Understanding the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Session Description
Join Skoll Foundation staff for an open discussion about the Skoll Award, its criteria, and selection process. This session is intended for both social entrepreneurs and funders who are interested in understanding the Award, its intent, and signalling power.
Time & Location
Time:
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM, Thursday, April 12, 2018
BST
Location:
Classroom 2 (TBEC)
Speakers
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Delegate
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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Discussion lead
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.
