Driving Change From Within: The Social Intrapreneur 2013 Skoll World Forum
Speakers
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Director, Corporate Strategy, Citigroup, Inc.
Aslihan Denizkurdu is a Director of Corporate Strategy at Citigroup, where she develops long-term strategies and facilitates informed decision-making relating to priority countries in emerging markets. Before joining Citi, she was Senior Buy-Side Research Analyst at AllianceBernstein, where she covered financial institutions. Raised in Turkey, Aslihan graduated Magna Cum Laude from NYU's School of Business with a BS in Finance and International Business. She is currently a fellow with Aspen Institute’s First Movers programme.
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Category Manager, Unilever
James Inglesby is Category Manager for Unilever Nigerian and Co-Founder/Director of Clean Team Ghana. James’s current role in Nigeria involves the management of new product launches of key Unilever products into the fast growing Nigerian market. James was the Unilever lead for the Clean Team project, which set up a sanitation business serving the urban poor of Ghana. The Clean Team business is an innovative public private partnership. James is an Aspen First Movers Fellow and passionate social entrepreneur.
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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 dialogue, networks and public programs that put common sense decision-making at the heart of business practice and education.
Before Aspen, Judy led the Ford Foundation's office of Program Related-Investments. She has also been a middle-market banker in New York's garment center for Bankers Trust Company, and a lobbyist and legislative aide in her home state of California, working on health and education issues.
Judy studied Political Science and Art History at UCLA and has a Master's Degree from the Yale School of Management. She is on the Board of the Center for Political Accountability which promotes transparency of political contributions by business, and has held Board positions at ACCION-New York, All Souls Unitarian Church, and Net Impact, where she is Chair Emeritus. Judy was named to the “Good Business New York™ list of Leading Women and a Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior. Judy publishes and speaks on the role of corporations in society; she tweets @JudySamuelson and blogs for Huffington Post.
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Strategic Business Developer, Hilti Foundation
Regula Schegg is Strategic Business Developer for Hilti Foundation, Principality of Liechtenstein. Her role emphasises the establishment of social enterprises providing affordable, eco-efficient and disaster-resilient housing concepts in the urban context of Asia and the Pacific. She focuses on the provision of livelihood opportunities and community engagement in manufacturing and constructing alternative building materials and pre-fab housing system. Regula is an Aspen Business and Society Program First Mover Fellow of Class 2011.
