Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2013 Day Two Morning Plenary
Speakers
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President, Marina Silva Institute
Marina Silva has dedicated over 30 years of service to public life. She has been elected councilwoman, state representative and twice as a senator. She was Minister of the Environment and Presidential Candidate for the Green Party. She has received more than 50 national and international awards. In 2012 she was honoured during the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics for her efforts to develop world peace. In 2012, she became an Honorary Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the World Conservation Congress.
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Founder and CEO, Cambia, Professor, QUT, NICTA
Richard is a prominent molecular biologist, social entrepreneur and innovation systems strategist. He founded Cambia, an independent non-profit social enterprise to democratise problem solving using science-enabled innovation. Richard developed the landmark hologenome theory of evolution, the Biological Open Source Movement (BiOS) and Patent Lens. Richard is also Professor of Science, Technology & Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Rogue at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where he directs The Lens, a global open platform for innovation cartography.
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Director (2009-2016), Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Dr. Pamela Hartigan was Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School at the University of Oxford from 2009 until her passing in 2016. She was also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organization focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges affecting our future.
Prior to starting Volans, Dr. Hartigan spent eight years as the Founding Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, where she was also a member of the Managing Board.
Of Ecuadorian origin, Dr. Hartigan first came to the United States at 17 years of age to study at Georgetown University; she went on to complete a PhD in human developmental psychology at the Catholic University of America. Throughout her career, she held varied leadership positions in multilateral organizations and educational institutions, as well as in entrepreneurial ventures. She was responsible for conceptualizing and creating new organizations, departments, and programs across a variety of institutions and platforms.
Dr. Hartigan was a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate business schools in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School and at the University of Technology Sydney. She co-authored a book with John Elkington, founder of SustainAbility (UK), entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World, which was published by Harvard Business Press in 2008.
She was a trustee of social investment organizations, publicly listed companies, and social impact focused organizations around the world.
Dr. Pamela Hartigan died on August 12, 2016, at her home in France.
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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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Researcher, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Adrian Anantawan is a violinist, educator and researcher in the field of arts education, specifically the use of adaptive musical instruments within universally designed curricula in the United States. He is a graduate of Yale and Harvard University, and maintains an active performance career while directing an orchestra at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston, MA.
