Social Innovation By Design

Speakers

• William Drenttel

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  Publisher, Design Observer

  William Drenttel is the publisher of Design Observer, a website covering design, social innovation, urbanism and visual culture. He is the director of Winterhouse Institute, design director for Teach For All, and is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop models for design and social change. He is president emeritus of AIGA, an advisor to Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, a Fellow of NYU Institute of the Humanities, and a senior faculty Fellow at Yale School of Management.

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• Sathya Jeganathan

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  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Chengalpattu Medical College & Hospital

  Dr. Jeganathan is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Chengalpattu Medical College, India. She was deeply moved by the sad plight of women when their babies died. The lack of equipment and trained manpower is a problem faced by all doctors working in the resource poor settings of the developing world. Dr. Jeganathan mobilised local village carpenters and electricians to make newborn care equipment from available materials and is involved in low cost innovative medical research in rural India.

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• Fred Swaniker

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  Founder & CEO, African Leadership Group

  Fred Swaniker is on a mission to bring better leadership to Africa and the world. He is the founder and CEO of the African Leadership Group – an ecosystem of organizations that are catalyzing a new era of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders. Over the past 15 years, he has founded and led the pre-university African Leadership Academy, the African Leadership University, the African Leadership Network and ALX — a next-generation leadership development and talent sourcing platform. Collectively, these endeavors aim to transform Africa by developing 3 million African leaders by 2035. He is also the founder of The Room, a talent agency for the world’s ambitious doers. Fred previously worked as a McKinsey consultant before earning an MBA from Stanford and becoming an entrepreneur. He is an Echoing Green Fellow; Aspen Institute Fellow; and most recently, was recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s most influential people of 2019. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Macalester College, Middlebury College and Nelson Mandela University.

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• Elizabeth Scharpf

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  Chief Instigating Officer, Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)

  Elizabeth Scharpf, Chief Instigating Officer at SHE, is an entrepreneur who has spent most of her professional career starting up ventures or advising businesses on growth strategies at Cambridge Pharma Consultancy, the Clinton Foundation, and the World Bank. Scharpf holds an MBA and MPAID from Harvard and a BA from the University of Notre Dame. Despite all the academic acronyms, she thinks her best education has come from talking with those sitting next to her on buses around the world.

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• Debra Dunn

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  Director, Stanford University

  Debra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African Leadership University and the Wellbeing project. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world. Pre-Covid, Debra was a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative. Pre-Stanford, Debra was a business executive at Hewlett Packard where the common threads in her broad, 22-year career were driving large scale change, creating new businesses and producing positive social impact and good business results concurrently.

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