Skoll World Forum 2016
Thursday, January 1, 1970
Speakers
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Gemma is an award-winning thinker and practitioner in transformative, systemic change. She is founder and co-creator of New Constellations, which exists to help people envision and create futures of human and planetary flourishing. New Constellations creates immersive experiences for diverse…
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, The Wellbeing Project
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Principal Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation
Tracy Washington has nearly 20 years of experience in development finance with a focus on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Funds. Mrs. Washington is the IFC Private Equity group lead for SME Funds and the Program Manager for SME Ventures Program establishing risk capital SME Funds in Fragile…
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, Youth with Physical Disability Development Forum
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Co-Founder, Nation Building Initiative / FT Global Impact Summit
* Launching Blueprints.org as the headline of the FT Global Impact Summit at year end, a global collaborative tool.
* Pioneer of the Nation Building Initiative, a new blueprint for Impact Investment
* Co-founder: Financial Times Global Impact Summit. Accelerating Impact at Scale
* Developed a…
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Design Director, IDEO.org
As Design Director and Co-Lead at IDEO.org in San Francisco, Adam focuses on guiding projects and initiatives through the lens of design excellence. Adam has broad experience in product design, service design, and brand strategy, and has worked in partnership with social enterprises and…
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President & CEO, Charity Navigator
Michael leads Charity Navigator in its efforts to make impactful philanthropy easier for all by providing donors and the charities they love with tools, ratings and information needed for informed decisions and investments.
Prior to joining Charity Navigator Michael spent more than fifteen years with…
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Personal Assistant, Jeff Skoll Group
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Director, True Green Capital
Nick Minekime leads new business development and deal execution at True Green Capital. He is responsible for sourcing and executing on new investments, and on developing long-term partnerships with customers, developers, EPCs, lenders, and tax equity partners.
Before joining True Green…
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Professor of Political Theory UCL, International Panel on Social Progress
Professor Cécile Laborde is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of London (UCL). She is the Director of UCL's Religion and Political Theory Centre. She holds a DPhil from Oxford University. She joined UCL in April 2003. In 2007, she was elected Associate Professor to the Ecole des Hautes…
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Director, Fringe Consulting UK
Robert Leslie has spent over 25 years active in the photography, covering culture, humanitarian & educational domains. Moving from his activity as a musician in Canada to a photographer in Paris shooting architecture, performance, still life & reportage. Leslie was the first composer commissioned…
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PR/PA for Halla Tomasdottir, Sisters Capital
Valgeir Magnusson is Cand.O.Econ from the university of Iceland. Founder and general manager of PIPARTBWA.
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Programs, WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)
Sara Chatterjee is a Program Manager at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) where she specifically manages the WISE Awards and WISE Prize for Education programs. She has previously worked at Youngist, an alternative media source for the youth, and Campus Channel, a higher…
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President & CEO, Women's World Banking
Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they require to achieve security and prosperity. Ms. Iskenderian joined Women’s World Banking in 2006 and leads the…
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Senior Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation
Ruzgar Barisik leads IFC’s Consumer Internet practice and Venture Capital investments in Europe, Middle East & North Africa. IFC is the largest international development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries, and a part of the World Bank Group.
Ruzgar recently…
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Head of Gender Justice & Human Rights, C & A Foundation
Brandee M. Butler is Head of Gender Justice and Human Rights at C&A Foundation. She drives partnerships and processes to support breakthrough innovations on key human rights challenges in the apparel sector, with a focus on forced labor, human trafficking, and gender equality. Prior to joining…
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Founder, Alter
Founder & CEO, Alter, which aims to scale the best ventures in the least developed countries. --- Stanford MBA ‘15 | Oxford MSc Global Governance ‘08. --- Led small team in deadliest district of Afghanistan with U.S. DoD. --- Assisted Haitian Ambassador post-earthquake. --- Created first impact…
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VP of Strategic Partnerships, VOTO Mobile
Rebecca is VP of Strategic Partnerships at VOTO Mobile, a fast-growing social enterprise with offices in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Zimbabwe, India, the US, and Canada (with more coming soon!). VOTO's platform allows partners to distribute and collect information from the 3 billion people living in…
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Country Director, Benin, Millenium Challenge Corporation
Christopher Broughton is the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation Country Director for Benin where he oversees a $375 million electric power-focused grant that includes utility-scale solar generation and the largest off-grid electrification program the United States is undertaking anywhere in the world…
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Chief Executive Officer, International Fund for Public Interest Media
Nishant Lalwani is Co-Founder and Senior Vice President at the Global Innovation Fund. Nishant Lalwani has more than a decade of experience in private sector development and social enterprise. He was a founder of the Monitor Inclusive Markets group in India that focused on market-based solutions for…
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Managing Director, Dot Edu Ventures
Ms. Asha Jadeja Motwani has invested in over a 100 tech startups as one of Silicon Valley's first women venture capitalists between 2000 and 2015. She currently angel invests in tech as well as social impact for-profit startups along with some of bay area’s top angels and VC firms. Asha founded Dot Edu…
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Board Member, ecoAmerica
Former investment banker. Current serve on boards of several non profit organizations.
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Board Member, Family Office
Summerly Horning is a Board Member of Newport Federal, her family’s holding company, which owns and operates real estate and land assets, hotels and operating companies including Telluride Ski Resort. She is a Vice-President at TAU Investment Management, an active growth-equity investment…
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Co-Founder and Managing Director, THNK, School of Creative Leadership
Menno van Dijk is co-founder and managing director of THNK, the School of Creative Leadership, which offers international executive programs for social change agents, commercial entrepreneurs and innovation managers focused on developing creative solutions to large societal challenges…
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Senior Strategist, Institutional Partnerships ,
Water.orgA senior executive specializing in stakeholder identification and management, organizational growth strategies and brokering shared value partnerships. Claire joined Water.org's Global Advocacy team in August 2015 as Senior Strategist to launch and lead Water.org's scale-enabling Institutional…
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Head of Partnerships for Sustainable Innovation, Gap Inc.
With 15 years of experience working in corporate responsibility and social innovation, Sasha leads Gap Inc.’s Global Partnerships team. Global Partnerships helps to shape Gap Inc. and industry-level innovation, practices, and stakeholder dialogue by building strategic partnerships based on a…
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Founder/CEO, Tonlé
Rachel Faller is an entrepreneur and creator who has been working in the ethical fashion industry for over 8 years. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in the US and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. Armed with her art degree and idea that fashion shouldn’t have such a…
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Managing Director Finance, Investment and Trade, Millenium Challenge Corporation
Alex currently serves as the head of MCC’s Finance, Investment and Trade group. MCC was founded as an innovative and independent U.S. foreign aid agency in 2004, MCC provides competitively selected, well-performing developing countries with large-scale grants to fund country-led solutions for…
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Global Council, Dasra
Tarun has over 30 years of experience in global financial markets, with a career spanning 3 continents, and both regional and global leadership responsibilities over the years. He is currently a founding partner at Naviter Capital, a London based Investment Firm focused on providing capital…
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Senior Reporter, Responsible Investor
Vibeka Mair is a senior reporter with Responsible Investor, a leading news and events agency covering sustainable capital markets and sustainable investing for an institutional investor audience. She focuses on social and impact investment, green finance and corporate governance.
Her portfolio…
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Vice President, Investments, Humanity United
A founding member of the Humanity United team, Ed has for the past decade played a leadership role in the establishment and direction of HU’s work across both its peacebuilding and anti-human trafficking program areas including work in Sudan/South Sudan, Liberia and Nepal. Ed contributed to the…
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CEO & Co-Founder, Lightful
Vinay believes that those doing the greatest good deserve the best technology. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lightful, a technology company and B Corp that helps charities, foundations and education institutions to scale their impact through the power of digital. Prior to this, he worked in the field…
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Associate Professor, Said Business School
Mungo Wilson is Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at Saïd Business School and an associate member of the Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, both in the University of Oxford. He specialises in asset pricing and mutual funds.
Mungo’s research focuses on asset…
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Owner - North Arrow Design Associates, Individual
I have been in love with nature and the outdoors since a young child, which has allowed me to parlay this into my professional life. I have blended this passion for mother nature with career skill-sets such as employee development, interpersonal communications, business development and drafting…
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HatchLab Producer, National Alliance for Media Art & Culture
Mary T. An leads development efforts at American Documentary POV (“Point-of-View”), the Emmy-award winning PBS documentary series with major funding from PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and from private individuals. Before…
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EVP, Social Impact, Participant Media
Bob Pilon is the Executive Vice President, Social Impact at Participant Media - the leading media company founded by social entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll dedicated to entertainment that inspires and compels social change.
Coming on as EVP in April 2016, Bob will drive the efforts…
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Eduardo represents Fundación Paraguaya, an NGO that since its foundation in 1985 has spearheaded microfinance and entrepreneurship in Paraguay and the world. Before, he worked in various roles in that sector including the development of a program called Businesses Without Poverty. The…
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MBA Student, Said Business School
Currently enrolled in the Oxford MBA programme, Matt is on academic leave from the Canadian Foreign Service. He joined the Foreign Service in 2008 and most recently served as Second Secretary at the Embassy of Canada in Bangkok, Thailand (2013-2015). During his assignment, Matt was the lead…
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Director of Partnerships, Inyenyeri
I've been working in East Africa since 2010. Before Inyenyeri, I helped run Rwanda Ventures, a social business incubator located in Kigali, Rwanda. As COO, I lead development of a business model to strengthen the national dairy value chain while addressing poverty and chronic malnutrition through a…
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Communications, Ashoka
Meera currently works to support communications teams to develop their strategies in Ashoka's offices around Europe. She has worked for Ashoka since 2014. Prior to Ashoka, Meera worked on issues around gender based violence and women's equality. Working as a researcher in both a professional…
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Director of Special Projects, Blum Center for Developing Economies
Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse is the Director of Special Projects at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. She supports the operation and growth of the Center, including the USAID-funded Development Impact Lab and the Blum Center’s expansion to all 10 University of California…
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Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust
Frank’s responsibilities include the coordination of the CSR activities for the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in the EMEA region. He also serves as managing director of the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust (EMEA), the operational CSR body based in Edinburgh (UK) with a branch in…
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Director, Research | Data | GIS, Washington Univ. St. Louis
In my position as the Director of Scholarly Services at Washington University in St. Louis, I lead a team of 16 professional staff focused on assisting faculty researchers and students in bringing big data, geospatial systems and data analytics to meaningful use on their work. My own areas of interest…
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Chief Development and Communications Officer, Orb
Margaux Bergen has spent the last twenty years working all over the world at large and small institutions focused on international development, women’s leadership and digital media. She has held senior communications positions at the World Bank, The United Way, The Center for Interfaith…
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Curator, TED Conferences LLC
Chris Anderson is the Curator of TED, a nonprofit devoted to sharing valuable ideas, primarily through the medium of ‘TED talks’ – short talks that are offered free online to a global audience.
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Senior Fellow, International Institute for Environment and Development
Dr. David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization. He is also a visiting Professor at University College London. Most of his work has been on poverty reduction in urban…
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CEO, Fenix International
Lyndsay has 13 years of leadership and operations experience in East Africa and Silicon Valley and is deeply passionate about building life-changing businesses in frontier markets. Currently, Lyndsay is the CEO of Fenix International, a venture-backed energy and financial services company. To date…
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Founder/CEO, The Global Brain
My professional life started as an intern for Ogilvy. I earned a degree in mass communications and continued to develop my career in communications and marketing working for agencies like Publicis, Grey, and BBDO, establishing my career as an executive producer. I lived in the Advertising world for…
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Provost, The American University of Paris
Scott Sprenger is the Provost of The American University of Paris. His graduate degrees in French Studies are from Johns Hopkins University and Emory, and he is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award in Brussels/Paris in 2009 and an Andrew W. Mellon post doc at UCLA in 1999-01.
Before joining AUP…
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MBA Student, Stanford University
Ali is currently a first year MBA student at Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, Ali worked at Deloitte Consulting - he focused on new product development for Telecom and Tech clients helping them expand into the education, healthcare and smart city verticals. His projects ranged from…
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Local Solutions Coordinator, Office of the Counselor, USAID
Elizabeth Warfield currently serves as USAID’s first Local Solutions Coordinator in the office of the Agency’s Counselor. Reflecting the Agency’s commitment to sustainability and local ownership, Local Solutions is about creating the conditions whereby countries can sustain their own…
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Chief Toaster, Toast Ale
Rob is Chief Toaster (Co-founder & CEO) at Toast Ale, the delicious planet-saving beer brewed using yesterday’s bread from bakeries to fight food waste. All profits are poured into environmental charities. Toast launched in 2016 and now has nationwide retail, pub and hospitality distribution. They have…
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Senior Fellow, Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
John teaches courses on innovation, strategy and venture development at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Princeton University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Business Innovation and Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at Haas, and a visiting faculty member at the Keller Center in…
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Founder & CEO, Social Fashion Factory Cooperative
Fiori is an academic and a social entrepreneur; holds an award winning PHD on Social Enterprises, Partnerships & Scaling from Brunel Business School (BBS), UK. Is now a Post-Doctorate Researcher on Social Investment Market for Social Entrepreneurship at Athens University of Economics & Business…
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Managing Broker, Starwood Business Group
Yasmine Jandali began her business career in the 1990s working for one of the largest investment banking firms in the country. Helping clients succeed in their own businesses gave Yasmine the drive to build and sell her own company. She is a business owner, entrepreneur and business intermediary…
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SVP, Programming, Participant Media
Eric Noe is the Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief of TakePart.com, Participant Media's digital magazine.
Until 2014, Eric was the managing editor of ABC News Digital in New York, where he worked for 10 years, starting as a general assignment reporter. As part of the ABC News team, his work…
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Deputy Director, Global Programs & Content, WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)
Human potential, sustainability, powerful communication. This is what drives Laure's aspirations and social engagement.
Laure is French, British and Australian, and is currently based in Paris. As Deputy Director of Content and Global Programs for WISE (the World Innovation Summit for Education…
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Strategy Consultant, McKinsey & Company
Deborah Owhin is a Spelman College Alumna (Atlanta, Georgia), who was commended as a ‘fearless leader’ post-graduation in the 2013 Philanthropy report for her work towards promoting gender equality. Her career trajectory has been face paced and she became the youngest Violence against…
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Vice President of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc.
David Hayer joined Gap Inc. in 2005. During that time, David has led change management within the supply chain which included shifting from seasonal sourcing to category management, the development of a more responsive supply chain and institutionalized non-merchandise sourcing. David led…
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CEO, Evidence Action
Jeffrey Brown is the Chief Executive Officer of Evidence Action. He is responsible for the strategic leadership and oversight of Evidence Action’s evidence-based approach to scaling up development interventions to millions of people.
Prior, Brown was interim CEO of the Global Innovation Fund, a…
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Phoebe K. Schreiner is Vice President and U.S. Country Director of Breakthrough in New York.
Phoebe brings longtime experience working with social movements around the world to prevent violence and address its consequences–from family violence to armed conflict. An advocate for human…
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Senior Multimedia Producer, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Having studied Law at L.S.E., I moved into Broadcast Television Production. working across a range of factual television output as a reporter and producer/director. I worked for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and PBS, before joining the the BBC Independent Factual Commissioning Team.
I left a position…
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Executive Director, Kulemela Investments
Mark is an investor, entreprenueur and consultant who is passionate about building great teams and initiatives that make the world a better place.
He is the Executive Director of Kulemela Investments, an agricultural impact investment firm in West Africa and the Co-Chair of the Oxford Seed Fund, a…
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Principal, Vision Ridge Partners LLC
David (D.R.) Richardson works with Vision Ridge Partners, a sustainable investment firm deploying a real assets program in low carbon sectors. D.R. has been with the firm since 2010 and works closely with a number of portfolio companies, including GSSG Solar, SparkFund, Vision Fleet, and the Earth…
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EVP Worldwide Marketing and Communications, Participant Media
As executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Communications, Christina Kounelias oversees Participant Media's global strategy for all marketing and communications efforts, in line with the company’s mission to create entertainment that inspires social change.
She is responsible for…
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President, Trickle Up
Nathalie Laidler-Kylander joined Trickle Up in 2021 as President and CEO. She brings over 30 years of experience across multiple sectors, including 18 years of experience in the international development field. She is passionate about the social and economic inclusion of women.
Prior to Trickle Up…
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Senior Producer, PBS Newshour
Since April 2015, Richard has been a Senior Producer, Content and Partnerships at the PBS NewsHour. In this role he is a senior member of the editorial team, helping to manage, plan and produce news and feature content for the broadcast, digital and social media platforms and also serving as a…
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Mike Jobbins leads Global Affairs and Partnerships at Search for Common Ground. He joined Search in 2008 and has designed, developed, and managed conflict resolution, violence prevention, and inclusive governance programs. Mike leads Search’s partnerships with U.S. and European governments…
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CEO, SoulFire
A native of Buenos Aires, Jenny Tchinnosian is the Founder & Director of SoulFire: a branding agency dedicated to giving a voice to social causes (www.soulfiremedia.com). SoulFire finds creative ways to reach audiences via web design, magazines, branding, video, social media marketing, and…
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Head, Syria Civil Defence
Raed Saleh is the Head of the Syrian Civil Defence.
Aged 32, he leads 2,851 search and rescue volunteers as head of Syria Civil Defence. Before the Syrian Revolution, Raed was a businessman who sold electrical equipment. After the start of the popular protests in Deraa in March 2011, he started…
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Managing Director, Accenture
As the Managing Director of Strategy & Innovation with Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), I lead shaping our social impact businesses' strategy to unleash the power of Accenture and the private sector to to address the world's most complex social and environmental challenges.
Over the last…
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I belong from Quetta Balochistan province of Pakistan. Started my work as community education promoter for girls education. I joined IDSP-Pakistan as a Learners of the first course in 1998. Then joined IDSP as research and teaching fellow and became the founding faculty of the institute. Later on, I…
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Co Founder and CEO, Parjana® Distribution LLC
Parjana's "WHY?" is to create a paradigm shift in how the world manages water and forever change;
* The food supply
* The water supply
* The human supply
Gregory L. McPartlin is a Michigan native who attended Western Michigan and received a business degree in 1997. In 2001 Greg received his…
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Benn Grover is the Director of Communications for Health Care Without Harm, an international organization committed to transforming the health sector into a leading advocate for environmental health and justice. Prior to working with Health Care Without Harm, Benn was the Director of…
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Public Health Physician,
Behrooz is Director of the Master’s in Public Health (MPH) at Cardiff University and Consultant Epidemiologist at Public Health Wales. He trained as a medical doctor in the UK, specialising at Oxford School of Public Health. Behrooz practiced clinically in both the National Health Service and in Cyprus…
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Vice President, Land O'Lakes
Jon Halverson joined Land O'Lakes in June 2012. As Vice President for International Development,
Jon provides the strategic, business and administrative leadership for the division. He has more than
20 years of experience managing international business development, developing sustainable…
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Founder and CEO, Plant for Peace
James is the Founder of Plant for Peace, a global initiative aimed at bringing sustainable stability to countries crippled by conflict by the creation of horticultural cooperatives. It’s a remarkable initiative currently focused on Afghanistan, where James has singlehandedly hosted 7 Tribal Elder…
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Fund Manager, Triodos Investment Management BV
Karel Nierop is Fund Manager at Triodos Investment Management, with a strong belief that we can make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change. After a career in mainstream corporate banking at Rabobank, Karel made a shift to live in Nepal to work on the development of a…
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Executive Producer "The World", Public Radio International
Andrew Sussman oversees the wide-ranging operation that is PRI's The World. Part of the original team that launched the show, Sussman joined as a reporter and producer in 1995, and has worked pretty much every position since.
Before The World, Sussman oversaw a joint-venture newspaper…
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CEO, Better Beast
Truc Nguyen has spent a decade in the branding and marketing industry consulting for global corporations. Her leadership and vision have also helped add significant growth to mid-sized companies as she has helped scale their operations. All the while, her passion for giving back and helping others…
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CEO, Community Innovation Lab
Pramilla Ramdahani is Chief Executive Director and President of the Community Innovation Lab, an Ontario-based not for profit corporation which she founded in 2011 with a purpose to create innovative market-based interventions to complex social and environmental issues in local communities. The…
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Managing Director, Global Catalyst foundation
Zohre Elahian has been actively involved in international development for over 15 years. She is co-founder of Schools Online, a not-for-profit organization that has brought computers to schools and introduced ICT in education in many countries around the world and within the US.
As the…
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Founder, Inle Heritage
Yin Myo Su, born and raised at Inle Lake, Myanmar, and often referred to as the “Lady of the Lake,” is the managing director of the Inle Princess Group and the Inle Heritage Foundation. Yin Myo Su’s remarkable combination of passions including women’s empowerment, economic development…
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Associate Professor, Sunway University
Dr. Foo Yin Fah is an associate professor at Sunway University in Malaysia. He has more than 30 years’ experience in accounting, working in several international accounting firms, large public corporations and academic institutions. Dr. Foo holds a PhD in Accounting from Victoria University in…
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MBA Student & Consultant, University of Oxford
Yasmin Kumi is a half-Ghanaian/German young professional combining a Master's degree in African Studies with an MBA at the Saïd Business School (Oxford 1+1 MBA program). Her studies are funded by the Pershing Square Foundation founded by Bill Ackman from New York, which supports young…
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Fellow, Trabajo con Sentido Colombia
My career has been related private sector-led development initiatives focused on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in Latin America. For five years I worked in the MIF, the private sector lab of Inter-American Development Bank in the area of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I have…
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Executive Director, Melton Foundation
Convinced that our global challenges can only be tackled when people work together across silos, Winthrop has spent two decades building and leading purposeful networks of innovators, social entrepreneurs, and other change agents.
Currently, as Executive Director of the Melton Foundation, he…
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Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Markets, Ford Foundation
Xavier (“Xav”) de Souza Briggs is vice president of the foundation’s Economic Opportunity and Markets program. He leads the foundation’s work promoting economic fairness, advancing sustainable development, and building just and inclusive cities in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia…
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Executive Manager Charities, Hong Kong Jockey Club
Winnie Ying started her career as a social worker. She had been serving a multi-services NGO for 16 years and has rich experience in working with the underprivileged, NEET, socially withdrawn and at-risk youth. Winnie is passionate in helping the most neglected groups and implemented a number of…
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CEO, TechnoServe
Will Warshauer is the president and CEO of TechnoServe, a nonprofit that works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. He brings more than 25 years of experience in international development and the private sector to his position as…
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Director of Strategy and Development, Development Media International
Will Snell is DMI's Director of Strategy & Development. He has a first-class degree from the University of Oxford. Will has spent 16 years working in the international development and governmental sectors in the UK and overseas. He set up an African educational charity, Harambee Schools Kenya, in…
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Vice President, Health, MicroEnsure
Will has a post-graduate degree in finance and is a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA). He previously worked as a Director of an actuarial consulting firm in South Africa where he consulted to numerous employer and private medical insurance schemes with a specific focus on the low…
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Director, INCAE Business School - CLACDS
Director, Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development. INCAE Business School. Director Social Progress Index for Mesoamerica. PhD candidate in International Political Economy at ETH Zurich. His main research interests are policy coherence for sustainable…
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Founder, Chair of the Board of Directors, UWC Dilijan College
Veronika Zonabend is the founding partner and the chair of the Board of Governors of UWC Dilijan College in Armenia. She is actively involved in philanthropy and together with her husband Ruben Vardanyan she is the founder of RVVZ Foundation that implements philanthropic sustainable…
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Executive Assistant, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Veronica has over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry through her work with MPM Capital, the world’s largest life science-dedicated venture investors and GeneSoft Pharmaceuticals, Inc. At MPM, Veronica assisted in the startup operations of several biotech companies as well as the…
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Founder and Director, Congreso Ciudadano
Founder of Tribu (tribu.ong - formerly Congreso Ciudadano), a Chilean non-profit and non-partisan backbone organization working to advance research, action, and dialogue on the future of democracy. Member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Tomás…
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President, One Acre Fund
Tony Kalm was the inaugural leader of One Acre Fund in the US, and is now its President. For his work in scaling the organization, he was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation at the World Economic Forum. Previously, he was deputy head of CGIAR at the World Bank, a…
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Chief Executive, WaterAid
Tim believes water, sanitation and hygiene underpin all progress in development and is committed to WaterAid’s global strategy to transform lives by ensuring everyone, everywhere is reached with services that last. In today’s challenging world, this requires renewed energy and collaboration with…
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Co-Managing Partner, Chairman or Director of numerous companies, & CEO/Founder of Serendipity, LLC, Koogle Foundation, Koogle Ventures, & Serendipity LLC
Part engineer, part entrepreneur and businessman, and part philanthropist, Tim Koogle’s sweet spot is bringing good ideas to scale. Having spent over 30 years starting, growing, and running significant businesses, Tim is perhaps best known as the founding CEO of Yahoo!. As Employee #6, he led the…
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Executive Director, Social Innovation Generation (SiG)
Tim Draimin is Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG), a partnership founded by The JW McConnell Family Foundation, Toronto’s MaRS innovation hub, and the University of Waterloo. SiG focuses on strengthening Canada’s enabling ecosystem and public policies for deploying social…
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Chair, Small Foundation
Tim Brosnan
Tim Brosnan is founder and Executive Chair of Small Foundation (SF), an Irish-registered charity (www.smallfoundation.ie).
Tim worked 15 years in Ireland’s Department of Finance and its development bank, ICC, and then setup and managed an Irish-based investment banking business for…
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Philanthropy Executive, Marshall Institute
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His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama
Although he calls himself a simple Buddhist monk, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is a global icon of peace and understanding.
Born in 1935 in northeastern Tibet, he was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama. He assumed political power after China’s…
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Grant Manager, Planet Wheeler Foundation
Tashi is the Grant Manager for Planet Wheeler Foundation, formerly named the Lonely Planet Foundation. The foundation funds over 60 projects in 30 different countries. Tashi’s key responsibilities include assessing, monitoring and visiting the projects and making sure the grants are used as…
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, Individual
Talia provides administrative support to the CEO at the Skoll Foundation and is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of the Executive Office. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation Talia worked as an administrative professional in the non-profit sector for several years and specializes in special…
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CEO, Meditor
Talal has worked in the asset management industry for nearly 30 years, the last 18 of which as Principal and CEO of Meditor Capital Management, a leading European equites hedge fund manager. He now dedicates part of his time to philanthropy, learning through an active programme of formal…
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Board member, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Board member - Peter Möhrle Foundation
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Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Swati Mylavarapu joined KPCB in 2015 as a Partner and focuses on venture-stage companies developing digital health and consumer technologies and businesses.
Swati joined KPCB from Square, where she was responsible for business operations and strategy for Square’s international efforts in…
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Managing Director, SKion GmbH
Born in 1962 in Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe. Apprenticeship as an advertising specialist in Frankfurt (Main). She studied business administration at the University of Buckingham, earning a Bachelor’s Degree. Later she enrolled at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD)…
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Chair Education / Public Practice, SFMOMA
Susan Swig is an active member of her community and has served numerous arts, educational and environmental organizations on their advisory boards.
Currently, her main focus is as a trustee at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where she chairs the Education and Public Practice…
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Special Secretary, Odisha State Planning Board
Sujeet Kumar currently serves as the OSD-cum-Special Secretary of the Odisha State Planning Board, a very senior policy-planning position.
He is also the lead partner at ‘LexMantra, a boutique business Consulting firm focused on Legal and Business advisory services, for domestic and overseas…
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CEO, Big Issue Australia
Steven, a social entrepreneur, has been working with The Big Issue since 2005. The Big Issue is Australia’s longest standing and most significant social enterprise. It is an independent, not for profit organisation that develops solutions to help homeless, marginalised and disadvantaged people positively…
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Steven M. Rothstein became CEO of Citizen Schools on September 1, 2014 where he is humbled by the students, staff, AmeriCorp team members, Citizen Teachers, partners and others to provide the quality services every day.
He had completed over 11 years as President of Perkins School for the…
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Associate Director, Global Public Affairs, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Commins is the Associate Director for Global Public Affairs and Lecturer in Urban Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. He currently works as a partnership adviser for World Development Report 2017 (Governance and the Law) and also worked on World Development…
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Board Member, Fossil Foundation
Senior Vice President, The Portfolio Group, Fossil Group working to transform the way we conceive of, create, and brand watches -- making them all smarter, chip by chip. Currently a Fossil Foundation Board Member working to support social entrepreneurs as they transform the way we empower…
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Executive Director, LifeNet International
Stefanie specializes in empowering business leaders in the developing world to make a positive local impact. She is currently focused on leading LifeNet’s social franchising of health centers in Burundi, Uganda, Eastern DRC, and Malawi, building their capacity to deliver quality primary health…
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Executive Director, Groundswell International
Steve Brescia is the co-founder and Executive Director of Groundswell International. Groundswell works with partners to spread farmer-led agroecology, strengthen sustainable local food economies, and promote enabling policy contexts from the ground up. Founded in 2009, Groundswell currently…
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Co-Founder & CFO, Yunus Social Business
Sophie is Co-founder and CFO of Yunus Social Business Global Initiatives (YSB), founded by Peace Nobel Laureate Prof. Yunus. YSB has the goal to help create social businesses. YSB enables entrepreneurs to create social businesses by providing non-financial support and financing. YSB is based in…
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Director, Namati Sierra Leone,
NamatiSonkita Conteh leads Namati’s work on land rights and environmental justice in Sierra Leone. He is a legal practitioner of the High Court of Sierra Leone and holds a master’s degree in human rights and democratization from the University of Pretoria. As a consultant for two years with the Centre on…
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Founder - Wildbound, Wildbound
Songqiao Yao is an activator, facilitator and supporter for the resilience of change leaders and networks in the climate and nature field, in China and globally. She is the founder of WildBound, an innovative social enterprise based in China and the UK.
WildBound cultivates sustainability leaders and…
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Co-Founder & VP, Action Connected
Simon Reckla is the Co-Founder and Vice President at Action Connected, a groundbreaking online fundraising platform promoting an equal partnership between funders, implementers and beneficiaries.
He aims at realising and promoting Action Connected's vision of an inclusive and transparent…
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Guiding Teacher, Insight Meditation Society
Sharon Salzberg has been studying and practicing meditation since 1971, and teaching worldwide since 1974. Her work centers on the cultivation of concentration, mindfulness and especially Lovingkindness and compassion. She is the co- founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre…
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Director and Head, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership
Katherine Milligan is the Director and Head of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the sister organization of the World Economic Forum. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where…
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CEO, Bridgeway Foundation
Shannon Sedgwick Davis is the CEO of Bridgeway Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to ending and preventing mass atrocities around the world. As an attorney, activist, passionate advocate for social justice, Ms. Sedgwick Davis has guided Bridgeway Foundation in pioneering solutions…
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Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Shaheen Kassim-Lakha is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, where she leads the development and implementation of external engagements, including collaborations with philanthropic funders, as well as local, national, and global partners. In her…
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Co-Founder & Chairman, PVBLIC Foundation
Ill Sr Don Sergio A. Fernandez de Cordova is a global citizen in the words true meaning. When not travelling the world trying to contribute to re-frameing what we think and how we connect, he enjoys a quite moment just going with the flow meeting new people or old friends of all walks of life.
Sergio…
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Editor-in-Chief, WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)
Nandita Vij Tandan is multimedia journalist, author and editor with experience in designing and launching new editorial projects, producing digital content, managing editorial staff and fostering interaction with the audience through social media.
She is currently Editor-in-Chief and Digital Curator…
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Program Officer, Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation
Brittany joined RTNF in 2015 as its first Program Officer. She is responsible for identifying leaders and organizations that are creating and facilitating profound and positive impact in the lives of those they work with and connecting those leaders and organizations to the resources they need to scale…
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Founder and Executive Director, Restorative Leadership® Institute
Seana Lowe Steffen, PhD, is the founder of the Restorative Leadership Institute, a certified B Corp honored as the “Best of the Best for Community Impact” in 2013. Seana brings 25 years of experience in strategic consulting, capacity building, leadership and organizational development throughout…
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Oxford University Student, Said Business School
Sean Peters has built his career supporting entrepreneurship as a tool to improve lives around the world.
Over the past three years Sean has been based out of Emory University, where he led the construction of the Entrepreneurship Database, the world's largest research program exploring…
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Scarlett began her career in journalism and comes to Sundance from the Open Society Foundation, where she worked in both the Communications department and the Burma Program. She manages all aspects of Sundance Institute’s Creative Partnerships including Stories of Change, a partnership…
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Co-Founder, Phoenix Court
Saul Klein is a tech entrepreneur, investor & operator backing founders building businesses based on science & technology, to have the maximum positive impact on society. He is the cofounder of Phoenix Court, the home of LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar & Basecamp funds, & Phoenix Court Works…
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In a world full of innovative software, applying technology to solve social problems is Padmaja’s passion. As the Vice President of Technology and Digital Transformation at the Skoll Foundation, she is chartered with defining and architecting technology solutions to support the foundation’s initiatives and…
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Founder and CEO, Thalamic, Individual
Sarah J Caddick PhD, DSc (hon)
Dr. Caddick is Founder and CEO of Thalamic Ltd, a bespoke consultancy specialising in philanthropic advisory services, foundation and corporate grant strategy development, institutional review and strategy development for large scale projects, salon and workshop…
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Portfolio Manager, RippleWorks
Sarah works at the intersection of Silicon Valley and emerging markets at the RippleWorks Foundation, a newly launched foundation that pairs world-class business and technology experts with rapidly growing social ventures around the world. Beyond advising or mentorship, the RippleWorks…
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WCDCO, Days for Girls International
Beginning in the early eighties, I set out to walk a life of purpose. This started me down a path that went from teaching low-income women trade skills, while moonlighting as a firefighter, to serving as a policy adviser to the Governor of Washington, raising funds and building awareness for an…
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Program Manager, Education and Learning, The MasterCard Foundation
Samuel Yalew Adela is Program Manager, Education and Learning at The MasterCard Foundation. Samuel has over 20 years of experience in education, child rights advocacy and public health in Africa working with organizations such as John Snow, Inc. (JSI), Academy for Educational Development (AED)…
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Founder, Ethnomedia
Samar Minallah Khan
Documentary Filmmaker and Anthropologist
Since the last 15 years, Samar is challenging child marriages, and various forms of culturally sanctioned forms of violence against women and girls. This she does by
changing mindsets through documentary and other forms of…
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Executive Director, Millennium Campus Network
Sam Vaghar is a social entrepreneur committed to helping young people own their voice and power to make a difference. With over a decade of impact co-founding and leading Millennium Campus Network (MCN), Sam has helped launch the Millennium Fellowship: a student movement for the UN…
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Chief Operating Officer, Participant Media
As chief operating officer, Sam Neswick oversees Participant Media's corporate strategy and operations, investments, innovation, corporate development, and strategic partnerships, in line with the company’s mission to create entertainment that inspires social change.
Neswick joined…
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Founder, Jasmine Social Investments
Sam began his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which became New Zealand’s biggest Internet business when it sold in 2006.
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding the online auction website Trade…
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Founder and Chairman, Sundog Pictures
Sam Branson is a social entrepreneur, adventurer and filmmaker.
His passion for adventure and the environment has seen him endure many challenges - most notably embarking on a 1,400 mile, three-month dogsled expedition to the Arctic, to raise awareness of climate change. This trip sparked…
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Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP
Yasmin has long believed that business and impactful entrepreneurship could be harnessed to promote a sustainable future for the next generations. The HL BaSE programme was developed by Yasmin and partners to harness the specialist practice areas of the firm to find a way to combine the…
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Partner, Capricorn Investment Group
William Orum is a Partner and member of the Investment Committee of Capricorn Investment Group. He joined the Firm in 2004 and has been based in its New York office since 2008. William has primary responsibility for leading marketable investments, portfolio construction, and risk management…
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Board Member, ATTN
Hope S. Taitz is currently the CEO of ELY Capital. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Taitz began her investment banking career first as a M&A analyst and then as an associate at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ms. Taitz continued as a Vice President at The Argosy Group (now part of CIBC) and…
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Founder, LocalizeED
Ronit Avni is the founder of LocalizED, a new social enterprise that makes it easy for expat professionals from countries facing brain drains to give back without moving back. LocalizED enables diaspora professionals to mentor, train and teach remotely in their language-of-origin, turning the brain drain…
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Vu serves as Director, Program Management-Investment, particularly engaging with sourcing & selecting new Skoll Awardees, co-leading Community Support initiatives, and supervising the teams' Program Coordinators who form the core operational execution of the team. Prior to joining Skoll, he…
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Commissions Editor, BBC Business, British Broadcasting Corporation
Digital and Commissions Editor for BBC Business.
Looking after TV, radio and digital output , focusing on the intersection between news and social media
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Chairman, Columba Leadership
Rob is Founding Chairman of Columba Leadership and The David Rattray Foundation and prior to that was an Executive Director of Dimension Data, number 32 on FTSE on listing.
My Primary interest is in Youth Social Entrepreneurship. Columba Leadership is a values based youth leadership…
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Director, Center for Social Impact, University of Michigan
Rishi founded the University of Michigan’s (U-M) Center for Social Impact at the Ross School of Business. He’s created practical learning programs across a dozen schools and colleges including the Social Impact Challenge with the City of Detroit; a regional Social Innovation Summit for cutting edge…
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CEO, Clear Glass
Ritesh is the COO and Co-founder of ClearGlass. He is a serial entrepreneur who has built ventures both in the UK and in India. He has an MBA from University of Oxford and exec education from Stanford University
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President & CEO, Global Partnerships
Rick Beckett is the president and CEO of Global Partnerships and has led the organization's strategic expansion as a social investor since 2006. Prior to joining Global Partnerships, Rick was managing director of a $112 million private equity fund investing in middle-market companies and early stage…
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Founder, Zaratu Projects
Graduate of Florida State University (BSc International Affairs) and Australian National University (MA International Law)
City: Copenhagen
Heritage: Danish/Ghanaian
7 years in private sector as a management Consultant at Implement Consulting Group, working with leadership development, project…
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Co-founder and Senior Media Advisor, OneSky
After graduating from the University of California in 1973, while backpacking around Europe taking photographs,
Richard was invited onto his first movie set… of Bernardo Bertolluci’s film "1900." He fell immediately in love with film and has lived the life of a filmmaker ever since, working continuously in…
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Co-Founder and CEO, Seed Global Health
Dr. Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit that focuses on the power of investing in health and the health workforce for social well-being, economic growth, equity which transforms countries. Through partnership with governments and in-country academic…
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Chief Executive Officer, The Philanthropy Workshop
Renee Kaplan is the CEO of TPW (The Philanthropy Workshop), leading a community of 450 global social investors to unlock resources and accelerate impact. She has more than 20 years of business experience in corporate, entrepreneurial, and philanthropy sectors. Prior to TPW she was the Chief…
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CEO, Opportunity Collaboration
I have been convening and connecting people for the purposes of social change for almost two decades, starting with co-founding the Highland City Club, a membership community of 300 changemakers in Boulder, Colorado, to managing Dunton Hot Springs, one of North America’s top all-inclusive…
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Venture Advisor, Individual
Tom has over 25 years of professional experience as an operator, investor and advisor in both the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. His current advisory work includes advising institutions and families on optimizing their philanthropic and investing resources for impact; working with social…
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Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005 and focuses on the firm’s digital and sustainability practices.
Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder of Claris Corp., served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, and acted as a “virtual CEO” for such companies as…
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President - Fossil Foundation, EVP Asia, Fossil Group, Fossil Foundation
Randy C. Belcher is currently the Executive Vice President of the Fossil Group based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for leading the Fossil Group’s commercial sales and distribution businesses in the Asia Pacific region, the global supply chain and product development operations based in Asia and…
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CEO, Searching For Solutions Institute
Randy Antik is CEO of a public foundation which hosts an annual Imagine Solutions Conference in Naples, Florida. Each year we bring two Skoll Award winners to speak to our audience of very influential private sector citizens. We have brought 26 to date. Our audience of 600+ is capable to provide…
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Lead Specialist, HNP Global Practice, World Bank Group
Ramesh Govindaraj is a Lead Specialist in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank. He has worked in many countries across the six regions of the Bank, and was also based in the Bank’s Nigeria and India Country Offices. Ramesh has an MD in Ophthalmology from the…
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Economic and climate justice warrior and advocate with cross-sector experience. Currently running sustainable development initiatives for various governments and building a tech platform to link family offices and institutional investors with de-risked climate and social investments opportunities…
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Director, Mosaic, The Boardroom Africa
Tamsin is a social entrepreneur and venture catalyst who has been involved in the design and expansion of a string of high-social impact initiatives in Africa, the UK and Australia. She is a regular commentator on innovation ecosystems, women in leadership and good governance.
Based on her track…
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Director, Maslaha
Raheel Mohammed is the founder and director of Maslaha which aims to change and challenge the conditions that create inequalities for Muslim communities at a local and systemic level.
Under his leadership Maslaha has won the Innovation Mindset Challenge, a global competition, for our work…
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Fund Manager, Triodos Investment Management BV
Femke Bos is Fund Manager of the Triodos Microfinance Fund and Triodos Fair Share Fund, both investing in financial inclusion at Triodos Investment Management. With over 14 years of investment management experience in the microfinance and SME sector, particularly in Asia, she has cultivated a…
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Executive Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank
Puon Penn is Executive Vice President/Co-Head of Wells Fargo’s Technology Banking Group which provides expertise, financial services, and resources to help innovative companies focus on advancing new technologies and business models to solve some of the most complex problems facing humanity…
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Co-founder & CEO, UnLtd India
Pooja Warier Hamilton is the co-Founder & CEO of UnLtd India, a pioneering organisation that finds, funds and supports early stage social entrepreneurs in India. Since 2007, UnLtd India has supported over 140 social entrepreneurs at the pilot, post-pilot and getting ready to scale stage. These social…
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Chairman, Sonen Capital
Stuart Davidson is the Chairman of Sonen Capital, a dedicated impact investment management firm..
In addition to co-founding Sonen, Stuart is a managing partner of Labrador Ventures, a Palo Alto-based early stage technology-focused venture capital fund, which he joined in 1995. He has…
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Philanthropy Partner, RVVZ Foundation
Pierre has recently joined the RVVZ Foundation as Philanthropy Partner, focusing on the Foundation’s global philanthropic initiatives. RVVZ Foundation seeks to establish innovative and transformative ways to change the world through territory development and educational progress.
Before that, he…
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As Managing Director of Creative Services, Phil Collis is responsible for any creative / multimedia products for the Foundation, and oversees in-house films, website properties, social media and syndicated channels in direct support of the Foundation’s strategy. In addition, Phil also manages the online…
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CEO, Yajilarra Trust
A qualified Chartered Accountant, Peter Winneke has an extensive background in finance (insolvency/ media acquisitions), including roles with Andersen and Southern Cross Broadcasting. He joined The Myer Foundation in 2003 as Finance Manager. With a passion to grow the philanthropic sector, in mid…
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Women + Water Program Manager, Sustainable Innovation, Gap Inc.
Lisa manages Gap Inc.'s Women + Water Program, which works to reduce water use through product design and manufacturing processes, and helps provide women with access to clean water in communities where the company does business.
Prior, Lisa worked at the Skoll Foundation managing…
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, Independent
Peter Eliassen is VisionSpring’s former Chief Operating Officer, managing global operations and directing the sourcing and design of VisionSpring products. Prior to joining VisionSpring, Peter held positions at Unilever, Capital One, the United Nations and served in the Peace Corps in Benin. He…
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Founder/Director, Peter Bennett Foundation
Pls refer to my bio:
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Peterbennettfoundation.org
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CEO, IKEA FOUNDATION
Per Heggenes is the CEO of IKEA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Swedish home furnishings company, IKEA. As CEO, Per sets and drives the Foundation’s funding and innovation strategies, and is a tireless advocate for children living in some of the world’s poorest communities. Since…
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Chief Operating Officer, National Center for Arts and Technology
Paulo Nzambi, COO - A former trial lawyer, a published poet, a playwright, a real estate entrepreneur and a tri-athlete, Mr. Nzambi joined Manchester Bidwell Corporation in 2009 as its Vice President of Administration. From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Nzambi served as Executive Vice President and Chief…
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Journalist, Wired Magazine
Pauline Bock is a journalist at WIRED UK.
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, Individual
As former Director of Strategic Initiatives, Paula Kravitz managed strategic, global partnerships focused on accelerating impact of social entrepreneurs worldwide. In her previous role at Skoll, she was the Director and Curator for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship where she created…
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Chairman & Founder, Ella's Kitchen
Paul Lindley is an award winning British entrepreneur. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG, then spent 9 years at children’s TV brand Nickelodeon.
In 2006 he founded Ella’s Kitchen, an innovative brand of organic food for babies and young children whose mission is to improve…
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Member of the Board, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Meet Patrick Kern – a dedicated member of the board at Peter Möhrle Foundation, a Hamburg-based foundation with a focus on mental health. He is also a founding member of UNICEF NextGen Germany and a board member of other organizations, including Gefangene helfen e.V., a crime…
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Founder + CEO, Millennial Trains Project
Patrick Dowd is a social entrepreneur who works with the world's top brands and institutions to create transformative experiences that build leaders, engage communities, and tell powerful stories.
An outspoken champion of cross-cultural understanding and purposeful travel, Dowd has been a…
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Founder & CEO, Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results
Sharath studied at Cambridge and Oxford and received his MBA from INSEAD. He was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to global education, and serves on the Education Commission’s workforce group – the pre-eminent institution chaired by the UN’s Gordon Brown.
Sharath was…
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Patricia Stuchberry manages Private Partnership in the Fund Development team with Friends-International, an award-winning social enterprise that saves lives and builds futures for marginalized children, youth and families in South East Asia. She manages relationships with corporates, foundations and…
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Executive Director, Unidos en Red
Patricia is Executive Director of Unidos en Red since 2013. She is absolutely convinced of and passionate about the impact that can be achieved through the collaborative work between agents of change, along with a highly qualified, motivated and ethical team. Unidos en Red is an international…
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DEAN, JOAN B. KROC SCHOOL OF PEACE STUDIES, University of San Diego
Patricia Márquez is the Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Innovation at the University of San Diego. She is also the dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, the first stand-alone school of peace and justice in the United States. The Kroc School prepares students from around the…
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VP, External Affairs, Grameen Foundation
I've spent my career with public companies across multiple sectors designing and executing new strategies, programs and partnerships that achieve measurable business and social impact. I recently moved into the non-profit sector and now lead the External Affairs team at Grameen…
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Managing Director, The Omidyar Group
Pat Christen is a managing director of The Omidyar Group, serving as a senior advisor
to philanthropists Pierre and Pam Omidyar. Pat brings curiosity, a sense of humor and
a commitment to high accountability to her role, which focuses on cultivating
environments of learning, innovation and impact…
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Managing Partner, True Green Capital
Panos Ninios is the Managing Partner and a Founder of True Green Capital Management LLC (“TGC”). He is primarily responsible for portfolio management, risk management and capital strategy. Panos is a member of the Investment Committee and contributes significant global renewable…
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Founder and CEO, Spire Ventures
Mr. Faisal Butt is an entrepreneur and investor based in Mayfair, UK. His investment focus has a recurring theme in property, property services, and property related technology. He invests through his vehicle Spire Ventures and through his PropTech investment fund Pi Labs.
Faisal’s investment…
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Design Thinker, The Curious Company, IDEO.org, Women Moving Millions, Maverick Collective
For decades, Pam worked as a design researcher, creative strategist and creative team leader in the commercial sector. During her tenure, Pam served as thought partner to Nike, GM, Levi’s, Method Home, and MINI Cooper to name a few. Always her chief objectives were the same: to connect…
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President, Pershing Square Foundation
Olivia Tournay Flatto, PhD, is the President of The Pershing Square Foundation. She leads the Foundation’s efforts to deliver social impact by promoting exceptional leaders and innovative ideas in the areas of health and medicine, economic development, social justice, education, and the arts. In 2013…
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Journalist, The Economist
Oliver is a correspondent and editor with experience in Africa, America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He has been the Times bureau chief in Beijing and Baghdad as well as the Africa and Europe Editor at The Economist.
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Executive Director, Goradia Foundation
Sapphira Goradia is the Executive Director of the Vijay and Marie Goradia Foundation. As Executive Director, Sapphira leads the Foundation’s efforts to improve health and educational outcomes in India through the support of innovative, measurable and scalable initiatives. Prior to assuming her role at…
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Managing Director, Cambridge Associates
Noelle Laing is a managing director in the Mission-Related Investing (“MRI”) Group in Cambridge Associates’ Arlington office. She identifies and researches MRI managers across asset classes and serves as a resource to generalist investment directors in the firm by monitoring managers in…
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As Director of Contracts and Legal Affairs, Sangeetha provides support for the execution of responsibilities of stewardship and governance for Skoll Foundation. Sangeetha also provides occasional active support for other programmatic imperatives.
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Founder, Art for Integration and Social Transformation
Nirmalie Mulloli is the Founder of Art for Integration and Social Transformation. The organisation facilitates social integration programmes in local communities, for new, marginalized and pre-existing community members through specially designed creative workshops.
By building strategic…
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CEO, Jasmine Social Investments
Nina leads Jasmine’s investment strategy and diligence process, guiding the team to identify and support the next generation of great social entrepreneurs. She collaborates closely with a global network of funders, sharing our learnings and approaches.
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Executive Director, Global Canopy Programme
Niki Mardas is Executive Director of the Global Canopy Programme, an international environmental NGO and think-tank that works to accelerate the transition to a deforestation-free global economy.
Niki has a strong entrepreneurial track record, over two decades of a career in both private and…
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Skoll Scholar, MBA Student, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Nikhil is the founder of Home Safe, a start-up providing chauffeurs as a safe and convenient alternative to drunk driving. Home Safe is a champion for safer roads in New Delhi, India successfully keeping over 50000 potential drunk drivers off the roads since 2009.
Nikhil has been forging partnerships…
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EVP & Chief Strategy and Impact Officer, Food For The Poor
As EVP/Chief Strategy & Impact Officer of Food For The Poor (FFTP), Nicolás Argüello oversees aspects related to program strategy, quality assurance, project design, capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation.
In addition to his time at FFTP, Nicolás has worked in various areas ranging from…
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Chairman, The Big Issue Group
Nigel Kershaw OBE is a leading social entrepreneur and impact investor who, since 1974, has had first-hand experience of creating, building and scaling social enterprises and social investment. He joined The Big Issue in 1994, subsequently becoming its CEO and Group Chair. He is also Co--Founder and…
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CEO, Shift
Nick is founder and CEO at Shift Design, a UK non-profit that takes a collective approach to reducing inequality.
Shift brings research, design and communications skills together to work closely with people and communities affected by issues such as mental illness, unmanageable debt…
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Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, RVVZ Foundation
Armenian-Russian social entrepreneur, impact investor and venture philanthropist. A recognized expert on the global economy, entrepreneurship and education, provides strategic consulting through the membership of boards of directors, advisory boards and trusteeships of commercial companies…
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Nick Burn has spent nearly 30 years of his life managing international development programs. Trained as an agriculturalist, he lived in Indonesia and Tanzania for 10 years, and traveled for work extensively in countries across Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Over the past six years he has been…
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Oxford University Student, Said Business School
Prior to being an MBA Candidate at Oxford University, Neil was a Manager in Management Consulting with five years of strategy and operations experience in corporate firms such as Accenture and KPMG and social enterprises such as Social Ventures Australia, Good Return (micro-finance) and…
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Founder and CEO, Mela Artisans Inc.
Navroze Mehta is Founder and Executive Chairman of Mela Artisans Inc. Mela Artisans is a luxury lifestyle brand that combines traditional handcrafting techniques with the freshness and functionality of contemporary design. The vision of Mela is to provide a sustainable global market for artisans while…
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Chief Sustainability & Social Impact Officer, HP
Nate Hurst is currently the Chief Sustainability & Social Impact Officer for HP. He helps drive programs with a focus on the environment, society, and integrity that are aligned with HP’s business strategy. Nate directs the strategy of a global team of experts focused on driving solutions in collaboration…
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Founder & President, Natalie Orfalea Foundation
As the Co-Founder and Chair of the Orfalea Family Foundation and the Orfalea Fund (known collectively as the Orfalea Foundation), Natalie Orfalea has provided vision, inspiration, and strategy driving the foundation’s initiatives in early childhood education, food system reform, youth development…
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Head of Global Partnerships,
OneSkyNatalie Campion is the Head of Global Partnerships for OneSky for all children. She has spent her career working in development and specializing in the stewardship of innovative global partnerships. She has united fundraising teams across the globe in countries including Australia, England, USA, Hong…
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Governing Board Member, Barefoot College
Naoko is an advisor and author in the area of microfinance, social entrepreneurship and impact investments. Her passion lies in promoting innovative social/business models that provide sustainable solutions to tackle poverty and in advocating a much more effective and efficient use of resources…
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Senior Advisor, The Omidyar Group
Randy Newcomb is a Senior Advisor at The Omidyar Group. The Omidyar Group is a diverse collection of global companies, organizations, and initiatives founded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar that strive to catalyze social impact globally.
As Senior Advisor Mr. Newcomb explores future trends, new and…
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President, Rosenthal Family Foundation
Nancy Stephens has lived in Los Angeles for 40 years with her filmmaker husband, Rick Rosenthal, and their three adult children. Nancy transitioned seamlessly from a long and successful acting career and member of the prestigious Actors Studio to being a full time advocate for both Environmental…
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VP, Fish Forever, Rare
Nakul Saran serves as Vice President, Fish Forever at the global conservation organization, Rare. In this role, Nakul leads the organization’s fisheries work, implementing sustainable and scalable solutions that help both people and nature thrive in coastal communities throughout the developing…
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Senior Director of Regional Programs, Oxfam America
Muthoni Muriu has twenty years of experience in international development work and a passion for social justice issues. As Senior Director of Regional Programs for Oxfam America, she provides strategic leadership and management oversight for their international programs. In addition to steering…
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Co-Founder and President, Efrusy Family Foundation
Molly co-founded and is President of the Efrusy Family Foundation (EFF), which supports local orgs working to create the next generation of ethical leaders in Africa, LatAm, and the US. She serves as Co-Chair of the Board for the Latin American Leadership Academy, an organization that seeks to…
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Chairperson, Careduca Foundation
I increasingly devote my time and resources to philanthropic efforts. I am in particular interested in the education sector.
Currently Governor of Marymount International School London, where I chair the Admissions, Alumnae and Development Committee and have helped the school transition…
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Programme Manager, Montpelier Foundation
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Co-Founder, Bread and Buzz Partners
Creative Director, Marketing Professional and Social Entrepreneur.
A writer with quick instincts for defining brands and developing voices, Mimi is co-founder of Bread + Buzz LLC, a boutique marketing and business development firm that positions both commercial and not-for-profits for…
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Chief Executive Officer, Zoona
Mike Quinn is Group CEO of Zoona, an African Fintech that leverages technology, entrepreneurship, and partnerships to enable essential financial services for those who need them most. Since launching in 2009, Zoona has grown to an customer base of over 3 million consumers and 2,000 agent…
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CEO, Carbon Analytics
Since I was little I've been obsessed with the idea that business could be the force for change the planet needs to solve our environmental woes (thanks mom and dad!). I've devoted my career to business solutions for good - first as an engineer at Sherwood Design Engineers designing and developing…
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Sr. Director, Social Ventures, Mercy Corps
Michael brings 20 years of experience applying entrepreneurial approaches to addressing global social challenges. Michael serves as Senior Director of the Social Ventures team at the global humanitarian agency, Mercy Corps. Michael leverages his experience launching early stage enterprises to help…
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Senior Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
MICHAEL SLIND is senior editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has extensive experience as a writer, editor, and publishing professional. Michael is co-author, with Boris Groysberg, of "Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations" (Harvard Business…
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Director of Liquid Assets, New Island Capital
Michael Grossman is responsible for lending and fixed income investing at New Island Capital.
Previously, Michael managed Calvert Foundation’s international impact investing portfolio and was a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office focused on financial inclusion and…
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Deputy Director, Youth Livelihoods, The MasterCard Foundation
Meredith manages Youth Learning projects that focus on the intersection between work and education, as well as those that address technology as a vehicle for training and employment. Meredith has over 15 years of experience working with youth both domestically and internationally in…
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Chief Content Officer, Public Radio International
Melinda Ward is Chief Content Officer for Public Radio International (PRI). PRI is a global non-profit media company focused on the intersection of journalism and engagement to affect positive change in people’s lives. We create a more informed, empathetic and connected world by sharing…
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Director of Entrepreneurship Centre, Said Business School
Megan has a wealth of experience in innovation ecosystems, strategy, change management and science commercialisation, with a particular focus on the culture and structures that facilitate effective innovation. She particularly values working across traditional institutional and disciplinary boundaries…
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Director, Initiative for Smallholder Finance, Global Development Incubator
Matt is a Senior Advisor with ISF Advisors at the Global Development Incubator. Over the past fifteen years Matt has worked in the areas of private equity and development advisory for a number of leading organisations including GDI, Agis Investments, Dalberg and Deloitte. Over this time, Matt has…
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Co-Founder, Nest
Matt Rogers is founder and VP of Engineering at Nest Labs, creator of the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm. By applying modern design and technology, Nest aims to revitalize these stagnant - yet very important - industries. Matt is responsible for all…
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COO, Socialab
Industrial Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and MSc in Public Policies at the Universidad de Chile.
Director of the project "Innovation models for low income population" from the IADB.
Co-founder of Socialab, NGO that provides a platform for disruptive social startups and…
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Martin Tschopp is CEO of Kiva.org, with a focus on growing the breadth and depth of the organization’s impact around the globe. Martin joined Kiva in 2015, after more than a decade of experience building marketplace and e-commerce businesses in 20 countries, and leading teams both small and…
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Managing Director, Segal Family Foundation
Martin Segal
Martin graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2004 and currently serves as principal for real estate investing company, B&D Holdings and is the chairman of the board for Segal Family Foundation.
In 2010, Martin took on the role of Managing Director of Segal…
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Deputy Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation
I am currently Deputy Director at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University, where I lead work on policy innovation and outcomes-focused solutions. We work with leaders, students, researchers, practitioners, and communities to reimagine and transform the social…
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Consultant, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Medical Doctor – Brazil, 1972
Master Public Health (Epidemiology), Tulane School of Hygiene and Public Health, New Orleans, USA, 1975
-Consultant, Skoll Global Threats Fund, mass gatherings participatory surveillance 2013-present
-Consultant, Global Health LLC, public health surveillance consulting…
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Cofounder, Assemble, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
Mark Clayton Hand is Senior Consultant at MPA Advisors, which helps early stage companies and investment funds more effectively build and manage high-caliber teams. He is also a PhD Candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where he researches effective team-building in political campaigns…
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Recognized as Social Entrepreneur year 2012 by Schwab Foundation with sound experience in non profit arena as well as corporate environment. Appointed as CEO at Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) pioneer of the digital empowerment movement in Latin America, in 20 years (CDI) has impacted…
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Marriage & Family Therapist,
I am a Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am currently in the process of opening Greenlight Clinic which is a free mental health clinic serving young people between 14 and 25 years old in the Bay Area. . The mission of Greenlight Clinic is to provide free short term…
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Oxford University Student, MBA, Saïd Business School
Mariko is an MBA candidate at Saïd Business School and currently a participant of Leading for Impact Program. She is also a fellow of Orinus Partners, a start-up Japanese business consultancy firm which provides advisory services to firms based in Japan on inclusive businesses.
Prior to the MBA, she…
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Founder, Capital Department
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Managing Director, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
Dr. Margaret M. Towle, CAIA, CIMA®, CPWA®, is Managing Director-Wealth Management/Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Institutional Consulting at Merrill Lynch. Margaret has over 30 years’ experience in the industry as an asset manager and investment advisor. Her area of specialty is advising…
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Associate Expert, International Trade Centre (United Nations/WTO)
Marco is an associate expert at the International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint agency of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations focused on the internationalization of SMEs. He is based in Geneva and works on the agency’s activities related to access to finance for SMEs in…
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Executive Chairman, Local Giving
Marcelle Speller is the founder of both Localgiving and the Localgiving Foundation. Marcelle graduated with a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, before going on to gain more than 10 years experience within leading advertising agencies in London and Amsterdam. She…
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Trustee, Bloom Foundation
Marcelle is a Trustee of the Bloom Foundation, a London based private foundation. The Foundations' diverse portfolio focuses on the prevention of relief of poverty making grants and investments into programmes and investments focusing on education, health, and self-sustaining solutions.
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Managing Partner, Dietel Partners
Tory manages portfolios for clients with both domestic and international interests. She works closely with the Dietel Partners team to define strategy, identify grantee and funding partners and provide assistance to grantees with their strategies, resource development and capacity building needs…
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Board Member and Director, Barefoot College International
Currently Entrepreneur in Residence for CARE and Director of Climate Justice. Founder of Step Up Advisers and creator of Soli; the worlds first digital learning management system for smallholder farmers. CEO Emiritus of Barefoot College & Barefoot college International. Schwab Foundation…
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Director Learning and Innovation, IDH
Dr Lucian Peppelenbos is Director of Learning and Innovation at IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative. IDH seeks to deliver impact in upstream supply chains by convening sector transformation programs in coalitions of trade and industry, government and civil society. Dr. Peppelenbos is responsible…
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General Manager Futura Channel, Fundacao Roberto Marinho
Lucia Araújo - journalist, she’s the director of Canal Futura. She started her career as a writer and managing editor for news and feature programs at Abril Video, TV Globo and TV Cultura. During two years she lived in Washington DC where she worked as a free lancer reporter for Brazilian newspaper…
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Founding Partner, Auxano Capital Partners
A financial services entrepreneur with 15+ years of global experience, Luca co-founded and spearheaded several successful ventures, specializing and closing highly profitable investments in the SME space. Passionate about contributing to the ongoing transition to a low carbon economy, Luca recently…
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President and CEO, Fondation Mérieux USA
Dr. Gresham leads the Fondation Mérieux (FMx) USA in Washington DC in support of the global mission of the French Mérieux family foundation to reduce the impact of infectious diseases among vulnerable populations around the world.
Former Director of the Biologics program for Senator Sam…
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Programme Officer, Montpelier Foundation
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Cofounder / Chief Operating Officer, Viamo
Louis has over 20 years of experience building organizations that serve people living in emerging markets. He started his career at Engineers Without Borders Canada. There, first as a volunteer and then as their first overseas-based staff, he grew their international program to over 200 Africa-based…
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Human Rights/Civic Engagement, Ford Foundation
Louis Bickford is a member of the Civic Engagement and Government team and also manages the Global Human Rights program at the Ford Foundation. Based in New York, he works with international NGOs in every world region. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation in 2012, he was on the…
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Financial Advisor, Natalie Orfalea Foundation
Lou Buglioli, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Viewpointe, is a 45-year veteran in the Financial Services and Technology Outsourcing Industry. Since starting Viewpointe in 2002, Buglioli leads the company as an industry innovator in information governance and digital storage with the nation's…
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Trustee, Planet Wheeler Foundation
Mark works with a number of Australian based funding entities to support social entrepreneurs with a problem to solve.
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President/CEO, Chasca Films, LLC
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Title: President/CEO of Auerbach Realty Holdings, LLC
Ms. Auerbach oversees the asset management functions of her family’s multi-state commercial investment portfolio. She holds a real estate Broker’s License from the State of California and a CPM (Certified Property Manager)…
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Founder, The Clara Fund
Lorene Arey is founder of the Clara Fund, a family foundation focused in two key areas: supporting gender equality and sustainable markets.
Prior to establishing Clara Fund, Lorene was head of Worldwide Communications at Cisco Systems where she was she played a key role in shaping and…
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Executive Director, TIP Global Health
Dr. Leonard founded TIP Global Health in 2008 as a means of supporting local health system innovation to provide high quality health care to vulnerable people in resource-limited settings. She is an experienced physician who has been working at the intersection of individual clinical care and public…
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Global Partnerships Specialist, Tostan
Suzanne is leading Tostan's Global Mobilization Team, a community of visionary partners committed to an equitable future through empowering education and community-driven development. This movement strives to overcome fixed mindset and co-design the communities of the future…
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Health Innovation Consultant, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Dr Lindi van Niekerk has been pursuing a journey to better understand the role grassroots social innovation can play to transform challenges faced by developing country health systems. By training, Lindi is a medical doctor and has worked across various levels of the South African public health…
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Founder and Chair, MyBnk
Lily Lapenna is the founder, former CEO and Co-Chair of financial and enterprise education social enterprise MyBnk. As a result of setting up MyBnk, Lily was named Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the New Statesman. MyBnk now reaches 160,000 young people in the UK and has a presence in…
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Global Health Policy Fellow, Imperial College London
Liliane is a Global Health Policy Fellow at the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College focusing on health system strengthening in Myanmar. In this role, she has shifted from uncovering genomic techniques for the treatment of non-communicable diseases to exploring the role that…
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Senior Director of Development, Vital Voices Global Partnership
Liam T. Dall is the Senior Director of Development at Vital Voices Global Partnership, working to identify and invest in women leaders who improve our world. Liam focuses on the advancement of Vital Voices’ global programming through engaging individual supporters, family foundations, and other…
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Founder, Chicago Cares
Leslie Bluhm is a social entrepreneur who empowers people to tackle challenges through collaborative action. She is the founder of Chicago Cares, Inc.,the city’s leading service organization, which connects people, communities and causes through volunteerism. Since 1991, Chicago Cares has…
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Executive Director, C & A Foundation
Leslie Johnston joined C&A Foundation as its first Executive Director in August 2013, bringing 17 years of management experience across multiple sectors, including smallholder agribusiness, entrepreneurship and corporate philanthropy. Prior to this role, she managed the Swiss-based Argidius and…
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Founder, The Haber Charitable Trust
After a very successful career and business in Finance and Real Estate culminating in the sale of his major interest to a VC in 2007 and together with his wife Caroline, founded the Haber Charitable Trust in 2007.
The Haber Charitable Trust has concentrated over the past 5 years specifically on…
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Director, TED Fellows, TED Conferences LLC
Shoham Arad is a designer, writer, curator and strategist. She has a fine arts degree and a Masters in Industrial Design from RISD. She is a maker, a critic and a organizational leader.She is the Deputy Director the TED Fellows program, where she strategizes, develops and leads one of the most…
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PR Manager, Saïd Business School
Josie Powell heads the press and communications team at Oxford Saïd communicating the broad range of the School’s activity to global media, and supporting the school's vision to solve some of the world's most pressing and intractable problems.
Before joining the school in 2001 Josie held a role…
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Director, RADIUS, Simon Fraser University
Shawn is the founding Director of RADIUS SFU, a 10 year old Canadian social innovation hub operating at the intersection of deep equity, innovation and systems change, and supporting over 1000 community innovators to date. Prior to this he has been part of the founding team of multiple social…
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Vice President, African Leadership Group
Spencer Ton is Vice President of Strategy at the African Leadership Group and leads strategy and product development for the African Leadership University’s accelerated schools (ALX) and education finance company (ALFC).
Spencer is also a Partner of the Vitrum Group, a strategy and…
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Managing Director, Co-Impact
Silvia Bastante de Unverhau is a global philanthropy expert and senior advisor, with close to 20 years of experience working across the business, non-profit, international development and government sectors. Silvia works with Co-Impact as Managing Director focusing on partnerships and strategy…
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Senior Creative, VICE
Lana Z Porter is a Senior Creative at VICE Media, the world's leading youth media brand and content creation studio.
At VICE, she develops branded content for Broadly, VICE's female focused channel, and is helping to launch VICE’s new impact vertical, which will cover social and environmental…
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Founder and Executive Director, YouthRoots
Lacey’s long-standing passion (some might even say obsession) with youth philanthropy began in high school when she was given the chance to be part of the Youth Advisory Council of the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation. During that experience, Lacey felt that the adults in her world valued her…
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Senior Partner, I-DEV International
Patrick is a Senior Partner and the Director of I-DEV’s Global Investment Advisory Group . Prior to I-DEV, Patrick worked at Inter Pipeline Fund, a multi-billion dollar energy infrastructure company, in the corporate M&A group and focused on originating and analyzing global downstream energy…
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Sherrie is ID’s Director of Development and External Relations, managing fundraising, donor relations and external relations for the organization.
Sherrie has broad experience in the fields of media, strategic fundraising and non-profit management. Prior to joining ID, Sherrie was Associate Director of…
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Co-Founder, CEO, VoiceLots
Kwame Anku is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of VoiceLots, a Silicon Valley tech start-up empowering social entrepreneurs to form and leverage connections with global communities. Kwame is also the co-founder of the Black Angel Tech Fund, a startup tech fund for Black Stanford…
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Founder, The globalislocal Fund
Liz is Founder of The globalislocal Fund, an educational and funding vehicle investing in solutions to poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. globalislocal drives educated, aggregated capital to global development issues by making high-impact global investing accessible and relevant to…
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Shaun’s first career was in the financial markets. He worked for Goldman Sachs in London and later
managed his own hedge fund in San Francisco. Noticing there was more to life than government bonds,
Shaun was drawn to the non‐profit sector. One year led to two years led to ten. He worked…
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Founder, Solar for Life
Kourosh, 20 years old, is a recipient of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 Award for his work in education entrepreneurship, journalism, and development efforts in sub-saharan Africa. He has also been named a 'Climate Hero' by Canadian Geographic and Shell Canada and is a recipient of Canada’s Top 30 Under…
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Founder & CEO, Simbi
KJ believes an economy that works for everyone is within reach. As Founder and CEO of Simbi, she is passionate about turning excess capacity into real economic value. In 2014, KJ was a Skoll Scholar at Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she completed her MBA. Prior to Oxford, she spent 9 years as…
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Vice President & Executive Director, Public Programs, Aspen Institute
I have worked at the Aspen Institute for 18+ years, largely producing forums, round table discussions and large scale conferences (namely, Aspen Ideas Festival). My professional background includes marketing, strategic planning, and policy research; and a fun part of the work I do includes networking…
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Grants Manager, Maitri Trust
As a Grants Manager of the Maitri Trust I manage a portfolio of the Trust’s partnerships, building good working relationships and identifying opportunities with our partners to tailor our support to the best effect. My goal is to create systemic change via partnering and strengthening education training…
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Managing Director, The World We Want Foundation
Kirsten began her career with Procter & Gamble where she held numerous brand management positions. Wanting to get involved in International Development and poverty alleviation, she went on to study International Affairs at The Fletcher School in Boston and received her Master’s in 2009…
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Senior Program Manager, Global Partnerships, Skoll Foundation
Lindsey Powers joined the Skoll Foundation in 2011 and currently serves as Senior Program Manager for Global Partnerships. In this role, Lindsey cultivates and implements mutually beneficial strategic relationships to advance the Skoll Foundation mission and serve Skoll's community of social…
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Global Partnerships Program Manager, Skoll Foundation
Kimberly serves as the Global Partnerships Program Manager, supporting the development and deployment of partnerships that expand and extend the Skoll Foundation mission. She provides intelligence building and analysis, internal project management, and relationship stewardship across the global…
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Director, Keywell Foundation
Kim Keywell is a philanthropist and civic leader dedicated to the advocacy of underserved youth. She serves as a Director of the Keywell Foundation. She is Vice Chairwoman of One Goal, an innovative college persistence organization, a Child Advocate for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for…
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Executive Director, David and Anita Keller Foundation
As the Executive Director of the David & Anita Keller Foundation, Kim Keller manages a global portfolio of investments in global health, human rights policy and advocacy, and environmental justice. She serves on the boards of Directors of Accountability Counsel, New Media Advocacy Project, UC…
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Consultant, Resources Legacy Fund
Ruth Norris is a consultant whose practice includes executive coaching, communications, and conservation leadership. Over more than three decades, she has worked as a journalist, manager of organizational capacity building and training programs, consultant to bilateral and multilateral aid agencies…
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President, PopTech Institute, PopTech
Leetha Filderman is a strategist and NGO leader intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social progress. She has expertise in the fields of social innovation, public health and social justice. She currently serves as the President/CEO of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she…
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General Manager, Pivot TV, Participant Media
Kent Rees is the GM at Pivot, Participant Media’s independent cable network launched in fall 2013.
Kent has more than 15 years of creative and marketing experience in TV and digital platforms. Prior to his appointment as the network’s GM, he was Pivot’s EVP of Marketing, Scheduling…
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Director of Partnerships and Development, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Madhu leads the Partnerships & Development function at Water & Sanitation for Urban Poor with responsibility for strategic partnerships, funding and communications. She has 18+ years of diverse international experience in strategy, business development, marketing and communications across the…
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Skoll Centre Administrator 18 years. Previously worked with Royal Horticultural Society. Presently running a farm under environmental stewardship.
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Founder, Shutterspokes
Ken Alexander has a B.Sc. from Mount Allison University, a Masters of Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University, studying plant physiology and soil plant relations. He completed a B.Ed. from the University of Western Ontario and was an elementary school educator for 23 years. He recently…
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A graduate of the Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S., religion and education), and Columbia University (Ed.D., philosophy and education), Dr. Frome has provided his blend of philosophy, education theory, and knowledge of the writing process to College Summit since 1994, when he and J.B. Schramm…
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With more than 20 years of experience working with integrated healthcare delivery systems, Kelly is responsible for building and executing Health Leads’ strategy for catalyzing the sector to incorporate social needs as a standard part of patient care. In this role, Kelly leads a team tasked with…
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Senior Advisor, Global Strategy, Ford Foundation
Kavita Ramdas
Senior Advisor on Global Strategy, Ford Foundation
As senior adviser on global strategy, Kavita works closely with the executive leadership team at the Ford Foundation to help tackle ongoing challenges and seize opportunities arising from changes to civil society across the…
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Senior Business Systems Analyst, Skoll Foundation
As Senior Business Systems Analyst for the Skoll Foundation, Katie Merrick analyzed existing business processes and managed corresponding improvements to IT systems and applications. This included implementing and then overseeing the evolution of the foundation's CRM system to meet…
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CEO, Equalize Health
As CEO of Equalize Health (formerly D-Rev), KristaDonaldson leads the design and scaling of disruptive medical devices to address global health inequities. To date, nearly 1M people – mostly children and young people - have been treated by one of Equalize Health’s products in 70+countries. In…
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Founder and President, Raising Change, Inc.
Kathy LeMay is an internationally-recognized public speaker, philanthropic advisor, global social change wealth redistributor and published author whose purpose-driven life centers on lifting up the voices, stories, leadership and influence of the women and girls around the world. Kathy has raised $175…
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CEO, Freedom For All
Katie Ford is the founder and CEO of FREEDOM FOR ALL, which creates programs and media campaigns to combat human trafficking. Freedom For All partners with ten organizations that are making long-term, systematic changes to end slavery in their respective justice and penal systems in India…
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Member, Board of Directors, ReSurge
Kathryn currently serves on three non-profit boards: ReSurge International, which provides reconstructive surgery for the poor in Africa, Asia and South America; Downtown College Prep (DCP), which is a 4-school charter group serving low income Latinos who are first generation to college; and Creating…
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CEO & Founder, BOMA Project
Kathleen Colson is a former refugee worker and safari guide who wanted to a see a long-term solution to drought and famine in the drylands of Africa. After decades of traveling and working in Africa, Kathleen invested two years of extended visits to northern Kenya to understand the unique challenges…
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Director, Citizenship and Reputation, Barclays Bank
Kathleen Britain is the Director, Citizenship & Reputation in the UK and Europe having been appointed to the position in August 2013. In this role, Kathleen is responsible for the development and implementation of the community investment strategy, employee giving and matched fundraising…
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Director, FSG
Kate is a Director at FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm and think tank specializing in shared value creation and cross-sector collaboration. Her work focuses on helping organizations develop solutions to address the world's most pressing social issues, with a particular concentration in economic…
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Director of Global Partnerships, d.light design
Kate Montgomery joined d.light in July 2011 as the Director of Global Partnerships, developing d.light’s strategy for engaging with the public sector and other key partners globally. A key part of this work is the institutionalization of d.light’s strategy to rigorously measure and communicate their social…
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Jess leads Skoll’s Portfolio & Investment team operations and initiatives that support cross-organizational collaboration. She manages a team of professionals who work across Skoll’s strategic grantmaking programs and defines processes for continuous improvement across the broader…
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Director of Impact & Partnerships (& The Flex Fund),
Doc SocietyWith senior expertise bridging the worlds of creative media and non-profits, Jessica leads Doc Society's strategic partnerships and projects. Previously, she was an impact strategist on films such as Unrest, He Named Me Malala and Ida's Diary. She also has extensive experience working as a…
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Co-Founder, Girls Gone Global
I have been a leader in digital media and social impact for over 25 years.
Marrying my interest in technology and its ability to advance publishing and social good working in both pubic and private companies, I have launched key initiatives at such as Fast Company’s Social Capitalist Awards, the first to…
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EVP, Digital, Participant Media
Karina Kogan is executive vice president of digital for Participant Media, a company dedicated to entertainment that inspires and compels social change. She oversees all digital operations including Participant Media’s digital hub, TakePart (http://www.TakePart.com), which serves millions of socially…
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President, Stone Steps Foundation
Karen Paterson is president of Stone Steps Foundation, a California-based philanthropy dedicated to advancing social and economic justice through innovative and scalable solutions to the problems of poverty. Prior to Stone Steps, Karen was a founding director of Moxie Foundation where she led…
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MBA Student, Said Business School
Karen is an MBA student at University of Oxford. She is currently the Co-Chair of Oxford’s MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) Program, a Founding Member of Oxford Saïd Responsible Investment Fund (OxRIF) and a Consultant at Oxford Microfinance Initiative.
Prior to Oxford, Karen was…
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Managing Director, af Jochnick Foundation
Kajsa has been the managing director of the af Jochnick Foundation for 16 years. The af Jochnick Foundation´s goal is a better world - for everyone.
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Managing Director, Peter Möhrle Holding
As the Managing Director of Peter Möhrle Holding, Dr Kai Kunze continually expands the company’s portfolio of private equity and real estate investments. He has handled business in the Möhrle Family Office since the start of 2008.
Prior to this, he spent four years as CFO of the Friedhelm Loh…
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Producer/Presenter, Monocle
Daniel Giacopelli is a founding member of Monocle 24, Monocle magazine's live 24-hour international radio station. He produces and hosts Monocle's weekly business podcast 'The Entrepreneurs', along with daily news programmes. He's interviewed thousands of leaders in the worlds of business…
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CEO, STRATEGIES!
A Cameroonian Political Leader, Activist and Entrepreneur, Kah Walla is internationally recognised for her expertise in leadership and strategy, her understanding of Africa’s development issues and her strong stance for its women and youth.
Part of Africa’s new generation of political leaders, Kah…
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CEO, Upaya Social Ventures
Kate is a fierce believer that global poverty is not inevitable and that entrepreneurialism is one of the sharpest tools to fight it. She leads Upaya Social Ventures, a nonprofit organization that accelerates and invests in early stage companies that create lasting jobs for the poorest of the poor in India…
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Program Associate, Special Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Justin McAuliffe helps to manage the special programs activities of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, including multiple sclerosis research and wellness programming, hospitality education, and family philanthropy. He is responsible for monitoring current grants and supporting the development, review…
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Regional Director, North America, Social Progress Imperative
Justin Edwards leads the development of the Social Progress Network throughout North America by fostering cross-sector partnerships among businesses, local governments, and civil society to build collaborative strategies to improve social outcomes in their communities. Justin has spent the…
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Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, University of Oxford
Jun Han is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Oxford, and a Master’s degree in Sociology from Peking University. His research has appeared in leading journals, including VOLUNTAS: International Journal of…
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Executive Director, CRI Foundation
Kara Weiss is the Executive Director of CRI Foundation, a strategic philanthropic foundation focused on cost-effective, high impact interventions geared to those living in poverty in low- and middle-income countries. Kara oversees CRI’s three programs: CRI Health, CRI-DIV, and CRI Research, and works…
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Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Julita Eleveld is the Global Lead for the Philanthropic Partnerships Team (PPT) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity, she provides leadership and cross-region oversight of the team's work in its non-U.S. priority geographies: China, India, the Middle East, SE Asia, as well as…
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Executive Director, African Entrepreneur Collective
Julienne is the co-founder and CEO of African Entrepreneur Collective, a family of business incubators and accelerators focused on supporting and investing in local entrepreneurs across Africa. Julienne is passionate about the tremendous potential that young African entrepreneurs have to…
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Head of Strategic Philanthropy & Purpose Investing, Bank of the West
Julie Shafer is Head of Strategic Philanthropy and Purpose Investing for Family Wealth Advisors, the ultra high net worth division of Bank of the West Wealth Management. She helps personalize giving strategies for families and individuals through the exploration of giving goals and motivations and…
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Senior Director, Walmart Foundation
Julie serves as Senior Director of the Walmart Foundation, where she leads the Grantmaking Team. This team leads philanthropic investments for Walmart and the Walmart Foundation. The Walmart Foundation funds initiatives focused on Sustainability for people and planet throughout the supply…
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CEO, Futures Unbound
Peter Zahn serves as CEO of Futures Unbound, a foundation focused on climate and environment, family wellness, and democratic engagement. He brings three decades’ experience as a leader and innovator across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. An attorney by practice, entrepreneur by…
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Director Corporate Social Responsibility, Centrica
Julia Rebholz - Centrica Group Sustainability Director & Managing Director, Ignite Social Enterprise LP.
Julia manages Ignite, a £10m social impact fund, backed by Centrica plc and is director of corporate responsibility. Ignite invests in energy-related organisations that are making a real difference in…
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Product Specialist, UBS AG
Julia joined the Philanthropy Advisory team as Product Specialist focusing on the management of the Global Philanthropists Community in 2015.
Previously, she worked as a freelance collaborator and a project management intern with the Mercator Foundation in Germany, where she was…
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As Vice President of Portfolio and Investments, Jude O'Reilley is responsible for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship and funding within the Skoll community.
When he joined the Foundation in 2014, Jude had more than 18 years of experience in technology, management and entrepreneurship in…
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Founding Partner, Agrego.org
I am a founding partner of Agrego.org and co-owner of Cinderhouse Creative.
I have 10+ years of international management experience in for-profit organisations. In August of 2015, I stepped into the 3rd sector full-time carrying with me a background in business development, marketing and design…
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Vice President for Economic Citizenship and Disability Inclusion, Accion
Mr. Goldstein was part of the team that founded the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion in 2009. He is a Vice President and Program Manager for the Center's "Financial Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities" initiative. He has spearheaded the development of the Framework for Disability Inclusion and…
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PRESIDENT, Roberto Marinho Foundation
Board Member of Grupo Globo and president of the Roberto Marinho Foundation.
José Roberto Marinho was born in Rio de Janeiro on 26 December 1955. He read History at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Geography at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ).
He…
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Fundraising Director, Peabody
Peabody is a London based social landlord and developer established in 1862 by George Peabody, American financier and philanthropist. We now own or manage in the region of 30,000 homes across London.
Our mission is as vibrant today as it was 150 years ago. We want to make London a city of…
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Managing Director, Insight TWI: The World Investigates
Jonathan is Managing Director and CEO of Insight TWI, the award-winning investigative production company that created the original series "Africa Investigates".
Prior to joining Insight TWI as Managing Director, Jonathan served for more than five years as a senior national security staffer in the…
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Chief Strategy & Operations Officer of Emergent, Global Development Incubator
Jon is a director at the Global Development Incubator. GDI is a non-profit incubator of ground-breaking ideas that can reach impact at scale. GDI stays with partners through the long haul, helping with their biggest strategic decisions and the details of execution to help them build their ventures better…
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Working presently in India as restrictions for travel trying to strengthen the communities to fight the pandemic and necessary actions like masks and social distance to be observed and filling the gap between the stake holders and communities to deal this COVID working with the communities to…
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Managing Director - Strategic Investment, Tortoise Ecofin Platform
Mr. Vincent Barnouin joined Ecofin, now part of Tortoise, in 2004 and is a managing director. He previously served as Ecofin’s chief executive officer and also held roles of chief operating officer, head of marketing and business development and partner. Before joining Ecofin, he served as head of the…
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Executive Director, Clubhouse International
As Executive Director of Clubhouse International, Joel is a global advocate and entrepreneur working on behalf of millions of people living mental illness. A Clubhouse is an evidence-based-practice founded on the belief that even the most disabled can sufficiently recover and improve their lives with the…
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As President and Chief Operating Officer of College Summit, Jo is leading the transformation of their operations to ensure long term sustainability and scalability. Since joining College Summit in 2005, she has created an IT and operational infrastructure that has supported the growth of the…
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Director, Social Innovation Hub, Jhpiego
Dr. Joanne Peter is Director of Jhpiego’s Innovation Hub. She leads a multidisciplinary team that combines frontier technology, human-centered design, market-based solutions, and systems thinking to drive new models of decentralized, data-driven and person-centered care across Jhpiego’s work in 40…
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Portfolio Manager, United States Agency for International Development
Tom Schumacher is a Portfolio Manager for the Global Development Lab - USAID. He works with the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program and the Innovation Investment Alliance (IIA). He works on selecting, managing, and advising the organizations within the DIV portfolio. Prior to working…
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Editor, Humanosphere
Tom Paulson is a Seattle-based journalist who specializes in reporting on science, medicine, development and poverty matters. He is the founding editor of Humanosphere, an online news site now on hiatus that is focused on issues of poverty, equity, philanthropy and progress (or the lack of it). He has…
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Philanthropist, Individual
Joanne Kagle leads a small fund focusing on grassroots, front-line healthcare projects serving the most vulnerable. We currently foster collaborations and leadership training among medical professionals at UCSF and Partners in Health, with special emphasis on nursing and diabetes care. Current…
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Chief of Staff, Skoll Foundation
Joanna serves as the Chief of Staff at the Skoll Foundation. She works behind the scenes to manage processes that ensure the effective leadership of the organization in a cross-functional, collaborative manner.
Previously at Skoll, she supported the Chief Strategy Officer and provided project support to…
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CEO / Adjunct A.Professor, Family Life / Swinburne University Centre for Social Impact
Jo has worked for the community since 1976, as a social work practitioner, researcher, consultant, manager, leader and social entrepreneur. Her passion is the wellbeing of children. At Family Life, Jo has led a program of change and organisational growth to promote volunteering and community…
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Director, Finance & Operations, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Tim serves as Director, Finance and Operations, for the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In this role, he is tasked with making sure that the Skoll Global Threats Fund team is equipped with all the support needed to achieve maximum impact. Tim’s background as an operations executive includes business…
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Founder & Managing Director, Greenbaum Foundation
“Being a bystander to suffering is not an option,” is my motto. I’m in my 24th year as a full time philanthropist and have committed to contributing in excess of 85% of my wealth to charitable projects during my lifetime, and the remainder soon thereafter.
My primary philanthropic focus is on ending…
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Co-Founder & Director, Climate Change Investigation, Innovation and Investment Company (CC3IC)
I am passionate about solving our world's climate change problems through breakthroughs in carbon-free energy. Solar and wind power are important and rapidly growing sources of carbon-free energy, but they will not be nearly enough to meet the growing energy needs of the world. We need…
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Senior Producer, ABC News Network
Teri Whitcraft, Senior Producer for ABC News’ Special Units, develops and produces exclusive, original content for all of ABC News’ top-rated broadcasts (Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, 20/20 and This Week with George Stephanopoulos).
In addition to developing…
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Jill is the Director of Event Production at the Skoll Foundation. Jill's work centers on building bridges for the social entrepreneurs and innovators dedicated to advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work, she plays a key role in helping connect and celebrate this dynamic…
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Grants and Program Associate, Pandemics, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Jessica joins the Skoll Global Threats Fund with over a decade of experience working in the social justice and international development sector. Jessica has worked in Latin America, China, and the USA, with leadership experience in diverse nonprofit organizations, covering economic development…
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CEO, Girl Effect
Jess co-founded Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) and is an internationally recognised social entrepreneur. Based in Kenya, SHOFCO catalyses large-scale transformation in urban slums by providing critical services, community advocacy platforms, education and leadership development for…
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Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Ideas Week
Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Ideas Week
Co-Director, Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellowship
Jessica is the Executive Director of Chicago Ideas, a year-round global platform for leading ideas, innovations and grassroots movements. Co-chaired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Founded by Groupon…
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Director, Peter Bennett Foundation
Board member of the Peter Bennett Foundation. Ongoing work as the intermediary between sponsors, donors, media, government officials and charities. Responsible for all correspondence, event planning, management and organization. Travels throughout Asia for on-site due diligence…
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Executive Director, Lorinet Foundation
Sumit is a social impact advisor, committed to driving thought leadership and action on diverse socio-economic issues. He traversed various roles in his career from running his own social enterprise to working with the UN and consulting in the development sector.
Currently, Sumit leads Lorinet…
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Social Innovation Manager, Saïd Business School
Hildengard Allgaier works as a Social Innovation and Employer Engagement Manager at Oxford University, Saïd Business School. She has over 12 years of professional experience in global teams in Latin America, UK and Europe, including positions in the Steel and Mining, IT and Chemical sectors…
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Head of Philanthropy Advisory, EMEA, J.P. Morgan Philanthropy Centre
Sheryl leads J.P. Morgan’s award-winning Philanthropy Centre in Europe, the Middle East & Africa. She advises individuals and families on how to meet their philanthropic goals by providing support on mission, focus, strategy and governance as well as sharing best practices from across the field. She…
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Founder, WinWin
Jens has a passion for entrepreneurship, innovation investing and a world where social and economic progress are available to all. He is the founder of WinWin, a non-profit that seeks to utilize a data-driven “tri-sector” approach to align the resources available in the private, social, and public sectors to…
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Jenny Goldstein is passionate about international development, human rights and developing creative, solution-focused approaches to resource development. She has 15 years experience working in philanthropy, international programs and program management. Jenny works as the Director of…
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Curator and Director of Content, World Innovation Summit for Education
Sebastien Turbot builds conversation + content-driven collaboration platforms. An enthusiastic storyteller, Sebastien leverages content design to transform complex into simple, mundane into exciting and boring into engaging.
As a conference curator, Sebastien combines content, production…
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Founder and Principal Consultant, Profit with Purpose
Since her first job at Oxfam, Isabel’s career has focused on social justice and finding ways to make a significant impact in the world using the resources of both the nonprofit and business worlds.
She is the Founder & Principal Consultant at Profit with Purpose, offering consulting services to companies of…
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CEO, Women for Women International
Jennifer L. Windsor is the Chief Executive Officer of Women for Women International (WfWI), where she sets the strategic vision, mobilizes resources, and leads 550 staff across 11 international offices. For more than 20 years, Women for Women International has supported over 420,000 of the most…
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Jennie joined Riders for Health (Riders) in 2006 after working for publishing house, Bauer Media. Bauer publishes Motorcycle News (MCN), the world's number one motorcycling media brand, who are a life-long supporter of Riders. Given that Jennie had good grounding in the motorcycling sphere…
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Chairman & Founder, PACENation & sPower
Mr. Tannenbaum formed Fir Tree Partners, a private global investment firm, in 1994 and serves as its President. Prior to Fir Tree, Mr. Tannenbaum spent his career in the private equity industry at Kohlberg & Co., beginning as the sole analyst for Jerome Kohlberg, the senior founder of KKR. Mr…
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Managing Director, Autodesk Foundation
Jean is the Managing Director of the Autodesk Foundation, where she oversees grantmaking and investment in a portfolio of 50+ ventures and organizations innovating new technologies and solutions to address climate change mitigation, adaptation and workforce development. She also leads…
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CEO, Trillium Asset Management
Matt Patsky is CEO and Lead Portfolio Manager of the Trillium ESG Global Equity strategy. Matt has over four decades of experience in investment research and investment management. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1984 as a technology analyst. In 1989, while covering emerging…
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Senior Director External Research, Mars, Incorporated / Catalyst
Dr. Jay Jakub is the Senior Director of External Research at Mars, Incorporated / Catalyst. Mars is a global Food & Beverage company headquartered near Washington, D.C. with approximately 80k associates and >$35bn in annual revenues. It is known for iconic brands such as M&Ms, Snickers, Mars…
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Managing Director, I-DEV International
Jason Spindler leads I-DEV’s global team, vision and strategy. Jason has over a decade of experience in global finance, venture capital, business management and industry development in both developed and emerging markets. Jason is a former investment banker from Salomon Smith…
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Head of Partnerships, ClimateCare
Robert Stevens, joined ClimateCare, a Best for the World B Corporation, in 2007. He oversees its partnership programmes - engaging with corporates, governments and NGOs to meet their business, environmental and social development goals.
Rob ensures that ClimateCare programmes work for all…
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Journalist, National Public Radio
I cover global health and development for NPR in Washington, D.C. We take a very broad view to both health and development. My reporting focuses on pressing issues around the world usually in resource-poor settings. I also have carved out a niche covering natural disasters for our radio…
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Executive Director, Dalio Foundation, Bridgewater Associates
Janine Racanelli is Executive Director of the Dalio Foundation, founded by Ray Dalio, whose investment firm, Bridgewater, runs the largest hedge fund in the world. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Dalio Family Office. The Dalio Foundation has participated in cutting edge impact investments…
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VP of Strategic Communications, Echoing Green
Janna Oberdorf is the VP of Strategic Communications at Echoing Green, an organization that unleashes next-generation talent to solve the world's biggest problems. At the organization, she leads the communications efforts to create and implement a strategy that leverages traditional and new…
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Vice President - Global Philanthropy and Sustainability, Fossil Group Inc.
Janiece leads Fossil Group's efforts to make the biggest impact that Fossil can through global giving and sustainability. Fossil is on a journey to become a more sustainable company through focused initiatives which impact the planet, its employees and global communities. Janiece has led the Fossil…
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Executive Director, BMW Foundation
Markus Hipp studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Munich from 1989 to 1994. Upon graduation, he spent two years as a lecturer in German and philosophy at the Czech universities of Budweis and Brno, before taking up positions in the marketing and publishing industry in Munich and in…
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Executive Director, Safe Passage Project
Rich Leimsider is the Executive Director of Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit that provides free lawyers to child refugees in the NYC-area who who are being deported. Safe Passage Project currently represents 800+ children with 28 full-time staff and the help of 400+ pro bono attorneys.
Earlier, Rich…
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Founder & CEO, Greenwood Place
Rebecca Eastmond is Co-Founder and CEO of Greenwood Place, which she created to leverage the experience she gained over 20 years’ work in philanthropy.
Rebecca began her career as a charity lawyer at Allen & Overy, then became CEO of The Prince’s Foundation for Arts & Kids - taking it…
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Founder, Mayday Rescue
James Le Mesurier is a passionate social entrepreneur. In 2013 he founded The White Helmets programme in Syria, a volunteer rescue organisation that since then has grown to be an organisation of 3,500 volunteers who operate throughout Syria and who have saved 104,000 lives. He is the founder of…
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Founder, Skafte Global Law, P.A.
Marie-Louise Skafte is the founder of Skafte Global Law, P.A., a boutique consulting firm. She is licensed to practice law in Canada, the United States and England with over 20 years of success across the transportation, aviation, financial services, marine container leasing and logistics industries as well as…
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CEO and Cofounder, Team Rubicon USA
Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon, the only nonprofit disaster response organization that utilizes the skills of military veterans to rapidly deploy emergency response teams. In giving veterans an opportunity to continue their service, Team Rubicon provides them with a sense of purpose…
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Founder and President, More Perfect Union
Jake graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy and served seven and a half years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander in both the Infantry and Force Recon. Following his service, Jake enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. While at Stanford…
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CEO, Temasek Trust
Jacqueline (Jackie) Wong is the CEO of Temasek Trust, which is the philanthropic arm of Temasek, an Asia investment firm headquartered in Singapore. Previously a senior partner with leading executive search firm Egon Zehnder International, Jackie was the Asia Pacific leader of their Financial Services…
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President, The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation
Jacki Zehner dedicates her time and resources towards the advancement of women and girls. As the President of The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, a role she has held for the past 15 years, Jacki funds a wide variety of projects and organizations, with a particular focus on women's…
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Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Saïd Business School
Marc Ventresca is an academic researcher and teacher, on faculty at Oxford Said Business School / Wolfson College since 2004, with focus on innovation, infrastructure, and impact. Before that, on faculty at Kellogg/Northwestern, Naval Postgraduate School, U of Illinois, U of California and…
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Co-founder, Imago Global Grassroots
I founded IMAGOGG, a nonprofit that works with grassroots, social entrepreneurs and governments around the world to scale up innovations from the Base of the Pyramid.
I also teach “Scaling up for Development Impact” at Harvard Kennedy School since 2014, executive education for the Schwab…
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Filmmaker and President, Vermilion Films
Irene is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose documentaries have shown theatrically, at film festivals and on television worldwide. She has collaborated with diverse global partners, including HBO, Google, the Gates Foundation, UNICEF, the US State…
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Head of Investments & Partnerships, Forest Stewardship Council
Ian is an ecologist, strategist, and sustainability advocate who is the Head of Investments & Partnerships for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the global standard in certifying responsible forest products. He has been at the forefront of the organization’s strategic realignment and associated…
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Producer, Changing the Rules project., BBC
Experienced Series Producer specialising in multi-media seasons which work across the BBC's suite of outlets, including social, Online, TV, radio, UK, Global and language services. Specialisms include business, technology and audience-led projects.
Commission and produce multimedia series for…
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Secretary-General, Roberto Marinho Foundation
Hugo Barreto has been the Secretary General of Fundação Roberto Marinho since 2001. Prior to that he was FRM’s creative director. He has wide experience in the field of educational television and was responsible for the creation of pioneer science and environmental tv series in Brazilian…
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Educator, expressive arts therapist, artist, environmental educator, environmental activist and feminist. Executive Director and also partner at NGO Ciudad Saludable and Director of Urban Interventions and performance at Gender Observatory Peru.
Diploma in Environmental Education for…
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Chair, Virgin Unite
Holly Branson was born in 1981 and is the daughter of Sir Richard and Lady Branson. Holly spent her formative years in London, Oxford and the British Virgin Islands.
Holly attended St. Edward's School, Oxford, followed by 6 years at University College London where she pursued her long-held dream of…
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Associate Professor of International Business, University of Oxford
Hiram Samel is an Associate Professor of International Business at Saïd Business School and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. His research draws on multiple disciplines including comparative political economy, technology strategy, the economics of innovation and labor studies…
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Associate Director, I-Think Initiative, Joseph Rotman School of Management
Nogah Kornberg is the Associate Director at I-Think Initiative at the Rotman School of Management. Here she works with school boards and educators in K-12 to enable metacognition and creative problem solving for students and education leadership. Through her mentorship, Nogah focuses on shifting…
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Managing Director, Gates Ventures
Niranjan Bose is currently the Managing Director (Health & Life Sciences) at Gates Ventures LLC, where he serves as the Science Advisor to Mr. Bill Gates. Prior to joining Gates Ventures in August 2014, he was the Chief of Staff to the President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda…
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CEO & Founder, KARAMA
Hibaaq Osman is the founder of Karama, a movement to end violence against women, and deliver sustainable, inclusive peace and democracy in Africa and the Middle East. Taking grassroots issues to the global stage, Hibaaq’s career has encompassed reconciliation and peacebuilding in Somalia and…
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Associate Fellow, responsAbility Investments
Henry has over 20 years of experience across the sectors of inclusive finance, sustainable investing, and political and economic development. He has worked across the private, public and social sectors liasing both on the investing and investor sides. He has deep experience in leading organizations…
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CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is the CEO at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health organization operating in 36 countries around the world, committed to saving lives and improving health outcomes in low- & middle-income countries.
Dr. Shah was previously the Managing Director of…
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Senior Executive, Small Foundation
Henning Ringholz is the Global Market Development and Livelihoods Adviser for GOAL, an international development organization with an annual program spend in excess of 200m US$. In this position he initiated and currently leads the private sector engagement, market development and social…
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Executive Director, CASH Coalition: Climate Action for Small Holder Farmers
Heiner Baumann is the Executive Director of the CASH Coalition. CASH’s goal is to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers.
He is also a Co-Founder and Board Advisor of Precision Development (PxD). PxD delivers critical information and digital services…
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Creative Director, LifeNotes Wisdom Inc
Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master, Rubenfeld Synergist (body-mind therapy), and Distinguished Toastmaster, Heather Skoll, has stepped up to the social entrepreneurial stage at the community level after discovering her own strengths to motivate change.
Remarried in 2009, Heather and her…
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Interim Executive Director, Girls Not Brides
As Interim Executive Director, Heather B. Hamilton is responsible for ensuring that Girls Not Brides delivers on its strategy and advances our collective efforts to end child marriage.
Most recently, she worked at the UNICEF Asia-Pacific Regional Office on the Public Finance for Children Initiative…
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Executive Director, Linked Foundation
Nancy Swanson is a founding member and the executive director of Linked Foundation, a private foundation that invests in solutions that improve the health and economic self-reliance of women in Latin America and the United States. She served as board chair of the Eleos Foundation where she…
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CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Monique Villa is CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of TrustLaw and Trust Women. She has been ranked among the world’s 100 most influential people in Business Ethics by Ethisphere. Since her appointment in 2008, she has transformed the Foundation, launching a number of…
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Executive Director, UTZ Certified
Han de Groot is Executive Director of UTZ, a programme and label for sustainable agriculture, since 2010.
Han holds a degree in Agricultural Economics and started his career with Novib, (later: Oxfam-Novib) where he was responsible for a,o. their work in East and Southern Africa.
He spent 12 years as…
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Director, Strategic Initiatives, Jeff Skoll Group
Molly Parker is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Jeff Skoll Group. In her role, she oversees and manages key partnerships and projects across the Jeff Skoll Group portfolio of organizations, including the Skoll Foundation, Participant, and Capricorn Investment Group.
Molly began her career in the…
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President, Legatum Group
Guy Cave is President of the Legatum Foundation. Prior to joining Legatum, Guy built up 30 years of experience in social work, international development, humanitarian response, and philanthropy consulting. Guy has lived and worked in multiple countries across five continents – including:…
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Advisor, Climate Innovation Fund, Microsoft
Leading the development of MS's emerging market portfolio focused on equitable climate solutions and MS's approach to measuring and managing impact.
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Founder and CEO, Enza Capital
Mike is cofounder and Managing Partner at Enza Capital, a multi stage venture capital firm backing founders and teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa. He has previous experience across 4 continents as both a venture investor and public markets investor, as…
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Strategic Director, Meltwater
Greg Coussa is MEST’s Strategic Director, focusing on the organization's scale strategy and partnerships opportunities. Currently, Greg oversees MEST's partnership with Mastercard Foundation, including MEST’s three new, innovative programs: Pre-MEST, MEST Express, and MEST Scale.
Greg is a…
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Managing Director, Global Impact Investing Network
Giselle Leung is Managing Director at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), where she oversees the development of strategic partnerships to advance the GIIN’s work in scaling impact investing with integrity. Giselle joined the GIIN in 2010 as the founding manager of the Investors’ Council, a…
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Board Spouse, Skoll Global Threats Fund
I received my Ph.D. and MPH from the University of Michigan in social epidemiology.My research has focussed on increasing access of women in rural settings in Asia and Africa to eye health care. I have done this in my role as a founder of the Seva Foundation, along with my husband, Larry Brilliant.I…
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GM, BorrowLenses, Shutterfly, inc.
Eugénie FitzGerald is the Sr Director and General Manager of BorrowLenses, an online rental business with a sustainable soul that is changing the way photographers and videographers access gear and expertise in the U.S. She is a growth-oriented senior operating executive and general manager…
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Executive Director, Humanize Institute
Georgia Pessoa is lawyer by training and comes to Humanize with a range of experience. She has worked at the Roberto Marinho Foundation, leading the environmental area and prior at Rare, serving as the Executive Director of the organization in Brazil. Before she has worked at Moore Foundation…
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Georgia works as the Communications Lead at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She brings creativity and a diverse skillset to the Centre, helping to drive the mission and message forward.
She graduated with a BA(Hons) in Costume Design at the Arts University College Bournemouth and…
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Chief Dreamer, Building Tomorrow
George Srour is the co-founder and Chief Dreamer of Building Tomorrow, Inc. (BT). Under Srour’s leadership, Building Tomorrow has constructed over 80 schools with classroom space for over 25,000 students in Uganda while recruiting and training more than 7,000 Community Education Volunteers…
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Finance Director, Peter Möhrle Foundation
As the Director Finance for Peter Möhrle Holding, Georg Tünsmeyer is responsible for the Asset Controlling and Reporting divisions as well as for strategic projects.
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Advisor, IDEO.org
Trained in librarianship and information science, have worked in financial data and also in schools as special needs aide, classroom aide and front office. Supporter of IDEO.org and have had the opportunity to visit and work on a project in Zambia. Curious about the world and how design thinking can…
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Faculty, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Gayle Northrop is a consultant, coach, educator and lifelong student of social enterprise, innovation and impact. She is on faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where she teaches a course on “Sector-Agnostic Models of Impact” and a global immersion course, “Social Entrepreneurship…
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Country Director, Aman Foundation
Ahmereen Reza is the Country Director of Aman Foundation UK. She is the former CEO and now Director of the British Pakistan Foundation, an umbrella organisation that connects British Pakistani professionals, charities and development institutions across Britain and highlights the concern raised by the…
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Director, Ashoka
Mark is the European Director of Ashoka, the global network of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. Since 1980, Ashoka has provided stipends and support to more than 3,500 'Ashoka Fellows' in over 80 countries. Ashoka is dedicated to fostering a world where everyone can be a 'Change'maker' -…
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Executive Director, Heartlines
Garth is a doctor qualifying at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1987, with further qualifications in maternal and child health. In 1992 he combined his interest in story and health to found the NGO Soul City: the Institute for Health and Development Communication.
Soul City works in 10 countries. It…
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Senior Programme Manager, University of Oxford
Maria Nikolou is an entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial leader. She currently designs, develops and delivers curriculum courses and extra-curriculum programmes in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, at Saïd Business School and the Engineering department at Oxford University. These include…
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Gabriel is an award-winning filmmaker who tells stories of global social change leaders.
As executive producer for the documentary #SolutionsInsideOut series, he’s working to shift the way the development sector approaches storytelling in the Global South.
He started working with video at age 13 at…
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As Vice President of the Skoll Foundation's Connect & Champion division, Suzana helps drive the department's strategy and operations, building the Foundation's platform, network, and storytelling assets to support social innovators driving social change around the world.
A seasoned philanthropy…
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CEO, Maliasili
Fred has been working for 20 years in African conservation to develop effective strategies and lasting solutions, support innovative local organizations, and build diverse partnerships. He’s lived and worked in the field with Maasai communities in Tanzania, designed and led research on the politics of…
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Partner, McKinsey & Company
Susan Colby is a partner in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company and a leader in the Social Sector Practice. She leads the Firm’s North American Education Practice working with philanthropies, districts, charter schools, higher education institutions and companies to achieve…
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Executive Director, World Faith
Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith, a global movement of interfaith youth tackling global poverty, and Mean Communications, a digital agency helping startups and nonprofits with branding, social media, advertising, and marketing. After graduating from NYU, Frank worked in the music…
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Dr Vik Mohan is the Medical Director of Blue Ventures Conservation and a practicing doctor. He is passionate about marine conservation, environmental sustainability and global social justice.
Whilst working with communities in Madagascar on Blue Ventures’ community based marine conservation…
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Chair the Advisory Board, Wellbeing Project
Maite Arango was born in Mexico and is a citizen of Mexico and Spain, where she resides.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), from Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Maite chairs the Board of Ashoka Spain. She is a member of the Ashoka Support Network and is part of Changemaker Schools.
Maite chairs…
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Maharshi is Educate Girls’ Chief Executive Officer and has the privilege of leading an incredible team of over 3,000 field employees & over 20,000 community volunteers to deliver Educate Girls’ mission of mobilizing over 1.5M out of school girls into schools by 2025.An ardent advocate of…
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President, The DO School
Florian is the Founder of the DO School. The DO School empowers individuals and teams to learn how to turn their ideas into action, create innovation and impact that are good for themselves and society. The DO School is based in Berlin and New York.
Prior, Florian was involved in starting…
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Journalist, Sarah Jones Reports LLC
Sarah Jones is an award winning journalist with a large social media presence and a decade of experience in mainstream TV news. She is one of the top twenty North American Young Leaders chosen by Friends of Europe. Sarah received the Women Economic Forum's highest honor on International…
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Fiona Natusch is Business Development Manager of Proximity Designs, a non-profit social enterprise operating in Myanmar since 2004. Proximity designs, makes and sells products and services that provide a path out of poverty for rural families. These include farm irrigation devices, financial…
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Lisa joined Living Goods in 2014 after five years at Chemonics International Inc.,where she led strategy and design for large-scale development projects in Africa. Asthe former Business Development Director for Living Goods, she oversaw allbusiness development for East Africa, managing relationships…
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Co-Founder, SPARK Schools
Ryan Harrison brings innovative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit to the South African education reform movement.
Ryan earned his Bachelor of Social Science degree, as well as a post-graduate diploma in Media Management from Rhodes University. Thereafter, he travelled to Canada to work…
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CEO, Good Work Foundation
In 2003 South African-born educator, Kate Groch started the nonprofit, Good Work Foundation (GWF), and focused her dream of bringing access to wonder-filled learning to rural South Africans.
Together with experts from around the world, Kate has pioneered 6 digital learning campuses designed…
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Senior Director Business Development, Acumen
Farrukh H. Khan is Senior Director of Business Development at Acumen where he is responsible for global business development and fundraising activities. Previously, Farrukh was the Country Director and CEO of Acumen Pakistan. He is the founding partner and former CEO of BMA Capital…
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Co-Founder, Project Dandelion
Passionate about leading movements to inspire change, Ronda Carnegie has built and transformed global brands from The New Yorker to TED among others. Her role as part of the original executive team at TED led to unprecedented growth in TED's history from a single conference to a media…
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CEO, Girl Effect
Launched over a decade ago and championed by the Nike Foundation in collaboration with the NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and multiple partners, Girl Effect aims to transform how the world views and values the 250 million girls living in extreme poverty. The global organisation…
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, WE'VE
Eve Blossom's twenty years' experience in design, design systems thinking, transparent supply chains, early-stage technology firms,
international business, nonprofit and social ventures led her to founding her current companies, Lulan Artisans and WE’VE.
After earning her master's degree in…
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Journalist, Individual
Laurie Goering is an award-winning climate change journalist and editor, who has written about and run coverage of climate change issues for more than 20 years, from about 80 countries. She was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper based in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, South…
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Author, Individual
Esha is a journalist who covers sustainability, development, women's issues, and mission-driven brands. She contributes to a number of international and national publications such as The Guardian, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, Forbes, and more. She has been awarded…
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Program Assistant, Pandemics, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Lauren Diaz is the Program Assistant for Pandemics at the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In this role, Lauren provides programmatic support for the Pandemics Team in the effort to end pandemics in our lifetime. She also coordinates the grants process for the Skoll Global Threats Fund at large. Prior…
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Global Head, Inclusive Business, International Finance Corporation
• Eriko is Global Head of the Inclusive Business Models Group at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. Her main responsibility is helping private sector companies to integrate the people at the Base of the Economic Pyramid (BOP) into their value chain as suppliers…
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Partner and CFO, Capricorn Investment Group
Eric Techel is a seasoned finance professional with almost three decades of experience in investment management. He began his career at Deloitte, where he spent 11 years in the Special Acquisition Services Group, focusing on due diligence for acquisitions by firms like KKR. In 2007, he joined…
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Director of Asset Management, The Nature Conservancy
Eric is Senior Director of Asset Management at NatureVest, the impact investing unit of The Nature Conservancy, where he leads portfolio management and contributes to new transaction structuring, internal and external reporting and impact measurement. Prior to joining NatureVest, Eric was a…
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Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Stephanie is a Managing Director of the DRK Foundation. DRK builds a deep partnership with organizations over three years to help them craft the engine to get to impact at scale. She is an active board member for several DRK portfolio organizations with widely-varied missions and geographic…
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Co-Founder, CC3IC
At age 17 Emma lived in the high mountains of Baja California in Mexico with an older Mexican-Indian woman named Lydia. They lived in isolation for almost a year in a tiny shack-like home with an earthen floor. They fetched water from a nearby stream, gathered wood to cook on their hubcap…
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CEO / Founder, Tiny Totos Kenya
Emma has 20 years’ experience in social entrepreneurship, innovation and equity.
After a decade working on indigenous rights, conservation and community development in Latin America, Emma ran a global impact investment fund for ERM. On moving to Nairobi in 2012, she set up an impact…
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Freelance Journalist, Individual
I am a freelance journalist specialising in business and development issues in Africa. My work has appeared in publications such as The Economist, The Africa Report, The Guardian, Africa Confidential and the BBC.
I am a Lonely Planet author and work as the Africa correspondent of specialist water and…
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Assistant Editor, Pioneers Post
Ellie Ward is the lead Journalist at Pioneers Post and reports on key developments in social enterprise, responsible business and impact investment globally. To bring readers the latest updates and most innovative stories she covers major international events, including the Social Enterprise World…
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Board Director, Seydel Companies
Scott Seydel studied chemistry at Georgia Tech and began his career in textiles before founding The Seydel Companies, which expanded internationally through partnerships and acquisitions. In the 1980s, he shifted focus to renewable, biodegradable, and recyclable products. Scott has served on…
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Executive Director, Wallace Global Fund
Ellen Dorsey WGF
Ellen Dorsey is Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, a private foundation focused on progressive social change in the fields of environment, democracy, human rights and corporate accountability. Under her leadership, the Fund is recognized for creative philanthropic…
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CEO, The END Fund
Ellen serves as the CEO of the END Fund, working to see an end to the suffering caused by five neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting 1.7 billion people.
Ellen has worked in global health and humanitarian response for over 20 years in more than 70 countries, for organizations including…
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John grew up in Mississippi and lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He is a board member of International Bridges to Justice. IBJ, which is led by Karen Tse, works to guarantee all citizens the right to competent legal representation, the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment, and the…
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President and CEO, Orb
Orb Media empowers people everywhere to better align their daily personal, professional and civic decisions with their values and objectives. Orb achieves that through its global, collaborative, scientific and data powered rigorous reporting.
Molly is the driving force behind Orb. An award-winning…
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Deputy CEO, Small Foundation
Liz is Deputy CEO at Small Foundation, an innovative family foundation focused on increasing income-generating opportunities for poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa, through MSME development. A philanthropic funder with extensive global experience, Liz manages the foundation's expertise and…
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VP of Programs, Echoing Green
Keno Sadler is a social entrepreneur, conference speaker, facilitator, and educator. While leading programs designed to shape the lives of young African American men through close guidance from older males, Keno began his 22 year relationship with the Breakthrough Collaborative as a teacher in the…
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Founder and CEO, More Than Me
Katie Meyler is the Founder and CEO of More Than Me, a leading education network in Liberia working in partnership with the Ministry of Education to rebuild the Liberian education system. More Than Me Academy is rapidly growing their school model called (S)HE Matters, which focuses on safety…
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Vice President, Asia, Luminate
Melanie is Vice President, Asia at Luminate. Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that people — especially those who are underrepresented — have the information, rights and power to influence the decisions that shape society. In her role, Melanie leads Luminate’s work in Asia and serves…
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Managing Director, Virgin Unite
Rosanne Gray, COO Virgin Unite
Virgin Unite is the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, which connects great people with entrepreneurial ideas to reinvent how we live and work in the world. Unite incubates new approaches to leadership such as the Carbon War Room, supports entrepreneurs…
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Programme Director, Nduna Foundation
The motto of the Nduna Foundation is “Make it Matter.” For EJ Jacobs, the Programme Director of the Foundation, this is more than a motto; it is a guiding principle. Since 2010, Mr. Jacobs has embraced philanthropy beyond simple grant-making. Through listening to the populations of the areas he…
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I am associated with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), India since 1989. I have more than three decades of experience of working with rural communities in their endeavors of local self-governance and restoring and securing rights over Commons. Of the thirty years, I have directly worked…
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Visiting Executive, B Team
Rajiv S. Joshi is an activist, economist & social entrepreneur and is a Visiting Executive at Oxford Säid Business School.
Raj has spent the last seven years serving as a founding member and Managing Director of The B Team, where he continues to serve as an Advisor. Co-Founded by Sir Richard Branson…
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Mokafe Coffee / HCM, Mokafe Coffee / Haitian Christian Mission
Edwens serves as a managing member at Mokafe Coffee in Haiti and the United States. Through Mokafe Coffee, the brand introduced the first premium Haitian Roast line of coffee in the U.S. Mokafe coffee is the reinvention of a long, storied tradition from the world’s foremost producer of coffee. Their…
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Partner, Vision Ridge Partners LLC
Justin Goerke is a partner helping lead the Sustainable Asset Fund, with investments in sectors including water, renewable energy, agriculture and transportation. Prior to Vision Ridge, Justin was a Principal at Capricorn Investment Group, as Head of its Real Asset's portfolio. A former associate at…
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Special Advisor to Graça Machel, Graça Machel Trust
Ms Robert has worked with Mrs Machel for over a decade on women and children rights as programme manager, policymaker and advisor. She has 20 years working experience in various organisations including the UN, civil society, academia, government, donors, foundations, private sector and…
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Trustee, Kiawah Trust
Lynne Smitham co-founded the Kiawah Trust with husband Peter in 2004. Kiawah Trust helps educate and empower adolescent girls from disadvantaged communities in India. We believe that investing in a girls’ education, employment skills, health and rights gives her a choice and a voice, and ultimately…
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CEO, ClimateCare
Founded in 2007, and a registered B corp - ClimateCare is committed to delivering solutions that help Corporates and Governments tackle the dual issues of climate change and sustainable global development. We use innovative financing models to deliver profit for project investors alongside…
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Jennifer Schorsch joined Water.org with more than 20 years of experience in strategic consulting, consumer marketing, and operational leadership. Jennifer currently ensures Water.org’s fiscal, operational and programmatic strategies promote sustained growth, continually accelerate the…
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Skoll Centre Consultant, Said Business School
Following the completion of her MBA at the Said Business School, Oxford in 2015 Lyn has been consulting to the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship on a range of different internal and external facing projects, including the Global Challenge, the Skoll Venture Awards and Chivas The Venture. In this…
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Founder, Recruit for Good
Eduard has been at the forefront of globally scouting, selecting and developing creative leaders with impact for over two decades. After initially only recruiting and developing talent for innovative organizations, he decided to use his experience, network and skills he has built to really contribute…
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Unknown, Individual
Julia Moffett is proven leader and strategist in helping organizations achieve important growth, positioning and impact goals. Julia’s career spans senior roles that demonstrate a track record as a high-level strategist and creative thinker, and as someone who can leverage wide and influential networks…
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Vice President, Grant Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
EDMUND J. CAIN
Vice President, Grant Programs
Edmund J. Cain oversees all domestic and international grant programming at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, including overall responsibility for the Foundation's strategic planning. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cain served for five years as director…
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CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Jules Kortenhorst is the Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute. He is a recognized leader on global energy issues and climate change. His background spans business, government, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit leadership.
Since 1982, Rocky Mountain Institute (http://www.rmi.org) has…
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Senator for Migori, Government of Kenya
Eddy, Kenya’s youngest senator and a Yale and Trinity College alumnus, is a visionary leader in environmental sustainability and economic empowerment. As the Senator of Migori County, he advocates for his constituents, ensuring their voices shape national policy. He is also the founder…
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Chief Strategy Officer, Possible
Duncan Maru, MD, PhD, is Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, and a Board Member of Possible. In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, Duncan oversees the vision and execution of our work in government partnerships, impact evaluation, and implementation science. The broad spectrum of this work is to…
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President & Co-Founder, Operation ASHA
I am the President & Co-founder of Operation ASHA, an NGO serving 9 million disadvantaged in India and Cambodia. We extensively work with local people and governments to carry out TB (Tuberculosis) detection and treatment. As a Senior Obstetrician, Gynecologist & Laparoscopy Surgeon, I was…
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EIR, Capricorn Investment Group
John Ballard focuses on power, transportation and other resource technologies at Capricorn Investment Group. He began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he led projects on energy, sustainability, and resource productivity. John is an electrical engineer by training…
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Ken Himmelman is a Managing Principal of Health Leads, a leading US-based health reform social enterprise. Prior to joining Health Leads, Ken served as the Chief Program Officer for Partners in Health, a pioneering global health organization that provides high quality health care to the world’s…
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Creative Director, TED Conferences LLC
For the past 25 years, I have worked in a variety of media concerns, including book and magazine publishing as well as digital media. My central role has been developing creative ways for companies to engage with influential consumers, with programs built around cultural ideas and unconventional…
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Managing Director, Altruist Partners
Donald Summers is a speaker, author, social entrepreneur and business advisor with a long track record of leading organizations to dramatic gains in performance, revenue and impact. He founded Altruist Partners, a nonprofit and social enterprise accelerator, in 2006 and currently serves as its…
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Founder and CEO, Digital Opportunity Trust
From a young leader driving 100 ton trucks and championing women’s rights in an open pit mine of northern Canada to a visionary leader driving an international social enterprise, Janet Longmore is a motivating person to work with – a woman who sees opportunity where others see insurmountable…
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CR Strategy & Innovation, Novartis AG
With close to 20 years of experience in CR and business ethics, Michael is currently having responsibilities for CR Strategy and Innovation at Novartis AG. He has significant experience in CR Strategy, access to healthcare, inclusive business model innovation, base of the pyramid strategies, measurement…
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Founder and Co-CEO, Numbers for Good
Dominic is founder and co-CEO of Numbers for Good, a social finance intermediary which bridges the world of finance to organisations dedicated to improving people’s lives and helping the planet.
Dominic is a social entrepreneur and strategic thinker with a focus on integrating economic…
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Advisor, Refugee Company
• 18 years living in Asia Pacific, 20+ years working in senior financial, advisory and sales roles; proven ability to collaborate and deliver results in a multi-cultural environment
• Kiva - Risk Analysis analyst
• Institutional Advisor, Alterna - Guatemalan Social incubator
• Pearl Consulting - Senior Consultant…
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kNOw THEM Initiative, YPO-Presidents' Action Network
Dick Simon is Co-Founder and Chair of Young/World Presidents Organization (YPO-WPO) Peace Action Network (PAN), which engages business leaders making a difference in areas of conflict and need. YPO-WPO is comprised of 24,000 CEO members in over 130 countries whose combined businesses…
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Chief Executive Officer and President, Village Enterprise
Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty in Africa. Since assuming the role of CEO in 2010, she has spearheaded the organization's expansion into seven countries, successfully implemented the first development impact bond for…
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Columnist, Les Affaires
I am impact reporter and brand ambassador for business media "Les Affaires", in Montreal, Canada. Les Affaires reaches a community of 800 0000 buisness leaders with its web and printed edition and its 50 annual events.
It has been a journey to migrate from business reporter to impact reporter…
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Founding Executive Director, Disability Rights Fund
Diana Samarasan is Founding Executive Director of the Disability Rights Fund and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund– which support people with disabilities in the Global South to advocate for equal rights and opportunities. Diana’s work is unique, turning the "charity" model on its head by…
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Social Entrepreneurship Portfolio Director, Peery Foundation
Jayson Morris joined the Peery Foundation in January 2015. Jayson supports the Peery Foundation's Regional and Global grantees utilizing nearly 10 years of experience helping to scale Room to Read from a $5 million to a $40+ million organization and overseeing strategic program initiatives at READ…
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Senior Adviser, Pi Capital
A native and graduate of Oxford and a citizen of both the UK and Canada, I have lived and worked in Africa, North America and Europe. Mostly I have been involved with development – (supporting livelihoods and people-centric approaches to support), with climate policy, and with trying to identify…
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Manager, Pandemics, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Jennifer Olsen is the Manager of Pandemics at the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In her role, she manages implementation of the Ending Pandemics Initiative and supports development of strategy and partnerships for various pandemics projects. Jennifer also works directly with Pandemics grantees to…
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Founder and President, Fledgling Fund
I founded The Fledgling Fund in 2005 after a long career at Harvard University where I taught at both the School of Public Health and Harvard Business School. Areas of interest included the global burden of disease, particularly HIV-AIDS and malaria and a range of solutions including private/public…
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Interim Chief Executive Officer,
MedicJacqueline Edwards joined Medic in 2014 and currently serves as Interim Chief Executive Officer and former Chief Operations Officer, based remotely in Atlanta, USA. In this role, Jacqueline leads our team with a focus on working with users and partners to design, build, and deliver high impact apps for…
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Executive Director, Imago Dei Fund
Debra Veth has been Executive Director of the Imago Dei Fund since its inception in 2009. She works with the board to develop and articulate strategy around IDF's vision, and manages the overall execution of that strategy. She manages the granting process for international partners, and explores…
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Luis Fernando Sanabria is the COO at Fundación Paraguaya where he is responsible for implementing the organization’s programs and social innovations in Paraguay and worldwide. Fundación Paraguaya was named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization by the…
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Chief Compliance Officer, Capricorn Investment Group
Dawnae Dodds is the Chief Compliance Officer at Capricorn Investment Group, LLC. As CCO Dawnae oversees Capricorn’s compliance program and adherence to regulatory matters. Prior to Capricorn, Dawnae served as a Program Manager with NES Financial Corp, a financial services firm. Prior to…
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Chief Innovation Officer, CARE
As Chief Innovation Officer, Ms. Stoll leads CARE’s thought leadership, innovation, digital, scaling, and market-based approaches teams, with the goal of enabling CARE teams around the world deliver 10x impact. Prior to joining CARE, Ms. Stoll worked as a consultant to The Rockefeller Foundation, and…
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Founder, Dovetail Impact Foundation
David Weekley is Chairman of David Weekley Homes, founded 46 years ago, is the largest private homebuilder in the US with over $3 billion of sales in 2022. Since 1992, David has spent half of his time and earnings on philanthropic projects. Philanthropic endeavors for the first decade were primarily…
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Senior Director, Partnerships, Nia Tero Foundation
David Rothschild is Senior Director of Partnerships at Nia Tero, where he has worked since 2017. David was part of a small team that helped build Nia Tero. He helped develop its Amazon program, and is now focused on leading Nia Tero’s expansion into Africa. Prior to Nia Tero, David held various…
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Founder and CEO, Worldreader
David Risher, Worldreader’s Chief Executive and co-founder, has led educational and large-scale technological advancement for over two decades. As general manager at Microsoft, he helped develop and market Microsoft’s first desktop database products and created some of the company’s first…
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Founder, The Quadra Foundation
A Canadian entrepreneur, David Lyons has been associated with oil and gas since the early 80s. As President and CEO of PanOcean Energy he turned the company from a modest start up in Gabon into a significant industry player, culminating in a 2006 sale for $1.6 bn.
Today David is Chairman and…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Dreams InDeed
David Haskell strengthens social entrepreneurs inside hard places as Dreams InDeed’s co-founder and CEO. His resolve to empower those in hard places started as a graduate student stunned by an explosion in Beirut. David has thirty years’ entrepreneurial experience directing six start-ups and four…
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Globa Strategic Project Director, Womens' Economic Empowerment, Coca-Cola Company
As global Strategic Project Director, Women’s Economic Empowerment at the Coca-Cola Company Jackie is responsible for driving the success of the ‘5by20’ initiative to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women entrepreneurs by 2020, across the company’s global value chain.
Since…
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Professor, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
David Grayson CBE is Professor of Corporate Responsibility, and Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University School of Management. He is also chairman of the charity Carers UK. He is a former Managing-Director of Business in the Community. He has chaired…
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David Estrada has been with KickStart International since 2011, and manages the organization's development and external relations efforts. Previously, he worked in the global health space with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative where he oversaw and grew a portfolio of corporate funding…
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Correspondent, CS Monitor
Elisabeth Braw is a London-based correspondent for the CS Monitor, which she joined from Newsweek. Prior to that, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. She also writes for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and the World Affairs Journal, and about music for The Economist. Prior to her…
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VP External Affairs, Global Footprint Network
Drew is Vice President of External Affairs at Global Footprint Network. With over 20 years of leadership in social enterprise, academia, and start-ups, Drew is an early and award winning social entrepreneur. As a Dean at Stanford University, a co-founder of two consulting firms, and in public service…
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Executive Director, Yajilarra Trust
Following 12 years in corporate finance spanning investment banking, private equity and three start-up businesses David joined the Yajilarra Trust in 2013.
The trust is focused on Climate Change, Disability, Indigenous Australia and Christian Faith. It also backs well thought through organisations that…
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Partner, iitos
José founded s.e.e.d in 2009, which then became seed by EY in 2018 and now leads iitos. He is known to be an ecosystem builder in the region for his work in impact investing and venture capital since the beginning of his professional career. José holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica…
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Faculty, UC Berkeley Haas (Social Entrepreneurship & Social Venture Fund) & Founder/CEO of Eddily, Haas School of Business
Jorge is a career entrepreneur, management consultant, venture investment professional & educator. Mr. Calderon is the Founder and CEO of Eddily (formerly Carett), a learning-as-a-service education tech startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is reimagining the bridge between college…
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Founder and CEO, KaBOOM!
Darell Hammond is the founder and CEO of KaBOOM!, a national non-profit dedicated to the bold goal of bringing balanced and active play into the daily lives of all children, particularly those growing up in poverty in America. With more than 20 years of experience in community development and…
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Marketing & Communications Officer, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Hania Abu-Eid is the Marketing and Communications Officer at the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In her role, Hania manages all aspects of the organization’s internal and external marketing and communications strategies as well as across its threat-specific initiatives. Prior to joining SGTF, Hania was a…
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Executive Director, Trico Charitable Foundation
Dan is Executive Director of the Trico Charitable Foundation, which seeks to leverage social entrepreneurship to reimagine how we can use the power of business models to close gaps in society. His highlights as E.D. include overseeing Canada’s hosting of the Social Enterprise World Forum in 2013 (over…
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President & Co-Founder, Telos Group
Through Telos, Greg has helped build a vibrant community of leading conservative and liberal influencers in America--a community committed to bridging seemingly intractable divides to transform conflict. While Telos has focused almost exclusively on addressing America’s unhealthy relationship…
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Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation
Daniel Jae-Won Lee is the Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation, supporting pioneering social change globally in communities touched by the business of Levi Strauss & Co. Its grantmaking focuses on advancing the rights and well-being of apparel workers, addressing HIV/AIDS stigma and…
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Advisor / Operations Officer, Saúde Criança / World Bank Group
Daniel Ortega Nieto is an Advisor for Saude Crianca. He is also an Operations Officer at the World Bank Group working with the Science of Delivery Team. In this capacity he provides technical support to operations and leads the Delivery Challenge Initiative. He leads a team that is developing…
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Principal, Leicester Business School
Dana is currently Director of the MBA at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, and was previously Director of Studies for Management at Merton College, Oxford University, Clore Fellow in Management and Tutor for Visiting Students at Lady Margaret Hall.
Dana has also worked in a number of…
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Social impact Investment Manager, European Investment Fund
Prior to joining EIF, Cyril gained unique field experience working with microfinance institutions in Northern Africa and the Middle East. Cyril studied at Institut d’Études Politiques de Toulouse where he received a Masters in Development Economics with a focus on poverty alleviation and local…
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Director of Programmes, The Elders
Jenny joined The Elders in June 2015. She worked for the previous 12 years at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID): leading the UK Government’s efforts to help Indonesia address climate change, based in Jakarta; and also working for DFID in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
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Partner, Farella Braun + Martel
I am a California licensed business lawyer, with a particular emphasis on U.S. nonprofit tax and corporate law, including charitable giving techniques. Current clients include private foundations and the philanthropists that support them, museums and cultural institutions, churches and church-related…
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As Senior Director of Grants Management at the Skoll Foundation, Cristina is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient grantmaking operations, systems, and policies to support the foundation’s mission and strategic goals. She is recognized nationally for her expertise and speaks regularly on…
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COO, Saude Crianca
Cristiana Velloso is COO of Instituto Dara (formerly Associação Saúde Criança) where she has been working since 1999. She started at the Institute as a volunteer working directly with the families participating in the program, she was hired as a project manager, focusing on the replication of the…
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Head of Communications, Crisis Action
Conor is a former journalist, having worked with the BBC, Reuters and others. After a period travelling and freelancing throughout Africa, he made the leap to storytelling for social good. He began consulting for various international nonprofits, helping them put story at the centre of their…
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Chair and CEO, Small Foundation
Conor Brosnan is a founding Director of Small Foundation (SF), an Irish-registered charity (www.smallfoundation.ie). SF’s vision is Africa permanently free from extreme poverty by 2030. It seeks to catalyse income-generating opportunities for extremely poor people in rural sub-Saharan Africa by…
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Founder, Vive Bailando
Clemencia Vargas was born in Bogota, Colombia. She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Babson College. Upon graduation she worked as a senior consultant in Deloitte and Touche, in Financial Advisory services in the LATAM region.
Currently, she is the Founder and…
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CEO, Community Reinvestment Fund
FRANK ALTMAN is CEO for Community Reinvestment Fund, USA. As CRF’s founder, Altman pioneered the development of a secondary market for community and economic development. Since 1988, under Altman's leadership and in partnership with a network of local community partners, CRF…
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Chief Executive Officer,
VidereJackie is the CEO of Videre est Credere, where she has spent the past decade building it into a highly respected human rights documentation organization. Under her leadership, Videre has exposed genocide; revealed systematic political violence; uncovered widespread corruption affecting…
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For the last 16 years, Clarita has worked at Fundación Escuela Nueva (FEN), a leading nonprofit working to improve the lives of children through quality education that empowers them as individuals to fully develop their human potential and achieve outstanding outcomes.
As Chief Operating Officer…
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Animated by the power of connection, Claire cultivates and leads strategic relationships, Foundation-wide engagements, and regional activations of the Skoll network to advance social progress. Since joining Skoll in 2016, Claire has led multi-year global network building efforts and launched initiatives to…
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Managing Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Claire is CEO and Managing Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, a role she took on in 2011. By leveraging the financial and technical resources of the Foundation’s network she seeks to catalyse and fund science that will support the Foundation’s vision of ‘a resilient reef’.
She is particularly…
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Executive Director, Strongheart Group
Zoë Adams is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Strongheart Group, an NGO that uses the power of story to impact change on fundamental social issues. She works through amplifying the messages of films, organizations and individuals and building strategic initiatives to reach key…
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Finance & Corporate Services Director, Elders, The
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Portfolio Director, King Philanthropies
Cindy is the Director of King Essentials at King Philanthropies, where she oversees strategic grantmaking and key partnerships related to the King Essentials program. She brings to this position more than a decade of experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, and her areas of expertise…
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Dr. Cynthia Brunswick is senior vice president of program delivery for New Teacher Center, a national
organization dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new
teachers and school leaders. She leads the organization’s national program delivery work, focused…
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Social Innovations Director, Mercy Corps
Chris Walker works to scale up innovative, entrepreneurial solutions to development challenges and provides advice on various innovative finance initiatives at Mercy Corps. He also advises Mercy Corps’ impact investment arm, Mercy Corps Ventures, which invests in and accelerates…
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Head of Innovating Justice Accelerator - Investment Program, HiiL
Wilfried is the Head of the HiiL Innovating Justice Accelerator at HiiL (www.hiil.org). He coordinates the Justice Investment Programme, bringing investors in touch with top justice innovators. The network ranges from private individuals such as lawyers or judges who want to invest in justice initiatives, to…
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Founder, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Christopher Hohn is the founder of the Children’s Investment (TCI) Fund. Through donation of the hedge fund's profits he endowed the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). CIFF is focused on improving the lives of children, particularly those living in poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and…
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Chair of the International Board, Fisheries Transparency Initiative
Valeria Merino chairs the Fisheries Transparency Initiative. FiTI, a global multi-stakeholder organization, makes the fishing industry more sustainable by making it data transparent. The fishing sector is quite opaque, not necessarily by design but by practice, complex and highly technical. Governments…
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Senior Vice President, Winrock International
For over 20 years, I have developed strategies, mobilized resources, and created and grown organizations for social impact and public benefit. I am currently SVP of Growth and External Affairs at Winrock International where I serve on the Executive Team, manage corporate affairs and have built…
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Christine is Director of Development at Global Witness
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Former Program Coordinator, Skoll Foundation
Christina serves the Asian markets and communities in the United States and abroad in event management, marketing and logistics roles. With a focus on the entertainment industry, Christina’s clientele uses music and the arts to create positive messages for the underrepresented. She worked…
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Founding Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Emily is a donor-activist engaged in promoting human equality, justice, and peace around the world. She is particularly passionate and engaged in the nexus of faith, gender, and development and working to mobilize our faith traditions to more fully and unambiguously embrace gender equality. In her…
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, Independent
Chrisoula is the former Executive Assistant to the Chief Strategy Officer of The Skoll Foundation.
Prior to The Skoll Foundation, she was the sole Sales Administrator of a Market Research company. Her other previous roles include working at Sony PlayStation and interning at Where Magazine San…
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Tim Cross is the founding President of YouthBuild International (YBI). He joined YouthBuild USA in 1996 holding several positions including Vice President of Field Services over seeing the national domestic field operation and then served as YouthBuild USA’s Chief Operating Officer for three years before…
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CEO, iDE
Tim Prewitt is CEO of International Development Enterprises (iDE), a nonprofit organization selling affordable, technically relevant products and services to the very poor since 1983, often through closely-held social enterprises or partner businesses, from Fortune 500 Companies to kiosks and farm stalls…
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Senior Program Officer for Special Projects, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Elizabeth Cheung manages a portfolio of grants as part of the Domestic Program team, including in multiple sclerosis and hospitality education. She also manages the Foundation’s small grants and family giving programs. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cheung worked as a Program Analyst at the David…
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Vice President - Program, Partnerships and Learning, CARE
Thomas Reynolds is the Vice President of Program, Partnerships and Learning at CARE. Since 2002, Thomas has contributed to CARE’s mission to fight poverty through a variety of roles in the Middle East and Asia as well as in the U.S. Within the scope of his VP role, he brings together experts in the…
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CEO, Kepler
Chris Hedrick is the CEO of Kepler, is a nonprofit university program based in Africa and designed for the developing world. Our students get the best of online learning paired with in-person seminars — all while students work toward a U.S.-accredited degree and a great job after graduation. Results…
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Director, Applied Recovery Co
Chris Raine is an Australian social entrepreneur with a focus on mental health and addiction. He is the founder and former CEO of Hello Sunday Morning and the current CEO of Australians for Mental Health. He is also the co-founder of Clean Slate Clinic, a home telehealth alcohol detox service with a…
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, Independent
As former Associate of Skoll's Awards and Community team, Tarun helped to advise the foundation’s resource and investment decisions through a deeper understanding of our social entrepreneurs and the ecosystems in which they work.
Prior to joining Skoll, Tarun worked as an investment analyst…
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Chief Catalyst, Catalyst at Large Ltd.
Suzanne Biegel, Chief Catalyst at Catalyst at Large, and Co-Producer of the GenderSmart Investing Summit
Suzanne is a globally recognised expert on gender-smart investing. Her work has influenced hundreds of institutional and family investors, and billions of dollars in capital to move with a gender…
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President, Childrens Radio Foundation
The Rev’d Charlotte Bannister-Parker is the President of The Children's Radio Foundation & Chair of it’s International Executive Committee. She is also the Catetchist (Associate Chaplain) of Exeter College, Oxford and Associate Priest at The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Charlotte is…
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Edwin Ou leads Skoll's strategic engagements with aligned funders and manages a variety of key relationships with funded social entrepreneurs, domain experts, policy makers and corporate partners. Edwin develops and structures funding opportunities to drive large-scale change in the focus areas of…
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Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Donna McKay joined Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) as executive director in February 2012, bringing more than 20 years of international and U.S. nonprofit experience to the organization. Under McKay’s leadership, PHR has increased its organizational budget by almost 50 percent, created new…
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Independent Producer, Miramax Television
Stephanie Swedlove is a multifaceted independent producer actively developing scripted drama and comedy series for all platforms as well as low to mid range budget feature films. Prior to launching her own shingle, Swedlove was Director of Development at Miramax, where she developed both…
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Advocacy and Campaigns Director, Oxfam International
Celine Charveriat is an experienced researcher, advocate, negotiator, and manager in the area of development. She has worked for over 10 years with Oxfam International, as well as previously holding roles in the Inter-American Development Bank and the Institute for International Economics.
Celine…
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Global Lead on SME Finance, World Bank Group
Simon Bell is the Global Lead for SME Finance in the Finance and Markets Global Practice of the World Bank. He works closely on SME issues with colleagues in the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, the Financial Institutions Group of the IFC, the Advisory Services unit of the IFC, and the…
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President, Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation
Catalina Escobar graduated in 1993 from Clark University with a degree of Business Administration, studies she combined with other academic programs in economics in Europe and Japan at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka. She later completed a M.B.A. at the INALDE Business School in…
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Director, Learning and Evaluation, Skoll Global Threats Fund
As Director of Learning and Evaluation, Diana leads the Skoll Global Threat Fund’s efforts to learn and improve. In her role, Diana provides leadership, tools and hands on support for learning, evaluation and strategy for each of the threat teams and organization-wide. Diana joined SGTF after 4 years…
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Editor, FT Weekend, Financial Times
Caroline Daniel is Partner and advisor at the Brunswick Group, a leading advisory firm specialising in critical issues and corporate relations, based in its London office. She was formerly Editor of FT Weekend for six years, from 2010 to April 2016, overseeing all the editorial sections, as well as media…
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Founder & CEO, Operation Fistula
Seth Cochran is a builder at heart, passionate about uniting people to create lasting impact. As the founder of The Sidebar, a community dedicated to fostering meaningful connections, he thrives on bringing changemakers together to drive social innovation. Throughout his career, he has founded or…
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Grant Manager, Porticus Latin America Consultoria Ltda.
Carolina is responsible for supervising grants related to the theme of sustainability in Latin America for a philantropic organisation.Holding an MSc in Environment and Development at the Lon¬don School of Economics, she worked for 3 years in the UK helping NGOs to build communication…
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Senior Investment Director, Rippleworks
Sara's career has been exclusively in the social impact world and she doesn't plan on leaving it anytime soon. Today, Sara is a Senior Investment Director at Rippleworks, a private foundation that supports social ventures with financial capital and technical support to scale their impact in the…
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CEO, Street Business School
Devin believes we can end extreme poverty in our lifetimes. She is the Founder and CEO of Street Business School—an entrepreneurial training program that helps women living in poverty go from an average of $1.35 to $4.19 per day by starting their own small businesses. Through a social franchise…
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CEO, Vitol Foundation
Robin D’Alessandro is the CEO of the Vitol Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Vitol Group of Companies. In 2016, the Vitol Foundation supported 141 projects through 111 partners in 64 countries. The Vitol Foundation supports projects that fall under four programme areas that are critical to a…
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President / CEO, Nature and Culture International
BYRON SWIFT has dedicated the majority of his career over the past 30 years to helping establish and support tropical forest conservation programs throughout Latin America. He has worked with numerous partner groups in over 15 countries to build capacity in the areas of tropical forest and…
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Cofounder and CEO, Watsi
Chase is Cofounder and CEO of Watsi, a startup that builds technology to administer health insurance systems in low-income countries. Prior to Watsi, Chase worked in private sector intelligence in Washington DC, started a micronutrient program in Haiti, served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, and…
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Chief Economist & Managing Director, Mars Catalyst
Bruno is Mars Chief Economist & Managing Director of Catalyst - a global thought leadership capability and ‘think tank' for Mars Inc. that reports into a steering group chaired by the OOP (Office of the President).
Over the last decade, Catalyst has developed cutting edge initiatives recognised as such…
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Innovator in Residence & Founder of the Knowledge Equity Initiative, Migrant & Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU)
Baljeet Sandhu is a UK human rights lawyer, a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and Founder of the Knowledge Equity Initiative (KEI) at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University. Baljeet’s core interests span education, innovation, entrepreneurship and…
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Growing up in rural Australia made Pip intensely curious about humans’ impact on the rest of the natural world. Her childhood saw her planting trees and rounding up sheep, finding snakes in her bedroom and echidna in the garden, and solo walks gazing at exceptionally starry skies.
Pip works on…
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Executive Director, Agents of Change Foundation Zambia
Brighton Kaoma is a 22 year old leadership coach and environmental activist. In recognition of his passion in using radio to educate young people about climate change in African, he was awarded the Queen's Young Leaders Award (2015).He received his award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at the…
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Breanne brings a blend of international development and higher education experience to the Skoll Centre Team. She has held several roles at the Centre over the past nine years and currently spearheads all operational functions. Breanne began her career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
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Patti Parson is the Managing Producer of the PBS NewsHour. As a key member of the development team, she helps provide editorial, managerial and financial supervision for the show’s tape production. Patti works closely with correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro to report on the work of social…
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CEO, Uptake
Brad Keywell, 45, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Uptake Technologies, a predictive analytics platform to solve high value opportunities across industry. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lightbank, a venture fund investing in disruptive technology businesses. He is a Co-Founder and Director of…
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Co-founder and Partner, The Case for Her
Moving capital to amplify solutions for women’s health. Passionate about storytelling at scale. Investing partner and philanthropist at The Case for Her, Co-Chair Maverick Collective, board member at Acumen and co-founder at Longrun Capital.
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Special Advisor, SRI Finance, US International Development Finance Corporation
Ms. Strauss is Special Advisor for Socially Responsible Investment Finance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a U. S. government corporation charged with mobilizing and facilitating US private investment and skills transfer in developing countries throughout the world. She is…
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CEO and Co-Founder, Educate!
Boris Bulayev is the CEO and Co-Founder of Educate!, which empowers youth in East Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. A former refugee from Latvia, Boris believes in the transformative power of mentorship and education—opportunities that helped him rise from welfare and…
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President, Fetzer Institute
Bob Boisture is President and a Trustee of the Fetzer Institute. Under Bob’s leadership, the Institute community has deepened its understanding of the spiritual common ground on which it stands, the type of community it aspires to be, and the work it is called to do. This work culminated in the…
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Chief Financial Officer, Heifer International
Bob Bloom is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Heifer International. Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. Formed in 1944, today Heifer works in over 20 countries around the world bringing sustainable…
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Entrepreneurship Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Meighan Stone is Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, focused on social enterprise, media and refugee policy. She was previously at the Malala Fund from 2014 to 2017, serving as President with founder and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai to…
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Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue
Blayne Smith is the Executive Director of Team Red, White, and Blue. As Team RWB’s first employee, he has played a key role the development, growth, and operation of the organization. Blayne works closely with board members, staff, and volunteer leaders to ensure the delivery of excellent veteran…
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CEO, ForeSight Group
Björn Larsson, with a background as economist, journalist and diplomat, is CEO of the ForeSight Group, which since 1979 has worked with some 150 companies and offered 3.5 million employees opportunities to contribute to corporate innovation.
ForeSight´s entrepreneurial approach; to speed up…
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Senior Digital Director, Resource Media
From Resource Media’s Portland office, Collin works across the organization’s programs to bring digital campaigns to life. He helps clients navigate the complexities of the new media and digital world, make savvy choices on the web and other digital platforms, and use those platforms to activate and…
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President of the Board, Seattle International Foundation
Bill is a Seattle based philanthropist and businessman who has made a significant contribution over the past 22 years in the founding and development of local organizations and initiatives focused on global poverty alleviation. He is currently President of the Board and Co-Founder of the Seattle…
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Chairman, Inclusive Ventures Group
Mohamed Amersi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Amersi)
is the Chairman of the Amersi Foundation which supports initiatives in education, building cohesive societies, inclusive capitalism, governance and the futures agenda (https://amersifoundation.org).The Foundation also launched the…
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, Individual
Beth Gottschling Huber is GoodWeave’s former Deputy Director. Ms. Huber has more than 15 years of experience working with handcraft businesses in the Central and South Asia region, including seven years managing Aid to Artisans' programs in Asia. She has also consulted for a range of…
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Chief Operating Officer, Said Business School
Catherine joined Oxford Saïd at its Chief Operating Officer and Associate Dean for administration/operations from The Middle Temple, where her role as Chief Executive combined direction of commercial and not-for-profit activities, including the running of a heritage estate with Local Authority status in…
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Digital Storyteller & Strategist, Mission-driven companies / Media Director, PopTech
I'm a non-fiction video producer, writer, photographer, and editorial strategist, guided by the belief that a single story can raise awareness of the world’s injustices and suffering, as well as its triumphs and beauty, leading to change. For the past seven years, I've served as Director of Media at PopTech…
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Managing Director, Samaschool
Bennett has a background as a Tech Entrepreneur, Web Developer, Community Leader, Fundraiser, and Business Developer at leading Social Enterprises. As Vice President of Strategic Development at Kiva Bennett designs and capitalizes new initiatives for Kiva. He is a co-founder of Kiva…
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Director of Visual, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Liz Mermin is a filmmaker whose documentary features have explored a wide variety of contemporary topics, including a beauty academy in Kabul opened just after the war, the tangled relationships between gangsters, police, and the film industry in Mumbai, the suppression of human rights in…
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CEO, 80,000 Hours
I wanted to do good with my career, but I couldn't find any good advice on how to have a big social impact. So I co-founded 80,000 Hours, which advises talented young graduates on how to choose a career with social impact. In four years, we've grown from a student society at Oxford, to a non-profit…
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Independent, benmetz.org
I have extensive experience across enterprise and civil society and a strong grounding in Systems Psychodynamics and design.
This gives me the framework through which I help people create and improve organisations and their dynamics, and instigate new behaviours and activities.
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Business Development Director, Sanergy
Becky Auerbach leads business development at Sanergy, a social enterprise dedicated to making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable for everyone, forever, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In this capacity, she is responsible for leveraging partners and funds toward scaling sustainably. Previously…
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Charlie joined the APOPO team in December 2014 as US Director, based in Washington DC. At APOPO Charlie is responsible for building new partnerships and projects with US based organizations and government funders that can help APOPO build its Research and Mine Detection programs…
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Founder and CEO, C-Change
Carolien de Bruin is the founder of C-Change, a fast-growing tech startup and sustainability advisor in the Netherlands. She is a frequent speaker, and moderator on the topic of building firms and markets that are ‘fit for purpose’ and maximizing private sector contributions to the 2030 Sustainable…
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Beadie Finzi is one of the co-directors of Doc Society, a non profit with team based in Europe, East Africa, the Americas and Australia. For 20 years, we have worked to resource the most exciting independent documentary filmmakers in the world.
We are advocates and practitioners of narrative…
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Interim Executive Director, Climate Advocacy Lab, Partnership Project
Carina currently serves as the Climate Advocacy Lab's Interim Executive Director. In this role, she leads the Lab's interdisciplinary team in their work equipping the US climate movement with the evidence-based insights, skills, and connections needed to build durable power and win equitable…
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CEO, The Luminos Fund
Caitlin Baron is CEO of the Luminos Fund, an international education nonprofit dedicated to giving the world’s most vulnerable, out-of-school children a second chance to learn. Luminos’ award-winning program marries the best of global learning science and local practice to enable marginalized…
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MBA Student, Said Business School
Avril, a Liberian-New Yorker, is currently an MBA and a Said Foundation Scholar at Said Business School. Prior to joining the Class of 2016, she spent three years in Ethiopia and Liberia developing strategic communications, strategies, and action plans for the United Nations, NGOs, and the FMCG…
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Director of Development,
NamatiWith a background in public interest environmental law, Caitlin has worked for over a decade in fundraising, organizational development, and strategic planning for social impact organizations. From 2005-2012, she co-led the development of international NGO Women's Earth Alliance as a grantmaking…
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Interim Head of Funding, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Laura leads on strategic donor partner relationships for Camfed International and has over 10 years' experience forging reciprocal, sector-leading partnerships between major international companies and charities, and has worked for several national and international charities including Save the…
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Product Manager, X, The Moonshot Factory
Ashley is an entrepreneur and engineer focused on innovating energy and water technologies to enable access for the world’s poor. She loves bringing novel ideas into reality and scaling them- to date, product she developed have been used by over 3 million people in 7 countries. She’s currently a…
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Chief Product Officer, The Valuable 500
Betsy Beaumon is the outgoing CEO of Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good in education, poverty alleviation, and human rights. In her 12 years at Benetech she also served as President and VP Global Literacy. Betsy has been advocating for ethical and inclusive…
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Director Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Jorge Rubio is a founding member of the Citi’s Global Inclusive Finance Group based in London, UK, which was created in 2005 to spearhead the firm’s commercial efforts to support social and financial inclusion around the world. He has participated in the design of Citi's strategy to support the…
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CEO, Sproxil, Inc.
Ashifi Gogo founded Sproxil® in 2009 and currently serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Sproxil developed its award-winning Sproxil Defender™ technology that has been used over 22 million times by consumers in 5 countries to verify the authenticity of their products…
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Program Officer, Water, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Bessma Mourad is the Program Officer for Water at the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In her role, she manages a portfolio of grantees working to identify and address the risks stemming from water and climate insecurity. Bessma also helps to identify and cultivate new projects that contribute to the…
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Director, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Committed to entrepreneurial innovation and sustainable practices, Bernadette Clavier put 10 years of marketing leadership experience creating category winners in the private sector to the service of higher education programs that seek to advance solutions to the world’s global problems.
As…
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Executive Director, OneVoice
John Lyndon is executive director of OneVoice Europe. As executive director he has radically expanded the London based organization’s reach, building programming and outreach in continental Europe and increasing the organization’s fundraising base and public profile in the UK. Prior to joining…
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Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance
Ash Rogers is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Lwala Community Alliance. Lwala matches community-led change with university-backed research and evaluation to advance quality health for all. Ash has overseen a 14-fold increase in annual revenue, exponential reach of the model, increased…
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President/Founder, One Heart World-Wide
Arlene Samen, has been a Nurse Practitioner in Maternal Fetal Medicine for over 31 years. In 1997, Arlene met His Holiness the Dali Lama who asked her to take her expertise and help women and children dying in childbirth in Tibet. Since that time, she has dedicated her life to serving pregnant women…
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Jenneke works as Program Manager, Connect & Champion.
Prior to joining Skoll, Jenneke worked as a project manager in localization, where she handled quoting, managing and delivering translations of medical device documents on multiple client accounts. She also has a background in quality…
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Member of the Board of Directors, Segal Family Foundation
Antoine Chiquet was born in France and went to business school there. He worked in the corporate world both in Europe and Asia, mostly in international marketing.
While in vacation with his family in Uganda, Antoine met Noerine Kaleeba, the founder of the The AIDS Support Organization (TASO). Her…
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Land and property rights editor/Deputy editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Astrid Zweynert is the managing editor of PLACE, the world’s first digital media platform dedicated to under-reported land and property rights issues, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of global news and information company Thomson Reuters.
PLACE’s journalists…
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Board Member, Equalize Health
I spend most of my time as a board member with organizations who work to end poverty and make the world a better place. I left the CARE USA board after 12 years and joined the board of CARE Enterprises. We will scale promising businesses with proven pilot implementations. I am a board member…
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Reporter, USA Today
I am a London-based reporter and editor for USA TODAY.
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Jennifer Holt works in the field of private sector development and is known for her expertise on using market forces to create jobs in frontier economies. Currently, Jennifer advises the Livelihood Impact Fund on investments supporting market linkages and job creation.
Prior to this, Jennifer was the CEO…
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Annie Blecher is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and is focused on creating relevant education and career opportunities for financially marginalized youth. She heads up the business development department for Community & Individual Development Association and the Maharishi Institute, a…
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Director of Global Advocacy, JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Annemarie Hou oversees the communications and advocacy portfolio for the organization. She is responsible for positioning HIV and development issues in the global landscape and advancing UNAIDS’ vision and strategies.
A recognized branding specialist, she also advises leaders and partner…
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Communications Consultant, Skoll Foundation
Jake is the interim editor of Skoll.org.
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Creative Producing Initiative Director, Sundance Institute
Anne Lai serves as Creative Producing Initiative Director in the Feature Film Program at Sundance Institute which focuses on identifying and nurturing emerging independent writers, directors, and producers in fiction film. Through a series of Labs, granting, networking events, and educational…
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Managing Partner, FORE Partnership
Mr. Basil Demeroutis serves as a Managing Partner at FORE Partnership, a sustainable real estate investment platform. He set up the firm in 2012. Previously, Mr. Demeroutis served as a Partner at Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Prior to this, he served as a Partner at Jargonnant Partners, where…
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Consultant / Director, Social Innovation
Anna Blackman (Griffiths) is a social innovation consultant and entrepreneur. Between 2010-2014 Anna worked as an associate consultant with Participle, a service design company addressing the most pressing welfare
issues in the UK. Her work included in-depth research and user-led design…
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Founder, The Good Works Institute
Graduated UCLA, married 35 years, two children, four grandchildren. Established a family foundation, the Good Works Institute, in 1999. We support small, grass-roots organizations that focus on (1) the health and welfare of children - education, health care, nutrition and protection from the sex…
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Associate Director, Acumen
Hazel's passion is to build partnerships across the world to support the development of groundbreaking social enterprises, moral leaders and disruptive ideas that challenge and change the status quo. Over the last two years, Hazel has been leading the capitalization of Acumen’s new blended finance…
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Journalist, Individual
Hannah Bloch is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist with more than 20 years of experience in the United States and overseas. She is the lead digital editor for international news at NPR in Washington, D.C. She wrote the Wall Street Journal’s “Work in Progress” column from 2014 to 2017. Previously…
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CEO, Bridges to Prosperity
Results-driven social entrepreneur with 10+ years building and leading global teams. Under Avery’s leadership, Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) has connected over one million people to essential health care, education and economic opportunities. University of Oxford MBA.
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Chairman & President, Tiffany & Co. Foundation
Anisa Kamadoli Costa is Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. and Chairman and President of The Tiffany & Co. Foundation. In this dual role, reporting to the CEO of Tiffany & Co., she directs the company's global sustainability and corporate responsibility agenda and directs the strategic…
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Executive Director, Audacious Project @ TED, TED Conferences LLC
Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding platform that sources big ideas from the world’s most gifted change-makers — and pools the resources of donors around the world to give them lift-off. To date, over 5.9B dollars has been catalyzed for 60 bold ideas.
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Chief Executive Officer, Soros Economic Development Fund
Georgia Levenson Keohane is the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact investing arm of the Open Society Foundations. Previously, she served as President of the Navab Capital Partners Foundation and head of the firm’s ESG practice, and Executive Director of Pershing Square…
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Business Design Specialist, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Mexican born, raised and at heart. Said Business School, University of Oxford MBA. London based, Business Design Specialist for WSUP's Innovation and Consumer Needs Team.
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Co-Founder, CEO, Jibu
Galen's passion is decentralized technology for local business ownership, and leveraging franchising for scaling solutions to meet basic needs. Galen/ Jibu's work in franchising is recognized by Forbes 30u30, BBC, Stanford Social Innovation Review, EY, and other major media. Galen co-founded Jibu in…
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Acting Chief Executive Officer, Elders, The
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Social Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Eugene Amusin is Head of Strategy and Client Solutions, Director for Social Finance at Citi. Eugene is responsible for designing strategy and delivering client solutions with social impact in emerging markets. Eugene has more than 20 years of experience with Citi.
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Co-Founder, The Impact Lab
Andrew Means is Co-Founder of The Impact Lab, a data science consulting and product development shop. Andrew is dedicated to creating a more effective and efficient social sector by helping organizations think critically about their work. At The Impact Lab, Andrew works with a wide-range of…
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, Evidence Action
Andy is the Founder of The Finding Impact Podcast, an online resource that uses an interview format to uncover high quality tools and tactics to assist social entrepreneurs in frontier markets. Previously, Andy was the global water lead for Evidence Action, responsible for driving growth of the…
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Director of Strategic Philanthropy, Fair Trade USA
Erin joined Fair Trade USA in February 2015. As Director of Strategic Philanthropy she serves on the senior management team and leads the department of fundraising across individuals, foundations, corporations and multi-lateral development banks to help scale the model of Fair Trade to reach its full…
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Anshu Taneja has led VisionSpring in India since 2013, providing eyeglasses to more than 8 million people and vision screenings to millions more. His efforts have generated more than $2.5 billion in economic impact in India, helping people earn and learn better and lead safer and better quality lives…
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Co-Founder & Managing Director, Aduna Ltd
Andrew started his career in advertising before a radical life change took him to The Gambia, where he won a UN World Business & Development Award for his work with small-scale producers.
In 2012 he co-founded Aduna, an Africa-inspired health food brand and social business, which creates demand…
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CEO, Splash
Founder and CEO at Splash.
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Oxford Student - DPhil Healthcare Innovation, Individual
Elina is an engineer passionate about disruptive innovation that redefines the boundaries of global health and development. Her work focuses on affordable health technologies, including novel diagnostics for childhood pneumonia and sustainable approaches to non-communicable disease…
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Deputy Director, Skoll Centre, Said Business School
Andrea Warriner is the interim Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford. She manages a team that works to develop the talent and insight base required to drive positive social and environmental impact.
Previously, she worked in strategy at Africa…
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Executive Director, Transform Finance
Andrea Armeni is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Transform Finance, a field-building non-profit organization working at the intersection of capital and social change by building bridges between investors, communities, and other stakeholders. Transform Finance provides thought leadership…
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Executive Director, Justice Rapid Response
What if we could get closer to stopping the cycles of violence that plague so much of our planet? As a son of parents who endured the Holocaust, Andras Vamos-Goldman has been on a mission to turn "Justice Denied" for victims of mass atrocities into "Justice Achieved". Andras’ vision is for the…
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Partner, Veris Wealth Partners
Anders Ferguson is a founding principal, Veris Wealth Partners, and leads the company’s strategy, marketing and business development. Veris is a social enterprise advisory and pioneer in impact investing, serving families and foundations who care as much about investment performance as using their…
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Investment Team, Ecofin Ltd
Deirdre Cooper was named a Partner of Ecofin in May 2016. She is a Portfolio Manager and Head of Research, a position she has held since 2009. Before joining Ecofin in 2007 as a senior analyst, Deirdre was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where she headed their European Renewable Energy…
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Managing Director, BlackRock
Debbie McCoy, Managing Director, leads Impact Investing Strategy for the Scientific Active Equity group at BlackRock, where her responsibilities also include emerging markets.
Ms. McCoy joined the firm in 2015. Previously, she worked for Stanford University where she made investment…
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Director, Social Innovation initiative, CAF Development Bank of Latin America
Ana M Botero is Director of Social Innovation at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America. She was the executive director of Fundación Corona in Bogotá Colombia (2010-2012). She started her professional career at the Center International Studies at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá as…
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Editor-in-chief, Our Planet
GEOFFREY LEAN, believed to be the world's longest-serving environmental specialist journalist, covering the field (taking in energy, agriculture, and world development) for almost 50 years, mainly at the The Yorkshire Post, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph, where…
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Chief Investment Officer, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Ana Marshall, CFA, brings 35 years of investment experience to her role of Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is responsible for asset allocation and strategic investment policy recommendation and implementation of the $12 billion endowment…
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Chairman, Forum for Democratic Libya
Amr is a business leader, entrepreneur, and civil society activist with a track record in the industrial, political and philanthropic fields. He is Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Forum for Democratic Libya (FDL), an organization established during the 2011 revolution in Libya to promote…
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Senior Vice President, Oceans, Environmental Defense Fund
Amanda Leland is a visionary leader for recovering global fisheries in our lifetimes. In her role as Senior Vice President for EDF Oceans, she leads a diverse team of scientists, lawyers and advocates for healthy and abundant oceans.
She develops and implements strategies to transform resource…
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CEO & Founder, African Diaspora Network
Almaz Negash, a pioneering figure in Silicon Valley, is celebrated as one of the inaugural members of President Biden’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States. Recognized as one of the 50 Leading African Corporate Women by Leading Ladies Africa, and honored as…
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Founder and CEO, Amplifier Strategies
As the CEO and Founder of Amplifier Strategies, Allison Duncan continues to pave the road toward a proven, modern approach to philanthropy. Amplifier is a for-profit, 100-percent mission-driven business that partners with industry leaders seeking to build and scale proven approaches to social change…
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Director, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice
Celine holds a BA in Journalism from Dublin City University and has worked as a communications professional for fifteen years both in agency and in-house positions. Celine joined RTÉ, Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster in 2003 to work as Manager of Corporate Events looking after RTÉ’s corporate…
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Journalist, Quartz
I’m a London-based journalist, writing about energy, UK politics and society, management and the arts for Quartz. Previously, I worked at The Wall Street Journal. When freelance, I wrote for The Economist and other newspapers the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Ukraine.
I’m also a…
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Allen is the former President of VillageReach, the mission of which is to save lives and improve health by increasing access to quality healthcare for the most underserved communities. He now serves on the VillageReach board. Previously, Allen was Associate General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation…
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Executive Director and Founder,
AshokaAmy Neugebauer is the Founder and Executive Director of The Giving Square. Throughout her career, Amy has worked in the fields of community building, international development, philanthropy, and social innovation. Most recently she served as Deputy to the President of Ashoka. At Ashoka…
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Director, Global Health Equity, Emerson Collective
Cassia van der Hoof Holstein is Director, Global Health Equity at the Emerson Collective. She serves on the boards of Partners In Health and Plus 1, and on the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board at the University of Global Health Equity, in Rwanda. She is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Innovation in…
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Co-Founder, Refugee Can Be
Alisa Bhachu's twenty year career has focused within the human rights sector as an advocate for women and girls, namely refugees and asylum seekers, especially those displaced from throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Alisa's career began as an intern with Amnesty International USA, where she…
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Founder/CEO, CAUSA
Alicia has spent 23 years in fund development and has raised tens of millions in support of social innovation. She has worked tirelessly to advance the notion that cooperation and the use of technology to track and measure outcomes are key to solving the world’s most pressing social and…
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Presenter/producer, BBC Radio Oxford
While I went to Georgetown University, I worked in the Senate and the White House. I came over to Oxford and did a jurisprudence degree at Balliol College. For almost three years I worked in the Peace Corps in Cuzco, Peru, on land reform projects when the Velasco Alvarado government was…
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Administrative Assistant, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Alessandra is the Administrative Assistant at the Skoll Global Threats Fund. Previously, she worked as a Program Assistant at The Sprout Fund, managing grants and supporting innovative ideas catalyzing change in Pittsburgh. While in Pittsburgh, she was nominated to join the Global Shapers Hub, a World…
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Director of International Giving, David Weekley Family Foundation
Becca received her MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship from The Acton School of Business in Austin, TX, and studied at the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College in Lookout Mtn., GA, when she earned her BA in International Community Development. Her previous…
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Knowledge Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Alastair is the Knowledge Manager at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. He is responsible for advancing the research agenda of the Skoll Centre and developing present and future research initiatives. Alastair has a first class degree in Theology with a focus on Islam and an MSc in Global…
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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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I am a co-founder and board member of Global Witness, and together with colleagues, Charmian Gooch and Patrick Alley, we were Skoll awardees in 2014. I remain on the board of Global Witness.
But since concluding our succession process, I have set up a new organisation called Hawkmoth. We…
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A Founding Member of TCF’s Board of Directors, Mr. Chhapra has played a key role in nurturing a number of prominent nonprofit organizations. He serves on the boards of Patients’ Aid Foundation and The Kidney Centre as well. In recognition of his eminent service to society, the Government of…
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Founder & CEO, Acacias for All
Sarah was born in France to a Tunisian father and a French mother. Influenced by her father who worked for years in the nonprofit sector, Sarah got involved in social causes at a young age to build youth centers, computer labs and public libraries in Tunisia’s marginalized communities. During her…
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Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel, King Philanthropies
In September 2018, after nearly 13 years at the Skoll Foundation, I joined King Philanthropies as its first COO/GC. I have been in the philanthropy sector for over 22 years, working in various legal and financial roles at 4 Silicon Valley private foundations. A lawyer and certified public accountant by…
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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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, Independent
Anne formerly worked at the Skoll Foundation on a systems practice and systems mapping pilot with grantees. She has worked on various projects within the Foundation for the past 4 years. Anne has more than 15 years of experience in the private sector focused on technology, management consulting…
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President, Rockwood Leadership Institute
Akaya Windwood is the President of Rockwood Leadership Institute, the nation’s largest provider of transformative leadership trainings for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. She is a partner in the Opportunity Collaboration, an international conference that convenes leaders working to end…
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iFIGHT Coordinator, Voice Of The Free
Nica Santiago currently oversees the iFIGHT program at Visayan Forum Foundation, which seeks to empower youth as a driving force in fighting human trafficking and other forms of exploitation. As iFIGHT Coordinator, she works to develop partnerships with schools, colleges and local government units…
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Creative Producer, Black Sheep Media
Anisa McMullan is a social entrepreneur and filmmaker passionate about advocacy and justice for marginalised people within institutionalised systems. Through her company Black Sheep Media, Anisa has made over 25 films within youth offender institutes, prisons, and low-performing schools, and has…
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President, Magnum Foundation
Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She is the author of Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Pandora’s Box and Encounters with the Dani. She has co-edited two collections: El Salvador: Work…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Vera Solutions
Zak Kaufman is Co-Founder and CEO of Vera Solutions, a social enterprise using cloud and mobile technology to help social impact organizations worldwide work more efficiently and deliver better results. Zak has worked for 10 years at the intersection of technology and the social sector…
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Ehsan Ahmad Sahel, 26, Afghanistan
Afghan Institute of Learning, General Coordinator of Academic and Educational Affairs
ehsansahel.ail@gmail.com
Ehsan has a B.A. from Herat University and studied in the Education and English Literature Faculty. As a teenager, Ehsan took over his family business…
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Gopi Gopalakrishnan has long experience in implementing large-scale service-delivery programs. WHP initially delivered primary health care to rural communities in India and Kenya and is now expanding its scope to primary education and livelihoods. The approach is to enhance with technology and…
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Programme Manager, Montpelier Foundation
I represent two sister foundations, Montpelier Foundation (UK) and Hampshire Foundation, Inc (US). We fund organisations that help disadvantaged youth and rural communities improve their livelihoods, in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South as well as South East Asia. We currently fund…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Spark MicroGrants
Sasha Fisher is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spark Microgrants. Her experiences in South Sudan, South Africa, India, and Uganda led to her passion for community-first development and, in July 2010, she moved to East Africa to develop the Spark Microgrants system of change. In addition to leading…
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Director of the Arabic Language and Cultural Studies Program, Fordham University
MOHAMED A. ALSIADI was born in Syria and lived and worked in the Middle East before moving to NYC. He received his B.A. from Syrian’s most prestigious Institute of Music. As a gifted composer and artist he collaborated with some of the most renowned artists and musicians of the Damascus…
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Founder, SafePoint Trust
Marc Koska OBE is the inventor of the K1 and following Auto-Disable syringes, the founder of Safepoint Trust (a UK-registered charity) and a highly regarded advocate around the world for needle safety in both immunisation and therapeutic sectors. Marc’s engineering company StarTek leads the…
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Filmmaker, Little Punk
Oscar-nominated producer Howard Gertler’s credits include David France’s “How to Survive a Plague,” which premiered in competition at Sundance 2012 and was released by IFC Films/Sundance Selects; in addition to the Academy Award nomination, the film collected New York Film Critics’ Circle…
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Founder & CEO, Habona Ltd.
Jean Bosco is the Founder and CEO of HABONA Ltd, a company that provides integrated waste management services and further processes the waste into affordable and environmentally friendly fuels such as biogas and biomass briquettes. Jean Bosco oversees the overall company management…
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CEO, AllAfrica Foundation
Tami Hultman is co-founder and chief content officer of AllAfrica Global Media/allAfrica.com and CEO of the AllAfrica Foundation. She oversees AllAfrica’s content expansion, working to extend innovative social software and information-delivery technologies for communities and media and to expand…
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Young 1ove
Noam Angrist is the Executive Director of Young 1ove and is a research-loving social entrepreneur living in Botswana. Young 1ove is an NGO employing 81 young Batswana and reaching over 35,000 youth in Botswana with evidence-based HIV, health and education classes. Their flagship program is a…
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Strategic Advisor Cartier Philanthropy, Cartier Philanthropy
Pascale joined Cartier in July 2013 to launch Cartier Philanthropy, a grant-making foundation committed to improving the lives of vulnerable communities around the world. She later launched Cartier for Nature to address the biodiversity crisis and contribute to preserving and restoring…
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Filmmaker, Met Film Production
Jerry Rothwell is a filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature documentaries: How To Change The World, about the founders of Greenpeace; Town of Runners, about two girls in an Ethiopian village who aspire to be athletes; Donor Unknown, about a sperm donor and his many…
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Chief Strategy Officer, Fundación Capital
Dr. Ana Pantelic is social entrepreneur with a decade of experience working at the intersection of systems change, social innovation, and economic opportunity.
As Chief Strategy Officer of Fundación Capital (a 2014 Skoll Awardee and nonprofit social enterprise improving the financial lives of…
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Brittany currently serves as Managing Director, Operations & Programs - Investments at the Skoll Foundation. As Director, she leads a team responsible for supporting the sourcing and selecting of strategically aligned investments for the Skoll Foundation’s portfolio. Brittany joined the Skoll Foundation in…
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Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Adrienne DiCasparro works on the Giving Pledge, a public commitment to giving the majority of one's wealth to charitable causes (www.givingpledge.org). She works closely with philanthropists, their staff, and family, to help them navigate the sector and have the greatest possible…
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Editor, This Is Africa
Adrienne Klasa is Development Finance Editor of The Banker and fDi magazines at the Financial Times Group. Previously she was Editor of This is Africa, the Financial Times’ flagship Africa publication. Her writing has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, Forbes, Slate and Foreign Policy…
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CEO, Freedom Fund
Nick was appointed the inaugural CEO of the Freedom Fund in January 2014. The Fund is an ambitious effort to mobilise the knowledge, capital and will needed to end modern slavery. Nick serves on the advisory councils of Global Witness and the McCain Institute. Previously, he was the inaugural CEO…
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Artistic Director, MIT Co-Creation Studio, MIT
Katerina Cizek is a two-time Emmy winner and a pioneer in digital media. Her work has documented the Digital Revolution, and has itself become part of the movement. She is the Artistic Director and Executive Producer of the emergent Co-Creation Studio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
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Jockin Arputham worked for more than 40 years in slums and shanty towns, building representative organizations into powerful partners with governments and international agencies for the betterment of urban living. Arputham was the president of the National Slum Dwellers Federation…
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A Social Architect by profession. A community organizer by training. A Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Management by education.
Presently leading the thrust of Gawad Kalinga in empowering/enabling small land holder farmers to build productive farms focusing on high value products. Creating a…
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Advisor, Fortitude Fund
Amy has well over a decade of experience in strategic philanthropy, impact investing, scaling social enterprise, and creating systems networks. She has worked to support non-profit social entrepreneurs and innovators in multiple sectors including health, social justice, economic development and…
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Social Entrepreneur of the World – World Entrepreneurship Forum, 2012
Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2012
Japan’s Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth, 2011
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst and Young Philippines, 2010
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Schwab Foundation for…
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Filmmaker/Artist, Individual
As co-founding member of the Rada Film Group, filmmaker, artist and author, Michèle Stephenson, pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots and international experience as a human rights attorney to tell compelling deeply personal stories in a variety of media that resonate beyond the margins…
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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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Diana N-Peline Kombui is a member of CAMA (Camfed Association) – the pan-African network of educated young women. She is a graduate from Central University, where she studied B.Sc in Banking and Finance. She was supported by Camfed in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation during her…
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Board Member, GoodWeave
Edward Millard is Director of Strategic Partnerships at Rainforest Alliance, based in its London office. In this position, he identifies and develops external relationship opportunities with donors, companies and other key stakeholders to grow Rainforest Alliance’s work promoting sustainable land…
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Executive Director, African Development Solutions
Degan Ali is an internationally-renowned humanitarian leader who has been at the forefront of shifting power for decades. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellow for Social Innovation, a contributor to the Overseas Development Institute/Humanitarian Policy Group and the Global Food…
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Former Marketing Communications Manager, Skoll Foundation
Guided by a belief in the power of storytelling to spur meaningful change, Alison served as the Marketing Communications Manager at the Skoll Foundation from 2015-2018. There, she worked to leverage creative content and influencer engagement to help amplify and accelerate the impact of…
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Executive Director, Ripple Effect Images
One of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic, Annie Griffiths has photographed in nearly 150 countries during her illustrious career. She has worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic, including stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California…
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Vice President, Innovation, The Rockefeller Foundation
Zia Khan is the Chief Innovation Officer at The Rockefeller Foundation where he oversees the Foundation’s approach to developing solutions using novel technologies and techniques that have transformative impact on people’s well-being. He sits on a number of boards and advisory committees helping…
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Chief of Development and Partnerships, Acumen
Yasmina Zaidman is the Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at Acumen, which works to change the way the world tackles poverty. She leads its work with funding partners that share Acumen’s commitment to entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. She spearheaded Acumen’s gender…
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Creative Director, Affinis Labs
Wajahat Ali is a journalist, writer, lawyer, an award-winning playwright, a TV host, and a consultant for the U.S. State Department. As Creative Director of Affinis Labs, he works to create social entrepreneurship initiatives that have a positive impact for marginalized communities, and to empower social…
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Founder & CEO, Dallant Networks, LLC
Paris-born Victor d’Allant is a cultural anthropologist turned digital media practitioner. His work includes field research on French truck drivers in the Middle East, mental health issues in India for the World Health Organization, and agricultural development in Burkina Faso for the World Bank.
He is…
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Director, Centre for Social Impact, Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Tina is the Director of the Smith School of Business Centre for Social Impact at Queen’s University in Canada. She is the E. Marie Shantz Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior at Smith School of Business. Tina conducts research in the areas of social and institutional change…
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Thom Woodroofe is a Climate Policy & Communications Advisor with Independent Diplomat, which works with the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to help it to navigate the international negotiations on climate change.
Previously, Thom has interned with then-US Congressional…
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Managing Director, Sesame Workshop India
Sonali Khan leads Sesame Workshop’s educational mission in India using the power of media and community outreach to help kids grow smarter, stronger and kinder. She is a global advocate for human rights and for ending violence against marginalized communities, with an emphasis on girls…
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Founder/ President, The Hydrous
Sly Lee is a a marine scientist, designer, and serial entrepreneur. His mission is to utilize technology and design thinking to create a space for conversation about sustainability issues surrounding oceans and climate change. As founder of The Hydrous (www.thehydro.us), Lee incorporated his…
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Chairman, Fundacion Futbol con Corazon
Samuel Azout is the Founder and Chairman of “Futbol con Corazon” (www.fcc.futbol), an NGO dedicated to creating safe and peaceful neighborhoods in Colombia by improving life opportunities for children and young adults in underprivileged areas. His work is specifically directed at reducing youth…
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Author & Lecturer, Collaborative Lab
Rachel Botsman is an author, lecturer and the global authority on the power of collaboration and trust enabled by digital technologies to change the way we live, work, bank and consume.
She is known for originating the theory of ‘collaborative consumption’ with her acclaimed book, What’s Mine is Yours…
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Executive Director - Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
As executive director of The Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA TFT, Peter Bisanz brings his extensive experience as a social entrepreneur, filmmaker and global communications expert to build awareness and transform social capital in a way that affects society…
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Managing Partner, PTI Advisors
Paul is an evangelist and a practitioner of social innovation. Having worked for iconic companies like Gateway, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, he’s been on the front line of technology’s impact on society and planet. He’s experienced the power of business, government, and civil society working…
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Founder & CEO at Kamara Global Group / President at Videre Est Credere, Kamara Global Group
Oren’s entrepreneurship in social justice focuses on harnessing technology,
contributing to initiatives for the advancement of democracy and holding power to account. His current organisation, Kamara, has deployed significant technical capacities for monitoring online civic space in both open and…
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Founder, Civic Ventures, LLC
Nick Hanauer is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors in the Northwest with over 30 years of experience across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, retailing, e-commerce, digital media and advertising, software, aerospace, health care, and finance.
Hanauer’s…
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Driector, Ending Pandemics
Nomita Divi oversees the implementation of a highly evolving work plan and manages the team. Nomita brings expertise in stakeholder engagement, management, needs assessment, and program planning. Nomita developed a portfolio of projects while serving as Program Officer on the Ending…
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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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Co-Founder & Managing Director, Radio Nisaa
Maysoun Odeh is a Palestinian entrepreneur who schooled in Jerusalem at the Rosary Sisters High School and then went on to attend University in Grenoble in France, completing her qualifications in Economics at the American University in Washington D.C. On her return to Palestine she worked in…
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Researcher - Associate Co-Investigator, PETRAS Hub for Internet of Things, a EPSRC project, Oxford Internet Institute
Mariarosaria Taddeo Researcher - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Her recent work focuses mainly on the ethical analysis of cyber security practices and information conflicts. Her area of expertise is Information and Computer Ethics, although she has worked on issues concerning…
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Treasurer, SABMiller plc
NAME : Luis Manuel Guzmán Pardo Figueroa
ORGANIZATION : SABMiller – UCP Backus & Johnston SAA (Peru Operation)
TITLE : Treasury Director
Economist
MBA in Peruvian University
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Executive Director, Community Health Impact Coalition
Dr. Madeleine Ballard is the Executive Director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, network of health delivery organizations in 40+ countries working to ensure community health workers get the fair pay, supplies, and ongoing support they need so everyone can have access to high quality…
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Filmmaker/Artist, Individual
Leah Mahan is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. Sweet Old Song (2002) was featured on the PBS series P.O.V. and was selected by film critic Roger Ebert to be screened at his…
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Co-Founder, COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa
A 25-year-old from the D.R. Congo fled from his home country to Uganda at the age of six due to conflict. With his friends, Munyambanza co-founded the organization COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA) at age 14 to educate refugee youth from Congo, Burundi…
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Analyst, Analysis and Insight, Skoll Foundation
As a former Analyst with Skoll’s Analysis & Insight team, Joony informed the Foundation’s strategy through researching portfolio and ecosystem opportunities to better inform its grantmaking processes. While at Skoll, he worked to spearhead dissemination of the Foundation’s insights and…
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Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation, Autodesk Foundation
Joe Speicher is the Executive Director of the Autodesk Foundation – supporting the innovators and entrepreneurs tackling the world’s most pressing challenges through design and engineering. Prior to joining Autodesk, Speicher was on the founding team of Living Goods, where he spent six years…
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Gary Gottlieb is CEO of Partners In Health, a global NGO providing a preferential option for the poor in health care in severely resource constrained settings. He assumed this role after serving on the PIH Board of Directors for a decade. He is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a…
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Managing Director, FSG, Inc.
Based in Mumbai, Harvey leads work with enterprises, investors and donors to develop and scale inclusive business models that benefit the poor, across a range of sectors including housing, water, healthcare and energy. He also directs a global research program aiming to advance global thinking and…
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Frank Beadle de Palomo joined mothers2mothers (m2m) as Chief Executive Officer in October 2012, bringing with him 35 years of experience in global health, including significant achievements in HIV prevention, care, and treatment, as well as U.S. and global infectious and communicable disease…
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Secretary General, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah has been Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS since January 2013. Headquartered in Johannesburg, CIVICUS is the global civil society alliance with members in 170 countries. His previous roles have included Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society…
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Senior Director, APCO Worldwide
Denielle Sachs is the senior director and global head of APCO Impact, the social impact and sustainability group within APCO Worldwide that focuses on climate and sustainability, racial and gender justice, philanthropy, as well as helping companies embed purpose, CSR and ESG in their business…
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Innovation Engagement Officer, UNHCR
Corinne Gray is a Fulbright Scholar from Trinidad and Tobago who now works at the forefront of the UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) innovation initiatives. As a core member of the Agency’s dynamic new Innovation Unit she leads efforts to engage staff and refugees in coming up with new ideas to…
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Faculty Director, CASE at Duke, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Cathy Clark is Faculty Director at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Founding Director of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. Cathy is globally recognized as a collaborative visionary and pioneering influencer in…
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Antonio Fonseca joined Imazon as a trainee in 2008. In 2010 he graduated in environmental engineering and was hired as an assistant researcher to work at Imazon's deforestation monitoring program. In this program, I have quickly gained remote sensing end Geographic Information System (GIS)…
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BRYAN STEVENSON is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major…
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Chief Investment Officer, Builders Asset Management
Alan Chang is Chief Investment Officer at Builders Asset Management, the investment arm of Builders Vision – a family office dedicated to promoting a healthy and humane planet. He previously served as Partner, Managing Director and Investment Committee Member at Capricorn Investment Group…
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Alasdair Harris leads the Ocean Resilience & Climate Alliance (ORCA), a philanthropic initiative advancing transformative solutions at the intersection of ocean and climate action.
A marine biologist and social entrepreneur, Al has over two decades of experience building and leading organizations…
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Research Associate, Pandemics, Skoll Global Threats Fund
As the research associate with the Pandemics team at the Skoll Global Threats Fund, Adam's work involves management of the research grants portfolio, analytic and evaluative projects, and providing technical assistance to Pandemics grantees and partners. Prior to joining the Skoll Global…
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Yves Moury is the Founder and CEO of Fundación Capital, a global organization aiming at asset-building for the poor and climate action. He has been honored as a Schwab Foundation (the sister organization of the World Economic Forum) Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Awardee, in recognition…
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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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Joint secretary, Government of India
I work for the government of India and Am a part of the Indian administrative service. I have completed 25 years in government. I have handled assignments in a variety of positions including women and child development, rural development , health, personnel etc. I have also done a stint in the…
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Founder and Chairwoman - Vera Cordeiro graduated in medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1975. From 1978 to 1998, she worked at Hospital da Lagoa, a Federal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally working as a general practitioner. She founded and led the…
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Laureate of the first edition of the Yidan Prize for Education Development (2017) and 2013 WISE Prize for Education Laureate, Vicky Colbert is founder and director of Fundación Escuela Nueva.
Colbert is a Sociologist from Javeriana University in Colombia and pursued her graduate studies in Sociology…
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Vice President, Total Health, Kaiser Permanente
Tyler Norris, MDiv, is an entrepreneur and founder of over a dozen businesses and social ventures. His three decades of service in the public, private and non-profit sectors have focused on population health, community vitality, and equitable prosperity.
Currently, he serves as Vice President, Total Health…
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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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Senior Program Manager, Youth Livelihoods, The MasterCard Foundation
Steve Cumming is responsible for a portfolio of Youth Livelihoods projects at the Foundation, with a particular focus on vocational skills and informal employment. He is also the focal point within the Foundation for the Youth Think Tank. Before joining the Foundation, Steve was the International…
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CEO, SPARK Schools
Stacey Brewer believes that improving the state and esteem of education in South Africa will guarantee the global success of this country and create a prosperous future for all South Africans.
After completing her Bachelor of Science at Rhodes University, Stacey won a scholarship for the…
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Head Manager, Radio Meraj
Sohaila Erfany, 33, Afghanistan Head Manager, Radio Meraj ail.herat@gmail.com Sohaila was born in Herat, Afghanistan. She graduated from Arefa High School in Herat and then went on to graduate from the journalism faculty of Herat University. She is presently head of the journalism department at…
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An intrepid entrepreneur, Sohini has been dabbling in the development sector for more than 30 years, mostly on issues of women and girls. Currently, she is a senior advisor to the Accelerator for Shifting Gender Norms Through Education, building a collaborative of successful and evidence-based…
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Reporter, The Dallas Morning News;, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Seema Yasmin is a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News, a professor of public health at The University of Texas at Dallas and a CNN medical analyst. Yasmin served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she…
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Sarah is currently the Chief of Staff for the Jeff Skoll Group. In addition, she helps a variety of organizations achieve their goals around impact-focused convenings, strategic community building, fundraising and communication functions. Prior, Sarah oversaw the Skoll Foundation's Community of…
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Rupert Howes has served as Chief Executive of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) since October 2004. Prior to joining the MSC, Rupert worked as the Director of the Sustainable Economy Programme at the Forum for the Future, an influential UK-based sustainable development organization that…
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Rukmini Banerji is Chief Executive Officer of Pratham Education Foundation. She
has extensive field experience working directly with rural and urban communities as well as in designing and implementing large scale partnerships with governments for improving children’s learning in India. From 2005…
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Co-founder / President, GiveDirectly
Paul Niehaus is co-founder and president of GiveDirectly, currently the top-rated nonprofit by GiveWell and ranked among the 25 most audacious companies (Inc) and 10 most innovative companies in finance (Fast Company). GiveDirectly is a recognized leader in the use of modern technology to…
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Michael is the Founding President and CEO of Forest Trends in 2000 . From 1989- 1999 was the Associate Director of the Environment Program of The MacArthur Foundation .In 1999 was a joint appointment as senior forestry advisor to The World Bank. In 1983 he worked for 3 years as an agroforester…
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Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs. (SIPA). Retired in 2019 from Citigroup as its global head. of environmental. finance. Previously, was the founder and President of the American Council. on Renewable Energy. (ACORE) and the SolarBank…
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President, Ending Pandemics
Mark Smolinski, MD, MPH, brings 25 years of experience in applying innovative solutions to improve disease prevention, response, and control across the globe. Mark is leading a well-knit team—bringing together technologists; human, animal, and environmental health experts; and key community…
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Senior Advisor, Private Sector Department, Oxfam America
Mara has over 15 years of experience working in the fields of international development, emerging markets finance and business. Mara leads on Oxfam's work on shareholder advocacy directd at US corporations, as well as influencing work on impact investing. Mara is the global lead on the…
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Executive Director, Sistema B
Marcel Fukayama is an Impact Entrepreneur, Cancer Survivor and Cathedral Builder. He has been involved with different initiatives in new economy.
Co-Founder of Din4mo with objectives to empower entrepreneurs that solve social problems and to develop innovative structures that drive capital to…
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Head, Global Agriculture and Food Security Porgram, International Finance Corporation
Worldwide, roughly 450 million smallholder farmers scrape out a living by working two hectares of land or less. Figuring out how to reliably get inputs and financing to farmers and make them more productive is essential for both eliminating poverty and for achieving food security.
It isn’t easy…
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Keri Putnam is CEO of Sundance Institute, where she oversees the Sundance Film Festival and the Institute’s extensive array of programs supporting independent storytellers around the world. Under her leadership, Sundance has grown to support 800 artists annually through labs, grants, workshops…
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CEO and Co-founder, Shining Hope for Communities
Kennedy is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. He grew up in Kenya's Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty first hand. At age ten he became a street child. Still, he dreamed about…
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Exec. Director, BRCK.org
Juliana Rotich is globally recognized as a technologist, strategic advisor, entrepreneur, futurist, and keynote speaker.
Juliana is a Venture Partner in Africa Technology Ventures (ATV) which is raising a $50m fund to invest in and support the growth of tech enabled start-ups in key sectors in East and West…
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Founder CEO, Traity
Juan is founder and CEO of Traity, a reputation platform that aims to help people trust each other for any sort of transactions between strangers, like a tenant renting a house from a landlord. Juan was formerly in strategy and product management in the telecoms industry. Juan holds an MBA from the…
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President, Ploughshares Fund
Joe Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He previously served as Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress and Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Joe is…
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International President, Medecins Sans Frontieres
Dr. Joanne Liu was elected International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2013. She trained at McGill University School of Medicine and specialized in pediatrics at Sainte-Justine hospital, Montréal. An associate professor at the Université de Montréal and a professor in practice at McGill…
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Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Jamil Zaki is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. His research examines the neural bases of social cognition and behavior: and especially how people understand and respond to each other’s emotions. This work spans a number of domains, including empathy, social influence…
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Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jason Lamb is the Deputy Director, Digital Enabling Environment in the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation in November 2009, Jason spent 6 years at Washington Mutual Bank where he managed the Consumer Checking…
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Jay Coen Gilbert is strategic advisor to Imperative 21, a global network shaping economic narratives and reimagining systems so that everyone, everywhere can thrive. Imperative 21 catalyzes breakthrough storytelling, like the podcast season “Capitalism” from Scene on Radio, that can…
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Co-founder and Executive Director, Change Labs
Heather Fleming (Diné/Navajo) is the co-founder and Executive Director of Change Labs, an award-winning Navajo nonprofit supporting entrepreneurship and innovation on the Navajo Nation. Heather engages partners in and around the Navajo Nation to incubate, finance and train new…
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Imam, Individual Religious Leader
Imam Muhammad Hussaini Bagnya is currently a TV Presenter for the IQRA SHOW, Ghana's number one Islamic flagship show which passes on TV 3, a Ghanaian television networks for the past decade, he has honorably lead presented and interviewed a cross section of religious leaders (Christians…
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Catherine manages investor relations, communications and marketing at Root Capital, an agricultural lender that provides loans and advisory services to small and growing agricultural businesses in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Indonesia. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has disbursed…
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Carlos Souza Jr. holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Pará State Federal University, Brazil, an M.Sc. in soil science from Penn State University, US, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara, US. He is currently an associate researcher at Imazon, where he focuses on…
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Executive Chairman, Wanda Organic
Nick lived in Kenya since 1982, working actively for economic equity and social justice in Africa. In 1991 he co-founded - and until June 2012 directed - the award-winning not-for-profit social enterprise KickStart International, (www.kickstart.org). KickStart designs and promotes productivity-enhancing…
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Chief Everything Officer, Sphaera
Dr. Astrid J. Scholz is a co-founder of Zebras Unite (https://zebrasunite.coop), a growing global cooperative of founders, investors, and allies who are creating a more ethical, inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable approach to building businesses. She leads Zebras Unite’s capital team. Astrid is also…
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CEO & Co-founder, Matternet, Inc.
Award-winning designer, inventor and entrepreneur. Founded Matternet and serves as Chief Executive Officer since 2011. Pioneering drone logistics networks for lightweight medical items and commercial goods. Motivated by the desire to solve one of humanity's grand challenges, access to physical…
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Co-Founder & Country Manager, Pluspeople Kenya Limited
"Angela has a background in business and information technology from Strathmore University in Kenya. She is currently the Co-founder and Country Manager of Pluspeople Kenya/ Uhasibu, an IT company that has been recognized and awarded for its focus on empowering SMEs in East Africa by…
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Founding President, The Voice of Libyan Women
At the young age of 15 Alaa Murabit completed high school and moved from Saskatoon, Canada to Zawia, Libya. It was there that she enrolled in medical school and driven by her desire to create inclusive processes and institutions founded The Voice of Libyan Women (VLW) in 2011 at the age of…
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Professor and Director, University of Oxford
Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, and a Senior Research Fellow at Green-Templeton College. Among his 10 books, he is author (with Paul Collier) of Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System. He has written for…
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Executive Director, Social Finance, The British Asian Trust
Abha leads the British Asian Trust's Social Finance work across South Asia. She is a founding member of the British Asian Trust, contributing to its design and leadership during the start-up years and now to its ongoing growth. She has led pioneering social finance work with Government(s), private and…
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Director, Beyond Jobs
Wingham Rowan is Director of the “Beyond Jobs” project in London, UK.
Beyond Jobs grew out of multiple UK government investments to create advanced markets for low silled people seeking non-standard employment. Wingham oversaw these projects and market launches. He now works with…
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Founder, Enduring Ventures, Inc
Founder, Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company. Founder/Chairman Better World Books, $70 Million revenue profitable e-commerce business, 10 million customers.
Founding CEO, Zola Electric. Leading Solar Company in Africa. 1 million users, $100MM+ equity raised.
Oxford Skoll Scholar 2011.
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CEO, Simprints
Toby Norman is the CEO of Simprints, a tech company with a mission to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development. Simprints build inclusive digital ID powered by biometrics to ensure that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who…
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Susan Burns is a Skoll Awardee and Philanthropic Advisor with Unleashing Generosity helping donors increase their impact and give joyfully.
She is a co-founder of Global Footprint Network, one of the world’s leading scientific organizations addressing global ecological limits. She is also the former…
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Artist & Activist, The Strongheart Group
With a poet's soul and activist's passion, Sonita Alizadeh uses her rap lyrics and powerful voice to fight child marriage. At the age of 16, Sonita was a refugee in Iran and distraught over her own impending forced marriage, set to happen in her native Afghanistan. In an effort to express her pain and…
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I am the first social entrepreneur to serve as Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN). I bring a spirit of inclusivity and collaboration to the organization. Currently, I also serve as a Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Student, UWC Robert Bosch College
Selina Neirok Leem, an islander from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is currently attending her last year of high school in the UWC (United World College) Robert Bosch College in Freiburg, Germany. The school is a prestigious international program that offers the International Baccalaureate…
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Rebecca Onie is Co-Founder of The Health Initiative (THI), a campaign catalyzing new conversation about and increased investments in health, including access to healthy food, safe and affordable housing, and well-paying jobs. Previously, Onie co-founded Health Leads - arming thousands of healthcare…
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, Reverend Canon
The Reverend Mpho A. Tutu an ordained Episcopal Priest and founding Director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
For five years, Rev. Tutu was Director of the Bishop Desmond Tutu Southern African Refugee Scholarship Fund of the Phelps Stokes Fund. That program provided full four-year…
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Freelance Journalist, Individual
Ray Suarez is a host of the radio and podcast series WorldAffairs, heard on KQED San Francisco and public radio stations around the country, and a Washington reporter for Euronews. He recently completed an appointment as the McCloy Visiting Professor of American Studies at Amherst College…
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The Honorable Dr. Raj Panjabi is former White House Senior Director and globally recognized as a distinguished authority in healthcare, public policy, entrepreneurship, and technology. Dr. Panjabi is Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, leading the Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative, which is…
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Born in 1949 , raised in a refugee settlement in Karachi, completed high school and married off. Had 3 children at 21 , completed Masters in social work, first community assignment construction of pit toilets in the homes of 5000 poor families living in squatter’s community. The sanitation project helped…
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Lead UNHCR Innovation, UNHCR
"At UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Olivier Delarue leads UNHCR Innovation, a multi-year effort seeking to foster and support creative problem-solving, experimentation, and new kinds of partnerships in responding to delivery and programmatic challenges faced in UNHCR field operations. By providing…
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Global Head, Venture Capital, International Finance Corporation
Managing Partner for new climate technology fund. Www.BetterFuturenet.org
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Founding CEO, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Ngaire Woods is the founding and inaugural Dean of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. She also founded, and co-directs with Professor Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University, the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Programme; previously she also founded and…
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Neil has been Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) since early 2014. He has over two decade’s experience of successfully leading and growing organizations, social enterprises and innovative partnerships, in both Europe, North America and globally. He previously led social…
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Office of the President, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Fr. Michael Czerny S.J. entered the Society of Jesus in English Canada in 1963, and was ordained in 1973. He did graduate studies at the University of Chicago in an inter-disciplinary programme in humanities, social thought and theology and earned the doctorate in 1978.
Dr. Czerny was the founding…
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Innovation Director, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Matt leads the portfolios for innovative financing, entrepreneurship and technology within Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade's Innovationxchange.
Previous to his work at DFAT, Matt developed a social enterprise, (enable community), which was a partnership with vodafone and…
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Senior Vice President and Publisher, HarperCollins Publishers
SVP/Publisher
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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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Founder and Executive Director, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Mark is founder and executive chair of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non profit financial think tank. Best known for the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis, the lexicon of ‘stranded asset’ risk is now common place in climate finance language. Mark commissioned and was editor of…
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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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Global Vice President Social Impact, Unilever
Ms Manubens is Global Vice President for Social Impact at Unilever. She leads the strategy and implementation of the new Enhancing Livelihoods ambitions of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, Including Women’s Empowerment and Fairness, including the implementation of the UN Guiding…
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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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Author and Independent Consultant, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Kirk O. Hanson stepped down recently as Executive Director of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, one of the leading global centers for the study of applied ethics, where he held the John Courtney Murray, S.J. University Professorship in Social Ethics for 17 years. Previously…
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Founder & Managing Director, Babban Gona Farm Services, Ltd.,
Babban GonaKola is an award-winning social entrepreneur dedicated to solving Africa's leading social challenge, dramatic rise in insecurity. Kola brings significant leadership experience across four continents and multiple leading companies, including General Electric (GE), Abiomed and Notore. In addition, Kola…
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Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management
Jennifer Riel is Managing Director of Strategy and Innovation for the Martin Prosperity Institute. In her role, Jennifer leads educational initiatives, including writing, designing curriculum and teaching for a variety of audiences. She also has oversight of Rotman I-Think (our elementary and…
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Jim Taylor is the Co-founder and Chief Executive of Proximity Designs – a social business that has created a platform for change in rural Myanmar. The big idea twenty years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After…
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Jagdeesh Puppala is leading the Common Ground initiative as Chief Convener and is also the CEO of Living Landscapes, promoting systems leadership for environmental governance and resilient rural livelihoods.
A dedicated practitioner, his entire career has focused on the sustainable management…
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VICE CHAIRMAN, GVK EMRI
G V Sanjay Reddy is the Vice Chairman of GVK (www.gvk.com), a conglomerate with interests
in Energy, Airports, Transportation, Resources, Real Estate, Hospitality and Life Sciences. He was instrumental in making GVK the largest private airport operator in India, by owning, developing and operating the…
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Senior Manager of Philanthropy, Rosewood Family Advisors
Philanthropy professional with grants, finance, and operational expertise across the non-profit, corporate, and foundation sectors. Currently the Senior Manager of Philanthropy at Rosewood Family Advisors.
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Ella is a social entrepreneur and global health strategist with more than 25 years of experience in international development. Under her leadership, VisionSpring has corrected the vision of more than 12 million low-income adults and children and unlocked $2.6 billion in income earning potential at…
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Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Proximity designs and delivers innovative and profitable low-carbon farming products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and…
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Global Vice President Women's Economic Empowerment, Coca-Cola Company
As The Coca-Cola Company's Global Vice President for Women's Economic Empowerment, Charlotte is leading the development and implementation of the Company's global strategy in this important area. This includes the ambitious 5by20 initiative to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million…
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Co-Founder & President, Fundación Mi Sangre
Catalina is a social entrepreneur driving systemic change through innovation. As co-founder and President of Fundación Mi Sangre, she leads initiatives to unlock young people's potential and activate ecosystems for more peaceful, democratic, and regenerative societies. Under her leadership, the…
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Advocacy & Campaigns Manager, Crisis Action
Eye-opening experiences in her young days in Thailand and a strong sense of empathy led Anouck to engage in humanitarian work from a young age. In her work with the UN and grassroots NGOs across continents, she's had diverse roles from monitoring and evaluating social developments…
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Chief, Applied Innovation & Acceleration, US Global Development Lab
Over her career, Bonnell has developed and delivered over a billion dollars of humanitarian and development programming in over 25 conflict, post-conflict and emergency countries, in almost every sector from education to stabilization, for more than 30 international bilateral donors, 10 U.N…
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Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Adam Waytz is a psychologist and an associate professor of management and organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He uses methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to research topics such as altruism, empathy, dehumanization…
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Senior reporter, Devex
Adva Saldinger is an Associate Editor at Devex, where she covers U.S. foreign aid policy as well as the intersection of business and international development. From development finance to trade and social entrepreneurship to impact investing, Adva explores the role the private sector and…
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Chairman of the Board, Malala Fund
Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner and social activist. He hails from Pakistani’s SWAT Valley where, at great personal risk among grave political violence, he peacefully resisted the Taliban’s efforts to shut down schools and kept open his own school, the Khushal Public…
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Columnist, Guardian, The
Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams has been a columnist on the Guardian since 2000 - previously, she wrote a column for the London Evening Standard. In her ceaseless endeavour to smash the patriarchy, she contributes to various magazines and news weeklies, including Marie Claire, Glamour, Good…
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Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $2 billion in loans to…
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Tasso Azevedo is a forester and social entrepreneur on forests, climate and sustainability. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas Network (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and Chair of the Board Connection Forest People initiative. Tasso was founder and general director of…
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Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International (FI), an award winning global social enterprise which supports over 200,000 marginalized children and youth each year. He has led the expansion of the organization into 18 countries across 4 continents, developing best…
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Executive Director, Freelancers Union
As Freelancers Union's Founder and Executive Director, Sara Horowitz has been helping the new workforce build solutions together for two decades. A MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellow and Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve of New York, Sara is a leading voice for the emerging economy. Today…
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Vice President, Digital Currency Council
Sarah Martin is the Vice President of the Digital Currency Council, the world’s largest bitcoin and blockchain technology trade group. Sarah’s dedicated to harnessing the power of blockchain technology to reimagine financial empowerment and advance inclusive economic growth. Presently, Sarah sits…
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Dr. Yacoobi serves on several boards and panels including, the Women’s Refugee Commission, International Advisory Council for the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, New Global Citizens, the Advisory Council for the Center for Social Impact Learning at the Middlebury Institute…
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Founder, FIGURE80
Graduating from Oxford University in 1983, Sam worked for 17 years in the agrochemicals and commodity trading businesses, with responsibilities across Latin America, Africa and Asia. During this time, Sam took a two-year break to work as a volunteer with street children in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In…
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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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Chief Executive Officer, Swaniti
Rwitwika Bhattacharya is the CEO for Swaniti Global, a social enterprise that ensures access to basic services for the most vulnerable by strengthening public service ecosystem. As CEO, she focuses on developing long-term growth strategies and formulating key partnerships. Prior to Swaniti…
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Thirty years of working in sustainability.
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Paul Rice is the Founder of Fair Trade USA, the leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America. Since launching the Fair Trade Certified™ label in 1998, he has grown it into one of the fastest-expanding segments of the food and apparel industries, partnering with over 1,700 brands, including…
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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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Principal, Nina Smith Consulting
Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and Principal of Nina Smith Consulting, advising clients on human rights in supply chains; sustainable social enterprises; global governance structures; and multi-stakeholder engagement. Nina was founding Chief Executive of GoodWeave International, where…
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CEO, Mercy Corps
Neal Keny-Guyer is a social entrepreneur driven by the belief that a better future is possible.
Since 1994, Neal has served as Chief Executive Officer of the global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps. Under his leadership, Mercy Corps has grown into one of the most respected international relief…
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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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Assistant Professor, UCSF; CEO & Co-founder, Institute for Applied Neuroscience
Melina is an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Neurology at UC San Francisco, leading the department’s educational neuroscience efforts as Director of Education for Neuroscape, a new center that aims to bridge neuroscience and technology. Melina has spent 15 yrs at the forefront of learning…
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Founder & CEO, Mobile Metrix
Melanie is founder and CEO of Mobile Metrix, a market insights and marketing services company serving marginalized communities. Local young adults are employed and trained to collect demographic/consumer data door-to-door in their own neighborhoods using handheld technology. While on these…
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Matthew Forti is the Managing Director of One Acre Fund, now the largest nonprofit social enterprise working exclusively to improve the yields, incomes, and resilience of ~5 million African subsistence farmers. Matt played an instrumental role in One Acre Fund’s founding, helping to raise the seed…
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Mastercard Foundation Scholar in Food Science, Michigan State University
Makafui Borbi is from Ghana, and is pursuing a Master's degree in Food Science. Growing up in Ghana, she realized how much agricultural produce is wasted during bumper harvests. This realization spurred her to seek solutions to this problem. Currently, Makafui is pursuing the feasibility of setting…
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Composer, Pianos for Peace
Hailed by BBC WorldNews as “an acclaimed pianist”, the music of German born, Syrian-American composer and pianist Malek Jandali has been described as “moving and thought provoking” by Bob Stevenson of NPR and “inspiring” by the Huffington Post. His most recent symphony was…
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Executive Chair & Advisor,
CAMFEDLucy joined CAMFED in 1994, shortly after it was founded, and went on to become the CEO. In 2023, Lucy stepped aside as CEO and continues as Executive Advisor, working with the executive and boards to position CAMFED for its next phase of development.
Under Lucy’s leadership, CAMFED…
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EVP, SYPartners
Lisa joined SYPartners in 1994. She is a member of the executive team and has helped lead the company in various capacities, including several years spent as head of the San Francisco consulting practice, and in her current role leading Marketing and Talent for the company. While consulting at…
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Chief Encouragement Officer, Wavelength
Liam is a UK based social entrepreneur, impact investor and writer.
He is co-founder and the Chief Encouragement Officer of Wavelength a company with the mission of ‘changing the world for the better through business’.
Liam brings together leaders from a wide range of sectors and industries and…
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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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Keely Stevenson is an entrepreneurial leader with a background as an executive in business, impact investing and direct service social impact. She is passionate about the intersection of care, aging and health, especially when technology and investment enablers drive innovation and equity. She…
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Chief Sustainability Officer, President, Walmart Foundation, McKinsey and Company
Kathleen McLaughlin leads McKinsey’s Social Innovation Practice, which works with clients to develop breakthrough solutions to social challenges. She is also a member of the Retail and Organization Practice leadership teams. She works across the private, public, and non-profit sectors globally, helping…
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Executive Director, BSP, Aspen Institute
Judy Samuelson created the Aspen Business and Society Program (BSP) in 1998. Aspen BSP respects the power of business to shape the long-term health of society, and works to align business decisions with the public good. It engages leaders and social intrapreneurs -- from MBAs to CEOs -- in…
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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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John Marks is the founder and Managing Director of Confluence International, an Amsterdam-based NGO that specializes in Track II diplomacy and TV production to promote social change. Until 2014, he was President of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO…
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Founder Chairman, Gram Vikas USA
Joe Madiath is the Founder and Chairman of Gram Vikas. Joe has spent over 45 years working in the field of development among the poorest communities in Orissa, India. Drawn to Odisha in 1971 to help communities that had been ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, Joe stayed on as an…
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Jim DeMartini is the retired Chairman of Seiler LLP (recently acquired by Baker Tilly). In his role as a trusted advisor, Jim counselled clients in matters including income, estate and gift tax planning, wealth management, business management, all facets of real estate, and charitable gift planning…
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President, One Family Foundation
Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with decades experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll Awardee, and Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Among her previous organizations are Child and Youth Finance International, Aflatoun International, Childline…
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A former screenwriter and independent filmmaker, Jenny Bowen founded Half the Sky (now OneSky for all children) in 1998 and served as CEO until her retirement in 2020. OneSky partners with governments and communities in Asia to provide responsive care and safe learning environments so that…
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Company Group Chairman Janssen EMEA, Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Jane Griffiths is the first female Company Group Chairman of Janssen in EMEA, the pharmaceutical division of the Johnson & Johnson family. She is responsible for this business across the entire region.
Her personal approach focuses on sustainability, accountability, openness and collaboration, and…
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Motivated by a passion for building resilient health systems and leaders, James Nardella serves as Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health. Through partnership with governments, Last Mile Health expands access to high-quality community-based primary healthcare for millions of people living in…
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Co-Founder, Gaza Sky Geeks / Mercy Corps
Iliana Montauk is the former director of Gaza Sky Geeks, the first startup accelerator in Gaza, launched in 2011 by the global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps. Gaza Sky Geeks fills a critical need in Gaza, where young tech talent is abundant but opportunities are in short supply. Initially, the Mercy…
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Director of Strategy, Capricorn Investment Group
Henry is director of advocacy at Capricorn Investment Group, a firm that invests in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape Joby Aviation and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in…
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Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Heather Grady is a VP in the San Francisco team of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She leads on funder collaboratives and oversees a portfolio of more than 40 sponsored projects in environment, climate change and cross-cutting issues including migration, public interest media, and democracy…
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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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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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Program Director, Mayday Rescue
(AKA: Abo Saleem) is 34 years old and a leading civilian revolutionary activist from Homs, Syria. Farouq was instrumental in the formation of the Homs Revolutionary Council and the Homs Quarters Union. He is a banker by training and his position. He holds a bachelors degree in economics, a diploma…
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World-class social innovator. Safe housing advocate. Bricklayer. Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is the Founder and CEO of Build Change and a global expert on resilient housing, post-disaster reconstruction, and systems change. Elizabeth’s strategic direction and leadership have grown Build Change from a few…
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Eleanor Allen is a visionary leader in organizational excellence, engineering, and water management. As the Co-founder and CEO of the World Flourishing Organization (WFO), she brings her extensive experience to drive workplace wellbeing and professional flourishing on a global…
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Assisstant to the Director, Opportunity Youth United
Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and board chair of the first YouthBuild program, started in 1978 and still operating in East Harlem. She created and led YouthBuild USA from 1988 through 2016 to spread this program throughout the nation and internationally with public funds and fidelity to the program…
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CEO, Participant
David Linde is CEO of Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. Linde is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, content, impact campaigning, operations, and acquisitions. Participant titles include Oscar winners…
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Partner, Working Capital Fund
Dan Viederman engages and supports entrepreneurs in pursuit of innovative tools to scale improvements for marginalized workers in global supply chains. He is a Skoll Award-winning social entrepreneur and leader in supply chain innovation, having led Verite for fifteen years. He began his career…
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Chris Jochnick is a global land rights expert and social entrepreneur with decades of experience in international development. Chris joined Landesa as CEO in August 2015 after leading Oxfam America’s work on corporate engagement. He is the co-founder and former director of two pioneering…
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Charmian Gooch jointly led Global Witness's first campaign, exposing the trade in timber between the Khmer Rouge and Thai logging companies and their political and military backers. Subsequently, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness’s ground-breaking campaign to combat ‘blood…
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Director, AVINA Americas, AVINA Americas
Chair, Social Progress Imperative.
Director, AVINA Foundation
Director and former Chair and President, INCAE Business School
Director, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress
Doctor in Business Administration, Harvard University
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CEO (Aman Networks), Aman Foundation
Seven years ago, in 2008, Ahsan Jamil joined Arif and Fayeeza Naqvi on an inspirational journey of adventure, exploration and hope, called the Aman Foundation. The Aman Foundation is a not-for-profit business that aims to achieve impact through the relentless pursuit of sustainable, scalable and…
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Technical Director, Cylance
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Consultant/Advisor/Collaborator,
WITNESSYvette ("YAT") works as a consultant, advisor, and board member to help strengthen mission-driven organizations and social entrepreneurs. I combine my learnings as the former Executive Director of WITNESS.org with my experience in global for profit companies and tech start-ups; and my ongoing…
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Founder and CEO, Business Fights Poverty
Zahid has over 25 years’ experience in business and international development, and is passionate about helping businesses collaborate with others to scale their social impact. Over his career he has helped create nearly 20 networks and communities that bring people together for social…
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Founder and CEO, Whit and Wisdom
Whitney Smith brings her over 25 years of experience in the leadership of innovative and progressive projects and organizations to her work as a consultant.
Whitney is also the visionary Founder of Girls For A Change and scaled the organization from 10 girls in the US to over 20,000 girls globally…
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Development Manager,
KivaValerie is originally from Haiti and responsible for managing corporate and foundation partnerships for Kiva. Prior to joining Kiva, Valerie managed corporate partnerships for the Pan American Development Foundation in Latin America for three years where she developed regional multi-sector…
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Founder & CEO, Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD, is a pharmaceutical scientist/executive and global health social entrepreneur, and is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sacredmedicines.earth which is developing Ayahuasca Tea for psychiatric disorders. She was founder & CEO of two successful nonprofit pharmaceutical companies, OneWorld…
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Senior Advisor, Global Development Incubator
Tom is a Senior Advisor at GDI, where he works directly with rural enterprise development efforts. Tom focuses on GDI’s incubated initiatives in this space: ISF Advisors, Aceli Africa, the Rural & Agricultural Finance Learning Lab, and the Council on Smallholder Finance (CSAF). This includes the…
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CEO, IDEO LLC
Tim Brown is chair of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking, creative leadership, and innovation to business leaders and designers around the world. He participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and his talks Serious Play and Change by Design…
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Vice-Chair, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad is a renowned global development leader, currently serving as Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors. Previously, he was the Foundation's first Chief Executive Officer, a position he held for five years. Tim co-founded Landesa with Roy Prosterman and served as its…
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Managing Director, Resource Media
Teresa is Managing Director and leads Resource Media's work with philanthropies, nonprofits and agencies that are dedicated to social impact, public health and social justice. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of…
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Dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Teri Schwartz is the Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) where she has launched an exciting new vision and long-range plan that re-imagines entertainment and performing arts education as an interdisciplinary enterprise grounded in humanistic storytelling, social…
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Tabitha Jackson was appointed Director of the Documentary Film Program (DFP) at Sundance Institute in late 2013. The DFP is dedicated to supporting nonfiction filmmakers worldwide in the production of cinematic documentaries that tell compelling stories, push the boundaries of the form, or…
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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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Senior Director, Innovation & Sight Program, Seva Foundation
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Program Manager, Big Bang Philanthropy
Sylvia Hacaj combines her passions for coaching and connecting in service to the greater good as a strategic collaborator to organizations and individuals. She manages the collaboration of Big Bang Philanthropy, a group of like-minded funders working together to find and finance great…
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Susan Collin Marks, Peace Ambassador for Search for Common Ground, an internationally renowned peacemaker and peacebuilder, has worked in some of the most conflictual places on the planet, mediating, facilitating dialogue, and establishing supporting peace initiatives. In recent years, she focused…
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Director, The Marshall Institute, London School of Economics
Stephan Chambers is the inaugural director of the Marshall Institute at LSE and cofounder of its 100X Impact Accelerator. From 2000 to 2014 he directed the University of Oxford’s MBA and was the founding Director of Oxford University's Executive MBA programme. Before joining the Marshall…
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CEO & Co-Founder, Yunus Social Business Funds gGmbH
A leader in the social business movement, Saskia co-founded Yunus Social Business (YSB) together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. YSB Funds invests in social businesses in developing countries with affordable financing and growth support. Their portfolio of social businesses…
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Shamil Idriss leads Search for Common Ground (Search), a global organization committed to transforming the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions. With 650+ staff working in 35 countries, Search is the largest dedicated peacebuilding…
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Independent, Individual
Sandy Herz is an established philanthropic leader, strategist and storytelling evangelist. After talking to 100 leaders across sectors to better understand our evolving world and where we can double down for collective benefit, Sandy has been publishing her learning as The Elephant & Butterfly project…
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Professional, Global Innovation Fund
Russell Siegelman has spent over twenty years in business and technology as a manager, investor and director. Currently he is splitting his time between teaching, angel investing, and non-profit activities.
As a Lecturer at Stanford Business School he teaches Startup Garage, Product Launch, and Starting…
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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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Co-Founder, Waterman Aylsworth - Centers for Creative Entrepreneurship
Ron Schultz is the founder of Creating Good Work Media and the producer and co-host of Creating Good Work, Live, an Internet-based TV series about to begin its fourth season. Ron has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, emergence, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he…
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Richard Fahey served as Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation from 2004 to 2021, where he contributed to the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the…
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“Rick” Perez oversees a portfolio of Sundance Institute strategic partnerships focused on the convergence of nonfiction filmmaking, innovative thought leadership, and themes vital to contemporary societies. These initiatives include Stories of Change, a Sundance Institute partnership with the Skoll…
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Executive Director, Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition
Randall Kempner is founder and executive director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition, a network of philanthropic support organizations dedicated to promoting more, and more effective, climate philanthropy.
Randall recently worked as senior advisor to the Aspen Institute Energy and…
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Director, Ethicore
Rachael Clay founded the Impact Agency, Ethicore, in 2008 to strengthen the social and environmental impact of business, NGOs, funders, institutions and their movements and partnerships. Her focus is on understanding the impact agenda, developing strategies for impact and bringing stakeholders…
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Impact Banker, Individual
Philip is an Impact Banker and Senior Risk Officer who works, to scale mission driven organisations, to achieve positive sustainable outcomes.
With over 40 years’ global experience within Citigroup across multiple divisions and functions, including Risk, Country Head, Business and staff positions in the…
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Co-Founder & President,
KivaPremal 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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Founder and Principal (2011-2016), The Hero Group
Most recently, Peter Hero was the Founder and Principal of The Hero Group, a global organizational development firm with a focus on social impact investing, strategy, Board development, branding, and asset development. Prior to that, Peter was Vice President of External Relations at Caltech. He…
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Peter Moores Dean; Dean of Said Business School, Saïd Business School
Professor Peter Tufano has served as the Peter Moores Dean at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford since July 2011. His work focuses on financial innovation, especially that which improves lives of low-income families. This work is reflected in his research; the social enterprise he founded…
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Interim Executive Director, Aspen Institute
Peggy Clark is the Interim Executive Director of Aspen Global innovators Group, Chair of Ashesi University Foundation, and a strategic consultant to foundations and non -profits. Peggy has had a long and distinguished history at the Aspen Institute that includes founding the Economic Opportunity…
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In 1993 Patrick & two friends founded Global Witness, which became one of the world’s leading investigative organisations dedicated to routing out corruption & environmental and human rights abuses around the world. Patrick led & took part in numerous undercover investigations. Alongside his…
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Chief Community Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Pamela Roussos is Chief Community Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. She is responsible for developing and furthering strategic relationships, partnerships and alliances that span Miller Center’s global footprint. Previously, she spent 20 years building and…
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Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion, Pat Mitchell Media
Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for womenʼs leadership who has used her diverse spheres of influence to elevate womenʼs stories and representation and to lead for a more just, equitable and sustainable world. Currently, sheʼs the Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders, a collective problem…
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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…
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Director, X, Google
Obi leads early stage projects at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory. X is a team of inventors and entrepreneurs working on projects like self-driving cars (Waymo), drone delivery (Wing) and internet from balloons (Loon). Obi is responsible for getting early stage X projects from the lab into the real world…
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Founder & CEO, Co-Impact
Olivia Leland is the Founder and CEO of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative that brings together local changemakers and funders to strengthen health, education, and economic systems and advance gender equality and women’s leadership. With over two decades of experience in…
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President, Durable Good
Noah Manduke is the President of Durable Good, a management consultancy focused on helping nonprofit organizations leverage brand-building disciplines to accelerate impact. A seasoned strategic identity expert, Noah has for over 35 years helped organizations to define, dramatize, and…
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Co-Founder & Partner, Dasra
Neera Nundy is the Co-founder and Partner at Dasra, a leading non-profit systems orchestrator driving collaborative action for social change in India. Since co-founding Dasra in 1999, she has played a key leadership role in its transformation from a venture philanthropy fund to foundation for…
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Filmmaker, Coco Films
Nicole Newnham has been a documentary filmmaker for over twenty years. Most recently she produced “Collisions”. Previously, Nicole co-directed & produced the Emmy-nominated documentary The Revolutionary Optimists, which screened globally and was selected by the Emmy-award winning…
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Founder, The Invitation
Building an Invitation to reimagine child welfare in the US, getting water flowing through humanitarian work and blessed to have been supported in the writing of a book centered on the Ukrainian frontline where service and courage glistened and wowed, allowing (startlingly) Heaven on earth to unfold…
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Director of Brand Development, SYPartners
For the past fifteen years, Natalie Silverstein has worked at the intersection of innovation and social change. With experience spanning sectors, from startups to nonprofits, philanthropy to private industry, she’s committed to creating positive change in the world.
In her role at SYPartners, Natalie is…
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Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation
Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises environmentally-focused philanthropists, including the co-founder of a Fortune 500 company.. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised…
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Program Lead, innovation Labs, World Bank Group
Natalia Agapitova is Senior Program Officer at the World Bank Group where she leads the Social Enterprise Innovations program. Natalia has joined the World Bank Group in 2002 after spending three years working for a Russian investment company in the midst of the 1998 financial crisis, and working…
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Chief Innovation Officer, 17 Triggers
Before founding 17 Triggers, Mike was a creative adman working for clients ranging from Nike to Coca-Cola to United Colors of Benetton. He has worked with big ad agencies in USA, England, Italy, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia where he earned the name 'adman with a bleeding heart'. After the guilt…
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Molly Melching is the Founder and former CEO of the NGO, Tostan. She has lived and worked in Senegal since 1974 and has received international recognition for her groundbreaking educational programs in national African languages. Molly's early experiences in rural Senegal reinforced her…
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University Professor, Harvard Business School
BSE (Hons) in Aerospace and Mech. Eng., Princeton Univ.; MBA (Hons), Harvard Bus. School; PhD in Business Economics, Harvard Univ. Bishop William Lawrence Univ. Prof., Harvard Bus. School. Authority on company strategy, the competitiveness of nations and regions, and strategic approaches to…
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Board Member, Exploratorium
Michelle Yee continues to be a geek, a late-bloomer, and a contented introvert. After graduating with Honors in Linguistics at Stanford University in the previous millennium, Michelle completed her doctorate in education in 2014 at the University of San Francisco
with an emphasis on international…
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Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop of ‘The Economist’) of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society. Previously Michael…
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Michael Etzel is a partner in The Bridgespan Group’s Boston office. Since joining Bridgespan in 2006, Michael has focused on effectiveness across the full spectrum of financing for social impact.
Michael focuses on overcoming the risk of “impact-washing” in impact investing. His clients include Bain…
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Distinguished Teaching Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Maura O’Neill through her work in the public, private and academic sectors have created entrepreneurial and public policy solutions for some of the toughest domestic and global problems. Maura has started four companies in the fields of electricity efficiency, customer info systems and billing…
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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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Dr. Martin Burt is social entrepreneur who has developed two social innovations: the financially self-sufficient agricultural high school model and the Poverty Stoplight, a new poverty metric and coaching methodology that is currently being implemented by more than 510,000 families and 850…
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Executive Director, Qatar Foundation International
As Executive Director of Qatar Foundation International, Maggie champions K-12 Arabic language & Arab culture education and interactions between young people across geographic, cultural and social boundaries. Prior to joining QFI, Maggie was Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa…
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Program Director, Gender Equity and Governance,
BreakthroughMallika Dutt is the Program Director of Gender Equity and Governance at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is a longtime advocate for equity and well-being for people and planet, with deep experience in advancing justice through an intersectional lens. Prior to joining the foundation…
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Madhav Chavan moved from the field of Chemistry to the field of literacy a few years after his return to India having acquired a Ph. D. in the United States and some post-doctoral experience there. He worked in the field of adult literacy from 1989 to 1994 inspired by the National Literacy Mission…
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Mabel van Oranje is a serial entrepreneur for social change, committed to advancing equality, freedom and justice. She has founded, led and advised numerous network organisations, campaigns and initiatives promoting international human rights and development.
Most recently, she has played a…
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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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Artist/Filmmaker, Studio Wallworth
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist/filmmaker who has consistently worked with emerging media technologies. Wallworth’s work has shown at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Australian Centre for…
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Managing Director, Osprey Foundation
Louis is Managing Director of the Osprey Foundation, where he leads programs on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and sustainable energy/cleaner cooking. In addition to managing a portfolio of grants and impact investments, Louis works to advance these sectors through systems change…
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Principal, Lindsay Miller Consulting
Lindsay Miller is an independent strategy and organizational development consultant, supporting nonprofits, foundations, and social enterprises through strategic and business planning and multistakeholder collaborative design and facilitation. She serves as a Project Manager for Public Equity Group, a…
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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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Director, Social Impact and Innovation Marketing, Facebook
Working at Facebook is an important opportunity to help achieve a noble mission focused on human potential. I work at the center of our brand, our business and it’s impact. I humbly invite you to provoke big conversation, but even bigger opportunity.
Prior to Facebook, I practiced strategy and…
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Multi-Grammy Award-Winning Musician & Founder, Fundacion Mi Sangre
With seven solo albums to his credit and multi-platinum sales of over 16 million copies, Juanes is the world’s leading all-Spanish language rock artist - both a 2-time GRAMMY and 20-time LATIN GRAMMY winner with ten #1 singles on Billboard’s Latin charts. Hailed as “The single most important figure…
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Former Chief Executive Officer, Medic
Josh Nesbit is the co-founder and former CEO of Medic, a nonprofit organization founded to improve health with and in the hardest-to-reach communities. The open-source software helps over 35,000 community health workers provide care for more than 20 million people in Africa and Asia…
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Partner, Hornthal Investment Partners
Jim Hornthal is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, and educator. Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Zignal Labs, LaunchPad Central, and M34Capital. His private investment partnership has invested in more than 50 startups including Lyft, Lending Club, KIND Snacks (Mars), Krave Jerky…
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
After starting two successful for-profit AI companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built…
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Executive Director, Peery Foundation
Jessamyn Shams-Lau joined the Peery Foundation as its first staff member in 2009, helping to shape the foundation’s initial strategy and portfolios. As Executive Director, Jessamyn supports the Peery Foundation team, guides overall strategy, and develops a grantee-centric approach across the…
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Jess joined BasicNeeds in 2011 and is now responsible for leading and managing BasicNeeds’ global operations. Prior to this, she worked for over 20 years in a variety of NGOs; managing and developing projects and organisations which support marginalised and vulnerable people. Jess has a BSc in…
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Jess is a founder of Doc Society, which has funded and championed the work of independent documentary filmmakers around the world since 2005. Writing with Fire, I Am Softie, The Edge of Democracy, CITIZENFOUR, The Territory, The Square, Virunga etc Currently obsessed with Climate and…
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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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Partner, Nonprofit Portfolio, Praxis
At the age of 22, Jena founded Blood:Water alongside the GRAMMY Award winning band, Jars of Clay. Under her leadership, the organization has raised more than $20M, providing small grants to grassroots organizations in sub-Saharan Africa addressing HIV/AIDS and water, sanitation and hygiene.
Jena…
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Co-founder and Partner, Bridgespan Group
Jeff is the co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists. He served as Bridgespan’s managing partner from its founding in 2000 to 2021. Jeff now advises leading philanthropists and…
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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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Founder and CEO, Mission Measurement
Jason Saul is one of the nation's leading experts on measuring social impact. He is the Founder and CEO of Mission Measurement which seeks to transform the social sector by measuring and predicting social outcomes. He has advised some of the world's largest corporations, government…
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Managing Principal, Capricorn Investment Group
Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in…
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Managing Director, Circle of Blue
J. Carl Ganter is founder and director of Circle of Blue, the center for frontline reporting, research, and analysis on water resource issues and their relationship to food and energy in a changing climate. Ganter is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and photojournalist whose work has…
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Founder, World Toilet Organization
Prof Dr Jack Aim aka Mr Toilet. Creator of the UN World Toilet Day 19 Nov. Created the World Toilet Movement that brought access to sanitation for 2.4 billion people over the last 20 years through effective policy influence.
Serial entrepreneur turned serial social entrepreneur.
Founder of the World…
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Professor, Oxford Martin School
Ian Goldin is Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, the University and the world’s leading centre for interdisciplinary research into critical global challenges. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s…
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Executive Director, Youth with Physical Disability Development Forum
Nyombi Henry is the Executive Director of Youth with Physical Disability Development Forum, a nonprofit and Community Based Organization. He is also a defender and human rights advocate especially on issues regarding mainstreaming disability.
Currently Henry serves as the chairperson of National…
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Board Member, Co-Impact
Retired, former Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford Foundation
Hilary Pennington served as the foundation’s executive vice president for program from 2018-2024, when she retired. She oversaw all of Ford’s grantmaking programs globally, the foundation’s BUILD program, the Office of…
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Heidi Kühn, founder of Roots of Peace, has dedicated her life to transforming war-torn lands into thriving agricultural communities. A UC Berkeley graduate in Political Economics, Heidi began as a journalist, covering glasnost and perestroika, before focusing on humanitarian work. In 1997, after…
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Chief of Staff, B Team
Charlotte is an experienced development professional, and has worked to foster cross-sector partnerships and solutions to some of the world's greatest challenges—in roles focused on private sector engagement and activation, global development, strengthening the disability sector, and youth…
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Analyst, Skoll Foundation
Hannah Darnton joined the Skoll Foundation in 2015 and currently serves as a Analyst on the Portfolio & Investments Team. As an Analyst, Hannah focuses on identifying social entrepreneurs with the potential to drive large scale social change and solve the worlds most pressing problems.
Prior to…
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President, Visa Foundation
Graham Macmillan is a social impact leader and a champion for advancing economic opportunity, entrepreneurship, and community development through philanthropy and investment.
As Head of Global Philanthropy and Volunteerism at Visa, Graham oversees Visa’s global philanthropic activity…
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Founder & President, Global Grassroots
Gretchen Ki Steidle is the founder and President of Global Grassroots, an international organization working at the intersection of mindfulness and social entrepreneurship to catalyze the ideas of grassroots change agents working for women’s rights and well-being post-conflict. In 2006, she launched…
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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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President, Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC
Gillian Caldwell is a 2025 Skoll Award winning consultant specializing in strategic planning, organizational development and executive coaching for foundations, nonprofits and companies. She was previously appointed by President Biden to serve as the Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant…
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Chief Medical Officer, Telenor Health
Fred Hersch is a medical doctor (MD/MPH) and technologist. He is passionate about global health and the role of (design led) technology in transforming health care delivery for the better. He was an early pioneer in the tele-medicine space co-founding MedTech Outreach Australia (2002) and developing…
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Fred de Sam Lazaro is a correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and executive director of the Under-Told Stories Project. He was a contributor and anchor for PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Fred also has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acclaimed documentary…
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Lead, Regenerative Food & Agriculture Systems and Nature Based Solutions, Climate Champions Race to Zero campaign
I am an experienced professional with 20 years' full-time professional track record in international development, strategic philanthropy, corporate responsibility, and partnership-building for sustainable development and systems change in Latin America, USA, and Europe.
My current professional…
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Deep Listening - Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
Emily Kasriel's book, "Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationship with Family, Friends & Foes," will be published by HarperCollins UK in May and US in June 2025. She has developed the Deep Listening approach, fuelled by empathy and curiosity, to foster understanding between people with vastly…
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Trauma Resource Institute
Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW is an author, radio show host, social worker, trauma therapist, co-founder, former Executive Director and current Director of Innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and key developer of the Community and Trauma Resiliency Models.
She is the author of Building…
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Deputy Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Foundation
Before joining the UN Foundation, Elizabeth Cousens served as U.S. Ambassador to the UN Economic and Social Council and Alternate Representative to the UN General Assembly (2012-14). She previously served as Principal Policy Advisor and Counselor to the Permanent Representative of the United…
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Edith Chapin is the Vice President and Executive Editor of NPR News. In that role she resumes responsibility for the NPR newsroom, setting daily news priorities, and directing all of NPR's news-gathering teams. She has full authority to work across the newsroom to ensure that desks, shows and digital…
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As Director of Analysis & Insight for the Skoll Foundation, Ehren Reed is responsible for assessing the impact and effectiveness of the foundation’s efforts in order to support ongoing learning and evidence-based decision making.
He was previously a Director of Innovation Network, a Washington…
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Director, Business for Social Responsibility
I've spent 20 years working at the nexus between private sector innovation, sustainable markets and social development. I'm passionate about enabling entrepreneurial innovation within corporations in collaboration with civil society, development and impact investing partners. I've had the pleasure of…
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CEO/Co-Founder, Rippleworks
Doug is on a mission to drive positive change in the world. As the co-founder & CEO of Rippleworks, a foundation dedicated to providing practical support that social ventures need to thrive and make a real impact. Through customized projects, leadership workshops, & access to flexible funding…
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Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of the Technology Impact Fund, Capricorn Investment Grp, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. TIF is an early investor in iconic companies like Tesla, Redwood Materials, Planet…
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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…
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Co-Innovation Architect / Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
David is a 28-year R&D veteran at Microsoft focused on innovation, productivity, and the future of work. He is interested in connecting and sharing ideas with people thinking about how technology will impact the way we live and work in the coming decades.
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Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management LLP (U.S.)
David Blood is co-founder and Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management. Previously, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs including serving as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management from 1999-2003. David received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David Bornstein is CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), which is leading a global movement to transform journalism, so it becomes a vital real-time mechanism for gathering knowledge and insight to address today's most urgent challenges and threats. SJN has engaged with over 40,000…
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Co-founder and President, Sanergy & Regen Organic
David Auerbach is a co-founder of The Sanergy Collaborative, which promotes the circular economy for fast-growing urban and rural communities by converting sanitation and organic waste into regenerative agricultural inputs. Regen's circular economy approach solves environmental challenges, a…
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President, Ford Foundation
Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a $16 billion international social justice philanthropy. Under his leadership, the Ford Foundation became the first non-profit in US history to issue a $1 billion designated social bond to stabilize non-profit organizations in the wake of COVID-19…
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Educator, Systems-led Leadership
Daniela Papi-Thornton is an educator whose work focuses on systems-led social interventions. Daniela has served as a Lecturer at Yale School of Management, Watson Institute, and Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she was the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship…
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Founder and President, Article 3 Advisors
Darian Weltman Swig is deeply engaged in the field of human rights and social justice. Darian’s life experience has been shaped by extensive global travel with NGO led missions to refugee camps, migrant centers, landmine/de-mining fields, post man-made and natural disaster crises locations, as…
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Founder, Spring Impact
Dan founded Spring Impact based on his experiences working across a range of social sector organisations, and his frustration on seeing great ideas not scaling up. With Spring Impact, Dan has developed scale strategies and implementation plans with over 200 organisations ranging from Skoll…
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Co-Founder, WE
Craig Kielburger is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of a family of organizations dedicated to the
power of WE, a movement of people coming together to change the world. Along with his brother Marc
Kielburger, Craig co-founded WE Charity, which provides a holistic development model…
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Producer, Strongheart Group
CORI SHEPHERD STERN is an Academy Award nominated producer focused on both documentary and fiction film projects. Her most recent film, which she wrote and produced, is BENDING THE ARC - a feature documentary about the epic arc of the global health rights movement through the intimate…
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Principal, Sherry Consulting
Christine Sherry founded and leads Sherry Consulting, a philanthropic advising practice. Her firm provides strategic, due diligence, market analysis and organizational development services for foundations, private donors and nonprofit organizations. Christine is also a Visiting Practitioner at the Stanford…
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Director, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Christian is a Director at Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) and the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at Stanford University. Previous positions include Director of Social Innovation Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, Academic Visitor at Oxford University’s Skoll Center, Leo Tindemans…
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Director - Global Partnerships, USAID / Global Development Lab
Chris Jurgens leads Center for Transformational Partnerships at the U.S. Global Development Lab, which champions USAID’s efforts to engage the private sector to advance development outcomes. His office manages the Global Development Alliance (GDA) – the Agency's flagship model for…
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Chief International Advocacy Officer, Natura
Char Love is a fiercely determined optimist who firmly believes in the power of people coming together as an unstoppable force for good. She is Natura &Co’s Chief International Advocacy Officer where she is focussed on identifying where to take a stand in this moment that matters and how to join…
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Chuck is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned a BA in Architecture and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith a leading travel gear company that grew to $100 million in revenue and over 2 million customers. As a private equity…
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Abogada con estudios de Historia, tiene una larga experiencia en conservación, áreas protegidas y trabajo con comunidades locales, especialmente indigenas.
Desde Amazon Conservation Team, Carolina y su equipo han trabajado arduamente con Indígenas y Campesinas en la protección de los…
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Founding Director, International Resource for Impact and Storytelling
Cara Mertes is an award-winning independent media field builder, Executive Producer and funder who has deployed millions of dollars into the independent media field across her various roles. Most recently, Cara founded IRIS (International resource for Impact & Storytelling) as a donor…
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Global Curator, TED Conferences Europe
Bruno Giussani is the Global Curator of TED, the organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDTalks (ted.com), and lead organizer of TED's climate initiative, Countdown (countdown.ted.com), which identifies and champions solutions to the climate crisis. Since joining TED in 2005…
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In 1966, as a young post-graduate student from a privileged urban background, Bunker Roy volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states. This experience changed him. He committed himself to fight poverty and inequality. He founded…
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Founder and CEO, Aceli Africa
Brian is Founder & CEO of Aceli Africa, a market incentive facility to mobilize private capital for small- and medium-enterprises in the agriculture sector across Africa. Since launching in 2020, Aceli has partnered with 25 commercial banks and impact investors to mobilize $80M+ in lending to SMEs that…
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Bruce’s work at Skoll focuses primarily on collective impact issues, many carried over from the Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF). A former diplomat, Bruce brings a policy lens to questions of scale, a key focus for all Skoll philanthropic activities. His current remit includes COVID-19 response, climate…
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Senior Director of Social Innovation, Indiegogo
Breanna DiGiammarino is the Senior Director of Social Innovation at Indiegogo, the world’s largest global crowdfunding company.
Since joining Indiegogo in 2012, Bre built the first operational infrastructure for the company’s vertical team and led the development and launch of…
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Former Chief Executive Officer, Polaris
Bradley Myles is former CEO of Polaris, a global leader in the fight to eradicate human trafficking and to restore freedom to survivors. Since 2002, he has devoted himself to combating human trafficking and modern slavery on a local, national, and global scale. Mr. Myles' early efforts focused on…
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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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Beto Veríssimo is a co-founder and associate researcher at Imazon, a think and do tank in the Brazilian Amazon. He is also co-founder of Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship. Moreover, he is Co-Director of Amazon 2030 Program, an initiative that seeks to develop an action plan for sustainable…
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Bart Houlahan co-founded B Lab in 2006. B Lab is a non-profit organization with offices in 33 countries, driving economic systems change to build a more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy. Its mission is to serve a movement of people using business as a force for good by shining a light…
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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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Journalist, author, 35 years working on predictable, reliable mechanical transport systems for health care delivery in distant, neglected places in Africa. Skoll awardee 2005. I prefer not to refer to my 'ethnicity' because it is clear to me that the whole notion of, for example, 'race' is not logically…
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Founder and Director, Altruism in Medicine Institute
Ven. Dr. Barry Kerzin is an American trained physician and Buddhist monk who is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the Centre for Buddhist Studies, HKU, as well as an Honorary Professor at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences. He is the founder and president of…
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Co-Founder Conveners.org, Conveners-Org
Bringing new companies from idea to reality is Avary Kent's passion. She blends scientific analysis with business acumen and operational expertise to help bring new companies and products to market. She excels in companies that are focused on creating new holistic systems to manage growth and…
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Innovative Finance Advisor, Individual
Aunnie Patton Power is the Innovative Finance Lead at the Bertha Centre and an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd School of Business. In these roles, she manages projects on Social Impact Bonds/Development Impact Bonds, Impact Investing and sustainable philanthropy, consults to a…
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Founding Partner, Total Impact Capital
Arthur is TOTAL's (formerly known as Total Impact Advisors) Founding Partner in Europe. Over his career he has held senior positions in both "for profit" . Arthur is a recognized innovator in social finance and frequently invited to speak and write on innovative financing vehicles for social purposes…
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Chief Executive Officer, Muso
Ari Johnson, MD, serves as CEO of Muso, and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, with the Institute for Global Health Sciences. The co-recipient of the 2021 Charles Bronfman Humanitarian Prize, Ari trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at…
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Executive Director,
NidanArbind Singh is a social entrepreneur and activist working with informal workers and their children in India .He founded Nidan in 1996 and National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) in 1999 National Policy for Street Vendors of India in 2004 which was adopted by 11 states of India .In…
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A lifelong educationalist, I began my career teaching English at secondary level before focusing on children excluded from mainstream education. Following research in Zimbabwe, I founded CAMFED International to support and advance the education of rural girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The…
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Executive Director, Segal Family Foundation
Andy Bryant joined the foundation as Executive Director in 2010. He leads the foundation’s team and implements the vision of the board of directors. He has overseen an increase in the foundation’s annual giving from $2 million in 2010 to over $18 million in 2022 alongside the growth of the partner…
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Managing Partner, Silvan Ingredient Ecosystem
Andy is the founder and Managing Partner of Silvan Ingredient Ecosystem. Silvan is an ecosystem that enables the world’s most sustainable and regenerative ingredient growers to meet the demands of the modern brand and consumer.
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International Director, Centre for Policy Development
Andrew is an international human rights lawyer with 20 years of varied UN and international advocacy experience. Andrew has held many positions at Crisis Action since joining in 2010, including New York Director and Deputy Executive Director. He provides world-class leadership to a global team and…
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Andrew is co-founder and board co-chair of B Lab, the nonprofit organization behind the B Corp movement. B Lab’s vision is stakeholder capitalism - an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all. B Lab drives systemic change by changing the culture, behavior, and structure of…
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Investigative Journalist, Tiger Eye Foundation
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is an undercover journalist, attorney and private detective working in Ghana and across the African continent. In disguise, he finds his way into asylums, brothels, prisons, orphanages and villages, where he methodically gathers evidence for hard-hitting stories -- then presents the…
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I have worked in sport for many years - motorcycle racing and soccer. I am co-founder of Riders for Health, founder of Two Wheels for Life and co-founder of The Elders Council for Social Entreprwneurs. My focus is on health systems for communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and on supporting other…
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Co-Founder & Partner, Tribe Impact Capital
Amy is Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Tribe Impact Capital, a dedicated impact investment wealth manager and Best for the World B Corps. Amy is an environmental scientist by training with over 25 years’ experience in corporate sustainability and impact investing. Before founding Tribe, Amy…
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We promote market based approach to poverty reduction. Till date 1.7 million smallholder farmers households moved out of poverty by adopting our small scale irrigation technology
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Managing Partner, Merian Ventures
ALEXSIS DE RAADT ST JAMES
MANAGING PARTNER
Alexsis is an investor and entrepreneur with over 25 years investment experience. She is the founder and managing partner of Merian Ventures, a US and UK venture capital firm. Merian Ventures partners with exceptional female entrepreneurs who…
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Alex Nicholls is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford.
He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. In 2004, he was the co-founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship…
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Albina Ruiz is an Industrial Engineer, PhD in Chemical Engineering, has 38 years of experience as a social entrepreneur and environmental activist, expert in sustainable development projects, with emphasis on Circular Economy, climate change, integrated solid waste management, rational use of…
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Former Vice President of the United States and Chairman of The Climate Reality Project, Office of the Honorable Al Gore
Al Gore
Former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate
An environmental, business, and tech visionary recognized as one of the world's leading activists, former US Vice President Al Gore was referred to by TIME magazine as “a businessman who is out to change the world.”
VP Gore is the founder and…
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Executive Director, New Media Advocacy Project
Adam is the founder and executive director of the New Media Advocacy Project and the CEO of LawHub. His work focuses on using media and storytelling to shift the balance of power in the world’s legal systems. As a young lawyer, Adam experimented with video as a tool to win challenging…
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Project Leader, Wellbeing Project
Aaron is excited about the interplay between our inner lives and the broader world. Aaron Pereira is currently Project Lead for The Wellbeing Project. The Wellbeing Project is focused on catalysing a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. The Wellbeing Project is co-created with Ashoka…
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Vivek founded Namati in 2011 to grow the movement for legal empowerment around the world. Namati and its partners have built cadres of community legal workers – sometimes known as “barefoot lawyers”– in ten countries. The advocates have worked with over 65,000 people to protect community…
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Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation and focuses on developing and amplifying the Foundation's work to enable lasting social change. She has been a social entrepreneur, investor and advisor and brings a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary view to her work.
Before…
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Safeena Husain, Founder of Educate Girls, is a social impact leader, empowering communities for girls’ education in India’s hardest-to-reach villages. Recognised globally, she received an honorary doctorate from LSE and became the first Indian woman awarded the WISE Prize in 2023 for her work in…
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Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Bob Annibale
Global Director,
Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance
Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial…
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President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Since April 2017, Richard Besser, MD, has been president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ABC News’ former chief health and medical editor.
At RWJF, Besser leads the largest private…
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Member, The Elders
Mary Robinson is a founding member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, who work together for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet. She has served as Chair since 2018, and is a passionate advocate for gender equality, human…
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President, Samueli Family Philanthropies and COO, H&S Ventures, Samueli Foundation
Lindsey Spindle is president of the Samueli Family Philanthropies and a senior executive in the Samueli family office, H&S Ventures.
Lindsey’s career has been exclusively dedicated to achieving social impact. Before joining the Samuelis, she served as president of the Jeff Skoll Group where she helped…
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COO & Head of Portfolio, Mulago Foundation
Kristin leads Mulago's grant and investment portfolio and oversees operations. She joined Mulago in 2013 to grow and support an exemplary portfolio of social investments – grants, debt and equity – in high-impact organizations with a scalable solution to meet the basic needs of the poor.
Her…
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Head of Grants and Investments, Mulago Foundation
Laura is responsible for Mulago’s operations, investment strategy and execution, leading a team that sources, vets and manages over 100 funding relationships (grants, debt and equity) with social enterprises in Africa and South/Southeast Asia. Since Laura joined the foundation in 2007, Mulago…
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CEO, Mulago Foundation
Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale. Most…
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Founder, MCE Social Capital
Author, The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur (June, 2017). Bio: http://www.jonathanclewis.com/the-author/
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An international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen moved to Cambodia in 1994 to train the country’s first core group of public defenders and subsequently served as a United Nations Judicial Mentor. Karen formed IBJ in 2000 after witnessing…
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CEO, Alight
Jocelyn Wyatt is the CEO of Alight, where she leads more than 3,500 team members globally. Her vast experience in strategic development on a global scale is intrinsically human-centered. Alight works in more than 20 countries, co-creating dignified spaces and human-worthy services for and…
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Managing Partner and Founder, Grove Social Impact Partners
J.B. Schramm is Managing Partner of Grove Impact, a national partnership of social change pioneers catalyzing bold systems-change initiatives. Schramm formerly led New Profit’s $25M Learn to Earn fund to help learners achieve economic mobility by weaving work and study together. Forbes…
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for almost forty years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm…
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Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership
Foundation leader, public health physician, university professor, social change practitioner and award-winning author. Career rooted in front-line medical and humanitarian work. Extensive work with public sector, business, civil society and philanthropy to build progressive partnerships for change…
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Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Antonio Zappulla is CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate foundation of the global news and information services company. Through news, media development, free legal assistance, and convening initiatives, the Thomson Reuters Foundation combines its unique services to advance…
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Anushka is recognized as a Global Leader in designing digital financial tools for smallholder farmers & designing for greater gender inclusion. She’s a serial entrepreneur who has had leadership roles in some of the most awarded and recognized social enterprises in the last two decades – Kiva.org…
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Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s people living on $1-a-day are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers. One Acre Fund has 9,000 full-time staff who…
