2008 Skoll Awards For Social Entrepeneurship

Speakers

• Matt Flannery

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  Co-Founder, Kiva / Branch International Inc.

  Matt began developing Kiva in late 2004 as a side-project while working as a computer programmer at TiVo, Inc. In December 2005 Matt left his job to devote himself to Kiva full-time. As CEO for 10 years, Matt led Kiva's growth from a pilot project to an established online service with partnerships in 80…

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• Mitchell Besser

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  Interim Chair, m2m SA; Founder, m2m, mothers2mothers

  Dr. Besser recognized the need for a support program to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to their children. He founded mothers2mothers (m2m), in which mothers living with HIV are employed as Mentor Mothers to work in health centers and communities, educating and supporting…

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• William Strickland

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  Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Manchester-Bidwell Corporation

  Bill Strickland is the founder and Executive Chairman of Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC), an educational model designed to create empowering educational environments for adults-in-transition as well as a diverse population of youth in the Pittsburgh, PA region. A past Skoll awardee…

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• Mark Plotkin

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  President, Amazon Conservation Team

  Dr. Mark J. Plotkin has led ACT and guided its vision since 1996, when he co-founded the organization with Liliana Madrigal. He is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent almost four decades studying plant use with indigenous healers of tropical America. Dr. Plotkin has previously served as…

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• Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda

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  Founder, Voice of the Free

  Cecilia is an internationally acclaimed slavery fighter. Through VF, she rescues, heals, and reintegrates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Working together with partners they protected more than 30,000 at risk and exploited young girls. Cecil was instrumental in the…

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• Paul Farmer

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  Co-founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health

  Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people. He is Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and…

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• Mechai Viravaidya

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  Chairman, Population and Community Development Association

  Mechai Viravaidya’s work centered on reducing births (family planning), reducing deaths (fighting the spread of HIV), reducing dependency (establishing social enterprises), eradicating poverty (community empowerment) and reducing ignorance (reinventing Thai education). He was also appointed to…

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• Mai Siriphongphanh

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  Chief People Officer & COO, Digital Divide Data

  Mai Siriphongphanh received her MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship in 2002. In 2004 she participated in the Global Social Benefit Incubator Program. In 2008, she received the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship. When joining DDD, Mai took the spirit of…

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• Liliana Madrigal

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  Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Amazon Conservation Team

  Liliana Madrigal is Co-Founder and Vice-President of ACT, created in 1996 with Dr. Mark J. Plotkin. Her special mandate is providing the vision, strategic direction, and organizational leadership to advance ACT’s mission. Additionally, Liliana oversees ACT’s fundraising and programmatic activities…

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• Jimmy Carter

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  Jimmy Carter was born in rural Georgia in 1924 to a farmer/businessman and a registered nurse. Most of Carter’s childhood neighbors were poor African-Americans, and though his father supported segregation, many of Carter’s friends were the children of black farmhands. Early on, he learned…

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• Gillian Langor

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  MBA student,

  Gillian Langor is an MBA student at the Saïd Business School and an Associate Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She is a mechanical engineer with a background in product design and is interested in using design methodologies to create social impact.

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• Gene Falk

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  CEO, mothers2mothers

  Gene Falk is one of the few people to lead major ventures in both Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Building on this experience, he founded and heads strategic consulting firm FalkAdvisors|DGB whose mission is to help funders and the not-for-profits they support achieve the best…

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• Sally Osberg

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  Vice Chair and Senior Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of…

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• Premal Shah

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  Co-Founder & President, Kiva

  Premal helps lead Kiva.org —a crowdfunding website that connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. Since 2005, over $1B in philanthropic loans has been crowdfunded to millions of underserved entrepreneurs in 90 countries — with a 96% repayment rate. The site has been named as one…

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• Luis Szaran

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  Founder and Director, Sonidos de la Tierra

  LUIS SZARAN Conducter, composer and musicologist. UNESCO Artis for Peace Musical Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of Asunción. Music studied then in Asunción in Santa Cecilia's Conservatory, Rom.e Conducted more than 2.500 concerts whit noted orchestras in Germany, Italy, France, Spain…

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• Jeremy Hockenstein

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  Managing Director, Digital Divide Data

  Jeremy Hockenstein is the co-founder and current Chair of Digital Divide Data, and won a Skoll Award in 2008. He now leads the Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on increasing incomes of lower income people, primarily in sub-saharan Africa.

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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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• Daniel Lubetzky

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  Founder, President, OneVoice Movement

  Daniel Lubetzky is CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks, makers of award-winning healthy foods, and Chairman of PeaceWorks, pursuing both peace and profit through neighbors striving to coexist in conflict regions. He is also the Founder of the PeaceWorks Foundation's OneVoice Movement, empowering…

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• Connie Duckworth

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  Founder and CEO, Arzu

  Connie Duckworth founded ARZU, Inc. in 2004 and serves pro bono as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. She is a retired Partner and Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs, & Co., where she was named the first woman sales and trading partner in the firm’s history during her 20-year career…

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