Lunchtime Delegate-Led Discussions
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Session Description
Grab a portable lunch and join peer-to-peer lunchtime discussions of subjects suggested by fellow Skoll World Forum delegates. Discussions begin at 11:45am. Programming to be announced.
Time & Location
Time:
11:45 AM - 01:00 PM, Thursday, April 6, 2017
BST
Location:
Said Business School
Speakers
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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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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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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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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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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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UK Director, Crisis Action
Nick has been Crisis Action's UK Director since 2014, having joined them from Save the Children in 2013.
Crisis Action is a Skoll awardee that works behind the scenes to build bespoke coalitions for the protection of civilians in wars. This means Nick gets to work with some of the best humanitarian, human rights, and peacebuilding activists around the world, as well as a wider global network, connecting them into powerful, tailor-made coalitions that compel the powerful to protect people in war zones like Syria, Yemen, and South Sudan.
Before joining Crisis Action, Nick cut his teeth with Oxfam and Save the Children building effective campaigns to help people fearing for their lives in Syria, Libya, Somalia, DR Congo and the hunger crises in East and West Africa.
Nick has recently written Creative Coalitions: A Handbook for Change, making Crisis Action’ s unique model available for others to apply in their efforts to change the world. You can find out more and download a preview pdf at creativecoalitions.org.
Twitter: SadMartlew
Email: nick.martlew@crisisaction.org
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Discussion lead
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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CEO, Engaging Inquiry
Karen is a senior consultant who is best known for her practice of accompanying impact-focused organizations as they endeavor to stimulate and scale sustainable social and organizational change. Karen has over 25 years of experience as a weaver of methods and approaches, and especially loves designing novel analytics embedded within participatory organizational processes. Her recent work focuses on applying system thinking and complexity principles to the design and execution of adaptive strategies for dealing with messy problems.
Karen is the founder and CEO of Engaging Inquiry, LLC based in Fairfax, VA. Engaging Inquiry is a “purpose-built” company that focuses on facilitating organizational learning and adaptive leadership capacity in organizations working on some of the world’s toughest problems. Examples of EI’s clients include The Omidyar Group, The Skoll Foundation, Democracy Fund, Humanity United, The American Leadership Forum, USAID, DOD, and DOS, among others. EI brings to its clients the tools and practices for assessment, program design, monitoring, and evaluation, and a deep knowledge and experience base in a variety of research and analytic approaches, both quantitative and qualitative. Prior to her relocation to the DC area, she spent 16 years designing, implementing and managing research programs at Duke and Carolinas health care systems in North Carolina. She has degrees in public health, organizational learning and development, as well as conflict analysis and resolution.
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Drew Sullivan co-founded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in 2007 where he serves as publisher. Before that, he founded the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Bosnia. When Drew serves as editor, OCCRP won more than 100 investigative journalism awards including the European Press Prize, IRE award and the Global Shining Light. OCCRP is one of the world’s largest investigative media with more than 50 investigative editors on six continents. Before OCCRP, he was a reporter for the Tennessean newspaper and the Associated Press. Before becoming a journalist, he was an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle project for Rockwell Space Systems. He has been an actor in four movies and plays the Bodhran and sings in the Balkans only authentic Irish band.
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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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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.
