2012 Skoll Awards For Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers
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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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Social Entrepreneur of the World – World Entrepreneurship Forum, 2012
Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2012
Japan’s Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth, 2011
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst and Young Philippines, 2010
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2010
Top 4 Most Trusted Filipino – Reader’s Digest Asia, 2010
Filipino of the Year, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2006
People of the Year, Philippine Star, 2006
The Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL) Awardee for Community Service, 2006
Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership, 2006
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Performers, String Fever USA
No ordinary Quartet - they perform on five and six string electric violins, viola and cello. Neal, the cellist also provides vocal percussion with his superb Beatboxing skills. Stringfever - the world's first genetically modified String Quartet comprises of brothers Giles, Ralph, Neal and their cousin Graham.
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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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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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Founder, SING
Named as one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, internationally acclaimed singer songwriter and human rights activist Annie Lennox rose to fame with Dave Stewart as Eurythmics in the early 1980’s with the classic album "Sweet Dreams are Made of This.” In the decade to follow, Eurythmics went on to achieve more than 20 international hits, selling more than 80 million albums.
In 1992, Lennox released her debut album, “Diva"…selling over 6 million copies worldwide and establishing her career as a solo artist.
Lennox has received numerous accolades, including 8 BRIT Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), 10 Grammy nominations and 4 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
In 2003, Lennox performed at the inaugural concert for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS Foundation, 46664. Her experience in South Africa inspired her to found the SING campaign, supporting women and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
A goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS, Oxfam, Amnesty International and The British Red Cross, she is also Special Envoy for Scottish Parliament and the City of London.
She received the Woman of Peace Award at the 2009 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and in 2011 was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her humanitarian work.
Last year, she was awarded a Fellowship at the 60th Ivor Novello Awards - the first woman to receive it - and earlier this year Elle magazine awarded her the "Outstanding Achievement Award" for activism and campaigning.
The Royal Scottish Geographic Society awarded Annie the prestigious "Livingstone Medal” in March 2016.
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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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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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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
