and abroad. Over the last 11 years, David has volunteered on dozens of postdisaster projects including Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, earthquakes in Haiti, The Philippines, and Nepal, and flooding in Iowa and South Carolina. The organization has earned the highest possible 4 Star Rating by Charity Navigator and a top 5 Star rating from Greatnonprofits.org and GoOverseas.com.
David’s 50-year business background includes positions as President of BBN Technologies of Cambridge, and CEO at public companies Computer Task Group of Buffalo and Xpedior of Chicago.
Recognitions include an honorary doctorate from Niagara University, Citizen of the Year from The Buffalo News, 2013 Social Entrepreneur from Manhattan Institute, and the 2014 Purpose Prize.
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Senior Manager, Global Community & Development, B Team
Charlotte joined The B Team as part of the founding staff team, shaping the organization’s development and community-building priorities from the outset. Charlotte believes deeply in the power of partnerships to deliver collective solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. In her role as the Head of Development, she focuses on cultivating strategic partnerships and strengthening the long-term sustainability of The B Team.
Charlotte has diverse experience working across the non-profit sector, including in business mobilization, disability and community services, youth engagement in political fora, and international development, with previous roles in Canada and New Zealand.
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Co-lead, Planet & Climate,
AshokaPip is a climate change practitioner and systems thinker. She currently has two main projects she devotes her time to: Ashoka's Planet & Climate initiative, and Wellington City Council's target of reducing emissions by 57% by 2030.
Australian by birth, Pip has spent the majority of her career in South Africa and the UK. She recently moved to Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband and two young boys.
While in South Africa, Pip founded enke: Make Your Mark, a youth development organisation that has impacted tens of thousands of young people across the country. For this work, she was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2014. She has consulted climate action, funding practices, innovative finance, and systems change and sits on several boards. She is currently researching how to build widespread agency for climate action.
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Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Bill Rodriguez plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation’s senior leadership team, he also helps to execute the Foundation’s strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Bill serves with primary responsibility for DRK’s international portfolio. Bill currently serves on the boards of DRK portfolio organizations BarefootLaw, Brastorne, Cowtribe, Food for Education, MaTontine, Numida, OceanMind, VIA Global Health, and Vula Mobile. Bill resides in Botswana with his wife, Rebecca, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and their two young daughters.
Bill is a physician, entrepreneur, and leader in global health. He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, more than a dozen national government organizations on global HIV and tuberculosis treatment and pandemic response, as well as numerous start-up for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises, focused on global health technologies, diagnostics and laboratory support, and workforce training. Bill is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and infectious disease at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident.
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Managing Director, Impact Investing, Catholic Relief Services
Beth Collins, Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Managing Director of Impact Investing, has structured and led CRS’s impact investing and innovative finance activities since their inception in 2015. A leading global humanitarian and development agency, CRS reaches over 130 million people across more than 110 countries. Beth oversees CRS’ impact investing strategy, serves as Chair of Azure Source Capital, LLC, a financing vehicle developed by CRS to expand communities’ access to water services in Latin America and is on the Investment Committee of Isidro Investments LLC, an CRS owned agriculture value chain investment vehicle. She also leads CRS’ advocacy efforts on impact investing and social enterprise, having produced two Vatican Impact Investing Conferences and acting as Chair of the Caritas Internationalis Impact Investing & Social Enterprise Working Group. Beth has a 30-year executive leadership career with global experience spanning corporate and NGO sectors throughout Africa, th
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Breanne brings a blend of international development and higher education experience to the Skoll Centre Team. She has held several roles at the Centre over the past nine years and currently spearheads all operational functions. Breanne began her career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture working on development projects in Armenia and the Republic of Georgia. She then served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working with university students in the Republic of Moldova. Previously she was the director of Policy Internship Programs at Texas A&M University. Breanne holds a BS in Agricultural Development from Texas A&M University.
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Patti Parson is the Managing Producer of the PBS NewsHour. As a key member of the development team, she helps provide editorial, managerial and financial supervision for the show’s tape production. Patti works closely with correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro to report on the work of social entrepreneurs and equity issues. Her own productions and those she has supervised, have won numerous awards.
Parson started her television career on the crew at KCTS/Seattle. She switched direction a bit to become the station’s Director of Promotions and later returned to production as senior producer for its public affairs programming. She also helped produce a PBS special and a Bill Moyers’ Journal.
Parson earned her bachelor’s degree from Smith College, and her master’s degree from the University of Washington. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her letterpress printer husband and is the proud mom of her transgender daughter.
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Founder, Women In Technology Uganda
Barbara is a groundbreaking Ugandan social entrepreneur, technologist, consultant, mentor, International speaker and IT project manager.
Barbara is the Founder and Managing Director of Women In Technology Uganda, an organization that is empowering women and girls from underserved communities to live sustainable and fulfilling lives through use of technology education, business skilling and linking them to work opportunities. WITU is also championing getting young unemployed women into tech work through skilling, reskilling, upskilling and directly connecting them to work opportunities. Prior to founding WITU, Barbara co-founded Hive Colab, Uganda’s first innovation hub, business accelerator and incubator for East African technology startups and whose mission is to build local tech and business capacity and scale up ideas with positive social and economic returns. Prior to this, Barbara was Country Manager and lead project manager for digital projects at Appfrica Labs, a software development consultancy connecting the world to African Developers. Barbara has a MSC. in Information systems management from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, a bachelor's degree in Business computing from Makerere University Business School and a post graduate diploma in project planning and management from Uganda Management Institute.
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Founder, Giving Wings Foundation
Advocate and investor in women's health. Documentary film enthusiast and financier. In 2017, I co-founded The Case For Her, a philanthropic investment portfolio, engaging in women’s health areas that are often globally taboo, stigmatised and massively underfunded such as menstrual health and sexual health and pleasure. We are risk tolerant, innovative, nimble funders.
My work includes getting women’s health on the global health agenda and scaling up funding through investment, evidence based research and advocacy, truly making the case for her.
I invest in education and healthcare for girls, through the Giving Wings Foundation, believing that education is at the core of unleashing a person’s potential, and the impact of education for girls extends well beyond the individual to her family and her community.
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CEO and Co-Founder, Educate!
Under Boris’s leadership, Educate! has grown to become the largest youth skills provider in East Africa, meaningfully impacting over 200,000 youth across Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. With a team of over 180 staff and over 200 youth mentors, the organization has received much acclaim for its work, including the 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and the 2015 WISE Award. Educate! was also highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative, the UN’s Generation Unlimited as one of 20 innovative youth solutions, and by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator.
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Executive Director, R Ventures Foundation
Archish Mittal is the Executive Director of R Ventures Foundation , a Non Profit aimed at supporting initiatives aimed at integration of refugees in Europe. Our aim to recognise the inherently entrepreneurial qualities of refugees, help create sustainable hi-tech global businesses by providing seed capital and mentorship to refugee owned start-ups and refugee impact organisations
He is a strong supporter of "Dialogue” and has conducted several Cross- civilisational dialogue in business, academia, public institution , and youth organisations. These include Archbishop Excellency Emery Kabongo Kanundowi at Vatican City and Dr.Ahmad Ilyasi, Chief Imam of India among others.
He shadowed Mr.Alain Goudmset, Mental Coach of the Belgium Olympic Team for a year and also served as his assistant at INSEAD - Advance Management Program(AMP). A regular at the World Economic Forum(WEF) , Davos. He was invited on a panel in 2017 to talk about the integration Index developed by MediaTenor.
As a philanthropist he supports education, technology and culture. He is the director of Lotus Learning Foundation (LLF) based in New Delhi, which is family run foundation that supports the education of over 500 students in rural areas in North India. As an advocate for next generation philanthropy he is an active member of Nexus, is a global movement of 2000+ young people from over 70 countries working to increase and improve philanthropy and impact investing by bridging communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship. Professionally he gathered hands-on experience as a Finance Analyst at Walt Disney and Mentally Fit Institute(MFI) in Belgium.
He holds a degree in Investment & Financial Risk Management , Cass Business School London. An Intensive summer Creative writing program from Cambridge University and was chosen as a Next-Gen scholar to study Philanthropy at Wharton(Upenn).
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Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, University of Oxford
Aoife is Departmental Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, a joint position between the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the School of Geography and Environment, and Saïd Business School. Aoife’s research focuses on the connections between technological, organisational and institutional change related to sustainability, with a particular interest in new technologies related to energy and buildings. Prior to joining Saïd Business School, Aoife was a senior researcher at the Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at ETH in Zurich. Aoife received her PhD from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and her MA from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Before her PhD, Aoife worked as a research assistant with the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge, where she was involved in several research and consulting projects for industry, the World Bank and for the UK government.
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Chief Financial Officer, Heifer International
Bob Bloom is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Heifer International. Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. Formed in 1944, today Heifer works in over 20 countries around the world bringing sustainable agriculture to areas with a long history of poverty. Heifer’s focus on sustainable agriculture (principally through livestock) is complemented with a strong emphasis on social capital development. As Chief Financial Officer, Bloom oversees all financial, treasury, technology and human resources activities.
Since joining Heifer, Bloom has led an effort to build global systems to support the organization’s strategy of scaling up impact and diversifying revenue sources. This effort includes integration of the new financial systems with other operating systems including donor CRM, project management and monitoring & evaluation (M&E).
Bloom has also actively visited country program offices throughout the world meeting small holder farmers in the communities where Heifer works and developing public/private partnership opportunities.
Prior to joining Heifer, Bloom served as Chief Financial Officer at several companies including Vestcom International, Acxiom Corp. and Wilson Sporting Goods Co.
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Managing Director Aquilus Pte Ltd, Co-Founder Alatus Capital, MAC3 Impact Philanthropies
Antoine is a founding partner of Alatus Capital, a European-based value investment management firm. For over 15 yrs, the firm has been privileged to work with a number of pre-eminent global foundations, endowments and pension funds.
In 2002 he founded MAC3 Impact Philanthropies, to support organizations & initiatives that impact early childhood, health & education, as well as the oceans & coastal ecosystems. MAC3 seeks to make sustainable impact at scale, applying honed investment & business principles to philanthropy. While supporting leading institutions & research projects in the US, Europe & Asia, MAC3 is also focusing on selected local communities in Asia.
Antoine serves as Director of Firmenich International. Founded in 1895, Firmenich is the world’s largest family-owned flavors and fragrance company. The company’s products touch >3 billion consumers daily.
He is a founding Director of Conservation International’s Asia Pacific board & founding member of Co-Impact Community.
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Senior Advisor, Blue Sphere Foundation
Ms. Davlin is a strategic consultant and fundraiser in the environment and energy sectors working to increase private sector participation in national security with an emphasis on economic and environmental security.
Ann brings 20 years of experience that includes both philanthropic and private fundraising, investment in clean energy, environmental policy and brownfield project development. Ann co-chaired, the New York State Micro-grid Energy Prize Competition. Ann is the director of development for Blue Sphere Foundation; and the director of origination at True Green Capital. She advises Enthalpic Capital, PNP Marine and BNP Paribas Bank on purpose investing. Ann joined Carbon War Room (CWR) as the Director of Development in 2009. Prior to her position at the CWR, Ann was managing director of the Bayberry Green Fund and a Director, AIG Environmental, working closely with the Real Estate and Renewable Energy Groups. Ann advised NYS on the Brownfields law creating during her tenure at the Regional Plan Association and co-founded Green Cycle Housing. She advised Vice President Al Gore, and served in both the White House and the Department of Defense. Ann is on the Board of NYLCV, Southern Cross Schools (Botswana) and helped develop the Echoing Green Climate Fellowship.
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Senior Digital Director, Resource Media
From Resource Media’s Portland office, Collin works across the organization’s programs to bring digital campaigns to life. He helps clients navigate the complexities of the new media and digital world, make savvy choices on the web and other digital platforms, and use those platforms to activate and inspire existing bases and new constituents. With a decade of experience in editorial and management roles for environmental NGOs and digital media companies, blogging, writing, and editing for the web, Collin has expertise in content creation, digital research, and social media management.
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Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, GroundTruth Project
Charles Sennott is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Tshe GroundTruth Project. He is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national and local journalism. A leading social entrepreneur in new media, Sennott started GroundTruth in 2014 and in 2017 launched the non-profit organization's new, local reporting initiative, Report for America, which places 250 reporters in 164 newsrooms across 48 U.S. states. GroundTruth also supports about 40 global reporting fellowships each year in under-covered corners of the world, covering challenging global issues such as climate change, migration, human rights, health, inequality and poverty.
Reporting on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 20 countries, including the post 9-11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring, Sennott began his career in local news covering cops, courts and municipal government. Sennott’s deep experience reporting led him to dedicate himself to supporting and training the next generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of our time.
Sennott is also the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website. Previously, Sennott worked for many years as a reporter at the New York Daily News and then the Boston Globe, where he became Bureau Chief for the Middle East and Europe, and a leader of the paper's international coverage from 1997 to 2005. Sennott has also served as a correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE and the PBS NewsHour. He has contributed news analysis to the BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC and others. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
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Editor, Alliance Magazine
I edit Alliance, the quarterly magazine and website specialising in global philanthropy. Alliance‘s mission is to help philanthropy do the most good by giving it the attention and scrutiny it deserves. We do this by holding up a mirror to the field and creating a space for practitioners to debate the key issues.
In a personal capacity, together with my partner, Dr Rebecca Steinfeld, I lead the national campaign and legal effort to extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.
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Director of Development, Design Revolution
As Director of Development, Andrea creates and executes strategy around donor engagement and spearheads fundraising efforts to propel D-Rev’s reach and impact to the next level. Andrea holds a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development and a B.A. in Art History from Vanderbilt University.
A bay area native, Andrea has devoted over 10 years to local nonprofit organizations. Prior to D-Rev, Andrea served as the head of leadership giving for San Francisco Opera and as a director of annual giving at Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. Although Andrea’s original passion lies in the arts, her years at Stanford’s Children’s Hospital and prior experience working on behalf of children with intellectual and development disabilities fueled her desire to continue in health care and join the D-Rev team. Her favorite part of fundraising is “the magic” that happens when a donor’s aspirations and the needs of an organization align. When Andrea isn’t pounding the pavement, she’s spending time with her husband and new puppy, and planning their next travel destination.
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Co-Founder & CIO, to.org
Arieh dedicates himself to using finance as a force for good. In 2015, he co-founded to.org, a private fund and foundation that co-creates with activists, ventures, and non-profits to address global challenges. As Chief Investment Officer, Arieh directs investment strategy and works closely with the fund’s portfolio companies. He is based between Switzerland and Senegal, where his family’s agro-industrial business, the Groupe Mimran, has been committed to socio-economic development for two generations. Arieh became involved in the family business at a young age, working closely with his brother Nachson.
In 2012, Arieh helped create the Fondation Marie-Louise Mimran, a charitable foundation devoted to healthcare, education, and athletics in Senegal. Still actively involved, Arieh continues to advise the board on its strategy.
While studying at Princeton University, Arieh collaborated with his professors to conduct a series of novel sociological studies on finance and elites that shed light on how financial resources, power, and prestige contribute to inequality. He places his insights at the service of foundations and family businesses to help design governance systems that facilitate alignment of interests between various stakeholders.
Arieh built the Mimran family office and investment program. As CEO, he oversees strategy across the global portfolio. He also sits on the board of the Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise, the largest private-sector employer in Senegal, and leads it’s agriculture and food technology strategy.
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Chairman, Inclusive Ventures Group
Mohamed Amersi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Amersi)
is the Chairman of the Amersi Foundation which supports initiatives in education, building cohesive societies, inclusive capitalism, governance and the futures agenda (https://amersifoundation.org).The Foundation also launched the Inclusive Ventures Group (https://inclusiveventures.com), a responsible profits social impact investing platform that has invested in education, livelihood, health and waste management in Africa and Asia. Mohamed Amersi is a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford and is a member of the Development Board of the British Academy, a member of the Boards of Orb Media, Unchain, the Islamic Reporting Initiative, the Governing Council of the Royal Agricultural University, the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, the Global Leadership Council of the Said Business School, University of Oxford , the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Global Advisory Board of the Oxford Foundry. In addition, Mohamed Amersi is the Chairman of the iShia Foundation, the International Advisory Council of the British Asian Trust, a member of the Global Partners Council of the Institute of New Economic Thinking and a Trustee of Prince’s Trust International and the Rose Castle Foundation.
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Director of Partnerships, E-180
I have always had an interest in changing the world. At a young age, I got involved my local Social Justice Committee where I aimed to raise consciousness around global challenges and to awaken my peer’s empathy for their global neighbours. I pursued a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University in Honours International Development and completed a 3-month internship in Honduras. There, my team and I supported a group of female entrepreneurs to launch their own boutique to sell their products.
Professionally, I have worked with nonprofits to develop social entrepreneurship programs to support their financial autonomy. I worked with a Montreal-based food security organization, Santropol Roulant, to establish and grow diverse revenue generating programs. I was also a part of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada team creating events to mobilize their community.
In 2017, I completed my MBA at HEC Montréal with a focus on social enterprises. Today, I work at e180, a B Corp that aims to change the way humans learn. We work primarily with events to deploy our Braindate solution to allow their participants to learn from one another. We are also working closing with certain organizations to change their workplaces into learn places.
I am looking forward to meeting the wonderful community at Skoll. When I’m not talking about social entrepreneurship, I am known to wax poetically about food, travel, Beyonce and Netflix documentaries. Je suis aussi bilingue, évidement !
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Executive Director, McNulty Foundation
As the Executive Director, Aprile has driven the NYC-based philanthropic organization to become a leader in elevating entrepreneurs and student leaders around the globe. Aprile was the Foundation’s first full-time employee and under her tenure, the Foundation has invested over $30 million and spearheaded a series of successful new initiatives including the McNulty Prize and scholarship and leadership development programs across the United States.
One of Aprile’s earliest successes was launching The McNulty Prize to support individuals addressing barriers to health, education, and economic opportunity. Passionate about the power of storytelling, Aprile has been the executive producer for a series of short films that share the inspiring work of change-makers around the globe. The prize, which has received international recognition, has been awarded to initiatives working in 26 countries.
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Social Investment Manager, Tshikululu Social Investments
Adam Boros is the Social Investment Manager at Tshikululu Social Investments, heading a team responsible for strategy design and implementation across 25 South African foundations. He joined Tshikululu as a Corporate Social Investment Practitioner in 2010. Prior to Tshikululu, Adam was Head of South African Programmes for Joint Aid Management (JAM), a South African humanitarian and development organisation. At JAM, he was responsible for the establishment and management of nutritional feeding, agriculture, HIV/AIDS and OVC programming in the country. Before JAM, Adam worked for City Year – an organisation dedicated to youth development and the promotion of national service – in Washington, DC and Boston, Massachusetts.
Adam holds a Masters Degree in International Development Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Connecticut College. He lives with his wife, Ntsako, and two young sons, Masana and Andani, in Johannesburg.
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Unknown, Individual
Vanita Bhargava is the Senior Advisor to the Council's President & CEO. She serves as a thought partner to senior leadership and manages a number of projects, all of which are focused on the Council impact in the shifting social change and philanthropic landscape. Prior to joining the Council, Vanita worked with a broad range of organizations including Pew Charitable Trusts, Kaiser Permanente, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Playworks, and the Boston Ballet. Most recently she was a partner with Onward, a consulting firm that assists non profits to solve problems and manage change. She received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master in public policy degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Prior to moving to the DC area, Vanita served as the senior program officer at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health in Palo Alto, California. She helped launch the foundation’s grantmaking program. In her time at the foundation, she managed an $11.4 million portfolio of grants for youth development and early childhood programs. She worked with a diverse set of grantees–from grassroots non profits to multi-million dollar institutions–to help them deliver measurable impact in a timely manner.ner.
Vanita is an active community member and school volunteer and has served on the boards of the Youth Leadership Institute and Playworks. In her personal life, she enjoys travel, photography, puzzles of all sorts, and most of all, listening to the laughter of her husband and two children
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Investment Manager, Grand Challenges Canada
Abdul Mohamed is an Investment Manager with Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), and is keen on identifying and funding reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) innovations. Abdul focuses on GCC's mHealth, oxygen and pneumonia portfolios. Overall GCC is actively seeking, past proof-of-concept, innovations geared towards SDG3 and SDG5 where women or children are the primary beneficiaries.
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Managing Director, Samaschool
Bennett has a background as a Tech Entrepreneur, Web Developer, Community Leader, Fundraiser, and Business Developer at leading Social Enterprises. As Vice President of Strategic Development at Kiva Bennett designs and capitalizes new initiatives for Kiva. He is a co-founder of Kiva Labs, a program to accelerate product innovation among social enterprises and financial service providers and manages partnerships with major foundations and corporations such as the MasterCard Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Omidyar Network, Cisco and Google among many others. Awards include the Yale School of Management-Goldman Sachs National Nonprofit Business Plan competition for TechSoup Stock, an online product philanthropy service that went on to distribute over $1 billion in technology and a Google Impact Challenge award for Kiva Labs.
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Executive Director and Board Member, Bohemian Foundation
Cheryl Zimlich serves as executive director and board member for Bohemian Foundation. The foundation works to empower citizens and is committed to the care and enrichment of local, national and global communities. The foundation’s Global Programs area seeks to identify and support organizations addressing some of our most serious global challenges at the intersection of public health, poverty and the environment. In addition to serving Bohemian Foundation, Cheryl has held board and leadership positions with more than a dozen organizations. Locally, she serves on UniverCity Connections, the Downtown Development Authority, and Give Next’s Advisory Committee. At the state level, she works to advance music education in schools by serving as an advisory board member of Take Note Colorado. Nationally, she is on the boards of Music Will and Book Trust. Cheryl is a CPA whose early career was as an audit professional. She earned a B.S. Business Administration from CSU.
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Founder & CEO, Elystone Capital
In 1981 Luis received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Universidad Catolica Argentina. His first engineering job was to set up and run a cube sugar plant in Lagos, Nigeria.
In 1986 he received a MBA degree from INSEAD and started his career as a Private Banker at Hentsch, then Morgan Stanley and finally in 2002 he founded Elystone Capital, a multifamily office.
Elystone Capital is committed to provide investment solutions, with the long term mission of making impact investing strategies a growing part of its wealth allocation.
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Executive Director, Enterprise Ethereum & Blockchain
Vanessa Grellet is a Global Executive with over 17 years of expertise in the Financial Services and Tech industry. At ConsenSys she focuses on Enterprise and Strategic initiatives including the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the Accounting Blockchain coalition (ABC) and leads the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC). Prior to Joining ConsenSys she was the CEO of IIH a Wealth Management firm, a key member of PwC’s global wealth management team and served as a corporate strategy executive for the NYSE managing a portfolio of strategic projects, partnerships and M&A focusing on Derivatives, Cash markets, Clearing, Listing, Market data and Regulatory reform. She is a former securities lawyer and worked for various regulators. She chairs the Nexus Working Group on Impact Investing, dedicated to educating, empowering, and connecting Next-Gen impact investors, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs. Vanessa is an Advisory Board member of Cornerstone Capital, an ESG asset manager, sits on the Advisory Board of The Resolution Project dedicated to activating young leaders through social entrepreneurship and is a Partner at Acumen fund focused on impact investing. She is a Milken Institute Young Leader and a Young Leader Board member of the Off the Record lectures series (OTR) affiliated with the Foreign Policy Association. Mrs. Grellet graduated Cum Laude from Law School (Paris II Assas) and Business School (HEC).
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Independent, benmetz.org
I have extensive experience across enterprise and civil society and a strong grounding in Systems Psychodynamics and design.
This gives me the framework through which I help people create and improve organisations and their dynamics, and instigate new behaviours and activities.
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CEO, Project Concern International (PCI)
Carrie Hessler-Radelet is the President & CEO of Project Concern International (PCI). PCI is a global development organization working with families and communities to enhance health, end hunger and overcome hardship in 16 countries. Prior to PCI, Hessler-Radelet served as the Director of the Peace Corps from 2012 to 2017, leading America’s iconic international volunteer service organization with programs in over 65 countries. She served as the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps beginning in 2010. Before being appointed to the Peace Corps by President Obama, Hessler-Radelet worked as the Vice President of John Snow, Inc. (JSI), overseeing the management of public health programs in 85 countries around the world. Her decades of leading global health efforts has also included serving as the lead consultant on the first Five Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy for the President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), working with USAID in Indonesia on maternal and child health and HIV programming, founding the Special Olympics in The Gambia, and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer with her husband in Western Samoa. She holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Boston University.
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Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC); Executive Director, RBC Foundation, RBC
As the VP Corporate Citizenship and Executive Director of the RBC Foundation, Valerie is responsible for the development and execution of RBC's global corporate citizenship strategy which is aligned to RBC’s purpose and creates positive social, economic and environmental impacts in the community. Her scope includes strategic philanthropy; employee engagement; impact measurement; corporate sustainability; social innovation and sustainable finance.
For over 23 years Valerie has helped national and international businesses, governments and non-government organizations create opportunity by proactively managing environmental and social risks, and implementing programs that deliver both shareholder and stakeholder value.
Before joining RBC in 2015, she spent 14 years with the global consulting firm Deloitte as the Americas Leader for Sustainability and Partner with Deloitte’s Enterprise Risk Services
She was named as a member of Canada’s Clean 16 – leader in the consulting sector; is a member of Privy Council’s Impact Canada Advisory Council, a founding member of Women for Nature, and is a mentor to an extensive roster of young leaders.
Valerie graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering. She is fluent in French and Spanish.
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Principal, The Lucille Foundation
Louisa is a Co-Founder at Greenwood Place where she focuses on helping people engage easily in philanthropic giving in an entrepreneurial and impactful manner. She works directly with clients and families to help them draw out and achieve their goals.
Louisa studied History at Princeton University and focused on the anthropological aspects of her course, always having had an interest in people and different cultures.
After graduating she worked as a producer at CNN before moving on to work in video production, advertising and documentary filmmaking.
Louisa's passion for the way film can have an impact on people’s lives and change the way society views other cultures led her to consider a purpose driven career in philanthropy.
She has a strong interest in social businesses and believes that finding solutions to global problems through enterprise is at the core of the future of philanthropy.
She serves as Chairman of her family foundation, the Lucille Foundation.
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Business Leader IKEA Social Entrepreneur Initiative , Inter IKEA Group
Professional, Mother, Homemaker
Vaishali is responsible for setting the strategy and its roll out including selection of partners under this Initiative since its started in 2012. Her career of 25 years spans leadership position in business development and business management in India and globally. She has worked for IKEA for 17 years in various leadership roles in Business Development in India and IKEA of Sweden .Her background is in Interior Design and Masters in Business Administration . She is based in Sweden at present with her family. She loves travelling, cooking reading books and watching movies.
Vaishali says :” I strongly believe that for sustainable growth and social impact Business organizations have to engage closely with people at the bottom of the pyramid and create sustainable and empowered businesses and livelihoods.”
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Charlie joined the APOPO team in December 2014 as US Director, based in Washington DC. At APOPO Charlie is responsible for building new partnerships and projects with US based organizations and government funders that can help APOPO build its Research and Mine Detection programs. Charlie leads global innovative finance fundraising at APOPO, and is currently developing the first ever Development Impact Bond for Mine Action and linked agricultural development in Cambodia, a project that all stakeholders involved hope to scale to Ukraine. Charlie is also responsible for developing APOPO's independent US based 501c3 organization.
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Partner, LGT Venture Philanthropy
As Partner, Tom co-leads LGT Venture Philanthropy with Oliver Karius. In addition to his managerial responsibilities, Tom works on the sourcing of new portfolio organizations and the deployment of philanthropic growth capital. As the thematic lead, Tom heads LGT VP’s global healthcare vertical, reflecting the foundation’s strategy focusing on community health models. In his previous role as Head of Impact Management at LGT VP and Lightrock, Tom institutionalized Impact Measurement and Management systems and processes. In his first role as Head of Talent at LGT VP, Tom managed the LGT Impact Fellowship, which connects portfolio organizations with mid-career professionals. In 2009, Tom himself completed the Fellowship and worked with Heart Social Investments, a social enterprise incubator in South Africa, to support social enterprises addressing the needs of low-income customers. Before joining the philanthropic sector, Tom spent nine years with BMW in Germany and the UK.
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Executive director, Ujima Foundation
Charles way of work and life has been that of influencing organizations and people from all walks of life and especially those who have limited opportunities to make informed decisions and take responsibility for their own actions. This interest in young people particularly from vulnerable communities and their progress as his key motivation has led to having over 2,500 orphaned youngsters accessing jobs and thus achieving their self – reliance.
His professional interests focus on sustainable solutions, targeting vulnerable youths in the community. Charles holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Strategic Management from University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality Management from Maseno University. He is the executive director of Ujima Foundation for training and development with over 10 years experience in non profit management sector. Prior to this position, He was the head of income generating activities tasked with developing sustainable business models for the Foundation.
In addition, Charles s a member of Lake Victoria Tourism Association and he sits in the board of Prosperous Kenya. Kenya-Etten Leur Project and Afri- Can Trust. Charles is a fellow at African visionary fellowship.
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Founding Editor, Pioneers Post
The Fable Bureau works with organisations across the social, public and mission-focused business sectors to help them build great brands, compelling stories and brilliant, impactful business ideas. In the space where business excellence fuses with a social mission, we build powerful marketing and communications tools for our clients – and a whole range of our own exciting initiatives.
We created Good Deals, the UK's leading social investment conference; we built the SE100 Index of high growth, high impact social enterprises; and we run Pioneers Post (pioneerspost.com), the online and print newspaper connecting social enterprises and impact investors across the globe (and a social enterprise itself).
My own role includes leading the strategic and creative work with CEOs and boards, building campaigns and brands, and crafting compelling, authentic narratives. I enjoy brokering relationships across sectors, silos and geographies where one can bring a solution to another. I also lead our work to develop Pioneers Post, which aims to help social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-focused businesses "do good business, better" across the globe.
I am also a board director at Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of The Big Issue, a trustee of ECT Charity, one of the UK's major transport charities, and I've been on a number of national advisory panels (Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers, UnLtd awards, Young Foundation Accelerator, UK Government Social Enterprise Ambassadors, Good Finance steering group). I am a graduate of Oxford University, where I studied music and was a choral scholar; I studied business at Cranfield School of Management and Warwick Business School. After flirting with a career as an opera singer, I trained as a newspaper journalist, worked as a trade magazine editor and freelanced for various national titles, before launching my own company.
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Consultant, Individual
Chantelle Reynolds is an Associate Program Manager in the Financial Inclusion team. Before joining the Foundation, Chantelle worked for National Bank of Canada in Credit Risk Management and Corporate Treasury where she was responsible for fixed income program management and investor relations. She has also worked with various NGOs concentrating on MSME finance and holds a Masters of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce.
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Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation
Dr. Stephen D. Smith is the Finci -Viterbi Endowed Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation, and holds the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education.
Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England and cofounded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Smith has served as a producer on a number of film and new media projects, including New Dimensions in Testimony, and the VR project The Last Goodbye.
In recognition of his work, Smith has become a member of the Order of the British Empire and received the Interfaith Gold Medallion. He also holds two honorary doctorates, and lectures widely on issues relating to the history and collective response to the Holocaust, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
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Executive Director, Girls Not Brides
As Executive Director, Lakshmi Sundaram is responsible for ensuring that Girls Not Brides delivers on its strategy and advances our collective efforts to end child marriage. Since joining Girls Not Brides in 2012, Lakshmi has taken the Partnership from a special project of The Elders to an independent legal organisation, and overseen its expansion to more than 1000 members in over 95 countries. She is particularly interested in broadening our understanding of effective approaches to address child marriage, and ensuring that the funding, policy and programme support are available to ensure that girls around the world can thrive.
Lakshmi is experienced in forging alliances across the public, private and NGO sectors, encouraging diverse people and groups to join forces for change. Her background is in global health partnerships, including at the World Economic Forum’s Global Health Initiative and at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics in Switzerland, with Voxiva in the United States and with the Ministry of Health in Rwanda.
Lakshmi holds a BA in Biochemistry, as well as Master of Public Health and Master of International Affairs degrees. She is a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum. A Swiss citizen, Lakshmi is fluent in French and English, and speaks some Tamil, German and very basic Spanish.
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Founder & CEO, Jara
Soraya Fouladi is the Founder and CEO of Jara, an organization scaling quality education to refugee camps and low-resource/disaster-affected communities through their technology. She has designed these past 7 years so that she could gain the skills to make Jara a reality. After attending the United Nations school to gain a global education, she went to university for electrical engineering to understand how to build what is now the Jara Unit, where she also designed and manufactured products from prosthetics to wearables. She gained experience in designing and implementing systems and programs through writing curriculum for K-12 robotics, directing the largest technology-education camp of 500 campers and 60 staff members at Stanford, creating a fundraiser for disaster relief called Jamming-for-Relief, and designing and implementing effective systems as Supervisor for an electrical engineering innovation laboratory. Soraya also was a business management consultant for a government technology commercialization organization that had 72 portfolio companies. Her technical capabilities, along with her leadership and management experience, paired with her commitment to Jara’s mission, ensures that Soraya and her team will see Jara to its maximum impact.
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Reporter, Wall Street Journal
Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer of stories about people and events from Afghanistan to Kenya, from Tower Hamlets to the City of London, from New York to Edinburgh. During travels as a reporter and feature writer I have met and told the stories of presidents and impoverished farmers, steel tycoons and steel workers, renewable energy entrepreneurs and oil industry executives, bankers and maids -- people who earn millions of dollars a month and people who live on a dollar a day.
I seek to honour the people I meet with understanding and respect for their world and their perceptions. I do this because I believe that all human experience of life is equally valuable, regardless of financial wealth or social status.
I combine a sophisticated understanding of financial markets and corporate finance with a deep concern for human rights. My stories reflect my quest to report about the fullness of human experience rather than compartmentalizing activity into separate economic, political and social spheres.
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Caitlin is the director of marketing for Angaza, a financial inclusion software company serving off-grid markets. Caitlin brings 12 years of experience in customer research, marketing strategy and strategic communications for nonprofits, NGOs and enterprise. She began her career developing advocacy campaigns for social and environmental initiatives in the US before moving into the higher education sector, where she co-designed educational programs in management, innovation and social entrepreneurship for Berkeley Haas School of Business, Yale University and London School of Economics. She has an MSc in international development and media from London School of Economics.
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CEO, The Luminos Fund
Caitlin Baron is the CEO of the Luminos Fund, an education nonprofit dedicated to giving the world’s most vulnerable, out-of-school children a second chance to learn. Luminos has set 172,957 children across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East on a path to lifelong learning. Caitlin believes in the power of creative pedagogies and activity-based education to transform children’s lives, even in the poorest corners of the world. She spent the previous decade as a senior leader within the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, helping to grow the organization to steward over $1 billion in charitable giving. She founded and led the foundation’s office in South Africa and built MSDF’s impact investing portfolio. Caitlin graduated from UCLA in Political Science and is pursuing an executive master’s with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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Chief Executive Officer - BRAC UK, BRAC UK
After spending twenty years working in international development across the world Lewis joined the BRAC UK team in late 2014. Lewis started his career working on projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in partnership with governments to assist them to develop community based services for children and families as an alternative to institutional child care. Later he worked as a Country Director for GOAL in Ethiopia, managing large scale humanitarian and multi-sectoral development programmes and then led HelpAge International’s regional programme in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Prior to joining BRAC Lewis worked for six years as CEO of iDE UK – an NGO that has pioneered market based development for smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia.
As CEO at BRAC UK he leads the team based in London on BRAC UK’s work to develop partnerships, generate resources and influence policy makers to help BRAC achieve its mission worldwide.
Founded and led from Bangladesh, BRAC has a ‘hybrid’ approach to development, combining development impact with a hard-nosed business ethic. BRAC social enterprises and microfinance are outstanding examples of businesses that benefit many millions of people by providing employment and income opportunities and also generating profits to enable BRAC to deliver its development services to the poorest. BRAC has that rare track record in international development of having achieved a quite remarkable scale in its impact on the world’s poorest communities.
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President, Fair Labor Association
Sharon joined the FLA in 2015 after serving as Vice President for Public Policy at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she developed rights based policy and strategies and led a global team based in Africa, the Middle East, Brussels, Geneva, London, New York, and Washington. As Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights, she advanced U.S. policy on international labor, human trafficking, refugee rights and other human security issues. She provided oversight of five Bureaus and two Ambassadorial offices, including the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and the Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons. For more than a decade, she served as Senior National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and earlier in her career, she served as Associate Staff to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Sharon is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served on the Board of the US Global Leadership Coalition, and currently serves on the Sustainability Advisory Board for Nespresso and the Advisory Board for Cornell University’s New Conversations Project. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters of International Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
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Co-Founder, Gamatong
Kelo is the founder of Peo Labs, an ag-tech accelerator focusing on women farmers in Southern Africa, a program that she developed as part of her TED Residency in 2018. She is a senior TEDxAmbassador and is the curator and licensee for TEDxJohannesburg. She is a TED Speaker, and 2018 Skoll World Forum Fellow.
Kelo holds a Degree and a post-graduate Diploma in Finance and Business Administration, both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She is an alumnus of Singularity University, the Silicon Valley-based institution focusing on exponential technologies.
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Campaign Director, The Elders
I am the Director of The Elders' campaign #WalkTogether-Continue Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, intended to spark hope in the world by celebrating and promoting the courageous leadership of grassroots organisations pursuing progress against our greatest challenges, exemplifying the values of compassion and empathy in the way they work.
I have more than two decades of expertise in creating and fuelling social movements that result in political and cultural shifts, with expertise in using traditional media, digital, video and other engagement platforms and have worked in topic areas including climate change, economic empowerment, women's rights, wildlife crime, food waste, education and more.
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Senior Vice President, Citigroup, Inc.
Twelve years’ experience in structuring and managing Citi’s Inclusive Finance portfolio across South Asia, East Africa and Eastern Europe. Significant credit and market risk experience gained in being part of various Inclusive financing solutions, working across Citi’s business and product groups.
Worked across Financial Institutions, Corporate and Commercial Banking Clients to originate and structure Inclusive Financing solutions (including capital markets, funding and transactional banking).
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Senior Manager, Global Best Practice Programme
Shahbano Tirmizi is responsible for setting up and managing the Global sustainable development best practice programme for the next world Expo in Dubai 2020. She is an international development practitioner and project Management Specialist, with a demonstrated history of working in emerging markets and the international development industry. Prior to joining the Expo 2020 Dubai team, Shahbano was a Water Specialist at the Asian Development Bank managing a portfolio of natural resources and disaster risk management projects for the Government of People's Republic of China and the Government of Mongolia. Shahbano has a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) in Development Practice from Columbia University in the City of New York and a Bachelors of Arts (B.A) in International Development and Urban Geography. She has hands on field experience across multiple developing countries in Asia and Africa.
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Business Development Manager, Said Business School
I am a business development professional who has responsibility for the commercial success of our executive Impact Investing, Impact Measurement and Social Finance Programmes at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
I work with faculty and industry experts to market test, commercialise, design and launch executive education programmes to the global marketplace. We helped create and commercialise the world's first social impact executive education portfolio consisting of social impact investing , impact measurement and social finance.
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Director, Social Business Practices, Johnson & Johnson
Caitlin is a creative strategist working at the intersection of business and social impact. At Johnson & Johnson she is responsible for integrating regional and global social business strategies and practices across the organization to maximize impact and value.
Most recently before joining J&J she helped leaders and teams at eBay leverage technology and commerce as a force for good - by creating economic opportunity, driving a more circular economy, and helping people support the causes they care about.
Caitlin is a 2014 Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow and has volunteered and held board roles with a variety of non-profit organizations. She is an Oregonian now living in London after having spent ten years in the SF Bay Area.
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Product Manager, X, The Moonshot Factory
Ashley is an entrepreneur and engineer focused on innovating energy and water technologies to enable access for the world’s poor. She loves bringing novel ideas into reality and scaling them- to date, product she developed have been used by over 3 million people in 7 countries. She’s currently a Rapid Evaluator at X, starting moonshots for Alphabet’s next billion users in emerging markets. Prior to joining X, she worked for M-KOPA Solar (Africa’s largest solar home system company) and Innovations for Poverty Action, where she led the engineering team working on Nobel Prize winner Michael Kremer’s Safe Water project. She holds multiple patents and led one of X’s major open sourcing efforts in conjunction with publishing the work in Nature.
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Chief Product Officer, The Valuable 500
Betsy Beaumon is the outgoing CEO of Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good in education, poverty alleviation, and human rights. In her 12 years at Benetech she also served as President and VP Global Literacy. Betsy has been advocating for ethical and inclusive technology for over a decade and is focused on innovating around the immense potential of technology to drive inclusion, equity, and justice to positively impact marginalized communities across the globe. A social entrepreneur and engineer, Betsy brings a unique perspective on topics such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, civic/social impact tech, and data privacy. Betsy holds a degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and a certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Delivering Social Impact at Scale.
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Director Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Jorge Rubio is a founding member of the Citi’s Global Inclusive Finance Group based in London, UK, which was created in 2005 to spearhead the firm’s commercial efforts to support social and financial inclusion around the world. He has participated in the design of Citi's strategy to support the expansion of financial services through Citi's businesses in over 40 countries. This worked has been externally recognized with Citi’s award as the 2017 World’s Best Bank for Financial Inclusion by Euromoney. Jorge has structured milestone inclusive finance transactions in the capital markets (2006 IFC/Financial Times Sustainable Deal of the Year Award and 2001 Sustainable Banker of the year Award) including the first investment grade local issuance for a microfinance institution and IPO’s as well as the first London Stock Exchange listed global IPO. His work around social and financial inclusion spans sustainable value chain development and digital financial services reaching the unbanked.
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Founder/Director, NewSeas
My focus is expanding the production of sustainable aquaculture, using businesses to drive sustainable, scalable, and value-generating change in our relationship with the sea.
Project Developer & Project Finance Professional with 15 years experience leading design, building, financing, and management of projects in “frontier” markets. MBA (Skoll Schollar Oxford University, 2008).
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Manager of Client Engagement, WaterTAP
Having grown up in Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and now calling Canada home, Raad works to trace the common thread that runs through technology, society, spirituality, and the visceral human experience. He founded and plays guitar in NOVAYA, a psychedelic rock band that weaves Western, Middle Eastern, and South Asian sounds.
A scientist, artist, and convener, Raad is the cofounder of Anda Residency, an artist residency occupying soon-to-be destroyed homes and using immersive multi-platform storytelling to explore the hidden stories of Toronto's changing neighborhoods. He was a core organizer of a number of high-profile civic initiatives in the city like Toronto for Everyone, the 4-day Honest Eds Festival, and Camp Reset, a digital detox camp for adults. Raad is a creator of Bangladesh: Fashion in Flux, an immersive education program that takes fashion entrepreneurs from around the world to Bangladesh to understand the hidden stories of fashion manufacturing. He is currently on the board of directors at Fashion Takes Action, Canada's only voice for sustainable and ethical clothing. During the day, Raad helps start-ups scale up innovative technologies that can address emerging water issues across the world.
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Executive Director, Lwala Community Alliance
As Executive Director, Ash Rogers leads the team and directs the vision of Lwala Community Alliance (Lwala). Lwala is a community-led innovator, targeting the multidimensional drivers of poor health in Western Kenya. Lwala is proving that locally driven solutions are uniquely positioned to transform systmes. As a Vanderbilt-affiliated organization, Lwala rigorously evaluates its work and has demonstrated a 64% decrease in under-5 mortality, 97% skilled delivery rate, and 300% increase in contraceptive uptake. Based on this evidence, the Ministry of Health has invited Lwala to expand its model and Lwala is enacted a growth strategy to impact how 1 million people access healthcare. Ash comes to Lwala from the Segal Family Foundation (SFF), one of Lwala’s most significant supporters and friends. At SFF, she served as Director of Operations, overseeing a $12m portfolio of 180 grantee organizations across 20 Sub-Saharan African countries. Prior to SFF, Ash was a Global Health Corps Fellow in Uganda focused on building management systems within a grassroots NGO. Ash has worked with organizations including U.S. State Department, Komo Learning Centers, and HELP International – the common focus being developing tools to support local social innovators. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University.
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Project Manager, The Guardian
Senior Digital Project Manager at The Guardian
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Director of Partner & Experience Marketing, Oculus
Paula is the Director of Partner and Experience Marketing at Oculus. Highly-respected in the video gaming and tech industries where she has worked for 20+ years, Paula perpetually strives to build highly-inclusive places to work and experiences to enjoy. Most recently, she unveiled the highly-anticipated VR for Good initiative, and executive produced nine short films focused on social issues that premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2017. Paula envisioned, created, and produced Oculus Connect, the number one global virtual reality developers conference (approaching its fourth year), and champions the largest gathering of female VR developers in the industry by expanding the developer ecosystem through dedicated diversity programming initiatives which support, educate, and produce content by underrepresented communities in entertainment and technology. When she is not applying her rich expertise in business development, branding, and marketing, her vibrant life includes a love of punk rock, champagne, and her inspiring family.
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President/Founder, One Heart World-Wide
Arlene Samen, has been a Nurse Practitioner in Maternal Fetal Medicine for over 31 years. In 1997, Arlene met His Holiness the Dali Lama who asked her to take her expertise and help women and children dying in childbirth in Tibet. Since that time, she has dedicated her life to serving pregnant women living in the most vulnerable conditions in the most remote places of the world. As a Rainer Arnhold Fellow through the Mulago Foundation, she learned what made her model successful in decreasing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. The model became to be known as the “Network of Safety” which is replicable, sustainable, and scalable in Tibet, Nepal, and Mexico. Today, the “Network of Safety” has reached over half a million people and created a safe environment for over 100,000 deliveries around the globe. She has received many awards, including Unsung Hero of Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, CNN Hero, Women in Business Award, and the Award for Excellence in Women’s Empowerment by the Global Thinkers Forum It is her dream to take the model to over 35 Districts in Nepal where women face death in order to give life, reaching another 200,000 women.
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Head of Programmes, IKEA Foundation
Patricia Atkinson is Head of Programmes at the IKEA Foundation, where she oversees grantmaking.
Senior global development executive with leadership experience in donor and social enterprise organizations. She is committed to the development and implementation of strategic, evidence-based innovations (business models, financing mechanisms and technologies) to solve complex development challenges. Specialties are:
· Executive leadership
· Management of global teams across multiple continents
· Strategic planning and implementation
· Business development
· Portfolio and investment management – grants and returnable capital
· Social impact investing
· Innovative financing
· Private sector collaboration and public-private partnerships
· Product development partnerships
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Senior Technology Writer, Forbes
I write about AI and health tech for Forbes magazine.
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Vice President, Philanthropy Advisory, J.P. Morgan Philanthropy Centre
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Global Community Impact Asia-Pacific Lead, Johnson & Johnson
Angeline Chin
Angeline is the new Head of Global Community Impact Asia Pacific for Johnson and Johnson(JNJ). In this position, she will play an important role in designing the strategic giving for JNJ and communicating JNJ's social impact efforts both internally and externally across enterprise in this region. Prior to this, she was with Credit Suisse for 7 years as the Head of Corporate Citizenship for Asia Pacific. Her role there was similar, working with partners across 13 countries in Asia focusing on education for the disadvantaged.
Angeline brings over 20 years of experience from the private sector, not-for-profit organizations and government. She started her career as a regulator with the Securities Commission Malaysia and has been working in the financial services sector throughout her career. She was also involved in setting up a Not-for-Profit organization and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong managing the Institute for 7 years. She is legally trained and holds a Master in Law from City University Hong Kong, Masters in Finance from RMIT and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Harvard Mason fellow.
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Jenneke works as the Skoll Foundation's Community Manager.
Prior to joining Skoll, Jenneke worked as a project manager in localization, where she handled quoting, managing and delivering translations of medical device documents on multiple client accounts. She also has a background in quality assurance testing.
Jenneke earned a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and in Dutch Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, crafting, and science fiction.
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Founder & CEO, Mama Hope
Nyla Rodgers is an activist, futurist, and non-profit leader with a passion for merging social impact with technology. She creates and runs organizations that transform communities, foster social entrepreneurship around the world, and advocates for greater generosity and partnership between the tech and non-profit worlds.
Nyla Rogers is CEO and Founder of Mama Hope, an organization that builds the capacity of grassroots leaders worldwide by providing them with the funding, training and talent to build sustainable projects. Since 2006 Mama Hope has funded 134 projects that have improved the health, education, food and water security of over 730,000 people throughout Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India and the U.S.A. She is Co-Producer of Stop The Pity video campaign (20M views), which focuses on changing the image of Africa by addressing common stereotypes. She is also the Co-Founder of the Global Advocates program, a 9-month instructional career and leadership incubator that trains the next generation of social entrepreneurs.
In 2015 she was a finalist for the Global Citizen of the Year Award. In 2017 she was honored for her work as a Female Leader in Eileen Fisher’s Fall campaign “Power: In the Words of Women” and was profiled in Forbes under the headline: The Business of Hope: What It Takes and How One Woman Inspired it.
Recently, her work in philanthropy has led her to become an activist and philosopher in the cryptocurrency space where she is a speaker and advocate for greater generosity and altruism in the crypto community. She recently launched the #satoshiisfemale movement to promote that blockchain/crypto are an inherently female approach to moving value across the world.
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Land and property rights editor/Deputy editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Astrid Zweynert is the managing editor of PLACE, the world’s first digital media platform dedicated to under-reported land and property rights issues, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of global news and information company Thomson Reuters.
PLACE’s journalists provide an in-depth look at the human impact of land conflicts, gentrification, deforestation, extractive industries, and more. Their storytelling has been helping land and property rights evolve from a niche topic to a global story, reaching more than a billion people daily through the Reuters news wire.
PLACE’s stories have involved topics ranging from slums to Tanzanian ‘witches’ to Pokémon Go have been published by The New York Times, Quartz, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and they have resulted in land policy changes by governments from Kenya to Romania.
Astrid is also the deputy leader of a team of almost 50 Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists and 150 freelancers, covering women’s rights, the human impact of climate change, modern slavery, humanitarian crises and social innovation.
Astrid has reported from more than 20 countries, most recently as the Foundation’s Southeast Asia correspondent and in previous roles as Reuters correspondent. Astrid has managed global editorial teams for more than a decade and has led journalism and communications training courses in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Germany, the United States and Britain.
She has played a key role in developing online content strategies and new markets for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and in previous roles for Reuters news agency. Prior to joining Reuters more than 20 years ago, Astrid worked for Bloomberg Business News, United Press International and German television.
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Board Member, Equalize Health
I spend most of my time as a board member with organizations who work to end poverty and make the world a better place. I left the CARE USA board after 12 years and joined the board of CARE Enterprises. We will scale promising businesses with proven pilot implementations. I am a board member at Microvest, a microfinance investment firm providing capital and management oversight to emerging market microfinance institutions; I am board chair at D-Rev, a product design social enterprise, with two wonderful products, a light that cures jaundice and is very inexpensive, and an inexpensive and highly functional artificial knee, both targeted at the developing world; and I am a director at The Wildlife Conservation Network, where we partner with leading independent wildlife conservationists. I am a member of Legacy Ventures and The Philanthropy Workshop and on the Advisory Board for The Dean of Engineering at The University of Illinois at Chicago, and served for 10 years in that role at UC Berkeley. I was Board Chair at YouthNoise and The Career Action Center, an adviser to E2, The Entrepreneurs Foundation and The Global Philanthropy Forum. I was Vice-Chair of The Anita Borg institute and advise other non profits.I am an investor and/or adviser to privately held technology companies such as Vynca, Hinge, D2S, Tarana, and others.
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Vice President Corporate Innovation, R&D and Societal Engagement / Executive Director Bayer Foundation, Bayer Foundation
Monika Lessl is Executive Director of the Bayer Foundation with a focus on Science and Social Innovation and Senior Vice President at Bayer AG. At Bayer she heads Corporate R&D and Social Innovation. In her role she leads strategic R&D across Bayer`s Pharma, Crop Science and Consumer health divisions and is responsible for Bayer`s global societal engagement. She is a member of Bayer’s Global R&D Executive Committee and the Global Medical and Regulatory Governance committee. Her focus is to drive innovation and societal transformation for a sustainable future. She is a Non-Executive Board member of the Marienhaus GmbH and the Futurium. She acts as a jury member for competitions of the German Ministry of Science and Education and is engaged in several boards such as the VCI. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, a Diploma in General Management from Ashridge Business School, London and is a former fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundat
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President Foundation, Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation
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Head of Health Program, Barefoot College
Dr Monalisa Padhee is the Program Head of Women Wellness Initiative. She works on designing programs to disrupt the "intergenerational cycle of vicious health" in rural girls and women. She is mainly involved in designing of an interactive curriculum on menstrual and reproductive health for semi/illiterate girls and women, promote digital solutions for antenatal care and using traditional recipes to alleviate anemia
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Principal, Bennett Freeman Associates LLC, Individual
over the last 18 years of a 36 year career, Bennett Freeman has worked at the intersection of governments, international institutions, multinational corporations, responsible investors and NGOs to promote human rights and sustainable development. An innovative leader in the fields of business and human rights, natural resource governance and responsible investment, he has played key roles in developing several multi-stakeholder initiatives and global standards that have strengthened corporate responsibility in industries from extractives to information and communications technology. Freeman consults for corporations, foundations and NGOs from Bennett Freeman Associates LLC; as a Senior Advisor for BSR; and as as a Strategic Partner of RESOVE. Freeman serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of Global Witness; Board Secretary of the Global Network Initiative; a member of the Governing Board of the Natural Resources Governance Institute; and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Responsible Sourcing Network. As SVP for Sustainability Research and Policy at Calvert Investments from 2006-15, he led the ESG research for over 40 funds, developed investment themes for new funds, and directed shareholder advocacy and public policy initiatives to promote corporate responsibility and sustainability. A presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of State in the Clinton Administration, Freeman served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and directed the Department's bilateral human rights diplomacy around the world. In that capacity, he led the development of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, the global human rights standard for the oil and mining industries.
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Director, Foundation and Corporate Engagement, Catholic Relief Services
Michele Gilfillan leads the Foundation and Corporate Engagement Team at CRS. She works closely with private institutions and CRS country teams on innovative programming to meet the needs of the communities CRS serves around the globe. She has also worked as a major gift officer with CRS, cultivating individual donors and families to invest in CRS programming.
Michele has 20 years of experience in program development and fundraising in the global nonprofit sector. She served in a leadership position at the Institute of International Education, one of the world’s largest international scholarship, training and exchange organizations. Michele also served as the Executive Director of a small nonprofit based in NYC that engaged volunteers with social service organizations in the U.S. and Latin America. Michele holds a Masters in Nonprofit Management and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Political Science.
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Director of Business Affairs, Social Impact Experiences, Airbnb
Aoife is Director of Business Affairs and Social Impact Experiences at Airbnb. Her passion is combining innovation and disruption with opportunity for social impact and economic empowerment. In addition to overseeing business affairs for Airbnb, she’s one of the early leaders behind Airbnb Experiences - a new way for travelers and local hosts to connect with one another via uniquely curated community experiences. Her team focuses on unlocking the power of the Experiences platform to help local non-profits and NGOs connect with new supporters and raise individual giving.
Prior to this role, Aoife was General Counsel for Airbnb in Europe, Middle East and Africa where she played an instrumental role in the development of the first home sharing regulations. Aoife has over 17 years of experience working in game changing businesses including Skype and Apple.
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Director of International, Charities Aid Foundation UK
Michael leads Charities Aid Foundation's international strategy and our network of offices - the CAF Global Alliance. This network works to support philanthropy and strengthen civil society in Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, India, North America, Russia, Southern Africa and the UK. Previous roles include Strategic Advisor at the Commonwealth Secretariat and Head of Private Sector Development at VSO.
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Executive Vice President, MI Philanthropy, Milken Institute
Melissa Stevens is the Executive Vice President of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, leading its work with individual and family philanthropists and foundations seeking to deploy their capital to make a transformative, sustainable impact. Since co-founding the Center in 2015, she has overseen the creation and execution of strategies which have influenced more than $1.5 billion in philanthropic capital, and managed the development of programs and organizations including the Melanoma Research Alliance, the largest private funder of melanoma research. Under her leadership, the Center for Strategic Philanthropy has more than tripled in size, expanding its areas of expertise to include education and environmental conservation philanthropy, health and medical research, and philanthropic prize competitions.
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Managing Partner, FORE Partnership
Mr. Basil Demeroutis serves as a Managing Partner at FORE Partnership, a sustainable real estate investment platform. He set up the firm in 2012. Previously, Mr. Demeroutis served as a Partner at Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Prior to this, he served as a Partner at Jargonnant Partners, where he shared responsibility for acquiring, managing and successfully exiting a €400 million European property portfolio and disposed its investments in 2007. Mr. Demeroutis spent the first half of his career in banking, where he financed aircraft, satellites, ships and other cash flowing assets, including real estate. He moved to the buy-side in 2002, and over 13 years he has been working exclusively with private investors on their real estate strategies. He is a Trustee of the Institute of Imagination. Mr. Demeroutis graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering from Cornell University in 1991.
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Managing Partner, Open Capital Advisors
Andreas Zeller is Managing Partner of Open Capital, an advisory firm focused on Africa. OCA supports African entrepreneurs to achieve growth and investors to deploy catalytic capital and design innovative ecosystem approaches. Through our Capital Markets team, we have raised >$1.2 billion for African clients.
Since 2010, OCA has supported 1,200 engagements across 25 countries in Africa, with a team of 150 based across 7 countries in Africa.
Prior to Open Capital, Andreas was an investor on the infrastructure team at IFC (World Bank Group) and an investment banker with Citigroup in London and Credit Suisse in New York.
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Editor-in-Chief, Open Democracy
Mary Fitzgerald is Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy. Before joining oD she worked for Avaaz, the global campaigning organisation, and is a former Senior Editor of Prospect Magazine. She is a trustee of the human rights charity Reprieve, a board member of Avaaz UK, and sits on the Code Committee of Impress, the UK press regulator. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman and others.
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Chief of Staff to Ms. Christiana Figueres, Mission 2020
Marina supports Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Ms. Christiana Figueres across all her engagements and in the broader global effort to peak greenhouse emissions by 2020. She also leads Mission 2020’s Land Use Milestone.
Previous to these roles, Marina spent eleven years at Ashoka managing its strategy to transform education in Europe, bringing together social innovators, educators, thought leaders and influencers with the ultimate goal of reinventing learning as an experience that enables every child to become a changemaker. During her years at Ashoka Youth Venture, she mentored hundreds of young social innovators and supported the launch of dozens of social ventures globally.
Marina has been involved in the UN Climate Summits (COPs) since 2004, advocating for young people to be recognized as a key stakeholder in the negotiation process. She is also the founder of Fundación TierraVida, an Argentinean-based NGO working to unleash young people´s potential to drive environmental sustainability in Latin America. Through her work with TierraVida, she has been named a British Council Climate Champion (2011), a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum (2013) and a Global Good Fund Fellow (2014).
Earlier in her career, Marina worked for more than a decade with Peace Child International, as a consultant for a GEF/UNDP wetlands conservation project and served as a youth advisor to UNEP (2003-2007).
She has been trained by former vice-president and Nobel Peace Prize Al Gore as part of his Climate Reality Project and currently serves as Faculty of Amani institute’s Social Innovation Management Programme. She holds a BSc. in Environmental Sciences, an MA. in Environment and Development from King's College London and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at ESMT Berlin.
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Co-Founder & Advisor to startups, California Kitchen DK
Driven by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and drawn to the Social Impact world, Lisa is itching to get fully involved and support social entrepreneurs and impact initiatives at a local as much as a global level.
After a few years working in marketing at Samsung in Paris then as a head of Sales&BD for a global design studio based in Vancouver, Lisa joined Airbnb in San Francisco at its very early stage in 2009 to support and co-lead the expansion of the concept internationally. In this role, Lisa was mainly in charge of hiring country managers, building teams and setting up presence in key markets globally while maintaining the company culture that was so crucial to Airbnb since day one.
Following 4 years of focus on international growth, she identified a need in investing in people's development and started building tools and programs for Airbnb's employee's growth, especially around leadership.
Today Lisa is based in Copenhagen where she has co-founded, together with her husband, the first fast casual concept in Copenhagen based mainly on plant based food and sustainable practices. She uses most of her free time advising startups and entrepreneurs and her passion lays in supporting initiatives around Climate Change as well as Health and Well-being.
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Social Impact Experiences Lead, Airbnb
Anima leads Social Impact experiences at Airbnb. The largest category on Airbnb’s new experiences platform, Social Impact experiences are inspiring activities hosted by nonprofits around the world that connect travelers (and locals) to their cause. Airbnb waives its fees, so 100% goes to the nonprofit. (Check out live experiences in 50 cities: www.airbnb.com/social-impact)
In this role, Anima is motivated every day by a fusion of three great loves: product, entrepreneurship, and designing experiences that change people. She feels lucky to direct these skills toward amplifying meaningful causes around the world.
Prior to Airbnb, Anima was the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Connect (connect.com) a consumer app company building social tech for real-world relationships. She completed her MBA at Oxford in 2011 as a Skoll Scholar, an award received for her first social venture, Swing Semester, which ran a political ‘semester abroad’ program in swing states during the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. Originally from Washington DC, Anima now lives with her entrepreneur husband in San Francisco.
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Associate Director, Acumen
Hazel's passion is to build partnerships across the world to support the development of groundbreaking social enterprises, moral leaders and disruptive ideas that challenge and change the status quo. Over the last two years, Hazel has been leading the capitalization of Acumen’s new blended finance Climate Resilient Agriculture Fund, set to launch in June 2019 and impact the lives of 10 million smallholders in East and West Africa. Hazel previously worked at the Vitol Foundation, where she managed a portfolio of investments in agriculture, energy, workforce development and job creation across Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has also worked as a CSR consultant to the energy industry in West Africa, as Deputy Director of a non-profit in Asia and as a Program Manager for the Swiss Stock Exchange in Europe. She holds an MSc in Development Management, an MSc in Technology and a BA in Latin American Studies.
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Journalist, Individual
Hannah Bloch is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist with more than 20 years of experience in the United States and overseas. She is the lead digital editor for international news at NPR in Washington, D.C. She wrote the Wall Street Journal’s “Work in Progress” column from 2014 to 2017. Previously, she was a writer and editor at National Geographic, where she reported from Afghanistan and Easter Island and authored magazine stories on subjects including archaeology, global health and the role failure plays in exploration. During an 11-year career at Time, she served for six years as the magazine’s first full-time correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan, where she covered a wide range of stories including the rise and fall of the Taliban regime, Pakistan's nuclear tests and violence against women. She was one of a handful of journalists to report from Kabul on September 11, 2001. Concurrently, she opened CNN's bureau in Islamabad and served for a year as its first bureau chief. She was a John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a Freedom Forum Asia Studies Fellow at the University of Hawaii. She studied Urdu in Lahore, Pakistan, with the University of California Berkeley Urdu Language Program, earned master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University, and holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
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CEO, Bridges to Prosperity
Results-driven social entrepreneur with 10+ years building and leading global teams. Under Avery’s leadership, Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) has connected over one million people to essential health care, education and economic opportunities. University of Oxford MBA.
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Director, LSE Generate, London School of Economics
I get to spend my waking hours alongside the best and brightest socially driven entrepreneurs at LSE, leading the entrepreneurship centre at the School here in London as well as our global start-up hubs. I manage LSE Generate which is a community of innovators who can engage with our programme, seek mentorship, funding and a home where they can be equipped to go out and solve some of society's most pressing problems. Prior to LSE I ran my own careers and recruitment consultancy focussed on climate change and before that I worked in TV. Many moons ago, I studied languages at Cambridge Uni. I am passionate about parent-tech, and any innovation that clearly contributes to a better tomorrow. I also quite like my kids, spider plants before they got cool, mulled wine in a mug and Liverpudlians.
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Senior Community Health Worker, The Social Work and Research Centre
I am a senior community health worker where my main responsibility to provide primary care to patients from villages. I also work on coordinating women health activities such as provision of antenatal care and oversee the work of health department.
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Executive Director, Responsible Labour Initiative, Global Battery Alliance
Anna is Executive Director of the Responsible Labour Initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance. She has a wealth of leadership experience in the human rights and international development sector, having spent 15 years in the non-profit sector building partnerships to prevent modern slavery, support education and promote women’s economic empowerment. She most recently served as Executive Director of the Global Battery Alliance in 2021, supporting its transition from an initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to an independently run organization. Prior to that, she served as Global Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs at the human rights NGO International Justice Mission (IJM) where she led the global strategy for engaging public and private sector actors to address human trafficking in global supply chains. In this role she facilitated the formation and launch of the Global Survivor Network, an international group of survivors of slavery and violence now leading advocacy movements across three continents.
Anna served on the Advisory Board for the RLI during its launch in 2017-2018; and the multi-stakeholder RLI Steering Committee from 2019-2021. She was a founding member of the Global Battery Alliance in 2017, serving on the Executive Board (2017-2019); and was Chair of the Markets Policy Working Group for Delta 8.7 (2020-2021).
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County Focal Person for Community Health Services - Siaya County, Kenya, Kenya Ministry of Health
I am a Community health services focal person with a background in Public health working closely with households in Kenya
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Senior Fellow in Culture & Justice, University College London
The Reverend Professor Keith Magee is a public intellectual, public theologian, political advisor and social justice scholar. Having trained as an economist and in theology, his work reflects on the Ten Commandments as ‘public policies’, thereby exploring how they inform society through belief, culture, and economic and social justice. He is the newly appointed Chair and Professor of Social Justice at Newcastle University and Senior Fellow in Culture and Justice at the University College London. He founded The Social Justice Institute in 2014, while in post at Boston University, which remains the hub for his independent work and research. He is also the Lead Pastor at The Berachah Church – which has a global virtual presence.
One of his greatest accomplishments was serving for five years as the founding director of the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, Illinois which is committed to being a living cultural experience on social justice and human rights, illuminating the power of place.
He served as an advisor for the Biden-Harris administration on racial inequality, having served as an advisor to the campaign. He served as Senior Religious Affairs Advisor with the Obama for America 2008 and 2012 campaigns, subsequently working alongside the Obama administration’s Faith Based Initiative. Previously, he served as Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Council of Chaplains in State Institutions for Governor Deval Patrick. Additionally, he sits on the board of directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation where he’s Chair of both the Endowment and Nominations committees. He is also a Trustee of Facing History and Ourselves and the Co-Chair of Black Britain and Beyond. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was inducted into Morehouse College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars.
Magee is the author of the newly released Prophetic Justice: Essays and Reflections on Race, Religion and Politics, Dolman Scott.
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Executive Director, BRAC
Asif Saleh was appointed the executive director of BRAC Bangladesh. He brings with him a diverse multi-sectoral experience in senior leadership roles in private, public and non-government sectors with proven track record of effectively managing interfaces of development programming, operational and financial sustainability and building effective partnerships, both within and outside BRAC.
Mr Saleh has been deeply anchored in driving the strategic direction of BRAC. He joined the organisation in 2011, and took up an increasingly important role in leading advocacy for social change, information technology, communications and social innovation. He has been instrumental in BRAC’s concentration on emerging development challenges in the areas of urban poverty, youth skills development, inclusive growth and migration. As the senior director of the empowerment programme cluster, he led BRAC's new programmatic areas, namely, the urban development programme, human rights and legal aid services, skills development programme and migration programme. He also led the development of BRAC’s five-year strategic plan in 2016.
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Senior Advisor for Human Rights, Representative on Women and Girls, Carter Center
Karin Ryan is the Senior Advisor for Human Rights and Special Representative on Women and Girls at The Carter Center. She has served at the Center since 1988, advising President and Mrs. Carter on human rights issues and assisting them with efforts on behalf of victims of human rights violations. Ryan has represented the Center in negotiations at the United Nations addressing the human rights of women, human rights defenders, and establishment of the International Criminal Court and the UN Human Rights Council. Ryan has convened the Annual Human Rights Defenders Forum since 2003, which gathers courageous and effective activists and leaders from around the world to examine pressing challenges for the human rights movement. Ryan holds Bachelors degrees in Political Science from Emory University and in Contemporary Writing and Production from Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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Director of Global Initiatives, USC Shoah Foundation
Karen Jungblut, Director of Global Initiatives, oversees and manages a global portfolio of partnerships for the USC Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California. She has been in charge of expanding the existing Visual History Archive of 50,000 Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies, with video testimonies of survivors of genocides and crimes against humanity. She spearheaded the acquisition and collection of testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Cambodian Genocide, Armenian Genocide, Guatemalan Genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre, including the documentation of more current events of mass violence. With the Shoah Foundation since 1996, Karen has led an international and multilingual staff to successfully index the existing archive, as well as headed the production and piloting of USC Shoah Foundation’s program New Dimensions in Testimony, a collection of interactive biographies that enable people to have conversations with pre-recorded video images of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide.
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Director, Oxford Foundry, University of Oxford
Ana is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Oxford Foundry, the University of Oxford’s multidisciplinary entrepreneurship centre. She is an entrepreneur who has a strong track record in effecting systems change and culture change within universities, and she is an expert in building global best-practice frameworks for entrepreneurship centres, creating university-based accelerators that complement academic research, and designing transformational experiential learning programmes and teaching models.
Ana is passionate about diversity and social inclusion. She believes that education has a unique ability and responsibility to address the world’s challenges, and that by building communities of support, and embedding entrepreneurship into the curriculum at universities, young people are empowered to develop their ideas into businesses that have positive impact, and that directly contribute to GDP and to the growth of local and global economies.
As an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder, Ana creates successful partnerships and builds global networks of thought-leaders, business leaders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and experts. She firmly believes that the most impactful innovation happens at the intersection of industry, talent and academia – and that by building and leveraging on these structures and networks, we can change the face of learning, entrepreneurship and education worldwide.
Under Ana’s leadership, within 24 months, the Foundry has built a diverse community of over 3,000 students. It has delivered over 7,500 hours of student experiential learning, and enabled Oxford’s first scholarship for black students from disadvantaged backgrounds. By bringing together multidisciplinary expertise from academia and industry, and connecting this with student talent, the Foundry is tackling some of society’s most pressing problems.
The Foundry has accelerated 19 ventures across two cohorts of its 6-month long OXFO L.E.V8 accelerator programme, who have raised £8m and created 70+ jobs globally, and their impact is already being felt worldwide. Collectively they have saved 1800 cubic tonnes of CO2 in the hospitality industry through sustainable laundry technology, developed and scaled a rechargeable lighting solution to give schoolchildren in remote villages in India an additional 30 minutes study time each evening, and published books that have enabled over 500,000 children from BAME backgrounds in 35 countries to see themselves represented in the stories they read.
Nurturing talent and taking a data-driven approach to developing and refining programmes is at the heart of Ana’s ethos. At Oxford, Ana has pioneered ‘5:5’, the University’s unique five-stage entrepreneurship learning model, with a five-step delivery method. She has established initiatives to support Oxford’s future women leaders, built a Student Advisory Board model, established a global Advisory Board and launched Oxford’s first inter-College student ideas competition.
Prior to Oxford, Ana was Co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Institute, King’s College London, spinning out the Institute internally, founding the Institute’s first incubator, accelerating 50+ ventures and upskilling 10,000 students, leading to the team winning a Higher Education Team Enterprise award in the Enterprise Educators Awards.
Ana is a trustee of Ascend Charity, which provides key skills to hard-to-reach and marginalised groups, and she is a member of Fast Company’s globally-elected Impact Council. She has a Master’s degree in International Development and has worked in government and the third sector.
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Amy Walburn is the Chief Development Officer for Last Mile Health. In this role, she leads the Partnerships and Development team to cultivate transformative partnerships that advance and elevate Last Mile Health’s impact. Amy joined Last Mile Health in 2015, serving as the Director of National Partnerships in Liberia before transitioning into the role of Director of Partnerships and Development in Boston in 2016. Amy brings over 10 years of diverse international and nonprofit management experience to her work with Last Mile Health, previously working as a project manager at the American University of Beirut and as Director of Financial Reporting at Fonkoze in Haiti. Amy holds an MBA from the American University of Beirut and a BA in Religious Studies from DePaul University.
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Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Eugene Amusin is Senior Vice President at Citi Inclusive Finance and focuses on companies that expand access to basic services to low-income communities in emerging markets.
Eugene has led a number of innovative transactions including the first microfinance carbon credit financing, and mobile collections solution for smallholder farmers and part of the team for the first microfinance IPO on the London Stock Exchange. Eugene has more than 15 years of structuring, product management, technology and customer relationship experience with Citi.
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Director of Social Entrepreneurship, Tec de Monterrey
Joshua Hammerschlag is the Director of Social Entrepreneurship at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City, Tec de Monterrey is the largest and best-ranked private University in Mexico and one of the best Universities in Latin America, with a strong focus on transforming lives through conscious entrepreneurship.
As part of his role, Joshua leads social entrepreneurship programs, platforms, and events and help entrepreneurs develop their full potential. Joshua has also developed as a consultant for SME´s and a social entrepreneur, founding 2 business focused in improving opportunities for people at the BOP.
Joshua is a professor teaching courses related to entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. Recently he co-authored and directed the book "Mexico 10: Emprendedores Sociales" a book that shares 10 of the most iconic Social Entrepreneurship examples in Mexico.
He is also speaker in subjects related to impact entrepreneurship, storytelling, and systems thinking for social entrepreneurs. He is part of the Sistema B multipliers (B-Corps Latam) and member of the Map the system educators network, and the GINN Chapter in Mexico representing Tec de Monterrey.
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Filmmaker/Artist, Individual
Josh Penn is a producer with the Department of Motion Pictures. He produced BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012), which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, and was nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). In addition, Josh was nominated for Outstanding Producer at the 2013 Producer's Guild Awards. He has also held producing roles on PATTI CAKE$ (Sundance 2017), WESTERN (Sundance 2015 Special Jury Prize Winner), THE GREAT INVISIBLE (SXSW 2014 Grand Jury Prize Winner,) and CONTEMPORARY COLOR among other films. Josh premiered two projects at Sundance 2018: MONSTERS AND MEN (Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature) and the live documentary A THOUSAND THOUGHTS. Additionally, Josh has been a leading member of the Court 13 collective for over a decade.
Outside of his work in film, Josh was previously the Michigan New Media Director for President Obama's 2008 campaign and a Senior Digital Program Manager for the 2012 re-election campaign.
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Managing Director, India
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Co-Founder & Managing Director, Aduna Ltd
Andrew started his career in advertising before a radical life change took him to The Gambia, where he won a UN World Business & Development Award for his work with small-scale producers.
In 2012 he co-founded Aduna, an Africa-inspired health food brand and social business, which creates demand for under-utilised natural products from small producers – starting with the superfoods baobab and moringa.
In 2015 Aduna was shortlisted for three Guardian Sustainable Business Awards, was a finalist in Virgin’s Pitch to the Rich competition and won the UKBAA Social Impact Investment of the Year Award and GSC Most Innovative Supply Chain.
Aduna is currently scaling their baobab supply chain in Northern Ghana in partnership with the UNCCD's 'Great Green Wall' project. Andrew believes passionately in the power of business to deliver transformation in rural Africa. He holds an MBA (distinction) from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
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CEO, Splash
Founder and CEO at Splash.
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CIO, Navare Invest
I am the CEO/CIO of a family owned investment company, based in Stockholm, Sweden. I have +25 years of experience from the banking industry, in various positions. In my current position I oversee a portfolio of both listed and unlisted holdings, private equity funds and properties. We try to "do good" in our investment activities, finding opportunities that can make the world a bit more efficient or better.
In my previous roles I have had the pleasure of interacting with a lot of people in my day to day business, many entrepreneurs that has taught me a lot about business and the interconnection between .
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Managing Director, Portfolio Communications, Emerson Collective
Amy works across all of Emerson’s communication and media investment platforms, collaborating with partners to change the conversation—to make a persuasive case, on issues from education reform to immigration and conservation, that progress is possible.
She’s seen it happen before — how the power of a great idea, backed by a movement of motivated people, can bring down barriers and lift up lives. Before joining Emerson, Amy served as chief advocacy and engagement officer at Landesa, a non-governmental organization committed to reducing rural poverty by helping the poor to secure land rights. Before that, she spent nearly a decade with the political and communications consulting firm, GMMB, where she advised the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on building support for education reform, early learning, and addressing family homelessness. Amy began her career in issues-based advocacy working with Porter Novelli in Washington and New York City, where she served as the firm’s international project manager.
And when not at work, she’s proudly raising her son and daughter, teaching them to be resilient, grateful, and unafraid, whether at school, at home, on stage, on the court, and especially in the band.
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Director of Finance and Administration, Said Business School
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Principal, Mercy Corps
Amanda brings her experience in social entrepreneurship to the impact investing initiatives of Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV). She currently leads MCV’s Impact & Insights unit that focuses on the fund’s and portfolio companies’ impact management and key learnings. She also led the daily management of the Innovation Investment Alliance, a funding and learning partnership between the Skoll Foundation and USAID, supported by Mercy Corps Ventures, that invested $60M in proven, transformative social enterprises to scale their impact--catalyzing an additional $160M in investment--and is publishing a series on how to scale social impact (Scaling Pathways) in collaboration with the CASE at Duke University. Prior to Mercy Corps, Amanda was Co-Founder of EcoZoom, a social enterprise and Certified B Corp in the clean energy sector (cookstoves and solar lights for developing countries). In less than five years EcoZoom’s founding team grew the company from $40,000 in initial funding to $10.5M in annual revenue (making the company #768 on the 2015 Inc. 5000 List) and opened offices in Mexico and Kenya. She holds a Master in Public Administration from the University of Oregon.
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Deputy Director for Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jennifer Stout serves as the Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management for the Philanthropic Partnerships team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, she leads the cross-cutting strategy work of the team, which supports the Giving Pledge as well as other partnerships with individual givers and efforts to support the ecosystem for philanthropy overall. Jennifer has also overseen the team’s work outside of the US with a specific focus on encouraging philanthropy in China and India. Previously, Ms. Stout served as a senior consultant with the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and as an analyst with Pfizer’s Strategic Investments Group. Ms. Stout holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.
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Manager, Global Responsible Sourcing, VF Corporation
Jazz leads the Worker and Community Development Program globally at VF Corp , a leading apparel company. The program seeks to understand and meet the basic needs of factory workers in key sourcing regions where development needs are high. She joined VF to develop the program in Jan 17, prior to this she worked as a consultant for Context Group in London, advising multi-nationals on sustainability strategy and communications. Jazz holds a One Planet MBA from University of Exeter, specializing in sustainable business and worked on WWF International's Corporate Water Stewardship Program.
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Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Eduardo is a Director at Capricorn Investment Group, responsible for sourcing investment opportunities, due diligence, and deal structuring. Eduardo joined Capricorn in 2016, upon completion of his MBA .Previously he was an associate at Pragma Patrimonio in Brazil, in the Real Assets and Private Equity team. He is the co-founder and former president of the Endowment Fund Amigos da Poli, on behalf of his Alma matter in Brazil. He earned his Bachelors of Science from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and graduated with a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Fundação Estudar & Instituto Ling Scholar and a POY Fellow.
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Chairman, Walker Digital
Jay S. Walker, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, is Chairman of Walker Digital, LLC, (“Walker Digital”) which he founded in 1994. He is widely known as the founder of priceline.com, which brought a new level of value to the travel industry and its millions of customers. Mr. Walker is also the co-founder and Director of The TEDMED Foundation (“TEDMED”), a global community of people from every field who are passionate about the future of health and medicine (TEDMED is the sole independent licensee of the TED organization). In addition, he is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of The Upside Travel Company, LLC (“Upside”), a business travel company he founded in 2015. Concurrently, Mr. Walker is a member of several organizations that promote innovative solutions to global problems, including The President’s Circle of the National Academies (comprising the National Academy of Sciences; the National Academy of Engineering; the National Academy of Medicine; and the National Research Council); and the Atlantic Council as a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Walker is also founder, curator and owner of The Library of the History of Human Imagination; he is actively involved with Cornell University as the co-chairman of its Library Campaign. Mr. Walker received his Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Relations, Cornell University, New York, in 1978 and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Cazenovia College, New York in 2011.
Jay S. Walker. The Board believes that Mr. Walker will provide the Board, by virtue of his extensive experience as an innovator and entrepreneur, with valuable industry insight, leadership and business knowledge.
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Anna has a 10-year business development background in the humanitarian/social entrepreneurship sector and is overseeing the Swiss and European development of APOPO, a groundbreaking organization training animals for humanitarian purposes. Anna started her career at UNIDO in operational follow-up and technical coordination of field offices, before joining Ashoka, a global network of social entrepreneurs, where she supported the development of their fledgling foundation in Switzerland, and their program to promote hybrid economic models. In 2014, she joined APOPO to support and promote its detection technology, strengthen its European anchor and initiate international partnerships. Anna holds an MA in Corporate Strategy & Finance from Science Po Strasbourg (FR) and the University of Sussex (UK).
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Investment Team, Ecofin Ltd
Deirdre Cooper was named a Partner of Ecofin in May 2016. She is a Portfolio Manager and Head of Research, a position she has held since 2009. Before joining Ecofin in 2007 as a senior analyst, Deirdre was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where she headed their European Renewable Energy coverage effort and built an investment banking and principal investing franchise. She has long had a passion for sustainable investing and has worked on a voluntary basis in the microfinance sector both in the US and in Pakistan. She is a member of the advisory board of Girls Who Invest, a non‐profit organisation whose mission is to increase the percentage of the world’s investable capital run by women. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Shell Foundation’s Energy Company of the Future project, as well as the advisory board for Imperial College’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment. Deirdre earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar, and her BA from University College Dublin.
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Chief of Party, PATH Drug Research Group
A medical doctor by profession. Graduated with a bachelors degree from University of Nairobi, Kenya and a Masters in International public health from University of Sydney, Australia.
Over 16 years experience in public health. Currently working with PATH as Chief of Party for APHIAplus Western Kenya project. This is a USAID funded health systems strengthening project focused on improving service delivery across key disease areas including HIV and AIDS; TB; Malaria; Maternal, newborn and child health; and nutrition. Prior to joining PATH, I worked as clinician in district and provincial government hospitals before eventually moving to the Ministry of Health headquarters.
I have an interest in improving the health of women and children in low resource settings like where I work. The project that I head therefore provides a platform for pilot and scale of PATH innovations to improve the health of women and children. The Western Kenya region has the highest HIV burden in Kenya. It also has one of the highest burdens of maternal and child mortality in Kenya.
Am married with 2 lovely children.
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Director of External Relations & Special Assistant to the President, Ashesi University College
Eben represents Ashesi University, a private, not-for-profit, liberal arts institution that has quickly gained a reputation as one of Ghana’s finest universities. In the eighteen years since its founding, Ashesi has created a curriculum and model grounded in the liberal arts that fosters critical thinking, entrepreneurship, ethics and leadership.
In his current role at Ashesi, Eben plays a key role in growing philanthropic support for the university's mission. He is also responsible for driving implementation of special projects initiated by the Office of the President, as well as coordinating all internal and external communications to support Ashesi's work.
Eben is an alumnus of Ashesi University, having graduated with his bachelor's in Management Information Systems. He also holds a Masters in Corporate Communications from IE Business School.
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Special Assistant to the CEO, New America
Isabel is the special assistant to Anne-Marie Slaughter, president & CEO of New America. Isabel works closely with Anne-Marie on writing, research, and all activities of the CEO's office including strategic priorities, development, management and general administration. Previously, Isabel worked in tech and commodities in Asia and Australia. Isabel graduated from Princeton University with a degree in environmental studies and anthropology and a career passion for resource supply chains and sustainable sourcing at scale.
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Executive Director, Yamba Malawi
I am the Yamba Malawi’s Executive Director. Prior to working with Yamba Malawi, Gertrude worked at Advancing Girls Education in Africa, World Vision International, ActionAid International, Dignitas International and Concern Universal, among others. I have expertise in development programming and leadership. I hold a Masters in Women’s Law from the University of Zimbabwe, B.A. in Human and Social Studies with a concentration in Development Studies from the University of South Africa, University Diploma in Journalism from University of Malawi, and Certificate in Education Policy from University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. I have been recognized as an African Visionary Fellow with Segal Family Foundation and a Perennial Fellow, and serves on a number of Boards, including the Malawi Union of Academic and Non-Fiction Authors, Root Change, University of Malawi Council, Integrity Platform (Affiliate of Transparency International), World Bicycle Relief-Buffalo Bicycles.
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Executive Director, Manan Trust
Manan Trust aims to drive long-term change in communities by supporting high-quality non-profits across Asia. Within a broad remit of health and education, we partner with organisations working in gender equity and reproductive rights, child protection, mental health, and empowerment of vulnerable groups. We support organisations that respect, empower, and value the strengths of local communities.
We strive to build partnerships based on mutual trust and shared learning – we constantly learn from our partners and are ever-evolving as a funder. Manan provides unrestricted, multi-year funding and supports partners in developing organisational capacity, strategic plans, and robust monitoring and evaluation systems.
Manan is based in Hong Kong and facilitates the philanthropic giving of FSSA Investment Managers. We currently fund more than 20 organisations in 8 countries across Asia, including the Philippines, Cambodia, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and India.
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Unknown, Individual
I am a social science engineer who co-designs equity and justice system change initiatives for a collective social impact. I’ve spent 27 years in the field of education and global health, leading student ecosystem development at the University of Washington and UC Berkeley, and chief global philanthropy officer at PATH. I’ve led teams that have bundled nearly half a billion US dollars in resources over those years.
I’m currently the Associate Vice President for Advancement at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA where we are leading the development of a collective impact model for higher education that disrupts the traditional capital campaign structure where wealth extracted community resources are held by a single institution (university) with little input from community while being fully controlled by a handful of elite decision makers and wealthy funders.
We are committed to disrupting power structures, racism, and systemic inequities in philanthropy by focusing on economic development of economic pyramid base, sharing power, centering the community’s voice, co-designing culturally appropriate and responsive approaches to solutions with those living closest to the challenges, and collaborating for system building based on leveraged strengths of collective intelligence and resources.
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Editor-in-chief, Our Planet
GEOFFREY LEAN, believed to be the world's longest-serving environmental specialist journalist, covering the field (taking in energy, agriculture, and world development) for almost 50 years, mainly at the The Yorkshire Post, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph, where he wrote a weekly column for six years. His work has been widely syndicated internationally and he has written regularly for such leading publications as The New Statesman, The Daily Mail, and The Evening Standard.. His consultancies incude the Global Environment Facility and the Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development.
In 1997 he was the UK Government’s official delegate to Commission IV of the General Conference of UNESCO, on Britain’s return to the organisation. He has served on the Jury of the Goldman Environmental Prize since 1996 He is the author of Rich World, Poor World (George Allen and Unwin, 1978; Japan Publications Inc, 1980), co-author of Chernobyl, The End of the Nuclear Dream,(Pan 1986, Vintage Books 1987, and 17 different language editions), and General Editor of The Atlas of the Environment (Hutchinson and Prentice Hall, 1990: Helicon and HarperCollins 1992).
In 2000 and 2001 he won Scoop of the Year in the London Press Club and the British Press Awards (the British equivalent of the Pulitzers) and in 2002 the Martha Gelhorn Award for investigative journalism. His other awards include: Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship (1972), the Communication Arts Award of Excellence (1986), UNEP Global 500 (1987), the CLEAR Award (for achievement in the campaign to ban lead from petrol) (1989), Journalist of the Year in the BEMA (1993,2002) and the Greenhouse Political (2016) Awards, the Schumacher Award (1994) and the Lifetime Achievement award of the International Media Awards (2017) In 1998 he also received the special ‘Foundation Award’ for global lifetime achievement at the launching of a new environmental journalism prize by Reuters and IUCN.
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Director, Individual
Helping organisations and individuals captivate target audiences with compelling podcast campaigns, multimedia content and strategy.
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CEO, Village Capital
Allie brings nearly two decades of experience working with entrepreneurs and innovators at the intersection of tech and social change to her role as CEO of Village Capital. Prior to joining the organization in 2016, she served as a senior executive at Revolution and the Case Foundation, the venture capital firm and private family foundation created by former AOL executives Jean and Steve Case. In that role, she led the organizations’ communications and marketing teams, and was instrumental in the development of major initiatives including the Rise of the Rest, the Startup America Partnership and the Be Fearless campaign.
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Programme Director, E4Impact Foundation
In 2012 I have joint ALTIS as General Manager for the E4impact Project, the initiative aimed at building capacities of African Universities and Impact Entrepreneurs. I am knowledgeable of training academic staff and faculty over both management strategies / tools and academic content. I have developed a sound ability to assess capacities of, and develop relations with Academic Institution in Africa as well as to develop entrepreneurial ecosystems. I am currently responsible for the development of E4impact across Africa, including outreach of new Academic Partners, Start-up of the MBA programs and building human and institutional capacities across countries. Prior to joining E4impact, I have been working as researcher and adviser / specialist in the field of Sustainable Development, with special focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholder engagement and Public-Private Partnership building. I worked with multinational corporations (Eni), public institutions (European Parliament) and non governmental organizations.
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Executive Director & Founder, Active Voice
Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, Ellen Schneider has pioneered strategies, frameworks, and other resources that have helped shape the sphere of “social impact media.” As executive producer of the PBS series POV she introduced models that measurably increased the power of independent documentary in public life. In 2000 she founded Active Voice/Lab, one of the first teams to leverage story-based media to put human faces on complex social and policy issues, such as immigration and juvenile justice. Ellen is currently focused on improving creative partnerships among storytellers, funders, issue experts, and others dedicated to social justice; and has shared this expertise with media-savvy clients like Sundance Institute, Skoll Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Participant.
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Alexandra Quinn, M.A., CHW, is the CEO of Health Leads, a U.S. based NGO that partners with communities, health systems and public health to address systemic causes of inequity and disease. Alexandra has spent two decades in the federal government and non-profit sectors focused on justice, education and health. She is a Kellogg Community Leadership Network Fellow focused on racial equity, racial healing and leadership, sits on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Mental Health, and was named to the “Care100 list” as one of the most influential people in care. Alexandra holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. from Georgetown University and resides in Oakland, CA with her two kids, dog and partner.
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Research Director, Resilience Brokers
Andrew is an urban development specialist working at the intersection of the public and private sectors, providing interdisciplinary advisory and strategic planning that spans urban infrastructure and investment, climate policy analysis and integration, knowledge capture and impact evaluation, place-based approaches to development and regional planning, and civic technology and citizen engagement in design and implementation.
As director of research for Resilience Brokers, Andrew works with a wide range of university research centres, civil society organisations, multilateral institutions, and global research networks to advance climate and social science research that is co-produced and accessible, to evaluate programme design and impact, and to facilitate feedback loops and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange and learning. Resilience Brokers, the global delivery programme of the Ecological Sequestration Trust, is a collaborative, knowledge-support and delivery network of partners combined with the “resilience.io” integrated-systems modeling platform to support the implementation of more resilient development pathways for city-regions around the world.
Prior to joining the Trust, Andrew worked as a project manager contractor on international development and domestic U.S. projects. Past appointments include senior planner with Bluepath Consulting in China and lead heritage planner with PPJ consortium on the Greater Hanoi Master Plan for the Vietnam Ministry of Construction. With Arup, he formed and led a “cultural planning” team of social scientists from the Shanghai office, within Arup’s London-based integrated city planning practice for their pioneering sustainability-driven planning projects in China and beyond. Andrew holds an MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics, where his research focused on the London Olympic Park Legacy.
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Executive director, Dandelion Africa
Wendo Aszed leads Dandelion Africa, a grassroots innovator in Kenya that focuses on women and girls sexual and reproductive health, economic empowerment and advocacy on gender based violence. She has over 10 years’ experience in grassroots sustainable projects and is rooted in community driven solutions. Her vision is to partner and work with the most marginalized groups in society, women and youth, to improve their health, economy and education through innovative sustainable solutions. Through Dandelion built 2 Health Centres and set up over 45 Safe spaces for SRH and maternal child health services in hard to reach areas. She has studied in different schools including Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at Stanford University and studied Social Entrepreneurship at GSBI Accelerator at Santa Clara University. She is an African Visionary Fellow, a writer and an Aspen New Voices Fellow 2019, she is an awardee of the Presidential Award 2022 for Women Leadership and Decision making.
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Experienced Public Relations and Communications Regional Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Dima began working with INJAZ Al-Arab as the Regional PR and Communications Manager in October 2014. Prior to joining INJAZ, Dima gained extensive experience working in the non-profit sector as Head of Communications and Outreach Department at the International Organization Foundation for the Future (April 2009-September 2014), and also as an Administrative and Financial Supervisor at a UNDP-Funded Regional Project on Rule of Law (Aug 2005-March 2009). Furthermore, Dima headed a voluntary position in the Middle East Affairs Outreach program which is part of the International Women’s Forum, Headquartered in Washington DC (January 2007-December 2011). Dima holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Al Ahliya Private University in Jordan and a has a certificate in Marketing from the University of the Arts in London.
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Founder & Executive Director, African Diaspora Network
Almaz Negash is named as one of the 100 outstanding Silicon Valley Women of Influence for her work in social innovation. In 2010, Almaz founded the African Diaspora Network (ADN) to inform and engage Africans in the diaspora and facilitate direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders to invest and improve the lives of everyone on the continent and the communities where we live. Under her leadership and vision, ADN is now the home of The African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS), an annual convening in Silicon Valley, Builders of Africa’s Future, and Impact & Investment Forums. Currently, Almaz is exploring ways to provide access to capital to Black led startups and SMEs via the newly launched program called: Accelerating Black Leadership & Entrepreneurship (ABLE). Whether creating market driven solutions to reduce homelessness and mental health with Pay for Success (a.k.a. Social Impact Bond) - a more than $28 million project in SC County.
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Independent Consultant, Individual
David Gordon is an independent consultant with a background in strategic philanthropy and environmental grantmaking to support international conservation and indigenous rights. He started at Pacific Environment, a non-profit intermediary where he supported grassroots environmental and indigenous leaders in Russia, China, and Alaska. He worked as Senior Program Officer in the Environment Program at the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, where he managed grantmaking programs focused in British Columbia, Alaska, and the Mekong Basin. He served as Executive Director of the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award honoring grassroots environmental activists. He is a member of the Advisory Board at the Trust for Mutual Understanding. He consults for philanthropic organizations including The Christensen Fund, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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Dara Kell is a South African filmmaker and writer based in New York. She is working with Doc Society to produce a podcast about women at the forefront of climate justice around the world, hosted by Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland. She was recently supervising editor and writer on the XQ Institute’s documentaries about rethinking high school education, broadcast on NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox and featuring Viola Davis and Tom Hanks. The show had 26 million viewers. She was a creative producer and director for the Ford Foundation’s “#InequalityIs” video campaign, featuring a wide array of voices—including Elton John, Gloria Steinem and Richard Branson—who share their perspectives on the subject of inequality. Her editing work was featured in the Albert Maysles film “Iris.”
Dara is currently making a documentary about Reverend William Barber, who is leading a nonviolent campaign of civil disobedience to address poverty in America. Her previous documentary as a director was “Dear Mandela,” a film about three courageous young South African slum dwellers who lead a social movement to stop mass evictions. The film was the centerpiece of a global community engagement project to inspire young people in slums to become leaders and is part of the curriculum in many law schools around the world. Dara nurtures longstanding relationships with non-profits and social entrepreneurs to tell stories that elevate their impact; collaborations have included the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa, PEN America and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice. Dara is also an award-winning fiction writer and recipient of the 2015 Zoetrope Fiction Award. She is currently at work on her first short story collection about contemporary South Africa, and she serves on the Advisory Committee of the Science & Technology Train, bringing cutting edge STEM education to rural youth in South Africa.
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Executive Director and Founder,
AshokaAmy Neugebauer is the Founder and Executive Director of The Giving Square. Throughout her career, Amy has worked in the fields of community building, international development, philanthropy, and social innovation. Most recently she served as Deputy to the President of Ashoka. At Ashoka Amy drove several initiatives and country expansions, including Ashoka in Japan, Korea, and Western Europe. Earlier in her career, Amy ran the College Park City-University Partnership, a community development corporation responsible for designing and implementing strategic collective impact initiatives, including a multi-million-dollar affordable housing program. She also founded an integrated youth-led community center in Estonia, which was recognized as a model for youth empowerment and community integration. Throughout her career Amy has advised a number of nonprofits and foundations globally around various programmatic and organizational challenges.
Amy has a Masters in Community Planning from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors in International Relations from the University of Washington. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two kids, and COVID dog.
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Founder, Head & Heart Philanthropy
For two decades, Christal M. Jackson has had a fulfilling career serving in the social impact sector and diversity and inclusion sector.
She is the founder of Head and Heart Philanthropy (HHP) and Mosaic Genius (MG), a social impact agency focused on improving social, economic and educational outcomes for communities of color. Recently, she was recognized by Essence Magazine for her ability to convene and curate the best and brightest in this sector. Christal attributes her success to having been groomed for leadership by the church – from serving as an intern with the Children's Defense Fund to creating a marketplace for multi-million dollar initiatives focused on solving complicated social issues.
Nearly ten years ago, she became an entrepreneur by launching Jackson and Associates Group, LLC, a boutique fund development and branding firm focused on serving the philanthropic needs of socially conscious individuals and community organizations. This venture was the launching pad to her working with some of the biggest names in sports, politics and entertainment.
Christal is one of EBONY magazine’s Future 30 Leaders of America. Her work in the social impact sector has garnered numerous awards and recognition. She is the author of Women of Color Pray: Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope, and Courage and Mosaic Genius-Building Beautiful Things With Broken Pieces. In addition, she serves on multiple boards including Harlem Tech Fund, Motown Museum National Leadership Council, Generation USA, the Africa America Institute and Advisor to New Community Transformation Fund.
Christal holds a dual degree in Psychology and Religion from
Spelman and a Masters of Theological Studies from Duke.
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Chief Executive Officer, Global Innovation Fund
Alix Peterson Zwane is Chief Executive Officer of the Global Innovation Fund.
She has 20 years of experience advancing the agenda of evidence-based aid and international development as an investor, a social entrepreneur, and an innovator herself. Alix has worked at the intersection of the evidence and innovation agendas from a diverse set of posts.
She was the first employee and Executive Director at Evidence Action, a non-profit that develops service delivery models to scale evidence-based programs. Under Alix’s leadership, Evidence Action catalyzed school-based deworming for hundreds of millions of children around the world, and safe drinking water for millions of people in four countries. Alix launched Evidence Action Beta, an incubator for innovations in development.
Alix has also advocated for evidence-based philanthropy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google.org, where she set strategy and made investments to support new public service models that work for the poor and developed models for outcome-based grant-making. She began her career in management consulting and was a member of the faculty of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at University of California, Berkeley.
Alix has published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and elsewhere.
She previously served on the board of directors of Innovations for Poverty Action, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, and Evidence Action.
She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Born and raised in Colorado, she divides her time between Washington, D.C. and London.
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Director, Global Health Equity, Emerson Collective
Cassia van der Hoof Holstein is Director, Global Health Equity at the Emerson Collective. She serves on the boards of Partners In Health and Plus 1, and on the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board at the University of Global Health Equity, in Rwanda. She is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University’s School of Medicine.
Previously, Cassia served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Paul Farmer--who loved the annual trip to Oxford for the Skoll World Forum, and the beloved community he got to see there. She was Associate Director of the Global Health Delivery Partnership at Harvard Medical School, Chief Partnership Integration Officer at Partners In Health, and founding Director of Rural Health at the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI). Cassia studied Literature at Harvard College, and got her start in global health in Senate Kennedy's Poverty Issues Office. She is a San Franciscan, birth doula, mother of three, and adherent of the Oxford comma.
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Director of Community, d.School, Stanford University
Charlotte is the Director of Community at the Stanford d.school. At the d.school we build on methods from across the field of design, create learning experiences which help people unlock their creative potential, and apply our design work to problems in the world. Just like humans, problems are often messy and complex—and we teach people to tackle them with some serious creative thinking.
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Music manager / Entertainment Consultant, Individual
Live and recorded music entertainment industry expert. Strategic, visionary brand-builder with multi-faceted career experience in artist management, global marketing strategies and live touring. Multinational artist management experience with two of the pre-eminent firms in the industry. International strategic leadership roles at the two biggest record labels in the world, spearheading all marketing, launch planning, publicity and promotion for artists at every stage of development. Highly skilled in sustainable live music touring, as conceptual and implementation lead for the routing, strategy and financial modeling for multiple global acts’ tours, including the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.
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Executive Director, Access Now
Brett Solomon is the Executive Director and co-founder of Access Now, a global non-profit organization that defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. By combining direct technical support, comprehensive policy engagement, global advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, the organization fights for human rights in the digital age. Brett is also the founder of RightsCon, Access Now's Annual Summit on the internet and human rights. Before Access Now, Brett honed his skills at Avaaz, GetUp, Oxfam Australia, and Amnesty International Australia. Brett has a Bachelors in Arts and Law and a Masters in International Law.
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Director, Impact and Partnerships, Aspen Institute
Alexis Ettinger is Director, Impact and Partnerships for the Leadership Division at the Aspen Institute. She leads a portfolio of partnerships, programs, and strategic initiatives to accelerate the impact and future growth opportunities of the Division and its global network of leaders. Alexis has spent her career developing and investing in entrepreneurial approaches to social change, with a strong focus on building cross-sector collaborations and ecosystems. Prior to the Aspen Institute, Alexis was the Director for Social Innovation at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health, where she led a mobile health enterprise in India. Previously, she was the Head of Strategy at the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, designing programs and partnerships to support social ventures and systems-level impact initiatives. She’s also worked on designing a gender-lens investing initiative at Criterion Institute, building a global coalition for government impact investing with the Global Social Progress Imperative, and advancing thought leadership for the field through writing and speaking on these topics. She started her career at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, where she supported a network of over 2,000 social entrepreneurs globally. A New Jersey native, Alexis has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a proud parent of two young boys.
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Founder, President and Chief Executive, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
Bianca Jagger has committed her life to defending human rights, civil liberties, peace, social justice and environmental protection throughout the world. She campaigns to end capital punishment and violence against women and girls, and advocates for the rights of indigenous peoples and future generations.
Bianca Jagger is Founder, President and Chief Executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation (BJHRF), which she established in 2005 to be a force for change and a voice for the most vulnerable.
Born in Managua, Nicaragua in 1950 Bianca Jagger left her native country to study political science in Paris with a scholarship from the French Government. She is Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, a Member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council for Amnesty International USA, IUCN Bonn Challenge Ambassador, and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Bianca Jagger is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including The Right Livelihood Award (2004) also known as the ‘alternative Nobel prize.’
Her other awards for human rights, humanitarian and environmental work include:
• The United Nations Earth Day International Award (1994)
• Abolitionist of the Year Award by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (1996)
• The Amnesty International USA Media Spotlight Award for Leadership (1997)
• The Green Globe Award from the Rainbow Alliance (1997)
• American Civil Liberties Union Award (1998)
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer Champion of Justice Award (2000)
• The World Achievement Award (2004)
• The World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (2006)
• Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin-UK Awards (LUKAS) (2015)
• The Nuestra Madre Award from Americas for Conservation and the Arts (2015)
• The Mayahuel Award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the Iguana del Oro Award at the Puerto Vallarta International
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Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Alix Cantave is a program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, working in partnership with the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) team based in Mexico City.
He is responsible for identifying and nurturing positive, systemic change within communities, executing programming efforts aligned with the strategic programming functions of the overall foundation and implementing a micro regional strategy in Haiti in collaboration with other LAC staff. He is a key resource for the compilation, organization, utilization and communication of information and knowledge. He also establishes, monitors and manages relationships, partnerships, collaborations and contacts with intermediaries, consultants, community and legislative leaders.
Prior to joining the foundation in 2011, Cantave was the associate director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where he established and managed a consortium of 20 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Spain and the Caribbean to support the rebuilding and improvement of higher education in Haiti. Other professional experiences include serving as: economic development program officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in Boston (1999-2006); founding director, Haitian Studies Association/Haitian Studies Project at the University of Massachusetts (1994-1999); and research associate, Harvard University Immigration Projects, Harvard University Graduate School of Education (1997-1999).
Cantave holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Massachusetts; a Master of Science in city and regional planning from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; and a Bachelor of Arts in environmental design from SUNY in Buffalo, New York.
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Partnerships Lead, Devex
Betsy is the Devex Partnerships Lead for the US wish special focus on West Coast partnerships. Her work encompases all activities performed by Devex – from partnerships at global conferences to developing digital content communication initiatives to strategic survey research an more, she helps partners leverage the Devex media platform to amplify their messages. She brings experience from the worlds of media (Atlantic Media) and international development (International Justice Mission), and is passionate about bringing together diverse minds to create meaningful dialogue around the biggest challenges in world today.
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Co-Lead, Open Value Foundation
Arianne is an economist by education, a marketing, strategy and sales expert by professional experience, and a social worker and teacher out of passion. She is a passionate traveler, a people person, and loves photography and yoga.
She studied major in economics at Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (UAM), International Marketing at University of California Berkeley, and she is an expert in Micro-Finance by UAM.
Her mother language is Spanish; she is bilingual in English, speaks Portuguese and French fluently and has an average comprehension in both Bahasa Indonesia and Haitian Krèyol.
She started her career at Procter & Gamble, working in marketing and strategic management for 12 years. In 2006 she made a career move and has worked since in educating and empowering women and rural communities around the developing world, working for different NGO’s. She became a freelance consultant for training and innovation firms and a social entrepreneur, starting her own project to empower women in Indonesia.
Since 2016 Arianne is co-leading Open Value Foundation, working on the selection of partners and projects and in charge of marketing and communications.
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Interim Director, Entrepreneurship Centre, Said Business School
Anne-Marie McBrien studied modern languages at Oxford before moving to France, where she spent time in a public relations role. She began her career in university administration at the University of Sussex, working firstly in the Registrar & Secretary’s office and then as part of the busy research administration team.
She returned to Oxford in 2004 to work in research management at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Anne-Marie has managed a wide portfolio of research programmes, projects and contracts, and has run three research centres based at Oxford Saïd. She managed the establishment of the Oxford Foundry for the University of Oxford and currently acts as Interim Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre.
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Founder and Lead Health Advisor, Centre for Public Health & Development
BERNARD OLAYO, M.D.MPH
Founder & Chairman, Center for Public Health and Development (CPHD) and NEST 360 Team member
Dr. Bernard Olayo is a Kenyan physician and public health specialist with more than 14 years’ experience as an Africa healthcare system. He is also an entrepreneur and is the founder for a non-profit organization (Center for Public Health and Development) www.cphdev.org and two social enterprises working toward improving access to quality healthcare in Africa. These include the Medical Oxygen company HEWA TELE ( www.hewatele.org) and a medical equipment social enterprise Mediquip Global- MQG (www.mediquipglobal.org)
Center for Public Health and Development (CPHD) is a non-profit organization who mission is to improve health systems through training and other innovations in East and Southern Africa region. It is well known for founding HEWA TELE an PPP solution for medical Oxygen among other innovations.
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Executive Director, Communications, United Nations Foundation
As the United Nations Foundation’s Executive Director of Communications, Caleb helps drive strategy for growing constituencies, expanding support, and deepening engagement in 20 distinct Foundation programs in support of UN priorities, including: reducing climate change, empowering girls and women, supporting vaccine access in developing countries, growing the global market for clean cooking technologies, and expanding access to reproductive health services globally.
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Executive Director, AC Laskaridis Foundation
Angeliki is the Executive Director of the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation. She holds a PhD in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College (USA) and has studied towards an MBA at Leicester University. Following a career in archaeology and cultural management she worked in communications, as a consultant and content specialist for multinational companies, small businesses, public and private organizations, politicians, artists and scholars. She has also served as advisor and speechwriter for several politicians, on the national and local level.
She is Vice President of the Greek National Tourism Organization and has been appointed National Coordinator for Greece’s transition towards the ban of single-use plastics. She mentors women in public life and entrepreneurship, and sits on the Board of Directors of The People’s Trust and the Advisory Board of DIANEOSIS. A published scholar in classics and archaeology, she is a regular contributor to Greek media.
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Co-Founder, New Story
Alexandria Lafci is the co-Founder and COO of New Story – an innovative nonprofit that builds inclusive social housing developments for families living in extreme poverty. At New Story, Alexandria oversees the
3d printing
Alexandria’s career has been focused on exploring approaches to poverty alleviation. She started her career as a Teach for America Corps member in Washington, D.C and is now the co-Founder of New Story, a nonprofit focused on social housing developments in Latin America and the Caribbean. In between, her work and board roles have spanned micro-finance, small business development, land reform, education policy and more.
Alexandria is a Y Combinator alumni, Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and World Economic Forum Global Shaper. She recently helped design a 3D Home printer and printed the first 3D Printed home in The United States. Her work at New Story, has been featured in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Architectural Digest, CNN and more.
Alexandria studied International Relations at Boston University and received her Masters in Education from George Mason University.
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Director, Business Development, Acceso
The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP) is a social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. CGEP builds from scratch and manages local businesses that work with smallholder farmers and fishers and connects them to high-value markets.
Alethia builds and manages relationships with global partners, raises capital for CGEP businesses through investor prospecting, and supports the building of CGEP's social businesses. She also develops and leads the organization's communications, marketing, and thought leadership strategies. Alethia has seven years of social enterprise and international development experience. She previously worked on the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture and health programs in Peru. She began her career with KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, working in the areas of audit and tax in Toronto, before deciding to pursue a career at the intersection of business, sustainability, and poverty alleviation.
Alethia has an MBA from the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto, and a Chartered Professional Accountant designation from Canada.
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Simon is a co-Founder & Director of Global Witness. He has investigated malfeasance of the extractives industries - oil, gas and mining sectors over the past 25 years and campaigned to hold them to account. He is a conceiver and co-founder of the International Publish What You Pay (www.pwyp.org) Campaign. Simon is currently focussed on accountability of the fossil fuel industry, in particular related to the climate crisis, and their serially corrupt business practices and lax environmental controls. Simon is a Steering Committee member of the Fossil Fuel non-Proliferation Treaty campaign.
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Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP
Adrian works across the social and conventional enterprise sectors to build positive social impact. He co-heads Hogan Lovells Social Enterprise and Business Integrity Group’s and is a partner in the firms Infrastructure Energy Resources and Projects Practice. He is a former member of the World Economic Forums Social Innovation council.
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A Founding Member of TCF’s Board of Directors, Mr. Chhapra has played a key role in nurturing a number of prominent nonprofit organizations. He serves on the boards of Patients’ Aid Foundation and The Kidney Centre as well. In recognition of his eminent service to society, the Government of Pakistan has conferred upon him the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan’s highest civil honors.
Mr. Mushtaq is Director of various companies and corporations including Coastal Trading, CBM Plastics, Transpak (Pvt) Ltd., Coastal Synthetics (Pvt) Ltd., Multipaper Products (Pvt) Ltd., and Coastal Converters (Pvt) Ltd. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee of Patient Aid Foundation, a Foundation that was established to extend help to needy and poor patients and provides free medicine. He is also a Member of the Board of Governors of The Kidney Centre, which provides treatment and dialysis to patients suffering from kidney problems
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Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel, King Philanthropies
In September 2018, after nearly 13 years at the Skoll Foundation, I joined King Philanthropies as its first COO/GC. I have been in the philanthropy sector for over 22 years, working in various legal and financial roles at 4 Silicon Valley private foundations. A lawyer and certified public accountant by training and profession, my passion is supporting the efforts of highly effective organizations to alleviate extreme poverty at scale.
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Head of Partnerships, Principles for Responsible Investment
Adam has a background in development roles in the not-for-profit sector spanning health, international development, environment and sustainability. Now at the Principles for Responsible Investment he is building partnerships with organisations geared to align capital markets and the global financial system with sustainability outcomes.
The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions. The PRI acts in the long-term interests of its signatories, of the financial markets and economies in which they operate and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole.
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President, World Spine Care
Scott Haldeman DC, MD, PhD, FRCP(C), FCCS(C), FAAN holds the positions of Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Visiting Professor, Southern California University of Health Sciences and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences Ontario Tech University. He is the co-founder and currently serves as President of World Spine Care (WSC), a non-profit organization endorsed by the Decade of the Bone and Joint, an initiative of the WHO. This Foundation has the goal of helping people in underserved regions of the world who suffer from spinal disorders. WSC has established clinics in Botswana, India, Dominican Republic, and Ghana. The WHO featured the WSC Botswana program in the Integrated People-Centre Health Services (IPCHS) Framework.He currently chairs the Global Spine Care Initiative (GSCI) to develop evidence-informed, practical, and sustainable, spine health care models for communities around the world. The GSCI has developed and published Patient and Clinician Guides for telehealth or virtual evidence-based management of spinal disorders during the periods of physician distancing such as the COVID-19 pandemic or in remote communities where there is no clinician with training in spine care. He is Past President of the North American Spine Society, the American Back Society. He was appointed International Ambassador for the Decade of the Bone and Joint. He has published over 240 articles or book chapters and has authored or edited 8 textbooks. He is certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He presided over The Bone and Joint Decade 2000 to 2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. He served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the NIH National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health.
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Engagement Editor, Devex
Kate Wathen is the engagement editor for Devex, where she oversees media partnerships, social media and op-eds for the newsroom. Prior to joining Devex, she worked as a press officer with USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, where she managed communications for disasters occurring in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. In the past, she has managed international media relations for the Center for Global Development, worked as a national public relations specialist for Kaiser Permanente and as an associate producer for Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Vera Solutions
Zak Kaufman is Co-Founder and CEO of Vera Solutions, a social enterprise using cloud and mobile technology to help social impact organizations worldwide work more efficiently and deliver better results. Zak has worked for 10 years at the intersection of technology and the social sector, overseeing program evaluations in Southern Africa and Latin America and architecting data systems for dozens of leading global nonprofits. Since 2010, Vera has served more than 330 organizations in more than 60 countries and has grown to a team of 80 staff on five continents. Notable clients Zak has worked with include the Gavi Alliance, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Zak holds a PhD and MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA from Dartmouth. He has been recognized as a Marshall Scholar, Truman Scholar, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, Meaningful Business 100, Global Good Fund Fellow, Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellow, and winner of Dartmouth's 2018 Social Justice Award. Vera has additionally received recognition through the Echoing Green Fellowship, Real Leaders Top 100 Impact Companies, and B Lab's Best For the World lists.
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Executive Director, HealthRight International
Peter Navario is the Executive Director of HealthRight, a global health NGO dedicated to ensuring that marginalized communities have equal opportunity to live healthy lives. Peter and HealthRight believe HOW you implement is as important as WHAT you implement, and are pioneering a more effective, efficient, and sustainable model for global health NGOs. Ask him about it. HealthRight’s strategic partnership with New York University, where Peter is also a professor of public health, brings together vulnerable communities, cutting edge research and development expertise to solve some of global health’s toughest challenges. Peter was previously a Technical Advisor at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and a Fellow in Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Undergirding his more recent work on program, policy and thought leadership is ten years in the field implementing and evaluating HIV prevention, care and treatment programs across sub-Saharan Africa. Peter is on the editorial board of the journal Global Health Governance, and has written on AIDS policy and other global health issues in various publications including the Lancet, Nutrition, the Huffington Post, cfr.org, and Global Health Magazine. Peter holds degrees from Lehigh, Yale and the University of Cape Town.
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Gopi Gopalakrishnan has long experience in implementing large-scale service-delivery programs. WHP initially delivered primary health care to rural communities in India and Kenya and is now expanding its scope to primary education and livelihoods. The approach is to enhance with technology and management systems the utility of whatever available resources in the community.
Gopi has been a member of India’s Population Commission and has advised numerous national and international organizations on cost-effective service delivery. He has served as a global technical advisor of the International Finance Corporation and is currently an advisor of the National Health Mission.
Gopi has worked as the Director of International Programs of DKT International based in Washington DC overseeing 14 programs and as Country Director in Vietnam. Besides Skoll, he has been awarded by Schwab and Ashoka Foundations and the Government of Vietnam. He holds a masters degree and has been trained at Harvard.
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Photographer, The Guardian
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Founder & President, Action for India
Sanjay Kadaveru is the Founder & President of Action For India (AFI), an initiative to help social entrepreneurs in India overcome barriers to scale and achieve greater impact at the Bottom of the Pyramid. AFI connects social innovators with impact investors, mentors, technology resources, government contacts and local partners. Launched in 2012, AFI is headquartered in New Delhi, India and has a chapter in Silicon Valley, California. Earlier this year, the organization launched AISEA, an AFI promoted social entrepreneurship accelerator at IIT Hyderabad and 3iPartners, an AFI affiliated impact investment fund, where Sanjay serves as a Co-founder & Partner.
Prior to launching AFI, Sanjay managed investments at The Seven Hills Group, a family office based in the US, where he supported the deployment of $50M in capital across several sectors: energy, media, IT, infrastructure and education. He is also a co-founder of the Center for Healthcare Innovation, a US based not-for-profit thought-leadership organization focusing on the life sciences. Sanjay is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, and served as a Co-Chair for TiECon East. He also serves as Vice-Lead for the Social Entrepreneurship SIG at TiE Global. Earlier, Sanjay co-founded the AP Technology Leadership Council, a non-profit networking organization created to provide pro-bono business consulting services to civic and governmental causes in the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh.
Sanjay is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Co-Founder & Executive Director, Spark MicroGrants
Sasha Fisher is the co-founder & executive director of Spark. Spark exists to shift aid and development efforts from top-down and prescriptive to bottom-up and community-driven. Towards a world where every village, every neighborhood has the right fulfilled to drive their own future. Sasha is an inaugural Obama Fellow, winner of the Mohammad Ali award for Respect, and a Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur. Sasha has led the organization from concept to a multimillion dollar operation reaching upwards of 700 villages across six countries. Today Spark works with governments and leading civil society organizations on national scale programs primarily across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Vice President, Programs, World Cocoa Foundation
Paul Macek is the Vice President of Programs for the World Cocoa Foundation, where he manages WCF’s global portfolio of projects and programs. In this capacity, Paul leads WCF’s country engagement and the technical areas of agricultural productivity, social development, and the environment. He is particularly passionate about social impact investing and entrepreneurship on the African continent where he has lived and worked for over 20 years.
Before joining WCF, Paul worked with prominent international relief and development non-profits. Paul was the Senior Director for food security and livelihoods with World Vision, where he led a team responsible for the acquisition and implementation of more than 30 programs and projects worldwide. The annual $85 million portfolio of projects comprised of a diverse range of technical areas that included food security, agriculture, humanitarian assistance, climate change and adaptation, and economic development. Prior to joining World Vision, Paul held several prominent positions with Catholic Relief Services throughout sub-Saharan Africa. These positions included Country Representative (Uganda and Zambia); Deputy Regional Director for Southern Africa; Regional Emergency Representative in Southern Africa; and Program Manager in Benin and South Sudan.
Paul graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) with a BA in History and Political Science and holds an MA in International Affairs from American University (Washington, DC) with a focus on development studies and political economy. When he’s not working, Paul enjoys spending time with his family, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and traveling.
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Executive Director, Oracle Corporation Foundation
Colleen Cassity is Executive Director of the Oracle Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle and committed to helping students develop the technical acumen, creative confidence, empathy, and grit to become outstanding designers of solutions to people’s needs and the world’s problems. The Foundation’s program engages Oracle employees as volunteer instructors, who coach high school students through multi-day workshops at the intersection of STEAM disciplines and design thinking. Workshops teach coding, electronics, and user-centered design. Workshops culminate in design challenges in domains such as Wearable Technology, IoT, 3D Design and Production, and Data Visualization. Students use their new skills and knowledge, plus design thinking, to prototype solutions for real users.
In addition to managing the Foundaion, Colleen oversees Oracle Giving, which annually donates approximately US$14 million in cash to nonprofit organizations around the world working to advance Education, protect the Environment, and enrich Community life.
Colleen also directs the Oracle Volunteers program, through which 30,000+ employees in 45 countries annually donate approximately 100,000 hours to 500+ nonprofits working in Education, Environment and Community.
She is editor of the biennial Oracle Corporate Citizenship Report and supervises external reporting on corporate social responsibility (CSR), including philanthropy, volunteerism, and sustainability.
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President, Guardian.org Foundation
Rachel White is president of theguardian.org and executive vice president, philanthropic and strategic partnerships at Guardian News and Media. Working across global editorial teams she develops, funds, and executes editorial project that drive measurable impact. Prior to joining the Guardian, she served as executive vice president and interim president of the Washington D.C.-based, journalism-centered think tank New America Foundation. Working across media, policy, government, the private sector, and philanthropy, she led the organization in advancing new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States, and launched New America NYC and New America Live. From 1995 to 2005, Rachel worked for the World Wildlife Fund where she launched programs in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Houston, and served as lead on the Living Planet Campaign.
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Executive Director, Cartier Philanthropy
Pascale joined Cartier in July 2013 to launch Cartier Philanthropy, a grant-making foundation committed to improving the lives of the most vulnerable. Under her leadership, the foundation has invested some CHF 100M to support impact-driven non-profit organisations operating in over 30 countries.
Pascale’s two decades' work in humanitarian and development efforts proved an invaluable background for her work in philanthropy. She began her career as an intern at the UN in New York and soon found herself on the team of the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Mogadishu, Somalia. She then joined UNICEF in Baghdad, Iraq, and later was back on the team to lead donor relations for the USD 100M Iraq country programme. She also took part in on-the-ground efforts in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
In her ten years at Cartier Philanthropy, Pascale has established a data-driven and outcome-oriented approach, focusing on effective interventions with a potential for scale.
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Head of Strategy, Falling Walls Foundation
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Chief Strategy Officer, Fundación Capital
Dr. Ana Pantelic is social entrepreneur with a decade of experience working at the intersection of systems change, social innovation, and economic opportunity.
As Chief Strategy Officer of Fundación Capital (a 2014 Skoll Awardee and nonprofit social enterprise improving the financial lives of millions of families living in poverty), she is responsible for spearheading impact and innovation processes globally and across the organization.
She is also Founder of LISTA, a digital initiative proven to build the financial health of low-income and vulnerable people at scale, which has been used by more than half a million people and been embedded into national social protection policies, spanning ten countries.
Specializing in poverty reduction through the lens of finance, with expertise in technology and women's economic empowerment, she develops evidence-based hybrid solutions to achieve social impact at scale. She has published a number of academic and technical articles in three languages, including the book "Disrupting Poverty in Developing Countries" in the Serbian language.
She has lived and worked on three continents and spoken at conferences across 20 countries. Prior to Fundación Capital, she has worked for USAID, academic research institutions, and in the education space. She holds a PhD from the University of Belgrade in Serbia, an MA in International Relations and BS in Communication, both from Boston University, and is fluent in three languages.
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Brittany currently serves as Managing Director, Operations & Programs - Investments at the Skoll Foundation. As Director, she leads a team responsible for supporting the sourcing and selecting of strategically aligned investments for the Skoll Foundation’s portfolio. Brittany joined the Skoll Foundation in 2006 and has led major programs for the organization, including the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship that has invested in over 120 global organizations, and co-led the Skoll’s Portfolio Intelligence practice aimed at developing insights on portfolio impact. Brittany is experienced in strategic program development and in identifying leaders in social innovation poised for systems-level impact. She is passionate about building partnerships to drive more equitable and inclusive practices in philanthropy and supporting underrepresented leaders on their path to impact. She holds a BA in Internal Affairs with a minor in Japanese from the University of Colorado Boulder and MBA from Presidio Graduate School.
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Editor, This Is Africa
Adrienne Klasa is Development Finance Editor of The Banker and fDi magazines at the Financial Times Group. Previously she was Editor of This is Africa, the Financial Times’ flagship Africa publication. Her writing has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, Forbes, Slate and Foreign Policy, among others. She speaks and moderates at events worldwide and appears as a commentator on radio, podcasts and broadcast news. She is a 2017 FPI Fellow for women in foreign policy and holds two first class degrees in political science: a Bachelors from McGill University and a Masters from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Follow her on Twitter @adrienneklasa.
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Priyanka majored in English from Delhi University and started her career at a buying house. In the last decade she has worked in sales, accounts, customer service, media, production and as a travel writer across India, New Zealand and the United States. She believes that the diversity in her career and the experience accumulated has helped build her communication, adaptability, management and interpersonal skills extensively. Priyanka joined the development sector two years ago as part of the media team at Breakthrough. Starting out as Manager for campaigns, she now heads the Media Hub for the organisation, a role she moved into a year and a half ago. As part of the current role, Priyanka along with her team is responsible for all the Mass Media and Digital work that is produced by the Breakthrough across various programs. This includes all media products such as films, radio, graphics design, IVRS in addition to all digital content. As part of the Senior team for the organisation, Priyanka's role also includes being part of and giving input on organisational strategy and other processes when requiredAn avid reader, she is a traveler at heart and when not working can be found curled up on the couch planning her next trip.
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Nicola is a business leader and social innovator, driving multi-sector partnerships for systems change and inclusive economy.
Nicola is an Executive Director of Yellowwoods Holdings, a private investment group. Since 2010, she has led the group’s efforts to drive positive social and environmental impact through, and with, its portfolio of businesses that include financial services (e.g. Hollard Insurance); restaurants (e.g. Nando's) and eco-tourism (e.g. &Beyond) businesses. Nicola also manages Yellowwoods’ innovative social financing and grant making. Under her leadership, Yellowwoods has incubated a portfolio of African non-profit social enterprises, promoting universal access to ECD (e.g. SmartStart Early Learning Franchise), improvement in the performance of public education (e.g. Programme to Improve Learning Outcomes (PILO)) and in inclusive youth employment through the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator for which she won the Skoll Award in 2019. She is a McNulty Prize
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Co-Founder, Guediawaye Hip Hop
Pape Mamadou Camara is a communications specialist with diversified experience in NGOs, corporate marketing, and strategic development during the past 7 years. Pape passion for arts and hip-hop culture motivated him to start a venture call G Hip Hop in Dakar, Senegal with a group of artists and activists. A project that focuses on urban and hip-hop culture to promote positive behavioral change in his community. In his entrepreneurship journey, he also launched a couple of projects on music, art and community support. Pape has been awarded several fellowships such as the Mandela Washington Fellowship, The Skoll Foundation, and MasterCard Foundation Emerging Young Leader and the youth action net fellowship to name a few. He is now working for a UN agency.
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CEO, Freedom Fund
In 2014, Nick was appointed as the inaugural CEO of the Freedom Fund, an ambitious effort to mobilise the knowledge, capital and will needed to end modern slavery. To date, the Fund has worked with some 140 frontline partners around the world to directly liberate over 30,000 people from modern slavery and positively impact the lives of more than 1.4 million.
Nick serves on the advisory councils of Global Witness and the McCain Institute. Prior to the Freedom Fund, he was the inaugural CEO of the Walk Free Foundation and Deputy President and COO of the International Crisis Group. Nick is a lawyer by background and served as Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Australian Attorney-General from 1999-2001. He has a law degree with first class honours from the University of Sydney and a Master’s in Public Policy from Princeton University. He is currently writing a book on nonprofit leadership, due to be published in early 2024.
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Artistic Director, MIT Co-Creation Studio, MIT
Katerina Cizek is a two-time Emmy winner and a pioneer in digital media. Her work has documented the Digital Revolution, and has itself become part of the movement. She is the Artistic Director and Executive Producer of the emergent Co-Creation Studio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Documentary Lab, while based in Toronto, Canada. For over a decade at the National Film Board of Canada, she helped redefine the organization as one of the world’s leading digital content hubs. She was the director and creative force behind the NFB’s award-winning 7-year digital documentary project HIGHRISE, and she realized the acclaimed NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence program. Cizek has built collaborations with a diverse range of community, academic and media partners to co-create media, including The New York Times, Wired Magazine, City of Toronto, United Way and most recently, Canada’s top YouTube stars. She has been recognized with 2 Emmys, a Peabody Award, World Press Photo Prize, 3 Canadian Screen Awards, 2 Webbys, amongst others. Her work has been seen by millions around the globe, through TV broadcasts and publishing on the web. She has travelled the world with her projects, teaching and advising on her innovative approaches to digital media and co-creation models.
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2012 SASE Awardee. I am a Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Management by training but a Social Architect by profession. Is currently involved in organizing farmers to produce together and connecting them to value adding processes.
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CEO, Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation
Dr. Deqo Aden Mohamed is the daughter of Dr. Hawa Abdi. She was born in Mogadishu, grew up feeding the refugees her mother was harboring, and earned an MD in Moscow in 2000. She was an OB-GYN resident in Russia up to 2003. She continued to go back to the internally displaced camp, which hosted up to more than 90,000 people at one point, to work during her holidays. She came to America as a refugee in 2003 and gained extensive experience working in healthcare. She became a naturalized American in 2008.
Today, she works full time on the ground in Somalia. She leads all operations in the Hawa Abdi Village in Lower Shabelle, while ensuring the safety of the 300 families who have found permanent shelter in the community. She leads the 400-bed Dr. Hawa Abdi General Hospital, the Waqaf-Diblawe Primary School, a women’s education centre, and a smart farming agriculture project. She simultaneously manages the administrative aspects of DHAF as CEO of the organization in the United States.
Besides her work, Dr. Mohamed regularly attends conferences and speaks on behalf of DHAF, her mother’s lifework, and on Somalia. Recently, she was invited as a guest speaker at the World Forum on Human Rights in Brasilia, Brazil, and participated at a ceremony on kidney diseases in Chennai, India. Dr. Mohamed has been featured on media outlets such as TED, the Leonard Lopate Show, and the Daily Beast.
Jasmine Lam, Chief Operating Officer
Jasmine Lam is the Chief Operating Officer at DHAF and has been with the organization for over 4 years. In 2013, she set up DHAF’s office in Nairobi, Kenya, managing the administrative, human resources, financial, and outreach departments. After her experience in Nairobi, she is spearheading DHAF’s office in the United States and expanding the organization to Canada.
Besides her work with DHAF, she is active in research, particularly in the areas of foreign policy analysis, IDPs, refugees, and post-conflict reconstruction and development. In th
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Advisor, Fortitude Fund
Amy has well over a decade of experience in strategic philanthropy, impact investing, scaling social enterprise, and creating systems networks. She has worked to support non-profit social entrepreneurs and innovators in multiple sectors including health, social justice, economic development and education with focus on capacity building, scale, and sustainability. She was the founding Executive of The Pershing Square Foundation and the Principal of Fortitude Fund. She has been involved with a number of boards including Echoing Green, New Profit, Harvard Global Health Initiative, Zahn Center for Social Enterprise, and the NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program. She currently sits on the boards of I-MAK (helping make life saving medications affordable to all) and Dig Deep (creating a water and sanitation sector in the US to provide clean water to the 2.3 million Americans who currently lack access). Prior to this work she has decades of experience working and teaching in Mental Health with a specialization in rapid evaluation, adolescent and family treatment, and trauma, including work with survivors and first responders immediately after September 11th. She currently lives in upstate New York and consults with non-profits and foundations on a variety of topics.
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Founder, Designer, Ikiré Jones
Walé Oyéjidé, Esq. is a designer, writer, musician and lawyer that combats bias with creative storytelling. As the founder of Ikiré Jones, he employs fashion design as a vehicle to celebrate the perspectives of marginalized populations.
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Co-Founder: Actuary & CFO, Pula
Thomas is a seasoned insurance professional with over 10 years’ experience working across Africa in both the insurance industry and consulting space.
Thomas is currently a Co-Founder at Pula which is an insurance technology company that targets the uninsured in Africa & Asia, starting with small holder farmers. He plays the Chief Actuary and Chief Finance Officer role at Pula with a focus on designing and pricing insurance solutions and business model innovation.
He also served as a Director at Deloitte Consulting as the Insurance Advisory lead in East Africa and a Consulting Actuary in Deloitte South Africa. Prior to joining Deloitte, Thomas was the Chief Actuary at UAP Insurance Group based in East Africa.
Thomas is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA), and holds a Masters’ in Business Administration (SBS Kenya) and a Bsc. Actuarial Science from the University of Nairobi.
Besides solving the insurance related challenges in emerging markets, his other interests include running, philosophy and chess.
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Chief of the Yawanawa, Associacao Sóciocultural Yawanawa
Tashka Yawanawá is chief of the Yawanawá people in Acre, Brazil. As chief, he leads 900 people stewarding 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The son of the former leader of the Yawanawá, Tashka grew up witnessing the virtual enslavement of his people by the rubber industry and experiencing the near annihilation of the tribe’s culture by missionaries. Since the 1980s, Tashka has actively fought for the rights of indigenous peoples. Realizing that he needed further education to improve the situation of the Yawanawá, he pursued higher education in the U.S. and abroad. He was directly involved in the creation of the Indigenous Lawyers Association and co-founded the Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Youth Alliance, through which he shares the experiences and knowledge of the Yawanawá with youth around the world, and works with projects that guarantee the preservation of different indigenous cultures.. In 2001, Tashka returned to Brazil, and chose to use the knowledge gained from his experiences abroad to help his people transform their future. He became the youngest Chief in the history of the Yawanawá at age twenty-five. In a short amount of time, Tashka and Laura have managed to double the extent of Yawanawá territory, reinvigorate Yawanawá culture, and establish economically and socially empowering relationships with the outside world. Tashka and Laura have two daughters—Kenemani and Luna Rosa—and divide their time living and working in the Yawanawá community and Rio Branco, Brazil.
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Shirley Abraham is a Cannes prize-winning Indian documentary film maker. Her work is supported by the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, New York Times, IDFA Bertha Fund, Bertha Foundation, BBC, Filmmaker Fund, Catapult Film Fund and Asian Network of Documentary. She has been a fellow of Sundance Labs, Cluster of Excellence Heidelberg, TasveerGhar, India Foundation for the Arts and Goethe-Institut.
The Cinema Travellers is the debut feature documentary of Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya. The film premiered as an Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival 2016, to a standing ovation. It won the Special Jury Prize for L'Oeil d'or: Le Prix du documentaire. The film continues to have a prestigious festival run playing a hundred and twenty five film festivals worldwide. It is the first Indian documentary to have achieved the rare festival trifecta of Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. The film has won nineteen awards, including the President’s Medal in India.
Shirley and Amit have recently made Searching for Saraswati, India’s first Op-Doc for the New York Times. The film is supported by the MacArthur Foundation, Sundance Institute, Catapult Film Fund and Hartley Film Foundation.
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Associate Professor and Director, UC Digital Cultures Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
Ramesh Srinivasan studies the connections between new technologies, politics, and societies across our world. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments. He is the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab, exploring the meaning of technology worldwide as it spreads to the far reaches of our world. He is also the author of the books: “Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World” with NYU Press, and “After the Internet” (with Adam Fish) on Polity Press released in December of 2017. He is currently working on a third journalistic book discussing flashpoints of global innovation in relation to new technology, pushing us to consider realities and visions outside of our mainstream conversations about 'big tech'.
Srinivasan earned his Ph.D. in design studies at Harvard; his master’s degree in media arts and science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at Stanford. He has served fellowships in MIT’s Media Laboratory in Cambridge and the MIT Media Lab Asia. He has also been a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Design and Department of Visual and Environmental Design at Harvard.
Srinivasan is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes media appearances on MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, “The Young Turks,” National Geographic, and Public Radio International. His writings have been widely published by Al Jazeera English, CNN, Wired, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Huffington Post.
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Founder and Director, BudgIT
Oluseun Onigbinde is the Director of BudgIT, a civic organization focused on strengthening civic engagement and institutional efficiency in Africa. Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship, Future Africa Awards, Quartz Africa 30 Innovators Award,
Aspen New Voices Fellowship and Melvin Jones Fellowship. He has worked on strengthening health outcomes in African countries under the CTAP project. Oluseun Onigbinde leads a social organization with presence in 958 communities. He received education at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta and was also an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University.
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Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy
Laura Rosenberger is director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Before she joined GMF, she was foreign policy advisor for Hillary for America, where she coordinated development of the campaign’s national security policies, messaging, and strategy. Prior to that, she served in a range of positions at the State Department and the White House’s National Security Council (NSC). As chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and as later, then-Deputy National Security Advisor Blinken’s senior advisor, she counseled on the full range of national security policy. In her role at the NSC, she also managed the interagency Deputies Committee, the U.S. government’s senior-level interagency decision-making forum on our country’s most pressing national security issues.
Laura also has extensive background in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly Northeast Asia. She served as NSC director for China and Korea, managing and coordinating U.S. policy on China and the Korean Peninsula, and in a variety of positions focused on the Asia-Pacific region at the Department of State, including managing U.S.–China relations and addressing North Korea’s nuclear programs. She also served as special assistant to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns, advising him on Asia-Pacific affairs and on nonproliferation and arms control issues. Laura first joined the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow.
She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her master’s degree in international peace and conflict resolution from American University’s School of International Service, and received her bachelors’ degrees with honors from Penn State University’s Schreyer Honors College in sociology, psychology, and women’s studies. She is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and is an avid Steelers fan.
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Director of Digital Research and Development Department, Fundacion Capital
Maria Antonia holds an MA degree in Finance, Government, and International Relations and has six years of experience in Social Entrepreneurship, field work and Information and Communications Technology for Development. She is the current Director of the Digital Research and Development Department of Fundación Capital. Before this position, she co-founded LittleBigMoney, the first social-crowdfunding platform in Colombia promoted by Fundación Capital and developed the expansion strategy of one of the largest Peer to Peer MarketPlace of Latin America Afluenta (Fintech Platform). She is an active Global Shaper and outgoing curator of the Global Shapers Mexico’s Hub. She currently teaches the "Alternative Fundraising and Negotiation" module at the Masters program of Management for Development at (Externado University Colombia) and the "Financial Innovation" module at the Postgraduate Programe - Economy and Management for Inclusion at (UDELAR Uruguay).
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Project Manager & Co-Founder., Ukulima Halisi
Kevin is the Co-founder and Project Manager for Ukulima Halisi- A social venture Project that has revolutionised tea farming in Kenya by adopting notifications and schedule planning between the tea farmers and the different tea factories via mobile phone. Prior to moving to South Africa, He worked for Equity Group Foundation under the Wings to Fly Program, a project that provides full scholarship funding for needy bright students in Kenya.
As the Project Manager for Ukulima Halisi project, Kevin’s mission is to create innovative Information Technology systems that will help streamline agricultural processes in Kenya and enable farmers to make a better living. Kevin is a Research Fellow for Foundation for Innovation and Technology -Africa, an organization that provides consultancy on Innovation Policies and Technology Management in Pretoria.
Kevin is also a MasterCard Foundation Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Pretoria, an Alumni of USAID scholarship in Kenya and alumni of The Common Purpose Future Leader's Experience in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Principal, LCS Global Group
I am the Principal of LCS Global Group. LCS Global Group works with organizations and corporations on governance and compliance challenges, and innovative financing and scaling their businesses and operations successfully.
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Director, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment
Kartik Shanker the Director of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. He is an ecologist with interests in inter-disciplinary research as well as conservation action and outreach. He is on deputation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where he has worked on various aspects of the distribution and diversity of flora and fauna in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, with applications for conservation decision making. He is also a founder trustee of Dakshin Foundation, an NGO which works largely on coastal and marine conservation and livelihoods.
Shanker has worked on the biology and conservation of sea turtles for the last 25 years, and has ongoing projects on olive ridley turtles in Orissa, and leatherback turtles in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He has been involved in initiating national and regional networks for the conservation of sea turtles and their habitats. He has started newsletters and websites and conducted international symposiums on sea turtles. He has also served as President of the International Sea Turtle Society and is Regional Vice-Chair of the IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group. He served as the editor of Conservation and Society for 10 years, is the founding editor of the magazine, Current Conservation. He is the author of the book ‘From Soup to Superstar’, a historical account of sea turtle conservation in India. He is the author of several children’s books, including Lori’s Magical Mystery, Turtle Story and The Adventures of Philautus Frog.
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Convenor, Mission 2020
Christiana Figueres is a world authority on global climate change and was the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC from 2010-2016.
Ms. Figueres is currently Vice-Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, ClimateWorks Board Member, World Bank Climate Leader, Senior Fellow for Conservation International, ACCIONA Board Member, The B Team Leader, WRI Board Member, Economic Council member for the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health, Leadership Council Member for The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and Mission2020 Convenor.
During her tenure at the UNFCCC Ms. Figueres brought together national and sub-national governments, corporations and activists, financial institutions and communities of faith, think tanks and technology providers, NGOs and parliamentarians, to jointly deliver the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, in which 195 sovereign nations agreed on a collaborative path forward to limit future global warming to below 2C. The agreement entered into force in less than a year, breaking the record of the UN. For this achievement Ms. Figueres has been credited with forging a new brand of collaborative diplomacy.
In addition to her remarkable diplomatic achievements over the past 20 years, she served as Director of Renewable Energy in the Americas (REIA) and in 1995 founded the non-profit Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas (CSDA), which she directed for eight years.
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Customer Development & Intrapreneur, Johnson & Johnson
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Poet, Individual
Darius Simpson is an award-winning spoken word artist, writer, proud wearer of crocs, and social justice activist born in Akron, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University. During his time there, as a coach and participant, he led the EMU slam poetry team to consecutive championships at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). He uses poetry as a tool with which to heal, inform, and challenge his audience in their awareness of social, political, and economic oppression.
Darius is featured as a protagonist in the film Finding the Gold Within, a documentary by Karina Epperlein on what it means to be a young black male in America. He has appeared on a wide array of stages and including ABC News (WXYZ-TV), University of Akron's Black Male Summit, TEDxDetroit, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has also been featured in online publications such as Huffington Post, Mic, Odyssey, and Worldstar Hip Hop. His work has been promoted by Hollywood stars such as Ashton Kutcher and Kerry Washington. Darius aims to leave his listeners feeling more equipped and inspired to speak to their own perspectives in any form they feel most drawn to. By intertwining personal narratives of life experience, humor, and historical events, he brings an invaluable and authentic voice to his poetry.
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Former Marketing Communications Manager, Skoll Foundation
Guided by a belief in the power of storytelling to spur meaningful change, Alison served as the Marketing Communications Manager at the Skoll Foundation from 2015-2018. There, she worked to leverage creative content and influencer engagement to help amplify and accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs around the world.
Prior to joining Skoll Alison worked in South Africa, developing marketing and communications for Grassroot Soccer, a leading sport-for-development organization that uses the power of soccer to engage youth in HIV prevention and life skills education. Previously, she served as an account manager at Arnold Worldwide, an advertising agency in NYC.
Alison holds a B.A. in History and Consumer Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently pursuing an MBA at Berkeley Haas School of Business and plans to continue her career in the social sector upon graduation.
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Chief Partnerships Officer, Acumen
Yasmina Zaidman is the Chief Partnerships Officer at Acumen, which works to change the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. She leads its work to engage with corporate partners and institutions that share Acumen’s commitment to tackling poverty. She also spearheaded Acumen’s gender integration work and co-authored the report Women and Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty. She initiated the $22 million Pioneer Energy Investing Initiative with corporate, government and foundation partners.
Ms. Zaidman has worked in international development, corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship for twenty-five years. She is on the board of Cacao de Colombia, a sustainable cocoa enterprise based in Colombia, and KadAfrica, a social enterprise in Uganda that supports women’s livelihoods. She received a BA from Vassar and her MBA from Stanford.
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Vedika Bhandarkar serves as Water.org's senior leader in India, overseeing the organization's strategy, growth and water and sanitation program expansion in the country. She and her team continue to scale WaterCredit in in the country through direct partnerships with financial and non-financial organizations, collaboration with enabling partners and engagement with the Government's Swachh Bharat Mission. Water.org has been working in India for more than 10 years with offices in Chennai and Delhi. Working with the implementing partners, Water.org has helped reach more than 5.8 million people in the country with access to water and/or sanitation.
Vedika brings more than 25 years of experience building teams and businesses with Indian and international financial institutions. Prior to joining Water.org in January 2016, Vedika served as Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Credit Suisse Securities (India) Private Limited from 2010-2015. Previously, she served as the Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan, where she worked from 1998-2010. She began her career at ICICI Bank.
Since early 2015, Vedika has dedicated her time to corporate boards and social enterprise, serving as independent director on several corporate boards, and as a volunteer, fundraiser and board member of the Jai Vakeel Foundation, an institution focused on children and adults with intellectual disability.
She is based in Mumbai with her family.
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Managing Director, Sesame Workshop India
Sonali Khan leads Sesame Workshop’s educational mission in India to create innovative and engaging content that maximises the educational power of all media to help kids grow smarter, stronger and kinder.
As Managing Director of Sesame Workshop India, Sonali spearheads Galli Galli Sim Sim, a multi-platform initiative that combines the power of mass media with educational outreach to prepare children for school and life. Under her leadership, the organisation develops and implements ground breaking programs to reach children everywhere – especially those who need it most.
Sonali is a global advocate for human rights and for ending violence against marginalised communities, with an emphasis on girls and women. Her work has focused on promoting gender equity in education, empowerment of adolescent girls, along with ending domestic violence, sexual harassment and early marriage. She began her career as a television journalist covering politics and business and has since worked for a variety of organisations that harness the power of media for social change.
Prior to Sesame, she was the Director of Knowledge Creation and Dissemination at Dasra, a leading strategic philanthropy foundation, where her work covered areas including urban sanitation, adolescent girls’ rights, and democracy and access to justice. Previously she has also served as the Vice President and then India Country Director for Breakthrough, where she spearheaded large-scale program implementation, numerous multi-platform campaigns promoting gender equity, developed M&E practices and supported global fundraising and partnership development. She also served on the Boards of Plan International and MenEngage.
Sonali is a proud recipient of the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar (Women’s Empowerment Award) from the President of India. In 2016, she also received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for her work in ending child marriage.
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Dr. Shawn MacDonald is CEO of Verité, a civil society organization that promotes workers’ rights in global supply chains through research, consulting, training, assessments, and policy advocacy. Before his appointment as CEO in 2016, Shawn had led Verité’s research, program, and policy work since 2003. Shawn has broad international experience in labor rights, social entrepreneurship, workplace health, and multi-sector partnerships. Before joining Verité, he was Director of Accreditation at the Fair Labor Association; Vice President of Ashoka; Senior Advisor at Meridian Group International; and co-founder of the Development and Employment Policy Project. He also worked for a variety of civil society organizations in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and an AB in History from Harvard University.
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Chairman, Fundacion Futbol con Corazon
Samuel Azout is the Founder and Chairman of “Futbol con Corazon” (www.fcc.futbol), an NGO dedicated to creating safe and peaceful neighborhoods in Colombia by improving life opportunities for children and young adults in underprivileged areas. His work is specifically directed at reducing youth violence, preventing recruitment by illegal forces and promoting gender equality.
Mr. Azout was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1959. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Cornell University (1981) and a degree of Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2007).
Before becoming a social entrepreneur, Samuel held the CEO position at Carulla Vivero S.A., the second largest retailer in Colombia, for 10 years, until he led its sale to Grupo Exito in 2006. He has served a member of the Board of Directors of Almacenes Exito, Bavaria SabMiller, Aerorepublica, Fundacion Colombia and Fundacion Pies Descalzos, the NGO founded by Colombian singer and celebrity Shakira. He also belongs to the Ashoka Support Network (ASN).
In addition, Mr. Azout was the Chairman of the Board of Fundación Carulla for three years and founded Aeiotu (www.aeiotu.org), the largest NGO in Colombia in the field of early childhood development.
Samuel Azout served as Senior Advisor for Social Prosperity to the President of Colombia (2010 -2011) and as Director of the National Agency for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (ANSPE) 2011-2013.
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Co-Chair, Salman and Samina Global Wellness Initiative
www.ssgwi.org
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Executive Director, The ELMA Foundation
Robyn Calder Harawi is the Executive Director of The ELMA Foundation, and board member of The ELMA Philanthropies Services (U.S.) Inc., the services arm of The ELMA Group of Foundations. The ELMA Group of Foundations invests in: healthcare and education for children in Africa; relief for communities across the world affected by humanitarian crises; the growth of social enterprises in Africa; and youth development through music in the United States.
Robyn is a member of the Royal Bank of Canada Philanthropy Advisory Council, Last Mile Health’s Advisory Council, and the board of The END Fund, which focuses on ending neglected tropical diseases.
Robyn has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Development Studies from UC Berkeley.
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Founder & CEO at Kamara Global Group / President at Videre Est Credere, Kamara Global Group
Oren Yakobovich is an experienced social entrepreneur who has been challenging and disrupting unjust systems. He combines traditional knowledge gathering with new technology and cutting-edge tools to shine a light on abuses and hold power to account.
He is founder and CEO of Kamara, a social enterprise that works with human rights and grass-roots organisations, building resilience through holistic security management and strategic investigations with the aimed to protect both the organisations and the social impact investors funding them.
He co-founded Videre Est Credere, an NGO that equips oppressed communities with customised technology to uncover information from places where media can’t or won’t go. Prior to that, he lead the video department at B’Tselem, training hundreds of citizens fighting for justice in the West Bank.
He is an Ashoka Fellow and recipient of the 2016 Skoll Foundation Award and a TED Global Speaker
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CEO, West African Vocational Education
Misan Rewane is co-founder and CEO of WAVE. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Misan is no stranger to the challenges of education and social mobility. When her parents, unable to ignore the education system's breakdown, were compelled to send her to the U.S. for university, she resolved to help transform the region's education system. After graduating from Stanford University, she worked with The Monitor Group, TechnoServe, and the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives. As an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, she partnered with fellow West Africans who were passionate about tackling youth unemployment and launched WAVE in 2013. WAVE tackles youth unemployment by identifying motivated but underserved West African youth, training them on crucial employability skills, and connecting them to entry-level job opportunities. By turning motivated young talent into reliable human capital for local businesses, WAVE inspires positive change in employer attitudes, creating a fairer and more inclusive labour market.
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Founder & CEO, Port of Mokha
Historian, community organizer, and coffee innovator, Mokhtar Alkhanshali envisions a world where industry empowers rather than exploits, uplifts rather than represses.
Following his studies, he worked with some of the most respected civil rights and community organizations including the ACLU and Asian Law Caucus. On several occasions he’s been requested to partner with the city of San Francisco in working on initiatives regarding civil liberties.
In 2013 Mokhtar shifted his focus towards his family’s roots as coffee farmers in Yemen. Seeking to reverse Yemen’s nearly lost art of coffee cultivation, he founded Port of Mokha. Combining his knowledge of specialty coffee production, progressive infrastructure strategy and community organizing, Mokhtar has helped to reverse the declining quality of Yemeni coffee and re-establish it as the one of industries most treasured origins. Best-selling author Dave Eggers’ forthcoming title “The Monk of Mokha” traces Mokhtar’s journey as a social entrepreneur and his harrowing escape from war torn Yemen with his first coffee samples.
Mokhtar can be found amongst his coffee farmers in remote villages or speaking around the world on topics of social entrepreneurship, community development and, of course, coffee.
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Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Mandira Reddy is the Director for Investment Analytics at Capricorn. She joined Capricorn in 2013. Prior to Capricorn, Mandira served in various portfolio management and corporate finance roles at Intel Capital and Intel. Mandira received her M.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and an M.B.A. from T.A. Pai Management Institute in India. Mandira is also a CFA charter holder.
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Founder, Novo Media
Lindsay Branham is an Emmy-nominated film director, PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Cambridge investigating the human-nature relationship, and is the founder of NOVO a social impact production company that inspirits human connection in imaginative ways. She directed Even in the Rain (2018 Venice Film Festival), The Hidden (2018 Tribeca Film Festival), Behind the Fence (2017 SXSW Grand Jury Award, RYOT/AOL) and The Deep Place (2017) about child slavery in Ghana that raised over $1.25M for anti-slavery work. She has also written extensive curriculums to; reduce bonded labor in India, resolve inter-religious violence in Central African Republic, reduce trauma amongst formerly abducted children in the Congo and increase protection of wildlife in the Congo. She is a Cambridge Trust scholar, holds an MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge, and is a graduate of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies in eco-chaplaincy.
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Judy Kibinge is a writer and filmmaker who began her career in advertising. She walks a fine line between fiction and doc. In 2013, she founded DOCUBOX the regions first homegrown film fund which supports a growing community of talented independent filmmakers with funding, workshops, screenings, community space and hugs.
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Founder, CEO, WORLD PULSE
Jensine (Yen-See-Nah) is an unstoppable, award-winning social entrepreneur, international journalist, and speaker who is unlocking the creative potential of women and girls through the power of technology and storytelling. She is the founder of World Pulse, a safe, supportive social network connecting over 80,000 women from 200+ countries and bringing them a greater global voice. Today, women leaders are speaking out, banding together, and speeding up the pace of change through World Pulse. They are building movements, launching businesses, influencing policy, and changing harmful cultural practices — ultimately impacting over 21.6 million lives.
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Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation, Autodesk Foundation
Joe Speicher is the Executive Director of the Autodesk Foundation – supporting the innovators and entrepreneurs tackling the world’s most pressing challenges through design and engineering. Prior to joining Autodesk, Speicher was on the founding team of Living Goods, where he spent six years leading operations for the global health organization. He began his career in the banking and finance sector, working with Deutsche Bank and Cambridge Associates. He then spent three years in the Peace Corps in the Philippines and has worked as a consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Bank, and Google.org. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University and holds a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University.
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CEO, Common Pool
Jaison Morgan is the CEO of Common Pool (www.commonpool.org), an agency that funds social enterprises through an open, transparent, and fair process of granting awards, prizes, fellowships, and other forms of incentive-based programs. In 2017, Common Pool was responsible for facilitating over $200 million in total resources to registrants around the world. Jaison Morgan has been recognized by the BBC as "the world's expert" in designing prizes to drive innovative breakthroughs. He helped establish a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 to study how targeted rewards can be used to induce new approaches to engineering challenges. He has served as an Advisor to the Office of the First Minister of Scotland, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the government of the United Arab Emirates, and many multi-national interests to counsel their use of challenge competitions for solving large-scale public problems. Jaison completed graduate studies at the University of Chicago and is a frequent lecturer on the subject of incentive engineering (https://youtu.be/NyOaoIcCeMY).
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Gary Gottlieb is CEO of Partners In Health, a global NGO providing a preferential option for the poor in health care in severely resource constrained settings. He assumed this role after serving on the PIH Board of Directors for a decade. He is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2012-2016 and as its chair from 2016-2018.
From 2010 until February of 2015, Dr. Gottlieb served as CEO of Partners HealthCare, the parent of the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, the largest health care delivery organization in New England and among the largest biomedical research and training enterprises in the US. From 2002-2009, he was president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also served as President of North Shore Medical Center and as Chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health System.
Prior to coming to Boston, Dr. Gottlieb spent 15 years in positions of increasing leadership in health care in Philadelphia. He established the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center’s first program in geriatric psychiatry and developed it into a nationally recognized research, training, and clinical program. He served as executive vice-chair of psychiatry and associate dean for managed care at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and as director and CEO of Friends Hospital, the nation’s first freestanding psychiatric hospital.
Dr. Gottlieb received a B.Sc. cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.D. from Albany Medical College in a six-year accelerated program and he completed a psychiatry residency at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center. As a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn, he earned an M.B.A. with distinction from Wharton.
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Frank has more than 30 years of experience in the global health community which includes significant achievements in global HIV prevention, care and treatment, research, and policy. He joined mothers2mothers (m2m) in 2012 as its President and Chief Executive Officer and leads a team of nearly 3,000 people on three continents delivering health, hope, and an HIV-free future in 10 sub-Saharan African nations. In addition to directing m2m’s strategy and innovation processes, engaging with donors and partners, and working closely with the organisation’s Boards of Directors and Trustees, Frank is a frequent speaker at health conferences and thought-leadership gatherings worldwide. Before joining m2m, he was the Sr. Vice President and Director of the Global Health, Population, and Nutrition Group at AED/FHI 360, where he was in charge of a portfolio spanning HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment; malaria; infectious diseases; nutrition and food security; WASH; and RMNCH.
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Senior Director, APCO Worldwide
Denielle Sachs is the senior director and global head of APCO Impact, the social impact and sustainability group within APCO Worldwide that focuses on climate and sustainability, racial and gender justice, philanthropy, as well as helping companies embed purpose, CSR and ESG in their business strategies. Ms. Sachs joined APCO in 2020, when the firm she founded, The Tembo Group, was acquired and has since overseen the acquisition of LA-based firm, Global Philanthropy Group. Previously, she spent eight years as the director of social impact for McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, she helped build the Social Sector Practice, as well as architected and led the firm’s first-ever global corporate citizenship strategy, including the creation of the Firm’s 501(c)(3), now McKinsey.org. She holds a Master of Arts in International Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University.
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Senior Advisor to the Initiative to Smallholder Finance, Global Development Incubator
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Faculty Director, CASE at Duke, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Cathy Clark is Faculty Director at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Founding Director of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. Cathy is globally recognized as a collaborative visionary and pioneering influencer in the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. She has been named a B the Change Champion, Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year in 2020 by the World Economic Forum, and one of the 2021 Agents of Impact by Impact Alpha. She has written hundreds of blogs, case studies and papers, co-authored a book called The Impact Investor, and has created two online courses reaching over 50,000 global learners. Previously, Cathy was an investor at Flatiron Partners, a philanthropist at the Markle Foundation, and policy convener at the Aspen Institute. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA from the University of Virginia.
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BRYAN STEVENSON is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as adults. EJI recently won an historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger are unconstitutional. Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, and has been awarded 29 honorary doctorate degrees. He is the author of award winning and New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy. In 2015, he was named to the Time 100 recognizing the world’s most influential people. He was named in Fortune’s 2016 and 2017 World’s Greatest Leaders list.
In 2018, EJI will open a new museum called “The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration” built on the site of a former slave warehouse in downtown Montgomery Alabama. This will be a companion to a national memorial to victims of lynching called “The National Memorial for Peace and Justice” which will also open in 2018.
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Alasdair is a marine conservationist working at the interface of ocean protection and environmental justice. His organisation Blue Ventures develops locally led approaches to rebuild fisheries and restore ocean life.
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Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 60 countries across every region of the world that are working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America. She led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University as well as honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Wise Prize for Education and the Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.
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VERA CORDEIRO
FOUNDER AND CHAIRWOMAN OF THE BOARD
Doctor Vera received her MD as a general practitioner in 1975 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). From 1978 to 1998, she worked at the Hospital da Lagoa founding in 1979 the Psychosomatic Department.
In 1991, she founded Dara Institute (ex Associação Saúde Criança), a social organization that uses a pioneering methodology to promote the well-being of socially vulnerable families, with long-term results, proven by researchers at Georgetown University in 2013.
Dara Institute was elected by NGO Advisor in 2021 the best social organization of Latin American and the 20th best of the world.
Dr. Vera is an Ashoka fellow, a Skoll Foundation awardee, Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur, an Avina leader, a member of the World Council of Ashoka, and from 2005-2011 a Board member of PATH: A Catalyst for Global Health.
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Laureate of the first edition of the Yidan Prize for Education Development (2017) and 2013 WISE Prize for Education Laureate, Vicky Colbert is founder and director of Fundación Escuela Nueva.
Colbert is a Sociologist from Javeriana University in Colombia and pursued her graduate studies in Sociology of Education at Stanford University in the United States. In 2015, the American University of Nigeria distinguished her with an Honoris Causa Doctorate in Philosophy.
She is co-author of the worldwide renowned Escuela Nueva model and was its first National Coordinator. Colbert has pioneered, expanded and sustained this educational innovation from many organizational spheres: as Viceminister of Education of Colombia, UNICEF´s Education Adviser for LAC and now from Fundación Escuela Nueva (FEN), an NGO she founded to ensure its quality, sustainability and innovation.
She has been recognized with several awards and distinctions in the fields of leadership and social entrepreneurship, such as the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Clinton Global Citizenship Award and the Kravis Prize. She has also been recognized as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation, Ashoka and the World Technology Network.
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Campaigns Director, Honor the Earth
Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, the Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She spent six months on the frontlines fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is currently engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline. She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a non-profit committed to eradicating Native stereotyping.
She has given a TED talk, a keynote at Harvard, received an “Awesome Women Award” from Melinda Gates, and was named an “Icon” on the cover of Outside Magazine’s 40th Anniversary edition. Tara has contributed to the Guardian, Huffington Post, Indian Country Today and been featured on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Democracy Now, and BBC.
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Principal, SEM Strategies
Susan has served as Strategic Advisor to Goal 17 Partners, a non-profit organization that provides a platform for private-private collaboration toward sustainability, equality and accessibility since January 2020. She also serves as an adviser to the UN World Food Programme and a social impact firm, 196, where she advises corporate clients on their strategies on the Sustainable Development Goals and multilateral engagement. Susan’s current work builds on a 20-year long tenure working with the UN and the global policy-making community, most recently as Senior Vice President of the UN Foundation where she managed the organization’s unique relationship with the UN and led its presence in New York. Susan has worked with leaders from the UN, government, business, civil society and academia, brokering partnerships and building efforts to drive progress on global development and the SDGs. She is also active in her local community as a Board Member of Community Lifestyle in Hoboken, NJ.
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Sue Riddlestone OBE is CEO and co-founder of Bioregional, and a 2009 Skoll awardee. Sue and the team work with partners to create homes, communities and products and services which enable us to live well within a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. Bioregional are behind many exemplary residential communities, including the iconic BedZED eco-village in London, and Bicester eco-town in Oxford.
To scale their work, Bioregional systematised their approach to create a sustainability framework called One Planet Living, used in over $30billion of real-estate development, as well as by municipalities, cities, organisations and companies around the world from Mexico to China, the USA and Australia.
Sue draws on this to influence policy and industry practice from zero carbon to eco-towns and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2013 Sue was awarded one of the UK’s highest honours, an OBE, for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Executive Chair, Eneza Education
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Professor of Economic Policy, Blavatnik School of Government
Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
Between 2011 and 2017, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID), the government department in charge with the UK’s aid policy and spending. In this position, he provided strategic advice, and was responsible for ensuring the use of evidence in decision making.
Before joining the University of Oxford, he held positions at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the Catholic University of Leuven, and WIDER (Helsinki), part of the United Nations University.
His research interests concern what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa, and how to achieve change. Current research work focuses on the psychological challenges of poverty, the political economy of development, the challenges of industrialisation in Africa, the challenges and opportunities of new technologies, and how to organise and finance responses to natural disasters and protracted humanitarian crises.
His latest book, “Dull Disasters? How Planning Ahead Will Make A Difference” was published in 2016, and provides a blueprint for renewed application of science, improved decision making, better preparedness, and pre-arranged finance in the face of natural disasters.
He is a Fellow of BREAD, a Research Fellow of CEPR and of IZA, and an Affiliate of J-PAL He studied economics and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and holds an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
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Sohini became Breakthrough’s second President and CEO in July 2017 and helmed the global organisation through a crucial founder transition for the first 3 years. As the CEO, of Breakthrough, she brings to her new role deep knowledge of and commitment to feminist issues. Sohini has worked in the development sector for more than thirty years. She worked with Ashoka Innovators for the Public to raise awareness of social entrepreneurship across India and ramp up its operations in the country; co-founded the Sanhita Gender Resource Centre and worked with indigenous artisans across India. Sohini is one of the founding members of the Coalition for Good Schools, a coalition of practitioners and influencers committed to delivering access to a safe learning environment for all children across the Global South. She is also the trustee of Read India, an organisation that sets up Community Library and Resource Centers (READ CLRC) by partnering with rural communities across India.
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Unknown, Individual
Sean Hinton is a senior investment and strategy executive, advisor and company director with over 25-years’ experience of leading growth, globalisation and social impact.
From 2015 - 2022 Sean was the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and Director of the Economic Justice Program at the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest private foundations. Prior to this, he was a Principal at Terbish Partners, which he founded in 2007 to provide strategic advisory services on China, Mongolia, and Africa and the social and economic impact of large-scale extractive investments. In this capacity he was a long-term senior advisor to Goldman Sachs (Asia) and the Rio Tinto group. His other roles included: Chairman of the Board of Global Access Health, a social enterprise that works to expand access to affordable state-of-the-art medical technology, Deputy Chairman of SouthGobi Resources; Special Advisor to the CEO of SOHO China; and Chairman of China Networks.
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Sarah Borgman is an Advisor to the Skoll Foundation. She was recently Vice President, Convenings & Community, where she had executive oversight for the Skoll Community of Awardees and Skoll’s high-profile platforms that accelerate entrepreneurial approaches to the world’s most pressing problems. As part of her responsibilities, she oversaw the Skoll World Forum, the premiere 1,200-person, week-long convening at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, U.K.
Sarah has more than 25 years of executive and general management experience, with a focus on marketing, communications and convening experience in the public, private and government sectors. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, she served as the VP of Communications at the X PRIZE, the VP of Communications at the Prostate Cancer Foundation and a VP at Porter Novelli where she directed numerous entertainment, Fortune 100 and advocacy accounts. Sarah also worked for the Clinton Administration as the director of marketing for the Peace Corps and also served as a communications officer at the National School-to-Work Office at the U.S. Department of Education.
Early in her career, Sarah gained significant broadcast experience as a weekly panelist on a national public affairs television show and has served as a spokesperson for several federal departments and non-profit organizations. She has participated in various speaking/ moderating/ steering committee roles in prominent organizations and gatherings such as the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Global Leadership Network Action Forum, Opportunity Collaboration, Independent Sector, BSR, Wellbeing Project, among others. She is trained in the IFTF’s Foresight Programming Method and in the Aspen Institute’s intensive Moderator Program.
Sarah started her career as part of the communications team for Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) and earned a BA in political science and international relations from Boston College. She is currently enrolled in graduate school at Denver Seminary. In her off-time, she and her husband try to stay ahead of her 11-year-old daughter and twin, seven-year-old boys.
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Rupert Howes has served as CEO of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) since October 2004. Prior to joining the MSC, Rupert worked with Forum for the Future, an influential UK-based sustainable development organization and had previous roles with the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
Rupert has been internationally recognized for his work to promote sustainable fishing practices. In 2014, Rupert was awarded a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Award, In 2009, he received the WWF 'Leaders for a Living Planet” Award, which recognizes individuals who make a significant personal contribution to the conservation of the natural world and sustainable development. He also received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007. Rupert is also a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW).
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Rukmini Banerji is Chief Executive Officer of Pratham Education Foundation. She
has extensive field experience working directly with rural and urban communities as well as in designing and implementing large scale partnerships with governments for improving learning of elementary school age children. From 2005 to 2014, she led Pratham’s research and assessment efforts including the well-known ASER initiative (Annual Status of Education Report). Rukmini is the 2021 recipient of the Yidan Prize for education development.
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Director, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations
Since January 2016, Peggy Hicks has served as director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division of the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). She provides strategic direction to the UN Human Rights Office’s work on a broad range of pressing human rights issues, including human rights in the digital age and expanding civic space. From 2005 to 2015, she was global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, where she was responsible for managing Human Rights Watch’s advocacy team and providing direction to its advocacy worldwide. Ms. Hicks previously served as the director of the Office of Returns and Communities in the UN mission in Kosovo and as Deputy High Representative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has also worked as the Director of Programs for the International Human Rights Law Group, and as clinical professor of human rights and refugee law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Ms. Hicks is a graduate of Columbia Law School and the University of Michigan.
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CEO, Tony Elumelu Foundation
Parminder is a story teller who has devoted her working life to a passionate pursuit of presenting the truth from places that are not recognised or seen. She takes a vision and makes it a reality through sound strategy development. She intuitively sees the threads of opportunity and brings them together into a coherent whole.
Currently, as CEO at the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading philanthropic organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria, she oversees the strategic development and implementation of its key programmes. She joined the Foundation in April 2014 to help design, develop and implement one of the most ambitious entrepreneurship programmes on the continent - the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, a 10-year, $100 million commitment to identify, train, mentor, and fund 10,000 entrepreneurs from across the continent. Under her leadership, the Foundation has cemented its role as principal advocate for African entrepreneurs both on the continent and globally and empowered thousands on their path to economic and social transformation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Parminder has enjoyed a distinguished career as an awarding winning film and television producer; private equity investor in film and media, and founder of three successful media and consultancy companies. She has served as a Board Director on UK India Business Council, Department for Culture Media and Sports, the UK Film Council, and The Indus Entrepreneurs UK. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to the Broadcasting and Film industry in 2002.
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Founder and Executive Director, Canopy
Nicole leads the strategic direction of award winning environmental not-for-profit, Canopy. For the past 23 years, Nicole and her team have worked successfully to conserve the world’s forests by transforming unsustainable global supply chains, catalyzing innovative solutions to market, and greening the purchasing practices of more than 900+ large companies, including Walmart, H&M, Zara/Inditex, Amazon and Penguin Random House. Nicole is focused on transforming "take, make, waste" packaging, paper and fashion supply chains by spurring the commercial production of low-impact Next Gen alternatives with a focus on mobilizing market pull-through, scaling levels of investment, and enabling policy.
Nicole is an Ashoka Fellow, a member of the UBS Global Visionaries Program, Meritorious Service Cross of Canada recipient, and a winner of the 2020 Climate Breakthrough Award.
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Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Dr Tapela is a physician, public health researcher and global health advocate passionate about reducing reducing premature and avoidable deaths of those most vulnerable in the world. She is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health, focusing research on understanding burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa, and developing innovative patient-centered solutions to healthcare service delivery. Her research is informed by multi-disciplinary, hands-on experience in the public, non-profit, and academic sectors. She has served as special advisor on NCDs to the Rwanda Ministry of Health, as Director of NCDs Program with Partners In Health-Rwanda, and most recently led the National NCDs Program in the Ministry of Health and Wellness of her home country Botswana. Dr Tapela trained at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. She maintains appointments as Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Research Associate at Botswana Harvard Partnership. Her work as a global health innovator has been recognized in her selection as Aspen New Voices Fellow and an African Cancer Leaders Institute Awardee.
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please use previous bio that i have submitted to skoll for the forum
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Managing Director, Programs, Nia Tero Foundation
Physician, attorney and health policy advocate, Michael is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He works tirelessly scouring the nation and the world looking for ideas and innovation that will help build a better, just and healthier future for all on a rapidly warming planet. In 2003-2004, Michael was an RWJF Health Policy Fellow with Senator William Frist, MD, then Majority Leader where he was the Senator’s lead staff person for “Closing the Health Care Gap Act” (S2091). Prior to that, Michael was an attending physician and the chief of medical staff at the Seattle Indian Health Board, a community health center serving urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. Michael holds a JD from Stanford Law School and an MD from the University of Washington.
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Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs. (SIPA). Retired in 2019 from Citigroup as its global head. of environmental. finance. Previously, was the founder and President of the American Council. on Renewable Energy. (ACORE) and the SolarBank Initiative in Europe, India and Africa. Earlier, was CEO of United Power Systems, partner at. Arete Ventures, manager f strategic planning at General Electric Company, and aa Principal at. Booz. Allen & Hamilton.
Mr. Eckhart earned a BSEE from. Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and served in the US Navy Submarine Service.
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Founder and Managing Partner, Savannah Fund
Mbwana Alliy is the founder and managing partner at Savannah Fund, an Africa focused Technology Venture Capital fund that runs both an accelerator and seedinvestments in e-commerce, gaming, education technology and social networking.
He is passionate about product development and launching new ventures in technology. He is an experienced Product Manager within consumer web, enterprise Software & SaaS. He is originally from Tanzania and has lived and worked in 3 continents (USA, Europe and Africa). He has a Bachelor's Engineering degree from Bristol University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate school of Business.
As of 2017, he has overseen 26 investments in Africa in 6 countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe Nigeria and Ghana). These companies, most less than 2 years old have generated over 200 full time jobs and raised over $50 Million in venture financing. Savannah Fund is headquartered in Mauritius with Offices in Tanzania and Kenya and satellite offices in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Kigali and Lagos.
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Co-Founder / Co-Director, Justice & Empowerment Initiatives
Megan' vision for JEI’s blend of legal empowerment and community mobilization was born in rural Cameroon and refined in South Africa’s townships, before it took root in Nigeria where she has worked since 2011. With a wide variety of international and domestic human rights and development organizations, Megan has helped to build community-based paralegal programs and supported strategic human rights litigation in Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Nigeria, she is seeking sustainable ways to bring skills and resources directly to urban poor communities. Megan holds a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law (summa cum laude), where she was a Public Interest/Public Service scholar and the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Brief. She holds a B.A. in history from University of Chicago (high distinction).
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President, Ending Pandemics
Mark Smolinski, MD, MPH, brings 25 years of experience in applying innovative solutions to improve disease prevention, response, and control across the globe. Mark is leading a well-knit team—bringing together technologists; human, animal, and environmental health experts; and key community stakeholders to co-create tools for early detection, advanced warning, and prevention of pandemic threats. Community health workers, village volunteers, farmers, and interested public citizens in Albania, Brazil, Cambodia, Europe, Laos, Myanmar, Tanzania, Thailand, and the United States are among those using their own solutions to address pressing local needs. Since 2009, Mark has served as the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Global Health at the Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF), where he developed the Ending Pandemics in Our Lifetime Initiative in 2012. His work at SGTF created a solid foundation for the work of Ending Pandemics, which branched out as an independent entity on January 1, 2018.
Prior to SGTF, Mark developed the Predict and Prevent Initiative at Google.org, as part of the starting team at Google’s philanthropic arm. Working with a team of engineers, Google Flu Trends (a project that had tremendous impact on the use of big data for disease surveillance) was created in partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Mark has served as Vice President for Biological Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a public charity directed by CNN founder Ted Turner and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. Before NTI, he led an 18-member expert committee of the National Academy of Medicine on the 2003 landmark report “Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response.” Mark served as the sixth Luther Terry Fellow in Washington, D.C., in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Managing Director, Wilstar Social Impact
Marcus is the Managing Director of Wilstar the non-profit social impact investing arm of Aweco AS a Norwegian asset management company owned by the Arne Wilhelmsen family. His work there has focused on financing social entrepreneurs and assisting them in a sustainable change to create a better world. With a proven ability to oversee major philanthropic and social impact investment operations, He has a passion for social and environmental impact, climate change advisory, and social advocacy tactics. Marcus has also worked, together with Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership to engage understanding around climate challenges and innovative solutions for a better world.
Marcus is also one of the worlds leading documentary photographers and a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. He uses his work to influence decision-makers and policymakers around the world. His work on Human Rights and Conflict has been shown at the US Senate, The US House of Representatives, The United Nations and the Houses of Parliament in the UK and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Director, Hilton Humanitarian Prize, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Maggie Miller oversees all aspects of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, from the nomination and evaluation process to the final selection of recipients by an independent international panel of jurors. She also leads the planning and execution of the annual humanitarian symposium and accompanying ceremony honoring the new Prize recipient. Prior to joining the Foundation, Miller spent nearly a decade in public relations managing and executing programs for clients including the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Uncle Ben’s® Rice, Seeds of Change, Mattel, The Broad Foundation, Skirball Cultural Center, the Los Angeles Business Council, First 5 California and the Los Angeles Unified School District. Miller also worked at the Milken Family Foundation, where she led national media campaigns and managed programs for Milken Scholars and the Foundation’s Festival for Youth community service initiative. She received a Public Relations Society of America–Los Angeles Prism Award in the category of one-time media/special event for work on the Noah’s Ark exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center in 2007, and a Crystal Award of Excellence in the category of publicity/television placement for work on behalf of the Milken Family Foundation’s National Notifications in 2004. In 2019, Miller received the 40 Under 40 Award from Empowerment Congress, California Policy & Research Initiative. She graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
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Managing Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Lisa is the Managing Partner for the Imago Dei Fund based in Boston, MA. Lisa has worked in the social sector for over two decades in a variety of roles. She began her career in education and psychology as a professor at Boston College. Her research there was focused on agency and self-efficacy in youth at the intersection of racial and gender identity. Realizing how much she enjoyed working with youth and being more directly engaged with schools, Lisa decided to leave academia to manage a federally funded college access and success program for the Boston Public Schools (GEAR-UP). As her eclectic trajectory evolved, Lisa stepped into organization leadership positions focused on evaluation and assessment, risk management, research and strategy development.
Prior to joining the Imago Dei Fund (IDF) in 2018 as its Managing Partner, Lisa served as the Vice President for Research at The Center for Effective Philanthropy, and the Managing Partner for Portfolio Investments at New Profit, Inc. Both of these experiences shaped her perspective on philanthropy providing a solid foundation for her to step into her role at IDF.
Lisa serves on several boards including College Advising Corps, SPARK Microgrants, My Life My Choice, Boston Schools Fund, Compass Working Capital, and New England International Donors (NEID). She is also a former elected member of the Brookline School Committee. Lisa has a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Psychology from Howard University.
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Lesley Marincola is the Founder and CEO of Angaza. Angaza's Pay-As-You-Go technology platform enables businesses in emerging markets to extend flexible solar payment plans to the billion individuals without access to grid electricity. A product designer (B.S.) and mechanical engineer (M.S.) from Stanford University, Lesley has also worked as a design engineer on the Amazon Kindle team, and at Bay Area design consultancy D2M Inc., with clients including DirecTV, Genentech, Qualcomm, and Volkswagen. Lesley is a Tech Awards Laureate, in recognition of Angaza’s Pay-As-You-Go technology, was named a Forbes "30 Under 30" Entrepreneur, and is an Echoing Green Fellow. Lesley’s vision is to solve the world’s most widespread problems – like energy access – with market-driven technology innovation developed with a human-centered design approach.
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Social Impact @ Oculus, Oculus
Lauren leads the VR for Good Program at Oculus, focused on driving efforts on social good content in virtual reality as well as developing external projects bringing together creatives, developers and nonprofits to deliver impactful experiences. She holds an MA in Development Economics from University of Queensland and her BA from Franklin and Marshall College
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CEO and Co-founder, Shining Hope for Communities
Kennedy is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. He grew up in Kenya's Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty first hand. At age ten he became a street child. Still, he dreamed about changing his community. In 2004, he had a job in a factory earning $1 for ten hours of work. He saved 20 cents and used this to buy a soccer ball and start Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of the people of Kibera, SHOFCO became the largest grassroots organization in the slum. Today, SHOFCO impacts over 300,000 slum dwellers across 10 urban slums in Kenya, and is the largest employer in Kibera. In 2018, SHOFCO became the youngest-ever organization to receive the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian prize awarded to nonprofits that have made extraordinary contributions to alleviate human suffering. Although he was entirely informally educated, Kennedy received a full scholarship to Wesleyan University, becoming one of Kibera’s first to receive an education from an American liberal arts institution. He graduated in 2012 as the Commencement Speaker and with honors in Sociology. He later served on the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. He was awarded the 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship, which is given to the world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs. He was named to FORBES "30 under 30 list" for top Social Entrepreneurs in 2014. He is a New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid: Love, Hope, and Loss in an African Slum, co-written with his wife and partner, Jessica Posner Odede. He has published opinion articles on urban poverty in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Project Syndicate. He previously served on the United Nations International Commission on Financing of Global Education Opportunities. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a UBS Global Visionary.
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Jennifer Pahlka works on making government work for people in the digital age. She is the founder and former executive director of Code for America and served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. She also co-founded United States Digital Response, which helps government respond to the Covid-19 crisis with volunteer tech support. She was named by Wired as one of the 25 people who has most shaped the past 25 years. She served on the Defense Innovation Board for four years. Her book Recoding America comes out in June 2023. Jennifer is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, California.
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Jo is Head of PR in the Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) Global Communications & Marketing Team. Jo oversees global PR, digital content and social media for the MSC, managing a team of four and coordinating activity across more than 15 countries. This is an often challenging role, requiring a thorough understanding of science, politics and complex stakeholder dynamics. Jo's genuine passion for her work and environmental conservation motivates those she works with to develop and deliver joint initiates. Jo has transformed the way the MSC responds to criticism, centralizing and coordinating responses to challenges from media and stakeholders. She has overseen the redevelopment of the MSC's flagship annual report, been instrumental in transforming the MSC's website and initiated new projects and services including story telling, monitoring and evaluation and agency recruitment. Jo's work has increased the efficiency, visibility and impact of communications within the MSC, helping to drive change within the seafood industry in order to protect environments and livelihoods. Leadership, establishing effective relationships and an eye for detail have been essential to Jo's success in delivering beyond her responsibilities. She has gained the trust, confidence and support of colleagues at all levels within the organization, including the Executive and Board.
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Founder & CEO, Hello Tractor
Jehiel Oliver is the founder and CEO of Hello Tractor, an agricultural technology company that connects tractor owners with smallholder farmers in need of tractor services. At Hello Tractor, Jehiel is responsible for overall management and strategy. He has been honored with numerous awards for his work in social entrepreneurship including being recognized by Foreign Policy Magazine as a Top 100 Global Thinker for 2016. He was appointed under the Obama Administration to serve two years as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, where he most recently chaired the technology subcommittee. Prior to Hello Tractor, Jehiel worked in consulting and investment banking. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Co-Founder and Advisor,
B LabJay Coen Gilbert is founding CEO of Imperative 21, a global network building narrative power for a just economy. I21 believes the imperative of the 21st century is to reimagine and redesign our economic system so that its purpose is to maximize wellbeing, not profit. I21 builds on Jay’s experience as cofounder of B Lab, the nonprofit behind the B Corporation movement, with 6,000 companies across 80 countries. Along with his B Lab cofounders, Jay received the UMKC Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the McNulty Prize at the Aspen Institute. Since 2016, Jay has been called into antiracism work, recently co-founding an antiracist community of practice called White Men for Racial Justice. Prior, Jay co-founded AND 1, a $250M basketball footwear, apparel, and entertainment company, and subject of documentaries on Netflix and ESPN. Jay grew up in NYC and graduated from Stanford University.
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Co-Founder, Turn.io
Gustav Praekelt is a founder based in Africa. He builds and supports organisations that use technology to empower people.
In 2003, he founded Praekelt Consulting, (now Helm Africa), a for-profit designing digital products and services to help Africa’s biggest brands turn complex customer journeys into simple experiences.
His belief in the power of mobile phones to transform lives inspired him to establish the Praekelt Foundation in 2006 - which imagines a world in which personal, uninterrupted healthcare is available to everyone. Praekelt.org (Now Reach Digital Health) has been at the forefront of digital health, being involved involved in the early use of mobile technology in HIV treatment, Maternal and Child health and more recently, helping governments and iNGOS respond to the COVID pandemic in the global south.
In 2018, Gustav established Turn.io, a platform that enables social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations to improve lives at global scale.
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Journalist, Author
One of the Turkey’s best known novelists and political commentators who also have been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, Newstatesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. She lived in several countries such as Lebanon, Tunisia, Paris and Oxford to write her novels. She was a visiting fellow in Saint Anthony’s College, University of Oxford. Her recent novels “Banana Sounds”, “Women Who Blow On Knots” and “The Time of Mute Swans” are published in several languages. During her twenty years of journalism, before she lost her job due to the political oppression in Turkey, she has been “the most read writer” for several times. She has been rated as “the one of the 10 most influential people in social media” for two times. She gave the “Freedom Lecture” as a guest of Amnesty International and Prince Claus Foundation. Among many other places she gave speeches at Oxford, London School of Economics, Harvard University and House of Commons in British Parliament. She recently appeared on BBC’s Hard Talk and Imagining The New Truth series. She divides her time between Istanbul and Zagreb.
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CEO & Publisher, Global Press Institute
Cristi Hegranes is the CEO of Global Press and the Publisher of Global Press Journal.
Cristi founded Global Press in 2006 to create a new form of ethical, accurate global news. Her values-driven approach to journalism prioritizes dignity, diversity and transparency.
In her role as CEO and Publisher, Cristi leads the business side of the organization, which is committed to keeping editorial processes 100 percent independent. Cristi is an expert in local journalist security. She created the industry-leading Global Press Duty of Care program to provide for the physical, emotional, digital and legal security of its journalists. The program establishes best practice for care of local journalists in challenging markets.
Previously, she had a successful career as a journalist for Village Voice Media in New York and San Francisco. She has a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Cristi served as a fellow-in-residence at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida and has taught courses in entrepreneurship and journalism at San Francisco State University and California State University. Cristi was the Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University in 2017.
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Contributor, Credibility Coalition; NewsFrames Director, Global Voices
Connie's current two roles allow her to address the challenges of perspectives and misinformation around news quality. First, as Director of the NewsFrames Initiative at Global Voices (https://newsframes.globalvoices.org), she is leading the development of resources and software for collaborative media analysis that includes datasets for trends in media framing. Second, as a Contributor to the Credibility Coalition, she participates in the development of an indicator schema for reliable information and the testing of application in news articles.
Overall, Dr. Sehat's work has focused on the intersections of computing and democratic life, whether dissertating in German history, developing International Space Station software, or working on projects like the bibliographic Zotero (zotero.org), the New Orleans Research Collaborative (nolaresearch.org), and ELMO (election monitoring and more at getelmo.org). Previously, she has worked for The Carter Center, Emory University, and The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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Caroline has worked in the technology sector for over 15 years. At Living Goods, Caroline is responsible for strategy development, implementation, scaling and replication of sustainable technologies and innovations that respond to some of the most pressing challenges facing children and women in the developing world. Most recently she worked with one of the largest public health organisation in Africa, where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the organisations eHealth programmes to include eLearning and mHealth across sub-Saharan Africa. She has extensive experience in driving large-scale mHealth deployments in multiple geographies, initiating learning opportunities to better inform ICT4D programs and policies, testing technologies and integration, and developing new business opportunities through public-private partnerships in emerging markets. Caroline has served as a trusted advisor to various African governments in designing and implementing digital solutions for health and education.
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Co-Founder, CEO, Nature for Nature
Biruk Girma is passionate entrepreneur who found sumuni D.D and match making platform to help startups in a developing countries get access to investment opportunities from around the world.
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Executive Chairman, Wanda Organic
Nick lived in Kenya since 1982, working actively for economic equity and social justice in Africa. In 1991 he co-founded - and until June 2012 directed - the award-winning not-for-profit social enterprise KickStart International, (www.kickstart.org). KickStart designs and promotes productivity-enhancing technologies for smallholder farmers in Africa. In recognition of this work Nick was awarded the SASE in 2004.
Since January 2012 Nick was the Executive Chairman of Wanda Agriculture, a growing for-profit social enterprise (founded by his daughter Marion Atieno Moon) that brings the latest bio-organic soil and plant health solutions to African farmers, essential for sustainable agriculture and for climate change adaptation and mitigation. www.wandaagriculture.org
In July 2017 Nick took up a part-time position as Program Director for Orkidstudio LLC, a specialized ‘architectural design and build’ enterprise, that champions gender equality in the construction sector in Africa. www.orkidstudio.org
Additionally Nick was actively involved with two other initiatives that promote social and economic development.
• Peace building, enterprise development, and job creation for youth, with ONGOZA (formerly ‘Peace for Africa & Economic Development’), founded in 2008 by Eddy Gicheru Oketch in the wake of Kenya’s deeply troublesome period of violent civil unrest following hotly contested elections. Nick is currently chairman of the Board of this young and growing organization. www.ongozayouth.org.
• The professionalization of the performing arts in Kenya - with the Theatre Company, founded by Keith Pearson and Mumbi Kaigwa (www.theatrecompany.net)
The Skoll Foundation deeply mourns the loss of Nick Moon who passed away in 2018.
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Chief Everything Officer, Sphaera
Dr. Astrid J. Scholz is a co-founder of Zebras Unite (https://zebrasunite.coop), a growing global cooperative of founders, investors, and allies who are creating a more ethical, inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable approach to building businesses. She leads Zebras Unite’s capital team. Astrid is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Sphaera (https://sphaera.world), a system design and technology firm dedicated to co-creating global, distributed, democratic infrastructure for mobilizing data, innovations, and capital to solve today’s wicked problems (see https://trillions.global). Astrid was previously President of Ecotrust, a conservation-based development organization with $150M in assets under management. She holds degrees from the Universities of St. Andrews, Bristol, and California at Berkeley.
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Executive Director, Social Finance, The British Asian Trust
Abha leads the British Asian Trust's Social Finance work across South Asia. She is a founding member of the British Asian Trust, contributing to its design and leadership during the start-up years and now to its ongoing growth. She has led pioneering social finance work with Government(s), private and not-for-profit partners that tackle complex development challenges including the improvement of education and gender outcomes in South Asia. In recognition of work in this area, Abha was a Fellow of Practice 2020 and 2021 at the Go Labs, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
A recognised expert in her field, she is a co-chair of Taskforce 9 on Global Cooperation for SDGs Financing as part of Think20, the official engagement group of the G20 bringing together leading think tanks and research centres worldwide and is a member of the Asian Impact Leaders Network hosted by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network.
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Founder, Enduring Ventures, Inc
Founder, Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company. Founder/Chairman Better World Books, $70 Million revenue profitable e-commerce business, 10 million customers.
Founding CEO, Zola Electric. Leading Solar Company in Africa. 1 million users, $100MM+ equity raised.
Oxford Skoll Scholar 2011.
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Executive Director, Rainier Valley Corps
Vu Le writes the blog NonprofitAF.com (formerly NonprofiWithBalls.com) and is the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a Seattle nonprofit that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. He has a BA in Psychology and a Master in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.
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CEO, Simprints
Toby Norman is the CEO of Simprints, a nonprofit tech company with a mission to increase transparency and effectiveness in global development. Simprints build inclusive digital ID powered by biometrics to ensure that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most. Studies have shown Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. Working with partners like Gavi and Mercy Corps, Simprints has worked in over 17 countries helping deliver health, aid, and finance to >2.5M people.
Toby holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge on a Gates Scholarship and a BA from Harvard. He is a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur, Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and GLG Social Impact Fellow.
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Director Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, Harvard University
Tim Hwang is Director of the Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, a joint MIT-Harvard effort to ensure the development of automation and machine learning in the public interest. His current research focuses on developing responses to the threat of disinformation campaigns online, and the geopolitical aspects of computational power and machine learning hardware. Previously, he served as the global public policy lead for AI and machine learning at Google, and led Intelligence & Autonomy, a project exploring the social impact of intelligent systems based at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York. Dubbed “The Busiest Man on the Internet” by Forbes Magazine, his work has previously appeared in New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal.
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Susan Burns is a Skoll Awardee and Director of Finance for Change, a project of Global Footprint Network. As co-founder and CEO of Global Footprint Network, she built the organization into one of the leading scientific organizations in the world addressing global ecological limits. She is also a philanthropic advisor with Unleashing Generosity, helping donors increase their impact and give joyfully.
Prior to launching Global Footprint Network, Susan founded the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies, advising such companies as Mitsubishi Electric and Lowes. Susan serves on the Board of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC) where she is a vocalist. She is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster children, a member of the Social Justice Ministry of Imani Community Church in Oakland, and a member of the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in Our Jails.
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Executive Director, Partnership on AI
Terah Lyons is the founding Executive Director of the Partnership on AI, a multistakeholder nonprofit initiative focused on advancing the benefits and addressing the challenges of machine intelligence founded by Amazon, Apple, DeepMind, Facebook, Google, IMB, and Microsoft. She is a former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and a Mozilla Foundation Technology Policy Fellow. In her capacity at the White House, Terah led a policy portfolio in the Obama Administration focused on machine intelligence, including AI, robotics, and intelligent transportation systems. In her work at OSTP, she helped establish and direct the White House Future of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, oversaw robotics policy and regulatory matters, led the Administration’s work from the White House on civil and commercial unmanned aircraft systems/drone integration into the U.S. airspace system, and advised on Federal automated vehicles policy. She also advised on issues related to diversity and inclusion in the technology industry and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Prior to her work at the White House, Terah was a Fellow with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences based in Cape Town, South Africa. She previously worked with David Gergen at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Center for Public Leadership examining leadership and U.S. politics, and with Amy Kaslow working to chronicle domestic and international economic reconstruction, poverty, and contemporary conflict and genocide. She is a graduate of Harvard University.
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Founder & Executive Director, Fundi Bots
I am passionate about the intersection of education, design, business and technology.
In 2011, I founded Fundi Bots, an education non-profit with a mission to accelerate learning for (science) students in Africa. Fundi Bots aims to promote better learning outcomes, improved career prospects and real-world technological advancement in African schools and communities through training and experimentation in hands-on, project-based and skills-oriented science disciplines, starting with robotics.
Today, Fundi Bots works with more than 180 schools, 400 teachers and 11,000 students in Uganda. Our goal is to accelerate science learning and provide workforce training for one million young African people by 2030.
Through my work with Fundi Bots, I was selected as a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow and a 2014 Ashoka Fellow.
Echoing Green and Ashoka Fellowships provide financial, logistical and advisory support to emerging world leaders to pursue ideas that try to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
In 2017, I was selected as an African Visionary Fellow by the Segal Family Foundation.
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Founder and Director, Project ECHO; Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Project ECHO
Sanjeev Arora, MD, is the founder of Project ECHO and the Executive Director of the ECHO Institute. Dr. Arora is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Arora launched Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico in 2003 as a solution for helping all patients receive quality care faster. The ECHO Model works by strengthening the capacity of rural primary care providers to treat complex conditions locally -- with ongoing remote support from an interdisciplinary team of experts and a community of peers. Project ECHO used widely available videoconferencing technology to implement a “hub-and-spoke” model for training New Mexico's community-based clinicians in rural counties, Indian Health Service clinics, and state prisons to treat patients where they live. The ECHO Model has since been used to train providers in more than 70 other disease areas, including cancer, COVID-19, cardiovascular disease and mental health, making significant progress toward reversing health care inequity.
Today, the ECHO Model is being applied around the globe, with programs in North America, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia and partnerships with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. ECHO has more than 870 hubs and nearly 4 million learners in 193 countries. ECHO topics have expanded beyond health care to include K-12 education, climate change, public safety and more. Backed by more than 500 peer-reviewed research articles, ECHO has proven effective across disciplines and geographies as a way to reduce disparities and drive collaborative solutions for local priorities.
In 2007, Project ECHO won the Ashoka Foundation's Changemakers Award, an international competition recognizing programs that are changing the paradigm of how medicine is practiced. An inspiring champion and steward of the ECHO Model, Dr. Arora has served as the Director of the ECHO Institute since its establishment. Previously, he served as Executive Vice-Chair and Acting Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, President of the Medical Staff, and for five years on the Board of the Health Sciences Center at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Arora has also served as President of the University Physicians Association.
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Editor in Chief, BRIGHT Magazine
Sarika Bansal is the founder and editor-in-chief of BRIGHT Magazine, which tells fresh, solutions-oriented stories about social change. She has been a journalist and editor for eight years, largely focused on global health, poverty, and social enterprise. Her byline has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Guardian, VICE, Forbes, FastCompany, and other publications. Prior to founding BRIGHT Magazine, she incubated two social impact publications at Medium, developed curriculum and tools for journalists at the Solutions Journalism Network, and served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She lives in a cottage in a forest in Nairobi, Kenya with her husband and elderly German shepherd.
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CEO, Asylum Access
Sana Mustafa is a movement leader in the forced displacement sector and a feminist human rights activist fighting against systems of oppression in Syria and around the world. Sana’s work has been informed by her experiences as a brown, queer, Arab, and forcibly displaced woman. After being forcibly displaced by the Assad regime, Sana led the establishment of global efforts for the representation and inclusion of forcibly displaced persons, such as the Global Refugee-led Network. Sana is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Asylum Access, where she leads the organization’s work to dismantle decades of colonialism, fight for self-representation, and build intersectional coalitions to demand human rights for all forcibly displaced people.
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Co-Founder of The Health Initiative, a national campaign to catalyze a new conversation about and increased investments in health, including access to healthy food, safe and affordable housing, and well-paying jobs. Previously, Onie co-founded Health Leads to enable physicians and other healthcare providers and caregivers across the country to address these fundamental drivers of patients’ health. Health Leads armed thousands of healthcare institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, and best practices to address their patients’ resource needs, ultimately serving as a model for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s Accountable Health Communities pilot, the first federal pilot to screen and navigate patients to basic resources. Onie is a MacArthur “Genius” awardee, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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Lawyer, International Justice Mission
When he was 14 years old, Raja’s whole family became trapped in bonded labor slavery at a brutal brick kiln, all because of a small loan. For two years, Raja worked 19 hours a day, sleeping in a one-room hut with his parents and without access to school. In 2004, International Justice Mission began investigating the brick kiln where Raja and his family were trapped, and eventually worked with local authorities to mobilize a rescue operation in the brick kiln that freed more than 130 people, including Raja.
In 2005, Raja became the first member of his family to graduate from high school, after which he went on to complete a five-year degree in law. In 2012, Raja was hired by International Justice Mission as a lawyer to protect the rights of bonded laborers, supporting rescue operations and building solid cases against those who abuse the poor.
Raja is married and has two little boys.
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Born 1949 Karachi Pakistan , raised in refugee settlement, PHD University of Technology Loughborough England. 1978 - 87 with UNICEF created models and policies in sanitation, community education and development, primary health care , 87 to present in Balochistan , public private partnerships promoting girls education, established 2200 girls schools , Established Institute for Development Studies and Practices- Pakistan, 9000 young graduated, 400 Community Midwifes, 30,000 flood victims reached with shelter, food , rehabilitation of livelihood, 335 poor farmers with 2000 acres agriculture land rehabed. 200, women cattle’s , 100 homes constructed. University of community development as a non formal education in community development is established, 1000 community based individuals enrolled. courses are developed on last two decades of community education practices . The impact has reached more then 200,000 people . Majority being women, girls. 400 women entrepreneurs in Maternal care.
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UN Women Executive Director, United Nations
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. She was sworn into office on 19 August 2013 and brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this position, having devoted her career to issues of human rights, equality and social justice. Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka has worked in government and civil society, and with the private sector, and was actively involved in the struggle to end apartheid in her home country of South Africa.
From 2005 to 2008, she served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programmes to combat poverty and bring the advantages of a growing economy to the poor, with a particular focus on women. Prior to this, she served as Minister of Minerals and Energy from 1999 to 2005 and Deputy Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry from 1996 to 1999. She was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1996 as part of South Africa’s first democratic government.
Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka began her career as a teacher and gained international experience as a coordinator at the World YWCA in Geneva, where she established a global programme for young women. She is the founder of the Umlambo Foundation, which supports leadership and education. A longtime champion of women’s rights, she is affiliated with several organizations devoted to education, women’s empowerment and gender equality.
She has completed her PhD on education and technology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
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A medic, public health specialist and social entrepreneur, Dr Peter Drobac is the Executive Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford Said Business School. For nearly two decades, the Skoll Centre has equipped entrepreneurial leaders for impact within and beyond business.
Having worked for many years with Partners In Health to transform health systems in some the world's poorest communities, Peter was co-founder and first Executive Director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Ever the builder, Peter arrived in an 800 year-old university only to join Oxford's first 21st century college, Reuben College.
In addition to teaching systems leadership and social innovation, Peter is currently focused on initiatives to build better systems in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. He frequently comments on global health issues for CNN, BBC and other outlets, in addition to hosting the Reimagine podcast.
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Partner, LGT Venture Philanthropy
Oliver Karius is a partner at the emerging markets impact investor, LGT Impact, co-managing both LGT Impact’s and LGT Venture Philanthropy’s global work since 2007. He has 20 years of experience in sustainable/impact investing and is a member of the LGT Sustainability Board and serves on various LGT Impact/ LGT VP portfolio company boards. Previously, Oliver was managing director of VantagePoint Global, a strategic consultancy building capacity for sustainable investing in emerging markets, and worked on the formation of DeRisk Advisory Services and the sustainable asset management company Forma Futura. Prior to that, he worked for Sustainable Asset Management, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. He holds an MSc in Global Environmental Change and Policy from Imperial College, London and a Diploma in Biology from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.
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Neil has been Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) since early 2014. He has over two decade’s experience of successfully leading and growing organizations, social enterprises and innovative partnerships, in both Europe, North America and globally. He previously led social enterprises delivering services to base of the pyramid consumers in the energy and agricultural sectors and headed a policy institute in Washington DC working to enhance the impact of US policy in the Andean Region.
He holds an MBA with distinction from Cass Business School, an MA from the University of Cambridge and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has published with Cranfield University and the US Institute for Peace.
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Innovation Director, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Matt leads the portfolios for innovative financing, entrepreneurship and technology within Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade's Innovationxchange.
Previous to his work at DFAT, Matt developed a social enterprise, (enable community), which was a partnership with vodafone and opportunity international, getting refurbished phones to micro-entrepreneurs in the philippines for them to use to sell e-top ups. He then moved to mobile industry association, developing the business case framework for mobile operators to refocus on women in emerging markets. This work at the GSMA led to the mobile identity programme, then to Facebook with internet.org.
Matt lives with his wife and 3 young boys in Canberra, Australia.
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Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
After 26 years at The Economist, Matthew recently joined the Rockefeller Foundation to launch a new global institute. He is the coauthor of several books, including Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World. Co-founded the Social Progress Index and the #givingtuesday movement. Official report author, the G8 taskforce on social impact investment.
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Dr. Mathis Wackernagel established 30 years ago an accounting system to compare the size of human economies with the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate. This impact measure, called “footprint” has now become a generic name for all human impact, whether carbon or ecological footprint. Mathis’ work has focused not only on making ecological overshoot accessible and relevant to decision-making, but also on showcasing the economic advantage of accepting rather than denying this reality. In 2003, he co-founded Global Footprint Network, a sustainability think-tank, possibly most known for its annual Earth Overshoot Day. His awards include various honorary degrees as well as the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, the 2012 Blue Planet Prize, and a 2007 Skoll Award.
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A pioneer in using business models to solve poverty, Martin co-founded KickStart (pka ApproTEC) in 1991—a non-profit SE with a mission to enable millions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to earn a lot more money & climb out of poverty. Since 2000, KickStart has designed & promoted lowest-cost irrigation tools that smallholders use to transform their farms into highly profitable businesses. Over 380,000 farmers have used KickStart’s pumps to grow & sell high value crops year-round, independent of rains, & to adapt-to-climate-change. Over 1.4M women, men & children have stepped out of poverty and with almost no irrigation in SSA, millions more can irrigate to gain income & food security. KickStart; works with multitudes of partners to promote irrigation in 17 countries; innovates new irrigation techs; & advocates for system changes to irrigate Africa. With a Cornell BSc, a Stanford MSc & PhD, a Fulbright in Kenya, and many awards, Martin is a Skoll & Schwab SE & a Stanford Engineering Hero.
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Founder and Executive Director, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Mark is founder and executive chair of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non profit financial think tank. Best known for the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis, the lexicon of ‘stranded asset’ risk is now common place in climate finance language. Mark commissioned and was editor of Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble? In 2011 and more recently, Mark co-founded ‘Planet Tracker’. Mark is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing their capital markets framework analysis. Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth.
Prior to forming these groups, Mark worked for major institutional asset management companies in building sustainable asset management franchises. Mark is a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care between 1994 and 1999, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds from 1999-2008.
Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003). Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’ and Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK. Mark is an advisor to Consilium Capital, serves on the Advisory Board of Tribe Impact Capital and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s sustainable finance programme.
Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.
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Dr. Mark J. Plotkin has led the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) since 1996, when he co-founded the organization with Liliana Madrigal. He is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent three decades studying traditional plant use with traditional healers of tropical America.Among his many influential writings, Dr. Plotkin may be best known for his popular work Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice (1994), which has been printed continuously and in multiple languages. His most recent book, The Amazon – What Everyone Needs to Know, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.Dr. Plotkin has received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation, the Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award, and, with Liliana Madrigal, the Skoll Award. In 2010, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Lewis and Clark College. Dr. Plotkin was educated at Harvard, Yale and Tufts University. His ongoing podcast Plants of the Gods is available on Apple Podcasts and other platforms.
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Magnus Conteh joined the Last Mile Health team in 2018 to help lead the Community Health Academy, which aims to reinvent the education of community health workers – and the leaders who support them – for the digital age. After receiving the 2017 TED Prize, Dr. Raj Panjabi, CEO of Last Mile Health, launched the Community Health Academy to build the world’s first digital platform to provide opportunities for members of the community health field to improve upon their critical, life-saving skills through continuing professional and medical education opportunities.
Magnus brings over 25 years of senior level experience in education, digital technology, and global health to Last Mile Health. Previously, Magnus worked for seven years at World Vision Ireland, most recently serving as the Deputy CEO/Director of Programmes and Strategy. In this role, he oversaw the development, implementation and evaluation of all Development and Humanitarian Programmes in World Vision Ireland priority countries. He also led World Vision’s involvement in the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Ebola Vaccine trial currently underway in Sierra Leone and supported the development of Sierra Leone's national Community Health Worker Strategy and plan. In addition to serving as a member of the World Vision International Digital Health Steering Committee, he forged digital health partnerships with the Government of Sierra Leone, AirTel, and World Vision. Prior to joining World Vision Ireland, he held a number of senior management positions in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK and the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland where he was Director for the Regional Centre of Nursing/Midwifery Education at the University Hospital in Galway.
Magnus holds a MHSc (Hons) in Health Services Research from the National University of Ireland, MA in Health Service Policy and Management from Brunel University (UK), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from Kingston University (UK).
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Cecilia is an internationally acclaimed slavery fighter. Through VF, she rescues, heals, and reintegrates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Working together with partners they protected more than 30,000 at risk and exploited young girls.
Cecil was instrumental in the enactment of pioneering laws in the Philippines to promote decent work for domestic workers, law to eliminate the worst forms of child labor and anti-trafficking law amendments.
She was appointed by the two Philippine Presidents to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking as NGO representative and served for six years. She was also a member of the Presidential-Illegal Recruitment Task force during the Aquino Administration.
Cecilia currently serves as an Advisory Board of the Freedom United, and as part of the Advisory Council of Telos Governance Agency
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Lisha McCormick is Chief Executive Officer of Last Mile Health, leading a team of more than 200 people to strengthen community health systems in partnership with governments in Africa. Lisha joined LMH in 2013, serving as Chief Development Officer & President and Chief Operating Officer before assuming the position of CEO. Under her leadership, LMH has grown from a district-level pilot in Liberia to an international organization reaching nearly five million people at the last mile.
Lisha began her career as a community health worker. For more than 20 years, she has worked to design and implement systems of care that engage historically excluded communities. Prior to joining LMH team, her work was principally focused on public sector healthcare in the United States,
Lisha holds a MPH from Mailman School of Public Health & serves as a Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Social Innovation & Change Initiative Visiting Social Entrepreneur.
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Member; Veteran United Nations Envoy and Advisor, The Elders
Former Foreign Minister, Algeria
Former UN USG/special Envoy/Peace Operations
Now retired
Member of the Elders , GLF, IPS
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Author and Independent Consultant, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Kirk Hanson served on the Skoll Foundation board for 17 years until 2021. He was a faculty member of the Stanford Business School 1978-2001 and at Santa Clara University 2001-2018. He headed the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics from 2001-2018. He specializes in business and organizational ethics. His newsletter, Ethics Megatrends, is free at kirkohanson.com
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Founder & Managing Director, Babban Gona Farm Services, Ltd.,
Babban GonaKola is an award-winning social entrepreneur dedicated to solving Africa's leading social challenge, dramatic rise in insecurity. Kola brings significant leadership experience across four continents and multiple leading companies, including General Electric (GE), Abiomed and Notore. In addition, Kola brings extensive public sector experience as the former Senior Advisor to the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture. Kola is globally recognized as a thought leader in African Agribusiness. In recognition of his leadership in driving positive change on the African Continent, he has received several global awards including the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship and Rainer Fellowship. Kola holds an MBA (Honors) from Harvard and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.
Specialties: Impact Investing, Agricultural Development, Smallholder Farmer Development,
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Director, Cyber Initiative, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Kelly Born serves as one of two Program Officers for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s US Democracy portfolio. The Democracy Initiative supports organizations from across the ideological spectrum that are working to address the the democratic crisis the US currently faces. Kelly oversees grantmaking in areas including campaigns and elections, civic engagement, media and journalism, and digital disinformation.
Before helping to launch the Hewlett Foundation’s democracy work, Kelly helped to launch the foundation’s Effective Philanthropy Group, which is aimed at improving both Hewlett’s own internal philanthropic strategy, and the field of philanthropy more broadly.
Prior to joining the Hewlett Foundation, Kelly worked as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Institute, a nonprofit consulting firm, where she led strategic planning efforts at a number of large US foundations. Earlier in her career, she consulted extensively with the private sector, nonprofits, and governments in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
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Senior Writer, Project Drawdown
Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is Senior Writer at Project Drawdown, where she collaborated with Paul Hawken on the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Katharine’s interdisciplinary background cuts across research, strategy, and thought leadership, with a focus on exploring, amplifying, and invigorating action to address climate change. Previously, she was Director of Strategy at the purpose consultancy BrightHouse and worked for the Boston Consulting Group and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Based on her doctoral research at the University of Oxford, Katharine published Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change, called “a vitally important, even subversive, story” by The Boston Globe. Her recent fellowships include Aspen Ideas and Summit LA, and her voice has been featured by The Weather Channel, Talks @ Google, and on campuses including Columbia, Princeton, and Yale. Katharine holds a doctorate in Geography & Environment from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. in Religion from Sewanee—The University of the South.
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Senior Manager, Target Foundation
Kate Mohan leads Target Foundation’s global philanthropy, working with community leaders around the world to create equitable economic opportunity.
Kate has more than twenty years of experience designing and implementing philanthropy and social responsibility strategies. She believes strongly in the power of cross-sector partnership, community voice, continuous learning, and humility.
Her areas of expertise include social innovation and entrepreneurship, international development, corporate responsibility & philanthropy, human rights, forced migration, post-conflict reconstruction, rule of law, and complex humanitarian crises.
Kate is a graduate of St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota) where she earned a Bachelor of Arts and was a double major in philosophy and theology. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK).
She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, USA with her husband and two sons.
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John Valverde is president and CEO of YouthBuild USA. He joined YouthBuild in 2017 after decades of work as an advocate for creating access to opportunity and removing barriers for formerly incarcerated and marginalized people.
John began working with imprisoned individuals in 1992 to ensure access to HIV/AIDS counseling, high school equivalency instruction, alternatives to violence programs, and college education. In 1998, he co-founded Hudson Link for Higher Education, the first privately funded accredited college program in New York’s prisons.
John is a Marano Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Sector Skills Academy; a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow; co-chair of the National Service, Civic Engagement and Volunteering pillar of the Partnership for American Democracy; a member of the New York State Council on Community Re-entry and Reintegration; a member of the Leadership Council of 24/7: The People’s Filibuster for Gun Safety; and an elected member of the Council on Criminal Justice.
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Joel is one of the co-founders of SDI. This globally recognized initiative began in 1991 when he teamed up with visionary Indian slum dweller Jockin Arputham, linking South African shack dwellers with Indian Pavement Dwellers. The result has been the evolution of a trans-national movement of the urban poor that now spans 34 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Joel is the Managing Director of SDI's Cape Town based Secertariat.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Integrate Health
Jennifer Schechter has a deep passion for making sure quality healthcare reaches the people who need it most. Jenny began working as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2004 in Togo, where she was privileged to partner with a community-based association of people living with HIV/AIDS, called AED-Lidaw. Integrate Health grew out of this partnership. Since taking on the role of CEO in 2012, Jenny has helped to expand Integrate Health’s impact in the fight to end preventable deaths of women and children. Jenny serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Community Health Impact Coalition. Jenny received a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from Georgetown University and Master’s degrees of Social Work and Public Health from the University of Washington.
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Jim Taylor is the co-founder and chief executive of Proximity Designs – a social business that has created a platform for change in rural Myanmar. The big idea 18 years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After serving 3 million people, and generating $275 million in new income, the idea still has legs. Jim’s originally from Seattle but has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in southeast Asia. He has an MBA and studied economics at Harvard.
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A practitioner from the very beginning, Jagdeesh’s 35 year professional engagement has been on interrelated issues of poverty and environmental degradation and on ‘systems thinking’ at the interface of ecology, society and economy.
Jagdeesh has been the Chief Executive of Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) since its inception in 2001 till July 2020. Subsequently, he was associated with the ecosystem initiative titled - Promise of Commons since its inception in 2020 till September 2021 as its anchor and curator. He was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Omidyar Network India in 2022. Currently, he is leading the designing of the Common Ground initiative and promoting systems leadership for environmental governance and resilient rural livelihoods.
Jagdeesh has been conferred the ‘Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship’ 2015 and he is also a Henry Arnhold (Mulago) Conservation Fellow (2017) and Senior Ashoka Fellow (2022).
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Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Florida Ice and Farm Company
Gisela Sánchez is the Director of Corporate Affairs at Florida Ice & Farm Co. Before joining FIFCO, she worked as a consultant for governments, NGOs and companies in Central America in the areas of competitiveness and corporate social responsibility. In 2006, she published 10 Cases on Corporate Social Responsibility Good Practices, and The Competitiveness Potential of Guatemala. Between 2001 and 2003, she worked for the AVINA Foundation in Latin America as strategic initiatives manager supporting the development of social and environmental leaders in the region. Before joining AVINA, she worked as a researcher and project coordinator for the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development at INCAE. Sánchez is an industrial engineer and has an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a Fellow of the Central American Leadership (CALI) and she recently received the Stephan Schmidheiny Innovation on Sustainability Award. She is a laureate of the John Mc Nulty Prize and currently she is the Vice President of AMCHAM. Gisela has been named twice as part of the 50 most influential women in Central America by Forbes Magazine.
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Francis von Hildebrand is the President of Gaia Amazonas (Fundación Gaia Amazonas). Gaia Amazonas is a Colombian NGO whose mission is to protect the Amazon, biocultural diversity, and socio-environmental resilience by actively partnering and collaborating with indigenous peoples’ processes and organizations.
Francis has led Gaia Amazonas as its Director and CEO since 2012 and previously worked for a decade as a researcher advancing development and conservation projects in Amazonia with indigenous communities in Colombia and transfrontier projects.
Francis is a Development Studies professional and an expert in local development strategies, local governance, and intercultural environmental management, emphasizing community-based research and participation.
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Founder & CEO, African Leadership Group
Fred Swaniker is on a mission to bring better leadership to Africa and the world. He is the founder and CEO of the African Leadership Group – an ecosystem of organizations that are catalyzing a new era of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders. Over the past 15 years, he has founded and led the pre-university African Leadership Academy, the African Leadership University, the African Leadership Network and ALX — a next-generation leadership development and talent sourcing platform. Collectively, these endeavors aim to transform Africa by developing 3 million African leaders by 2035. He is also the founder of The Room, a talent agency for the world’s ambitious doers.
Fred previously worked as a McKinsey consultant before earning an MBA from Stanford and becoming an entrepreneur. He is an Echoing Green Fellow; Aspen Institute Fellow; and most recently, was recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s most influential people of 2019. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Macalester College, Middlebury College and Nelson Mandela University.
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Co-Founder, Copper Rose
Faith is a Zambian Youth Activist who believes that young people are the future of today.She’s a member of the MasterCard Foundation Youth ThinkTank,a project implemented by Restless Development Uganda & is leading research on innovations and technology and how they affect young farmers at different stages of the agricultural value chain.She’s also working with other Youth ThinkTank Researchers in East,West & Southern Africa,developing &adapting tools &guidelines that can support development stakeholders improve &increase engagement with young people in their programs.Furthermore,Faith is very passionate about Sexual Reproductive Health.Because of her passion,she co-found COPPER ROSE,a youth-led organization in Zambia that’s committed to educating adolescents &young people about their bodies,sexual rights & menstrual hygiene.She travels to remote areas of Zambia,managing projects focusing on girls in underprivileged communities.In the last 2years,she’s reached out to 12000+ girls teaching them about puberty &menstrual hygiene practices &intends to reach out to 1million women & girls by 2021.Faith has years of experience in Youth Engagement & Grassroots Organizing in low income countries in Africa.She’s a founding member of Project Forward an innovative,self-sustaining ecosystem that allows NGOs to indirectly incentivize volunteers.At its core,Project Forward facilitates the monetization of volunteer hours through a proprietary digital currency called Forward Coins.Faith is currently a National Youth Consultant with Swiss TPH evaluating the ACT!2030 Initiative,youth-led social action initiative which engages young people with advocacy &accountability around the SDGs.She has a BA in Business Administration &is working towards an Msc in Public Health/Public Policy &Global Affairs.In the next 5years,she intends to set up an industry manufacturing disposable &washable sanitary napkins which will provide jobs for thousands of young people in Africa.
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Senior Manager of Philanthropy, Rosewood Family Advisors
Philanthropy professional with grants, finance, and operational expertise across the non-profit, corporate, and foundation sectors. Currently the Senior Manager of Philanthropy at Rosewood Family Advisors.
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Ella Gudwin is the CEO of VisionSpring, a social entrepreneur and strategist with more than 20 years of experience in global health and international development. Before coming to VisionSpring, she served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Program Development at AmeriCares. She completed her Master's in Emerging Market Economics and Southeast Asia studies from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. She regularly speaks about hybrid business models which blend earned revenue with philanthropy; growing a purpose-driven business that serves low-income customers; and measuring social impact.
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Executive Director, Data2X
Emily Courey Pryor is a social impact executive and gender equality advocate. She is the founding Executive Director of Data2X, a civil society organization that works to eliminate gender bias from the world’s major data sources and drive use of that data to improve the lives of women and girls. Data2X works with partners – UN agencies, governments, civil society, academia, and the private sector – to improve gender data and its use for better, smarter decision making.
In addition to a focus on gender equality, she has a passion for and experience working in global health, international disaster response, and peace and security. Emily took a running start in her career at the American Red Cross, managed Gilead Sciences’ corporate philanthropy, and has built and led a variety of start-ups, including the UN Foundation’s initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment and the Girl Up campaign. She was also a founding investor in a utility-scale solar energy company.
Emily received her MPH from the University of Michigan and BA from the University of Florida. She lives in Nashville with her husband and children.
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Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Aung Din has engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar. She lived and worked in Mississippi, Cambodia and Indonesia, and holds a MA from Harvard University in public policy and development economics. She received social entrepreneurship awards from the Schwab Foundation (World Economic Forum) and the Skoll Foundation. Proximity designs and delivers new and critical low-carbon farm products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and disease, save irrigation water and grow food in more productive and sustainable ways. Products and services support regenerative farming while boosting farm incomes by USD 250 annually. Since 2004, its services have spanned over 10,000 villages in Myanmar, enabling 5 million people to grow their farm enterprises and afford food, healthcare and education for their families.
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Managing Director, MacArthur Foundation
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of Lever for Change. Lever for Change is a new nonprofit with a mission of unlocking philanthropic dollars for social change. Lever for Change designs and manages customized competitions, supports the social entrepreneurs who emerge from the competitions, and creates a secondary market to match top vetted proposals from all competitions with funders. In addition to her role at Lever for Change, Conrad is also a Managing Director at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where her portfolio includes the MacArthur Fellows program and 100&Change, a program that periodically makes a single $100 million grant to a project that promises measurable progress in solving a critical social problem. The first $100 million grant was awarded to Sesame Workshop in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee for an early child intervention in the Syrian refugee region. Before joining the Foundation in January 2013, Conrad had a distinguished career as both a professor and an administrator at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. She is currently an emerita professor of economics at Pomona. She served as Associate Dean of the College (2004-2007), as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College (2009-2012), and as Acting President (Fall 2012). From 2007-2009, she was interim Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Scripps College. She received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
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Managing Partner, Instiglio
Avnish is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Instiglio, a global development firm whose mission is to unlock the full impact potential of governments to deliver meaningful outcomes for their citizens. Instiglio supports its partners, including governments, aid agencies, donors, and multilateral agencies, among others, to integrate results-based approaches into delivery systems and practices, to enhance the effectiveness of public and development finance. Over the last 10 years, under Avnish's leadership, Instiglio has influenced the practices, capabilities, and policy frameworks of governments and aid institutions delivering over 100 projects in 30 low- and middle-income countries to improve development program outcomes. This work has covered sectors including education, livelihoods, workforce development, health, gender, and climate, shaping the deployment of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Founder & CEO, Rise, Inc.
Amanda is the CEO and founder of Rise, a national nonprofit working to implement a Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights. After Nguyen’s rape kit was on the verge of destruction after only six months of retention, she decided to create a Sexual Assault Bill of Rights, not just for her own circumstances, but for the over 25 million survivors across the country who face the daunting, confusing and broken justice system after an assault.
Rise, under Nguyen’s leadership, wrote and unanimously passed through the U.S. Congress–in only seven months–the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights, which was signed into law last October by President Obama. The Rise movement is now active in 38 states and four countries (the United States, Japan, Mexico, and Canada). In addition to the U.S. federal law, Rise has passed similar legislation in multiple states (Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington).
Amanda’s start in public service began at NASA headquarters in the Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, Communications and Chief Technologist teams where she worked on the last space shuttle launch, public-private partnerships, and the Asteroid Redirect Grand Challenge Mission.
Previously, Amanda held several roles during the Obama Administration including the was the Deputy White House Liaison at the U.S. Department of State. Before this role, she served in the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons as a speechwriter. She also held roles at the Obama White House in the Office of Public Engagement and the Chief of Staff’s office, at Morgan Stanley in public finance investment banking, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center as an Origins of Life fellow analyzing the Kepler exoplanet mission.
During college, Amanda created the first student-written course on modern slavery and co-founded Wema Children, an orphanage in Kenya. Amanda graduated from Harvard University in 2013.
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Co-Founder, Strong Woman Strong Love
Alpha Ngwenya is a student at Arizona State University majoring in Economics and Business Data Analytics. He currently works for Changemaker Central as a marketing chairperson. Changemaker provides over $250,000 in start-up funding. Alpha interned with Steward Bank and Public Accountant and Auditors Board were he developed interpersonal skills. By the age of 14 his grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother had passed away and he had to assume responsibility for his two siblings. That was when he started a vegetable garden business that enabled him to generate funds for his education and the education of siblings. His background was his introduction to the world of social innovation. Alpha has pursued his passion for social entrepreneurship by founding African Data Company, a unique startup that trains rural community members in Lupinyu, Zimbabwe on ways to save, accumulate and invest their money. With the aim of disrupting the cycle of poverty which is dominant in rural Africa. He also co-founded Strong Women Strong Love, a non-profit that provides feminine hygiene products to women facing homelessness. They teach women in Uganda the skills of designing a reusable sanity pad that can be sold for a 5500 Ugandan shillings profit per pack. This is unique because it provides entrepreneurship skills and financial benefit to women who are less privileged. Also, Strong Women Strong Love partners with a safe house with an aim to keep a girl child in school all month long, by training them to make reusable feminine hygiene products for personal use. Strong Women Strong Love has impacted over 2400+ women since its inception.
“social entrepreneurship is a universal language that can make poverty deaf” – Alpha Ngwenya
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Senior Program Officer, Equality Fund, Open Society Foundations
Alvin Starks is an innovative thinker and strategist and serves as senior program officer at the Open Society Foundations managing grantmaking related activities in racial justice advocacy, narrative change, arts and culture and individual fellowships. His program coordinates strategies and opportunities within the United States and throughout the OSF global network addressing issues of racial justice and ethnic discrimination issues.
Alvin brings an extensive experience in social justice philanthropy weaving together complex issues of civil rights, gender justice, and the arts. For more than a decade, his work has supported approaches that address issues of structural racism, civic engagement and narrative change. His work has focused within the United States and abroad, using multiple tools, including social science research, civil and human rights advocacy, next generation leadership, intersectionality, and cross movement-building.
Alvin began his philanthropic career at the Echoing Green Foundation supporting to individuals starting new human rights projects across the globe. He joined OSF in 2000, directing the New York City Community Fellowships and Initiatives programs, which focused on organizing, legal reform, arts and culture, and policy. He established USP’s first racial justice initiative that addressed issues of structural inequities, discrimination and fostering civil rights advocacy. Following his first tenure at OSF, Alvin developed the Racial Justice and Gender Identity program at the Arcus Foundation and served as program officer for racial equity at the WK Kellogg Foundation. Most recently he was director of strategic initiatives at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which received a National Medal from the White House during his tenure. He sits on several non-profit boards and has received numerous awards and fellowships for his leadership in philanthropy and racial justice.
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Chief, Applied Innovation & Acceleration, US Global Development Lab
Over her career, Bonnell has developed and delivered over a billion dollars of humanitarian and development programming in over 25 conflict, post-conflict and emergency countries, in almost every sector from education to stabilization, for more than 30 international bilateral donors, 10 U.N. agencies, the military and the private sector.
She has held positions with every side of development including: implementers, donors, policy makers and beneficiaries. With more than 20 years of experience in management and communications, Bonnell has worked with: Wall Street and “dot.coms,” and on projects such as the Middle East Peace Plan, Afghan and Iraqi elections, tsunami response, Pakistan and Haiti earthquakes, construction projects, and major logistics operations.
After years of working overseas, Bonnell returned to the United States with USAID as the senior adviser on business transformation and knowledge management. She then served as the Chief of Engagement for the Office of Education, where she helped shape the USAID education strategy.
Bonnell was a founding senior member of the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID. Most recently, Bonnell served as the Division Chief for Applied Innovation and the Office Director for Engagement and Communications in the Lab. She has supported over 9 Grand Challenges and Prizes, Development Innovation Ventures, many prize, hackathon, and other internal and external innovation approaches. Bonnell was the creator and founder of the Global Innovation Exchange and Global Innovation Week.
Bonnell has been recognized by teams inside USAID, across the Interagency, development and the private sector for actively building coalitions around innovative approaches.
Bonnell believes that first and foremost innovation is "A voracious appetite for excellence" and it is the job of every person to innovate. She is honored to work hand in hand evryday at USAID with some of the most innovative people on earth.
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Managing Partner, Bridgespan Group
William Foster is a partner in Bridgespan’s Boston office and the firm’s managing partner. He is an active thought leader on issues of philanthropy and social change.
Since joining the firm in 2002, William has supported the success of some of the sector’s most innovative philanthropies (e.g., Blue Meridian Partners, Co-Impact, TED Audacious) and some of the highest impact nonprofits (e.g., Youth Villages and Anti-Defamation League). He has a particular focus on the diligence, structuring, and supports required for philanthropic “Big Bets” and strong funding models for nonprofits.
William spent eight years as the Head of US Advisory Services, working closely with Bridgespan’s partners to guide the overall consulting practice. During this time, William worked with leaders across the firm to evolve Bridgespan's services for philanthropies and nonprofits, to deepen Bridgespan's commitment to equity, and to expand Bridgespan significantly.
Based on his clients’ experiences, William has dedicated himself to research on the topics of philanthropic "Big Bets" and nonprofit funding models. In February of 2019, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published “Becoming Big Bettable.” In November of 2015, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published “Making Big Bets for Social Change.”
William has served as the executive director of the Jacobson Family Foundation (now known as One8), an outcomes-oriented funder making grants to support educational excellence, equality, and Jewish continuity in the United States and Israel.
Prior to joining Bridgespan, William worked at Bain & Co. He received his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. William serves on the board of Phare Bio and chairs the board of Gann Academy. He lives outside of Boston with his wife Rachel and their four wonderful children.
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Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Root Capital provides these businesses with the capital, training, and access to markets they need in order to grow, thrive, and create opportunities for thousands of farmers at a time. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $1.7 billion in loans to 770 agricultural businesses in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these businesses have bought and marketed crops for 2.4 million smallholder farmers, reaching over 10 million people in rural communities.
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Co-Founder, Conveners.org
Sujatha thrives helping changemakers and communities find ways to collaborate and solve large-scale social problems. She believes that convening is a powerful tool for transformation. An experienced facilitator, she uses creative design frameworks to help leaders and organizations embrace learning, growth, and exploration. Her approach enables groups to cultivate trust, spur innovation, and identify solutions.
Sujatha brings 17 years of experience to her work as a social impact consultant, capacity builder, and strategist. She is founder the Conveners Group and co-founder of Conveners.org. Through her work, she has advised leading social sector organizations working in health equity, ethical apparel, financial empowerment, education, cyber security, and more. Her clients include the Aspen Institute, Hewlett Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and many others.
Sujatha grew up in a multicultural household, the daughter of an immigrant entrepreneur and a midwife. She brings a diverse background in community economic development, international relations, and education to her work. She received a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Bryn Mawr College and MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
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Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, an award winning global social enterprise which supports over 200,000 marginalized children and youth each year. He has led the expansion of the organization into 18 countries across 4 continents, developing best practice programs that provide protection and social reintegration services including access to employment for youth and parents, school reintegration for children and family conservation. Friends-International also established and powers the award-winning ChildSafe Movement that selects, trains, certifies and supports key actors of society to better protect children. It has also developed an international network of over 60 organizations (ChildSafe Alliance), working together to develop and coordinate best quality services. To support this expansion, Friends-International utilizes a series of social business models providing training opportunities and financial sustainability.
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Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is the President & Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an organization she founded in 1995 in response to the lack of education and health care that the Afghan people faced after decades of war and strife. Dr. Yacoobi is also the President & Executive Director of Sakena Fund formerly known as Creating Hope International (CHI).
Dr. Yacoobi has established 352 Learning Centers, four schools, a hospital, and a radio/ TV station in Afghanistan and is the recipient of six honorary doctorates including from Princeton University. Each year, Dr. Yacoobi speaks at numerous events, conferences and at institutions such as the UN, Stanford University and Oxford University. Dr. Yacoobi particularly enjoys engaging with youth at schools, inspiring them to be globally minded citizens. Most recently in 2022 in response to the devastating fall of the nation, after the Taliban took over; Girls once again banned from schools, Dr. Yacoobi’s AIL staff with her
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Director, The Trust Project, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
Sally Lehrman founded and directs the Trust Project, an international consortium of news outlets implementing a transparency standard for journalism to help the public -- and news distribution platforms -- identify quality news out of the hubbub online. Lehrman was named one of MediaShift's Top 20 Digital Innovators in 2018 for this work. An award-winning reporter on medicine and science policy with an emphasis on coverage of social diversity, her honors also include a Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia and the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, among others. Lehrman’s byline credits include Scientific American, Nature, Health, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Salon.com, and The DNA Files, distributed by NPR. Her book, “News in a New America,” argues for an inclusive U.S. news media. She is co-editing a volume on covering structural inequality due out from Routledge in 2018. She is senior director of the Journalism Ethics Program at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and is Science and Justice Professor at the UC-Santa Cruz Center for Science and Justice. Senior editors from nearly 75 news organizations connected user wants and needs to journalism values in creating the Trust Indicators and dozens of sites are now implementing them.
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Founder, FIGURE80
Graduating from Oxford University in 1983, Sam Parker started his career in business, working for 6 years in the agrochemical industry, with a focus on Latin America. After a two-year break, working as a volunteer with street children in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sam returned to business with 11 years at UK-based commodity trading company, ED&F Man. Following posts in London, Caracas, New York and Singapore, Sam was appointed Managing Director of the company’s Asian business. In 2002, he returned to the development sector with a role at the International Save the Children Alliance, leading the organisational development of its 30 national members. 2006, Sam joined Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), as its first CEO. WSUP is a not-for-profit company, which brings together private sector and NGO expertise to address the pressing global challenge of delivering water and sanitation services to the growing number of people who live in urban slums. In 2014, Sam won a Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2015, Sam was appointed Director of the Shell Foundation, which co-creates and funds the growth of social enterprises bringing essential services to low-income consumers, with a focus on renewable energy, sustainable mobility and SME finance. Recognizing the crucial importance of social entrepreneurs in achieving the SDGs, in 2021, Sam founded FIGURE80, an advisory firm that helps social enterprises to modernize governance and recenter business strategies for maximum impact.
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Institute Director, Martin Prosperity Institute
In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers.
Roger Martin serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 25 Harvard Business Review articles.
Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Verizon.
A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.
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Co-Executive Director, The Whitman Institute
Pia Infante is Trustee and Co-Executive Director of The Whitman Institute (TWI), an independent foundation that leverages trust based philanthropy for social, political and economic equity. Ms. Infante draws on decades of multi-sector experience as an educator, facilitator, organizational consultant, executive coach, non-profit manager, business owner, writer and speaker to steward TWI's mission and spend out, slated for 2022.
Ms. Infante has spoken on trust based philanthropy and values based leadership at Harvard Kennedy School: Center for Public Leadership, Ashoka Future Forum, International Human Rights Funders Group, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA’s Luskin School, Skoll World Forum, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, Fast Forward, Net Impact, Foundation Center, Latino Community Foundation, Council on Foundations, Opportunity Collaboration, Northern California Grantmakers, the University of Vermont, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
Ms. Infante serves as the Board Chair for the Center for Media Justice. She is an I.C.F. certified executive leadership coach, holds a M.A. in Education from the New School for Social Research, and a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Thirty years of working in sustainability.
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Executive Vice President, The Nature Conservancy
Peter Wheeler joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as a London-based Executive Vice President in September 2013. He has a long and distinguished career as an investment banker having been the Head of Wholesale Banking for EMEA and Americas for Standard Chartered and previously a partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, working initially in New York in the 1980s, then based in Hong Kong, where he established and led the firm's Investment Banking business for Asia outside of Japan from 1991 to 1998. He was the firm’s first Chief Representative in Beijing.
In his post-banking business life, Peter was a seed investor and Board member of Climate Change Capital until it was sold to Bunge in 2012. He sits on the Board of Rift Valley Corporation, a dynamic African agro-industrial enterprise which owns and operates a diversified portfolio of subsidiary companies across seven operating platforms in three countries in Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. He is a founding partner of Silk Road Finance Company, a Hong Kong-based and Chinese- led investment and advisory boutique working with Chinese State-owned and private companies in their activities outside of China in pursuit of the official New Silk Road policy. He is an active seed investor in a personal capacity in innovative new companies in the renewables and low carbon economies.
Peter is a co-founder and trustee of New Philanthropy Capital, a charity that works as a consultancy and think tank, dedicated to helping charities and funders achieve the greatest impact so the lives of the people they serve are improved. He is a Board member of Social Finance, a social enterprise dedicated to the transformation of the third sector’s capabilities by developing access to a range of innovative financing methods. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Stranded Assets Program. He has recently served on the Board of the Young Foundation (as Chair) and Virgin Unite.
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Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Conduit
Paul served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Paul also co-founded the International Centre for Transitional Justice, an organisation that works in over 40 countries that have endured massive human rights violations under repression conflict. Paul is also a co-founder and CEO of Maiyet, an ethical luxury fashion brand that cultivates traditional design and culture by partnering with global artisans. Most recently, Paul co-founded The Conduit, which serves as a home for those committed to improving the world by harnessing the power of creativity and entrepreneurship. The Conduit serves as a home for a diverse community of people passionate about social change.
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Since launching the Fair Trade Certified™ label in 1998, Paul has helped establish Fair Trade as one of the fastest growing segments of the food and apparel industries. To date, Fair Trade USA has partnered with over 1,500 leading companies, including Green Mountain, Nespresso, Whole Foods, Costco, Kroger, and Target. Fair Trade USA now certifies coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, coconut, fresh produce and fish. Through groundbreaking partnerships with Patagonia, Athleta, West Elm and J. Crew, Fair Trade has begun certifying apparel and home goods.
In 2021 consumer recognition of the Fair Trade Certified label hit 66%. To date, Fair Trade USA and its partners generated over $1 billion in additional income for farmers and workers in 51 countries, allowing them to care for the environment and steadily improve their livelihoods.
Paul has been named Ethical Corporation’s 2019 Business Leader of the Year and is a four-time winner of Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist of the Year. Paul is
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CEO & Co-Founder, Nexleaf Analytics
Nithya Ramanathan is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Nexleaf Analytics, a tech non-profit dedicated to preserving human life and protecting our planet. Nexleaf’s unique approach brings together sensor design, data analysis, software engineering, and field engagement to identify and address big problems. Nexleaf technology currently protects the vaccine supply for 1 in 10 babies born on Earth. Nithya and her team have achieved this outsized impact by working shoulder-to-shoulder with Ministries of Health -- rather than attempting to bypass governments -- to scale cutting-edge technologies refined through close collaboration with personnel at every level of the health system, from top-tier government officials to Last Mile health care workers.
A computer scientist specializing in sensor technologies and data analytics, Nithya is a tech-for-good pioneer and a leading thinker on global vaccine distribution. Nithya’s career started in Silicon Valley, designing chips at Intel and Hewlett-Packard, and continued as Research Faculty in sensor technologies at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Vaccine and Nature Climate Change. Nithya is a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Switzer Environmental Fellow, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellow. She is the winner of the 2017 Hedy Lamarr Award for Female Tech Pioneer, the 2020 Tällberg Foundation/Eliasson Global Leadership Award and has presented widely, including at the Vatican on creating innovative technology solutions for climate change, and the 2020 Global Vaccine Summit on scaling innovation. Nexleaf’s work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org, Qualcomm Wireless Reach, Gavi, and Ministries of Health and partners around the world.
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Chief Executive Officer, GoodWeave
Nina Smith is the founding Chief Executive Officer of GoodWeave International, the leading NGO working to stop child labor in global supply chains. The GoodWeave® certification offers the best assurance that select products are made without child or forced labor and that childhoods and rights are restored. Under Nina's leadership, GoodWeave has pioneered a system that has changed business practices and community beliefs and ensured freedom and education for hundreds of thousands of children across South Asia.
Nina is winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship; the Schwab Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurs; the Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service; the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s EXCEL Award for excellence in chief executive leadership; and the Elluminate Award for Jewish women social entrepreneurs. Nina sits on the boards of the Fair Labor Association and the Better Buying Institute. She is a graduate of Tufts University.
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CEO, Mercy Corps
Neal Keny-Guyer is a social entrepreneur driven by the belief that a better future is possible.
Since 1994, Neal has served as Chief Executive Officer of the global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps. Under his leadership, Mercy Corps has grown into one of the most respected international relief and development agencies in the world, with ongoing operations in more than 40 countries, a staff of 5,000, and global revenue of over $450 million. Fast Company ranked Mercy Corps one of the most innovative social-change organizations in the world and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls Mercy Corps “a first-rate aid group.”
A native of Tennessee, Neal started his career working with at-risk youth in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. After attending business school, he moved to Thailand to aid Cambodian refugees with CARE and UNICEF.
In 1982, Neal began his tenure with Save the Children, rising to become Director of Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. He designed and implemented high-impact relief and development programs in some of the most war-torn and politically sensitive regions in the world.
Neal holds a B.A. in Public Policy and Religion from Duke University, a master’s degree in Public and Private Management (M.P.P.M.) from Yale University, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Portland State University.
A former trustee of the Yale Corporation, Neal remains very involved with the University, serving on the Yale President’s Council on International Affairs and the Board of Advisers of the Yale School of Management (SOM). Neal is as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System.
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Co-founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women
Mónica Ramírez is an attorney, author, and activist fighting for the rights of farmworkers, migrant women workers, and the Latine(x) community. She is the founder of Justice for Migrant Women and co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, The Latinx House, and Poderistas. Mónica has received numerous awards, including Harvard Kennedy School’s Gender Equity Changemaker Award, Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award, the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award and the Hispanic Heritage Award. She was named to Forbes Mexico’s 100 Most Powerful Women’s 2018 list, TIME Magazine's 2021 TIME100 Next list and People en Español's 100 Most Powerful Latinos in 2021. Mónica is a Ford Global Fellow. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Law Center, and Friends of the Latino Museum.
Mónica is a graduate of Loyola University, Harvard Kennedy School and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
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Chief Executive Officer and President,
CeresMindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003. Under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks have grown both in size and influence.
As a well-known global thought leader, Mindy has inspired coalitions of institutional investors, corporate boards, C-suite executives and capital market leaders to factor sustainability risks and opportunities into decision-making.
In 2020, Lubber received the 'Champions of the Earth' award - the highest environmental honor from the United Nations. That same year, she made Barron’s Magazine’s inaugural list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance and nominated again in 2021.
Prior to Ceres, Mindy served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Bill Clinton. She also founded Green Century Capital Management and served as the director of the MASSPIRG
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Matthew Forti is the Managing Director of One Acre Fund, now the largest nonprofit social enterprise working exclusively to improve the yields, incomes, and resilience of over 4 million African subsistence farmers. Matt played an instrumental role in One Acre Fund’s founding, helping to raise the seed capital and becoming its inaugural Board Chair. Today Matt coordinates the organization’s global operations, including partnership and business development, corporate finance, monitoring & evaluation, and the organization’s governing boards. Prior, Matt was a Manager at the Bridgespan Group, co-heading its performance measurement practice and working in the global development practice area. Matt received his MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management and BA summa cum laude from Northwestern University. Matt writes extensively on the topic of performance measurement, including through a blog series for Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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Maryana Iskander is CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. She spent 10 years as CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa, winning the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019. Prior to this, she served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was an associate at McKinsey & Company, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She is a Henry Crown Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Marc Freedman is Founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org). He is the author of five books, including most recently, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations. He co-founded Experience Corps to mobilize people over 50 to improve the prospects of low-income elementary school, and the Purpose Prize, an annual award for social innovators in the second half of life (Both Experience Corps and the Purpose Prize are now programs of AARP). Freedman is an Ashoka Senior Fellow; was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum; and is a Skoll Awardee. A former visiting fellow at Stanford University, King’s College, London, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, he holds an MBA from Yale University. He lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Partner, New Profit
Marco A. Davis is a Partner at New Profit, a pioneering nonprofit national venture philanthropy fund. In this role, he serves as Organizational Lead on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and he manages the Proximity accelerator, engaging innovative social entrepreneurs of color.
Before joining New Profit, Mr. Davis served under President Barack Obama as Deputy Director and Acting Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, which included leading engagement with the Hispanic community on the President’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Initiative. He also served as Director of Public Engagement for the Corporation for National and Community Service. Previously, he was Director of Global Fellowship and Regional Manager for Latin America at Ashoka’s Youth Venture. Earlier in his career, he was Director of Leadership Development at UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza).
Mr. Davis is a frequent speaker on the Latino community and education in the United States. He serves on the board of directors at Educators for Excellence and Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC). He has been awarded the Hispanics in Philanthropy NGen Fellowship and the Presidio Institute Cross Sector Leadership Fellowship. In spring 2017, he was named a Pahara-Aspen Fellow.
Mr. Davis received a B.A. in History and Latin American Studies from Yale University, and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Originally from the New York City area, he lives in the District of Columbia with his wife and daughter.
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Liz is Managing Director – Portfolio and Investments at the Skoll Foundation, where she identifies and leads timely, strategic investments in Awardees with whom we see extraordinary potential for large scale and lasting change in the world. She also serves as a collaborative advisor to grantees and multiple external partners.
Liz has significant experience in the broad areas of investment and finance in developing markets - from digital financial inclusion to fund structuring and facilitating supply chain investments with small local firms and large multinational corporations - and deep agriculture sector knowledge. She is passionate about growing markets and empowering economically disenfranchised people around the world with choice to pursue a range of economic livelihoods. Prior to joining Skoll, Liz held positions with USAID, World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OPIC, and as a development consultant.
Liz is a Midwesterner at heart (KCMO!) and a globalist in spirit who never ceases to be moved by human kindness.
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Lucy Lake is Chief Executive of CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education), dedicated to supporting girls’ education and women’s leadership, with a focus in sub-Saharan Africa. CAMFED's model has to date benefited over seven million young people and brought through a new generation of 225,000 women leaders in the CAMFED Association. Lucy is a founding member and former Co-Chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, and on the High-Level Steering Committee of the Education Commission’s Workforce Initiative. Under Lucy’s tenure, CAMFED has been recognised by the OECD for best practice in taking development innovation to scale and has been awarded the 2021 Hilton Humanitarian Prize and Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Alongside Angeline Murimirwa, Lucy was awarded the 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development.
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Liliana Madrigal is Co-Founder and Vice-President of ACT, created in 1996 with Dr. Mark J. Plotkin. Her special mandate is providing the vision, strategic direction, and organizational leadership to advance ACT’s mission. Additionally, Liliana oversees ACT’s fundraising and programmatic activities, traveling frequently to South America to meet and work with ACT's local teams and indigenous partners. Previously she led conservation efforts with the Fundacion de Parques Nacionales de Costa Rica, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy. In 2006, Liliana won the Circle of Bridge-Makers Award from the Angeles Arrien Foundation. She and Dr. Plotkin were co-awardees of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2008. In 2017, she was awarded a residency fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Liliana lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband Dr. Mark J. Plotkin.
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Author, Writer, Founder & Host GRITtv, The Laura Flanders Show
Journalist, author and media entrepreneur, Laura Flanders is the host of the Laura Flanders Show, "Where the people who say it can’t be done take a back seat to the people who are doing it.”
Online, on TV and on radio, The Laura Flanders Show features real stories of shifting power from the few to the many. The Laura Flanders Show is a nationally syndicated co-production of New York's CUNY TV.
Flanders is also a best-selling author of six books including BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species, and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. She is a contributing writer for the Nation Magazine as well as the Media Fellow at the Next System Project, where her most recent paper is "Next System Media, An Urgent Necessity."
You can find the LF Show week on KCET/LINKtv and public cable and satellite stations across the US. It’s also available as a free podcast. Follow @GRITlaura or visit LauraFlanders.com.
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CEO, Weal Life, PBC
Keely Stevenson is an entrepreneur and an investor. She is CEO and Co-founder of Weal Life, a digital health company focused on leveraging mobile technology to make it easier for people to care for each other during times of health crisis, advanced aging or chronic illness. She has served as a board member, mentor and advisor to start-ups and established companies in healthcare, biotech, energy, housing, education and finance around the globe. Previously, she’s built global initiatives, including in her role as CEO of Bamboo Finance USA. Bamboo is one of the world’s first and largest private equity firms focused on balancing social impact and commercial returns ($300M AUM). She’s also led the world’s first online community for social entrepreneurs as an early Skoll Foundation team member. She has worked on five continents. She studied politics at UC Berkeley and received an MBA from Oxford University where she was a Skoll Scholar.
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Jordan Kassalow is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of VisionSpring, the co-founder of EYElliance, and a Partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates. Jordan also founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo New York. Prior to his position at the Council, he served as Director of the River Blindness Division at Helen Keller International. Jordan is a fellow of Draper Richards Kaplan, Skoll, Ashoka, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was named one of Schwab Foundation’s 2012 Social Entrepreneurs, was the inaugural winner of the John P. McNulty Prize, and was recognized in Forbes Impact 30. VisionSpring has been internationally recognized by the Skoll Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the World Bank; is a three-time winner of Fast-Company's Social Capitalist Award; and a winner of Duke University’s Enterprising Social Innovation Award. Additionally, he co-authored Dare
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John Marks is the founder and Managing Director of Confluence International, an Amsterdam-based NGO that specializes in Track II diplomacy and TV production to promote social change. Until 2014, he was President of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO, which he founded in 1982. SFCG was nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. John also founded Common Ground Productions (CGP) and has produced or executive-produced TV series in more than 20 countries. He is a Visiting Scholar in Peacebuilding and Social Entrepreneurship at Leiden University in the Netherlands. With his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he is a Skoll Awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, and, additionally, he is an Ashoka Senior Fellow. A best-selling, award-winning author, he graduated from Cornell University and was a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. He has an honorary PhD from the UN’s University of Peace in Costa Rica.
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CEO & President, Gram Vikas USA
Brief Profile of Dr. Joe Madiath
Joe Madiath is the Founder and Chairman of Gram Vikas. Joe has spent over 45 years working in the field of development among the poorest communities in Orissa, India. Drawn to Odisha in 1971 to help communities that had been ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, Joe stayed on as an activist focused on sustainable development. Founded in 1979, Gram Vikas utilizes a holistic model of development, based on Joe’s conviction that every family in a village needs to have healthy living practices for an improved quality of life. Gram Vikas works in the areas of renewable energy, especially biogas and solar energy. Totally inclusive water and sanitation is the flagship programme of Gram Vikas. This model has transformed more than 1200 villages and has successfully proven that the rural poor can and will pay for better sanitation and water facilities.
Name: Mr. Joe Madiath
Designation: Founder-cum-Chairman
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Jimmy Carter was born in rural Georgia in 1924 to a farmer/businessman and a registered nurse. Most of Carter’s childhood neighbors were poor African-Americans, and though his father supported segregation, many of Carter’s friends were the children of black farmhands. Early on, he learned of marginalization and unjust distribution of resources.
He attended public schools and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, rose to the rank of lieutenant, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the second nuclear submarine. After his father’s death, Carter returned to Georgia to run the family farm and business, and quickly became a community leader. He served in state politics and, as Georgia’s governor, advocated for civil rights. In 1977 he became the 39th president of the United States. He helmed peace treaties in the Middle East, crafted significant environmental protections, and created a new Department of Education.
He opened the Carter Center in 1982 to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease. The Center spearheaded the international effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease—poised to be the second human disease eradicated in history. Every year since 1984, Carter has volunteered a week with Habitat for Humanity,
building and repairing thousands of homes in 14 countries. He has authored 31 books, ranging from personal history and fiction, to urgent polemics and poetry. As a clarion voice for the disenfranchised, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
In recent years he has turned his keen and compassionate eye to what he calls the number one human rights abuse: systematic injustice against women and girls. “Women are key agents of the change we need,” he said recently. “When half the world’s population is not consulted on important decisions and policies, it is no wonder that so many problems persist.”
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Chairman, Seiler LLP
Jim DeMartini is the Chairman of Seiler LLP. In his role as a trusted advisor, Mr. DeMartini counsels clients in matters including income, estate and gift tax planning, wealth management, all facets of real estate, and charitable gift planning.
Currently, Mr. DeMartini is a member of the Board of Directors of the Skoll Foundation and the Stupski Foundation. Mr. DeMartini was also Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of Sports Association for Youth, a non-competitive baseball league that currently benefits more than 1,000 Bay Area youths annually. Additional past community activities include Notre Dame de Namur University Trustee, Executive Committee Member, and Chairman of the Audit Committee; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur of California Advisory Board; Santa Clara University English Advisory Board; Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford Capital Campaign Committee; Stanford University Medical Center Friends of Orthopedics; Chair of the Santa Clara University Men’s Golf Committee; and Skoll Global Threats Fund board member.
From 1999-2004 Mr. DeMartini served on the Board of Directors of Mid-Peninsula Bank, a member of the Greater Bay Bancorp group. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Golden Gate University. Mr. DeMartini pursued graduate studies in taxation and speaks on a variety of related topics. Mr. DeMartini is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and California State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Co-Founder, One Family Foundation
Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with over twenty years’ experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll Awardee, and Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her previous organizations are Child and Youth Finance International, Aflatoun International, Childline India and Child Helpline International, which have helped enable the financial inclusion and protection of children and youth in more than 180 countries. Jeroo is now founder of One Family Foundation, which incubates social innovations, helps them scale, and is currently anchoring Catalyst 2030 – a global network working to accelerate progress towards the SDGs through radical and transformative social innovation at the country level.
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A former screenwriter and independent filmmaker, Jenny Bowen founded Half the Sky (now OneSky for all children) in 1998 in order to give something back to China, her adopted daughters’ home country, and to the many orphaned and abandoned children then languishing behind institutional walls. Under Ms. Bowen's leadership, OneSky has grown into a global NGO whose mission is to train communities and caregivers to provide nurturing responsive care and early education that unlocks the potential hidden in our world’s most vulnerable young children. OneSky now works in Mainland China, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Hong Kong.
In China, OneSky (now through its local implementing partner, Chunhui Children’s Foundation) has transformed the lives of many thousands of marginalized children and helped China re-imagine its entire child welfare system. In Vietnam, OneSky has tailored its approach to address the needs of 1.2 million children of factory workers, opened the Da Nang Early Learning Center, and, in partnership with government, is now scaling its training for home-based childcare providers throughout the country. In Hong Kong, in 2020, OneSky opened its regional training base—the P.C. Lee OneSky Global Centre for Early Childhood Development—in order to build a better future for the disadvantaged children of Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region.
Among other awards, Ms. Bowen has been named named the American Chamber of Commerce's Women of Influence Non-Profit Leader of the Year, received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was chosen by popular vote to carry the Olympic Torch on Chinese soil. She serves on China’s National Committee for Orphans and Disabled Children and on the Expert Consultative Committee for Beijing Normal University’s Philanthropy Research Institute. She is the author of the memoir, Wish You Happy Forever: What China’s Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains, published by Harper Collins.
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Chairman, New Profit
Jeff Walker is Chairman of New Profit, a social change investment fund and is Partner in CHAP which is focused on front line health. He also currently serves on the boards of the African Philanthropy Forum, Just Capital, UVA Center for Contemplative Sciences (where he is chair), Giving Tuesday, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health and the University of Virginia’s Undergraduate Business School, where he was President for ten years. He is a partner in Bridge Builders investment fund for Mindful Wellness. Jeff was on the board of the University of Virginia, Chairman of The Council of Foundations at University of Virginia (UVA), served on the Berklee College of Music Board, the Harvard Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors and was on the Visiting Committee and is on the Advisory Boards of MIT Media Lab and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been on numerous other for-profit and non-profit boards.
Previously, Jeff was Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, focusing on social enterprises and collaboration, and a Lecturer at the Kennedy School. At Harvard, he helped to develop a course in exponential fundraising for nonprofits. He served as the Chairman of Millennium Promise, partnering with the United Nations and Columbia University, an incubator to eliminate extreme poverty, and was the Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), where he is as an Emeritus Trustee. Jeff Co-Founded and was Chairman of Npower, an organization that provides shared technology services to nonprofits.
Jeff co-authored the book, “The Generosity Network”, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about. He also received the John C. Whitehead Award for Social Enterprise from the Harvard Business School Club of New York City. He is currently teaching, researching and writing on the issue of systems entrepreneurship and systems change.For twenty five years Jeff was CEO and Co-Founder of $12 billion JPMorg
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As Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health, James guides programs that strengthen community health systems, upskill the community health workforce, and deliver community-based care and treatment in Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. He also oversees Last Mile Health’s key influence initiative, Africa Frontline First, which aims to improve the design, durability, and amount of community health financing coming from government, philanthropy, and multi-lateral institutions.
Prior to joining Last Mile Health, James served as a Principal on the Portfolio & Investments Team at the Skoll Foundation and led the Foundation’s relationship with a $40M portfolio of current Skoll Awardees. Before Skoll, James led the Lwala Community Alliance, a health and development organization known for its community approach to increasing child survival, skilled delivery rates, and access to HIV care in rural Kenya.
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Founder and Executive Director, DataKind
Jake Porway is a machine learning and technology enthusiast who loves nothing more than seeing good values in data. He is the founder and executive director of DataKind, an organization that brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. Jake was most recently the data scientist in the New York Times R&D lab and remains an active member of the data science community, bringing his technical experience from his past work with groups like NASA, DARPA, Google, and Bell Labs to bear on the social sector. Jake’s work has been featured in leading academic journals and conferences (PAMI, ICCV), the Guardian, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has been honored as a 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and a 2012 National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA.
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Director of Strategy, Capricorn Investment Group
Henry is director of advocacy at Capricorn Investment Group, a firm that invests in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape Joby Aviation and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. At Capricorn, Henry helps catalyze capital towards the solutions to the climate change crisis.
Prior to Capricorn, Henry was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris, Casablanca and Dubai and with Oliver Wyman in New York. His last year as a consultant was spent with the World Economic Forum where he was in charge of the infrastructure finance initiative, a project aimed at rapidly scaling up essential infrastructure, including renewable energy, in emerging countries. Henry is a former captain in the French Marine Infantry, serving within NATO forces in Afghanistan in 2007. He is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure (rue d’Ulm), of Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Paris and of the Saint-Cyr Special Military School (ROTC).
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Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Heather is a Vice President in the San Francisco team of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and leads the practice area of Environment and Climate Change, including a range of funder collaboratives, advisory engagements, and research. She leads the Shifting Systems initiative that encourages funders to place longer-term, more adaptive funding with grantee partners to enable them to create systemic impact. She oversees a portfolio of over 40 sponsored projects in environment, climate change and cross-cutting rights issues, and advises individual philanthropists and foundations. She previously worked with the Rockefeller Foundation, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, and Oxfam GB. Her perspectives and practice have been influenced by two decades living and working in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She serves on the boards of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Dropbox Foundation, Forum for the Future, the Wildlife Justice Commission, and Doc Society.
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Harish Hande is a renewable energy entrepreneur with over 27 years of grassroots experience in understanding, developing and deploying sustainable energy solutions for underserved communities. Born in Karnataka, India, Harish went on to pursue his graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a PhD from University of Massachusetts.
In order to catalyze deployment of sustainable solutions, SELCO operates at every level of the system and at every point in the supply chain, to build an ecosystem that increases accessibility, affordability, and appropriate renewable energy solutions for the poor.
Today SELCO is an umbrella of organizations, each tasked to address gaps in the energy access ecosystem namely SELCO India (1994), energy access enterprise; SELCO Foundation (2010), non profit R&D, SELCO Incubation Centre (2012), nurturing grass roots energy enterprises and finally SELCO Fund (2016), deploy patient capital.
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President and Chief Operating Officer, SpaceX
As President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is responsible for day-to-day operations and for managing all customer and strategic relations. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 70 launches, representing more than $10 billion in business. Shotwell is a member of the SpaceX Board of Directors. Prior to joining SpaceX, Shotwell spent more than 10 years at the Aerospace Corporation, holding positions in Space Systems Engineering & Technology and Project Management. Shotwell was subsequently recruited to be Director of Microcosm’s Space Systems Division,managing space system technologies, serving on the executive committee and directing corporate business development. In 2014, Shotwell was appointed to the United States Export Import Bank's Advisory Committee and the Federal Aviation Administration’s Management Advisory Council. Shotwell has been awarded the World Technology Award for Individual Achievement in Space, has been inducted into the Women In Technology International Hall of Fame and was elected to the honorable grade of Fellow with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. SpaceX supports science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs locally as well as national engineering programs and competitions. Shotwell has helped raise over $1.4 million for STEM education programs reaching thousands of students nationwide. Shotwell received, with honors, her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, and serves as both a University Trustee and a member of the Advisory Council for Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of space related subjects.
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Gene Falk is one of the few people to lead major ventures in both Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Building on this experience, he founded and heads strategic consulting firm FalkAdvisors|DGB whose mission is to help funders and the not-for-profits they support achieve the best results from their collaborations, avoiding risks and pain points, and sidestepping obstacles that rapidly burn through money, time and other valuable resources.
Previously, Gene headed mothers2mothers (m2m) and was a recipient of a Skoll Award for this work. Prior to that, Gene was a senior executive at Showtime and HBO.
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Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Erin L. Worsham is the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and an Adjunct Professor of Social Innovation at Duke University.
Erin leads CASE’s work in educating the next generation of impact leaders and creating thought leadership and practitioner programming related to scaling impact, impact investing, and more. Erin is the lead author of CASE’s Scaling Pathways series and leads the executive education offering Smart Scaling, showcasing her passion for helping nonprofits and for-profits achieve greater impact. She has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (most recent: “Why We Didn’t Fund Your Scaling Plan”); the Academy of Management; Huffington Post; NextBillion, DevEx, and more.
Erin previously worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including at Booz Allen Hamilton, USAID, and the World Bank. She earned her BA from Duke University and her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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CEO and Founder, College for Social Innovation
Eric Schwarz is the Co-Founder and CEO of the College for Social Innovation (CFSI), which seeks to "educate and inspire the next generation of problem solvers for humanity's tough challenges.” CFSI seeks to build a bigger, better prepared, and more diverse talent pipeline for the social impact sector through its flagship Semester in the City experiential learning program in Boston and a new national Semester for Impact program set to launch in 2023-24, both of which provide a full semester of academic credit. Eric is also Co-Founder and former CEO of Citizen Schools, an apprenticeship-based learning model, which has had a positive impact on the after-school and extended learning time fields across the U.S.
Prior to starting Citizen Schools in 1995, Eric served as vice president of City Year, the national service program, and as a journalist at The Oakland Tribune and The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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World-class social innovator. Safe housing advocate. Bricklayer. Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is the Founder and CEO of Build Change and a global expert on resilient housing, post-disaster reconstruction, and systems change. Elizabeth’s strategic direction and leadership have grown Build Change from a few employees in 2004 to a global team spread across five continents. She is the recipient of many honors, and in 2011, was named the US Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. Together with Build Change, she was awarded the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2018, she received the University of California, Berkeley’s Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award. Elizabeth is also an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, and an Echoing Green Fellow. Dr. Hausler has headlined top conferences, lectured at eminent universities, and been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, BBC News, Forbes, Elle Magazine, ABC News, and Bloomberg Business.
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Eleanor is the Lead Executive of B Lab Global, the nonprofit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people and the planet. B Lab creates standards, policies, tools, and programs to certify B Corps - companies that elect to balance profit with purpose.
Eleanor began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer, spent over 20 years as a consulting engineer, and most recently was the CEO of Water For People (a member of the Skoll social entrepreneur community) where she is now Chair of the Board. Eleanor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a distinguished alumna of the University of California at Berkeley. She is a registered professional engineer, board-certified environmental engineer, LEED accredited professional, and serves on several corporate and non-profit boards. Eleanor won the Schwab Award for Social Entrepreneurship, did a TEDx talk on Why Water Is A Women’s Issue, and was named a Denver Outstanding Women in Business.
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Rwanda Chief of Staff & Head of Government Relations,
One Acre FundDoreen is the Chief of Staff and Director of Government Relations for One Acre Fund in Rwanda. One Acre Fund serves smallholder farmers in East and Southern Africa, providing farm inputs, financing, and training that helps farmers to increase their yields and become more prosperous. Globally, One Acre Fund has 8,500 staff who serve more than 1 million farm families each year, with an additional 1 million households reached through private and public partnerships.
Doreen oversees One Acre Fund’s country-scale engagements and partnerships with the Government of Rwanda, as well the program’s policy, communications, and legal and compliance portfolios. She coordinates strategy setting for the Rwanda leadership team and leads key strategic initiatives, organizational campaigns, and external partnerships that improve organizational culture, policy and impact alignment, and program efficiency.
Doreen holds a B.A in International Relations from Tufts University and is a 2018 Skoll Foundation and Mastercard Foundation Emerging Leaders Fellow and an Opportunity Collaboration Global Skoll Foundation Fellow. Prior to joining One Acre Fund, Doreen worked on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) in Belize with the United States Peace Corps and has previously worked with the World Justice Project, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Rwanda, and Youth Action Africa.
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CEO, Obama Foundation
David Simas is the Chief Executive Officer of the Obama Foundation. A native of Taunton, Massachusetts, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007. Simas then joined President Obama’s administration in 2009 as a Deputy Assistant to the President, working with senior advisors David Axelrod and David Plouffe. In 2012, he served as Director of Opinion Research for President Obama's reelection campaign. Following the reelection, Simas returned to the White House as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach. Simas holds a B.A. in political science from Stonehill College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. He serves on the national board of directors of OneGoal and lives in Chicago with his wife, Shauna, and their two daughters.
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Director of Partnerships, Oxfam International
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CEO, Participant
David Linde is CEO of Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. Linde is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, content, impact campaigning, operations, and acquisitions. Participant titles include Oscar winners Spotlight, Green Book, American Factory, CITIZENFOUR, The Cove, An Inconvenient Truth, ROMA and A Fantastic Woman; as well as Contagion, Good Night Good Luck, Flee and in television, Emmy®-winning content such as Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. Linde’s background spans production, global distribution and building companies from the ground up. He served as chairman of Universal Pictures, co-founder of Focus Features and CEO/owner of Lava Bear Films, where he produced multi-Oscar® nominee Arrival. Linde currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees and Film Independent's Board Of Directors.
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Managing Director, Working Capital
Dan Viederman is a Partner at the Working Capital Innovation Fund, focused on efforts to engage and invest in entrepreneurs and tech innovators in pursuit of tools to scale improvements for vulnerable workers in global supply chains.
Previously, Dan was CEO of Verité, a leading non-profit organization working against global forced and child labor through in-depth research and corporate engagement. In recognition of Verité’s impact, Dan was winner of a Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was named Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year. He has also managed China offices for World Wildlife Fund and Catholic Relief Services.
Dan is graduate of Yale University, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the Chinese language program at Nanjing Teacher’s University.
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President and Chief Executive Officer,
LandesaChris Jochnick is the CEO of Landesa, the leading global land rights organization. He is also Chair of the Board of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, and member of the Board of Directors of Rights and Resources Initiative. Previously, Chris led Oxfam America's Private Sector Department, was a corporate lawyer with Paul, Weiss, co-founded two human rights organizations, taught human rights at Harvard Law School and Columbia University (SIPA), and was a fellow of the MacArthur and Echoing Green foundations.
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Carne Ross founded and now runs Independent Diplomat, an award-winning international advisory group that advises democratic governments and political groups (such as the Syrian democratic opposition) on diplomatic strategy. An author of two books (most recently, “The Leaderless Revolution”), he is a frequent commentator on world affairs for the BBC, CNN, New York Times, Financial Times and other publications. He is the subject of the recent BBC4 documentary film, “Accidental Anarchist”. Carne is a former senior British diplomat and WMD expert who resigned after giving then-secret evidence to the first official inquiry into the Iraq war.
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Driven by an interest to witness meaningful and sustainable change in underserved communities, Bvudzai leads the regional research and advocacy agenda for VillageReach’s work in improving immunization supply chains. Some of her current work is focussed on understanding processes and outcomes of transitioning social innovations (funding and management) from non-profit organizations to governments in low-resource settings. Bvudzai studied Public Health in Zimbabwe and South Africa and earned her PhD from the University of the Western Cape in 2017. All of her work experience has been in public health research with a goal to inform policy and practice. She has received multiple awards and fellowships including the Emerging Voices for Global Health, Social Innovation in Public Health Fellowship, South African Research Chair Initiative in Health Systems & Social Change.
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Director, AVINA Americas, AVINA Americas
Chair, Social Progress Imperative.
Director, AVINA Foundation
Director and former Chair and President, INCAE Business School
Director, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress
Doctor in Business Administration, Harvard University
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Commissioning Editor, Mozilla Foundation
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and the Commissioning Editor for Advocacy Media at the Mozilla Foundation. His most recent project, Do Not Track, is a co-production of Upian, the National Film Board of Canada, Arte France and Bayerischer Rundfunk, in association with Radio-Canada, Radio Télévision Suisse and Al Jazeera’s AJ+ network. It is the recipient of the International Documentary Association award for best nonfiction series, the Prix Gemaux for Best Interactive Series, the International Association of Broadcasters Online Factual Prize, the Deutscher Prize for online communications, and the 2016 Peabody award.
His 2008 feature documentary Rip! A Remix Manifesto is an official honoree of the Webby Awards, was the recipient of Audience Choice prizes at festivals from Amsterdam to South Africa, was broadcast in 20 countries, and seen by millions of people worldwide.
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Community Paralegal, Justice & Empowerment Initiatives - Nigeria, Justice & Empowerment Initiatives
My name is Akinmuyiwa Bisola Temitope, am a community paralegal, render free legal services. Also a media coordinator. In 2018 I was nominated has a member of Management Committee (MC) in slum dwellers international (SDI).
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As Principal on the Portfolio & Investments Team, Ben works to understand the innovative models and impact of social entrepreneurs and surface opportunities for Skoll engagement and investment. Before joining Skoll, Ben most recently completed a Global Health Corps fellowship with IntraHealth International in Uganda focused on addressing the problem of health worker absenteeism. Prior to his transition into the social impact space, Ben was a management consultant in Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations practice, where he worked across multiple industries and functions.
Ben holds degrees in Business Honors and Finance with a minor in Spanish from the University of Texas. In his free time, he loves to explore the outdoors, take an excessive number of photos on his travels, and watch a good baseball game.
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Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world’s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co-founders believe health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized. Since that time, GHC has placed almost 1,000 young leaders from more than 40 countries with non-profit and government health organizations like Partners In Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, and the United States, developing them as creative, effective, and compassionate leaders along the way. Prior to GHC, Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where she supported design-thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked with Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana, and has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011, Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact, and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.
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Associate Program Manager, MasterCard Foundation
Ariane has been with the Mastercard Foundation since 2014, and is currently an Associate Program Manager. She works on Youth Livelihoods and Education programming across several countries in Africa and with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Before joining the Foundation, Ariane worked for 6 years in international education, first as a teacher, and then in educational recruitment for a large K-12 public education reform. She holds a Bachelor of International Development from the University of Guelph, and a Master of Immigration and Settlement Studies from Ryerson University.
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co-CEO, African Visionary Fund
Atti is a leader and advocate with over 10 years of experience as a nonprofit CEO. Throughout her career, Atti experienced the biased and unjust challenges of raising philanthropic dollars in the U.S. for a community-centered African organization. As the AVFund’s Africa-based co-CEO, she is focused on supporting the growth of African visionaries and their innovative impact ideas.
Prior to joining the AVFund, Atti founded and led Seeds of Africa, a nonprofit developing the educational foundation for the next generation of Ethiopia’s leaders.
As an advocate for racial justice Atti writes and speaks about power dynamics and racial injustice in philanthropy. Atti graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.
She currently resides in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She’s a passionate cook, baker, florist and tennis player. In her free time, you can find her posting recipes and flower arrangements on Instagram, or hitting the courts with her husband.
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Dr. Angela Gichaga is a public and social sector enthusiast with experience working across civil service, consulting, and NGOs and academia. She is an executive coach, human capital and leadership development advisor with regional and global expertise, as well as an exceptional track record of optimizing performance. Angela runs her tailor made Pathway to Parity programme to empower women and young people in the workplace and society. She now serves developing country Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance globally, in building resilient and sustainably financed primary and community health systems as CEO of the Financing Alliance for Health (FAH).
Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Medicine, Masters in Health Economics and Policy and Fellowship in Public Sector Management. FAH was a Skoll Awardee in 2022.
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Musician, Invidividual
A Southern California native born to Panamanian parents, Blacc was raised on boundary-pushing hip-hop acts like Public Enemy, The Pharcyde, and De La Soul, and developed a fierce admiration for such soul musicians as Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and folk-rock singer/songwriters like Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. “I got interested in folk and soul because of the songwriting,” he says. “Especially with folk, I was really drawn to the way those artists turned their songs into storytelling.”
Carefully crafting lyrics to create impactful music has been essential to Blacc since high school, when he first broke into the indie hip-hop scene. Back then Blacc and his partner DJ Exile formed a duo named Emanon and quickly became cult favorites in Los Angeles, largely due to their heavy inventiveness in working with jazz samples and breakbeat loops. Going solo in 2003, Blacc soon signed to indie label Stones Throw and transformed from rapper to singer—albeit without shedding his hip-hop spirit or sense of social consciousness. Three years after the release of his solo debut Shine Through, Blacc began work on the record that would change his life and career: Good Things, an album certified gold in the UK, France, Germany, and Australia, among other countries.
“Wake Me Up” having sold more than 2.8 million copies in the U.S., Blacc notes that one of his main ambitions is to use his surging popularity to affect social change while continuing to infuse his music with a mindful positivity. “What it comes down to in my songwriting is trying to tell the story of the underdog and all the obstacles they have to overcome in this life,” says Blacc of the songs that make up Lift Your Spirit and his overall body of work. “The stories in my songs are about the common individual and all the struggles they’re dealing with everyday, and also all the hopes and aspirations that they have. It’s about reflecting all of that, and at the same time getting people to sing along and feel good."
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Global education editor, Financial Times
Andrew Jack is global education editor for the Financial Times, writing on educational issues around the world and editorial lead for the free FT schools programme (www.ft.com/schoolsarefree). He was previously head of curated content, deputy editor of the big read section, pharmaceuticals correspondent, and a foreign correspondent in France and Russia. He is author of "Inside Putin's Russia" and "The French Exception"
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Founder and Executive Director, Il’laramatak Community Concerns
Agnes Leina comes from Northern part of Kenya, Samburu who are also mainly pastoralists and very traditional in their way of life. She holds a Masters Degree in Rural Sociology and Community Development, from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Bachelors, degree in Communications and Community Development from Daystar University, as well as a Post-Graduate Certificate in International Development from the University of Birmingham - United Kingdom.
Agnes is the Founder and Executive Director of Il’laramatak Community Concerns: - whose name denotes care givers, or pastoralists, an Indigenous People’s Organization whose main objective is to restore dignity among Indigenous people, with special emphasis to Girls and Women, and which envisions a society of Indigenous Peoples of Kenya that is free from all forms of discrimination. She is also the Gender Coordinator of IPACC, Indigenous People of Africa Coordinating Committee, and she sits in the Advisory Committee of FIMI, a global Indigenous Women’s network among others.
She has over 15 years of experience in working for Indigenous Pastoralist Communities, especially women and girls, in defending their human rights concerns in Education, Climate Change, Land and Natural Resource rights, Violence against women, Early Marriages and FGM, as well as access to alternative livelihoods among others, at the Community level, National, Regional and International levels
As an indigenous girls’ and women’s rights defender and a social scientist, Agnes has presented various papers concerning indigenous girls and women in various fields, at the UNFCCC, UNPFII, FOKO Conference in Finland,, Indigenous Women s’ Conferences in Lima and Manila, Presented papers at the EGM at UN HQs, attended preparatory meetings for World conference on Indigenous Peoples -WCIP, in Alta, and in New work at the PGA meetings among
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Yvette is a human rights activist and leads WITNESS.org, a global human rights organization that helps activists and communities use participatory media and technology for human rights. WITNESS
WITNESS pairs grassroots community support, and broad learning and sharing with advocacy at a systems level, aiming to support the millions of people turning to video to document abuses and use authentic narratives to create change. Yvette worked globally in start-ups and established companies in media and new technologies. She serves as advisor/board member for AccessNow, Majal, and DocSociety.
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Founder and CEO, Business Fights Poverty
Zahid has over 25 years’ experience in business and international development, and is passionate about helping businesses collaborate with others to scale their social impact. Over his career he has helped create nearly 20 networks and communities that bring people together for social impact.
Zahid is the Founder and CEO of Business Fights Poverty, a Founding UK B Corp.
Business Fights Poverty has grown into a global community of people and organisations passionate about building an equitable and resilient future.
By curating purposeful collaboration, Business Fights Poverty helps companies and their partners access the insights and relationships they need to unlock new opportunities for business and social impact.
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Founder and CEO, Whit and Wisdom
Whitney Smith brings her over 25 years of experience in the leadership of innovative and progressive projects and organizations to her work as a consultant.
Whitney is also the visionary Founder of Girls For A Change and scaled the organization from 10 girls in the US to over 20,000 girls globally during her 13-year tenure as CEO.
Whit And Wisdom is a boutique consultancy that is completely head over heels in love with corporations, social ventures and individuals who are out to make our world a better place.
Whit and Wisdom specializes in strategy, facilitation, project management, negotiation and problem solving.
We work with corporations to develop and implement CSR strategy, pro-social marketing campaigns and philanthropic endeavors.
We advise companies and entrepreneurs on product development, finance strategy, business and partnership strategy, brand, and culture when the goal is meeting a double bottom line.
We partner with foundations, high net-worth individuals and families to develop giving strategy and implement high leverage philanthropy.
We assist high performing social ventures and social entrepreneurs to design strategy, achieve scale and generate revenue.
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Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, World Resources Institute
Wanjira Mathai is the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at WRI.
She formerly served as Co-chair of WRI’s Global Restoration Council and a Senior Advisor to the Global Restoration Initiative. She is the current Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation and the former Chair of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya.
An inspiring leader, Wanjira has over 20 years of experience advocating for social and environmental change on both local and international platforms. Over the years, Wanjira has also served important strategic and advocacy roles raising the prominence and visibility of global issues such as climate change, youth leadership, sustainable energy, and landscape restoration, at Women Entrepreneurs in Renewables (wPOWER), the Wangari Maathai Foundation (WMF), and the Green Belt Movement (GBM) the organization her mother, Wangari Maathai (2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) founded in 1977.
Wanjira currently serves on the Board of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and as a Leadership Council member of the Clean Cooking Alliance. Wanjira is one of a few Six Seconds EQ Practitioners in Kenya and was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2018 and 2020.
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Executive Director, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture
Wendy’s creative work takes place at the intersection of storytelling, innovation and social justice. As the Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, she is focused on facilitating collaboration, innovation, leadership and cultural impact in the media arts field, leading new national and international programs like HatchLabs, Arts2Work and The Innovation Studio. Arts2Work launched in January 2018 with the very first federally-registered National Apprenticeship Program in media arts and creative technologies, a new initiative representing the hope for the future of creative work in the US, and a pathway out of poverty for a new generation of diverse artists and storytellers. Previously, Wendy was a Senior Consultant at Sundance Institute, helping develop the Sundance/Skoll Stories of Change Program and the New Frontier Story Lab. Wendy also directed the MacArthur Foundation-funded Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, the first public media Innovation Lab in the US. She began her career in film as the Festival Director for the Film Arts Festival for Independent Cinema at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. Wendy is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award for distinguished contribution to the media arts field.
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CEO, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad leads the Chandler Foundation as CEO. Tim co-founded Landesa, the world’s leading land rights organization and a Top-10 Global NGO with over 20 offices worldwide. Tim is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee and Schwab Foundation Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. He has authored numerous books and articles on economic and social development, with work appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He holds two law degrees from University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from Seattle Pacific University.
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Managing Director, RippleWorks
Tim oversees the growth of the Rippleworks portfolio to help more social ventures and engage more Experts.
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Managing Director, Resource Media
Teresa is Managing Director and leads Resource Media's work with philanthropies, nonprofits and agencies that are dedicated to social impact, public health and social justice. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. She serves on the Board of Directors of EarthCorps, on the Advisory Board of the Max Foundation, and teaches an annual nonprofit communications course at the University of Washington.
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Dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Teri Schwartz is the Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) where she has launched an exciting new vision and long-range plan that re-imagines entertainment and performing arts education as an interdisciplinary enterprise grounded in humanistic storytelling, social impact, technology and innovation and global diversity.
Prior to becoming Dean at UCLA TFT, she successfully served as the founding dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television. Schwartz is an award-winning feature film producer, whose many films garnered nominations for Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe, Grammy and MTV awards. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America; Directors Guild of America; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves on the Television Academy Foundation’s Board of Directors; The Hawn Foundation Board of Directors; the Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors; the UCLA TFT/UCA Storytelling Institute in Cannes Executive Board; the Los Angeles Theater Alliance Board of Governors; the NAACP Entertainment Industry Advisory Board; the Governing Council of the Los Angeles-India Film Council; and the Board of Trustees of the Swarovski Foundation. Dean Schwartz was just appointed by the University of California’s Board of Regents to the California State Summer School for the Arts Board of Trustees.
Schwartz received the 2018 UCLA Community School Bruin Partnership Award for Service and Distinction; the 2015 recipient of the CayFilm International Film Festival’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Film Producing; the 2013 American Spirit Award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors for her Special Achievement in Educating New Filmmakers; and Variety’s 2012 Media Mentor of the Year.
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Tabitha Jackson was appointed Director of the Documentary Film Program (DFP) at Sundance Institute in late 2013. The DFP is dedicated to supporting nonfiction filmmakers worldwide in the production of cinematic documentaries that tell compelling stories, push the boundaries of the form, or address contemporary issues including social justice and human rights. In supporting such work, the DFP encourages the diverse exchange of ideas by artists as a critical pathway to developing an open society. Recently supported films have included Cameraperson, Hooligan Sparrow, Whose Streets?, The Look of Silence, I Am Not Your Negro, and CITIZENFOUR.
With almost 25 years experience in the field, Jackson is an award-winning Commissioning Editor, director, and producer of non-fiction work. Prior to joining Sundance she most recently served as Head of Arts and Performance at Channel 4 Television in London, where she supported and championed the independent and alternative voice and sought to find fresh and innovative ways of storytelling. She also executive produced a number of projects for Film 4 including Mark Cousins’ cinematic odyssey The Story of Film, Clio Barnard’s hybrid The Arbor, Sophie Fiennes’ essay The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Bart Layton’s thriller The Imposter, and Iain and Jane’s recent Sundance-winning Nick Cave biography 20,000 Days on Earth.
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CEO of Community and Individual Development Association, and co-founder of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute https://maharishiinstitute.org/ , a multi-award winning educational institution, Imvula Empowerment Fund and the Invincible Group. Co-founded the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson.
Chairperson and the creator of the E3 initiative (Entrepreneurship, Employability, Education) https://www.ecubed-dbe.org/ , for the national Department of Basic Education in South Africa. This national system change initiative will embed 21’st century skills for employment and entrepreneurship, along with other relevant skills for over 12 million learners in the South African school system by 2030.
Co-founder of Tendrel, now merged with Catalyst 2030. Tendrel is a global organization for social impact leaders to support their peers.
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Susan Collin Marks, Peace Ambassador for Search for Common Ground, has worked in some of the most conflictual places on the planet, including mediating in her native South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy; facilitating dialogue across the Middle East; and establishing and supporting peace initiatives in the former Soviet Union, Asia and throughout Africa. In 2014, she stepped aside after 20 years as vice president of Search, and moved from Washington DC to Europe. Search was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.
Her book, Watching the Wind: conflict resolution during South Africa’s transition to democracy, USIP 2000, captures the compelling story of how peace can be built in the most intractable conflict.
Susan writes, speaks, counsels, teaches, and supports peace initiatives internationally. She holds a vision of a world of peace and dignity. She believes that our common humanity binds us together more than our differences divide us.
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Sridhar is a partner in The Bridgespan Group's Boston office. As part of Bridgespan’s Philanthropy and Global Development practice areas, Sridhar has worked with a number of nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropic collaboratives, including Women’s World Banking, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Lever for Change, and The Audacious Project. Much of his work has focused on building successful platforms to harness and direct philanthropic capital in order to both reduce perceived barriers for aspirational philanthropists and increase access to scale capital for high-impact change agents.
Sridhar holds a BA in history from Columbia University, a JD from the Harvard Law School, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Director, The Marshall Institute, London School of Economics
Stephan Chambers is the inaugural director of the Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the co-founder of the Skoll World Forum and was chair of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Director of International Strategy at Oxford’s Saїd Business School, and Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College Oxford.
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CEO & Co-Founder, Yunus Social Business Funds gGmbH
A leader in the social business movement, Saskia co-founded Yunus Social Business (YSB) together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. YSB Funds invests in social businesses in developing countries with affordable financing and growth support. Their portfolio of social businesses provides employment, education, healthcare, safe water and clean energy to over 13 million people worldwide. YSB Corporate Innovation partners with established corporations to help them use their core competencies to address social problems.
Together with the World Economic Forum she co-initiated the COVID Alliance for social entrepreneurs spanning almost 60 leading impact-first organizations and networks. Saskia was appointed to the EU Commission’s expert group on social business and has advised on Ban Ki-Moon’s UN MDG Advocacy Group as well as Richard Branson’s B-team. She has lectured at several universities and events, including the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative. She co-authored a report with the Boston Consulting Group on the experiences of building large-scale social business joint ventures with corporations.
Prior to YSB, Saskia was the Co-CEO of the Grameen Creative Lab and a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and New York. She holds an MBA from the European Business School in Germany and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Saskia holds a German and Canadian citizenship.
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Shamil believes that dealing with conflict constructively is the key to addressing all other needs and challenges. He leads Search for Common Ground, a global peacebuilding organization that employs over 1,000 staff in 30 countries working to prevent violence and build sustainable peace.
In his prior role as CEO of Soliya, he led a campaign of public- and private-sector leaders to create the field of "virtual exchange", which resulted in the creation of dedicated virtual exchange funds by the U.S. Government and the European Union that have allocated over $50million to the growth of this emergent field.
Previously, Shamil was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to serve as the staff-director to a High-Level Group of 20 former Heads of State and Foreign Ministers, Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and scholars tasked by the SG Annan to produce a plan to reverse growing cross-cultural polarization and extremism.
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President, Sobrato Family Foundation
Sandy Herz serves as President of Sobrato Philanthropies, where she helps to guide the Sobrato family’s individual, collaborative and collective philanthropy. Prior to joining Sobrato Philanthropies, Sandy was Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement at the Skoll Foundation, where for 16 years she spearheaded flagship partnerships and provided leadership, integration, and alignment across Skoll activities to create broader impact from the work of leading social entrepreneurs. Sandy has held a variety of positions in nonprofit leadership and began her career in corporate finance in New York. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History and International Relations from Brown University, a Master of Arts in Administration and Policy Analysis from the Stanford School of Education, and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, but her best education came from selling frozen food door-to-door in the Boston suburbs during college.
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As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of the world’s most pressing problems and developed innovative platforms for connecting civil society, government and private sector leaders with societal problem solvers. Among these platforms are the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and the Sundance Institute’s “Stories of Change” initiative.
In 2015, Sally and Roger Martin published Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, which articulates a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and distills lessons for practitioners, academics and impact investors. Her thought pieces have appeared in leading social impact and business journals and books; in 2015, she and Roger Martin were honored by Thinkers 50 for their intellectual leadership in the field of social enterprise.
Prior to joining Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, Sally served as the founding Executive Director for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, a pioneering institution in the field.
Sally currently serves as the Chair of the Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education in Africa) USA Foundation, on the Philanthropy Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada, on the Advisory Council of the Elders, as Vice Chair of the Social Progress Imperative and as a board director for New America and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School of Oxford University.
She received her M.A. in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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President, The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute
Rob Schenck is an American evangelical minister and president of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in Washington, DC. As the subject of Abigail Disney’s Emmy Award Winning documentary, The Armor of Light, Rob broke with his community by challenging the American evangelical embrace of popular gun culture and its resistance to common sense gun regulation, fostering a mutually respectful conversation between the two sides on how to reduce gun violence. Similarly, after years as an aggressive anti-abortion activist, he has called for an end to combative engagement on the abortion issue and for a new understanding of each side's perspectives and experiences, with a view toward reducing unwanted pregnancy. In his upcoming memoir with HarperCollins, Costly Grace, Rob crosses another line by detailing his deep, personal shift of position on human sexuality and same-sex marriage. Rob’s previous decades-long leadership on the Religious Right has given him a unique voice in bringing new, solidly evangelical perspectives to entrenched social positions and has allowed him to build bridges across vast religious and political divides. He believes a new generation of socially conscious American evangelicals can help repair the considerable damage done by a highly politicized and destructive brand of evangelicalism that has dominated the American religious and political landscape for almost half a century. Rob holds degrees in Bible and Theology, Religion, Christian Ministry, and the doctor of ministry in church and state, all from evangelical institutions. He is a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Law and Public Policy at Oxford and the Royal Society of Arts. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Cheryl, a psychotherapist in private practice.
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Co-Founder, Waterman Aylsworth - Centers for Creative Entrepreneurship
Ron Schultz is the founder of Creating Good Work Media and the producer and co-host of Creating Good Work, Live, an Internet-based TV series about to begin its fourth season. Ron has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, emergence, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. His books include: Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) featuring chapters from the world’s leading social entrepreneurs; The Complex Buddhist – Doing Good in a Challenging World, (Emergent Publications 2015); The Mindful Corporation: Liberating the Human Spirit at Work, (with Paul Nakai) (Leadership Press, 2000); and Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity, (with Howard Sherman) (Perseus Books, 1998).
Ron is also the co-founder of Waterman Aylsworth, LLC and Entrepreneurs4Change, both organizations that combine mindfulness, social innovation and entrepreneurship.
Ron has spoken and lectured at: The Skoll World Forum, The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, the World CSR Congress, the Social Enterprise World Forum, the Oxford Jam and numerous Social Enterprise Alliance Summits. The universities at which he has spoken include: Trinity College, Dublin, Oxford University, MIT, UCLA, Adelphi University, and the Academy of Management’s National Conference.
His current column, Adjacent Opportunities appears in the Journal, Emergence: Complexity and Organization.
Ron has also an extensive career in television and film, with dozens of TV credits that include one of the finest movies of the week produced to date, as well as internationally renowned children’s television programs that are still playing around the world.
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Richard Fahey served as Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation from 2004 to 2021, where he contributed to the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems. Richard now serves as Special Advisor to the Foundation.
As COO, Richard led the Skoll Foundation’s finance, impact measurement, technology, and other business management functions. He was the key executive staff interface between the Investment Committee and the Capricorn Investment Group which manages the Foundation’s endowment. Richard worked closely with the Foundation’s investment manager to align the Foundation’s investment capital with its mission.
Prior to joining Skoll, Richard spent nearly 25 years with the Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of senior operations, infrastructure, finance policy, and controller positions. He earned his B.A. at Georgetown University in Economics and History, and his M.B.A at the University of Chicago.
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“Rick” Perez oversees a portfolio of Sundance Institute strategic partnerships focused on the convergence of nonfiction filmmaking, innovative thought leadership, and themes vital to contemporary societies. These initiatives include Stories of Change, a Sundance Institute partnership with the Skoll Foundation that harnesses the power of storytelling to advance the work of leading social entrepreneurs. Mr. Perez is also a senior reviewer for the Sundance Documentary Film Fund; frequently participates as a speaker, panelist and moderator at domestic and international events focusing on non-fiction filmmaking; leads workshops on documentary storytelling; and nurtures filmmakers throughout the world, including artists traditionally underrepresented in the field of non-fiction cinema.
In addition to his work at Sundance Institute, Mr. Perez executive produced and directed the feature documentary, Cesar’s Last Fast, a film about the spiritual commitment of American civil rights and labor leader Cesar E. Chavez that premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Prior to joining the Sundance staff, Mr. Perez was an executive producer at Brave New Films where he produced two documentary series and directed a third. Richard Ray Perez holds a bachelor of arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University.
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Executive Director, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
Randall Kempner is Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE). As executive director of ANDE, Randall oversees the implementation of ANDE’s extensive program, research and advocacy agenda, including its eight international chapters and multiple grant and challenge competitions that support the entrepreneurship sector. Randall has more than twenty years of experience in the field of international economic development. Most recently, he served as Vice President for Regional Innovation at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and prior to that was a founder of OTF Group. Randall graduated from the University of Texas with master's degrees in Business Administration and Public Affairs. He earned his bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard College
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Impact Banker, Individual
Philip is an Impact Banker and Senior Risk Officer who works, to scale mission driven organisations, to achieve positive sustainable outcomes.
With over 40 years’ global experience within Citigroup across multiple divisions and functions, including Risk, Country Head, Business and staff positions in the US, Europe, Sri Lanka, Channel Islands and Audit and Risk Review for EMEA, he has a wealth of experience of many different facets of banking.
Recently retired he was a founding member and Managing Director Risk of Citi Inclusive Finance Group. Here he enabled Citi’s global businesses to commercially engage in inclusive finance (including Inclusive Fintech). This resulted in more than $4 billion in financing for microfinance and inclusive businesses.
Before moving to Citi Inclusive Finance, he was Citi’s Risk Director for Project Finance and Structured Trade Finance within EMEA.
Current external roles include the Governing Council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, Emeritus member of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Financial Inclusion, the Investment Committee of the Habitat for Humanity MicroBuild Fund, Chair of the Credit Committee of Root Capital and the Finance Audit & Risk and the Finance & Risk and the Lending Committee of Big Issue Invest.
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Co-Founder & President,
KivaPremal helps lead Kiva.org —a crowdfunding website that connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. Since 2005, over $1B in philanthropic loans has been crowdfunded to millions of underserved entrepreneurs in 90 countries — with a 96% repayment rate. The site has been named as one of Oprah's Favorite Things and a Top 50 Website by TIME Magazine. Premal's inspiration came while volunteering in India while on leave from PayPal, where he had been an early employee. Premal began his career as a management consultant and graduated from Stanford University. He’s passionate about making it easier for anyone to discover their own power to make real impact. He serves on the Board of VolunteerMatch.org & Watsi.org — a crowdfunding for developing world health care site. For his work as a social entrepreneur, Premal was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and selected to FORTUNE magazine’s “Top 40 under 40″ list.
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Peter Moores Dean; Dean of Said Business School, Saïd Business School
Professor Peter Tufano has served as the Peter Moores Dean at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford since July 2011. His work focuses on financial innovation, especially that which improves lives of low-income families. This work is reflected in his research; the social enterprise he founded to support wealth-building by the American families (buildcommonwealth.org); and policy engagements credited with influencing US policy, including the U.S. American Savings Promotion Act. As Dean, he has emphasized the role of business education in addressing the major challenges of the world through deeper connections with the broader university and a clearer articulation of purpose. At Oxford, this orientation has manifested itself in the Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme; the “Global Opportunities & Threats: Oxford” required course that emphasizes systems interventions and leadership; a set of new entrepreneurial projects including the pan-University The Oxford Foundry and the global partnership with Creative Destruction Lab; the promotion of humanities in the leadership curriculum; and the promotion of a responsible business agenda oriented around the UN SDGs. Before joining Oxford, Tufano spent 33 years at Harvard, with more than two decades on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he co-founded the Harvard University Innovation Lab (i-Lab).
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CEO and President, International Center for Research on Women
Peggy Clark is President and CEO of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the leading women’s research organization in the world. Throughout her career Peggy has worked to tackle and address gender inequality, including women’s economic security, health, and well-being. She is currently leading a major restructure of ICRW to build a global network of Gender Centers of Excellence to support the next generation of expertise and solutions to build a more gender equal world. Prior to ICRW, Peggy was the Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group, Executive Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Director of Realizing Rights, Chair of the Women’s Policy Group and Program Officer, Ford Foundation, and Director of Small-Scale Enterprise and Credit at Save the Children. Peggy is Chair, African Leaders Malaria Alliance ;Vice Chair, Ashesi University Ghana; Board Emeritus, Calvert Impact Capital; Board Member Last Mile Health.
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Patrick is one of the three founders of Global Witness. Founded in 1993 Global Witness has become one of the world’s leading investigative organisations dedicated to rooting out corruption and environmental and human rights abuses around the world, with Patrick taking part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe.
Taking the findings to lawmakers and into the boardrooms of multinational companies Patrick and his colleagues have challenged the assumption that you can’t change things. Global Witness now has major focus on tackling the climate crisis.
Patrick is the author of Very Bad People, published in 2022, which charts some of Global Witness’ key investigations.
Alongside his two co-founders Patrick received the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the same year that Global Witness won the TED Prize. Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for their work exposing the murderous trade in blood diamonds.
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Chief Community Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Pamela Roussos is Chief Community Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. She is responsible for developing and furthering strategic relationships, partnerships and alliances that span Miller Center’s global footprint. Previously, she spent 20 years building and leading venture-backed software companies. Pamela began mentoring social entrepreneurs in 2010 and has been dedicated to and inspired by them ever since. She is a sought-after speaker for her expertise in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, global accelerators and place-based initiatives designed to spur economic growth in under-developed communities in the US and around the world.
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Founder and President, Pat Mitchell Media
Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders Forums and Co-Founder, Host, and Curator for TEDWomen
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Director, X, Google
Obi leads early stage projects at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory. X is a team of inventors and entrepreneurs working on projects like self-driving cars (Waymo), drone delivery (Wing) and internet from balloons (Loon). Obi is responsible for getting early stage X projects from the lab into the real world, or ensuring they fail fast. Previously she was Director of Consumer Marketing for Google in Europe, Middle East and Africa, which sounds like the easiest job in the world until you consider that Google has 100+ products in a region of 120+ countries as diverse as Germany, Russia, Egypt and Kenya. Before Google, Obi launched the ecommerce business of a major UK retailer, worked as a strategy consultant, and led eToys.com's (unsuccessful) expansion to Germany during the first dotcom era.
Obi is a startup mentor and angel investor, with a focus on women entrepreneurs. She set up Campus London, a Google-funded space for tech entrepreneurs. She is on the board of Shift, a charity designing products to address social problems like youth mental health. She is also on the board of Picasso Labs, a tech startup offering real-time image analytics based on machine learning algorithms.
Obi grew up in Berlin and saw the wall come down. She has a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Oxford University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband (a beekeeper/triathlete), son (an inventor/clown) and daughter (too early to tell, but high hopes that she'll be a rocket scientist/diva). She loves yoga, bicycling, travelling, contemporary art and design, cooking, eating and her family.
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Founder and CEO, Co-Impact
Olivia Leland is the Founder and CEO of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative that advances just and inclusive systems change, gender equality, and women’s leadership through grant-making and influencing philanthropy.
Launched in 2017, Co-Impact brings together philanthropists, foundations, and private sector partners to pool resources and invest in locally-rooted initiatives that are tackling the root causes of inequities to create deep and lasting change for millions.
Olivia has more than 25 years of international experience in government, philanthropy, and the non-profit sector. Prior to Co-Impact, Olivia served as the founding director of the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage giving globally. Previously, she worked in the areas of microfinance and financial inclusion, and consulted in the areas of strategy development, multi-sector collaboration, and advancing gender equality
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Founder & Partner, Dasra
Neera Nundy is Partner and Co-Founder of DASRA India which started in 1999. Her overarching goal is to enable social entrepreneurs and funders with the support they need to achieve big goals in areas such as gender, urban resilience and sanitation through system change and collaborative philanthropy. Neera plays a crucial role in bringing capacity building, knowledge, funding and networks to the sector. She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and is a fellow of the third class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship of the Ananta Aspen Center and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is a Board Member of The Hunger Project, American School of Bombay and Aangan Trust. She is Canadian, has lived in Mumbai for 21 years, runs Dasra with her husband Deval and busy raising feminist sons – Ayush, Laxman and Akbar. – all teenagers!
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Senior Public Policy Strategist, Twitter, Inc.
Nick Pickles is the current Head of Public Policy, Government and philanthropy for the UK and Israel at Twitter. He will be moving to the company's headquarters in the spring of 2018 to take up the position of Senior Public Policy Strategist.He has led Twitter's engagement with the GIFCT and represented the company at the 2017 G7 Interior Ministers meeting. Previously, he was the director of civil liberties and privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch. A law graduate from the University of Durham, he also served as President of Durham Students' Union. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an internationally published music photographer and a trustee of the international development charity BBC Media Action.
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Filmmaker, Coco Films
Nicole Newnham has been a documentary filmmaker for over twenty years. Most recently she produced “Collisions”. Previously, Nicole co-directed & produced the Emmy-nominated documentary The Revolutionary Optimists, which screened globally and was selected by the Emmy-award winning PBS series Independent Lens. The film, which followed an extraordinary group of young activists in the slums of Kolkata, inspired her to develop Map Your World, an online community and storytelling platform for young changemakers that enables youth to leverage mobile technology to map data on public health issues as the centerpiece of a campaign for change in their communities.
Nicole initiated, co-produced and directed The Rape of Europa, about the fate of Europe’s art treasures during WWII. The Rape of Europa enjoyed a successful theatrical release, has been a much-broadcast PBS primetime special, was nominated for two national Emmys and a WGA award, and was shortlisted for the documentary Oscar.
She was nominated for an Emmy for directing and co-producing the documentary Sentenced Home, also broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens, which follows three Cambodian refugees in Seattle who are deported back to Cambodia after 9/11. She co-produced They Drew Fire, a widely acclaimed special for PBS about the combat artists of World War II, and wrote the companion book distributed by Harper Collins.
Films she has directed have played at many prestigious venues, including the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco International Film Festival, Lincoln Center and the Walker Art Museum. Nicole earned a Master’s degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University in 1994.
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Founder, The Invitation
Dancing in WASH, building an Invitation and startled by the wow of it all…
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Senior Portfolio & Network Officer, Conine Family Foundation
Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises on the philanthropy of founders of one of the oldest VC firms and of a Fortune 500 company. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised National Geographic on its impact investing strategy. Namrita is also an angel investor in the Portfolia fund of funds, which focuses on educating and activating female angel investors.
She serves on the Boards of Environmental League of Massachusetts, Center for Business & Environment at Yale, IE-Brown Executive MBA Program, Massachusetts Environmental Justice Council and the Museum of Science. She holds two degrees from Yale and one from Princeton.
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Molly is the Founder & Creative Director of Tostan, an NGO which implements a holistic, 3-year empowering education program in national languages that has engaged over 2,500 rural African communities in democracy, human rights, health, literacy, & project management skills. The program has led to over 20,000 rural women holding leadership posts & over 9,000 communities in 8 African countries publicly declaring their commitment to abandon harmful traditional practices. Tostan has received international recognition for their successful work including: The Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Prize, The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, The Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice & Human Rights & UNESCO’s King Sejong Literacy Prize. Prize. A New York Times best-selling book by Aimee Molloy, However Long the Night, vividly relates Molly and Tostan's story. They are also featured in Melinda Gates's book, Moment of Lift and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s: The Book of Gutsy Women.
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Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop of ‘The Economist’) of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society. Previously Michael served as a senior official in the U.K. Government’s Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programs to Russia and Ukraine and headed the communications department. He taught Economics at Warsaw University in Poland in the early 1990s. His TED Talks have been viewed more than three million times. His 2014 Talk was chosen by the TED organisation as one of the ‘most powerful ideas’ of 2014 and by The Telegraph as one of the 10 best ever.
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Michael Etzel is a partner in The Bridgespan Group’s Boston office. Since joining Bridgespan in 2006, Michael has focused on effectiveness across the full spectrum of financing for social impact.
Michael focuses on overcoming the risk of “impact-washing” in impact investing. His clients include Bain Capital’s Double Impact Fund and Texas Pacific Group’s (TPG) Rise Fund—where Bridgespan has partnered to develop and deliver rigorous, quantitative impact underwriting, as detailed in Harvard Business Review’s “Calculating the Value of Impact Investing.” Michael has also worked with institutional, family, and corporate philanthropists, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The MacArthur Foundation. He currently serves on the board of Splash.
Michael has contributed to the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, leading a Bridgespan team that supported the development of a first-ever bipartisan policy agenda for the growing field of impact investing. Michael has also explored opportunities for philanthropists to get involved in ‘catalytic’ forms of impact investing in “Philanthropy’s New Frontier—Impact Investing.”
Michael earned his AB cum laude with high honors from Harvard College, and his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He lives in Boston with his wife and daughter.
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Program Director, Gender Equity and Governance,
BreakthroughMallika Dutt currently serves as Program Director of the Gender Equity and Governance program at the Hewlett Foundation. She inspires leaders to remember their innate interconnectedness and transform their impact. In a world of division and isolation, she invites us to see our shared well-being with people and planet.
As a strategic innovator, Mallika has pioneered effective approaches of social change through the founding of several nonprofits, including Breakthrough and Sakhi for South Asian Women. She has also provided transformational leadership in her roles as a Program Officer for Human Rights and Social Justice at the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi Office, the Director of the Norman Foundation, and the Associate Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
A recipient of multiple awards, she received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2016.
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Mabel van Oranje is a global advocate for equality, justice and freedom and serial entrepreneur for social change. During the last decade, she played a catalytic role in the creation and growth of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, the Girls First Fund and VOW for Girls. Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and VOW for Girls (chair). She is also an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, the Graca Machel Trust and The Elders. Mabel is a champion of Girls Not Brides, and a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
You can follow her tweets @MabelvanOranje
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LUIS SZARAN
Artist for Peace of UNESCO. Conducter, composer and musicologist
Musical Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of Asunción. Music studied in Santa Cecilia's Conservatory, Rome Conducted more than 1800 concerts whit noted orchestras in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, USA and countries of South America. In recent seasons the Berliner Symphonikern, the Venice Philharmonic and the Sinfonietta of Paris play his composition’s. In the year 2002 received the Medal Vivaldi of the International Festival of Venice, being the first Latin American composer and recruit in the world in receiving it. He is Official Gentleman of the Italian Republic and of the Science and the Letters of France, National Order of the Merit of the Paraguay. Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for the Skoll Foundation in 2006. He is member corresponding of the Real Spanish Academy of the History. En 2002 he founded Sonidos de la Tierra, music education program.
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Artist/Filmmaker, Studio Wallworth
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist/filmmaker who has consistently worked with emerging media technologies. Wallworth’s work has shown at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian, Royal Observatory Greenwich for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad; Auckland Triennial; Adelaide Biennial; Brighton Festival and the Vienna Festival among many others as well as film festivals including-Sundance Film Festival, London Film Festival, Tibeca Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. She has been awarded an International Fellowship from Arts Council England, a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Australian Film, Television and Radio School Creative Fellowship and the Joan and Kim Williams Documentary Fellowship. She has had artist residencies in many parts of the world including Southern Italy, Iran, Northern England and New Mexico.
Her works include the interactive video Evolution of Fearlessness; the full dome feature Coral, with accompanying augmented reality work; and virtual reality narrative Collisions, developed through the inaugural Sundance Institute New Frontier - Jaunt VR Residency. In 2014, Wallworth’s feature documentary Tender won the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for best televised documentary. In 2016, Wallworth was awarded a UNESCO City of Film Award, the Byron Kennedy Award for Innovation and Excellence and Foreign Policy magazine named Wallworth as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers’ of the year. Wallworth lives in Sydney and mentors regularly at Sundance Labs.
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Managing Director, Osprey Foundation
Louis is Managing Director of the Osprey Foundation, where he leads programs on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and sustainable energy/cleaner cooking. In addition to managing a portfolio of grants and impact investments, Louis works to advance these sectors through systems change, innovative finance, and new service delivery models.
From 2005-2013, Louis founded and led the WASH program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, building a portfolio of more than US$ 300 million.
Prior to that, he worked for 15 years at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, where he led the environmental finance team from 1997 to 2004 and helped to pioneer the impact investing field.
Louis currently sits on the boards of IRC WASH and the RICE Institute, and he advises several other social ventures and non-profits. He holds a BA in economics from Yale University and an MBA and MA (Development Economics) from Stanford University.
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Founder & Chair, Protect Our Care
Leslie is leading the effort to protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid in the U.S. Congress through his role as founder and chair of Protect our Care. He also serves as a senior advisor to Co-Impact and the Rockefeller Foundation. He served in the Obama Administration as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for issues such as Ebola, Zika, the ACA, and nutrition policy. Previous roles include Executive Vice President and member of the management committee at Walmart Inc., where he led the development of initiatives in sustainability, food and nutrition, and women’s economic empowerment and the Walmart Foundation, global vice chairman of Edelman, a strategic communications firm, and senior capacities in six U.S. presidential campaigns. Leslie serves on the Board of the Environmental Defense Fund and Sunrun Inc., and is a member of the Yale University Council the Council on Foreign Relations.
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CEO, Co-Founder and Executive Editor, NewsDeeply
Lara Setrakian is the cofounder and CEO of News Deeply, a network of digital media platforms that convene stakeholders and passionate communities on the world’s biggest challenges. Each platform fuses original reporting, expert analysis and perspectives from key voices on the ground. Her team’s inaugural site, Syria Deeply, launched in 2012 and won the Excellence in Online Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation.
They went on to launch Ebola Deeply, Water Deeply, Refugees Deeply, Oceans Deeply, Malnutrition Deeply and Women’s Advancement Deeply; the model is now expanding to cover an array of topics in public health, environmental science and social impact.
In 2017, in the midst of the #metoo movement, Lara took a public stand against sexual assault and abuse of women in journalism. Along with a group of passionate and talented women she cofounded Press Forward, an initiative to change the culture of newsrooms across the U.S., to be safe and fair for men and women.
For her work in building News Deeply, Fast Company named Lara as one of the “Most Creative People in Business,” while Inc. Magazine called her one of “8 Women Who Could Own the Future.” Before launching News Deeply Lara was correspondent for ABC News and Bloomberg Television, covering the Middle East. Lara is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been featured in Mashable, TechCrunch, TIME magazine, the Guardian, Marie Claire, the New York Times and on MSNBC, CNN and NPR.
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Dr. Larry Brilliant is a physician and epidemiologist, CEO of Pandefense Advisory, senior advisor at the Skoll Foundation and a CNN Medical Analyst. Previously on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and the NGO Ending Pandemics; president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund; vice president of Google, and founding executive director of Google.org. He co-founded the Seva Foundation. Earlier, he co-founded The Well, a progenitor of today's social media platforms. He was an associate professor of epidemiology and international health planning at the University of Michigan. He lived in India for nearly a decade where he was a key member of the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme for SE Asia as well as the WHO Polio Eradication Programme. He was the founding chairman of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS); member of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk; and a "First Responder" for CDC's bio-terrorism response effort. He is also an author.
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Founder, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation
The life and work of Kailash Satyarthi is synonymous with the crusade against child slavery. Kailash was born in 1954 in Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, India. He has a degree in electrical engineering and a post-graduate diploma in high-voltage engineering. After a few years of teaching engineering in a college in Bhopal, Kailash founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) in 1980. BBA symbolises the struggle against child labour and child servitude and initiated the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS). Kailash started “Rugmark” in 1994, a social labeling program in which rugs are labelled and certified to be childlabour-free. Recently, he has promoted the empowerment of children through a nationwide crusade for the formation of Child Friendly Villages. Kailash is the founder of GoodWeave, a 2005 Skoll Awardee.
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Former Chief Executive Officer, Medic
Josh Nesbit is the co-founder and former CEO of Medic, a nonprofit organization founded to improve health with and in the hardest-to-reach communities. The open-source software helps over 35,000 community health workers provide care for more than 20 million people in Africa and Asia. These health workers deliver care and services, door-to-door, through more than 1.5 million home visits each month. Together with our partners, we envision a more just world in which health workers are supported as they provide care for their neighbors, universal health coverage is a reality, and health is secured as a human right.
Before co-founding Medic, Josh studied global health and bioethics at Stanford University, where his qualitative research focused on pediatric HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Josh is an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow. He has served on the Board of Directors for Developing Radio Partners and IntraHealth International. Josh was selected by Devex as one of 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development, received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development, and was named by Forbes as one of the world’s 30 top social entrepreneurs. In 2014, Medic received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2016, Josh accepted a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. Josh is continually inspired by health workers around the world.
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim is a serial tech and social entrepreneur who founded Tech Matters in 2018 to advance large-scale social impact using software and data. Jim and his team have created two new nonprofit tech enterprises, while also helping social good leaders on tech challenges. Aselo is designed to take crisis response helplines from the telephone era to the social media era, helping them better respond to the urgent needs of those in crisis. Terraso is a tech platform to being tools, knowledge and funding to community leaders building more regenerative local economies against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
Prior to founding Tech Matters, Jim was the founder and CEO of Benetech for nearly 30 years, delivering large-scale change in partnership with hundreds of organizations as part of social enterprises addressing education, disability, human rights, and the environment.
Jim is a MacArthur Fellow, a Skoll Awardee, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
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Global Impact Entrepreneurship Leader, EY (Global)
As EY Global Impact Entrepreneurship and Markets Leader, Jessie brings together entrepreneurs, corporates and public sector institutions to help scale new technologies and business models that purposefully drive progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
A chartered accountant by trade, Jessie began her career in corporate finance before working as a consultant with clients across the social, private and public sectors. Since 2017, she has focused on combining public and private sector capabilities to help life-changing impact entrepreneurs overcome barriers to scale, primarily in emerging market contexts. She also serves on the board of several local and international impact enterprises and nonprofits.
Jessie holds a BA and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, graduating with a First Class Honors, and is an alumna of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program.
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Director, EDGE in Tech initiative at UC
Jill Finlayson heads up mentoring and designs and runs incubator and SU Ventures programs at Singularity University, whose mission is to educate, inspire, and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges. She has 20+ years of experience as a strategic leader building online communities, growing thought leadership, and leading marketing and branding for Silicon Valley nonprofits and startups. She ran the Toys category for five years at eBay, managed a community of social entrepreneurs at the Skoll Foundation, led marketing at various startups, and consulted for the World Bank. She has also mentored TechWomen and coached entrepreneurs and judged student startup competitions. Finlayson is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Executive Director, Peery Foundation
Jessamyn Shams-Lau joined the Peery Foundation as its first staff member in 2009, helping to shape the foundation’s initial strategy and portfolios. As Executive Director, Jessamyn supports the Peery Foundation team, guides overall strategy, and develops a grantee-centric approach across the foundation’s portfolios. Jessamyn uses her experience as part of the founding Ashoka U team in her hands-on role as a Board Member of BYU’s Ballard Center, where she created curriculum now taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Jessamyn has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London and an MBA from Brigham Young University.
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Jess Ladd is the Founder & CEO of Callisto, a nonprofit creating technology to combat sexual assault, support survivors, and advance justice. Callisto's websites provide survivors with the information they need to make the reporting decision that is right for them, and allow survivors to privately learn whether others have been victimized by the same assailant. When Callisto finds a serial perpetrator, they connect each survivor with their own free attorney - a Legal Options Counselor - who help their client explore their options and (if they wish) coordinate action with other victims of the same perpetrator.
Jess is a Skoll Awardee, a Senior TED Fellow, and the co-founder of The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore. She has worked in the sexual health space since age 16 (as an educator, advocate, entrepreneur, and researcher), and holds a BA from Pomona College and an MPH from Johns Hopkins.
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Jess is a founder of Doc Society, which has funded and championed the work of independent documentary filmmakers around the world since 2005. Writing with Fire, I Am Softie, The Edge of Democracy, CITIZENFOUR, The Territory, The Square, Virunga etc Currently obsessed with Climate and Democracy narratives and protecting the space for independent storytelling.
Jess is also a trustee of MSI Reproductive Choices, the world's most effective family planning and abortion provider in 37 countries. Jess is also chair of UK think tank IPPR and a board member of crowdfunding innovator Kickstarter.
Jess is a big fan of the Skoll World Forum.
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Jeremy is the co-founder and chair of Digital Divide Data, a 2008 Skoll Award recipient. He is currently a co-founder and Managing Director of the Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on programs that increase incomes of the global poor.
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Partner, Nonprofit Portfolio, Praxis
At the age of 22, Jena founded Blood:Water alongside the GRAMMY Award winning band, Jars of Clay. Under her leadership, the organization has raised more than $20M, providing small grants to grassroots organizations in sub-Saharan Africa addressing HIV/AIDS and water, sanitation and hygiene.
Jena is the author of "One Thousand Wells" (Simon & Schuster, 2015) which shares a captivatingly honest account of how her passion for saving the world grew to a more humbler, long-term calling of loving the world in all its brokenness. Jena has been named one of Chronicle of Philanthropy's 40 under 40 and Christianity Today's 33 under 33. In 2012, she was invited by President Obama to pray for the nation in front of a TV audience of twenty million.
Jena serves on the core team for Praxis, a venture group building a community of high-capacity, faith-motivated entrepreneurs who have committed their lives to cultural and social impact. Jena and her husband, James, and their children, Jude and Haven, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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President and CEO, Internews
As President and CEO of Internews, Jeanne Bourgault leads the strategic management of the organization and its programs in more than 80 countries around the world.
Bourgault has overseen Internews’ growth in areas underserved by local media, such as Afghanistan and South Sudan, and under her leadership Internews has led the growing sector of humanitarian information, expanded into US programs to meet unique domestic information gaps, developed strategies to address the growing challenges of digital information technology, and centered the information needs of women and girls throughout its programs. During her tenure, Internews has piloted and developed innovative programs including the Earth Journalism Network, United for News, and the Listening Post Collective.
Prior to Internews, Bourgault worked internationally in countries undergoing dramatic shifts in media and political landscapes. She joined Internews in 2001 as Vice President for Programs after six years with the U.S. Agency for International Development, including three years at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and as a strategic advisor for media and community development programs in post-war Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Bourgault has consulted on international program design and evaluation for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Triangle Institute, and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, among others.
Bourgault speaks on issues of global news, women’s media leadership, information technology, and participatory community development worldwide, including venues such as the Skoll World Forum, the Global Philanthropy Forum, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. She serves on the Media, Entertainment, and Information Industries Steering Committee for the World Economic Forum, and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Media Development.
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Advisor, Southern Bancorporation & Chair, Homeless Children's Playtime Project board, Individual
Jan Piercy is broadly engaged in economic inclusion, impact investing and social entrepreneurship fields, having served as Senior Advisor to Enclude, Senior Vice President of ShoreBank Corporation, and as USED on the World Bank & International Finance Corporation boards during the Clinton Administration. Earlier in her career, Jan worked in development in Bangladesh and Thailand, and ran public interest management programs at Stanford & Cornell University Graduate Schools of Business.She also served on staffs of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee.
Jan currently advises Southern Bancorporation in Arkansas and chairs the Board of the Homeless Children's Playtime Project. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and active with Echoing Green and other organizations supporting social entrepreneurs and economic justice.
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Founder and CEO, Africa Climate Ventures
James Irungu Mwangi is the Executive Director of the Dalberg Group, and a Partner with Dalberg Advisors. James established Dalberg’s presence in Africa, beginning with the Johannesburg office in 2007, and has continued to expand its footprint on the continent, with offices in Nairobi in 2008, and Dakar in 2009. James also served as Global Managing Partner and Chief Executive of Dalberg’s consulting business from 2010 to 2014.
Prior to Dalberg, James worked at McKinsey & Company. He is a 2009 Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow of the African Leadership Institute, a 2013 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He also currently serves as a member of the Global Entrepreneurs Council of the UN Foundation.
James holds an AB Hons Degree in Economics from Harvard University.
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Managing Principal, Capricorn Investment Group
Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. Prior to Capricorn, Ion was a Director with Koch Industries, executing a range of acquisitions and investments. Prior to Koch, he was a founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bivio, a software startup in Colorado, and the second employee of Olsen & Associates, a foreign exchange analytics company. Ion was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Physics from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Stanford University.
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Chief Impact Officer, Participant
Holly Gordon is the Chief Impact Officer at Participant, overseeing the company’s social impact strategy and campaigns, furthering Participant’s mission to create storytelling that inspires positive social change. These global, multi-year campaigns are driven by the company’s content and powered by strategic partnerships to address the most important issues of our time.
Prior to joining Participant, Gordon co-founded Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education. Selected by Fast Company as a member of the League of Extraordinary Women and named by Newsweek/Daily Beast as one of 125 Women of Impact, Gordon is also an Executive Producer for the Girl Rising film at the center of the movement. Forbes Magazine named the Girl Rising campaign the #1 Most Dynamic Social Initiative of 2012. In 2015, Holly was selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar and currently serves on the boards of MAKERS and Girl Rising.
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Heidi Kühn is the Founder and CEO of Roots of Peace. Since launching the organization in 1997, ROP has developed over 30 agricultural value chains impacting over a million farmers in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Croatia, Guatemala, Israel, Palestine and Vietnam.
In 2021, Heidi's visionary leadership was acknowledged with her inclusion in the inaugural Forbes 50 Over 50 “Women Who Are Leading the Way in Impact” List. Heidi has also received other prestigious awards including: the UC Berkeley Alumni of the Year Award for Excellence in Achievement (2002), the World Association of NGOs Peace & Security Award (2005), the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2006) and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service (2007).
Heidi is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Economics, and a former CNN reporter and producer. She lives in California, with her husband, Gary, with whom she has 4 children and 6 grandchildren.
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CEO, B Team
Halla is a Change Catalyst on a quest to inspire and empower leaders to release the value of principle-based and gender balanced leadership. She has passionately pursued this purpose as a business leader in Corporate America with M&M and Pepsi Cola, as the first female CEO of Iceland’s Chamber of commerce and as an executive and non-executive director for diverse businesses. An entrepreneur at heart, she joined the founding team of Reykjavik University where she founded the Executive Education department and led a successful initiative focused on empowering women and girls as entrepreneurs, leaders and investors. In 2007 she co-founded an investment firm with the vision to incorporate feminine values into finance. The company made international headlines when it successfully survived Iceland’s infamous economic meltdown. In 2016, Halla ran for President in Iceland. She was an independent candidate with no prior political experience and surprised everyone as she emerged from an initial 1% in the polls to becoming the runner-up with 28% of the vote.
Halla holds an international MBA from Thunderbird and has lived and worked in the US, the UK and across the Nordics. Her work led her to the TED stage twice and she has delivered keynotes and participated in dialogues about leadership and gender for companies and conferences around the world. In 2011, Newsweek named her to a list of 150 women who shake the world and after following Iceland’s Presidential Elections in 2016, the New Yorker called her A Living Emoji of Sincerity.
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Analyst, Skoll Foundation
Hannah Darnton joined the Skoll Foundation in 2015 and currently serves as a Analyst on the Portfolio & Investments Team. As an Analyst, Hannah focuses on identifying social entrepreneurs with the potential to drive large scale social change and solve the worlds most pressing problems.
Prior to joining Skoll Hannah worked with multiple anti-human trafficking organizations across West Africa and Southeast Asia. For the three years prior to joining Skoll, she worked as Asia Program Manager for the San Francisco-based anti-trafficking non-profit, Not For Sale.
Hannah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from the University of Michigan and a Masters in NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics.
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Gidon Bromberg is the co-founder and 27-year Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Mr. Bromberg has written extensively on the relationship between water issues and Middle East peace and has presented before the UN Security Council, UN Climate Summit, US Congress, European Parliament and other international forums. Mr. Bromberg, an attorney by profession, is an alumni of Monash University in Australia, Washington College of Law at American University and Yale University's World Fellows program.
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Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID, United States Agency for International Development
Gillian Caldwell is the Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant Administrator for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In this role she is responsible for leading and coordinating the climate and environment work across the Agency. Gillian is an attorney and film maker and has been working to protect human rights and the environment throughout her career. Prior to joining USAID, she served as the CEO of Global Witness, a 2014 Skoll Award Winner which has a focus on tackling climate change and deploys investigations into corruption and natural resource extraction to drive systems change worldwide. From 2007-2010, she launched and led 1Sky, a highly collaborative cross-sector campaign with over 600 allied organizations to pass legislation in the US to address the climate crisis. In 2005, she won the Skoll Award for her leadership of WITNESS which empowers human rights and environmental defenders to integrate video and storytelling into their advocacy work.
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Director, Development Policy and Finance, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gargee Ghosh leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s international policy team as Director of Development Policy & Finance. The team develops and funds innovative ideas to make finance more effective in solving the problems of extreme poverty around the world. The team also oversees Gates Foundation relationships with multilateral development banks, aid policy bodies, and economic decision-makers in the developing world. Gargee previously held senior positions at Google.org and in the international development practice of McKinsey & Company, as well as at the Center for Global Development. She has also worked in the Gates Foundation’s Global Health division, where she helped launch the Foundation’s first significant blended finance deals. Gargee recently completed a two-year term on President Obama’s Global Development Council and she sits on the U.S. board of Camfed. She holds a graduate degree in economics from the University of Oxford and in international relations from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Victoria in Canada. She is based in the Foundation’s Washington, D.C. office where she lives with her husband and two young children.
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Founder, Making Conversation
Fred Dust is the founder of Making Conversation, LLC and works at the intersection of business, society and creativity. As a designer, author, educator, consultant, trustee, and advisor to social and business leaders, he is one of the world’s most original thinkers, applying the craft and optimism of human-centered design to the intractable challenges we face today. Using the methodology in his book Making Conversation, he has been working as the Senior Dialogue Designer with The Rockefeller Foundation to explore the future of pressing global needs; and with The Einhorn Collaborative and other foundations to host constructive dialogue with leaders ranging from David Brooks, Reverend Jenn Bailey, and Vivek Murthy to rebuild human connection in a climate of widespread polarization, cynicism and disruption. He is also proud to be faculty at the Esalen Institute.
As a former Global Managing Partner at the acclaimed international design firm IDEO, Fred works with leaders and change agents to unlock the creative potential of business, government, education, and philanthropic organizations.
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Executive Editor, Virtual Reality, The Guardian
Francesca Panetta is Executive editor of virtual reality at The Guardian. An multi-award winning digital artist and journalist, she has lead immersive innovation at the Guardian for the last 10 years. She currently runs the Guardian’s in house virtual reality production studio, dedicated to creating groundbreaking content. The studio’s first VR experience ‘a virtual experience of solitary confinement’ won attention around the world as an exemplary case of story and form. Before that she made interactive documentaries, augmented reality sound apps and lead the Guardian’s podcast team.
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Fred de Sam Lazaro is executive director of the Under-Told Stories Project and correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. He was a regular contributor and substitute anchor for PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Fred also has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acclaimed documentary series, Wide Angle.
He has reported from 71 countries with a focus on the myriad issues that underlie poverty and human suffering. He founded the Under-Told Stories Project, now located at the University of St. Thomas, using storytelling to enhance students’ understanding of the pressing global issues of our time.
Fred has received three honorary doctorates, numerous journalism awards and fellowships from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Michigan. He serves on the board of Sahan Journal, a non-profit news service and has served on boards of the College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth, MN, his alma mater and the Asian American Journalists Association.
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Founder, Refugee Company Foundation
Fleur Bakker is the driving force behind the Refugee Company and social enterprise A Beautiful Mess. Fleur is social entrepreneur, pioneer and co-creator driven by a clear vision on social justice. For more than 19 years Fleur has been working on programs and concepts aimed at improving the perspectives of refugees in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Youth Representative, Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, South Sudan
Koiti Emmily is a medic at Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan. She holds an MBBS from the University of Juba. As a passionate youth, women’s and civic rights activist, she is represents the youth in the IGAD –led High Level Revitalization Forum; a major peace process for South Sudan. Dr. Emmily represents the youth in the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) that oversees the implementation of the Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS). She is also led the Secretariat of the South Sudan Young Leaders Forum (SSYLF) as its interim Chief Administrator, a youth platform that that seeks to mobilize, inspire and organize South Sudanese youth towards working for a peaceful, united and prosperous South Sudan. She is a member of several youth and women’s platforms in South Sudan. Dr Emmily volunteers as an Assistant Program Officer at the South Sudan Democratic Engagement Monitoring and Observation Program (SSuDEMOP), a lobby and advocacy Civil Society Organization that mobilizes and empowers South Sudan’s citizens to effectively participate in the on-going process political process in their country. She also serves on the board of Crown the Woman –South Sudan (CREW), a women-led organization that focuses on elevating the status of women in the country. Dr Emmily is also an alumna of the Study of United States Institutes (SUSI) Program, 2012.
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Co-founder & CEO, EYElliance
Liz is Co-founder & CEO of EYElliance. Prior to founding EYElliance in 2015, she spent 15 years working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and access to global markets. Her personal interest in facilitating less developed countries’ full participation in global markets stems from her time living and working with young entrepreneurs in East Africa. In 2011 Liz joined VisionSpring as the Director of Business Development. Before joining VisionSpring she consulted at the UNDP for six yeas with the UN Office of South-South Cooperation forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda. Liz started a record label in 1995, graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, is a member of the Explorers Club, and a two time National Geographic Society grant recipient for her work documenting endangered song.
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Head of Special Projects, BBC World Service Group
Emily Kasriel is an experienced media executive who has been leading a range of high-profile projects for the BBC including developing the flagship Share Your Story for the BBC Centenary in 2022 and the BBC Crossing Divides season. She has a particular interest in Deep Listening, researching the field as a Practitioner in Residence at the London School of Economics and publishing her research in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Emily is also an Executive Coach and serves on the board of The Wingate Foundation. She was previously a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, events and interviews around the world.
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Trauma Resource Institute
Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW is an author, radio show host, social worker, trauma therapist, co-founder, former Executive Director and current Director of Innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and key developer of the Community and Trauma Resiliency Models.
She is the author of Building Resiliency to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models® (2015). She is committed to bringing accessible and affordable interventions based on neuroscience and the biology of the human nervous system to our world's community. Her models have been introduced to over 102 countries.
Her radio talk show launched on VoiceAmerica in January 2021 and is entitled Resiliency Within, Building Resiliency during unprecedented times. Her guests are inspiring global leaders promoting healing and resiliency from a variety of backgrounds.
https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/3997/resiliency-within
She is a recognized international speaker and has presented at the Skoll World Forum at Oxford University, Resiliency 2021 and the United Nations. Elaine’s book was selected by the United Nations and Taylor and Francis’ curated on-line library as one of the innovations helping meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo
She is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition, an organization focused on healing the human trauma connected to climate change. http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/intl-tr-coalition
Elaine is dedicated to the world's children and she has worked with collaborators to develop interventions for children, parents and teachers to help reduce the impact of trauma. She is a Senior Consultant to Emory University’s SEE Learning program, inspired and launched by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2019, building compassionate and ethical curriculum to the world's children K-12. www.seelearning.emory.edu
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Edith Chapin is the Vice President and Executive Editor of NPR News. In that role she resumes responsibility for the NPR newsroom, setting daily news priorities, and directing all of NPR's news-gathering teams. She has full authority to work across the newsroom to ensure that desks, shows and digital teams are rowing in the same direction on major stories and coverage, so that NPR can be consistent and collaborative in our approach to news on all of our platforms.
From 2017-2019 she led NPR's efforts to build a collaborative journalism network with NPR Member stations. When Chapin was named Executive Editor in 2015 she was charged with overseeing all desks and reporters, and helping to set the agenda for the entire News division.
Previously, Chapin was the senior supervising editor of NPR's International Desk. She managed a team of correspondents based outside the United States committed to bringing listeners dynamic stories of the world's people, politics, economy, and culture.
Prior to joining NPR in 2012, Chapin spent 25 years at CNN and worked her way up from intern, to bureau chief to vice president. Most recently, Chapin was the Vice President and Deputy Bureau Chief of CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau, where her strategic editorial and management responsibility included oversight of the 2009 presidential transition coverage and daily coverage of the White House and Capitol Hill.
Chapin contributed to Covering Catastrophe (Bonus Books, 2002), a book recounting the events of 9/11 in an oral history format. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations sits on the board of The Masters School.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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CEO/Co-Founder, Rippleworks
Doug Galen is the co-founder and CEO of Rippleworks, a nonprofit foundation that delivers the practical support social ventures need to scale faster and improve lives. Through Rippleworks’ customized high-impact projects, expert-led learning programs, and access to capital, social ventures gain the knowledge, training, and funding necessary for them to tackle operational challenges and meet the needs of the communities they serve. Since launching in 2015, Rippleworks has managed 200+ projects with 150 social ventures across 59 countries, partnered with experts to train 300+ ventures, and dispenses scaling capital loans and grants worldwide.
Doug has been an At-Large Director for Heifer International since 2014. He also teaches Startup Garage at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. When Doug isn’t working or teaching then you can usually find him cycling up some hill somewhere in the world or losing to his wife in dominos.
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Dr. Wells received her Bachelor of Arts degree in South Asian Studies from Brown University and began her work at Ashoka, an international organization that supports social entrepreneurship and building an Everyone a Changemaker word. During her tenure at Ashoka, Dr. Wells has built tools to measure the impact of systems change social entrepreneurs and continued to refine her academic knowledge. In 1995, she received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to conduct research in Trinidad and Tobago. Her project, “Trinidad: Engendering a Multi-Ethnic Society,” inspired her subsequent PhD in Anthropology at New York University. Her dissertation, “Between the Difference: The Emergence of a Cross Ethnic Women’s Movement in Trinidad and Tobago,” distilled her findings on social anthropology, and it informed her work at Ashoka, where she became President in 2005.
In addition to her academic curiosity, Wells has served local and global academic communities through her leadership. She has also taught anthropology at Georgetown University. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a Trustee of Brown University and Guidestar International, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for Duke University’s Center of Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE). She received the highest honors from the Brown University Alumni Association, and the “Women to Watch” award by Running Start, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that empowers young women to be political leaders.
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Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of the Technology Impact Fund, Capricorn Investment Grp, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. TIF is an early investor in iconic companies like Tesla, Redwood Materials, Planet, SpaceX, FORM & Helion. Prior to CIG, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global leader in electronic design, where he built & managed businesses that worked closely with electronics companies around the world. Prior to that he was at Data General (EMC), Honeywell, ROLM (IBM), & GFERC. He’s an electrical engineer by training & attended UND, Univ of Minnesota & Stanford. Dipender serves on the boards of AST, Electric Hydrogen, Halio, Joby (NYSE:JOBY), Navitas (NDAQ:NVTS), QuantumScape (NYSE:QS), Saildrone, SPAN & Summit Nanotech, International Solar Alliance, IonE, the Cyclotron Road Leadership Council, PRIME IAC, & commissioner of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP).
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Director, Stanford University
Debra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African Leadership University and the Wellbeing project. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world.
Pre-Covid, Debra was a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative.
Pre-Stanford, Debra was a business executive at Hewlett Packard where the common threads in her broad, 22-year career were driving large scale change, creating new businesses and producing positive social impact and good business results concurrently.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David Bornstein is the CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is working to establish solutions journalism as an integral part of mainstream news. He has been a journalist, focusing primarily on social innovation, for 30 years. From 2010-21, he co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times, which focused on social innovation. He is the author of: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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Educator, Systems-led Leadership
Daniela Papi-Thornton is an educator whose work focuses on systems-led social interventions. Daniela has served as a Lecturer at Yale School of Management, Watson Institute, and Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she was the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She continues to consult with Oxford’s Skoll Centre and other corporate and educational clients and she lectures globally on systems-led leadership. Her report and subsequent article, Tackling Heropreneurship, have been widely referenced. From that research she designed a tool called the Impact Gaps Canvas, used at universities around the world. At Oxford she launched educational programming designed to help incorporate systems thinking into social entrepreneurship education, including Map the System, a contest now running at ~40 global institutions. Daniela’s work in education design builds upon six years of emerging market entrepreneurial experience in Cambodia, running a hybrid social enterprise. She co-authored a book, Learning Service, focused on shifting mindsets and practices related to volunteer travel. Her 2018 Ashoka U Big Idea Talk and her TEDx talk on Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship highlight some of her philosophies.
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James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics, Duke University
Despite our intentions, why do we so often fail to act in our own best interest? Why do we promise to skip the chocolate cake, only to find ourselves drooling our way into temptation when the dessert tray rolls around? Why do we overvalue things that we’ve worked to put together? What are the forces that influence our behavior? Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University, is dedicated to answering these questions and others in order to help people live more sensible – if not rational – lives. His interests span a wide range of behaviors, and his sometimes unusual experiments are consistently interesting, amusing and informative, demonstrating profound ideas that fly in the face of common wisdom.
He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, co-creator of the film documentary (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, and a three-time New York Times bestselling author. His books include Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, Irrationally Yours, Payoff and Dollars and Sense.
In 2013 Bloomberg recognized Dan as one of Top 50 Most Influential thinkers. He also has a bi-weekly advice column in the Wall Street Journal called “Ask Ariely.” Dan can be found at www.danariely.com.
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Founder, Spring Impact
Dan founded Spring Impact based on his experiences working across a range of social sector organisations, and his frustration on seeing great ideas not scaling up. With Spring Impact, Dan has developed scale strategies and implementation plans with over 200 organisations ranging from Skoll Awardees such as Tostan and FES to Bezos Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and several leading social businesses. Dan is always looking for ambitious teams seeking to break through barriers on their journey to impact.
A regular presenter and writer, Dan is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Clore Social Leadership Fellow and a Rothschild Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He graduated from the University of Nottingham and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Leadership and Public Policy Executive Program.
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Director, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Christian Seelos is Codirector of the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Most recently he served as the Leo Tindemans Chair on Business Model Innovation at the Department of Economics and Business at KU Leuven (Belgium) and as the Director for Social Innovation Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Innovation for Change Initiative. Previous positions included academic visitor at the Skoll Center at Oxford University (UK), Director of the Platform for Strategy and Sustainability at the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School (Spain), and Associate Professor at the Institute for Tumor Biology and Cancer research at the University of Vienna (Austria). He teaches MBA and executive courses in International Business, Global Strategic Management, Innovation Strategy, and Social Innovation and consults with various organizations in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
Christian’s research on innovative business models in the context of deep poverty was recognized by the Strategic Management Society (Best Paper Award for Practice Implications, 2007) and also won him the gold price, 2008 of the IFC-FT research competition on private sector development. Together with Johanna Mair, he recently published the book "Innovation and Scaling for Impact" by Stanford University Publishing that won the Terry McAdam Book Award 2017 for “the most inspirational and useful new book contributing to nonprofit management“, the 2018 Academy of Management ONE award for “best organizations book 2015-2017", and was nominated for the thinkers50 award 2017 in the category of innovation. Christian earned his PhD in Molecular Biology and is widely published in both the Natural- and Social Sciences. He also held management positions in the private industry and at the United Nations where he co-led the disarmament work of Iraq’s biological weapons.
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Chris Underhill MBE is a professional mentor and an expert in the field of community mental health. In founding BasicNeeds he developed the Model for Mental Health and Development to serve communities in Low Income Countries. Now called the BasicNeeds Model it is managed and championed by CBM UK. He created the wellbeing and resilience organisation www.thrive.org.uk (gardening to change lives) and went on to found www.add.org.uk (global disability rights in development). He runs www.mentorservices.org.uk and is co-founder of the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs www.elderscouncil.net, and is Chair of the Catalyst-2030 Mental Health Collaboration. He is a Skoll Foundation awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship of the Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka and was honoured with an MBE by the Queen.
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CEO, African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Academy
Chris Bradford is driven to build transformational educational institutions. Over the past seventeen years, Chris has guided the development of African Leadership Academy. African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting the continent’s future leaders. Today, his work includes the development of the Anzisha Education Accelerator, which invests in high potential school founders across Africa who are building great schools that empower children to maximize their potential and communities to reimagine the possible.
Chris seeks to build strong organizations that transform societies by empowering individuals to reimagine what is possible for themselves and their communities. He relishes the process of institution building: ensuring that organizations are built to last and thrive beyond their founders.
Prior to ALA, Chris co-founded Terra Education and worked at organizations including Procter and Gamble, BCG, and the Broad Foundation. He also worked as a teacher at Oundle School, a boarding school in England. Chris is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford University (MBA, MA Education).
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Co-Founder, B Lab UK
Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good. She is the Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her areas of focus include the rise of profit and purpose business models, circular economy and mobilizing a ‘Movement of Movements’.
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President, Echoing Green
Cheryl L. Dorsey is the president of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that supports emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in their ideas and leadership. A social entrepreneur herself, Cheryl received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1992 to launch The Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit in Boston. Cheryl has served in two presidential administrations and currently serves on several boards including The Bridgespan Group and Skoll Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including the Pfizer Roerig History of Medicine Award, the Robert Kennedy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the Manual C. Carballo Memorial Prize. Cheryl has been named one of "America's Best Leaders" by US News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and one of The Nonprofit Times' "Power and Influence Top 50." She has a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her master's in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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Chuck Slaughter is the founder of TravelSmith and Living Goods, is a managing Director of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a Senior Advisor to TPG’s Rise Fund, a $5 billion impact investing platform. Chuck earned a BA and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel gear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. As an advisor to several private equity funds, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses. As its pro-bono president Chuck lead the turnaround of a network of clinics serving the poor in Kenya. This inspired him to create Living Goods, which supports government community health workers who provide health care on call delivered to the doorsteps of over 8 million people. Living Goods Smart Health app automates diagnoses, enables managers to optimize the performance of thousands of health workers in in remote villages, and provides real-time, auditable data to health ministries and funders. A RCT shows this approach is reducing child mortality by over 25%, for less than $3 per capita. LG’s is helping partners replicate the model in Uganda, Kenya Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. Chuck serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Digital Square, Aspen Management Partners, PATH’s Digital Advisory Board, and was previously the Vice Chair of the Initiative for Global Development (Co-founded by Bill Gates Sr). He received a Skoll Award, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
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West Coast Correspondent, Devex
Catherine Cheney is a Senior Reporter for Devex, the media platform for the global development community. She covers the West Coast of the U.S., focusing on the role of technology and innovation in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. And she frequently represents Devex as a speaker and moderator. Prior to joining Devex, Catherine earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, worked as a web producer for POLITICO and reporter for World Politics Review, and helped to launch NationSwell. Catherine has reported from around the world, and freelanced for outlets including the Atlantic and the Washington Post. She also works for the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit that trains and connects journalists to cover responses to problems.
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Executive Director, 1Future
Cannon Hersey is a media entrepreneur, visual artist, filmmaker and organizer of large-scale cultural platforms in New York City, Sao Paulo, Miami, Tokyo, Houston, Hiroshima and Johannesburg. Through TV and art, Hersey connects to mass public audiences in unique and unexpected ways to explore the solutions to the issues of our time.
Over the past six years, Hersey has been a producer, writer and host of 5 NHK television programs made about the legacy of his grandfather, writer John Hersey and Cannon’s work addressing social issues through art. An Executive Producer and Producer of a dramatic content in development on Eleanor Roosevelt and John Hersey.
For twenty-five years, Hersey creates artworks rooted in 35 mm photography, fabric arts and printmaking. Hersey has exhibited at Lincoln Center, the collection of Kim Esteve, and MoCADA.
Hersey founded 501C3 CrossPathCulture (CPC) in 1999 and for profit media companies 1Future (1future.com) and Eleanor Media Development in 2020
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Buvana has 12 years of working experience with in Indian and Bangladesh microfinance industry. She started her career in DHAN Foundation, a leading not for profit in India that focuses on community banking program. She supported 8000 affected families by Tsunami to restore the lives and livelihood of poor communities through Microcredit. Later, She joined in a leading Microfinance Institution (which is a small finance bank) where she built and managed microcredit portfolio of INR 50 million. In 2009, She worked as a microfinance consultant for an urban Not-for-profit based at Dhaka, Bangladesh to set up savings and credit program supported by Development Innovations Group (DIG). While supporting Dhaka project, Buvana has set up the micro-housing pilot project of DIG in Chennai, India. Buvana has been with Water.org for 4+ years bringing changes in the lives of household by creating access to water and sanitation facility. Buvana joined as a Program Manager and got elevated to Senior Program Manager last year. She leads a team of program managers who manages the smart subsidy program implemented by Microfinance Institutions, Banks and WASH supply chain institutions across India. She guides and supports the programs team on the program technical aspects and budget management. Buvana has been instrumental in organizing annual events for Water.org partners and other stakeholders. She holds Masters in Agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India and also a certificate course on Certified Microfinance Expert from the Frankfurt school of management and Finance, Germany.
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.Date of Birth: 30th June 1945
2. Educational Qualifications: English(Hons) St Stephens College 1967
3. Work Experience: “real” education started when -he dug open wells for drinking water as an unskilled labourer for 5 years (1967-1971).
Married Aruna(nee Jayaram) June 1970. No children
National Squash Champion 1965, 1968 and 1971.
Started the Barefoot College in 1972. Follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Gave a TED talk in Edinburgh in October 2011. 4.8 million viewers translated into 45 languages.
HONORS
The Schwab Foundation for Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs, World Economic
Forum Davos September 2002:
The Guardian London identified as one of the 50 Environmentalists who could save the planet
April 2010 identified by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people
in the world.
Blue Planet Prize Tokyo Japan November 2011
Clinton Global Citizen Award New York September 2013
Hon. Degree Bachelor of Law Princeton University June 2017(First Indian in 40
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Founder and CEO, Aceli Africa
Brian is Founder & CEO of Aceli Africa, a market incentive facility to mobilize private capital for small- and medium-enterprises in the agriculture sector across Africa. Since launching in 2020, Aceli has partnered with 25 commercial banks and impact investors to mobilize $80M+ in lending to SMEs that link 500k smallholder farmers to markets. Incentives reward lenders for serving first-time borrowers and impact across gender and youth inclusion, climate & environment, and food security & nutrition.
Previously as Chief Innovation Officer for Root Capital, he led the impact and advisory teams and designed impact-linked finance mechanisms in Africa and Latin America. He is also a co-founder and serves as Director of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF), an alliance of 17 impact lenders that promote industry standards and best practices for agricultural SME lending globally. He was named a 2020 Rainer Arnhold Fellow by the Mulago Foundation.
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Former Chief Executive Officer, Polaris
Bradley Myles is former CEO of Polaris, a global leader in the fight to eradicate human trafficking and to restore freedom to survivors. Since 2002, he has devoted himself to combating human trafficking and modern slavery on a local, national, and global scale. Mr. Myles' early efforts focused on directly serving survivors, researching local human trafficking markets, and helping to build Washington DC's first-ever Human Trafficking Task Force. Under Myles' leadership, Polaris has worked to strengthen the U.S. national movement against human trafficking through policy advocacy in all 50 states and through a wide range of training and capacity-building programs. He also helped launch Polaris's operation of the United States National Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888), a 24/7 operation that has now identified and responded to more than 50,000 cases of human trafficking nationwide, received calls directly from over 10,000 survivors, and formulated a unique typology of the 25 major types of human trafficking that exist in the present-day United States. This hotline and data hub model is now regarded as one of the best-functioning anti- trafficking hotlines in the world and has become a focal point of Polaris' growing global programs.
Mr. Myles is currently focusing his efforts on Polaris’s future strategy for the next decade, which includes working towards better anti-trafficking hotline coverage globally to build a stronger safety net for all 25 million victims of human trafficking worldwide, strengthening partnerships with the world's leading technology companies, and undertaking new data-driven intervention efforts targeted towards eliminating specific types of modern slavery in the U.S. and around the world. Mr. Myles holds degrees in Psychology and Political Science from Stanford University. He is the 2017 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Founder and CEO, Ashoka,
AshokaBill Drayton is a social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service. As the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems-change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch.
As a student, he founded organizations ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an inter-disciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. After graduation from Harvard, he received an M.A. from Balliol College in Oxford University. In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School. He worked at McKinsey & Company for ten years and taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While serving the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, he launched many reforms including emissions trading, a fundamental change in regulation that is now the basis of much global as well as US regulatory law, including in fields beyond the environment.
Bill launched Ashoka in 1980; in 1984, he used the stipend he received when elected a MacArthur Fellow to devote himself fully to Ashoka. Bill is Ashoka’s Chief Executive Officer. He also chairs Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Bill has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He has been selected one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and, in 2019, Drayton was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society. Other awards include Honorary Doctorates from Yale, NYU and more.
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Beto Veríssimo is a co-founder of Imazon, a think-and-do tank organization based in the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1990. He holds a master degree in Ecology from The Pennsylvania State University (USA) and graduate degree in Agriculture Engineer from the Federal Rural University of the Brazilian Amazon. His work has helped created about 25 million hectares of Conservation Units in the Brazilian Amazon and support forest management for more than 7 million hectares. In the last years he has work on different strategies to reduce the level of deforestation and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. He received several awards including 2010 the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2015 he received the Brazilian Award on conservation by Globo Newspaper. He is also co-founder of Amazon Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab at Princeton University.
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Bart is a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur. With a vision to empower the most vulnerable communities of subsistence farmers in sub-Sahara Africa, he took the initiative to train HeroRATs as sustainable detectors in response to the global landmine problem.
When Mozambique officially announced itself free from landmines in 2015, Bart transitioned from his executive role to focus on the practice of Zen. In the same year he got involved in The Wellbeing Project which aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers.
While exploring the relationship between personal growth and social action, Bart currently dedicates his time to leading Zen workshops with companies and organisations, public speaking, and personal growth coaching trajectories.
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First degree, philosophy (Manchester), second law (Manchester Law School). From 1972 to 1984, journalism -- the Guardian, Forbes Magazine. Coleman Writing -- advising major corporations, government and others on the technique of written communications. 1989-present building and supporting Riders for Health.
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Founder and Director, Altruism in Medicine Institute
Ven. Dr. Barry Kerzin is an American trained physician and Buddhist monk who is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the Centre for Buddhist Studies, HKU, as well as an Honorary Professor at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences. He is the founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI) and founder and chairman of the Human Values Institute (HVI) in Japan. For 32 years he has been providing free medical care to the poor up to high lamas. He is training compassion for 18,000 nurses at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and for Google employees in Japan, London, Singapore and USA in 2021, as well as other big international companies. Barry has been a speaker in 2 TEDx talks, presented medical grand rounds at Stanford Medical School and lectured around the world including Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His brain has been studied at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has authored four books.
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Co-Founder Conveners.org, Conveners-Org
Bringing new companies from idea to reality is Avary Kent's passion. She blends scientific analysis with business acumen and operational expertise to help bring new companies and products to market. She excels in companies that are focused on creating new holistic systems to manage growth and scale to create high impact products and services. She is the Co-Founder of Conveners.org and through that role applied her expertise in facilitation, experience design, capacity building trainings, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and human centered design to support organizations to increase the effectiveness of convening as a tool for change. For the last three years she has worked extensively with Kaiser Permanente and developed new programs and projects including www.resiliencecompass.org.
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Chief Executive Officer, Muso
Ari Johnson, MD, is co-founder and CEO of Muso, and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, Global Health Sciences. His work with Muso pursues a cure for delay: the right to early health care for all people. Ari trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at the University of California San Francisco. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in the fields of infectious disease, health care systems design, and socioeconomic determinants of health. Over the past sixteen years, Ari has supported Muso to design and build Rapid Care, a strategy for early, universal access to health care. A study in BMJ Global Health documented how Rapid Care communities achieved and sustained a rate of child death lower than any country in Sub-Saharan Africa for five years running. Muso currently cares for 500,000 patients, and supports governments to redesign their national health care systems, to reach their patients with speed.
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Executive Director,
NidanArbind Singh, 5, is a mission driven informal workers’ rights activist and social entreprenuer. He works with informal sector workers and their children. As national coordinator of the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) and founder of Nidan . He has engaged ,struggled and confronted with government authorities at various levels to protect and promote rights of street vendors and other sections of informal workers.Besides being a motivator and leader, he is also regarded as a dynamic social entrepreneur. He has promoted community owned financial entities of informal workers, such as thrift and credit cooperatives of street vendors, domestic workers and artisans, in several districts in Bihar and Delhi. He was elected as Ashoka and Eishenhower Fellow in 2007, He was awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 by Schwab Foundation and in 2012 by the Skoll Foundation . He co-founded Self Workers Global (SWG)to take up issues of informal workers across continents
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Author, Lean Impact, Individual
Ann Mei Chang is a leading expert on social innovation and author of Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good. Ann Mei served as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID and first Executive Director of the US Global Development Lab, engaging the best practices for innovation from Silicon Valley to accelerate the impact and scale of solutions to the world’s most intractable challenges. In addition, she was Chief Innovation Officer for Pete for America, Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps, and Senior Advisor for Women and Technology at the U.S. Department of State.
Prior to her pivot to the public and social sector, Ann Mei was a seasoned technology executive, with more than 20 years’ experience at such leading companies as Google, Apple, and Intuit, as well as at a range of startups. As Senior Engineering Director at Google, she led worldwide engineering for mobile applications and services, delivering 20x growth to $1 billion in annual revenues in just three years.
Ann Mei earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellows’ class of 2011. She has been recognized as one of the “Women In the World: 125 Women of Impact” by Newsweek/The Daily Beast in 2013, "23 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech" by Business Insider in 2019, and "20 Top LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs, Executives and Thought Leaders" by Global Shakers in 2019.
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CEO, New America
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School) from 2002–2009 and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School from 1994-2002. She has written or edited seven books, including “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World”, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”, and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. She is also a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Project Syndicate. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality. She is married to Professor Andrew Moravcsik; they have two sons.
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Ann Cotton is Founder and Board member of CAMFED, an international non-profit organisation tackling poverty and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change.
CAMFED’s goal is to replace the existing cycle of poverty and inequality with a new cycle of empowerment and opportunity. The organisation’s unique approach is to not only support girls and young women through school, but also on to new lives as entrepreneurs and community leaders. To complete the “virtuous cycle”, graduating students become alumnae and many train and mentor new generations of students. More than 5 million children have already benefited from CAMFED’s programmes in a network of 5,745 partner schools across Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi. In 2014, Camfed was recognised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for best practice in taking development innovation to scale.
Ann is an Honorary Fellow at Homerton College, and Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Cambridge University Judge Business School. She is a noted speaker on international platforms, including the World Economic Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Skoll World Forum, and the U.S.-Africa Summit. Ann has won numerous awards for her work, including an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Cambridge and The Open University; an OBE in honour of her advocacy of girls’ education in Africa; the Skoll and Schwab Awards for Social Entrepreneurship; Woman of the Year in the UK; and UK Social Entrepreneur of the Year; and the WISE Prize for Education.
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Executive Director - Africa,
CAMFEDAngeline Murimirwa, one of the first young women to receive support from the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) to go to secondary school in Zimbabwe, today leads female education and empowerment programmes across more than 5,700 marginalised school communities in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, unlocking the potential of hundreds of thousands of girls and young women across sub-Saharan Africa.
Angeline is a key founding member of the Camfed Association, CAMA, a powerful pan-African movement of 120,000 educated young women. United by a background of rural poverty, CAMA members understand the desire for education, and the enormous hurdles girls face in securing that right. CAMA provides a crucial support network, enabling young women to step up as role models, mentors and entrepreneurs in their communities, armed, as Angeline puts it, with ‘the audacity to dream, to question, and to lead.”
Angeline, a serving member of the Girls’ Education Alliance, also served on the Board of the Zimbabwe National Youth Council, and represented Camfed on the Education Coordination Group and the UNAIDS Gender Task Force. She was awarded Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life by the Women's World Summit Foundation in Switzerland presented with the 2017 Diamond Ball Honors Award by the Clara Lionel Foundation, recognising her past, present and future support of young leaders, entrepreneurship and civic engagement. Her international platforms include the Brookings Center for Universal Education in Washington, D.C., and the Skoll World Forum. Angeline’s story features in ‘Half the Sky’, a book by award-winning writers Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn.
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Executive Director, Segal Family Foundation
Andy Bryant joined the foundation as Executive Director in 2010. He leads the foundation’s team and implements the vision of the board of directors. He has overseen an increase in the foundation’s annual giving from $2 million in 2010 to over $18 million in 2022 alongside the growth of the partner portfolio from 30 organizations to now well over 300. The most important quantifiable changes that Andy has overseen:
1) African staff: Zero in 2010 to 70% in 2022
2) African-led partners: Zero in 2010 to over 80% in 2022
3) Grant decisions made in Africa: Zero in 2010 to nearly 100% in 2022
He has worked in international development for many years in Africa and Asia, including positions with Tanzanian Children’s Fund and TechnoServe. Andy completed a BA from Princeton University in 2003 and subsequently graduated from Syracuse University in 2007 with a MPA in International Development.
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Project Manager, Our Voices
Angela Code is a member of the Sayisi Dene First Nation. She was born in Churchill, Manitoba (the polar bear capital of the world). Angela spent her childhood in her home Indian reserve at Tadoule Lake, Manitoba. There, she was surrounded by denesuline (Chipewyan Dene language), culture, family and community of her people. The Sayisi Dene are caribou people - much of their identity is directly linked to their traditional territory and living off the land. At age 10, Angela’s parents Allan and Mary Code moved her and brother Mike to Whitehorse, Yukon in order to receive higher quality western education, recreation and general opportunities to "succeed" within Canadian society. The move also proved to assist with Allan and Mary's careers as documentary film makers. After finishing high-school, Angela pursued her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in First Nation Studies, a Minor in First Nation Languages and Linguistics at the University of British Columbia - she graduated in 2012. Angela has worked various jobs - largely with youth and film making. Angela has also travelled the world. She believes in social justice and the empowerment of the oppressed. Angela is a strong advocate for indigenous peoples’ rights - particularly for indigenous women. Angela has served as a delegate for various summits including The Indigenous Circumpolar Women's Gathering and The Sustainable Goals Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
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International Director, Centre for Policy Development
Andrew is an international human rights lawyer with 20 years of varied UN and international advocacy experience. Andrew has held many positions at Crisis Action since joining in 2010, including New York Director and Deputy Executive Director. He provides world-class leadership to a global team and has spearheaded some of the organisation’s signature advocacy successes, as well as leading critical aspects of the internationalisation of Crisis Action.
Prior to Crisis Action, Andrew worked for four years at Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) in New York, where he coordinated UN advocacy, managed the Human Rights Defenders Program and led Latin American work.
Previously, Andrew was a lawyer in Australia representing indigent clients and refugees and spearheading major law reform projects. He has also worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Ecuador, the UN Regional Commission in Thailand, the Australian delegation to the UN General Assembly, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. Andrew holds honours degrees in politics and law from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Laws from New York University School of Law. He is a John Monash Scholar.
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Andrew Kassoy is co-founder and CEO of B Lab. B Lab is the nonprofit organization behind the B Corp Movement. B Lab’s vision is an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all. B Lab drives systemic change through interrelated initiatives that change the culture, behavior, and structure of business and the capital markets. The movement is led by the example of over 3,600 Certified B Corporations in 70 countries who meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, legal accountability, and transparency, creating a stakeholder economy that benefits workers, communities, and the environment, not just shareholders. Their example has inspired over 100,000 other companies to measure and manage their impact with the same rigor as their profits, 10,000 companies to adopt benefit corporation statutes in 43 states and 5 countries that make them accountable to balance the interests of their stakeholders with their shareholders, and millions of consumers to support them.
Before leaving the private sector to form B Lab with two college mates, Bart Houlahan and Jay Coen Gilbert, Andrew spent 16 years in the private equity industry - as a Partner at MSD Real Estate Capital, an investment vehicle for Michael Dell; Managing Director in Credit Suisse First Boston’s Private Equity Department; and a founding partner of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners.
With his partners, Andrew received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was featured as a New York Times Visionary. He is a Board Member of Echoing Green, was a member of the U.S. working group of the G8 Social Impact Task Force, and on the Forbes Impact 30 list of leading social entrepreneurs.
Andrew was raised in Boulder, Colorado and graduated with Distinction from Stanford University where he was a Truman Scholar and President’s Award winner. In 2001, he was named a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and 4 children.
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As a professional, I have worked in marketing, public relations, sports management and fundraising. I co-founded Riders for Health, together with my husband, Barry Coleman, in 1996. The organisation is now 26 years old and operating nationally in four countries, working with ministries of health and other health focussed entities. The programmes in Africa have been African led from the outset and my work and focus now is to give resource support for the African leadership and to seek, with them, ways to have their authentic voices heard about their valuable health systems operations at the established global health level.
Together with two social entrepreneurs, Mel Young and Chris Underhill, we have founded the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurship.
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We promote market based approach to poverty reduction. Till date 1.7 million smallholder farmers households moved out of poverty by adopting our small scale irrigation technology
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CEO & Co-founder, Farmerline
Alloysius launched Farmerline in 2013 to create lasting wealth for farmers through technology and sustainable farming practices. He currently leads the company’s strategic vision and has raised over $30 million through partnerships & investments. Farmerline’s partnerships with over 130 organizations across 44 countries have served and digitized 1.7 million farmers. TIME Magazine recognized its Mergdata platform as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2019. Meanwhile, Alloysius has been lauded by organizations and world leaders such as former IMF boss Christine Lagarde, Echoing Green, CBNC Africa's Young Business Leader Award, and Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst for his work.
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Dr. Alinafe Kasiya is the Deputy Country Director for VillageReach Malawi and also the Program Lead for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health. Alinafe has over 15 years’ experience in health promotion, social and behavior change communication (SBCC) and international development in Malawi and within Sub Saharan Africa. Previously Alinafe has successfully managed projects in the areas of maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition, family planning, HIV and AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, gender and governance. Alinafe holds a PhD in Development Studies, specializing in governance and development, from SOAS, University of London.
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Professor Alex Nicholls MBA is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: social and impact investment; the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; and Fair Trade.
To date Nicholls has published more than one hundred papers, working papers, book chapters and articles and six books. Most appear in a wide range of peer reviewed journals and books, including five papers in Financial Times Top 30 journals. He has over ten thousand citations of his work. His 2009 paper on social investment won the Best Paper Award (Entrepreneurship) at the British Academy of Management. In 2010, Nicholls edited a Special Edition of Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice on social entrepreneurship – the first time a top tier management journal had recognized the topic in this way. He is the General Editor of the Skoll Working Papers Series and the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.
Nicholls is also the co-author of a major research book on Fair Trade (with Charlotte Opal, Sage, 2005) and the editor of a collection of key papers on social entrepreneurship (Oxford University Press, 2006, 2008). Both represent the best selling and most cited academic books on their subjects in the world. In 2011, Nicholls published a co-edited volume on social innovation – the first scholarly book on the subject. In 2015, he published a co-edited volume on social finance (again, the first academic collection on the subject) and a new book on social innovation with NESTA. In 2020, Nicholls published a book examining the economics underpinnings of social innovation in the European Union as a product of the CRESSI project.
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Founder and President of Ciudad Saludable, and President of Healthy Cities International Foundation, all belonging to Healthy City Group; external Consultant for the InterAmerican Bank – IADB and the World Bank. Albina obtained her Ph.D. summa cum laude in Chemical Engineering, at the Universitat Ramón Llull, Spain (2010). Graduated as Industrial Engineer at the UNI (National University of Engineering), and as Sanitary Engineer in Solid Waste, as second specialty, Peru. M.A. in Ecology and Environmental Management at Ricardo Palma University (2000), Peru. Ashoka Social Entrepreneur Fellow since 1996, she is considered among the world’s best social entrepreneurs. Also chosen by Schawb Foundation and by Skoll Foundation as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur and Avina Leader as well, as a result of the work she develops in environmental issues and especially in solid waste and water care; she has performed several environmental studies of the basin of the Santa River, of the Yarinacocha Lagoon, due to the impact that solid waste and sewage water have on this water stream. She is Board Member at the Global Fairness Initiative in USA.
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Adrian Sell is Chief Executive Officer of BasicNeeds UK. He has successfully steered BasicNeeds into a merger with CBM UK and recently secured over a million dollars in funding from an online games company. He has over twenty-five years experience in the charity, social enterprise, government and private sectors. His experience covers mental health, international work as well as considerable experience of scaling complex social interventions. He holds a Masters in Consulting and Leading in Organizations from the Tavistock and Portman Clinic. Previously he was Executive Director at OXPIP: Oxford Parent Infant Project a pioneering organization working to ensure a loving and secure start to life. With backing from Impetus-Private Equity Foundation and others he successfully doubled the turnover of the organization. His other roles have included Director of Services for an older people’s charity, Operations Manager for a social enterprise, working on organizational change in a county council as well as front line roles in a hospital, a care home and an insurance company. He is married with two children and enjoys cycling, running, walking, reading and spending time with friends and family.
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Project Leader, Wellbeing Project
Aaron is excited about the interplay between our inner lives and the broader world. Aaron Pereira is currently Project Lead for The Wellbeing Project. The Wellbeing Project is focused on catalysing a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. It emerged from a 7 year sabbatical ending in 2012. The Wellbeing Project is co-created with Ashoka, Georgetown University, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and Synergos.
Aaron worked with the Guggenheim on an urban labs project, co-founded a pilot social enterprise to address housing issues in Mumbai slums, and explored neighbourhood life through a project in Paris. Aaron was co-founder of CanadaHelps and Vartana.
Aaron is an Ashoka Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Aaron completed a degree with a minor in Economics from Queen's University, studied at Oxford University as a Skoll Scholar, and completed an executive education program at Harvard.
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Senior Program Coordinator, Public Engagement and Communications,
Skoll FoundationAs Senior Program Coordinator on the Public Engagement and Communications team, Wendy provides support on a range of projects that inform, interact with, and inspire Skoll Foundation’s broad and dynamic community and network. She is a user centered design enthusiast and driven to keep the human at the core of her work.
Wendy first joined the Skoll Foundation in 2018 as Registration Assistant for the Skoll World Forum where she ensured a smooth coordination of Skoll Week invitations and customized user experience journeys for various segments of the community. She continued to support the Community & Convenings team through coordinating efforts to obtain, deploy, and maintain the technology solutions for the Skoll World Forum.
Prior to Skoll, she spent over four years coordinating work processes within the student records department regarding maintenance, dissemination, processing, and confidentiality of student records information at University of California, Riverside (UCR).
Wendy earned her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from UCR. She is currently continuing her education by studying graphic and interactive design at De Anza City College. She is a proud Los Angeles native who happily resides in Bay Area with her husband and shiba inu.
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Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation and focuses on developing and amplifying the Foundation's work to enable lasting social change. She has been a social entrepreneur, investor and advisor and brings a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary view to her work.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Shivani co-founded and led Samahope, a non-profit that invested in local medical providers who provide critical medical care to women and children in low-income communities around the world. Her technology-driven social innovation work has spanned the Grameen Foundation, World Bank and World Health Organization. Earlier in her career, Shivani was a strategy consultant and product manager in the private sector.
Shivani is a proud and under-caffeinated mom of two. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Managing Director, IDEO.org
Shalu is a Managing Director of IDEO.org’s Economic Prosperity practice, which focuses on building economic resilience for low income people by enabling them to better earn, save and invest their resources. In this role, Shalu supports teams by scoping collaborations, diving deep with teams as they design solutions for our partners, and engaging partners as we seek to achieve impact at scale.
Prior to IDEO.org, Shalu’s experience spanned the international development and business strategy sectors. She has worked at Bain & Company where she supported Fortune 500 businesses, and Digitas, where she used analytics to improve her clients’ marketing programs. She also worked across 6+ countries in Africa at Abt Associates, a USAID contractor, where she worked on global health projects.
Shalu is a Clinton Fellow in India, holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a bachelor’s in Business Administration from Boston University. In her free time, Shalu enjoys wrangling hugs and kisses from her two sons and holding impromptu music sessions at home.
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Safeena is the Founder and Board Member of Educate Girls (EG), an Indian non-profit that mobilises communities toward girls’ education in some of the hardest-to-reach villages. Under her leadership, EG has enrolled 1.1 million+ girls in schools till date, improved learning outcomes for 1.6 million+ children, expanded operations to 20,000 villages through a 20,000+ strong team of community volunteers.
An LSE graduate, Safeena has worked extensively with underserved communities in South America, Africa and Asia. She is known for her efforts to bridge the gender and literacy gaps through tech-driven interventions, pioneering the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education and EG becoming the first Audacious project in Asia, which aims to bring 40% of India’s out of school girls back to education.
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Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Saïd Business School
Robert McCarthy is the Director of Development and Alumni Relations. In that role, he leads the School’s philanthropy and alumni engagement programmes.
Originally from the United States, Robert has worked in the field of development and external relations since 1988 for a range of major cultural institutions in North America, world-class universities in the UK, and several global humanitarian and international development NGOs.
He has over 15 years of Major Donor fundraising experience in the UK’s University sector including at LSE, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford.
Most recently, Robert has been based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Brazil, he has worked as an independent fundraising consultant, providing strategic advice and practical support to a range of NGOs and CSOs including Médicos Sem Fronteiras (MSF)Brasil, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) Latin America, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor, Conectas, and Instituto Igarapé.
Prior to this, Robert was Head of Major Donors at Transparency International’s Secretariat in Berlin, Germany.
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Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Bob Annibale
Global Director,
Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance
Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance financial institutions, corporations, investors and municipalities, working across Citi’s businesses and geographies to expand access to financial services in underserved communities.
Since joining Citi in 1982, Mr. Annibale has held a number of senior regional and global treasury, risk and corporate positions in Athens, Bahrain, Nairobi, London and New York.
Bob serves on the U.S. FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisory Council on Financial Education and Inclusion. He serves as a Founding Member of SAGE’s Housing Advisory Council supporting the senior LGBT community, and serves on the board of the Citi Foundation, Accion International and the Bedford Stuyvestant Restoration Corporation.
In 2014, Bob was honored by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change for his work leading Citi’s programs promoting immigrant integration and citizenship in the United States. His leadership contributed to Citi’s recognition by Euromoney as the inaugural “Best Bank for Financial Inclusion” and “Latin America’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance”. Bob was individually recognized by Euromoney as a “Global Impact Banking Champion”. In 2018, he was again named by the Financial Times as one of the OUTStanding Top 100 LGBT Business Leaders for the fifth consecutive year.
Bob, a U.S. and U.K. national, holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Vassar College, New York, and an M.A. in African Studies (History) from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.
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President, Samueli Family Philanthropies and COO, H&S Ventures, Samueli Foundation
Lindsey Spindle serves as President of the Samueli Family Philanthropies and Chief Operating Officer of H&S Ventures which oversees all the Samueli Family’s for-profit and not-for-profit activities. The philanthropic entities operating under the oversight of H&S Ventures include the Samueli Foundation, the Anaheim Ducks Foundation, the San Diego Gulls Foundation, the Irvine Ice Foundation, and The Rinks Foundation.
Spindle was President of The Jeff Skoll Group, where she connected and advised Mr. Skoll’s entrepreneurial portfolio of philanthropic and commercial organizations that include the impact entertainment company Participant, Capricorn Investment Group, and the Skoll Foundation. The Skoll Foundation’s mission is centered on social entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on five main, interrelated areas: climate change, inclusive economies, protection of democracy, pandemics prevention and health systems strengthening, and racial justice. Participant has produced more than
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Head of Grants and Investments, Mulago Foundation
Laura is responsible for Mulago’s operations, investment strategy and execution, leading a team that sources, vets and manages over 100 funding relationships (grants, debt and equity) with social enterprises in Africa and South/Southeast Asia. Since Laura joined the foundation in 2007, Mulago has provided over $150 million in early stage funding for many iconic social enterprises, including Educate Girls, Last Mile Health, Living Goods, Muso, Zola and One Acre Fund. Laura is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business – teaching Formation of Impact Ventures – on the board of Innovations for Poverty Action and an advisor to many social enterprises around the world. Laura thrives in entrepreneurial environments and most of her professional career has been in early stage companies. She received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and her MBA and Certificate in Public Management from Stanford University.
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Director, BUILD, Ford Foundation
Kathy Reich leads the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative in the United States and in the foundation’s 10 global regions. BUILD is a 12-year, $2 billion initiative to strengthen key institutions around the world that focus on ending inequality. Before joining Ford in 2016, Kathy worked for 15 years at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; prior to that, she was policy director of a non-profit and a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. Kathy currently serves on the board of Repair the World and is a senior fellow of the Schusterman Family Philanthropies. She resides in New York City.
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CEO, Mulago Foundation
Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale. Most fellows become part of the Mulago solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale.
Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago. He and his team now work with 50 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America.
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An international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen founded IBJ in 2000 after witnessing hundreds of prisoners of all ages being held without trials, usually after being tortured into making 'confessions’. She realised that systematic early access to a lawyer can create global conditions for a “new normal” in which democracy is strengthened, people have access to justice, and we end the use of torture as an investigative tool. IBJ now has a presence in 52 countries and over 22 years, IBJ has supported more than 40,000+ lawyers and defenders who have represented more than 500,000 detainees.
Karen is a recipient of awards from the Skoll Foundation, Echoing Green, Ashoka, and among others, the American Bar Association Human Rights Award, the Gleitsman International Award, Harvard Divinity School Gomes and Alumna awards. Karen is named as one of America’s best leaders by the US News and World Report.
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CEO, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Jim Bildner is the CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (www.drkfoundation.org), one of the largest venture philanthropy firms in the world. DRK has made more than 210 investments in early stage non-profit and for-profit social enterprises working to solve complex societal issues including systemic poverty, food and water insecurity, access to healthcare and economic opportunities, sanitation, homelessness, criminal justice, social justice and climate change and adaptation strategies. In the aggregate, its portfolio organizations have directly impacted more than 300 million lives. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation and chair of its Investment Committee and serves on the boards of a number of other non profit and for profit organizations.
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for more than 38 years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address health impacts related to climate change and toxic chemical exposure. Cohen is co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, created in 1996 to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and support the health and climate resilience of the communities they serve. Since its inception, the nonprofit has grown to lead and partner in groundbreaking initiatives in more than 79 countries. Cohen was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House in 2013. In 2015, Cohen received a MacArthur Fellowship and a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. For more about Cohen and his work, view the MacArthur Award video.
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Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership
Dr François Bonnici is public health physician, professor, social change practitioner and foundation leader with over two decades of experience working across multiple countries, and sectors. Deeply rooted in context and frontline work, he has worked extensively with civil society, movements, foundations, governments, multilaterals and business in progressive and catalytic partnerships that seek to advance the work of primary actors, and understand the organizational practices of “systems work” towards more transformative social change.
He currently serves as Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, an international foundation dedicated to advancing the most impactful and innovative models of social change, and concurrently as Head of Social Innovation at the World Economic Forum. He was Founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town from 2011-2018, establishing a globally recognized institute for knowledge, capacity and action advancing the discourse and systemic impact of social innovation in Africa.
He is the co-author of the upcoming book, The Systems Work of Social Change, and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. He has been recognised as an Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow, Rhodes Scholar and Associate Fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. He was a founding board member of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in South Africa, and a board member of the Social Innovation Exchange.
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Ambassador, World For All Foundation
A participant and leader in the anti-apartheid struggle.
Held ministerial positions like Health & Welfare; Finance & Economic Development; and Premier of the Western Cape Province.
Was South Africa’s Ambassador to the USA.
Founded the World for All Foundation that opposes all extremisms & strives for a world safe for difference.
Is a Senior Fellow at both Georgetown and Rutgers Universities.
Edited a recently published book called Living Where We Don’t Make The Rules - a guide for Muslim minorities.
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Chief of Shelter and Settlement Section, UNHCR
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Anushka Ratnayake is the CEO and Founder of myAgro, based in Senegal and working across Africa. Anushka is recognized as a global leader in designing digital financial tools for smallholder farmers. She's a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, TED speaker, and Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship. Anushka lives in Senegal, where myAgro is headquartered. myAgro served 115,000 farmers across West Africa last year and helped them increase their yields by 100% and their farm income by 35%. myAgro's North Star is to reach 1 million farmers by 2026.
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Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s poor are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers in East Africa. One Acre Fund has 9,000 full-time staff who serve 1,600,000+ families per year, plus 2,000,000+ more families through partnerships across 9 African countries. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
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Elissa builds strategic alliances for Partners In Health (PIH) with corporate, foundation, and implementation partners. Over the last decade she’s held a variety of roles at PIH, including leading the Policy & Partnerships team in Malawi where she developed multisectoral collaboration around noncommunicable disease, women’s health, and health sector planning. Previously, she worked in policy research, supply chain consulting, and workforce development. Elissa is a proud member of the Women’s Impact Alliance.
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Trustee, Aman Foundation
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Founder, Amplifier
Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer and Explorer, a Stanford d.School Fellow, and Founder + Chief Creative of Amplifier.org.
As a photographer Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines including several cover stories. His photo career started with a photo essay in teh Smithsonian about his solo walk across America in 2001 (3,349 mile in 154 days). As a Stanford Knight Fellow and then as one of the first d.School Media Experiments Fellows, Huey focused on using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world to evolve his storytelling. That resulted in many projects beyond traditional photography, including the evolution of his art and advocacy non-profit Amplifier, where he created the global art phenomenon called "We The People" with a small team now based in South Seattle.
Huey’s Bear Ears Virtual Museum VR experience, won the Webby for best VR Interactive Design in 2019 and parts of that project will become Pre-Colonial History and Cultural Heritage lessons in AR and VR for K-12 classrooms across the US in 2021. Huey is currently working on a set of new AR experiments at Amplifier.
But, perhaps most importantly, Huey was named the 3rd coolest Dad in America by Fatherly.com after Lebron James and Kelly Slater.
