Leading with Authenticity – 2014 Skoll World Forum

Speakers

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  Kelvin Taketa

  President & CEO, Hawaii Community Foundation

  Kelvin H. Taketa is president and chief executive officer of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation (HCF) – the largest foundation in the state that works to transform lives and improve communities. In 2012, HCF administered $45 million in grants and contracts for programs and initiatives in Hawai‘i. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Kelvin graduated from Colorado College and received his Juris Doctor from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. He has spent his entire career in the nonprofit sector and helped found The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, where he served as executive director. In 2010, Kelvin was named in the Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50, an annual listing of 50 influential executives in the nonprofit sector. He currently serves as a board member for Hawaiian Electric Industries and Hawaiian Electric Company, and as board treasurer for the Independent Sector, a leadership coalition of charities, foundations and corporate giving programs.

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  Rafiatu Lawal

  CAMA (CAMFED Alumnae Association) National Chairperson, CAMFED

  Rafiatu Lawal is passionate about education and the development of disadvantaged and rural communities. She comes from a family of 11, from a small village called Daboya in the Northern Region of Ghana. She is teaches home economics and general science at Nahadah Islamic Junior High School in Tamale. She is also the past national chairperson of CAMA (Camfed's Alumnae) network in Ghana. Cama is one of a kind in Africa, bringing together young women change-makers. It seeks to break the cycle of poverty in their families. She is deeply interested in education and in working to ensure that every child gets the opportunity of going to school. She is an alumnus of The MasterCard Foundation Youth Think Tank.

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  Sebastien Marot

  Executive Director, Friends-International

  Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, 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 practice programs that provide protection and social reintegration services including access to employment for youth and parents, school reintegration for children and family conservation. Friends-International also established and powers the award-winning ChildSafe Movement that selects, trains, certifies and supports key actors of society to better protect children. It has also developed an international network of over 60 organizations (3PC), working together to develop and coordinate best quality services. To support this expansion, Friends-International utilizes a series of social business models providing training opportunities and financial sustainability.

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  Diana Aviv

  Unknown, Individual

  about Diana Aviv diana.aviv@outlook.com Diana has spent most of her professional life in leadership roles collaborating with partners to improve life for individuals, families and communities. During her tenure as CEO, Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the U.S., in partnership with the network of 200 foodbanks, provided almost 5 billion meals to 46 million Americans. As President and CEO of Independent Sector, the forum of local, national and global foundations, nonprofits, corporations and individuals working to improve the world, for twelve years Diana served as the voice of the charitable sector in the U.S.. As Executive Director of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, Diana and her team worked actively with thousands of organizations across the U.S. to develop a common commitment to principles of good governance and ethical practice for the charitable and philanthropic sector. As Vice President for Public Policy and head of the Washington Action Office for Jewish Federations of North America Diana worked with domestic and international partners on federal public policy designed to help vulnerable populations. Throughout her career, Diana worked closely with Members of Congress, the White House and the administration helping to shape legislation, and policies intended to empower individuals and communities. Earlier in her career, as CEO of a domestic violence agency Diana developed the first program of its kind to work with the victims of domestic violence as well as their abusers. She was frequently called upon as an expert witness in criminal cases where perpetrators potentially were facing the death penalty. Diana currently serves as consultant to individuals, organizations, foundations and philanthropists focused on organization development, advocacy, strategy advancement, coalition building as well as leadership and board development. She has also served as co-founder/co-CEO of a B CORP self mode start up

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  Bill Drayton

  Founder and CEO, Ashoka, Ashoka

  Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service. As the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems-change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch. As a student, he founded organizations ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an inter-disciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. After graduation from Harvard, he received an M.A. from Balliol College in Oxford University. In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School. He worked at McKinsey & Company for ten years and taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While serving the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, he launched many reforms including emissions trading, a fundamental change in regulation that is now the basis of much global as well as US regulatory law, including in fields beyond the environment.  Bill launched Ashoka in 1980; in 1984, he used the stipend he received when elected a MacArthur Fellow to devote himself fully to Ashoka. Bill is Ashoka’s Chief Executive Officer. He also chairs Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Bill has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He has been selected one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and, in 2019, Drayton was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society. Other awards include Honorary Doctorates from Yale, NYU and more.

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