The Ripple Effect: Communities Empowered Through Individual Transformation

Speakers

• Ron Grzywinski

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  ShoreBank Corporation, Enclude

  Ronald Grzywinski is the chairman and co-founder of ShoreBank Corporation of Chicago. It was established in 1973 as America’s first community development banking organisation for disinvested urban and rural communities. In 1997, ShoreBank created the nation’s first environmental development bank. Ron was selected as the 2005 recipient of the Independent Sector’s John W. Gardner Leadership Award. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Business degree by Northern Michigan University School of Management and in 1988 he received the Medal for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the Yale University School of Management. Ron is a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion.

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• Marcia Odell

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  Director WORTH, Pact Institute

  Marcia Odell is the Director of WORTH, an award winning savings-led women’s empowerment programme combining literacy, business and banking. After overseeing implementation of the first WORTH program in Nepal, Ms. Odell supported the launch of WORTH in seven other countries--Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, the DRC and Cambodia. She is now developing the social franchising of WORTH. Ms. Odell has a Ph.D. from Cornell in economic history and an MBA from UNH’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics. With 25 years of programme management experience, she has a special interest in gender issues and facilitating community change through the Appreciative Inquiry approach.

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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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• Jeremy Hockenstein

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Digital Divide Data

  Jeremy Hockenstein is the Chair of Digital Divide Data, the Skoll award winning organization he co-founded in 2001. He is now the Co-founder and Managing Director of Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on increasing incomes in Africa.

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