BBC Global Business: Financing Social Entrepreneurship – 2013 Skoll World Forum Panel
Speakers
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Unknown, Rockefeller Foundation
Judith Rodin is a pioneer, innovator, change-maker, and global thought-leader. For over two decades, Dr. Rodin led and transformed two global institutions: The University of Pennsylvania and The Rockefeller Foundation. Her leadership at Rockefeller ushered in a new era of strategic philanthropy that emphasized large-scale partnerships with business and government to address and solve for the complex challenges of the 21st century, and championed two new fields that are at the forefront of current thinking: resilience and impact investing. Dr. Rodin has served as a board member of nine leading public companies, including Citigroup, Comcast and Aetna, as well as numerous venture-capital backed startups, and nonprofits including The Brookings Institution. She has been the recipient of 19 honorary doctorate degrees, numerous prestigious honors, and is a sought-after speaker for influential global forums including The World Economic Forum, the United Nations General Assembly and the Vatican Global Forum. Dr. Rodin has authored more than 200 academic articles and chapters, and has written or co-written 15 books, including The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good and The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong. Her latest book, released in early 2021 by Wharton School Press, is entitled Making Money Moral: How a New Wave of Visionaries is Linking Purpose and Profit.
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Presenter, BBC
Peter Day was born in Norfolk in 1947 and educated at Lincoln School and the University of Oxford. He joined BBC Radio News in 1974. In 1988, he became the presenter of the Radio 4 programme 'In Business' with a mandate to seek out the trends influencing the working world. Peter has that rare ability of making listeners interested in subjects they didn’t realise they cared about. Since 2000 he has also presented the BBC World Service’s Global Business. His podcast, Peter Day's World of Business is one of the BBC’s most popular downloads.
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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 to support wealth-building by the American families (buildcommonwealth.org); and policy engagements credited with influencing US policy, including the U.S. American Savings Promotion Act. As Dean, he has emphasized the role of business education in addressing the major challenges of the world through deeper connections with the broader university and a clearer articulation of purpose. At Oxford, this orientation has manifested itself in the Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme; the “Global Opportunities & Threats: Oxford” required course that emphasizes systems interventions and leadership; a set of new entrepreneurial projects including the pan-University The Oxford Foundry and the global partnership with Creative Destruction Lab; the promotion of humanities in the leadership curriculum; and the promotion of a responsible business agenda oriented around the UN SDGs. Before joining Oxford, Tufano spent 33 years at Harvard, with more than two decades on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he co-founded the Harvard University Innovation Lab (i-Lab).
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner, IGNIA Partners, LLC
Álvaro Rodriguez Arregui is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Compartamos SAB de CV and Compartamos Banco, Latin America's largest microfinance organisation. Alvaro has formerly served as CFO of Vitro, Chairman of the Board of ACCION International and Chairman of the Board of Unidos Somos Iguales. Forbes recently named Alvaro as one of the 30 Top Social Entrepreneurs of the world. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
