Skoll World Forum 2025
Thursday, January 1, 1970
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n/a, Project Redwood
Brad Smith co-chairs Project Redwood, a venture philanthropy organization led by Stanford GSB alumni, which provides grants to social entrepreneurs focused on alleviating global poverty. These grant recipients increase human capital through job creation, education, and training. Project Redwood supplements its grants with mentoring, consulting, and professional connections.
After a 30-year career in IT and operations, Brad transitioned to nonprofit work in January 2025, applying his expertise to improve lives in disadvantaged communities.
In addition to his work with Project Redwood, Brad serves on the board of THRIVEGulu, volunteers as a consultant with Stanford SEED program, and helps manage his family’s private school in Northern India that educates 1,300 students in an underserved region.
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Head of Secretariat, Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari
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Executive Director, Four Friends Foundation
Katja Shaye is the Executive Director of the Four Friends Foundation, which seeks to energize people and communities through creativity, storytelling and artistic expression. The Four Friends supports strategic storytelling projects for innovative nonprofits, connecting the dots between exceptional organizations and their stakeholder audiences for targeted impact. Motivated by the belief that creativity unlocks potential and good ideas come from everywhere, the foundation is focused on expanding access to quality arts education for youth in historically underfunded communities in the U.S.
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Chief Executive Officer, Bold Ventures
Jessyca Dudley, Founder + CEO, Bold Ventures
Jessyca Dudley (she/her) is an experienced social sector leader and strategic advisor who has supported individuals and organizations to shape their strategy, implementation, and learning to advance racial equity.
As the founder and CEO of Bold Ventures, she leads a dynamic team and develops strong and trusting relationships with clients through facilitation and stakeholder engagement that enhances the impact of their efforts.
Jessyca’s prior leadership roles include serving as the Executive Director of Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy, as a Director at Arabella Advisors where she developed new strategy approaches and advocated for investment in BIPOC communities, and as the Gun Violence Prevention program officer for the Joyce Foundation.
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Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
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Robert’s designs innovative economic solutions for a sustainable planet and builds data narratives to generate insight and knowledge. His work is influenced by his operational experiences in international humanitarian operations and systems approaches to human resilience. At QWB Lab his interest is turning cultural assets such as public libraries, museums, art galleries into generators of wellbeing to build SMARTer Cities, encouraging inclusivesness, accessibility and reducing urban immiseration.
QWB Lab won an innovation award from the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and is currently working with Carinthia Museum and Carintia University of Applied Sciences to use broadband and UX technology to scale up impact & accessiblity to culture. He is a technical member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and an alumnus of the Impulse Program for entrepreneurship and innovation.He received an oversea humantarian service medal from Australia for service in the Balkans conflict
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CEO, Whistleblower Aid
Libby Liu is an internationally renowned expert on human rights, press freedom, information operations and internet freedom who joined Whistleblower Aid as chief executive officer in April 2021.
Prior to joining Whistleblower Aid, Ms. Liu created the Open Technology Fund (OTF), where she spearheaded efforts to support tools that circumvent censorship and surveillance and advance free speech worldwide. Today, more than 2 billion people use OTF-supported technologies every day, including Signal, TOR and Wireguard.
Ms. Liu was compelled to create OTF to protect the digital lives of individuals while serving as president of Radio Free Asia (RFA), a non-profit media company that provides uncensored objective news and information otherwise unavailable to audiences in East Asia. In 16 years at the helm, she led RFA’s vision, directed RFA’s editorial strategy and shaped its administrative policies, working closely with a bipartisan board, its grantor agency, USAGM, oversight and appropriations committees of the U.S. Congress, the State Department, international public broadcasters and stakeholders in the U.S. and abroad.
Ms. Liu has served as assistant district attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and is a former corporate labor and employment law attorney.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2021, she was honored as a Luxembourg Peace Prize laureate for outstanding work on technology that promotes peace.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director, ResilienceVC
Vikas Raj is co-founder and Managing Partner of ResilienceVC, a venture investor in fintech startups that drive financial resilience for all Americans. Over the course of his career, he has invested in over 75 fintech startups, helping them raise over $1 billion and creating over $4 billion in value, with a singular focus on inclusive solutions for highly underserved consumers and small businesses. Previously, Vikas was the Managing Director of Accion Venture Lab and an M&A investment banker at Evercore Partners.
Vikas is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Johns Hopkins (SAIS), where he teaches courses on startup investing and financial services. He is also the Chair of the Investment Committee of The Catalyst Fund, an early stage climate fintech fund focused on Africa, and is a fintech contributor for Forbes.
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Senior Director of Development,
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CEO, Primaku
Muhammad "Didit" Indraputra, CFA, is a seasoned finance professional & entrepreneur based in Indonesia, with extensive experience in private equity, banking & digital innovation. He's the co-founder & CEO of PrimaKu, a leading digital pediatric ecosystem dedicated to combating stunting & improving child health in Indonesia.
He has built an expertise in tech entrepreneurship through his extensive experience as:
- Innovator of the Year 2024 at Health Innovation Exchange
- Managing Director at Wirecard AG Group
- Advisor to the Board at KFC Indonesia
- Deputy Head of Fintech Lending Association
- Investment professional at Saratoga Capital & Citi
- Member at Mensa Indonesia
- Instructor at Binus University
Building on this foundation, he co-founded PrimaKu, leveraging his vast experience to navigate challenges and drive innovation in Indonesia's growing digital economy. His work continues to reflect a commitment to solving pressing societal issues through technology.
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CEO, Antara International, Antara Foundation
Shannon is CEO, Antara International, leading fundraising and awareness for the work of The Antara Foundation in India. Antara works with government health systems to strengthen healthcare delivery for women and children at the last mile in Madhya Pradesh, India. Shannon built her career in the global nonprofit sector. Prior to Antara, she worked for mothers2mothers, a South Africa-based NGO that employs women as community health workers across sub-Saharan Africa, as Director of Corporate Partnerships and previously as Director of Development. For nearly nine years prior, Shannon was at the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid organization operating in 50+ countries and 28 cities across the U.S., specializing in corporate partnerships, cause marketing, and multi-faceted campaigns. Shannon is passionate about women’s rights, health, the environment, and community building. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York.
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Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
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Philanthropy Lead, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Olivia is Philanthropy Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, responsible for the overall strategy and management of a portfolio of philanthropically funded research and demonstration efforts to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Olivia has also led the Foundation’s work on the built environment, working with the Foundation’s partners to help accelerate implementation of circular economy across the real estate, buildings and construction sector.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Olivia spent 10 years in sustainability consultancy, advising businesses on their sustainability strategies, with a particular focus on environmental policy and regulation, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and environmental risk.
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Vice President for Communications, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Michael Murphy serves as chief of staff at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in addition to his continued leadership of the communications team. In partnership with WKKF President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron and the executive leadership team, Murphy stewards external relations, key sector engagements, enterprise-wide efforts such as the National Day of Racial Healing, and new initiatives and projects as they are designed and created across the foundation. Murphy joined WKKF in 2021 as vice president of communications.
For more than eight years, Murphy was chief marketing officer at the Cleveland Foundation, where he was responsible for providing strategic communications, public affairs, and thought leadership counsel for the world’s first community foundation. He was responsible for the foundation’s reputation and brand strategy, while leading the integrated marketing and communications team to articulate the mission, vision, values and goals of the Cleveland Foundation.
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Co-Founder & Advocacy Director, UNDI18
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Partner/Founder, Apis and Heritage
Philip Reeves is a proven leader in small business development and funding. He has more than 10 years of experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors focused on successfully advising senior executives on how to identify and implement actions needed to achieve their business goals.
Philip is the founder and principal of an investment and business advisory firm that works with global alternative investors. He also partnered with 1863 Ventures, where he led an industry-agnostic program focused on scaling businesses through operational improvements, sustainable sales processes, human capital best practices and financial management.
Philip’s background includes serving as the Manager of Small Business Technology and Innovation for the Government of the District of Columbia and working in corporate development for a growing government contractor, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and business development. Philip began his career on Wall Street in private equity at Lehman Brothers.
He is the former President (Curator) of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Washington, DC Hub and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College.
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Partner/Founder, Apis and Heritage
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Co-Founder and Vice President of Programs, Healthy Learners
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VP, Development, GiveDirectly
Sarah is the VP of Product at GiveDirectly, where she is responsible for driving innovation, learning, and new program development across GiveDirectly's cash programs. She previously held positions in fundraising (as VP of Development) and program operations (as GiveDirectly's first Country Director in the United States). Before joining GiveDirectly, Sarah was the Senior Director of Development and Operations at Grassroot Soccer, an adolescent health organization operating across southern Africa. Sarah has spent the last 13 years in nonprofit fundraising, business development, and program operations.
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Director of Partnerships and Community, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
Cat Uong is the Director of Partnerships and Community at Stanford PACS. Cat is a tri-sector professional with extensive experience in social entrepreneurship, technology startup investing, public-private partnerships, and nonprofit management and fundraising. Cat joins PACS with significant interest in the future of philanthropy as our society’s risk capital, and its potential to meet the needs of our most marginalized communities. Prior to joining PACS, Cat managed development and partnerships at Summit Public Schools, a nationally recognized K-12 public charter school network. Cat holds a Master of Public Affairs from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, as well as a B.A. in Business Administration (Social Entrepreneurship) and B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California.
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Root Change
Evan is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Root Change, a pro-equity social change organization dedicated to empowering social innovators to scale enduring solutions to social and economic challenges. Root Change achieves this by designing cutting-edge products, technologies, and interactive experiences that enable individuals, organizations, and communities to shape better futures.
A pioneer in action research, systems strengthening, and lean experimentation, Evan integrates these approaches into his work to drive innovative solutions and sustainable impact. He has led the development and facilitation of social labs, which emphasize radical equality, collaboration, and iterative learning cycles to address complex social challenges. His expertise also extends to systems mapping, using network analysis and real-time data to identify leverage points and guide collective action. His work spans 40+ countries, promoting equity and transformative change.
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CEO, Crankstart
Missy Narula is the CEO of Crankstart Foundation and Crankstart Management LLC. She manages investments and business activities for the family office while leading the foundation's efforts in addressing social issues, focusing on Education, Economic Mobility, Democracy, Housing Security, Sciences, and the Environment. The foundation's work is primarily Bay Area-based, recognizing the interdependence of life's stable components.
Missy's diverse background includes entrepreneurship, investing, and consulting. She's a global finance executive known for leveraging financial information for strategic insights. As an entrepreneur, she gained recognition through publications in Forbes and interviews on major networks.With an MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar, top 5%) and a BA in Psychology from Yale, Missy combines community orientation with an investor mindset and operational creativity. She's a mother of three and hails from Euclid, Ohio. Missy considers building and leading
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Head of Development, Old Fire Station
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CEO, FinRegLab
Melissa Koide is the CEO of FinRegLab, a nonprofit research center that tests new technologies and data and facilitates dialogue to inform public policy and drive the financial sector toward a responsible and inclusive financial marketplace. FinRegLab evaluates how technology and data can be safely used to increase financial inclusion and improve financial services for consumers, small businesses, and communities. FinRegLab’s AI and machine learning research has informed and advanced public policies and market practices on the inclusive and fair use of machine learning algorithms in high-risk, high-reward use cases such as credit underwriting.
Prior to establishing FinRegLab, Melissa served as the U.S. Treasury Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consumer Policy. In that role, Melissa helped to build the first government offered preretirement savings product, the myRA. She also established the $5 million Innovation Fund to support research and strategies to improve consumers’
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Board of Directors, Women Moving Millions
Dana Su Lee has been a devoted and long-time communitarian in Las Vegas, where she has served on numerous boards in the arts, policy, and education.
She is a founder of the Nevada Women’s Philanthropy, a giving circle that makes large annual impact grants to address critical needs in Southern Nevada. In addition to her non-profit advocacy, she was appointed to a state panel to address education reform and a committee that determined funding to victims of the October 1 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival.
Dana currently serves on the boards of Women Moving Millions, the Dia Art Foundation, the Las Vegas Museum of Art, the Triple Aught Foundation, Nevada Women’s Philanthropy and the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, and is a member of the Brown University Arts Advisory Council, the National Committee of the Whitney Museum, and the North American Acquisitions Committee of the Tate.
She received her BA in art history from Brown University and MAM from Carnegie-Mellon.
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Analyst, Global Health Equity, Philanthropy, Emerson Collective
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President and Founder, Healthy Learners
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Member, Women Moving Millions
Rachel Foster is the co-founder and chair of World Without Exploitation (WorldWE). Previously, an advocate at Sanctuary for Families, a settlement house community organizer, attorney and board officer at Brooklyn Legal Services, and a board member at various non-profits.
She has been honored by United Neighborhood Houses and Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Rachel was Campaign Director for New Abolitionists. She was an adjunct professor at NYU’s School of Social Work and has given university lectures in the US and abroad.
As President of Heights Advisors, her social impact development includes building the first ground up domestic violence shelter in the country where families can exit abusive situations with their pets and two transitional family shelters, each over 160 units housing 500 individuals.
In 2016, she co-founded Brooklyn Cat Cafe, a non-profit animal shelter, adoption center, and low-cost veterinary clinic with over 130,000 visitors and 13,000 adoptions.
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Member, Women Moving Millions
Jana Shea, founder of Shea Theatricals and cofounder of Seaview Productions and the streaming platform, Broadstream, is passionate about entertainment that raises traditionally ignored voices. Credits include: Romeo + Juliet, Stereophonic, SUFFS, Parade, POTUS, Pass Over, Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Show Boat, Gypsy, All of Me, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Sweeney Todd, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, India’s Daughter (Peabody Award), and many more. Her arts streaming platform, Broadstream, provides entertainment and opportunities for traditionally marginalized communities. Jana is also Vice-President of Legacy Theatre, a premier professional repertory venue in Branford, Connecticut. She serves on the boards of Women Moving Millions and The New Group off-Broadway non-profit theatre. Lastly, she is co-owner of Borderlight Entertainment, a talent management company, and Aware Recovery Care, an in-home addiction rehabilitation program.
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Director of Foundation Relations, MSI Reproductive Choices
Meghan has been with MSI for more than13 years and currently leads a team building strategic partnerships with private foundations. Prior to joining MSI United States, she served as the Senior Program Design and Development Advisor for MSI Reproductive Choices in Asia and the Middle East, based in New Delhi, India. She directly supported seven country programs in new business development, fundraising, and strategy development. She also provided leadership on global business development initiatives.
Previously, Meghan worked with Chemonics International, a USAID contractor, where she worked collaboratively with teams across the organization on new business development to secure multi-million dollar awards across multiple sectors including health and environment in Asia and Latin America.
Meghan has an MPH in global health and a BA in international affairs and Latin American studies from The George Washington University.
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CEO, Pacific Community Ventures
Bulbul Gupta is President & CEO of Pacific Community Ventures, one of the US’s first impact investing funds, now a nonprofit CDFI. There she leads a restorative capital strategy to invest in under-estimated and historically discriminated entrepreneurs and build wealth for the New Majority, one good quality job at a time in the Just Transition - climate, racial, and economic justice. Bulbul recently served on the Department of Treasury’s inaugural Racial Equity Advisory Council, and serves on the Board of Blab; and Advisory Councils for Inclusive Capital at the Department of Commerce, and Job Quality Measurement at the Department of Labor. She previously led Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing at the Clinton Global Initiative, helped launch the Obama White House's Impact Investing task force in 2013, and advised the Clinton-Kane and Biden-Harris presidential campaigns on inclusive entrepreneurship and racial equity.
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Member, Women Moving Millions
Lisa Valone is passionate about enabling women and girls to have agency to choose the life they desire through control of their reproductive health, pathways to climate and economic resiliency and access to education. Lisa is a board member of MSI Reproductive Choices US which provides contraception and abortion services that enable women around the world to choose their own futures. Lisa is a founding member of Mercy Corps’ Women’s Climate Alliance which supports women in climate-vulnerable regions lead advances in adaptive solutions. As a member of Women Moving Millions, she leads the effort to educate and expand international philanthropy among members. Lisa has been a board member of Health Equity International, which provides healthcare in Haiti, and the 1000 Women Leaders Campaign of the UN’s Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund. Earlier in her career, Lisa founded Operation Smile Brazil and worked at the American Red Cross and a health insurance plan for Medicaid recipients.
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Director, Global Health Equity, Emerson Collective
Dr. Rebecca Hope is the Director of Emerson Collective's global health portfolio. She is a pediatrician, designer, and public health specialist with 23 years of experience in global health across 19 countries. In her former roles as co-Founder and CEO of YLabs, and at Harvard School of Public Health and IDEO.org, she designed, evaluated, and scaled digital products and services reaching over 1.5 million people. She was recently named a Top 50 in Digital Health 2024 by Rock Health for her work on Asking for a Friend, an app providing inclusive and safe reproductive health access for American teens. She’s trained and funded multiple community-based organizations, leading health innovation accelerators in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Tanzania. She has a degree in Medicine, an MSc in Paediatrics and Child Health, a BSc (Hons) in International Health from University College London and the University of Leeds and an MPH from Harvard.
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Co-Founder & Executive Director, UltraViolet
Shaunna Thomas is co-founder of UltraViolet, a 1.2M member feminist activist organization in the U.S. known as leaders of the gender-based violence accountability movement and for their campaigns holding corporations and media platforms accountable for gendered disinformation and sexist AI as well as online and offline violence targeting women of color. Shaunna's had a twenty-year career in progressive organizing, culture-change strategies, building progressive infrastructure, and winning critical policy fights at the national level. Before founding UltraViolet, Shaunna was the Co-Founder and Director of the P Street Project, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing progressive members of Congress. Prior to that, Shaunna was the COO of Progressive Caucus Policy Center, a nonprofit supporting the policy and organizing work of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Shaunna has appeared numerous times on network and cable TV including NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC as a political commentator.
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Board Chair, Women Moving Millions
Stacey Keare is the current Board Chair at Women Moving Millions. She is an attorney, philanthropist, and public policy analyst who, along with her husband, is the Founder of the Girls Rights Project, an organization dedicated to advancing the rights of girls throughout the world using a combination of research, advocacy and philanthropy. Stacey has spent the last twenty years finding and supporting innovative grass roots organizations that help girls gain access to education and sport, develop leadership skills, and live lives of safety, hope, and economic opportunity. Stacey studied international relations at Stanford University, has a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a law degree from UC Law San Francisco. She is currently on the Board of Amplify Girls and is on the Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board, Tahirih Justice Center SF Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of Parity Lab. She lives in Woodside CA.
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Projects Associate - Networks and Fellowships, Emergence Network
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Secretary General, F20
Katrin is the is the Secretary General of the Foundations Platform F20 (F20).
Before joining F20, Katrin was Chief Operations Officer of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. In that role, she worked closely with global leaders and young changemakers to accelerate progress towards the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, as part of the legacy of former UN-SG Ban Ki-moon.
In over 15 years working in the fields of sustainability, climate action, clean energy, and organizational management, Katrin has managed projects in Europe, Africa, and Asia in partnership with philanthropic organisations, UN agencies, the EU, and governmental development agencies. In her work she focused on climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture and food systems, clean energy access, climate change education and capacity building, public-private dialogue, and on facilitating South-South and South-North knowledge exchange among experts in energy efficiency, energy regulation an
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Co-CEO, Childrens Rights Innovation Fund
Rosa Bransky is Co-CEO of Purposeful, the world’s first Africa-rooted hub, resourcing and mobilising girls’ resistance all over the world. The organisation works across four roles: centring feminist education as the bedrock of social justice movements, holding space for girls to build a base for their shared struggles, amplifying girls’ voices to make sure they are heard in all realms of power, and most importantly, moving money directly into their hands. A feminist activist, strategist, and researcher, Rosa founded Purposeful at the height of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone with her long-time friend and co-conspirator Chernor Bah. She began working in front-line social services with women and girls in the UK 20 years ago, with a focus on survivors of early childhood sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and the criminal justice system and before establishing Purposeful, Rosa worked with a range of social justice practitioners, bi- and multilateral agencies and private foundations.
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Lead, The Patchwork Collective
Marie Florence Dageville is the Co-founder of The Patchwork Collective—a family philanthropic effort that funds innovative organizations tackling inequities in the human condition, in particular those with locally-led programs developed in close collaboration with the communities affected.
Before founding TPC, she was a hospice nurse working with fragile patient populations in San Francisco. This experience informed how she wants to leverage TPC to facilitate positive outcomes for individuals most adversely affected by socioeconomic and environmental stressors. A passion of hers is exploring how the philanthropic community can be redefined and energized through evangelizing trust-based, proximate partnerships.
In her spare time she loves to create through mosaics and is an avid skier and diver.
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CEO, World Mosquito Program
Scott O'Neill (CEO WMP Ltd & PDG WMP Europe) is a renowned scientist and founder of
the World Mosquito Program. He’s worked at the University of Illinois, Yale University, The
University of Queensland and Monash University. He has received awards including the
Centenary Medal and Mackerras Medal. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of
Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Academy of Microbiology.
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President, Rare
Caleb leads Rare’s programs and operations to deliver Rare’s organizational mission of inspiring change so people and nature thrive. Rare’s programs in fisheries, regenerative agriculture, climate and the science of behavior change have delivered people and community centered solutions across 60 countries. Rare focuses on equity, communities, and the power of individuals to deliver solutions at scale.
Prior to joining Rare, Caleb served as a Vice President with WCS' Global Conservation Program across oceans, climate, health, livelihoods, and WCS’ core global strategy to conserve Nature’s Strongholds – the planet’s last remaining intact and biodiverse places. Over his career at WCS, Caleb lead a range of partnerships and served as principal to advance a number of new initiatives for WCS and partners including the Local Conservation Partners Fund, End the Trade, Wild For All, 50 Reefs/Vibrant Oceans, the Shark Conservation Fund and The MPA Fund.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Every Woman Treaty
Lisa Shannon is a women’s rights activist, human rights scholar, and award-winning author who has worked for the past 15 years to drive global policy solutions to eradicate violence against women and steer the global conversation toward extreme threats to women’s security. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC World News Tonight, the Economist, NPR, and The Oprah Winfrey Show, among others. She was a Gleitsman Leadership Fellow and a Human Rights Policy Fellow at the Carr Center, Harvard Kennedy School, where she and Every Woman Treaty Co-founders laid the groundwork for the Every Woman Treaty, a global coalition of 4000 frontline women’s rights defenders from more than 147 nations calling for an international treaty to end gender-based violence. She holds a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Georgetown University.
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Sandhya has served as Chief Investment Officer since CCL’s inception. Prior to CCL, she was the Investment Manager at a private foundation where she led the design and implementation of both direct- and indirect- impact investing strategies. Sandhya’s experience comprises public, private, and non-profit financial institutions, developing expertise in credit analysis, portfolio risk management, and portfolio operations: Freddie Mac, Capital One, and Coastal Enterprises, Inc. After earning her MBA, Sandhya built out underwriting and portfolio-management systems and processes that enabled data-driven decisions at Lighter Capital, a financial technology start-up focused on revenue-based small business lending. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from New York University and her Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
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Executive Director | Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, Milken Institute
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Executive Director, Welcoming America
Rachel Perić is Executive Director of Welcoming America, a nonprofit envisioning a world where we all thrive and belong in the place we call home, no matter where we come from. Inspired by her family’s refugee story, she has worked for more than a decade to grow the worldwide movement of welcomers and advocate for the power of everyday people to build welcoming communities for all. Rachel has worked throughout her career with local leaders whose innovative solutions to community building in an era of migration are the inspiration for her work and advocacy, and the subject of her published writing in USA Today, CNN, and numerous media outlets across the country. She serves on the boards of the American Visionary Art Museum, Art and Remembrance, and RCUSA, and holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master's in Public Management from the University of Maryland.
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Alissa loves a good story—reading them, telling them, and helping others share them. As the Skoll Foundation’s Senior Writer and Editor, she oversees editorial content and strategies that champion the work of the social entrepreneurs and innovators we support. She is particularly committed to telling stories that inspire others to mobilize climate action and that equip readers with tools to defang mis- and disinformation.
Over the past 15 years, Alissa has held several editorial and reporting roles within journalism and philanthropy. Most recently, she served as the director of creative and editorial services at Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm, where she worked for nearly a decade. While at Arabella, she partnered with teams across the firm to help colleagues craft clear and compelling content for both internal and external audiences. This included designing and executing multi-platform content pieces to support thought leadership, marketing, and business development goals, as well as writing and editing proposals to prospective clients and supporting deliverables for client projects. She also led the firm’s editorial training program for staff members.
Prior to joining Arabella, Alissa worked as a reporter for The Daily Record, a Baltimore-based newspaper that covers business, law, real estate, and government across Maryland. She started at the paper as a general business reporter and then spearheaded the launch of a new coverage area: the business of health care and higher education.
Alissa has a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she also minored in philosophy. At UMD, Alissa held several leadership roles—and spent many long nights—at The Diamondback, the university’s student newspaper.
Outside of work, Alissa tries to stay as active as possible. Her favorite ways to do this are rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, and playing in flag football and other social sports leagues. She also loves to read, cook, play word games, garden, and learn about plants.
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Saralynn is the Digital Platforms Manager on the Skoll Foundation’s Public Engagement and Communications team. Her focus is growing the impact of the Foundation’s communications. She brings over 15 years of innovative leadership in growth marketing, advocacy for democracy, and health systems improvement to her role at the Foundation. Before joining the team, Saralynn successfully managed several high-profile marketing campaigns to inform and inspire civic engagement. Her prior roles include directing marketing operations for Disney Entertainment at Omnicom Media Group and pioneering growth strategies at several health equity projects, significantly improving organizational reach and effectiveness.
Saralynn delights in hiking, knitting, and DIY projects. She maintains strong ties in both the mountains of Southern California and the foothills of Upstate New York. Her volunteer work has included supporting down-ballot political candidates and providing maternity support for abuse survivors. Saralynn holds a Master's degree in Maternal Health Systems Innovation from Bastyr University and a Bachelor's degree in Sustainability & Food Systems from Evergreen State College.
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Founder and Director, Antarang
Priya Agrawal, an Ashoka Fellow, and an ASPIRe Fellow, is the Founder Director of Antarang Foundation. In a career spanning over 3 decades, Priya has led organisations in advertising and market research, The Akanksha Foundation and SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action).
In her work in education, Priya noticed the many failures of traditional career linkage programs and that the transition to work was very challenging for the most disadvantaged high-school students from low-income demographics across India. She also discovered that the grey zone between education and employment was not just a function of English or traditional vocational skills as was perceived, but also a lack of awareness and access. That led to starting Antarang Foundation in 2013- a systems-integrated, holistic, high impact career education model that works with 5 state governments in India, impacting over 350,000 young adults as of date and slated to impact 2 million by 2025.
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Executive Director, Childrens Rights Innovation Fund
Dr. Ramatu Bangura led the design and inception, as Founding Director, of the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF). Prior to CRIF, Ramatu served as a Programme Officer for the NoVo Foundation’s Advancing Adolescent Girls’ Rights Initiative, where she funded work to advance the rights, leadership and safety of adolescent girls in the United States and in the Global South. Ramatu has spent the last 25 years engaging in organising, advocacy, and research on a host of issues impacting transnational girls, including early and forced marriage, sexual violence, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and educational access for English Language Learners in the United States and Central America. Ramatu earned both a Masters of Education (EdM) and Doctorate of Education (EdD) from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Partnerships Director, The Asian American Foundation
I've spent the last 10 years working in New York City in media and brand partnerships. Working at Discovery, Fox Corp, Vox Media, and most recently at Gamesquare Esports. I recently decided to make a pivot in my career and focus on supporting initiatives close to my heart. I am now at TAAF (The Asian American Foundation) working with our key clients and partners.
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Individual, Alliance for Sustainability
He has been a sustainability leader in the public, private and nonprofit sectors for 50 years as a director, legislative assistant, consultant, agricultural economist, Natural Step Instructor, speaker and author of Breaking the Pesticide Habit and The Humane Consumer and Producer Guide.
Terry volunteers as President of the Alliance for Sustainability, which he co-founded in 1983 following sustainable agriculture in 45 countries. As CEO of Sustainability Associates, he works with business and institutions to save money, improve performance and become sustainability leaders.
He has been a White House and Congressional aide, Aveda Director of Ecological Affairs and Sustainability, Cargill economist, International Alliance for Sustainable Executive Director, Wall Street brokerage assistant, Minneapolis College of Art & Design adjunct faculty and Sacramento Community Garden Program Co-Founder. He completed his MS in Agricultural and Applied Economics at UC Davis and MBA at Yale.
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Jasmine (she/her) is part of the Convenings team, supporting the operations and logistics for Skoll Foundation convenings, including the Skoll World Forum.
Jasmine’s work has been focused on the intersection of the performing arts, entertainment, and social impact sectors. She has produced various events and productions across Broadway, Off-Broadway, and London’s West End.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Jasmine served as Executive Director of the Phenomenal Theatre Fund, a startup nonprofit within Meena Harris’ Phenomenal Media. Previously, she worked with JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions to build the company’s live events and theatre division. She has also held numerous creative and production roles at Tony Award-winning companies and has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jasmine holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and a minor in Media, Culture, and Communications from New York University. She is driven by a passion to uplift marginalized voices and build experiences for people to gather in community.
Jasmine is a lover of self-care, cooking, music, and her chaotic rescue dog, Nala. She is originally from Atlanta, GA and is based in Washington, DC by way of Brooklyn, NY.
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Executive Director, Fundo Casa Socioambiental
Maria Amalia Souza is Founder/Director of Strategic Development of Casa Socio-Environmental Fund. Her career of 38+ years was dedicated to designing strategies that assure philanthropic resources reach the most excluded communities working on social and environmental justice issues in the Global South. She is on the Board of Directors of AIDA-Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, served for 6 years in the Human Rights Funders Network Steering Committee, and is co-founder of both the Comuá Network - Philanthropy for Social Justice and the Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur•Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South. She advocates for urgent resource distribution to the Global South through global lectures and engagement in international philanthropic spaces. In 2023 was honored by Global Landscapes Forum as one of "16 Women Restoring the Earth" and received the Up With People J. Blanton Belk Award for Outstanding Services to Humanity.
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Director, Senior Lawyer, Forest Peoples Programme
Tom Lomax is Director of Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), a leading international NGO focused on indigenous peoples and forest peoples’ land rights, working at the interface of human rights, climate and biodiversity, development, trade and finance. Established in 1990, FPP has a global team of 70 working with indigenous and civil society partners in 20 tropical forest countries across W,C&E Africa, S&C America and SE Asia. Working in solidarity with 60 partners, FPP supports indigenous peoples and forest peoples’ voices to be heard and to meaningfully shape local and global policy and law, to better secure their rights, and decide their own futures. As well as Director, Tom is a practicing lawyer whose legal experience includes over a decade providing legal advice and representation to indigenous and forest peoples (particularly in E and W Africa), supporting them to defend their rights and forests from rights violations and environmental destruction by state and/or business actors.
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Emilie, the Chief Program Officer and deputy CEO of Living Goods, is a dynamic and dedicated leader committed to positive health and social change. Her role involves shaping strategic programming, promoting organizational excellence, and leading global expansion, emphasizing evidence-based impact, wide reach, cost efficiency, and government adoption.
Joining Living Goods in 2014, Emilie's leadership as Uganda Country Director resulted in a remarkable 10x growth in operations and a notable 30% reduction in under-five mortality, supported by a recent Randomized Control Trial in the Community Health program.
With over two decades of leadership across public and private sectors in Africa, Asia, and Europe, Emilie's experience includes impactful roles at CHAI, Mondelez, and Danone. An alumna of EDHEC in Lille, France, Emilie holds an MBA. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, her global perspective and linguistic versatility enable her to navigate and drive change internationally.
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Founder, Duara Education
Victoria Peill is a social entrepreneur and passionate about transforming communities through accessible, high quality education.
She is the founder of Duara Education, which enables female teachers to become entrepreneurs of their own community-based microschools. Duara equips them with skills, systems, capital and support to launch and grow their school, fostering a movement of change from within each communities.
She also runs a community space in Nairobi, called Our WonderHouse, dedicated to the inner journey and authentic connection.
Prior to Duara, she held various roles in education, entrepreneurship, strategy and operations: She co-founded ALX (part of the African Leadership Group), served as Chief of Staff to ALG's Fred Swaniker, consulted with the Boston Consulting Group, co-founded Mentor Me India, and taught in a primary school in Peru.
She has lived in Nairobi, Kenya, for seven years years, and deeply cares about community, courage and wonder.
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Deepa is an impact investor and independent advisor who invests globally and flexibly across the returns continuum. She advises Skoll Foundation on strategy and deployment for a $35M catalytic capital carve-out. More broadly, Deepa advises a range of funders (foundations, endowments, family offices) on impact-first investment strategies and catalytic capital. She has sourced, funded, and supported social enterprises around the world, with a focus on social ventures in South Asia and Africa. Throughout her career, she has translated big ideas into tangible execution, decentralised decision-making, and centered communities standing in their own power.
Her previous experience covers a diverse range of sectors, including Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Omidyar Network, where she was an impact investor, and Netafim, an Israeli ag-tech company, where she designed go-to-market for water conservation technologies and hardware in the Indian ag-tech space.
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Executive Director, Climate-KIC
Dr. Kirsten Dunlop is Chief Executive Officer at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private partnership focused on climate innovation. She brings to her role a deep conviction in our capacity to learn and evolve into a climate-resilient society, and her over 30 years of experience catalyzing systemic transformations in a career spanning academia, consulting, banking, and the insurance industry, across three continents. Kirsten serves on various Advisory Boards and is recognized as a leader at the European Commission Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR) expert group. A specialist in experiential learning and cross-disciplinary practice, she holds a Ph.D. in Cultural History from the University of East Anglia and a BA Hons in Art History from the University of Sydney.
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Head of Global Programs, Waverley Street Foundation
Kai is a strategic, values-center leader with over 20 years of experience in environmental sustainability, community resilience, and social equity. As the inaugural Head of Global Programs at Waverley Street Foundation, Kai leads WSF's team in supporting global movements, organizations, leaders, and local communities implementing climate change solutions.
Prior to joining WSF, Kai served as Director of the Global Climate Initiative at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she oversaw the Foundation’s investments to halt tropical deforestation and promote just and sustainable development. During this time she played a pivotal role in leading Forests, People, Climate, a collaborative of philanthropic donors and civil society with a similar purpose. She has managed teams and programs working at the intersection of people and the planet in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Board Chair, Project Redwood
Ken Inadomi is the board co-chair of Project Redwood, a social philanthropy fund founded and managed by alumni from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Project Redwood provides funding, expertise, and connections to social entrepreneurs globally who are applying innovative and scalable solutions to fighting extreme poverty.
He is also former co-chair of the Yale Alumni Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as well as the founder and chair of the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA), a nonprofit that mobilizes and leverages Yale’s impact community to advance the greater good. Ken organized YANA's founding in 2011, inspired by the vision of a global network of mission-driven alumni dedicated to working together, giving back, and changing lives.
Ken entered the nonprofit world in 2008 shortly after hearing rock legend Bruce Springsteen holler, "Nobody wins unless everybody wins,” and then reflecting on Hillel the Elder's provocative question, "If not now when?"
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Coordenadora Executiva, Pacto pela Democracia
Flávia Pellegrino is the executive director of Pacto pela Democracia. Over the past decade, Flávia has built and coordinated networks within Brazilian civil society dedicated to important social and political causes such as the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as the defense of democracy and human rights. Flávia holds a degree in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil) and a master’s degree in Political Science from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France). Prior to her work in civil society organizations, Flávia worked as a journalist in Brazil and France, coordinated projects in the education sector, and taught politics at a popular prep school in São Paulo.
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Founder, Public Private Strategies
Rhett Buttle is an entrepreneur, advocate, and one of the most trusted leaders at the intersection of business and policy in Washington, DC. He has worked for President Biden, Vice President Harris, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in government and campaign roles. Rhett is the founder of Public Private Strategies (PPS) and President of the Public Private Strategies Institute (PPSI), which works to bring together the public and private sectors to build coalitions, activate campaigns, and create strategic partnerships to drive policy and market outcomes. In these roles, he advises leading policy makers, foundations, nonprofits, and corporations. In addition to PPS and PPSI, he has helped found the Small Business Roundtable, Small Business for America’s Future, and the Next Gen Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a regular contributor to Forbes, where he writes on the intersection of bu
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Chief Executive Officer, Tilting Futures
Erin Lewellen is the CEO of Tilting Futures, an educational nonprofit that equips young people to create meaningful impact on global issues. She founded the organization's innovative flagship program, Take Action Lab, and launched a systems change strategy with higher education institutions, educational nonprofits, and partners to identify best practices, build a robust evidence base, and integrate credit-bearing immersive global learning into curricula as a global standard. As a leader, Erin cultivates a culture of equity and inclusion, earning the organization a top spot on Outside Magazine's “Best Places to Work” and recognition in COLOR Magazine as an inclusive workplace. Erin regularly authors articles about her work and life to publications such as Fast Company and NBC. Erin previously served as board chair for Oakland Leaf and is on the advisory board for Rising Sun Center for Opportunity.
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Tim Hansen is Chief Executive Officer of Videre. He is a lawyer and engineer with two decades of experience across strategic development, human rights law, peacebuilding and project management. As an engineer, Tim has built and managed operations across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Sub Saharan Africa. As a lawyer, Tim has provided advice to several Pacific states and self-determination movements, advising on international human rights law, international humanitarian law, interactions with the United Nations and on engagement with negotiation and dialogue processes.
Tim was previously Chief Operating Officer of peacebuilding organisation Conciliation Resources, working with people impacted by war to develop creative solutions for sustainable peace. Prior to that he was Operations Director at Reprieve, working to end the death penalty and challenging human rights abuses through strategic litigation. Tim has also co-founded an NGO providing electricity and wifi in informal refugee camps.
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Chief Operating Officer, Solar Sister
Olasimbo Sojinrin is a dedicated social entrepreneur and activist with over 17 years of experience advancing women's economic empowerment, combating energy poverty, and addressing climate challenges. Starting January 2025, she will serve as the Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister, leading a dynamic network of women entrepreneurs delivering clean energy solutions to underserved communities in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kenya. Under Solar Sister’s mission-driven efforts, over 11,000 women entrepreneurs have been empowered, with more than 1 million clean energy products distributed, impacting over 5 million lives in Sub Saharan Africa. Simbo holds a Master’s in Public and International Affairs, a B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Lagos, and a certificate in social entrepreneurship from INSEAD. Simbo is also the current President of Women’s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON).
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Vice President, Impact and Influence, EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation
Nisha is the Vice President of Impact and Influence at EMpower, where she is dedicated to amplifying the voices of girls, financial inclusion, and gender equity. She leads efforts to capture and communicate learnings across 15 countries, influencing broader change in programming and philanthropy. In her role, Nisha fosters collaboration to influence the sector through evidence-building, co-learning, and sharing.
Nisha joined EMpower in 2012, holding various roles during her tenure. Before this, she worked at Deutsche Bank and Barclays. She is a TedX speaker and a proud Board Member of Fos Feminista.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from IIT Delhi, with research focused on non-traditional livelihoods and gender equity. Nisha also holds an MSc in Gender, Development, and Globalization from LSE and a BA (Hons.) in International Politics and Women’s Studies from McGill University. Nisha is a fierce champion for girls and finds joy in engaging with their dreams for the future.
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Nayana leads the Programs at Breakthrough. She comes with over two decades of experience in the development sector. She has a Master’s in Social Work from University of Delhi and has worked on rights of Dalits and Tribes in the grassroots in India. Nayana is a passionate gender rights worker who has had the opportunity of working with reputed philanthropies such as IKEA Foundation and Tata Trusts as Grant Manager overseeing multi-state/multi-country grants. She has developed, implemented, managed, monitored, and evaluated programs with focus on marginalised groups in Asia and Africa. She has also been a trainer-facilitator focussing on human rights in an international human rights’ organisation. She has always pushed the boundaries of her formal job-description and walked the extra mile to get most out of each development intervention that she has led.
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CEO, Glide Foundation
Karen Hanrahan is an executive change agent with over 25 years of experience in public and private sectors, focusing on large-scale social impact initiatives and public-private partnerships globally. Her career spans conflict and poverty in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S., where she has held senior leadership roles in government, nonprofits, business, and philanthropy. Prior to ChildFund, Karen was President and CEO of the GLIDE Foundation, she transformed the organization to break poverty cycles and promote equity in the Bay Area, establishing partnerships with corporate leaders and philanthropists, including Warren Buffet. In the Obama administration, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy and Human Rights, leading initiatives that coordinated assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Additionally, Karen was Chief
Innovation Officer at the U.K. Department for International Development, where she launched the Humanitarian Innovation Hub.
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Board member, PHF
Patricia is the director and board member of foundations active in the areas of mental health in sub-Saharan Africa, ethics and governance, environmental sustainability, and social impact investments in domains such as poverty alleviation and regenerative agriculture. She is passionate about prevention of mental health issues among vulnerable youth, approaches to healing trauma, community care models, awareness raising, promoting positive masculinity and capacity building.
She has participated in various training courses in the mental health space and has provided direct services to people on hotlines and hospitals. Patricia completed a DAS in Strategic and Operational Philanthropy from the University of Geneva, holds a Master in Computer Science and a Bachelor in Economics from Stanford University.
She has lived and worked in the California Silicon Valley software industry, as well as in Hong Kong and Mexico. She currently lives in Switzerland.
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Member, Women Moving Millions
S. Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, a global organization that campaigns for legal and systemic change to address violence and discrimination against women and girls. She has been widely recognized by Forbes 50 over 50:Impact, CARE (Impact award), Columbia Business School (Social Enterprise award), American Bar Association and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor among others.
For 25 years, Mona has leveraged her corporate experience to launch, lead or advise over 90 mission-aligned organizations to create a gender-equal world. She is the former Board Chair of Women Moving Millions and serves on the Executive Council of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, as well as the Advisory Board of Gucci CHIME. Creating and resourcing inclusive communities is at the center of her strategic approach, which she believes is the key to unlocking sustainable organizational growth. To date, she has catalyzed over $1 billion for social change.
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Founding Partner, Total Impact Capital
John A. Simon is a Founder and the Managing Partner/CEO of Total Impact Capital (TOTAL), an impact investing firm that structures, markets, and manages financing vehicles for underserved communities. The firm focuses on investments in basic human needs such as health, water, and food. Prior to starting Total Impact Capital, Ambassador Simon was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he co-authored More than Money, a report on impact investing as a development tool. Previously, Ambassador Simon held a variety of posts in the US federal government, including serving most recently as the United States Ambassador to the African Union and the Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the predecessor to the US Development Finance Corporation.
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Aman is an Executive Assistant and HR Administrator, offering essential support to the Chief People Officer and the broader Talent and Culture (HR) team at The Skoll Foundation. In this role, she serves as a liaison with other ELT Support Members and encompasses core HR administrative tasks.
Aman is well-acquainted with the Jeff Skoll Group, having previously served as an Executive Assistant and Operations Administrator at Capricorn Investment Group for six years. Prior to her time at Capricorn, Aman worked in Client Services across various family offices in the Bay Area. She is an alumna of Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she earned her B.A. in Communications.
Beyond her professional commitments, Aman finds joy in traveling, exploring new restaurants, and spending time with family and friends.
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Co-CEO, Artemis Agency
Sarah is an expert in philanthropic strategy with expertise in bridging the public sector with celebrity and entertainment. As Co-CEO of The Artemis Agency, Sarah advises nonprofit, for profit, and celebrity clients on public/private partnerships, organizational strategy, performance measurement, and corporate social responsibility.
Prior to Artemis, Sarah led the global philanthropic efforts for WME/IMG, working with high-profile clients to create robust charitable initiatives. As the Director of the WME Foundation, Sarah established the programming for the organization’s domestic grantmaking, and its partnership with the Compton Unified School District.
Sarah served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Georgia before earning her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from USC. She currently sits on the boards of Bridge USA and the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Sarah lives in West Hollywood, CA where she serves as Chair of the city’s Human Services Commission.
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Director/Founder, The Voices & Faces Project
Anne K. Ream is a Chicago-based writer and the founder of Center for Story & Witness (formerly The Voices and Faces Project), a global testimonial writing program which seeks to share stories that witness to gender-based violence and other social injustices. The author of "Lived Through This" (Beacon Press), a critically praised memoir documenting Anne’s multi-country journey listening to the stories of sexual violence survivors, Anne’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, and the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, among other publications. Anne is the co-founder of World Without Exploitation, the US-based national coalition to end human trafficking; and serves as board president at Justice for Migrant Women. The recipient of numerous awards for her work using story to create social change, Anne explores the intersection of music, gender, and culture as a music critic for New City Chicago.
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CEO, Rhia Ventures
Erika Seth Davies is the CEO of Rhia Ventures, a social impact organization that advance reproductive and maternal health equity by intentionally leveraging capital to center the needs, experiences, and perspectives of historically marginalized people in decision-making. She is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience in development and fundraising, program design, collaboration and partnership management, and racial equity advocacy. Erika is the Founder of The Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL), a venture that centers racial equity in impact investing and works to shift capital to address the persistent racial wealth gap. Her most significant role is that of mother to Ethan and Evelyn.
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Executive Director, Community Health Impact Coalition
Millions of community health workers (CHWs) globally—70% women—are not salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied.
Dr. Madeleine Ballard is CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition, a global movement making professional community health workers the norm by changing guidelines, funding and policy. Her work alongside the Coalition has been featured in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Lancet Global Health. Through research, advocacy, and organizing with community health workers, she's driven policy changes that ensure quality care for millions—including those who provide it.
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Ed is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006 he has devoted his professional energies to improving equity, accessibility, and credibility in online environments. Ed has led strategy and project definition on open source software development focused on human-in-the-loop approaches to translating, verifying, investigating and fact-checking digital content, with recent focus on the particularly pressing challenge of enabling journalists, scientists, and community leaders to improve information circulating in closed messaging environments.
Ed is a member of the PAI (Partnership on AI) AI and Media Steering Committee and the Logically Facts Advisory Board. Recent projects include: #FactsFirstPH initiative with Rappler; Confirma 2022 Brazil Election project with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), National Science Foundation Co-Insights, the COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub (Google), and WhatsApp’s global fact-checking program.
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Board Chair, Survivor Alliance
Gina Reiss is social entrepreneur and executive leader with three decades of organizational and fund raising experience in the nonprofit sector at the state, national and international levels. She has raised millions for human rights, social justice causes and has worked across many cultures, global complexities and managed diverse teams across the US, South East Asia and East Africa. She has led major issue-based advocacy campaigns, public policy efforts on Capitol Hill and is the Founding Director of the Girl Up Campaign at the United Nations Foundation. Fast Company selected Ms. Reiss among their 2012 “League of Extraordinary Women.”
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With over two decades of executive leadership and a Harvard education, I specialize in driving strategic growth and innovation at the intersection of sustainability, technology, and finance. My experience includes leading a rapid organizational turnaround as CEO of Global Footprint Network, shaping European Sustainability Reporting Standards at EFRAG, and influencing over $40 trillion in assets as Managing Director of CDP Europe to advance corporate environmental action. Fluent in three languages and leveraging a global perspective, I am dedicated to aligning corporate objectives with investor interests and public policy to foster resilience and sustainable success across industries.
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Executive Director, Watsi
Mackinnon Engen is Executive Director of Watsi.org. She is a global health and humanitarian leader with 20 years of service. Mackinnon has overseen surgical programs reaching 1+ million patients worldwide.
Previously, she worked for the United Nations, local and international nonprofits, and in academia across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. At the UN, she worked to ensure more timely and community-led humanitarian assistance reached those most in need as well as helped to coordinate the Secretary-General’s response to the Global Food Crisis.
She has firsthand experience with how access to safe surgery can determine one’s life outcomes. At 30, during a routine annual visit, her doctor found early signs of cancer. With a leading team of oncologists and insurance coverage, she was able to urgently access surgery. Mackinnon has dedicated her life to making sure others around the world can access this same life-saving care, regardless of where they live.
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CEO & Co-Founder, Generation Pledge
Sid is a learner, dad, husband, facilitator and social entrepreneur.
He is the co-founder and CEO of Generation Pledge, the first global community of inheritors from ultra high net wealth (UHNW) families built around a pledge. Pledgers commit to using economic, social, political and career capital for impact, and to donating at least 10% of their inheritance within the first 5 years of inheriting. Pledgers join a community of like-minded and receive world class advisory services, fueling their journey towards transformative impact with their different forms of capital.
Alongside his team, he has also launched Polycapital Academy, an academy that will offer world class impact education to wealth holders and wealth adjacent professionals.
In addition to his work at Generation Pledge and Polycapital Academy, he has taught positive psychology as a hobby for over a decade. A fun fact is that he met his wife at a flash mob while dancing to “Baby Got Back.”
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Managing Partner, ImpactFull
Kristine Michie is Managing Partner of ImpactFull, Inc., creator of Provocative Joy Retreats, and Host of the celebrated PlayFull Podcast: Bringing Fun to the Serious Work of Changing the World. Her firm’s product offerings for the change sector include new twists on old approaches, including Board Development & Delight, Provocative Joy meeting facilitation, and Better Together, project management for giving circles. With more than 60 years of combined impact in the sector, ImpactFull's team benefits from young interns and colleagues with fresh perspectives working alongside agile and experienced professionals who’ve worked with brand name NGOs and philanthropies for decades. In only 2 years, Kristine's podcast has attracted a loyal audience with 300+ downloads monthly and rating in the Top 5% of all podcasts. Kristine is also a published author and sought-after public speaker who uses all these occasions to lift up the voice of others.
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Executive Director, Legado
Majka Burhardt is the Founder and CEO of Legado, an organization that works alongside Indigenous and local communities to design and implement solutions that benefit both their communities and landscapes—an outcome they call Thriving Futures. Legado began in the mountains of Mozambique where the Queen of Mount Namuli, Adelina Jassisone, challenged Majka to build an organization that considered all aspects of her community’s thriving, not just conservation. Today, it partners with local and regional organizations to support over 126 communities across Mozambique, Peru, Kenya, and Indonesia to create their own holistic Thriving Futures. Majka's diverse background blends her career as a professional climber, author, and anthropologist into her passion for leading teams to approach complex challenges with innovative solutions.
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President and CEO, United Way Worldwide
Angela F. Williams is the President and CEO of United Way Worldwide where she has created a vision for the 135-year global organization that is focused on building equitable solutions from the ground-up. She has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit and corporate sectors including at Easterseals and YMCA of the USA. She served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Angela earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, a juris doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Master of Divinity from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. Recognized for innovative leadership, Angela was included in the NonProfit Times’ Power and Influence Top 50, Inside Philanthropy's 50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy, and Forbes List of Women Over 50 Creating Social Change at Scale.
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Interim CEO, Media Democracy Fund
Jacquelyn Mason is Director of Programs at Media Democracy Fund, a non-profit funding intermediary which operates as a catalyst for an open, secure, and equitable internet. Her background as a mis- and disinformation specialist includes her position as Senior Investigative Researcher and Special Projects Manager at First Draft, where her research focused on disinformation affecting Black and Latinx communities. Previously she worked at TED Conferences on projects geared towards information disorder, at her alma mater New York University conducting user experience research, and as an editor of photography at media service organizations such as Meredith Corporation and NBC Universal. She holds a Masters of Fine Art from Parsons School of Design in Art, Media, and Technology, as well as a Master of Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Integrated Digital Media.
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President, HBCU Founders Initiative
Marlon's professional career spans higher education, foundations, Fortune 500s, and startups. The driving force behind all of his career choices has been a desire to create positive social impact. In 2018, Marlon was named CEO of Nex Cubed, an investor that creates and accelerates frontier tech companies with an emphasis on digital health and fintech. To date, the Nex Cubed portfolio consists of 80+ startups with an aggregate value of $500M and over 60% of the startups are led by female and minority founders. In an effort to increase Nex Cubed’s impact, Marlon led the launch of the HBCU Founders Initiative, a 501c3 organization designed to inspire entrepreneurship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Since 2021, in partnership with corporations such as Costco, Microsoft and Ally, as well as the Skoll, UNCF and Walton Family Foundations, over 1,200 students and alums from 80+ HBCUs have participated in its acceleration programs.
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Jennifer Njuguna, Esq., she/her, is Co-CEO of Common Future--a national US organization advancing racial and economic equity by powering community led solutions. She is an expert in operations, strategy, governance, the future of work, and social/racial justice. She assumed the role of co-CEO after serving as Chief Operating Officer at Common Future since 2021, during which she implemented a suite of equitable internal initiatives including a 4-day-workweek and compensation audits. Jennifer is a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE)/Global Fellow with the Atlantic Institute and an attorney who is passionate about strengthening organizational practices and exploring solutions that promote broad racial, economic, and social justice. Jennifer has a J.D. from New York University School of Law where she was an AnBryce Scholar, and she has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She is from Oakland, CA, and resides in NJ with her husband and two sons.
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Director and CEO, Barefoot College Tilonia
I joined as Director and CEO of the Barefoot College in June, 2023 after 25 years of working in the area of social accountability, transparency, monitoring and evaluation and governance with a specific emphasis on social audits. I hold a Master's Degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay with a specialization in Urban and Rural Community Development and a Diploma in Human Rights from the ISHR, Columbia University, New York. I began working with a grassroots movement Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Rajasthan in 1998 and was part of the movement for the Right to Information and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. After 7 years of working with MKSS, i joined the Government of Andhra Pradesh to set up the first independent social audit society. I worked with the GoAP and Telangana for 18 years and for 13 years i headed the Social Audit Society. I have also worked internationally as a Technical Assistance Provider in Social Audits
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Woubzena is a Program Manager in the Executive Office at the Skoll Foundation. She primarily supports the Executive Office and the Alliances team, including pursue and execute catalytic opportunities.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Woubzena worked as the Community Investment Manager, at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to increase local giving within Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Her work in the non-profit sector has varied from direct service to foundations to higher education with organizations such as AmeriCorps, Wikimedia Foundation and Stanford University.
Woubzena graduated with an M.A in African Studies from UCLA. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. She enjoys cooking Ethiopian food, playing volleyball, watching Stanford Football, figuring out how to be better at woodworking, knitting/crocheting and spending time with her friends and family.
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Zoe is an Analyst under Portfolio and Investments. In this role, she identifies high impact and strategically aligned investment opportunities, while also serving as a thought partner and collaborator to grantees and the wider ecosystem of stakeholders.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Zoe worked at ClimateWorks Foundation, managing two clean energy grantmaking portfolios that drive country-level transitions away from fossil fuels toward a clean energy economy in both developed and emerging market and developing economies. Zoe has worked across various issue areas in the climate and social impact space with a focus on Africa, Asia and the United States, and has partnered with government, the private sector, philanthropy and civil society partners to achieve sustainable economic growth and prosperity for all.
Zoe holds a Master’s degree in International Development from The George Washington University with a concentration in private sector development and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a minor in humanities from Midwestern State University. She was a 2022 Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellow and currently serves on the Equity and Climate Justice Working Committee at the National Adaptation Forum. In her free time, Zoe enjoys traveling and food tours and tries to have a consistent and active lifestyle.
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Jessica Goldstein leads the Skoll Foundation’s convenings strategy and implementation. This includes the Skoll World Forum, a global annual gathering with our growing network to collaborate and advance solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Previously, Jessica spent more than two decades at NPR as an award-winning journalist working on a range of platforms, including radio, podcasts, and video. She circled the globe covering environmental stories from climate change in Antarctica to the health of the orangutan population in Sumatra. Beyond the newsroom, Jessica created NPR's hugely successful Tiny Desk Contest and many other extensions of NPR content, including the How I Built This Summit and live productions of NPR shows on stage.
Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She loves swimming in lakes, identifying plants when hiking and dancing to all music. She is a bread-baking enthusiast and cherishes gathering family and friends around the table for her home cooked meals.
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Shellie joined the Skoll Foundation in 2023 and is serving as the Program Coordinator for the Portfolio & Investments team. She brings with her a unique and supportive perspective inspired by Skoll’s mission to invest, connect, and champion social innovators to transform the world.
Before joining Skoll, Shellie honed her skills in higher education at Santa Clara University, supporting students to find their career path where their values, interests, and skills intersect. Additionally, she successfully bootstrapped and ran a small business in the Bay Area for 20 years.
When not at work, Shellie enjoys traveling with her family, animals of all kinds, museums and searching for the best croissant around (always accepting suggestions!).
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Cristina Guerrero joined the Skoll Foundation in 2023 as Grants Manager supporting the grants management team in advancing the foundation’s mission and strategic goals through effective grantmaking practices. Previously, she was with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors for six years in a variety of roles including advisory client services as well as operations and grants management for RPA’s sponsored projects and donor advised funds. Cristina has previously worked in development for the Chicago Foundation for Education and for the Partnership for Public Service. Cristina has also served as a teaching assistant with City Year Chicago through AmeriCorps.
Cristina received an M.A. in public policy studies from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and holds a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College.
Cristina enjoys traveling, reading, running, and spending time with her dog, family, and friends.
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Founder and CEO, Black Innovation Alliance
Kelly Burton, PhD is a political scientist, serial entrepreneur and change agent who leads with passion, purpose, and vision. Today, she is the CEO of Black Innovation Alliance, a national coalition of 175 Black led-organizations which support greater than 500K innovators of color across the country.
Kelly's work has been featured by numerous media outlets, including TechCrunch, Inc., Forbes, Fast Company, Essence Magazine, NBC News, and Marketplace (NPR). She was recently added to the Executive Board of Fast Company.
In addition to her entrepreneurial endeavors, Kelly serves on the board of directors for the Center for Action and Contemplation, founded by Franciscan friar and spiritual teacher, Father Richard Rohr.
An active voice on social media, Kelly maintains approximately 80K followers on LinkedIn alone. She holds a BA from Clark Atlanta University and a PhD from Emory University, both in Political Science, as well as a certificate in Executive Education from Harvard University.
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Chief Program Officer, Dalberg Catalyst
Jordan is a senior executive and serial entrepreneur and in the field of social impact through systemic change. As Chief Program Officer at Dalberg Catalyst, he stewards a portfolio of catalytic, global initiatives, which span 25 countries and contribute widely across the SDGs. He co-founded Catalyst's newest platform: Integral, a strategic base for system orchestrators and a platform for transformative philanthropy. Previously, Jordan was a Partner at Dalberg where he co-led the firm's Inclusive Economic Growth service line and oversaw the Dalberg Group's global operations. Jordan holds a masters degree in international business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelors degree in mathematics from MIT.
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Programmes Manager, CIPESA
Ashnah coordinates multi-country projects promoting the use of ICT in democratic processes and for citizen participation, including training for citizen journalists, mainstream media and government officials. She holds an MSc in Informatics with a major in Electronic Government (Örebro University, Sweden) and a BSc in Computer and Management Sciences (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), and has work experience from Spain, UK, and various African countries. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Global Partners Digital (GPD), International Media Support (IMS) and the Internet Freedom Fund – an initiative of the Open Technology Fund (OTF).
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Founder, Shequity
Pauline Koelbl is the Founder and Managing Partner of ShEquity Partners (“ShEquity”), an investment firm with the purpose of advancing Africa's climate transition and gender-inclusive future. ShEquity is dedicated to gender-smart, climate-conscious businesses in Africa and driving systemic change.
Pauline’s passion for inclusive growth and sustainable development is at the core of her work. Having lived, studied, and worked across three continents (Africa, Europe and North America), Pauline is strategically well positioned to serve as a bridge between the global south and the global north.
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Jeanette Hernandez recently started a new role as Senior Coordinator for the Portfolio & Investments team. She sits across 4 SLTs: Justice & Equity, Community Support, Pandemics & Health Systems as well as Inclusive Economies. This new role allows Jeanette to be closer to the awardees and to the work Skoll does globally in addition to learning about issues she is extremely passionate about.
Prior to joining Skoll, Jeannete worked as a career Executive and Legal Assistant, where she honed her meticulous attention to detail and strong team-player ethos skills. She dedicated 6 years of her time at Discovery, working with their consumer products team where she demonstrated exceptional proficiency and commitment.
Jeanette moved to Florida during the Covid Pandemic, though she will always be a NYer (Brooklyn Standup!) in mind and heart!
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Board Member, School of Leadership Afghanistan
Mati Amin is the co-founder of SOLAx, an online academy dedicated to expanding education for Afghan girls globally. He leads the development of both SOLAx’s curriculum and online platform to ensure accessible education. Mati is also a board member of SOLA, the first and only all-girls boarding school for Afghan girls.
A seasoned edtech entrepreneur, Mati previously sold his language learning company to a prominent U.S. publisher. He is passionate about leveraging technology to catalyze significant change and dismantle barriers to education. Mati is the Global Fellow at Echoing Green and serves on the Business Advisory Board of Akagera Medicines, the only African-owned biotech company focused on neglected infectious diseases.
He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Williams College, a master’s degree in finance from Babson Graduate School of Business, and a Master of Education from Harvard University.
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Co-CEO, Imagine Worldwide
Rapelang Rabana, co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, is deeply committed to education and skills development in Africa. Imagine operates across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing tablet-based learning programs to develop literacy and numeracy skills in millions of young children. Backed by a strong body of evidence of impact, Imagine’s programs demonstrate the role adaptive education technology can play in closing the literacy gap, where traditional approaches are not enough to match the enormity of the foundational learning crises.
Featured on the cover of ForbesAfrica magazine before the age of 30, named Entrepreneur for the World by the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Rapelang holds a B. Business Science (Computer Science) and an M.Sc from the University of Cape Town.
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Sopheap serves as Chief People Officer at Digital Divide Data (DDD), an innovative social enterprise that enables talent from underserved populations to access sustainable training and professional opportunities and earn a lasting higher income, including youth from low-income families in developing countries. She supports a workforce of around 1400 people in Asia and East Africa. Sopheap leads people operations and fundraising and drives the creation and management of new and innovative impact initiatives across DDD offices.
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Áurea Carolina
Executive Director at NOSSAS, Brazil’s largest civil engagement platform.
Áurea is a nonprofit executive and former politician who was a council and congresswoman from the state of Minas Gerais - the most voted woman in the state - where she led important initiatives in culture and gender, racial and environmental justice. In 2019, she was recognized by Most Influential People of African Descent as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Black People in the World in Politics and Governance.
Áurea was part of President Lula da Silva’s transition team, working on policies for the Department of Culture.
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President and CEO, Outrider Foundation
Robert K. Elder is the President & CEO of Outrider Foundation. He also serves as a voting member of Outrider's Board of Directors
Elder is the author or editor of 20+ books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and many other publications.
He previously served as the Chief Digital Officer at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Executive Director of Digital Product Development & Innovation at Crain Communications.
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Country Director, MSI Uganda
Dr. Carole Sekimpi is the Senior Director for MSI Africa, and has been with MSI for nearly a decade. She joined MSI Uganda as Managing Director in 2015 and went on to become Country Director for Uganda in 2018.
Under her leadership, access to contraception and reproductive health has accelerated across Uganda. Carole pioneered our public sector by strengthening the programme in the country and partnering with the government to ensure that high-quality, comprehensive reproductive health services were available in Uganda in the long-term.
As well as being a medical doctor with a Master of Philosophy and a Master of Public Health, Carole has extensive experience in working for both local, and international non-governmental agencies in clinical, programming, and management capacities. She also sits as the Board Chair of the Uganda Family Planning Consortium.
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Managing Director, Nigeria Health Watch
Vivianne Ihekweazu is the Managing Director of Nigeria Health Watch, a health communication and advocacy organisation based in Nigeria, advocating for improved health and access to health services. She leads the strategic direction of the organisation and is responsible for designing and implementing health communication and advocacy campaigns for government, not-for-profits, and development partners in Nigeria. Her work focuses on issues such as nutrition and maternal and child health.
Vivianne has over 20 years of experience as a communication professional. She recently co-authored the book An Imperfect Storm: A Pandemic and The Coming of Age of a Nigerian Institution
Prior to focusing on the health sector, Vivianne worked at some of the world’s leading communications and research agencies. She has an MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is an African Public Health Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Universal Health, Chatham House
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Chief Investment Officer, Rental Protection Fund
Mritunjay (MJ) helped build a multi-million-dollar micro-loan portfolio in rural India and helped create a co-operative that served over 200 entrepreneurs. Over the last decade, MJ has helped deploy over C$400M through private-market impact investing, and another C$500M through responsible investment strategies for several family offices, foundations, and financial institutions. MJ is also the inaugural Chief Investment Officer of the $500M BC Rental Protection Fund that finances the acquisition of existing affordable housing across British Columbia.
MJ is a Board Director and Treasurer for Definity Insurance Foundation; a Board Director for Philanthropic Foundations Canada, Tapestry Capital, and MakeWay Foundation Canada; and sits on the Impact Investment Committee for the Laidlaw Foundation.
MJ’s passion for social change is complemented by his prior experience in Capital Markets, Corporate Strategy, and Global Health, and his degrees in Computer Engineering and M.B.A.
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Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, GoFundMe
Chief corporate affairs officer at GoFundMe, overseeing our global teams in 20 countries engaged with leaders , media and communities to help people help each other more effectively every day.
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CEO, Founder, Intelehealth
Dr. Neha Verma is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder/CEO of Intelehealth, a global telemedicine nonprofit improving access to health where there is no doctor. She has a PhD in Health Sciences Informatics from Johns Hopkins University and a BE in Biomedical Engineering. Her areas of expertise include digital health, telemedicine, public health, women’s health and gender equity.
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President & CEO, Halcyon
Dan is the President and CEO of Halcyon, an incubator and investor in early-stage, impact-driven startups from around the globe. Dan joined Halcyon from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth where he was vice president focused on supporting cutting-edge research on financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. Prior to Mastercard, Dan was vice president for social impact at BlackRock. Dan first connected with Halcyon during his time as a management consultant at Deloitte where he advised corporate, multilateral, and nonprofit clients on social impact strategy. He began his career as a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations and Earth Institute. He holds a master’s in international finance and economic policy from Columbia University and a BA from NYU. He serves on the advisory boards of Global Kids, Inc. and the Guyana Economic Development Trust and is a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations.
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CEO, Women Moving Millions
Sarah is a philanthropy and social impact leader, currently serving as the CEO of Women Moving Millions. For over two decades, Sarah has been building, guiding, and leading nonprofit organizations in Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York dedicated to strengthening democracy, expanding human rights, and advancing gender equality. Sarah has been recognized throughout her career for her ability to drive strategic growth in mission-driven organizations and is known for her ability to mobilize and inspire philanthropists to make significant investments in social change. At WMM, Sarah is responsible for building strategy and scale around its mission to catalyze greater resources for gender equality. Since 2020, she has mobilized over $200 million in new funding commitments for women and girls. Sarah served as a founding board member for Hive Gender Climate Justice Fund, is an Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, and is a Women’s Foreign Policy Council Board Member.
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Executive Director, Ushahidi Inc
Angela is a technologist, community builder, and advocate for open-source software. She is passionate about building and using appropriate technology tools to impact the lives of marginalized groups. She has over ten years of experience in software development, global community engagement, and non-profit or management.
She is the Executive Director at Ushahidi, a global non-profit technology company that helps communities quickly collect and share information, enabling them to raise their voices, inform decisions and influence change.
She sits on the Board of Directors for Creative Commons and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. She’s also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Data Equity and co-founder of AkiraChix, a non-profit organization that nurtures generations of women who use technology to develop innovations and solutions for Africa. She was recently named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2024 and a Mozilla 2024 Rise25 Honoree.
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Chief Operating Officer, Dovetail Impact Foundation
Philip Langford serves as Chief Operating Officer for Dovetail Impact Foundation, providing leadership to the whole of the Dovetail’s operations that promote and catalyze human flourishing. Prior to joining Dovetail, Philip served as President of International Justice Mission’s US operations.
Over his 16 year tenure, Philip led IJM’s frontlines operations in 19 countries on 5 continents on a wide array of social justice and human rights challenges, including gender-based violence, human trafficking, police brutality, and online sexual exploitation of children. Philip was a partner in a full service law firm prior to joining IJM. Come to Philip for conversations about bass fishing, his Great Dane and his love of team.
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Global Managing Partner, Dalberg
Gaurav is the GMP of Dalberg Advisors. He founded Dalberg’s first office in the APAC region in Mumbai in 2009 and led the firm’s growth to seven offices and more than 160 staff by 2022.
He advises a broad range of institutions on measuring and scaling their impact and has extensive experience leading projects across multiple sectors, including energy access, financial inclusion, access to education, and inclusive business strategies.
Beyond his advisory work, he has founded numerous social enterprises, including an eco-tourism lodge, an organic cotton fashion business, a sustainability-focused online travel portal, and an organic tea and wildlife estate.
Prior to Dalberg, Gaurav was a Project Leader with the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney and London. He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University and a postgraduate degree in Development Economics from Yale University. He was also a Fairfax scholar at the United World College of HK
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President, School of Leadership Afghanistan
Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan
(SOLA). SOLA is the first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, operating in Kabul from 2016 through the summer of 2021 and the Taliban’s return to power. That August, Shabana led the evacuation of her entire school community from Afghanistan to Rwanda, where SOLA has reestablished its operations and its students have resumed their studies.
Shabana is a magna cum laude graduate of Middlebury College and earned her Master in Public
Policy from Oxford University; she also holds honorary doctorates from SOAS University of
London and Cedar Crest College. In 2018, Shabana was awarded the Malalai Medal, one of Afghanistan's highest national honors, for her work in promoting girls' access to education. In 2019, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in the social entrepreneurship sector; in 2021, The Washington Post named her a contributor to their Global Opinions section.
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Anna is the Secretary of the People First Community, a cross-sectoral and globally diverse group of 1200+ practitioners, academics, and public and private sector actors with a shared belief in the importance of prioritizing investing in collective leadership development as a path for sustainable development. Anna has 20 years of experience, she has held C-suite positions across the social impact, charitable, government and fundraising sectors. She has been the CEO of the economic development agency of Barcelona’s municipal government employing 350+ people and founded a boutique-consulting firm that advises intergovernmental bodies on fostering economic growth in European, MENA and LATAC countries. Anna is also a Board Member of different not-for-profit organizations such the international NGO Street Business School, and the Basic Education Coalition.
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Founding Partner, Radiant Strategies
Hali Lee is delighted to have been co-builder of a few pieces of philanthropic infrastructure. She is founding partner of Radiant Strategies, co-founded the Donors of Color Network, was on the co-design team for Philanthropy Together, and is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle. Radiant is piloting Freedom School for Philanthropy, a curriculum for wealthy individuals who want to center equity in their practice. Hali was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Kansas City. She graduated from Princeton University, studied Buddhism at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a master’s in social work from New York University. Hali was recently profiled in Forbes 50 Over 50: Impact and is writing a book, THE BIG WE, out in March 2025 by Zando/ Sweet July Press.
Hali lives in Brooklyn, New York in the company of her family, a big love of a dog, an old cat, and rooftop honeybees.
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Chief Executive Officer, Tides
Janiece Evans-Page is a social scientist and social impact leader whose 20 years of experience in the tech sector and social impact ecosystem inform her innovative approach to driving social change. As chief executive officer of Tides, Janiece leads Tides’ work with doers and donors to center the leadership of changemakers from communities historically denied power, connecting them to operational and advisory services, capacity building, and resources to amplify their impact. Janiece serves on the boards of Tides, Tides Advocacy (a 501(c)(4)), Beneficial State Foundation, and Echoing Green, the board of trustees of both Southern New Hampshire University and St. Mary’s College, as well as numerous advisory councils.
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Managing Director and Chief of Staff, Waverley Street Foundation
Lande Ajose is an accomplished public policy leader who has worked relentlessly to improve lives in her home state of California. She has now taken that purpose global in her leadership role at Waverley Street Foundation as its founding Managing Director, where she has been instrumental in shaping the foundation's strategic approach.
Lande previously served as vice president, Walter and Esther Hewlett Chair in Understanding California’s Future, and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, shaping the Institute’s work on issues facing the state. A nationally recognized higher education expert, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed her as a senior policy advisor in his administration, where she helped to advance several signature initiatives. Currently a member of the board executive committee at both Occidental College and KQED, she co-hosts the podcast Sparking Equity. She holds a PhD in urban and regional studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Co-Founder and CEO, Goodbye Malaria
An accountant by profession, happily working in Public Health.
Started my working career in banking, changed track and joined Nandos. As part of the Nandos team started Goodbye Malaria and have never looked back.
My goal is malaria eradication in Southern Africa.
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Impact Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Andrew serves as the Imago Dei Fund’s Impact Partner and co-leads the Imago Dei team. In
this role, Andrew focuses on foundation strategy, operations, and impact assessment.
He brings three decades of experience in the international humanitarian, development and human rights field with extensive programmatic, management and policy experience overseas and in Washington, DC. Andrew previously served as VP of Global Education Programs at Impact(Ed). He has also worked in various capacities for a range of organizations globally, including CARE, Oxfam, Save the Children, UNICEF, and International Justice Mission. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Area Studies and Economics
from Duke, a Master’s degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton, and a
Law degree from the University of Virginia.
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Board Chair, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Jaimie Mayer is currently in her seventh year as Chair of The Nathan Cummings Foundation. Under her leadership, Jaimie has focused on values alignment across the organization. The foundation moved 100% of its assets to align with its mission for impact, working with a black owned and BIPOC led OCIO. She moved the foundation towards a streamlined mentality, focusing on systemic change with work in racial, economic, and environmental justice. She led the foundation in thinking through alternative vehicles of giving, and helped launch the foundation’s first PRI initiative.
As a philanthropic consultant, Jaimie works with next generation philanthropists and their families and organizations looking to attract a younger demographic with an eye towards succession planning. Jaimie is a frequent speaker on multigenerational philanthropy, next generation philanthropy, impact investing, values alignment in giving, and arts and social justice.
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CEO and President, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Rey Ramsey is a social justice entrepreneur who brings more than three decades of experience as an executive in the non-profit, public, and private sectors. He is NCF’s CEO and President, and an Independent Trustee, where he plays a key role in helping fulfill the foundation’s commitment to align 100% of its endowment with its mission.
Rey currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Centri Capital, an investment firm designing and executing impact investment strategies with a focus on real estate development and affordable housing as a platform for human advancement.
Rey has devoted his career to building and leading social enterprises. After serving as Oregon's Director of Housing and Community Services, he held successive positions as President and COO of Enterprise Community Partners, Chairman of Habitat for Humanity International, and founding CEO and Chairman of One Economy Corporation.
Additionally, Rey now serves as a director on numerous boards.
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Trustee, John Templeton Foundation
L. Gregory Jones is President of Belmont University, a position he has held since June 1, 2021, and a Trustee and Member of the John Templeton Foundation. Greg is known as a leader and strategist whose creative engagement has helped institutions across the world and in local communities to create transformational resource models. Greg’s global imagination has guided business, education, and religious leaders on multiple continents. Greg has a particular gift for incubating talent, ideas, and networks across disciplines and sectors. He is passionate about re-shaping cultures within and across organizations and coined the term 'traditioned innovation' to capture how he re-frames complex challenges to seize significant opportunities. He is known for an entrepreneurial mindset as well as emphases on character and purpose in higher education. He has also served in leadership positions at Duke and Baylor. He is the author of several books on forgiveness and social innovation.
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Sky Dylan-Robbins is an award-winning producer and media entrepreneur. She founded and serves as the Executive Director of The Video Consortium, a global nonprofit media organization that connects and supports today’s nonfiction filmmakers and visual journalists to tell bold stories that change the world. The Video Consortium runs the Solutions Storytelling Project — running across Africa, Latin America, and Asia — supported by the Skoll Foundation.
Previously, Sky was a visual journalist at NBC News and the Senior Producer, Video at The New Yorker magazine. Forbes Magazine named her as a “30 under 30” media entrepreneur, and she graduated cum laude from Northwestern University.
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CEO, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Ed Mitchell joined WSUP as Chief Executive in June 2022. He has significant relevant experience in the environmental and water sectors, as well as with public policy and administration. Most recently he was a Director at Pennon Group, the owners of South West Water, Bournemouth Water, Bristol Water and Viridor. Prior to this, he held the role of Executive Director of Environment and Business at the Environment Agency for nearly a decade. He was also the Director of Environment and Corporate Responsibility at Thames Water and has worked for GlaxoSmithKline and the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). He spent time as special advisor to Dame Margaret Beckett, the UK’s first female Foreign Secretary, from 2005 to 2007.
Ed holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Water and Wastewater Engineering from Cranfield University, and through his role with Thames Water, helped establish WSUP in 2005. He is currently Chair of the Environmental Advisory Group at the Can
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Nicola is the CEO of Crisis Action, an award-winning organisation fostering collaboration to protect people from war. In this role, she draws on more than twenty years’ experience of campaigning, including as the inaugural head of Oxfam International’s office at the UN, also leading its humanitarian campaigning across the world. She co-founded the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect where she was also Advocacy Director. She’s been an adviser to Avaaz and the UN in Rwanda. As a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, she authored landmark reports on humanitarian coordination within the UN and donor trends in humanitarian action. A writer, researcher and advocate of the power of doubt in leadership, she holds Master’s degrees from Cambridge and LSE and is based in London.
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Ynis is a Sr. Manager of Strategy at the Skoll Foundation. She supports strategic planning, learning, and key strategic initiatives to advance the goals and impact of the foundation. She is passionate about sustainable development and systems change. She constantly strives to center and champion marginalized and underserved communities' voices. Ynis loves to travel, design and wear colorful fashion, and enjoys watching football (the real football!) and rugby.
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Kierra is Executive Assistant to our President and Operations team here at the Skoll Foundation. Kierra skillfully manages administrative and operative duties for her team. She ensures the smooth operation of team duties and works to ensure objectives, goals and vision are executed. Kierra is driven by her passion for social change, racial justice, and inclusive economies within her communities and serving as a mentor to youth. She spends a lot of her spare time exploring new music, reading on the beach, or taking long drives to new destinations.
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Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Health Initiative
Perla is Co-Founder of The Health Initiative, a campaign catalyzing a nationwide effort to spur a new conversation about – and increased investments in – health. Perla previously served as President of Health Leads, which enables physicians and other healthcare providers across the country to address the fundamental drivers of patients’ health, such as healthy food and safe housing. Prior to this, he was part of the leadership team that established the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where he was responsible for developing the national learning system to test new ways to pay for and deliver care through the Affordable Care Act and oversaw the $1 Billion Partnership for Patients and the Million Hearts Campaign. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School with a joint appointment in Community Health and Quantitative Health Sciences. He received his Ed.D from University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Paige serves as a Senior Analyst on the Evaluation & Learning team, where she facilitates strategic learning and evaluation for a subset of Skoll's strategic priorities and programs and promotes a culture of learning across the Foundation.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Paige worked as a Summer Associate on the Rockefeller Foundation’s Equity & Economic Opportunity team while pursuing her master’s degree. Before graduate school, Paige worked as a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company’s Washington, D.C. office, where she primarily served government and philanthropic clients as part of the Public and Social Sector Practice. She has also worked for a domestic microfinance nonprofit in the D.C. area.
Paige holds a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. She holds a B.S. from Georgetown University, where she majored in Finance and International Political Economy & Business. In her free time, she loves cooking new recipes, reading nonfiction books, and exploring the Bay Area.
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As a Senior Analyst for the Evaluation and Learning Team, Alexis facilitates strategic learning and helps identify actionable insights to improve Skoll’s programs and foster a culture of learning across the Foundation.
Alexis is passionate about shifting power in philanthropy and global development to those most affected by the work. She enjoys designing feedback and learning systems that elevate the voices of those working on the frontlines of social change to help make programs more equitable, effective, and impactful. Prior to joining Skoll, she held Program and Learning leadership positions at Root Change and has led several international and domestic consultancies that supported community development.
Originally from Berkeley, California, Alexis now lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband and daughter. In her free time, she loves to visit with friends, have spontaneous dance parties in her kitchen, or go on outdoor adventures with her family.
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Tracy DeTomasi is the CEO of Callisto. She has held leadership positions over the past 20 years, across the nonprofit sector, where she developed and implemented trauma-informed programming and curricula. She was instrumental in changing domestic violence laws in the US and has worked on projects globally. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Tracy has extensive experience working in the field of gender-based violence, giving her a deep understanding of the ecosystem of survivors, offenders, and allies. She has consulted with organizations to develop tech-based tools, such as an app that educates users about violence against women, a smartphone device for sexual violence prevention safety, and virtual reality trainings to address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Anti-Sexual Harassment.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director, Build Health International
Jim Ansara founded Shawmut Design and Construction – one of the top 25 construction management firms in the US and since retirement, has pursued “boots-on-the-ground” philanthropy – participating in and giving to programs that make tangible differences in low resource settings. After managing the design, engineering and construction of a solar-powered national teaching hospital in Haiti in 2013, Jim co-founded Build Health International to improve sustainable health infrastructure in under-resourced settings and promote innovative global health solutions. Build Health International has completed over 200 architectural, engineering, technical and building projects in 30+ countries throughout Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. The organization has become one of the leading NGO’s operating in low- and middle-income countries at the intersection of health infrastructure and access to reliable, high-quality healthcare.
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Founder & CEO, Black Fox Philanthropy, LLC, B Corp
Natalie Rekstad leads a purpose-focused life as the Founder and CEO of Black Fox Global, a leading fundraising firm serving international NGOs. As a B Corp social enterprise, Black Fox Global's mission is to help impact leaders attract significant and sustainable funding so they can drive deep and lasting social change.
Natalie is a Women Moving Millions member, a gender-lens angel investor, is a member of the Founders Pledge, and Advisory Board member of Ashoka WISE. Further, she has been honored by Conscious Company Media as a “World Changing Woman in Conscious Business", and her fundraising firm, Black Fox Global, is proud to be selected as a B Corp “Best for the World” Honoree as a Changemaker.
Natalie is based in Paris, France.
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Ayan Kishore is an experienced social entrepreneur and leader in technology for social impact and international development. He has a successful record in building and growing tech organizations that have helped millions globally– particularly minorities and the disadvantaged –to learn and secure jobs. As CEO, Kishore is tasked with unlocking opportunities for large-scale systems change and driving innovation through technology to transform how students, jobseekers, and older adults across the globe read, learn, and work through inclusive and equitable access to information. Prior to joining Benetech, Kishore founded and directed a digital social innovation lab at Creative Associates International focused on global literacy and peacebuilding. He served as EVP, Operations and Technology, and helped lead the IPO at Professional Diversity Network (PDN), an organization focused on increasing diversity and inclusion in the American workforce.
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Michael is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Michael graduated with distinction from The University of Colorado Denver majoring in Political Science and earning magna cum laude honors. Over the last 15 years, Michael has worked to grow and strengthen the educational, health, economic, land conservation, policy and litigation, impact investing and lending, organizing and power building nonprofit sectors serving Indian Country to create lasting relationships built on respect, reciprocity, impact, and success with communities and allies alike. An active member of the Just Economy Institute, an integrated capital thinker, and current Treasurer at The Kindle Project and Good Brand Food, Michael has advocated for Native people on local, national and international platforms, while also representing Tribal communities and working to educate and help philanthropists and investors find value aligned projects throughout Indian Country.
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Director of New Philanthropic Partnerships, MSI Reproductive Choices
Kate Schaffer has nearly 20 years of experience working to build successful funding partnerships for nonprofits working in education and reproductive health. Her background in social science research and program design enables her to successfully collaborate with donors, program operations, and technical teams to develop projects that are focused on impact and improving the health, rights, and well-being of those who are overlooked or left behind.
Kate is currently the Director of New Philanthropic Partnerships at MSI Reproductive Choices, where she is working to engage new donors to support improved access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health care across MSI’s 36 country programs. She would love to connect with donors and partners working to improve women’s health and rights, gender equity, girls’ education, and sustainable and resilient eco-systems.
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Dr. Beth Chitekwe-Biti is the Director of the Secretariat of the Slum Dwellers International, a global network of social movements organised in slum and informal settlements in 22 countries. Beth is a veteran development professional with more than 20 years of experience supporting marginalised urban communities living with insecurity and lack of services at the nexus of land management, land security, titling, dispute resolution, and the empowerment. Beth was the Founding Director of the SDI Zimbabwe affiliate NGO, Dialogue on Shelter that works in alliance with the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation to advocate for secure tenure and inclusive human settlements. She played a pivotal role in the establishment of SDI processes in Zambia, Malawi and Botswana. Beth holds a planning degree from the University of Zimbabwe, a Postgraduate Certificate in Housing from the University College of London, and a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester.
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As Managing Director, Government Alliances in the Executive Office, Daniel shapes the Skoll Foundation’s work to extend the impact of solutions created by our portfolio of social innovators through developing and leading public private partnerships with government agencies. He is responsible for enabling access to new networks, resources, influence, and capital, in addition to identifying new ways to drive progress across strategic priorities.
Prior to joining Skoll Foundation, Daniel served as Household Energy Lead at Shell Foundation, and led programs across the Access to Energy and Sustainable Mobility portfolios. There he supported a range of partners across varying stages of development, including work on large financial transactions. He also led the program development work for the World Bank-IFC Global Climate Finance team, focusing on growing domestic lending to commercial and industrial solar projects in E/W Africa and S. Asia, and served as strategic advisor to the Lighting Global program to scale household energy to underserved markets.
During his many years residing in India, Daniel held roles of Assistant Vice President at Drishtee, a distribution company serving last mile communities, and later co-founded his own last mile distribution firm Frontier Markets where he served as Chief Operations Officer. Daniel was awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship in 2012 for pioneering a last mile distribution model that provides rural communities access to energy products and services.
Daniel holds an Executive Master’s degree in Program and Portfolio Management from Georgetown University, and a B.A in psychology. Originally hailing from suburban Detroit, he is based in Washington DC with his family and dog Sadie.
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Founder and CEO, Keseb
Yordanos Eyoel is an Ethiopian-American democracy entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of Keseb. Keseb is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization building an ecosystem for cross-country learning, collaboration, and innovation to turn the tide against authoritarianism and advance inclusive democracies. For launching Keseb in 2022, Yordanos was recognized with the “Extraordinary Leader Transforming a Field” award by Unorthodox Philanthropy. Previously, Yordanos was a Managing Partner at New Profit, where she was the first person in the organization’s 22-year history to grow from Portfolio Analyst to Managing Partner. Yordanos is a Civil Society Fellow of the ADL & the Aspen Institute and a former Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Yordanos holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Florida and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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Program Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Sheila Leddy joined Imago Dei Fund as a program partner in July 2020 and focuses on advancing the Fund's strategic priorities as it invests in visionary leaders and organizations working to advance universal human rights, gender balance, justice and spiritual holism. She works closely with current and potential grantee partners in the Boston area and across the Fund's international portfolio that includes partners working in East Africa, Southeast Asia and Haiti. Previously, Sheila was executive director of The Fledgling Fund, a family foundation that supported the use of film and other creative media to educate, engage and mobilize audiences around complex social issues.
Sheila has an M.B.A. in healthcare management from Boston University, and a B.A. in Government and International Relations from the University of Notre Dame.
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Shashi is a scientist and serial social innovator working on a range of areas including health, energy, water & food security. He is the Founder of the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT), which launched India’s largest infrastructures for off-grid power and natural sanitation, serving hundreds of thousands of the country’s poorest citizens. In response to COVID, Shashi also led ITT’s launch of Oxygen Hub, Africa’s largest medical oxygen franchise. In 2021-22, Shashi was the founding CEO of GHLabs, created by Bill Gates to develop technology breakthroughs in global health. Earlier in his career, Shashi was a Partner at Dalberg Advisors and an Associate Partner at McKinsey. Shashi spent a decade on the Indian rowing team, and made an acclaimed documentary film about the India-Pakistan conflict. He holds a PhD from the Univ of Massachusetts in Artificial Intelligence, an MBA from Northwestern Univ. Shashi also teaches at the UC-Berkeley. He was born and raised in India.
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As Accounting Manager at the Skoll Foundation, Selina is responsible for the effective application of the Foundation’s policies and procedures related to grants management and accounting.
Selina is an idealist at heart, driven by her ambition to build a sustainable and brighter future. Her past experiences have all been in pursuit of broader societal goals and at the crossroads of the public, private, and philanthropic sectors – often flavored with an international twist.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Selina worked for the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, where she managed and analyzed data to optimize local COVID-19 relief efforts. Prior to that, she managed The Wonderful Company's philanthropy operations in support of far-reaching education, health and wellness, and community development programs. Selina also served as a management consultant at &samhoud in the Netherlands, helping organizations across sectors thrive and create change that matters.
Selina holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and a Master of Science from the University of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. She additionally earned a certificate in Data Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Selina loves sunshine, is an avid traveler, and thoroughly enjoys hikes with a view.
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Rachel Xing dedicated herself to the public welfare and joined Half the Sky Foundation (now OneSky for all children) in early 2009 as Operations Director, then was promoted to be Chief Operations Officer, focusing on overall operations and implementation of orphanage and village programs and bringing science-based nurturing and care approach to the caregivers of millions of children at-risk in China. In 2012, Chunhui Children’s Foundation was established and registered under her advocacy. Currently, she serves as Chief Executive Officer and established Chunhui Mama, Chunhui Care Home and Chunhui Village programs, contributing her decade’s experience in project management to Chunhui’s strategic planning, program innovation and government partnership for creating a better future for all disadvantaged children in China. Rachel was awarded the Philanthropy Person of the year of 2021 in the 11th China Philanthropy Festival. She was also one of the eight winners of 17th Compassion Award.
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President and CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Nicole Taylor is the president and CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation – the world’s largest community foundation with over $2.5 billion in annual grantmaking and a deep commitment to solving its region’s toughest challenges through advocacy, research, policy and grantmaking. Nicole also spent more than 15 years with the East Bay Community Foundation, eventually serving as its president and CEO for six years. Nicole received both her M.A. in Education and A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University. She served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for six years and is currently a board member for Common Sense Media, Carnegie Foundation and Top Hat, a market leader in student engagement solutions in higher education. She is on Stanford University’s Advisory Council for the Graduate School of Education and In 2022, Nicole was named to the annual Forbes 50 over 50 list and recognized by Inside Philanthropy as “Community Foundation Leader of the Year.”
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As EA and Program Manager, Connect & Champion, Natalie provides a wide range of project and administrative support for the Chief Communications and Partnerships Officer and across the Foundation’s “connect” and “champion” work. She works closely with the Network and Partnerships, Public Engagement and Communications, and Community and Convenings teams.
Natalie joined the Skoll Foundation in 2020 as a Senior Administrative Assistant. In this role she provided cross-disciplinary support across the Global Partnerships, Public Engagement and Communications, and Funder Alliances teams.
Before Skoll, Natalie managed the office for Sacramento architecture firm, Arch | Nexus SAC. As the first Living Certified building in California, working at Arch | Nexus SAC introduced her to the complexities and beauty of regenerative and biophilic design. Prior to her time in Sacramento, Natalie managed the office and lesson program for Webb Ranch, a horseback riding facility in the SF Bay Area.
Natalie earned her B.S. in Animal and Veterinary Science from the University of Vermont and hopes to move back to the small idyllic state one day. In her spare time, she finds any excuse to be outdoors with friends and family, especially if good food and/or backpacking is involved.
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Nadir Shams is Managing Director, Strategy and Learning at the Skoll Foundation. He supports leadership and teams across the Foundation on analyzing learnings, evidence-based decision making, prototyping new ways and areas for working, and catalyzing philanthropy towards transformational social change.
Nadir is a mission-driven development leader with over fifteen years of international and US experience. As a strategy consultant with Spring Impact in San Francisco and Dalberg Advisors in Nairobi, Nadir's passion is to help leaders achieve greater reach and depth of impact through strategy design, operational effectiveness, and partnerships. From his time as a development practitioner with Innovations for Poverty Action, One Acre Fund, The Carter Center, and others, Nadir is driven to help communities identify and achieve their own vision of wellbeing.
He is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (M.A.). While raised up and down the US east coast, Nadir now lives with his wife in Oakland and loves to exercise, outdoor adventure, listen to good music and podcasts, and support his—typically underdog—sports teams.
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I am born and raised in California, worked and lived in Vietnam for 3 years and Guatemala for 6 years and have traveled to over 60 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen. Through these experiences I have come to appreciate how we have so much more in common than we have in any meaningful differences.
I am currently CEO of Roots of Peace, have a Bachelor of Arts in political science and an MBA from University of San Francisco, co-founder of the social enterprise Noble House Spice and am part of the founding team at Rosta Caffe which is a social enterprise looking to transform the coffee supply chain. I believe in the power of partnerships to bring transformative change and am a passionate advocate of regenerative agriculture.
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Partner, Braymont
Silvia Bastante de Unverhau is a global philanthropy expert with close to 25 years of experience. She is a Senior Advisor with LGT Philanthropy Advisory. She is also a Senior Advisor to Co-Impact, and provides independent consulting services through Braymont. Prior roles include Chief Philanthropy Officer at Co-Impact, Global Head of Philanthropy Advisory at UBS, and Associate Partner at Monitor Group. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Organization of American States and Amnesty International, among others. Silvia also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich, lectures for the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Strategic and Operational Philanthropy at the University of Geneva, and sits on the Board of I am Water. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. https://www.silviabastante.org/
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Founder, Catalyst Group, Swasti
A Social Investor, Shiv Kumar has 30 years of experience solving complex social problems in India and internationally. A post-graduate in management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) co-founded the Catalyst Group of institutions, consisting of nine entities that further the health and wealth of marginalised communities. He has incubated and supported community organisations and social enterprises. And has equally succeeded and failed. He travels extensively in India and 30 other countries for work. He plays roles as required - Advisor, technical support provider, institution builder, mentor, team leader, facilitator and coach. He is passionate about communities, collaboratives, institutions, human behaviour, partnerships, technology, governance, and being a foodie, techie and cyclist.
He is the Chief Integrator of three Collabs - The Community Action Collab, the Green Health Alliance and the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Alliance-working with 500 partners.
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Nicole joined the Skoll Foundation in 2019 and serves as Grants Manager. In this role, she supports the goals of the grants management team that advances the foundation’s mission and strategic goals through effective grantmaking operations, systems, and policies. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Nicole held multiple positions at Ministry with Community - a daytime shelter in Kalamazoo, Michigan - that provides resources to underserved individuals and empowers people to make positive life changes. She also spent a year working in hostels throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, exploring and learning as she traveled.
Nicole earned her Bachelor of Arts from Kalamazoo College, where she double majored in Psychology, and Anthropology and Sociology (AnSo). Outside of work, Nicole enjoys crafting, trying new food, and catching local art and music shows.
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As Executive Administrative Assistant to Don Gips, CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Martina provides high-level tactical and administrative support to both the CEO and other executive office staff. Her role is multi-faceted, including planning and coordinating a wide variety of on and off-site meetings and events, managing executive office calendars, optimizing executive file organization, preparing communications reports, and maintaining contact with Skoll constituents.
Prior to her Executive Administrative Assistant role, she provided similar support to the Public Engagement and Global Partnerships teams. Prior to joining Skoll, she worked closely with Account Executives developing and implementing strategic marketing concepts.
In her spare time, Martina enjoys exploring the outdoors, traveling, and baking.
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Mara Lee Durrell joined Rise in 2024 as its Executive Director, whose mission is to educate, heal, and empower children by embedding trauma-informed, play-based programs in vulnerable communities around the world. For nearly a decade prior she was the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and the OneVoice Movement, which received the Skoll Award in 2008. Mara previously served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. Before that she was Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s Deputy Chief of Staff & Communications Director. A campaign veteran, Mara has served in leadership positions on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Jeanne Shaheen. While in DC, she had the honor of being an adjunct professor in politics at George Washington University for six years.
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Cheryl Strong is the Executive Assistant for the Chief Strategy Officer/Office at Skoll Foundation.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Cheryl supported C-level executives in legal and financial sectors. She earned her AA degree in photography from the College of San Mateo.
In her free time, Cheryl enjoys hiking, photography, cycling, dancing, and travel.
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As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive GHC’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Since 2012, she has overseen GHC’s leadership development programming and training curriculum, partner recruitment and selection, and impact measurement activities in her roles as Senior Vice President of Programs and Chief Impact Officer.
Prior to joining GHC, Heather was Vice President at Global Health Strategies, an international advocacy and communications consulting firm. She managed a portfolio of public and private sector clients, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Women Deliver and GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Heather previously served as a Senior Program Officer at Planned Parenthood Global in Washington D.C. Additionally, she spent time in Ethiopia establishing a youth program for EngenderHealth. Before joining the global health community, Heather spent six years at Accenture, a management consulting firm. She holds a Mas
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Gary Z. Linnen is the CEO of PeerForward following its original co-founders. Mr. Linnen has steered PeerForward’s programs for more than a decade, cultivating deep experience in youth development, program innovation, and organizational leadership. He has contributed to virtually every function of the organization, from designing and facilitating workshops for educators and students to fostering school, community, and funder partnerships and engaging program alumni. Mr. Linnen shaped PeerForward’s current model, which elevates PeerForward’s unique method of structuring and leveraging peer influence to achieve meaningful schoolwide outcomes. Independent research has found that the model has proven to result in up to 26% higher financial aid applications in partner schools than in similar schools without the program. His lifetime commitment to creating pathways to higher education for students in under-resourced communities also drives his participation as a member of the governing board
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As Chief Executive Officer at Girls Not Brides, Faith is responsible for the implementation of the Girls Not Brides Partnership Strategy, to fulfil Girls Not Brides' mission: a world without child marriage where girls and women enjoy equal status with boys and men, and can achieve their full potential.
Before joining Girls Not Brides, Faith served as Global Director for The Girl Generation, an initiative working to galvanize the Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation/cutting.
Faith is a public health expert with more than 20 years’ experience in leading, managing and implementing complex public health programmes in Africa. Her experience includes working as the founding Executive Director of the African Palliative Care Association and supporting palliative care global advocacy and services development in over 20 African countries.
Faith holds a Master’s degree in Population Policies and Programmes and a Doctorate in Women’s Economic Development and Fertility Behaviour.
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Director, International Programs, 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 role, she is focused on unlocking investments and driving policy changes aimed at shifting greater resources to local organizations and lifting civil society voices. Previously, she was the Foundation’s director of international programs, overseeing various initiatives including safe water access, early childhood development for HIV and AIDS-affected children, blindness prevention, and disaster relief and recovery. She holds a doctorate in public health (DrPH) and has a broad academic and professional background in health services, hospital administration and environmental epidemiology.
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As Chief of Staff and Managing Director, Kathara Green helps the Executive Office operate at its highest level, all in service of the Skoll Foundation vision and mission. Before stepping into this role, Kathara curated programming for the Skoll World Forum and other events, as well as supported strategic partnerships.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Kathara worked for Net Impact, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, the State Department, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Women for Women International.
Kathara graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she focused on international development and gender. When she's not working, she loves to travel, cook, and create.
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Executive Director, MiracleFeet
Chesca co-founded MiracleFeet in 2010. She led MiracleFeet as Executive Director and CEO until 2022. During that time, the organization grew to support 300+ clinics in over 30 countries, enrolling over 65,000 children in treatment, developed a low-cost brace and a sophisticated data collection and M&E system, both of which form critical elements of MiracleFeet’s replicable program model, and raised over $45M to support MiracleFeet’s global expansion.
Chesca continues to support MiracleFeet as a Board Member and is working as a mentor, advisor and Board member to a number of start-up non-profits, primarily based in LMICs focused on global health. Her previous experience includes working for Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, internet start-ups, business schools, and International Rescue Committee. Chesca is originally from England, grew up in Africa and Asia and spent time living and working in Pakistan and Ecuador.
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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 further its mission of creating large scale change.
Padmaja has more than 20 years of experience in managing global Information Technology organizations and providing solutions across enterprise business operations. Prior to Skoll, Padmaja was the Senior Director of Business applications at Brocade Communications, enabling business transformation and delivering enterprise wide technology solutions.
Padmaja is also a member of the National Coordinating Committee of India Literacy Project (ILP), a non-profit organization working towards 100% literacy in India. She has been volunteering with ILP for over a decade and supported numerous initiatives that have benefited thousands of villages in India. She has also built and supported technology applications for various non-profits.
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Managing Director, Kupanda Capital
Bobby is a Founding Partner of Kupanda Capital, a platform to advise, create, and scale companies that have a lasting impact. He has helped found numerous companies, including Nithio and Fraym, where he serves as Chairman.
In 2018, Kupanda partnered with famed record producer Don Jazzy to create Mavin Global, a multifaceted entertainment company to promote African creatives to the world.
Bobby also serves as Chairman of the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD).
Previously, he was Vice President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), where he managed one of the largest portfolios in Africa, including more than $25 billion in active projects across 52 African countries.
Bobby served in several senior policy positions in the US Government, including the White House, Treasury, and State Department.
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CEO, VC Include
Bahiyah is a recognized thought leader and entrepreneur in the asset management space around JEDI + Gender, focused on impact and sustainability. She has spent over 15 years in philanthropy, impact investing, and building new platforms to drive deeper gender, global impact and diverse representation in capital markets.
She is passionate about building new pathways to drive alpha in the alternative asset management industry, particularly through impact investing. The INCLUDE seeding platform was launched in 2018 to build infrastructure to drive sustainability and integrity around environmental and social governance, with equity and inclusion embedded in the model. VC Include has gone on to support firms with $4B of targeted AUM, led by women and diverse asset managers building institutional grade asset management firms to generate new alpha. Their best in class training and education fellowship has graduated 22 PE + VC firms since 2021 who have raised North of $320M and counting.
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Audrey Sheffield joined the Skoll Foundation team in 2020 and currently serves as Sr. Coordinator, Connections & Convenings.
Prior to joining Skoll as a Program Coordinator, Audrey worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Evaluation and Learning team at the Skoll Foundation. In this role, she worked closely with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, obtaining and organizing data from the past and present recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Audrey earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Santa Clara University. In her spare time, Audrey enjoys crossword puzzles, listening to Prince, and spending time with her two enormous Labrador Retrievers, Hobbes and Angel.
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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 resorts and retreat centers, to leading Opportunity Collaboration, a global network of several thousand nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers, impact investors, corporates and academics building sustainable solutions to poverty, and finally with Connective Impact, a 250 member organization for international nonprofits, businesses, and funders seeking inroads to new and diverse partners and collaborators
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President and CEO, Generation: You Employed
Mona Mourshed is the founding CEO of Generation: You Employed, a global nonprofit that supports adults to achieve economic mobility. Generation trains and places adult learners of all ages into careers that are otherwise inaccessible, delivering sector-leading employment and income results consistently across 17 countries and 40 professions. Since launching in 2015, Generation has over 125,000 graduates – of whom half are in the last two years - and who have earned $1.5 billion+ in wages. Generation also conducts original research on priority global employment transition topics, including supporting unemployed age 45+ individuals to successfully enter new careers. Mona has authored widely cited reports and articles on education, workforce, and social sector impact. She was named a 2024 Advocates in Aging by the American Society on Aging and is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur. Mona has a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from MIT.
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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 strategy and media initiatives for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
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Co-Founder and CEO, EarthEnable
Gayatri Datar is the co-founder and CEO of EarthEnable, a social enterprise that aims to make living conditions healthier for the world’s poor, first by eliminating dirt floors. Dirt floors make people sick, and concrete is unaffordable to billions of people. EarthEnable solves this problem by selling a proprietary floor that is 80% cheaper than cement. Before founding EarthEnable, she was a Senior Consultant at Dalberg, where she focused on impact investing/social entrepreneurship, energy access, and agriculture, and a consultant at the World Bank conducting impact evaluations of agriculture projects. She has also consulted for the Government of Liberia’s Department of Revenue, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the IFC, and grassroots NGOs in India, Namibia, Nicaragua, Albania, and the United States. She holds a BA and MPA/ID from Harvard, and an MBA from Stanford, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She is an Echoing Green Fellow and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.
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As part of the Public Engagement, Communications, and Creative Services team at the Skoll Foundation, Annah writes content and communications that drive visibility, resources, and support for social innovators. She previously managed social enterprises that equipped hundreds of women with professional and psychosocial skills in Los Angeles and East Africa. Her work is rooted in a devotion to personal and social transformation.
Annah studied journalism at Geneseo College and minored in women's studies. Based in northern New Mexico, on the current and ancestral lands of the Pueblo people, she loves to camp, slow-hike, and explore the wild deserts around her home.
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Chief Advocacy and Partnership Officer, African Development Solutions
Maura Donlan is a leader in social impact/global philanthropy. Most recently, she served as Adeso's Chief Advocacy & Partnerships Officer, leading advocacy and resource mobilization at a Nairobi-based civil society organization that is a leader in the movement to advance locally-led development and the decolonization of aid and philanthropy. Previously, she was Director of Advocacy & Effective Social Investing at the Chandler Foundation, driving strategies to promote systems change, justice, and equity. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of Social Investor Magazine and worked at the Milken Institute's Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Omidyar Network, and GMMB. Maura has experience at the UN Development Program, UN Foundation, the National Dem Institute for International Affairs, and Capitol Hill. She spent seven years supporting Ted Turner's philanthropy and social enterprises. Maura holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and a master's degree from Columbia University.
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As a Sr. Analyst on the Portfolio & Investments team, Elyssa helps identify investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, and support the work and impact of portfolio partners, particularly in the areas of effective governance, inclusive economies, and promoting healthy and equitable information ecosystems. With a background in learning and evaluation, she is passionate about building authentic relationships with social innovators, learning together about what it takes to advance equity, racial justice, and long-term social change. In her spare time, you can often find her in the kitchen cooking up a storm or out on one of the Bay Area’s fabulous hiking trails.
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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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Operations Director, DAK Foundation
Marnie Rickards is the Operations Director for DAK Foundation and a Director of DAK International Network, which jointly support practical solutions for healthcare delivery in low resource settings.
Marnie oversees the Biomedical and Equipment programs, partnering with locally embedded health networks across Asia and Africa to help increase their efficiency and quality of service.
She has a specific interest in heallth prograsm addessing:
• obstetric ultrasound task-sharing
• oxygen ecosystem strengthening
• safe anaesthesia programs and inhalation gas supply chain
• emergency medicine
DAK Foundation also supports programs in high-volume SICS cataract surgeries, family planning using LARCs and other community and primary health inititiaves which focus on capacity utilisation.
Marnie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University and serves on the Board of Partners for Equity (Australia) as well as the Board of Advisors for the Gould Family Foundation (USA).
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Regional Programme Manager, Fundación Avina
I'm from Curitiba, Brazil, and enchanted by Latin America. I have a Bachelor degree in Economics, with a post graduate at Strategic Economics and a Master in Sustainablity for Companies. I've worked at the private sector for a long time, but since 2008 I work at Avina Foundation, with special focus at environmental issues, which I like a lot.
I love to travel and to be with my family in the nature, specially the sea.
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Debbie Santos is the Vice President, Finance at the Skoll Foundation where she has primary responsibility for the Foundation’s financial matters and oversees the grants management, legal, accounting and finance functions. Debbie has spent most of her career helping organizations optimize across finance and operations to advance their mission.
In her spare time, Debbie enjoys spending time with family, listening to audio books, and hunting for her next favorite podcast.
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Managing Director, Emerson Collective
Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technology Officer at Emerson Collective, where he focuses on using technology and data to accelerate solutions that promote social good. Prior to joining Emerson Collective, Raffi served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where he used data, technology, and digital security to support the election processes of Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Before moving to the political sector, he was the Engineering Director of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet. He also served as a Vice President of Engineering at Twitter. Raffi serves on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and chairs Mozilla.AI's board. He chairs the board of Medic, which builds open source software for community health workers worldwide, and serves on the board of TUMO, providing innovative STEAM education to tens of thousands of children through centers worldwide.
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In her role at the Skoll Foundation, Rachel supports strategic engagements with aligned funders in order to direct additional support and resources to Skoll’s social entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Rachel launched and led key efforts at Omidyar Network to amplify the impact of the firm’s portfolio and partner network. She also has extensive experience in international development, managing health and emergency response programs in East Africa and Haiti.
Rachel graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and earned an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She is a San Francisco native, a former college tour guide, a hobbyist baker, and a recovering camp counselor. She speaks a bit of French, Swahili, and Hebrew and is fluent in toddler.
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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 develop a new generation of leaders in LatAm. EFF is also a significant contributor to RenovaBR, the largest political training school in Brazil.
Molly is a board member of the African Leadership Academy and the main funder of their AL for Governance sector. She was a co-founding donor of the SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN) in Kenya. She was also a co-founding donor for Wayfinder, a Stanford d.school-created organization that ensures students have access to tools to create lives of meaning and purpose.
Previously, Molly was a member of the National Advisory Board for the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University and Vice Chair of the Board for the Firelight Foundation.
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Chief Executive Officer,
OneSkyMorgan has spent the last two decades helping NGOs with education projects in Asia, Africa and South America raise funds and tell their stories. She is honored to serve as OneSky’s first CEO following their founder, Skoll Awardee, Jenny Bowen, and to share Jenny’s passion for making high quality care and early education available to children living in low-resourced communities in Asia.
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Mike Davis became CEO of Global Witness in February 2020. Under his leadership, Global Witness has embarked on a new strategic direction: shifting the balance of power from big polluters profiting most from climate breakdown to the people most adversely affected. Mike has also fostered the development of more agile and collaborative forms of Global Witness’s investigative campaigning model.
Prior to becoming CEO, Mike held various other leadership roles at Global Witness. From 2016 to 2020 he was the organisation’s Director of Campaigns, Planning and Evaluation. During this period, Mike initiated a major shift in the organisation’s work towards addressing the climate emergency.
From 2013-2016 Mike was Global Witness’s Asia Director, overseeing the organisation’s engagement in China and conducting high impact investigations that exposed systemic corruption in Myanmar’s multi-billion dollar jade business.
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Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Executive Director with the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. Prior to CTCL, she was the New Organizing Institute’s Election Administration Director from 2012 to 2015. She previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
Tiana is a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation Fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows (2015). Tiana earned a MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.
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As Principal on the Portfolio & Investments team, Kathryn conducts diligence and produces profiles on Skoll Awardees, and supports strategic investment opportunities leading to lasting, large-scale social change.
Prior to joining Skoll, Kathryn managed private-sector partnerships at Direct Relief, a global health NGO that delivers pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to those affected by poverty and disasters both in the U.S. and around the world.
Kathryn earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from the University of Michigan, where she double-majored in English and Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and cycling. Having studied and volunteered in South America during her undergraduate years, she also enjoys finding opportunities to practice her Spanish.
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In her role at Skoll, Tanya works to identify and select opportunities to mitigate climate change by helping indigenous people and local communities secure their land rights and by realizing the potential of tropical forests. She is driven by a desire to shift existing power structures and elevate those on the front lines of social change. In her free time, she enjoys getting lost abroad or in a book and sharing time and food with friends and family. Tanya is based in Oakland, California.
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Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of Partners In Health (PIH), a global health non-profit organization rooted in social justice that brings the benefits of modern medical science to impoverished communities in 11 countries. Dr. Davis has a long history of serving the poor and marginalized, starting with her work with the HIV/AIDS community in the 1980s, both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Davis received her BSN degree from Northeastern University in 1988, her Masters in Nursing degree as an Adult Nurse Practitioner in 1997 and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with a concentration in global health in 2008. Both of her graduate degrees are from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions. She was a clinician in the Infectious Diseases clinic at MGH for over 15 years and for the past decade has held multiple cross-site roles at Partners In Health, including Chief of the Ebola Response, Chief of Clinical Operations, and Chief Nursing Officer.
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CEO, Maisha Meds
Jessica founded Maisha Meds while a medical student at Stanford School of Medicine. She led the research team for IPA’s Dispensers for Safe Water program as it scaled to support nearly half a million people and developed a cervical cancer screening program for UCSF-FACES. She has worked with McKinsey & Company’s healthcare practice and supported the first year of a US digital health company as it raised a $35 million Series A and launched insurance and retail clinic pilots. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BA in Economics.
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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 investments team. She also serves in a cross-functional leadership role to identify opportunities for collaboration in service of greater impact for Skoll partners. Additionally, Jess leads the Foundation’s grantmaking focus on information integrity, identifying and supporting partners who advance healthier information ecosystems in support of more resilient and inclusive democracies.
Previously, Jess led Skoll’s convening programming, including the flagship Skoll World Forum. She also co-curated the "Rethinking Possible" podcast with Aspen Ideas and helped launch several initiatives including the Skoll World Forum Fellowship, TEDxSkollConversations, and We the Future during UNGA.
Jess’s career journey includes roles at Net Impact, the World Affairs Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the California Appellate Project. She holds a BA in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University, studying abroad in Costa Rica and Argentina.
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Piyush Tewari is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SaveLIFE Foundation (SLF), a nonprofit committed to saving lives on roads in India and beyond since 2008. He is best known for getting India a Good Samaritan Law and developing an award-winning model for reducing fatalities on Indian highways.
Prior to SLF, Piyush served as the India Director of a US-based private equity fund. He quit the private sector to establish SLF following the traumatic road crash death of a young family member. Previously, Piyush served as Program Manager at the India Brand Equity Fund, an initiative of the Prime Minister of India.
He hold a Bachelor’s degree in IT from Delhi University and Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
He is a recipient of The Elevate Prize, the Rolex Award for Enterprise, Ashoka Fellowship, Echoing Green Fellowship, DRKF fellowship, and Rainer Arnhold Fellowship.
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Program Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Jennifer Oakley is a Program Partner with the Imago Dei Fund and works to advance the fund’s strategic priorities locally and internationally. She works closely with current and potential grantee partners, managing a portfolio of investments across multiple programming areas. In this role, she explores and cultivates promising new ideas and works to build the capacity of existing partnerships. Jennifer has a deep desire to serve as a catalyst to bring together talented leaders and impactful organizations from different sectors and to encourage collaboration among the broader philanthropic community. She is an active member of a number of funder networks, including the Network of Engaged International Donors, Professionals in Christian Philanthropy, African Philanthropy Forum, and Big Bang Philanthropy. Prior to joining the Imago Dei Fund, Jennifer practiced law at firms in Washington, D.C. and Boston and was a founding board member of Park Street School in Boston, MA.
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Tim is a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. He is responsible for identifying high-potential social entrepreneurs and applying the Foundation’s assets to help social enterprises create large scale and lasting change to social injustice and inequity around the world. Prior to joining Skoll, Tim spent more than a decade as a management consultant - most recently with Dalberg Advisors where he helped corporate, multilateral, foundation and NGO clients develop effective solutions to the world's most pressing social problems. Tim holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and a BA in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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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 community. She focuses much of her time envisioning how to build a meaningful and impactful experience for delegates at the Skoll World Forum and other Skoll convenings, collaborating across the Foundation to create the framework for these events, and finally implementing that vision.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Jill spent much of her career conceptualizing and producing memorable experiences for clients at special events such as the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Tony Awards, and the Kentucky Derby. In her free time, she can often be found on the local Pickleball courts. She has acquired a new nickname, “Coach Jill,” stemming from her love of teaching the fundamentals of pickleball to novices. At home Jill’s great passion is cooking and baking too, much to her family’s delight.
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Mai has a diverse background in Technology and a strong commitment to social impact. In her role as Director of Technology at the Skoll Foundation, she is committed to executing Skoll’s technology charter and roadmap which ensures operations run smoothly allowing the team to focus on driving large scale social change.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, she worked in the tech industry at various organizations to implement and manage technology solutions. Mai gained experience in IT infrastructure, software implementation, and project management. This diverse skill set enables her to effectively address the technological challenges faced by the foundation and to help bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
A first-generation Vietnamese immigrant, she and her family now call the San Francisco Bay Area home. In addition to her work at Skoll, she also supports a family charity/foundation that does mission work bringing sight (cataract surgeries) to disadvantaged areas of the world.
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Co-Chief Facilitator, Catalyst 2030
I am passionate about promoting peaceful coexistence, well-being, and social entrepreneurship through the visual arts and innovation in education.
I am co-founder of the TAAP Foundation, Art Team Lead at RoundGlass Learning, and former CEO of the Aid Live Foundation. I have co-created and directed programs and organizations that impact more than 4,500,000 beneficiaries in vulnerable communities in Latin America and the world.
My goal is to promote peace, generating social development projects and social enterprises that increase the well-being of communities—using collaboration, creativity, and social innovation as tools to develop critical thinking and understanding to drive systemic change.
I am an Ashoka Fellow, Rotary Peace Fellow, Perennial Fellow, OC Fellow, and co-founder of the Weaving Lab, Catalyst 2030, and Colombia Cuida Colombia. I support the Collective Change Lab, Tendrel, and the Ecosystem Network of the Wellbeing Project in Latam, all of them collaborative projects
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Educator, expressive arts therapist, artist, environmental educator, environmental activist and feminist. Executive Director and Ciudad Saludable; partner and Director of ”Urban interventions and Performance of the Peruvian Gender Observatory. Diploma in Environmental Teaching for Sustainable Development from the University of Querétaro - Mexico; Diploma in Community Relations and Social Responsibility from ESAN University, Peru and diploma in Anthropology and Photography from the Image Center in Peru, diploma in “Expressive Arts Therapy” from TAE Peru. Currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialty in “Peace Building and conflict transformation” in the European Graduate School - Switzerland.
Worked on inclusive recycling projects, circular economy, health, art, education, gender and environmental communication in urban, rural and indigenous communities for more than 20 years in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
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Project Director and Adjunct Director,
NOSSASEnrica is the inaugural Executive Director of Mapa do Acolhimento, a brazilian organization working on gender-based violence response and femicide prevention. She holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from The New School, with minors in History and Global Studies. She is a master's candidate at UN University for Peace in Costa Rica, with a focus on Conflict Resolution. In 2024, Enrica was selected as the first Brazilian representative of the Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders in France and is currently an Obama Scholar at Columbia University. Enrica serves as board member for NOSSAS, Brazil's largest member based organization for civic engagement and is an expert at the Women's Safety group at Meta.
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Emily Bancroft is a global leader in systems change, dedicated to transforming health care delivery. She work with a diverse team of leaders to set the vision for how VillageReach works with governments to design responsive primary health care solutions for the most under-reached communities.
Emily has been instrumental in VillageReach’s growth since 2010, first serving as Director of the organization’s Health Systems Group before she became Vice President in 2015, and President in 2017. In these previous roles, Emily led the integration of VillageReach’s work into global strategies and policies to ensure that new vaccines and essential medicines reach those at the last mile and helped to develop and launch some of VillageReach’s high impact digital health initiatives. In her time at VillageReach, the organization has expanded its reach and collaborations to impact health systems serving more than 70M people.
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Founder, Care2Communities
Elizabeth is a clinician, public health consultant and global health impact investor. She founded Care2Communities in 2010 to meet the health care needs of women in Haiti after the earthquake. Leveraging innovation, philanthropic dollars and social enterprise principles, C2C has continued to serve 100,000 patients/year in a network of 10 clinics in northern Haiti in partnership with the community, the Ministry of Health and the private sector. Elizabeth is a community founder and funder of the Co-impact Foundation and Gender Funds and the Roddenberry +1Health fund. She has served on the boards of Network of Engaged International Donors, WMM and C2C. She is a proud founding funder of Project Dandelion and loves to pollinate good ideas.
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Venture Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Liz is a Venture Partner at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, working closely with the leadership of DRK’s portfolio organizations in Africa and the US. Prior, Liz led the planning, launch and initial operations of the Kigutu International Academy, an innovative secondary school in rural Burundi. Earlier, she assisted the Mastercard Foundation with the development of their education strategy for Africa and the design of a major education initiative in Rwanda. Liz also held leadership roles at USAID, serving as the founding Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Initiative and as a Senior Education Advisor in South Africa. Currently, Liz is Chair of the Board of the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA). She received a BA from Williams College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
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Edith Elliott is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 400+ facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training, then follows up with families using mobile messaging technologies. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.
Prior to Noora Health, Edith was a Design Innovation Fellow at Stanford and worked on disease prevention at the Aspen Institute and PSI. Edith has been an Ashoka Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow at Mulago Foundation, DRK Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs at Harvard. She holds a BA from Tufts and MA in International Policy Studies and Global Health from Stanford.
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Yana Abu Taleb, a dedicated environmental advocate and peacebuilder, serves as the Jordanian Director of EcoPeace Middle East. A unique regional organization that brings together environmentalists from Jordan, Palestine, and Israel to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. With offices in Amman, Ramallah, and Tel Aviv.
With a remarkable tenure spanning over two decades, Yana Abu Taleb has consistently catalyzed positive change and fostered unprecedented collaborations to achieve environmental sustainability and regional stability. As the Jordanian Director, she leads activities and holds responsibilities that encompass the development and management of national and regional projects. She serves as a crucial liaison, advocating for environmental protection and transboundary water issues while engaging with governmental and private sector figures and organizations.
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Gabriel is the Associate Director of Video Production & photographer at the Skoll Foundation where he helps tell stories of social change agents around the world.
He got started working in video at age 13 at KDOL-TV in Oakland, CA, and then went on to study theater at Trinity Rep Conservatory. He was Creative Director of the Youth Sounds’ “Factory", an advanced filmmaking lab for Bay Area youth. Works created under his mentorship won top prizes at dozens of national festivals, including an Emmy. He was an adjunct professor of film production at San Francisco State University.
His indie narrative feature film "Less" is an urban fairytale about a man who has chosen to live on the streets in San Francisco. It received an honorable mention for the Grand Jury prize at the Dances With Films Festival.
His short documentary “We Are In The Field: Adventures of a Nepalese Environmental Activist” has played in numerous festivals.
In his personal work as a social artist, Gabriel co-created the Vulnerable Rally as a radical experiment—blending street theatre, shadow work, community building, and social/political commentary.
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Catherine Chen has spent more than two decades building innovative social justice programs and pushing for policy change to address the root causes of sex and labor trafficking. Today she serves as the CEO of Polaris, the leading anti-trafficking organization in the United States.
Before joining Polaris, Chen spearheaded a global campaign for Humanity United that raised the plight of migrant workers in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and resulted in Qatar becoming the first nation in the Persian Gulf to enact a national minimum wage. In 2022, Chen was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. She is a Board member of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) and a founding member of Chief, a national network of 15,000 women executives. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University.
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Debbie Rogers, a dynamic leader passionate about advancing mobile technology for health, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role as CEO of Reach Digital Health and a board member of Turn.io. Her leadership tenure at Reach, spanning over a decade, has demonstrated her ability to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions. Most recently, Debbie has successfully led Reach to receive multiple grants, notably honoured with The Skoll Award and a generous gift from Yield Giving.
Her career highlights include her pivotal role in leading the service design of the MomConnect program, a groundbreaking initiative under the National Department of Health in South Africa. Recognising the immense potential of mobile technology in transforming healthcare, she spearheaded the development and implementation of the decade-old program and is leading its expansion into other African countries.
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President, Spitfire Strategies
Kristen Grimm is the founder of Spitfire Strategies, a public interest firm focused on advancing racial, economic and social justice, protecting the environment and promoting opportunity for all. She has extensive experience running smart communication and campaign efforts that create lasting social change. A hopeful strategist, she believes progress is always possible, setbacks are sources of inspiration and building beyond the choir is where the real work is. She is the mastermind behind Spitfire’s Smart Chart, Planning to Win, Mindful Messaging and Replenishing Trust, thinks fast in a crisis, is deft at drawing phenomenal visionary speeches out of leaders and is someone you want in your corner when you’re ready to go big. When it comes to storytelling, all you need to know is that her last name is Grimm.
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Co-Founder / Executive Director, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)
Sasha is an ecologist and human rights advocate who has been living and working in Haiti since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University in 2006 and co-founded SOIL that same year. While Sasha spends the majority of her time living and working in Haiti, she is also a global advocate for the recycling of nutrients in human waste, helping others implement sustainable sanitation projects and inspiring people around the world recognize the relationship between environmental and social justice. Sasha is an Ashoka Fellow, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, an Architect of the Future with the Waldzell Institute, a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and the recipient of the 2017 Sarpharti Sanitation Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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CEO and Chief Curator, Centre For Exponential Change
Sanjay Purohit is CEO and Chief Curator of Centre for Exponential Change. He has 30+ years of diverse experience spanning corporate and development sectors. Since 2016, he has been co-creating Societal Thinking, an approach to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably. He has engaged with 500+ Change Leaders across 20+ countries with Societal Thinking in domains such as climate action, education, gender equity, healthcare and livelihoods. The core ideas of Societal Thinking are encapsulated in his Think Books. He is mentor and co-founder of apurva.ai, a platform to amplify the collective wisdom of communities with AI. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Don Norman Design Award that champions humanity centred design and Fundamentum, a scale investment fund.
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Kayode Ajayi joined the organization in 1999 as the Technical Development Manager in Nigeria, when he developed a national maintenance network system for the World Health Organisation- led polio eradication campaign. He was instrumental in setting up our country programmes in Democratic Republic of Congo and The Gambia. He was posted to the Headquarters in 2002 as the Deputy Operations Director before assuming the position of Performance Director in 2008 to oversee the standards and across the organization. He was appointed as the country director in Nigeria in July 2016. With a background in Marine Engineering, he is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport He is an Alumnus of the International School of Management and recently bagged a certificate in Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management from the Havard Business School, Boston USA.
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Founder & CEO, The/Nudge
After 17 years of starting and scaling various businesses, Atul started The/Nudge Foundation to do poverty alleviation work. Atul is now serving both The/Nudge and Give as their CEO.
Over his 5-year stint at InMobi as its Chief Business Officer, Atul helped scale the organisation to a global leader in mobile advertising, with operations in 20+ countries. Atul also served on the Board of Mobile Marketing Association.
Prior to InMobi, Atul was the Head of Mobile Business for Japan & Asia-Pacific at Google. Atul has also done various general management, business development and sales roles across technology companies including Adobe, Samsung and Infosys.
Atul served EndPoverty, a non-profit, as Chairperson for two years, working on water, sanitation, education, skill-development, sustainability and women empowerment. Atul serves on the Advisory Board of various nonprofits including Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Udhyam Learning Foundation and Parivaar.
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Chief Executive Officer, Jan Sahas USA, Inc.
Asif Shaikh is founder People’s Courage International, Migrants Resilience Collaborative and Jan Sahas. Asif founded Jan Sahas his own lived experience and have helped millions of migrant workers, survivors of sexual abuse, trafficking, forced labour and manual scavengers. In 2020, Asif launched the Migrant Resilience Collaborative (MRC), MRC is a grassroots-led multi-stakeholder collaborative of non-profits, philanthropic, government and private sector actors focused on ensuring safety, security, and mobility for 10 million migrant families. Currently Asif is working with People’s Courage International (PCI). PCI is supporting climate dopration and just transition initiatives across South and Southeast Asia. He was awarded the Harvard Kennedy School's Gleitsman International Award in 2022, Social Innovator of the Year in 2020 Schwab Foundation (World Economic Forum), Ashoka Fellow in 2016, Times of India Social Impact Award and Star Impact Award by 42nd president of the United States.
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Celina de Sola is the Co-founder and President of Glasswing International. She has over 25 years of experience in international development and social change. Prior to Glasswing, Celina worked as a consultant for the Population Council, was a crisis interventionist for Latino immigrants in the United States, and spent over five years with Americares leading responses to complex humanitarian crises in regions including Liberia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Indonesia. She is a Fellow of the Obama Foundation, Ashoka, and LEGO ReImagine Learning; an awardee of the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Prize, and the Audacious Project; a Tällberg Global Leader; and the 2023–24 Marla and Barry Beck Visiting Social Innovators. She serves on several nonprofit boards and is a member of the InterAmerican Foundation’s Advisory Council. Celina was a speaker at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver and has been featured on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Uncharted Ground podcast.
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Gayle Smith is the former CEO of the ONE Campaign, and took leave from that position to serve as Coordinator for the Global COVID Response and Health Security at the State Department during the Biden Administration. She served 8 years in the Obama Administration, at the National Security Council and then as USAID Administrator, and prior to that co-founded the ENOUGH Project and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and led the Sustainable Security Project at the Center for American Progress. She served on the National Security Council during President Clinton's second term, and before joining government lived and worked in Africa for almost 20 years, working as a reporter and then for NGOs and international organizations. She proudly serves as a member of the board of the Skoll Foundation. And loves to dance.
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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 role at the Imago Dei Fund, Emily has helped the foundation to adopt a “gender-lens” in its grantmaking with a particular focus on partnering with inspired female change agents, locally and around the world, to build bridges of peace and create a world where girls and women can thrive and achieve their full human potential. Emily brings a contemplative posture to both faith and philanthropy and is passionate about supporting the inner lives of change agents to lead with love and be their best selves in the challenging work they do.
Emily is the co-author/convener of a project called The Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom which invites participants to better understand the historic and rel
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Executive Director, International Women's Media Foundation
Elisa Lees Muñoz is the Executive Director of the International Women’s Media Foundation, a role she has held since 2013. Elisa leads the organization to achieve its mission to support women journalists and develop their careers by providing training, tools and assistance. She is charged with growing the IWMF by expanding its programs into new geographies; introducing new initiatives; partnering with peer organizations; securing diverse organizational funding; and, driving communications and outreach to core constituents.
Elisa’s nearly two decades at the IWMF have made her a leading expert on the intersections between gender equity and press freedom. She is a relentless advocate for women journalists, striving to prioritize their voices in all press freedom conversations. Elisa knows progress stands still when gender diverse perspectives are excluded – and that often it takes a woman-led, woman-focused organization to drive the industry forward.
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As Lead Graphic Designer on the Public Engagement and Communications team, Emily creates visual identities and graphics for various platforms, from print and web to media and social channels. She also designs graphic campaigns for the annual Skoll World Forum, and amplifies visual stories on a daily basis. With an award-winning track record of working across international borders, Emily brings a global perspective and creative flair to all her projects. She is enthusiastic and full of energy, welcoming all kinds of inspirations.
Emily first joined the Skoll Foundation in 2018, when she won the Gold Award for Muse Creative Awards in Marketing and Promotion category, and the Platinum Award in Event Marketing for the Skoll World Forum branding. She returned to Skoll in 2022, continuing to use visuals to convey stories about good people doing good things.
Prior to Skoll, Emily worked at internationally renowned creative agencies and companies around the world. She also served as the Art Director and Social Media Specialist for TEDxHongKong. Emily is a fan of Japanese anime, trendy fashion, and pop culture. She loves cuddling with her two kitties and enjoys visiting art galleries and hiking with her son and family in her spare time in the Bay Area.
Through her agency and corporate work, Emily is well versed in graphic design, print, web / UI design, social graphics, corporate identity, project management, and more. She also worked as the Art Director for TEDx Hong Kong and was the social media specialist for TEDx Hong Kong Ed.
Emily believes that visual communication is a powerful tool to spur meaningful changes. Her international experiences inspire her to have a mission to elevating global social entrepreneurs' ideas by using impactful images and graphics online and offline. In her personal time, Emily is both extrovert and introvert: she loves hiking and loves art, fashion, and pop culture.
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With over 28 years of experience, Subrata Singh is committed to advancing sustainability and empowering rural communities in India. Currently serving as the Executive Director at the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), his role involves strategic planning, project implementation, and fundraising. Subrata's expertise encompasses common pool resource management, property rights, institutional designs, decentralization, rural livelihoods, and public policy analysis.
Throughout his career, Subrata has held various roles, from directly engaging with communities to providing strategic support for project implementation. As Coordinator of Prakriti Karyashala, he developed capacity-building programs for rural communities and government officials, emphasizing local governance and natural resource stewardship. Subrata holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development and has contributed to academic literature with published articles in different journals.
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Program Officer for International Philanthropy, Pilot House Philanthropy
Bennett Rathbun leads the Global Initiative at Pilot House Philanthropy, a private single-family office in Boston, MA. In his role, Bennett is responsible for finding, funding, and supporting a growing portfolio of high-impact social entrepreneurs focused on combatting global poverty, with specific emphasis on rural livelihoods, thriving nature, and gender equity. Prior to joining Pilot House, Bennett spent a decade building and leading Hope on a String, a youth and community development organization based in rural Haiti. Bennett now serves as Hope on a String's Board Chair, contributes to The Bridgespan Group's Africa Advisory Board, and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Bennett holds degrees from Amherst College and New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. He is fluent in Haitian Creole in addition to English.
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Radha is an experienced leader in international economic development and is passionate about using the power of business, technology, data, and evidence to make a meaningful impact on the lives of economically vulnerable people. She has worked in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and led global initiatives to create lasting social, economic, and environmental impact through the private and nonprofit sectors. Radha lives in Washington DC, with her husband and three children. When not working or with her family, her happiest place is on her kayak.
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Founder, Giving Wings Foundation
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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Projects Director, DAK Foundation
With over 20 years of experience working in international development, Anubha is the Projects Director at the DAK International Network (DIN), a charitable Foundation based in Australia. DIN primarily focuses on four main areas – women's health and maternal, child and neonatal health (specifically on birth injury repair and Ultrasound training), Family planning, restorative eyesight surgery, and distribution of medical equipment and biomedical training programmes. Anubha is passionate about program development and initiatives championed at the local level. She is a Director of Partners for Equity, Australia, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Australian International Development Network (AIDN), and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Family Foundation, USA. She holds a Masters in Child Development from Delhi University, a Graduate Diploma in International Studies from the University of Sydney and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Liby T Johnson has led large scale, impactful, poverty eradication efforts in his nearly three decades of social development work, with non-profits and governments in India, in diverse sectors as community institutions and local governance, migration, livelihoods, water, and disaster management. Liby set up the National Resource Organisation of Government of Kerala under the National Rural Livelihood Mission of the Government of India. During his time with the United Nations Development Programme, he contributed to setting up capacity building mechanisms to support women entrepreneurs and women producers’ collectives across India. As the chief functionary of Gram Vikas, he is responsible for leading the organisation’s work in its fifth decade aiming to influence the life of nearly five million persons by enabling water and livelihoods security.He contributes regularly to policy discussions at the State and National levels on water, sanitation, livelihoods and disaster resilience.
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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 children to catch up to grade level and go on to lifelong learning. Under Caitlin's leadership, Luminos has successfully scaled its education mission across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, working in partnership with more than 25 community-based organizations to reach more than 375,000 children. Over 90% of Luminos students succeed in the catch-up program, going on to complete primary school at twice the rate of their peers.
Caitlin believes in the power of joyful learning to enable children to thrive, even in the poorest corners of the world. She spent the previous decade leading international giving efforts at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
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Chief Executive, Fidelity International Foundations
Chief Executive of the Fidelity UK, Bermuda, Europe and Asia Pacific Foundations. Accomplished leader with significant experience in spearheading programmes to strengthen organisational performance and impact, enabling social/environmental change and business growth. Extensive experience of progressive philanthropy (private and corporate), international development and responsible investing - integration of environmental, social and governance factors in investment decision-making and ownership practices. Senior roles held in non-profit, public and private sector organisations operating in diverse contexts in the UK and internationally. Many years' experience as a Trustee/NED of a number of non-profit organisations.
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Executive Director, 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 diversity in board membership, and publication of many peer-reviewed studies. Prior to Lwala, Ash was the Director of Operations at Segal Family Foundation, overseeing a $12m portfolio of 180 grantees. Ash serves as a board member of the Community Health Impact Coalition, a coalition focused on making professionalized CHWs a global norm. The through line of Ash's work is shifting power and money so that local leaders go from local impact to system-level change. Ash is a Global Health Corps alum and holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington and a BA in Political Science from Brigham Young University.
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Juan is the forward-doing CEO, of Build Change, pioneering resilient retrofitting solutions for existing housing, resilient new construction, and serving as a trusted advisor to governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and beyond. With a wealth of experience and expertise, and over 13 years with the organization, Juan leads and scales the strategy, planning, and execution of Build Change programs across the globe.
Before joining Build Change, Juan made his mark as an independent architect and construction contractor, bringing invaluable insights from the field to his current role. His dedication to community development led him to serve his home country of Honduras in various capacities within the national government, focusing on local government capacity development and overseeing bilateral development programs.
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Jenneke works as the Skoll Foundation's Community Manager.
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 assurance testing.
Jenneke earned a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and in Dutch Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, crafting, and science fiction.
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Executive Vice President, MI Philanthropy, Milken Institute
Melissa Stevens is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Philanthropy, leading its work with individual and family philanthropists and foundations seeking to make a transformative, sustainable impact. Since co-founding Milken Institute Philanthropy in 2015, she has overseen the creation and execution of philanthropic strategies that have influenced more than $3 billion in capital and built an unmatched network for donors to collaborate and amplify their impact. Under her leadership, Milken Institute Philanthropy has more than tripled in size, expanding areas of expertise to include environment and social innovation philanthropy, as well as the Institute’s Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC).
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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 2012 and under his leadership Jibu has quickly become Africa's largest/ fastest growing social franchise network, providing affordable access to drinking water to thousands of communities via hundreds of new business owners. Galen has been a presenter at events like Harvard’s Social Enterprise Conference, the International Franchise Association convention (IFA), and at the UN General Assembly’s Global Development Lab showcase. Galen is also a proud RPCV (returned Peace Corps Volunteer).
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CEO, Feedback Labs
Britt Lake is CEO of Feedback Labs, a nonprofit working to support the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors to listen and act on feedback from those at the heart of their work in high-quality, equitable, and inclusive ways. Prior to this role, Britt was a member of the executive team at GlobalGiving, where she helped grow the organization to raise nearly half a billion dollars in support of thousands of community-led organizations in 170+ countries. Britt has also worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with a variety of nonprofits throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Britt holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, a Master’s in International Relations from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
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Julie Cordua, CEO. Thorn
Julie helped create Thorn in 2012 as an organization focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Under Julie’s leadership, Thorn has created products and programs that are deployed today in over 48 countries, have reached more than 3 million people and have helped identify thousands victims of abuse. Julie came to Thorn from (RED) where she was VP of Marketing/Communications and helped establish the brand as one of the most successful cause marketing initiatives in history, delivering more than $160 million to fight AIDS in Africa. Prior to joining (RED), Julie spent nearly a decade in the wireless industry. Julie holds a B.A. in Communications from UCLA and an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
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ORGANIZATION Chairman Gawad Kalinga Foundation Mission: Organizing communities towards zero poverty, zero exclusion and net zero carbon Chairman Enchanted Farm Inc Mission: Ending rural poverty through preferential value creation President/Coo BayanAnihan Corporation Mission: Establishing community-based processing hubs Co-Founder 3Zero Global Alliance Mission: Building convergence for individuals and institution to a future of ZERO: poverty, exclusion and net zero carbon MY EDUCATION University of Asia and the Pacific - Certificate Course on Applied Sustainability Management Program - Fellowship on Strategic Business and Macro-Economics Program University of Negros Occidental Recoletos - Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Board Passer) - Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management MY PRESENT ENGAGEMENTS Leading a Team in (1) organizing and on-boarding small holder farmers to a value creation platform based on production fueled by equity not loans (2) engaging corporat
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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 integration work, co-authoring the report Women and Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty with ICRW. Ms. Zaidman has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for over twenty-five years. She serves on the boards of Fundacion Cacao de Colombia and Criterion Institute.
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Managing Director, Sesame Workshop India
Sonali Khan leads Sesame Workshop’s educational mission in India to create innovative and engaging content that maximises the educational power of all media to help kids grow smarter, stronger and kinder.
As Managing Director of Sesame Workshop India, Sonali spearheads Galli Galli Sim Sim, a multi-platform initiative that combines the power of mass media with educational outreach to prepare children for school and life. Under her leadership, the organisation develops and implements ground breaking programs to reach children everywhere – especially those who need it most.
Sonali is a global advocate for human rights and for ending violence against marginalised communities, with an emphasis on girls and women. Her work has focused on promoting gender equity in education, empowerment of adolescent girls, along with ending domestic violence, sexual harassment and early marriage. She began her career as a television journalist covering politics and business and has since worked for a variety of organisations that harness the power of media for social change.
Prior to Sesame, she was the Director of Knowledge Creation and Dissemination at Dasra, a leading strategic philanthropy foundation, where her work covered areas including urban sanitation, adolescent girls’ rights, and democracy and access to justice. Previously she has also served as the Vice President and then India Country Director for Breakthrough, where she spearheaded large-scale program implementation, numerous multi-platform campaigns promoting gender equity, developed M&E practices and supported global fundraising and partnership development. She also served on the Boards of Plan International and MenEngage.
Sonali is a proud recipient of the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar (Women’s Empowerment Award) from the President of India. In 2016, she also received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for her work in ending child marriage.
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Shawn MacDonald is CEO of Verité, a civil society organization that promotes workers’ rights in global supply chains through research, consulting, training, assessments, and policy advocacy. Shawn has broad international experience in labor rights, social entrepreneurship, workplace health, and multi-sector partnerships from his roles as Director of Accreditation at the Fair Labor Association; Vice President of Ashoka; Senior Advisor at Meridian Group International; and co-founder of the Development and Employment Policy Project. He also worked for a variety of civil society initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and an AB in History from Harvard University.
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Executive Director, The ELMA Philanthropies
Robyn Calder is President and board member of ELMA Philanthropies, the services arm of The ELMA Group of Foundations, which is focused on improving the lives of children and their families, particularly in Africa.
Robyn is a member of Last Mile Health’s Advisory Council, and the board of The End Fund, which focuses on ending neglected tropical diseases.
Robyn has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Development Studies from UC Berkeley.
She lives in NYC with her two daughters.
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Alasdair is a marine conservationist working at the interface of ocean protection and social justice.
His organisation Blue Ventures develops locally led approaches to marine conservation that benefit people and nature.
Blue Ventures’ approach is helping many hundreds of thousands of people address overfishing and safeguard ocean life in fifteen countries across southeast Asia and Africa,
Alasdair is a TED fellow, and holds a PhD in marine ecology and an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Edinburgh.
He has spent more than two decades working with communities to rebuild small-scale fisheries across the tropical Indo-Pacific.
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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 2017 he was also named an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and in 2014 received the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a global recognition for his work in education and economic opportunities.
Fundación Capital is a pioneer in systems change for economic citizenship and inclusive finance, working to help the poor access formal finance and save; grow and invest their assets; insure their families, build resilient mechanisms against climate change; and chart a permanent path out of poverty. To achieve results at scale, the organization aligns advances in public policy, market mechanisms, digital technologies and data-based impact measurement.
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Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 61 countries across every region of the world that are working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America. She led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University as well as honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities. She has been recognized with numerous awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Wise Prize for Education and the Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.
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Sue is a 2009 Skoll Awardee and a Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in sustainable living, focused on our homes, cities and the products and services we use. Including the world-famous BedZED eco-village in London, where Sue lives. Sue and the team systematised their approach as “One Planet Living” which is freely available for anyone to use. Based on 10 principles and a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. There is now a global network of exemplary communities, and 10 million people living in places that have used One Planet Living. Sue draws on these inspiring examples to support policy change, for the built environment and through a formal role in the UN process to create the UN Sustainable Development Goals. At global social entrepreneur network Catalyst 2030 Sue helped secure a UN Resolution on the social and solidarity economy. Sue was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympics.
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Sohini has worked in the development sector for 30+ years with a focus on women and empowerment. She has been closely connected to the Women’s Movement in India and co-founded Sanhita Gender Resource Centre — the first of its kind in Eastern India in 1996. Before Breakthrough, she worked with Ashoka Innovators for the Public for 10 years to bring in more women entrepreneurs to the fellowship and on institution building for the organisation in South Asia. She also worked as the India strategy advisor for the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network from 2010-2013. Sohini is a founding member of the Coalition for Good Schools – Voices from the South, a collection of leading practitioners and influencers committed to delivering access to a safe learning environment for children across the Global South. Sohini also represents Breakthrough as the knowledge partner in a consortium to support the global programming of What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale Programme by FCDO, U.K.
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Sam Gregory is an internationally recognized human rights advocate and technologist. As Executive Director of WITNESS, he leads their strategic plan to "Fortify the Truth" and champions their global team who support millions of people using video and technology for human rights.
Sam Gregory helps ensure we are better prepared globally for deepfakes and deceptive generative AI. He has testified to both US House and Senate and spoken at TED on proactive, human rights-based responses. He initiated WITNESS’ "Prepare, Don’t Panic" initiative that grounds these technologies in realities of frontline journalists and human rights defenders and has directly influenced platform policies, emerging technologies for trust and public discussion of who and what to prioritize.
Sam served on the ICC Technology Advisory Board, co-chaired the Partnership on AI’s Expert Group on AI and the Media and led the Threats and Harms Taskforce of a leading coalition to develop standards for media provenance.
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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 partners with business, capital markets, governments, and others to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable way of life.
Rupert has been internationally recognized for his work to promote sustainable fishing practices. In 2014, Rupert was awarded a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Award, which recognizes leaders in sustainable social innovation. In 2009, he received the World Wildlife Foundation’s “Leaders for a Living Planet” Award. He also received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007 for his contributions in establishing the MSC as the world’s leading fishery certification and ecolabelling program.
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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 to 2014, she led Pratham’s research and assessment efforts including the well-known ASER initiative (Annual Status of Education Report). Rukmini is the 2021 recipient of the Yidan Prize for education development. Originally from Bihar, she is now based between New Delhi and Pune. Rukmini writes frequently on education in both Hindi and English and enjoys creating and telling stories to children.
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After graduating from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, Roshaneh Zafar studied development economics at Yale University and upon returning to Pakistan she worked for the World Bank in Islamabad in the early 90s. In 1996, inspired by Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus, she established Pakistan's first specialised microfinance organisation, the Kashf Foundation, in Lahore. ] In 2007, Roshaneh Zafar was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's highest civilian awards, by then-president Pervez Musharraf in recognition of her work in the field of development and women's empowerment.That same year, Zafar also won the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Zafar was also awarded an honorary PHD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2023 for her work in the field of women’s economy empowerment.
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I am the founding president and CEO of Forest Trends an organization focused on bringing value to nature and ecosystem functions. We do this by supporting market and marketlike approaches including incentives and policies and with a focus on ensuring benefits flow equitably to the local and indigenous communities that steward these ecosystems
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Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance
Julius is an international development expert, and the Co-CEO of Lwala Community Alliance. In this role, he works with communities to catalyze their own change through innovative programming that is going to scale, influencing health systems and putting communities at the center of their own development. He believes that when communities lead, change is lasting. He is a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a published author, and a dot connector recognized for his efforts in community building and collaboration in the social innovation space. He is the Chair of CHU4UHC, a collaborative that helped push major community health reforms in Kenya to professionalize Community Health Workers. He is a voice for locally-led development, an advocate for trust-based philanthropy, and a board member of local organizations and philanthropic foundations.
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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 Director of Finance for Change, a global effort to shape international finance by incorporating the value of Natural Capital. Prior to launching Global Footprint Network, Susan founded the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies, advising such companies as Mitsubishi Electric and Lowes. Susan serves on the Social Justice Ministry of Imani Community Church and is a vocalist with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC). She is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster children, and a member of ICJJ (Interfaith Coalition for Justice in Our Jails).
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I am social entrepreneur with a unique journey. I start in small village in Indonesia to transform illegal logging become a sustainable forest management, lead the movement acrros Indonesia by built inclusive company. Now, I am leading forestry sector (538 consession with more than 30 millioj hectare forest) in Indonesia at Infonesia Chambers of commerse and Industry to do Regenerative Forestry in Indonesia.
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A nationally recognized leader in the intersection of drivers of health, population health, and health care delivery, Onie founded Health Leads in 1996 to enable physicians and other healthcare providers and caregivers across the country to address the fundamental drivers of patients’ health, such as healthy food and safe housing. Health Leads has armed thousands of healthcare institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, and best practices to address their patients’ resource needs and to champion a healthcare system that address all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. Onie is a MacArthur “Genius” awardee, a member of the National Academy of Medicine and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. She has received the APHA Avedis Donabedian Quality Award; Network for Excellence in Health Innovation “Innovator in Health” Award; Robert Wood Johnson Young Leader Award; and Forbes’ Impact 30 Award for leading social entrepreneurs.
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Dr. Mathis Wackernagel established 30 years ago an accounting system to compare the size of human economies with the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate. This impact measure, called “footprint” has now become a generic name for all human impact, whether carbon or ecological footprint. Mathis’ work has focused not only on making ecological overshoot accessible and relevant to decision-making, but also on showcasing the economic advantage of accepting rather than denying this reality. In 2003, he co-founded Global Footprint Network, a sustainability think-tank, possibly most known for its annual Earth Overshoot Day. His awards include various honorary degrees as well as the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, the 2012 Blue Planet Prize, and a 2007 Skoll Award.
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Marla Blow is the President and COO of the Skoll Foundation. Previously, she was North America lead at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and was Founder and CEO of FS Card Inc., a subprime credit card venture (sold to strategic acquirer).
Ms. Blow won the EY Mid Atlantic Emerging Company Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2018, and has been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Marla was featured in the April 2018 Vanity Fair “26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship” photo shoot, and she is a Henry Crown Fellow as part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Previously, she was part of the Implementation Team to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and ultimately served as the Assistant Director for Card and Payment Markets, where she shaped the CFPB’s regulatory priorities in these markets.
Prior to joining the CFPB, Marla spent seven years in a variety of functions at Capital One in the credit card business. Ms. Blow is a member of the US Capital Chapter of YPO, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Care.com (NYSE: CRCM, sold to IAC), and on the Board of Directors of Factor Trust (sold to TransUnion). Marla holds an MBA from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Lisha McCormick is Chief Executive Officer of Last Mile Health, an organization that partners with governments to build strong community health systems that equip professionalized community health workers to provide essential, primary healthcare in the world’s most remote communities. Under her leadership, Last Mile Health has grown from a district-level pilot in Liberia to an international organization partnering with four governments to reach over 12 million people at the last mile, while also working globally to transform community health financing and practice through initiatives like Africa Frontline First.
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John Valverde is president and CEO of YouthBuild USA. He joined YouthBuild in 2017 after decades of work as an advocate for creating access to opportunity and removing barriers for formerly incarcerated and marginalized people.
John began working with imprisoned individuals in 1992 to ensure access to HIV/AIDS counseling, high school equivalency instruction, alternatives to violence programs, and college education. In 1998, he co-founded Hudson Link for Higher Education, the first privately funded accredited college program in New York’s prisons.
As a leader of lived experience who was incarcerated at the age of 21, John is a true reflection of the importance of the healing and equity of second chances and example for the young people of YouthBuild who are seeking their own second chance.
John is a Marano Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Sector Skills Academy; a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow; co-chair of the National Service, Civic Engagement and Volunteering pillar of the Partners
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Co-Founder and CEO, Integrate Health
Jennifer (Jenny) Schechter has a deep passion for making sure quality healthcare reaches the people who need it most. Jenny has been working alongside community activists, public health experts, and government officials to strengthen healthcare delivery for nearly twenty years. Since taking on the role of CEO of Integrate Health in 2012, Jenny has helped to expand Integrate Health’s impact in the fight to end preventable deaths of women and children. Working in the West African nations of Togo since 2004 and Guinea since 2022, Integrate Health collaborates with communities and the Ministry of Health to implement and test proactive, integrated, community health delivery innovations.
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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 across rural Myanmar. The big idea 20 years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After serving over 2 million farm families, and generating +$300 million in new income, the idea still has legs. Jim’s originally from Seattle but has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in Southeast Asia. He has an MBA and studied economics at Harvard. He currently lives in Chicago.
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A practitioner from the very beginning, Jagdeesh’s 37 year professional engagement has been on interrelated issues of poverty and environmental degradation and on ‘systems thinking’ at the interface of ecology, society and economy.
Jagdeesh has been the Chief Executive of Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) since its inception in 2001 till July 2020. Subsequently, he was associated its Promise of Commons initiative since it's inception in 2020 till September 2021 as it's anchor and curator. He was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Omidyar Network India in 2022. Along with a few partners, he is currently designing an ecosystem initiative titled 'Common Ground' to build collaborative action for addressing challenges posed by climate change, loss of economic opportunities and inequalities.
Jagdeesh is a Skoll Awardee, a Henry Arnhold Fellow and a Senior Ashoka Fellow. His areas of interest include Commons, decentralized governance, systems thinking and systems change.
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Ella is a social entrepreneur and global health strategist with more than 20 years of experience in international development. Under her leadership, VisionSpring has corrected the vision of 10 million low-income adults and children and unlocked more than $2 billion in income earning potential at the household level.
Prior to joining VisionSpring, Ella served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Program Development at AmeriCares, a global health and emergency response organization. While there, she led humanitarian operations and managed access to medicine and other health interventions in ten countries. Ella began her career in international development when conducting research and teaching in Indonesia and coordinating events with government and private sector leaders at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Washington, DC.
Ella regularly speaks about hybrid business models that blend earned revenue with philanthropy and growing a purpose-driven businesses.
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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 disease, save irrigation water and grow food in more productive and sustainable ways. Products and services support farmers to transition to regenerative farming practices, while boosting farm incomes by approximately USD 250 annually. Since 2004, Proximity’s products and services have spanned over 10,000 villages in Myanmar, enabling over 5 million people to grow their farm enterprises and afford food, healthcare and education for their families. Aung Din has engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar for over two decades. She is a founding member of the Climate Action for Smallholders (CASH) Coalition.
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CEO, Instiglio
Avnish is the Co-Founder of Instiglio, a non-profit focused on enhancing development effectiveness by integrating impact incentives and accountability into public finance practices. As of 2024, Instiglio has empowered 450 government leaders and influenced over $600 million in development spending across 25 entities. He leads the organization’s strategy, particularly in collaboration with Multilateral Development Banks and aid institutions. Prior to founding Instiglio in 2012, Avnish worked at MIT’s J-PAL and the World Bank. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard, a certificate in Performance Management from Harvard Business School, and a bachelor's in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth. Avnish received the Echoing Green Fellowship and was named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" social entrepreneurs. He serves on various boards, is an instructor at Philanthropy U, and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He is of Mauritian origin and has work
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Tasso Azevedo is a forester and social entrepreneur on forests, climate and sustainability. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and Chair of the Board Conection Forest People initiative. Tasso was founder and general director of IMAFLORA and General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service. He is a visiting scholar of Brazil Lab at Princeton University, an Ashoka Senior Fellow (2021) and Skoll Award Fellow (2022) and board member of Rainforest Alliance, Preferred by Nature and Santander.
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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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Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Conduit
Paul served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998. His background is in human rights law, and he has received a number of scholarships and accolades for his work in global social impact. Paul was selected as a Hauser Global Scholar at NYU, a program which selects 10 of the finest students from countries across the world. He received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009 with Juan E. Mendez, with whom he founded the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an international human rights organisation based in New York. Paul was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the WEF in 2008. He has served as an adviser and consultant to many NGOs and Governments on transitional justice issues in over 30 countries. Paul co-founded The Conduit in 2018, and that year was named by London Tech Week as one of its 30 "Change Makers'.
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Since launching the Fair Trade Certified™ label in 1998, Paul has helped establish Fair Trade as one of the fastest growing segments of the food and apparel industries. To date, Fair Trade USA has partnered with over 1,500 leading companies, including Green Mountain, Nespresso, Whole Foods, Costco, Kroger, and Target. Fair Trade USA now certifies coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, coconut, fresh produce, and seafood. Through groundbreaking partnerships with Patagonia, Athleta, West Elm and J. Crew, Fair Trade has begun certifying apparel and home goods. In 2022, consumer recognition of the Fair Trade Certified label hit 65%. To date, Fair Trade USA and its partners have generated over $1 billion in additional income for farmers and workers in 51 countries, allowing them to care for the environment and steadily improve their livelihoods. Paul has been named Ethical Corporation’s 2019 Business Leader of the Year and is a four-time winner of Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist of the Year.
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CEO & Co-Founder, Nexleaf Analytics
Nithya Ramanathan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nexleaf Analytics, a non-profit technology company dedicated to partnering with governments across Africa and Asia to ensure they have the data they need to build lasting solutions that improve the health of people. Nexleaf’s unique approach brings together sensor technology, data analysis, and user engagement to identify and address big problems. Nexleaf tech helps governments protect vaccines for 1 in 10 babies born on Earth each year. Nithya and her team have achieved this outsized impact by working shoulder-to-shoulder with Ministries of Health—rather than attempting to bypass governments—to scale cutting-edge technologies refined through close collaboration with personnel at every level of the health system, from top-tier government officials to last-mile health care workers.
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Founding CEO/Strategic Advisor, GoodWeave
Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and founding Chief Executive Officer of GoodWeave International (GoodWeave), the leading international NGO working to stop child labor in global supply chains. At GoodWeave's helm from 1999 to 2023, Nina pioneered a market-led model that has reduced child labor at scale in select sectors by shining a light on the most vulnerable supply chain workers; stopping abuse; and addressing root causes. A Skoll and Schwab Foundation Awardee, Nina advocates for child and worker rights through her writing, public speaking and the boards she serves, including The Fair Labor Association and the Better Buying Institute. Nina is also winner of the Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s EXCEL Award for excellence in chief executive leadership, and is a member of Elluminate’s Women’s Leadership Collective.
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Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women
Monica Ramírez is an award-winning activist, attorney, and founder of Justice for Migrant Women, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of immigrant women through policy advocacy, education, and empowerment. As a leader in the movement for migrant worker rights, Ramírez has been instrumental in raising awareness of workplace abuses, including sexual harassment and exploitation. Her work has garnered global recognition for its impact in advancing human rights and social justice. She has received numerous honors, including the Harvard Kennedy School’s first Gender Equity Changemaker Award, Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award, the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award, and the 2022 James Beard Leadership Award. She has also been named in Forbes Mexico’s 100 Most Powerful Women’s 2018 list, TIME Magazine’s TIME100 Next list in 2021, Anthem Non-Profit Leader Award Gold Winner, ADCOLOR 2024 Catalyst Honoree and Quien 50 2024.
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Chief Executive Officer and President,
CeresMindy 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 speaks to high-level global and national policymakers on the need for stronger climate policies that accelerate the transition to a more just and resilient economy. Lubber has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership. She has made Barron’s Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance for four consecutive years and received the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network and the Skoll Foundation’s Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She resides in the Boston area.
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I am the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia. I spent a decade as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a social enterprise building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment. Previously, I served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and as the Advisor to the President of Rice University. I earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, a M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. I am a Trustee of Yale University, the Mellon Foundation, Co-Impact, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Jordan Kassalow is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of VisionSpring, the co-founder of EYElliance, and a Partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates. Jordan also founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo New York. Prior to his position at the Council, he served as Director of the River Blindness Division at Helen Keller International. Jordan is a fellow of Draper Richards Kaplan, Skoll, Ashoka, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was named one of Schwab Foundation’s 2012 Social Entrepreneurs, was the inaugural winner of the John P. McNulty Prize, and was recognized in Forbes Impact 30. VisionSpring has been internationally recognized by the Skoll Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the World Bank; is a three-time winner of Fast-Company's Social Capitalist Award; and a winner of Duke University’s Enterprising Social Innovation Award. Additionally, he co-authored Dare
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CEO & President, 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 activist focused on sustainable development. Founded in 1979, Gram Vikas utilizes a holistic model of development, based on Joe’s conviction that every family in a village needs to have healthy living practices for an improved quality of life. Gram Vikas works in the areas of renewable energy, especially biogas and solar energy. Totally inclusive water and sanitation is the flagship programme of Gram Vikas. This model has transformed more than 1200 villages and has successfully proven that the rural poor can and will pay for better sanitation and water facilities.
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Co-Founder, Catalyst 2030
Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with over twenty years’ 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 India and Child Helpline International, which have helped enable the financial inclusion and protection of children and youth in more than 180 countries. Jeroo is now founder of One Family Foundation, which incubates social innovations, helps them scale, and is currently anchoring Catalyst 2030 – a global network working to accelerate progress towards the SDGs through radical and transformative social innovation at the country level.
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Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, two 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 populations to meet their water supply and sanitation needs. He also developed WaterEquity, an impact investment manager dedicated to ending the global water crisis, with an exclusive focus on mobilizing private investments in water and sanitation throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He is a leading advisor in the water and sanitation space, counseling organizations such as Inditex, Reckitt, Amazon Web Services, the Water Resilience Coalition, and Bank of America on responses to the global water crisis.
Gary holds three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Missouri University S&T.
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President & CEO, Equimundo
Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and co-founder of Equimundo. Gary is also co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign working in more than 50 countries to promote men’s involvement as caregivers, and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 700 NGOs. He has advised the UN, the World Bank, numerous national governments, and key international foundations and corporations on strategies to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality. In 2017 he was named by Apolitical as one of the 20 most influential people in gender policy around the world. He is an Ashoka Fellow and received the Voices of Solidarity Award from Vital Voices for his work to engage men for gender equality. He holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology and a Research Affiliate position at the Center for Social Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 20 years of international experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs. Prior to joining ICTJ in 2014, he was the Director of the United Nations Transitional Justice Basket Fund in Colombia. He also served as UNDP Senior Justice Advisor in Tunisia after the Jasmine Revolution. In Nepal and Colombia, Travesí held regional responsibilities with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to protect civilian populations affected by the armed conflict, including documenting violations of international humanitarian law, monitoring prisons and detention places and managing the dossier of missing and disappeared. He also worked in Sierra Leone, as Country Director of the Spanish Red Cross, where he led Red Cross’ projects on rehabilitation of child combatants and children affected by the war. Prior to that, he worked for the NGO Movimiento por la Paz, as Regional Director for the Balkans leading a cross-border program on access to justice for refugees, displaced people, and returnees and; as Country Director in Albania during the Kosovo war. Mr. Travesí is a Lawyer who also completed post-graduate specialized courses in international public law and practiced in Spain mostly on criminal, immigration and civil issues. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from the University Pontificia Javeriana of Colombia that awarded him with the Annual University Honor Medal for Academic Merits. He is a recognized novelist and playwright, winning awards such as the Spanish National Prize of Theater.
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Partner, Working Capital Fund
As Partner in the Working Capital Fund, Dan engages and supports entrepreneurs in pursuit of innovative tools to scale improvements for marginalized workers in global supply chains. He is an award-winning social entrepreneur and leader in supply chain innovation, having led Verite for fifteen years. He began his career in China where he established two international NGOs. Dan is a graduate of Yale University, has an MA from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a certificate in Chinese from Nanjing Teacher’s University.
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President and Chief Executive Officer,
LandesaChris 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 advocacy, including the successful “Behind the Brands” campaign. Jochnick is the co-founder and former director of two pioneering non-profit organizations: Center for Economic and Social Rights and the Ecuador-based Centros De Derechos Economicos y Sociales. Jochnick has taught human rights courses at Columbia, Harvard, American University and the University of Melbourne. He is a former fellow of the Echoing Green and MacArthur foundations.
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Carne Ross founded and now runs Independent Diplomat, an award-winning international advisory group that advises democratic governments and political groups (such as the Syrian democratic opposition) on diplomatic strategy. An author of two books (most recently, “The Leaderless Revolution”), he is a frequent commentator on world affairs for the BBC, CNN, New York Times, Financial Times and other publications. He is the subject of the recent BBC4 documentary film, “Accidental Anarchist”. Carne is a former senior British diplomat and WMD expert who resigned after giving then-secret evidence to the first official inquiry into the Iraq war.
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Bright is the President of mPedigree, a social enterprise working on three continents in partnership with governments, Fortune 500 companies, and grassroots organizations to spread innovative, including patent-pending, technologies that secure communities from supply chain fraud. At Koldchain, he led pioneering work at the Harvard Innovation Labs to invent & patent organo-sensors for biomedicals. Besides his own primary work, he is an enthusiastic Advisor of other organisations. He serves on the Supervisory Board of Care International; on the Sustainability Board of UCB, a European biopharma pioneer; the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Global Seminar; and is the Vice Chair of the Africa Population Health Research Center. He previously served on the inaugural Microsoft Africa Advisory Council. As an early Director at IMANI, he has contributed considerably to its recognition as one of Africa's top 5 think tanks. He was on the 2016 Fortune 50 World Greatest Leaders list.
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Managing Director, Social Innovation, Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective
Anne Marie Burgoyne has led Emerson Collective’s philanthropy since 2013. Under her leadership Emerson has become a major funder that supports important work across an array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity, fostering community among important leaders and organizations across issues to achieve long-lasting impact. At Emerson, Anne Marie has developed a model, frictionless philanthropy, that helps all grantee partners grow their impact through full access to a suite of opportunities for capacity building, convening, communications and narrative storytelling, and leveraging technology. Prior to joining Emerson, Anne Marie served as portfolio director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, where she identified and funded early-stage, high-growth, high-impact nonprofits. She currently sits on the boards of directors of Hope Enterprise Corporation, The Management Center, Nia Tero, and Waverley Street Foundation.
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Dr. Angela Gichaga is a public and social sector enthusiast with experience working across civil service, consulting, and NGOs and academia. Angela runs the Pathway to Parity programme to empower women and young people in the workplace and society. She serves African Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance, in building resilient and sustainably financed health systems as CEO of the Financing Alliance for Health and Co-Executive Director of Africa Frontline First. Angela served the Ministry Of Health Kenya (MOH) , then joined McKinsey & Company’s Africa Delivery Hub (ADH) before transitioning to Financing Alliance for Health. Angela has received the Australian Leadership Awards for Africa (2012), the President Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship (2014), named one of Fortune's Worlds Greatest Leaders in 2018, an Archbishop Tutu Leadership fellow in 2019, 2nd place for Women Empowerment in the Workplace at the Gender Mainstreaming Awards in 2021 and a Skoll Awardee in 2022
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Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad is the Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors, where he served as CEO for five years. Prior to this, Tim co-founded and was the long-time CEO of Landesa, the world’s leading land-rights organization. He led its growth from a two-person team to a leading global NGO with more than 20 offices around the world. He launched Landesa’s programs in China, the former Soviet Union, and India, where he lived for many years and currently resides.
Tim is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee and a WEF Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. He has authored books and book chapters on economic and social development. He holds two law degrees from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from Seattle Pacific University. He has completed certificate programs at Harvard. However, his greatest learning has come from spending time with those on the socioeconomic margins in more than 20 countries.
Tim is the proud spouse of Chitra and father to four adult children.
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Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute and the Imvula Empowerment Trust, CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association, and Chairperson of the SA National Government team on Entrepreneurship, Education, & Employability.
He is a pioneer of the free tertiary education movement in South Africa, helping to create six free access institutions of higher learning as well as co-founding the Branson School of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. As a result, over 21,000 unemployed South Africans have been educated, found employment, and moved from unemployment into the middle-class.
As a qualified actuary and management consultant, Dr Blecher is passionate about the approach of Consciousness-Based Education, a system of education developing the full potential of every student. This has led the Maharishi Institute to winning multiple prizes including the first prize in a global competition for the most innovative education initiative in the world
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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 Director of the 100x Impact Accelerator. He serves on the steering groups for the Just Transition Finance Lab and the LSE Grantham Research Institute. At LSE he also sits on the governing board for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and is Professor in Practice at the Department of Management and Course Director for the Executive Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship. Before joining the Marshall Institute Stephan Chambers was the Co-Founder of the Skoll World Forum. From 2000 to 2014 he directed the University of Oxford’s MBA and was the founding Director of Oxford University's Executive MBA programme.
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Shamil is privileged to lead the largest non-governmental peacebuilding organization in the world. Believing that the most enduring change is that which makes allies of adversaries and that translates conflict into cooperation, he is honored to count among his colleagues over 800 frontline peacebuilders in more than 30 countries who drive such transformative change in some of the most challenging conflict contexts in the world.
Prior to his current role Shamil served as CEO of Soliya where he led a public-private sector coalition that capitalized the field of virtual exchange. Previously he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve as staff director of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, a project intended to improve relations between Western and Muslim-majority countries.
Idriss was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and won the Open Society Foundation’s 2015 New Executive Award. He lives with his wife and two teenage children in Washington, DC.
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Independent, Individual
Sandy Herz is an established philanthropic leader, strategist and storytelling evangelist. Most recently, Sandy served as President of Sobrato Philanthropies, leading an ambitious growth strategy for a multigenerational Giving Pledge family, supporting their individual philanthropy and expanding their collective philanthropy from local place-based giving to include global initiatives such as climate change. Previously at the Skoll Foundation, she led Skoll’s early Connect & Celebrate programs, including the Skoll World Forum, before diving deep into storytelling, curating Skoll’s award-winning film, media, and publishing portfolio and developing a multisector network strategy leveraging partnerships to attract resources and amplify the impact of Skoll entrepreneurs.
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Founder and Lead, 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 Environment Program, where he focused on “climate-smart money”, the intersection of climate action and philanthropy, investment, and economic development. While at Aspen, he authored a guide for climate philanthropists: Funding Climate Action: Pathways for Philanthropy. Previously at Aspen, Randall served as the founding executive director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
Randall graduated from the University of Texas with an MBA and a Master of Public Affairs and earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. He presently serves on the advisory boards of the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders, Pat Mitchell Media
Pat Mitchell is a trailblazer in media and an advocate for women’s equality, breaking barriers as a journalist, Emmy-winning producer, pioneering executive, and activist leader. Her lifelong commitment to amplifying women’s stories and advancing representation has shaped the media industry and continues through a global coalition of leaders solving critical issues. As co-founder of Project Dandelion, she champions women-led climate justice, leveraging leadership for a more equitable and sustainable future. As editorial director, co-founder, and host of TEDWomen, Mitchell amplifies powerful, underrepresented voices. Her commitment to social justice includes board service with the Sundance Institute, Skoll Foundation, and Carter Center. She’s also the founding chair of the Women’s Media Center and a Congressional appointee to the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. In her memoir, Mitchell shares her journey as a fearless advocate, proving activism fuels purpose at any age.
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Founder, The Invitation
Writing a book on Ukraine, building an Invitation to starve child welfare of children and families who have no place in that system, and welcoming each day with a smile and a bit of light.
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I’m so excited to join in the vibrant dance of the Skoll World Forum this year.
I am the Founder and Creative Director of Tostan, an NGO which implements a holistic, 3-year empowering education program in national languages that has engaged over 3,000 rural African communities in themes of democracy, human rights, health, literacy, and project management skills. The program has led to over 20,000 rural women holding leadership posts and over 9,500 communities in eight African countries publicly declaring their commitment to abandon harmful traditional practices.
Molly and Tostan have received international recognition for their successful work in the areas of health, literacy, social entrepreneurship, social norm transformation and human rights education including: Government of Senegal’s Knight of the National Order of the Lion, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, The Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights, The Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and UNESCO’
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Dr. Martín Burt is a world-renowned social entrepreneur who has developed anti-poverty and educational social innovations that are currently being implemented worldwide. He is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a social enterprise named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization in 2018 by the IADB. Dr. Burt is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. He has also served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of Asunción, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce. His latest book “Paraguay without Poverty” was published in November 2023. He has received several international awards. He holds a PhD from Tulane University and is Lecturer & Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Research Associate at University of California, Irvine, and Professor, Master’s Program in Microfinance, at Universidad de Alcalá.
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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, she founded and led INTER-CONNECTED, where she supported transformational change through her unique methodology combining ancient wisdom, contemplative practices, storytelling, and social justice activism.
As the founder and leader of Breakthrough, she has used culture to change culture through award-winning multi-media campaigns that have touched millions. She also headed a social justice and human rights program in South Asia with the Ford Foundation. A recipient of multiple awards, she received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2016. Mallika has served on several boards and committees and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mallika is a graduate of NYU Law Schoo
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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 a diverse range of organisations, campaigns and initiatives promoting international human rights. An expert on movement-building, she has worked on a wide range of issues – including the 1990s Balkan wars, international criminal justice, independent media, HIV/AIDS prevention, natural resource transparency, European enlargement and foreign policy, drug policy reform, girls’ education, and democracy innovation. She also plays a catalytic role in the global movement to end child marriage, including the creation and growth of three backbone organisations: the Girls First Fund, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, and VOW for Girls.
Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, More in Common, and VOW for Girls (Chair). She is an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, and the Graca Machel Trust. Mabel is also a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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LUIS SZARAN
Artist for PEACE of UNESCO
Orchestra conductor, composer and musicologist
As a social entrepreneur, in 2002 he founded the social and community integration program through music: Sounds of the Earth, aimed at low-income children and young people. In 2005, he received the “Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship” from the Skoll Foundation. In 2013 he was recognized as Global Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum.
In 2008 he was chosen, by the American University, as one of the 12 most outstanding leaders of Paraguay. He is the author of books published in Paraguay, Germany, Italy and Spain.
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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, innovative finance, and new service delivery models.
From 2005-2013, Louis founded and led the WASH program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, building a portfolio of more than US$ 300 million.
Prior to that, he worked for 15 years at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, where he led the environmental finance team from 1997 to 2004 and helped to pioneer the impact investing field.
Louis currently sits on the boards of IRC WASH and the RICE Institute, and he advises several other social ventures and non-profits. He holds a BA in economics from Yale University and an MBA and MA (Development Economics) from Stanford University.
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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 machine learning companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses.
His current nonprofit projects at Tech Matters include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field, and Terraso, a platform to bring better tools and more funding to locally-led sustainability initiatives to respond to climate change.
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Jess grew up in San Francisco during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and became deeply committed to sexual health and rights as a result. She explored how to best contribute to improving sexual health & wellbeing in the US through a variety of paths - as an infectious disease epidemiologist, a health education teacher, a public policy advocate, and even from the halls of the White House. Throughout this journey, she was often brought back to the untapped potential of technology to address this issue. Jess founded her first tech startup in 2011, named Sexual Health Innovations, and built a series of technologies to help prevent and track sexually transmitted infections. She then founded Callisto in 2015, a nonprofit dedicated to using technology to support sexual assault survivors and advance justice. Jess has since transitioned Callisto to new leadership, and is advising social impact startups on their strategy and product development.
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Jeremy Hockenstein is the Chair of Digital Divide Data, the Skoll award winning organization he co-founded in 2001. He is now the Co-founder and Managing Director of Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on increasing incomes in Africa.
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See www.rootsofpeace.org
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President, Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC
Gillian Caldwell serves as a Deputy Assistant Administrator at USAID overseeing several climate and environmentally oriented centers. She also serves as USAID's Chief Climate Officer, responsible for helping guide and oversee USAID’s climate and environment work across the agency. Gillian is a filmmaker and an attorney and has been working to protect human rights and the environment throughout her career. Prior to joining the Agency, she served as the CEO of Skoll Award Winner Global Witness which has a focus on tackling climate change and deploys investigations into corruption and natural resource extraction to drive systems change worldwide. From 2007-2010, she launched and led 1Sky, a highly collaborative cross-sector campaign with over 600 allied organizations to pass legislation in the US to address the climate crisis. Gillian is a 2005 Skoll Award winner for her leadership of WITNESS, founded my musician Peter Gabriel.
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Gidon Bromberg is the founder and 3 decade Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East. EcoPeace is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East.
Mr. Bromberg has spearheaded the organization’s advocacy campaigns in the Middle East and internationally. He developed a cross-border community peace-building program known as “Good Water Neighbors.” The program has helped advance rehabilitation efforts in the Jordan River and defuse the sanitation crisis in Gaza, leading to the removal of most of the pollution from Gaza Strip and southern Israel beaches. The program is seen as a model for environmental peacebuilding in other conflict areas around the world.
Bromberg co-authored EcoPeace’s call for a Green Blue Deal for the Middle East, to advance climate resilience and peace. The report and later EcoPeace efforts led to the signing in November 2021
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Co-founder & CEO, EYElliance
Liz is Co-founder & CEO of EYElliance. Prior to founding EYElliance in 2015, she spent 15 years working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and access to global markets. Her personal interest in facilitating low-and middle-income countries’ full participation in global markets stems from her time working alongside young entrepreneurs in East Africa. In 2011 Liz joined VisionSpring, a social enterprise focused on improving access to affordable eyeglasses, as its Director of Business Development. In 2008 Liz organized a regional conference supported by the Ford Foundation to help build the capacity of the East African music industry. This led to a six-year consulting role with the UNDP forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda. Liz founded a record label in 1995, graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, is a member of the Explorers Club, and a two-time National Geographic Society grant recipie
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Founder and CEO, Lafayette Square
Damien Dwin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lafayette Square. Previously, Damien served as Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brightwood Capital Advisors from its founding in 2010 to October 2020. Damien began his career as a trader with Goldman Sachs, New York & London, there earning the Michael P. Mortara Award for Innovation. At Credit Suisse, he was the Co-Founder and Head of the North American Special Opportunities business until 2010. Damien also served on the Vice President Selection Committee and led the Fixed Income Division Credit Training Program. He is an active thought leader on place-based investing, mass incarceration, and the use of capitalism for good. He has written for Financial Times, Entrepreneur, and Inc.com. Damien currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Vera Institute of Justice. He also serves on the non-profit boards of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Studio Museum in Harlem, National Trust for His
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Chris Underhill MBE works as a mentor and is a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life, and mental health in the community.
He has developed a number of social enterprises (THRIVE and ADD International) and several organisations in the field of global mental health (BasicNeeds - which promotes the Model for Mental Health and Development, created by Chris in 2000).
Chris runs his own mentoring practice called Mentor Services and presents on health, quality of life, mental health and resilience.
Chris is co-founder of a new organisation benefitting social entrepreneurs: The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs, and is Chair of the Catalyst-2030 Mental Health Collaboration. He is a Skoll Foundation awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship of the Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka and has been honoured with an MBE by HRH the Queen for his work in disability.
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President, Morehead-Cains
Chris is the President of the Morehead-Cain Foundation, which identifies, invests in, and empowers a global community of dynamic, purpose-driven leaders. Since 1945, Morehead-Cain has operated the preeminent merit scholarship program in the USA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chris previously served for 17 years as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of African Leadership Academy, a pan-African educational institution in Johannesburg, South Africa that seeks to enable lasting peace and shared prosperity by identifying, developing, and connecting Africa's future leaders. In addition to his work at Morehead-Cain and African Leadership Academy, Chris serves on the Boards of African Leadership University (Rwanda and Mauritius), Richfield Graduate Institute (South Africa), Terra Education (USA), and the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars (USA).
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President, Echoing Green
Cheryl L. Dorsey is the president of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that supports emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in their ideas and leadership. A social entrepreneur herself, Cheryl received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1992 to launch The Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit in Boston. Cheryl has served in two presidential administrations and currently serves on several boards including The Bridgespan Group and Skoll Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including the Pfizer Roerig History of Medicine Award, the Robert Kennedy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the Manual C. Carballo Memorial Prize. Cheryl has been named one of "America's Best Leaders" by US News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and one of The Nonprofit Times' "Power and Influence Top 50." She has a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her master's in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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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 change, U.S. democracy, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Bruce originally joined the Skoll Foundation in 2008 as communications director, then helped inaugural president Larry Brilliant launch SGTF in 2010, taking on a policy and advocacy role. Bruce ran the nuclear nonproliferation program and oversaw SGTF’s MidEast conflict work, while also playing a leading role in the launch of the Climate Advocacy Lab, SGTF’s primary climate effort which went independent in 2017.
Bruce helped conceptualize and launch two funder collaboratives, Climate Nexus, on climate communication, and N Square, an initiative to bring new players into the nuclear nonproliferation sphere. While SGTF sunset at the end of 2017, Bruce is still on the advisory boards of all three efforts. Bruce also served for a period of time at SGTF’s interim president.
Prior to joining Skoll, Bruce spent nearly a decade in the technology sphere with Oracle and Novell, largely in communications roles. He had a 14-year stint as a diplomat in the U.S. State Department, serving overseas in Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, and Italy, and in various economic roles in Washington, D.C., working on, among other issues, the G-7 process, Middle East peace, European regional issues, Ukraine, and nuclear safety.
Bruce holds a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and a M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Bruce chairs the board of Cazadero Music Camp. A recovering French Horn player, he is now learning the Scottish smallpipes. He also enjoys playing low-key pickup soccer.
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Bart is a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur.
He took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable detectors in response to the global landmine problem. What started in 1995 as a modest research initiative in detection rats technology, gradually grew into a global humanitarian operation through his organisation apopo.org which became one of the leading social enterprises in the world, recognised and awarded by networks like Ashoka, the Skoll Awards and the World Economic Forum.
Bart transitioned from his executive role in 2015 to focus on the practice of Zen. In the same year he got involved in The Wellbeing Project which aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers.
While exploring the relationship between personal growth and social innovation, he recently co-founded a new initiative innerpreneurs.org which is a brave space for entrepreneurial leaders to fulfilll their noble life purpose.
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NidanArbind Singh is a social entrepreneur and activist working with informal workers and their children in India .He founded Nidan in 1996 which along with various offshoots today works with more than 10,00,000 informal workers for better laws and polices, livelihood promotion ,access to financial services ,skill building ,enabling workers to seize opportunities in market and promoting social security .Establishing inclusive models of growth has also been an integral strategy along with institution building which includes setting up for profit institutions.
A very successful initiative has been the National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) which has brought security to hundreds of thousands of street vendors in India. NASVI got a National Policy for Street Vendors of India in 2004 which was adopted by 11 states of India .In 2014 ,the Govt of India enacted the Central Law for Street Vendors which mandates participation of Street Vendors in securing their livelihood and creati
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Founder & CEO, Lebec Consulting
Alix Lebec has been advising and growing organizations across the philanthropy and sustainable finance ecosystem for over 20 years.
As a member of the founding and executive leadership team at WaterEquity—alongside co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon—Alix spent the past decade building this high-performing global asset manager that invests in water, women, and sanitation in emerging markets. Alix previously led education, communications, and community development programs at the World Bank in Paris and Southeast Asia, followed by the Clinton Global Initiative and Water.org.
In 2020, Alix launched LEBEC to support visionary funders, founders, and investors and shape a paradigm shift in our financial ecosystem. She is a Limited Partner and impact advisor at Polymath Ventures (Latin America’s premier venture fund), a member of 100 Women in Finance, and a board member of iDE Global. In 2024, she joined Reckitt’s Global Jury to select social enterprises in Kenya and Nigeria for Reckitt’
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As Community Manager, Wendy provides support on a range of projects that inform, interact with, and inspire Skoll Foundation’s broad and dynamic community and network. She is a user centered design enthusiast and driven to keep the human at the core of her work.
Wendy first joined the Skoll Foundation in 2018 as Registration Assistant for the Skoll World Forum where she ensured a smooth coordination of Skoll Week invitations and customized user experience journeys for various segments of the community. She continued to support the Community & Convenings team through coordinating efforts to obtain, deploy, and maintain the technology solutions for the Skoll World Forum.
Prior to Skoll, she spent over four years coordinating work processes within the student records department regarding maintenance, dissemination, processing, and confidentiality of student records information at University of California, Riverside (UCR).
Wendy earned her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from UCR. She is always looking for new learning opportunities and is currently pursuing a Certification of Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online. She is a proudly Los Angeles born and raised with roots to Taishan who happily resides in Bay Area with her husband, two kids, and two dogs.
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Wawira Njiru is the Founder and CEO of Food 4 Education, a social enterprise on a mission to eradicate childhood hunger in Africa and unlock the potential of a new generation, one hot, nutritious, and affordable school meal at a time.
A trained nutritionist and seasoned entrepreneur, Wawira is the architect behind F4E’s blueprint to scale sustainable school feeding in Africa. Designed to be locally rooted, scalable, and replicable, this innovative model works in partnership with smallholder farmers, parents, logistics suppliers, and government to deliver excellence from source to spoon. Under her leadership, the organisation has grown from feeding 25 children in 2012 to serving more than 450,000 children a day and counting in 2024. Today, F4E directly employs more than 4000 people – mostly parents – and impacts thousands of businesses across local supply chains in Kenya with plans to expand across the continent.
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Safeena Husain is the Founder and Board Member of Educate Girls, a non-profit working towards empowering communities for girls’ education in remote villages of India. Under Safeena’s guidance, Educate Girls has mobilised 1.4 million+ girls for enrolment to date, supporting over 18.6 million+ children.
Safeena’s efforts to bridge the gender gap in education in India have been instrumental in Educate Girls achieving the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education and becoming an Audacious Project.
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Reza Afshar OBE was appointed Independent Diplomat’s Executive Director in 2020.
He has extensive international security and diplomacy experience. He was ID’s Policy Director for 7 years, overseeing all diplomatic support to non-state actors, and ran ID’s Syrian oppositon work.
Reza served 13 years in the UK government, specialising in crisis management and negotiation. He was posted to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 to work closely with the Northern Alliance and in 2006 to manage a counter-narcotics team. Reza managed crisis teams on Iraq (2003), Zimbabwe (2008) and Syria (2013). He spent 3.5 years as lead UK negotiator on Middle East, Asia and Europe at the UN Security Council (2009-12) where he authored and negotiated numerous sanctions regimes, peacekeeping operations, an ICC referral and use of force to protect civilians in Libya. Reza also negotiated a new arms control protocol on explosive remnants of war, and served as MENA adviser to the UK Foreign Secretary (2012).
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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 fellows become part of the Mulago solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale.
Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago. He and his team now work with 80 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America.
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Kathy Reich leads the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative in the United States and in the foundation’s 10 global regions. BUILD is a 12-year, $2 billion initiative to strengthen key institutions around the world that fight inequality. To date, the BUILD program has supported more than 450 organizations in 38 countries.
Before joining Ford in 2016, Kathy worked for 15 years at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, most recently as organizational effectiveness and philanthropy director. Prior to that, she was policy director of a non-profit, served as a legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, and worked for state and local elected officials in her home state of California. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards and is a frequent writer and speaker on issues related to philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.
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An international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen founded IBJ in 2000 after witnessing hundreds of prisoners of all ages being held without trials, usually after being tortured into making 'confessions’. She realised that systematic early access to a lawyer can create global conditions for a “new normal” in which democracy is strengthened, people have access to justice, and we end the use of torture as an investigative tool. IBJ now has a presence in 52 countries and over 22 years, IBJ has supported more than 40,000+ lawyers and defenders who have represented more than 500,000 detainees.
Karen is a recipient of awards from the Skoll Foundation, Echoing Green, Ashoka, and among others, the American Bar Association Human Rights Award, the Gleitsman International Award, Harvard Divinity School Gomes and Alumna awards. Karen is named as one of America’s best leaders by the US News and World Report.
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CEO, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Jim Bildner is the CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (www.drkfoundation.org), one of the largest venture philanthropy firms in the world. DRK has made more than 235 investments in early stage non-profit and for-profit social enterprises working to solve complex societal issues including systemic poverty, food and water insecurity, access to healthcare and economic opportunities, sanitation, homelessness, criminal justice, social justice and climate change and adaptation strategies. In the aggregate, its portfolio organizations have directly impacted more than 400 million lives. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation and chair of its Investment Committee and serves on the boards of a number of other non profit and for profit organizations.
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty eight years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the environmental health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org), and Practice Greenhealth (www.practicegreenhealth.org). Both organizations were created to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and anchor institutions to support environmental health and resilience in the communities they serve. In 2013, he was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House. In 2015, Cohen was named a MacArthur Fellow and was a recipient of a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership
Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Head of Foundations including the Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers at the World Economic Forum.
Dr Bonnici is a public health physician, university professor, social change practitioner, foundation leader and author of The Systems Work of Social Change, awarded the Best Non-Profit Management Book of 2022.
His career is rooted in front-line medical and humanitarian work and he has worked extensively with public sector, civil society, business and philanthropy to build progressive and catalytic partnerships.
He is a Rhodes Scholar, Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow, Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and Academic Fellow at the University of Geneva, and was the former Founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Cape Town.
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Dena Trujillo, CEO of Crisis Text Line, has spent over 20 years operating at the intersection of nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact. Prior to Crisis Text Line, Dena was a Venture Partner at Omidyar Network, where she spent 17 years driving philanthropic initiatives around the world.
Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need. Guided by empathy and innovation, Crisis Text Line endeavors to build an empathetic world where nobody feels alone.
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Annalisa is the Chief People Officer at the Skoll Foundation, where she focuses on managing the strategy and processes related to building, supporting, and retaining the exceptional talent of the Foundation’s team members.
Annalisa believes deeply in Skoll’s vision and works to ensure that the Foundation’s values are reinforced through every initiative, communication, and talent system. Annalisa has a passion for coaching and developing people. Partnering with leaders to design the human experience—employee engagement—so that people thrive at work, is her "thing." For Annalisa, that means "We strive to create a welcoming, empowering, and rewarding place to work, infused with joy and a real sense of belonging."
Before joining Skoll, Annalisa held Human Resources leadership roles with the American Automobile Association (AAA), Hewlett-Packard (HP), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), REDF, and various other organizations. You can check LinkedIn for her professional wanderings.
Annalisa is perhaps best known for her love of roller skating, quads-only. As she puts it, "I'm kinda awesome."
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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 in East Africa. One Acre Fund has 8,000 full-time staff who serve 1,500,000 families per year, plus 2,500,000+ more families through partnerships. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
