2009 Skoll Awards For Social Entrepreneurship

Speakers

• Dr R. K. Pachuari

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  Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is the Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific intergovernmental body that provides decision makers and the public with an objective source of information about climate change. He is also Director…

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• Nader Al Khateeb

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  Former Palestinian Director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Nader Al-Khateeb served as Chief Engineer for the Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour Water Authority from 1984 to 1993, where he was responsible for planning and fundraising, as well as operations and maintenance of the distribution network. After returning from leave to acquire his M.Sc…

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• Munqeth Mehyar

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  Chair and Jordanian Director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Munqeth Mehyar received a degree in Regional Planning and Architecture from the University of Louisiana, USA in 1981, upon which he became the planning engineer for South Amman. Being a committed sportsman, he was the project manager for the German Balsam International Sports…

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• Wendy Kopp

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  CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All

  Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of organizations in 63 countries working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America – which has proven to be an…

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• Sue Riddlestone

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  CEO & Co-founder, Bioregional Development Group

  Sue is CEO and co-founder of Bioregional, a 2009 Skoll awardee, Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur. Sue and team work with partners and clients to create homes, communities and products and services which enable us to live well within a sustainable carbon and ecological…

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• Juan Mendez

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  President, International Center for Transitional Justice

  A native of Argentina, Juan Méndez came of age during a time of great upheaval in Latin America. As a result of his legal and advocacy work, he was arrested, tortured and exiled. He refused to be broken and dedicated his life to pioneering ways to protect human rights. Juan joined ICTJ as president…

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• Soraya Salti

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  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…

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• Pooran Desai OBE

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  Founder, OnePlanet and Co-founder, Bioregional, Bioregional Development Group

  Thirty years of working in sustainability.

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• Paul van Zyl

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  Co-Founder & CEO, The Conduit

  Paul is a human rights lawyer and served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission where he worked closely with Nobel Laureates, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. He co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an…

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• Jordan Kassalow

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  Founder, VisionSpring

  Jordan is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, author, and the founder of VisionSpring. He is also the co-founder of EYElliance and a partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates. Jordan founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo…

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• Gary White

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  CEO and Co-founder, Water.org

  Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org, WaterEquity and WaterConnect, three organizations dedicated to empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Gary developed Water.org’s WaterCredit solution, creating new financing options for poor…

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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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• Martin von Hildebrand

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  Founder &Honorary President, Gaia Amazonas

  Martin Von Hildebrand has spent the last five decades accompanying indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. During this time, he has been a fundamental actor to obtain the recognition of indigenous communities rights in the National Constitution, including the collective ownership of their…

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• KT Tunstall

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  Musician / Singer,

  Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland. She has enjoyed commercial and critical success since…

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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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• Gidon Bromberg

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  EcoPeace co-director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Gidon Bromberg co-founded EcoPeace Middle East in 1994 and has served as its Israeli Director for three decades. Mr. Bromberg, an attorney by profession, is an alumni of Monash University in Australia, Washington College of Law at American University, and Yale University's World…

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• Bart Weetjens

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  Co-Founder, APOPO

  I am a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur. Graduated in Product Design from Antwerp University, and with a vision to empower the most vulnerable communities of subsistence farmers in sub-Sahara Africa, I took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable…

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