Getting Beyond Business as Usual: Paving the Way for Social Progress
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Session Description
We live in a world in which GDP and quarterly earnings dominate, leaving critical aspects of social progress under-prioritized, underfunded, and marginalized. While solutions exist, their innovators continue to face systemic barriers, structural inefficiencies, and constrained resource flows—blocking benefits to those who need them most. Join leading reformers and systems thinkers to discuss how we can bring about a new status quo: a world in which social progress is valued, and where the most promising solutions are recognized and adopted by those with the power to bring about a just and sustainable future.
FORMAT: PANEL DISCUSSION
Time & Location
Time:
10:00 - 11:15, Wednesday, April 13, 2016
BST
Location:
SBS, Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Speakers
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Speaker
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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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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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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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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Moderator
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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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…
