Understanding the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Session Description
Join Skoll Foundation staff for an open discussion about the Skoll Award, its criteria, and selection process. This session is intended for both social entrepreneurs and funders who are interested in understanding the Award, its intent, and signalling power.
Time & Location
Time:
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM, Thursday, April 12, 2018
BST
Location:
Classroom 2 (TBEC)
Speakers
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Delegate
As a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, Ben is responsible for identifying, investing in, and advising a portfolio of social innovators who are driving lasting change. He currently leads Skoll's investment strategy in Health & Pandemics and leads select investments in other issue spaces.
In previous roles at Skoll, Ben has led the Skoll Awards process and global sourcing outreach, launched Skoll's internal fellowship program, and jointly designed the foundation's emergency COVID-19 funding program with the Skoll Awardee community. Ben joined Skoll after completing a Global Health Corps fellowship with IntraHealth in Uganda, focused on addressing health worker absenteeism. Previously, Ben was a management consultant in Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations practice, with experience across a wide range of industries.
In Ben’s free time, you might find him trying an overly ambitious art or photography project, exploring the woods with his family and his dog, or playing any(!) game.
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Discussion lead
Shivani Garg Patel is Chief Strategy Officer at the Skoll Foundation and focuses on developing and amplifying the Foundation's work to enable lasting social change. She has been a social entrepreneur, investor and advisor and brings a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary view to her work.
Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Shivani co-founded and led Samahope, a non-profit that invested in local medical providers who provide critical medical care to women and children in low-income communities around the world. Her technology-driven social innovation work has spanned the Grameen Foundation, World Bank and World Health Organization. Earlier in her career, Shivani was a strategy consultant and product manager in the private sector.
Shivani is a proud and under-caffeinated mom of two. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
