Skoll | Closing Plenary Of The 2009 Skoll World Forum

Plenary

Session Description

After an inspiring three days, the forum came to a close with inspiring talks.

Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, said that “we live in two realities.”

Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, C.B.E., talked about “Citizens, Institutions and Shifting Power” and showed an emotional 7-minute video on the state of the education in the world and how we need to improve.

Soraya Salti, senior vice president MENA of INJAZ Al-Arab, gave “A Social Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Power.” She said we have drifted far from the days when education and learning was critical. “The education systems across the Arab world have failed its youth,” she said.

Jeff Skoll said goodbye with his talk, called “Collective Power: A Call for Urgency,” about urgency and hope. “Urgency is on an upward path. We’ve made some progress on the big challenges in the world, but each passing day raises the stakes,” Skoll said.

Ending the Forum was Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at Said Business School. “History is on our side,” he said. “The great periods of institutional innovation have indeed emerged out of crisis.”

Time & Location

Time:

14:30 - 16:00, Friday, March 27, 2009 BST

Speakers

Soraya Salti

Speaker

Senior Vice President of Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide, INJAZ al-Arab

Soraya Salti was Senior Vice President of Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide, INJAZ Al-Arab. Her efforts had led to the expansion of INJAZ to 15 countries, in the most successful private public sector partnership in education reaching more than 1 million youth, in the region with the world’s highest youth unemployment. She won the 2006 Schwab Social Entrepreneur award for Jordan, became a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and was the first Arab woman to win the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Foundation mourns the loss of Soraya Salti, founder of INJAZ al-Arab. In 2015, Soraya and her sister, Jumana, both died tragically and unexpectedly.

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Colin Mayer

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Peter Moores Dean, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School

Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School, Professor of Management Studies and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Mayer was the first professor at the Saïd Business School, the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)). He has held visiting fellowships at Stanford, MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance. He is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Mayer is Chairman of Oxera Holdings Ltd, one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK.

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Pamela Hartigan

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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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Lord Puttnam Of Queensgate

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David Puttnam spent thirty years as an independent film producer. His many award winning films include The Mission, the Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and the Memphis Belle. He retired from film production in 1998 and now focuses on his work in education and the environment. The appointments he currently holds include Chancellor of the Open University, Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, and Chairman of Futurelab. David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997.

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Jeff Skoll

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Founder & Chairman, Jeff Skoll Group

Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Skoll Foundation Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Participant Media Founder of Capricorn Investment Group Co-founder and GP of the RISE Fund First fulltime employee and President of eBay

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