Skoll | Closing Plenary of the 2007 Skoll World Forum

Plenary

Session Description

REFLECTIONS FROM A PIONEER IN SOCIAL INNOVATION
Larry Brilliant, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Google.org

SUPPORTING MORE SOCIAL INNOVATION
A facilitated discussion by John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility, to explore how society’s frameworks (public and private) need to change at local, regional, national and international levels to support more social innovation.

Bill Drayton, CEO and Chair, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Ed Miliband MP, Minister for the Third Sector, UK

SOCIAL INNOVATION: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Leading social entrepreneurs in conversation with delegates reﬂect upon ideas and learnings for moving forward from the conference.

Moderator: Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management and Director, AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship
Roshaneh Zafar, Founder and President, Kashf Foundation
Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO, Kickstart
Taddy Blecher, CEO, Cida City Campus
Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres

CLOSING REMARKS
Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean, Saïd Business School

Time & Location

Time:

11:30 - 13:30, Thursday, March 29, 2007 BST

Speakers

Roshaneh Zafar

Speaker

Managing Director, Kashf Foundation

Ms. Roshaneh Zafar is the founder and managing director of Kashf Foundation which is Pakistan’s first specialized microfinance institution catering exclusively to women. Through her work, Ms Zafar has demonstrated the business case for investing in women led enterprises and shown that a…

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Martin Fisher

Speaker

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KickStart International

As a pioneer in using business models to solve poverty, Martin is the co-founder & CEO of KickStart, a non-profit SE with a mission to enable millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to pivot from rainfed to irrigated farming, earn a lot more money, adapt to climate change & climb…

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Ed Miliband

Speaker

Leader, Labour Party

Edward Samuel Miliband is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under…

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Roger Martin

Speaker

Institute Director, Martin Prosperity Institute

In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger Martin serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the…

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Mindy Lubber

Speaker

CEO & President, Ceres

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global initiatives have grown significantly in size and influence. As a global thought leader, Lubber regularly…

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Colin Mayer

Speaker

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…

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Taddy Blecher

Speaker

CEO, Community and Individual Development Association, Community and Individual Development Association City Campus

Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO/ co-founder of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute, a multi-award winning educational institution, in 11-locations across 3-countries. Dr Blecher co-founded the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. He is Chairperson of the E3 initiative for the…

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Larry Brilliant

Speaker

CEO, Evity Technologies, Evity Technologies

Dr. Larry Brilliant, a physician and epidemiologist, is CEO of Evity Technologies, a startup at the intersection of epidemiology, healthspan and AI. He was CEO of Pandefense Advisory, senior advisor at the Skoll Foundation and a CNN Medical Analyst. Previously on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and…

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John Elkington

Speaker

Founder and Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures Ltd

John Elkington is a writer and thinker, a serial-entrepreneur and an ‘advisor from the future’. John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development and is credited with coining the ‘triple bottom line’. In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as “a dean of the corporate…

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Bill Drayton

Speaker

Founder & CEO, Ashoka

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka’s over 4,000 leading social entrepreneurs, “Ashoka Fellows,” operate in 100+ countries to create an “everyone a changemaker” world. Working in fields like health and human rights, three-quarters of…

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