Skoll World Forum 2019

Speakers

• Gemma Mortensen

  Delegate

  Founder and co-creator, New Constellations, Crisis Action

  Gemma is an award-winning thinker and practitioner in transformative, systemic change. She is founder and co-creator of New Constellations, which exists to help people envision and create futures of human and planetary flourishing. New Constellations creates immersive experiences for diverse groups to explore transformation in specific places, specific systems and for their own personal leadership. She is a co-founder and chair of More In Common and sits on the advisory council of Yale University’s International Leadership Centre. She was previously Chief Global Officer at Change.org and CEO of Crisis Action – an organisation that won the MacArthur Award and Skoll Award for its innovative systems model.

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• Zuleyma Bebell

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  Co-director, ImpactAlpha

  Zuleyma is a co-founder of ImpactAlpha. She handles strategic partnerships and business development. She also manages ImpactAlpha’s database--ImpactSpace and it’s fellowship program. With a Master’s degree in Investment and Development from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida, she is dedicated to sustainable development solutions.

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• Zubaida Bai

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  Founder and Chief Executive, ayzh

  Zubaida Bai is a thought leader and innovator of health and livelihood solutions for under-served women and girls globally. Building on her expertise as a mechanical engineer, a product designer, and empathetic communicator, Zubaida has put her unique passion to work. In the process she built a brand, a growing product line, and set in motion a movement that addresses market failures, breaks taboos, and gives voice to the oft-ignored matter that is women’s health. Zubaida is the founder and CEO of ayzh (pronounced “eyes”), a social enterprise that began with janma, a $3 Clean Birth Kit providing an infection free delivery. Having touched more than one million lives to date, ayzh has evolved into a global business. The company provides products and services along the entire reproductive cycle of women and girls that focus on improving their health and happiness addressing unmet needs in under-developed countries. For her efforts towards achieving the UN goals for women’s health, Zubaida has been recognized on an ongoing basis. Some of her recognitions of note are: a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Maternal Health Champion by Ashoka, and a Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer (UNGC). When she’s not changing the world with her products, Zubaida is inspiring young and old through her speaking at international forums. Her talks focus on intersection of women’s health, design and entrepreneurship. You can watch her TED Talk here. She is also the founder of Happy Woman Foundation, an organization catalyzing the next wave of changes that enable women to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams, and wield public influence at a grand scale to create a stronger, happier, and healthier tomorrow for generations to come. Zubaida holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA. She was also conferred with an Honorary Doctorate in 2018.

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• Yana Watson Kakar

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  Global Managing Partner, Dalberg

  Yana Kakar is the Global Managing Partner Emeritus of Dalberg Advisors. Yana concluded her second and final term as head of the firm in 2020. In her client work, Yana works with corporate leaders and investors to transform business models and investment portfolios through sustainable, responsible and impact-oriented strategies. She also advises governments, non-profits and philanthropists on policy, programming and charitable giving strategies that maximize positive social and environmental outcomes, with a focus on gender, youth and SMEs. Yana serves on the Board of Directors of Oxfam America, the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund, Convergence Finance, and she is a member of the Brookings Global Leadership Council and the Young Presidents’ Organization. In 2018, Yana was appointed to serve on the African Presidential Youth Advisory Council, advising heads of industry and state on matters of youth entrepreneurship and employment across Africa. Yana’s perspectives on Environmental and Social Governance (ESG), Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), impact investing and ‘business for good’ have been published in a number of media outlets, including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, DevEx, The Guardian, The Economist and Forbes. Yana holds a BA from McGill University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, speaks five languages and lives with her husband, two children and much-loved dog in New York.

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• William Sternlicht

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  Product Manager, Individual

  William Sternlicht is an avid technologist and angel investor focused on double bottom line investments. He spent the last year working on bias-free early stage investing at Social Capital as the Product Lead for Capital-as-a-Service, a new framework for investing in early stage technology companies purely using data. The goal of the program was to streamline the diligence process to enable the "democratization" of venture capital, eliminating both bias in geography and implicit bias from the "pattern matching" founders. Prior, he graduated from Stanford with a BS in Interaction Design (a combination of Product Design and Computer Science), worked on the data science at the diabetes startup Glooko, marketing at the health insurance unicorn Oscar, and was an associate at Thrive Capital. In his spare time, Will loves to go for hikes, play squash, read sci-fi and nonfiction, and make pretty terrible dad jokes.

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• William Perrin

  Delegate

  Unknown, Individual

  Together with his wife, Fran, William is a trustee of the Indigo Trust. He brings expertise in government, community action and technology policy to Indigo's work. He is also the founder and director of Talk About Local, a unique public service project (funded by Channel4 and Screen West Midlands) to give people in deprived or isolated communities an online voice they own and run. He has a long track record of community action in London’s deprived King’s Cross neighbourhood. When in the UK civil service, William was Tony Blair’s technology policy advisor in Downing Street, co-authored the ‘Transformational Government’ strategy, commissioned the 2007 Power of Information Review with Fran, was Secretary to the Power of Information Taskforce, ran ‘Show us a Better Way’ one of the first open data competitions and was Chair of the OECD expert group on e-government. He is also a trustee of King’s Cross Community Projects, the Good Things Foundation and 360Giving.

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• Wadzi Machena

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  Employee, MasterCard Foundation

  Wadzi Machena Biography Wadzi Machena is an expert in financial inclusion and technology product design for social impact. She brings extensive international experience in creating and growing programmes, products and organizations. She has worked in the private, public, and social sectors to lead design thinking and product strategy design initiatives throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of her areas of expertise include fintech product design, innovation management, organizational vision and strategy, and impact optimization. Wadzi is passionate about leveraging technology, human-centred design, and innovative business models to unlock solutions to complex social problems. Through her product design work, she has partnered with social ventures and startups in Africa that deliver cutting edge business solutions to address challenges in agriculture, health, and finance. Wadzi holds a MA in International Development from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Pretoria. Her most recent research focused on emerging digital technology adoption especially via mobile money innovation in Africa. She serves on the board of Film School Africa (FSA) College, a tertiary education institution that empowers underprivileged young Africans with job readiness skills for the film industry.

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• Vishal Saluja

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  Board Member, Sirum

  Board Member, Sirum (a non-profit that channels surplus medication to safety clinics) Healthcare Investor (Portfolio mgr, Endurant Capital) J&W Seligman, Partner, 2000-2013 McKinsey & Co, Consultant, 1993-1998 Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1994 University of Pennsylvania, BSEcon, BAS, 1989

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• Vincent Faber

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  CEO, Trafigura Foundation

  Trained in Earth Sciences, Vincent Faber started his career first a geophysicist in the mining sector. In the 90's, on the occasion of a sabbatical year, he gave a new orientation to his professional life and engaged into the humanitarian and international development sectors, which took him to a countless number of countries, job positions and international organisations. Thanks to this experience that brought him to work both in the field and in headquarters and with a wide array of stakeholders, he acquired the conviction that fruitful and powerful synergies can be found when the non-profit and business worlds join forces. Called to set up the Trafigura Foundation, a corporate grant-making foundation, in 2008, Vincent still spearheads it today, guided by and putting into practice those same values which always drove his engagement in international and development issues over the past decades.

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• Virginia Wilson

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  Chief Operations Officer, Global, OneSky

  In March 2018, Virginia joined OneSky for all children to work with at-risk children in China, Vietnam, Mongolia and Hong Kong. Prior to joining OneSky, Virginia was the Chief Executive of the Child Development Centre (CDC) for over 13 years. During her time as the Chief Executive she was the Chair of Growing Together, a charity that successfully lobbied the Hong Kong Government, China and the United Nations for the rights of children with special educational needs. Virginia facilitated the first charity merger in Hong Kong between Springboard Project and the CDC, chaired the Jockey Club Sarah School, and was a board member of the English Schools Foundation (ESF). Virginia is currently the Chair of the Education Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce. Prior to her career in education, she held a number of senior positions in the fields of communications, media and arts management, including the start-up of STAR TV.

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• Vilas Dhar

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  Trustee, McGovern Foundation

  Vilas Dhar serves as a Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a US based philanthropy creating positive social impact through the application of information technology and science, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations. Along with Vilas’ philanthropic work, his career has included work as board director and lead investor in several high impact private companies, acting as CEO and managing partner of a US law firm, building public strategies on digital services, entrepreneurship, and innovation programs, and founding the Next Mile Project, a first-of-its-kind incubator where social change organizations received access to a suite of philanthropically funded customized services to support and scale their impact - leveraging private sector expertise for the public good. The Next Mile Project was acquired in January 2017. Through his private office, Vilas now manages a global portfolio of direct, venture, and philanthropic investments, advises international entities on social and economic investing strategy, and sits on several public and private sector boards. He has served as the Gleitsman Fellow on Social Change at Harvard University, and as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Illinois. He holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.P.A, from the Harvard Kennedy School, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois, where he was named University Chancellor’s Scholar.

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• Victoria Rae

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  Development Director, The Elders

  Victoria Rae has an extensive track record of not-for-profit strategic leadership in a range of organisations in the UK and US. She has a specialism in international development including with the UK Committee for UNICEF as Director of Communications, a role in which she built relationships across global networks. In her career she has travelled widely including making an awareness film in Rwanda on HIV prevention and supporting a women’s cooperative in Kenya establish a fish farming small business starting with physically digging the fish pond. For two years she chaired the UNICEF international communications forum, with global conferences in Panama City, Geneva and Madrid. She has worked with multinational companies on corporate social responsibility partnerships and with major foundations. Victoria has an MSc in Voluntary Sector Leadership from CASS Business School, London and has held Board trustee positions in the UK and US. She is a qualified career coach developing voluntary sector leaders and, on a pro-bono basis, has trained disadvantaged women through a workplace preparation programme. She is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Wilton Park, a position she took up in March 2017. The Wilton Park Board is appointed by the Secretary of State to advise the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the management and finances of Wilton Park. The agency provides an international forum for strategic discussion, organising events in the UK and overseas focused on issues of international security, prosperity and justice and bringing together leading representatives from the worlds of politics, diplomacy, academia, business, civil society, the military and the media. Victoria joined The Elders in January 2019 as interim Director of Development. The Elders are a group of independent leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007, who use their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human right worldwide.

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• Victoria Alonsopérez

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  CEO, Chipsafer

  Victoria is an Electronics, Telecommunication, and Electrical Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor, United Nations Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. In 2012 she invented Chipsafer, a patented platform that can track cattle remotely and autonomously. Thanks to Chipsafer in 2012 she was the winner of the International Telecommunication Union Young Innovators Competition and in 2013 she won the Best Young Inventor Award from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In 2014 the Inter-American Development Bank selected Chipsafer as the Most Innovative Startup of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the MIT Technology Review selected Victoria as the Innovator of the Year - Argentina & Uruguay. In 2015 Chipsafer got second prize in Chivas Regal Global Competition The Venture and the BBC selected Victoria as one of the 30 female entrepreneurs under 30. In 2017 she was invited to present Chipsafer at the Solutions Summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York during the UN General Assembly. In terms of interests, her biggest passion has always been space. In 2011 Victoria attended International Space University, where she co-designed a medical experiment for astronauts that won the Barcelona ZeroG Challenge, and the next year she served as the Space Engineering Department Teaching Associate. From 2014 till 2016 she was Chair of Space Generation Advisory Council, a global NGO in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications. In 2014 she was also co-managing editor of a book named "Small Satellite Program Guide". From 2015 till 2017 she was part of the Board of the Space Foundation. In 2016 the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) awarded her the Young Space Leader Award and she served as Special Advisor to the IAF President from 2016 to 2018.

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• Vanessa Peña

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  Co-Founder, CEO, Aweik

  Vanessa is a proud young Ecuadorian with a strong international background. Since she was 16 she has been living and studying in different places like Switzerland, London, Paris, and the United States. Right now, she resides in Ecuador as her mission is to make an impact in Latin America. Currently, she is the director of the global fellowship at Kairos, a NYC based organization focused on building companies that make life more affordable. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Aweik, a community that promotes impact entrepreneurship in Latin America, with a strong presence in Ecuador and Colombia. Vanessa graduated from Northeastern University with a B.A in Economics and International Affairs. Some of her past experiences range from sales and marketing for a tech company in New York, consulting for a microfinance in India, to researching and publishing an academic report on the state of impact investing in Latin America. Vanessa is the recipient of the American Ecuadorian Chamber “Entrepreneurship” merit award. She has given a talk on conscious entrepreneurship at TEDx Cuenca and is a Facebook Community Leader Fellow.

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• Vanessa D'souza

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  CEO, Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action

  Vanessa D’Souza has served as CEO of SNEHA since March 2013, after a volunteering stint with SNEHA. Prior to that, she worked with Citibank India in various positions, her last role being: Director, Citigroup Private Bank. She won the coveted Citicorp Chairman’s Service Excellence Award in 1989 for exemplary performance. She holds a Bachelors (Honours) degree in Economics and a postgraduate degree in Management with a specialization in Marketing. Vanessa pursued the Management Executive Development Programme at Stanford University, USA in 2005. She also holds a postgraduate Diploma in Public Health Nutrition. She was a Dasra Social Impact Fellow in 2015. She has been a recipient of the Mother Teresa Social Leadership Scholarship, to attend the Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management Programme at Harvard.

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• Vanessa Garrison

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  Co-Founder & COO, GirlTrek

  Vanessa Garrison is the co-founder of GirlTrek, the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States. With more than 175,000 neighborhood walkers, GirlTrek encourages women to use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living, families, and communities. As women organize walking teams, they mobilize community members to support monthly advocacy efforts and lead a civil rights-inspired health movement. Beyond walking, GirlTrek’s active members support local and national policy to increase physical activity through walking, improve access to safe places to walk, protect and reclaim green spaces, and improve the walkability and built environments of 50 high-need communities across the United States. Prior to co-founding GirlTrek, Garrison worked within the criminal justice space, helping formerly incarcerated women access critical services. She began her career working in digital media with Turner Broadcasting System. Inc. in Atlanta, where she managed digital media projects for some the world’s most recognizable news and entertainment brands, including, CNN, TNT and Sports Illustrated. As the co-founder of GirlTrek, Garrison is a social innovation fellow with Teach for America (2012), Echoing Green (2013), and The Aspen Institute (2015). She has been featured by CNN, NPR The Washington Post, The New York Times and named “Health Hero” by Essence Magazine. In 2017 she appeared on the cover of Outside Magazine’s “Icons” edition. Garrison’s TED Talk, “The Trauma of Systematic Racism is Killing Black Women. A First Step Towards Change”, has been viewed more than a million times. In 2018 she was appointed to the national board of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. A native of Seattle, WA, Vanessa earned a B.A. in World Arts and Culture from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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• Valeria Militelli

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  Senior Director Global community impact Latam, Johnson & Johnson

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• Uma Mishra-Newbery

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  Interim Executive Director, Women's March Global

  Uma Mishra-Newbery is the Interim Executive Director of Women’s March Global, the sister organization of Women’s March. Uma has been with Women’s March Global since March 2017, initially as a volunteer and then as the former Director of Global Community. Prior to Women’s March Global, Uma was a high-school Chemistry teacher, worked in the medical field as a Medical Lab Technologist and served in the United States Army as an active duty soldier for nearly six years. Uma has been awarded numerous commendations and achievement awards for her leadership and duty during her time in service. Uma has been a TEDx speaker, sharing how we can foster community through development work. She is a proud first generation Indian American, U.S. Army veteran, and forever will be a Science nerd. The motto that fuels Uma as an activist and community builder is by Alice Walker: “Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”

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• Tulsi Parida

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  MBA, Pershing Square Scholar, Saïd Business School

  Tulsi is an internet and ed-tech professional with a commitment to reducing digital inequality and promoting responsible/inclusive technology. She has led teams at startups working to bridge digital divides in literacy education both in the US and in India. Tulsi most recently completed an MSc at the Oxford Internet Institute, where she studied the implications of mobile learning technologies in emerging markets through a gender and political economy lens, and is currently pursuing an MBA at Saïd Business school, where she is focused on responsible business and impact finance/investing.

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• Tony Gannon

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  Founder & Director, Long Term Foundation

  Tony Gannon founded Abbey Capital in 2000. He has overseen the company’s growth over the last two decades and is a recognised global leader in the industry.

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• Tom Colls

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  Journalist, British Broadcasting Corporation

  World Hacks, where I work as a senior journalist, is a BBC World Service programme that reaches millions of people with radio, podcast and video reports about innovative projects that make the world a better place. Come and find me if you've got one of those.

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• Tim Isgitt

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  Managing Director, Humanity United

  Tim is a Managing Director at Humanity United, an organization dedicated to bringing new approaches to address global problems like human exploitation, atrocities, and violent conflict. Tim oversees the Strategic Media and Public Policy portfolios, as well as the communications function. With a focus on strengthening and supporting HU’s work, he is responsible for media strategy and implementation, public affairs, and government relations. Prior to joining HU, Tim was the Senior Vice President for Communications and Government Affairs at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Previously, he served in the U.S. State Department as special advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Tim was a manager of public affairs at the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller in New York, and an associate with the D.C.-based lobbying firm Meyers & Associates. Tim began his career as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives. He received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University.

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• Thulani Madondo

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  Executive Director, Kliptown Youth Program

  Thulani Madondo is the cofounder and Executive Director of Kliptown Youth Program, a South African youth development organization created to help young people from the informal settlement of Kliptown move out of poverty. Thulani himself was born in a one room shack in Kliptown without electricity or running water, so he understands the problems facing Kliptown youth. KYP aims to help these youth break the cycle of poverty that has existed in Kliptown for a long time by providing academic support and homework assistance, sports, nutrition, and computer literacy to 400 children and youth from the Kliptown community. Thulani served as a core member in the inaugural City Year South Africa class in 2005. Thulani participated in other community development programs for 7 years prior to founding KYP in 2007. In 2012, Thulani was honoured as one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes from a pool of 45,000 nominations. His experiences have also awarded him the Humanitarian of the Year Award from Turkey Worldwide Visibility. In June 2013, Thulani was named one of 200 Young South Africans making a difference by the South African publication Mail & Guardian and completed a Strategic Perspective in Non-profit Management at Harvard Business School in July 2013. In all the great achievements this young man has accomplished, in the year 2013 he was awarded as a Role Model of the year by the Feather awards. Thulani still continues to serve his community as a leader and enforcer of change. In 2015 he was chosen as one of the 21 ICONS, this initiative looks at great leaders in South Africa who are bringing change and are representing the country globally. Great leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu are profiled under the 21ICONS. In 2016 Thulani completed a Certificate in Project Management at The University of Witwatersrand. To date, Thulani till the executive Director of Kliptown Youth Program and leading the organization youth to be the architects of their own exit strategy from poverty.

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• Thomas Chupein

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  RBF Practice Director, Instiglio

  Thomas manages Instiglio's RBF Practice, which includes leading our research and training projects and strengthening relationships with academia and practitioners to inform international development discourse. The RBF Practice also provides the internal infrastructure to support our consulting services. Previously, Thomas managed the health sector as a Senior Policy Manager at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Thomas also led policy and research dissemination at the UC Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action, and served as a data analysis consultant for UNICEF in Bhutan, Nepal, and Thailand. Thomas holds an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in Development Studies from UC Berkeley.

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• Tevis Howard

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  Founder & CEO, Komaza

  Africa's wood demand is accelerating quickly, with no end in sight. Most natural forests are gone or disappearing fast: a top cause of climate change. Traditional plantation forestry is severely growth constrained by limited land & high costs. With this business-as-usual, Africa's wood supply deficit will be $30 billion/year by 2030. This is a big business opportunity. Africa has millions of poor farmers eager to make more money growing anything, including trees. Komaza's core innovation is simple: partner with thousands of farmers to collectively grow enough trees to feed a vertically-integrated industrial wood business. Once mature, Komaza buys and harvests the trees, returning life-changing income to farmers and supplying sustainable wood to market. Critically, Komaza's model also delivers disruptive cost savings. Because farmers provide all land and labor, Komaza plants trees for 80% less than plantations, ultimately yielding much higher unit economic returns. Superior profitability means tremendous potential to scale, inspiring Komaza's long-term ambition to grow into Africa's largest forestry company. After nearly a decade of slow bootstrapping, Komaza's growth has accelerated significantly over the last three years. By planting over 3,000 acres in 2018, Komaza is now among the largest active forestry planters in Africa. To date, Komaza has planted over 2 million trees with 14,000 farmers in Coastal Kenya, with operations currently on track to plant another 1 million trees with 7,000 farmers in 2019. Tevis Howard, Komaza's Founder/CEO, grew up in the California Bay Area. Following his parent's footsteps, he was a biotech science nerd in his youth. After a quarter-life existential crisis, Tevis started Komaza while in university and has been maniacally driven ever since.

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• Tanya Lobel

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  Executive Director, African Leadership Group

  Tanya Lobel is Executive Director at the African Leadership Group. ALG is an ecosystem of innovative education institutions that together aim to develop 3 million ethical and entrepreneurial leaders in Africa by 2035. Tanya leads strategy and stakeholder engagement for Europe. Tanya has many years of experience in the investment, impact investment and philanthropic space have previously been a Director at Actis and with the Omidyar Network where she focused on investments in financial inclusion and education. Tanya designed and launched the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund for DFID and began her career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. Tanya holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a BSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Her family is from Zimbabwe.

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• Suzanne Bell

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  Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

  Suzanne Bell is a Silicon Valley lawyer with more than 20 years of experience representing technology companies from start-up to maturity, and she counts some of the world’s most innovative companies among her clients. Ms. Bell focuses on strategic technology and IP transactions for companies in industries that include cloud services, digital media, electronics, fintech, digital health, autonomous vehicles, IoT, sharing economy, and clean energy, as well as for companies in traditional industries that are embracing technology in new ways. She also counsels clients on the range of legal issues associated with new products and services where cutting-edge technologies such as AI and AR/VR are involved, and on structuring new business models for engaging with customers. Recognized as a leading practitioner in Chambers USA for her "wealth of experience," clients describe her as "service-oriented, delivering high-quality work product in a practical and friendly manner." Ms. Bell devotes her pro bono time primarily to organizations that are working to eliminate child sexual abuse material from the Internet, increase access to education around the word, and advance youth development. Suzanne is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Covington & Burling, one of the 50 largest American law firms, and she serves on the Board of Directors of Thorn and of the Girl Scouts of Northern California.

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• Vanessa Wai

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  Managing Director, Community , Skoll Foundation

  Vanessa works on the Community and Convenings team, supporting the curation and care of the Skoll World Forum delegate community. She has been working in the nonprofit field for over ten years developing community engagement and workforce development programs. Most recently, she served as the Communities Manager at Benetech, a Skoll Awardee. Previously, Vanessa worked at the Downtown Women’s Center, where she managed their volunteer program and started three social enterprises (a café, retail store, and product line) that created job training and employment opportunities for homeless women in the Los Angeles Skid Row Community. Vanessa holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine. Vanessa enjoys the adventures of parenting two energetic and mischievous kids with her partner. She is passionate about food, community building, and social innovation.

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• Susan Dynner

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  Sundance Filmmaker, Individual

  Currently, Director/Producer Susan Dynner is gearing up to direct/produce the feature drama “Fall of Eden”, which will star Dylan McDermott and Brianna Hildebrand, followed by the comedy, “Blank Nation” starring Haley Joel Osment, Michelle Trachtenberg and a great ensemble cast.. Before that, she directed/produced, “Code Blue: A Love Story” starring Andy Dick, and was chosen as a Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directing Fellow. She was also selected for the Producers Guild Mentorship Program, where she was paired with Brad Silberling and shadowed him on “Jane the Virgin”. Dynner previously produced "Free Ride”, starring Anna Paquin, for which she was awarded a Film Independent Producing Fellowship. She also produced the documentary, “After Porn Ends”, which was ranked as the #1 documentary on iTunes, Netflix and Amazon downloads. Prior to that, Dynner directed and produced "Punk's Not Dead", which received critical acclaim on the festival circuit, followed by a theatrical run and world-wide release. She was also a producer on "Brick", winner of the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, which was released by Focus Features. As a Development Executive, Dynner worked for Charlie Sheen and Nick Cassavetes' Ventura Films as VP of Creative Affairs, before leaving to join Steve Herzberg as a Producer and VP of Development/Production for Prairiefire Films, who had a deal at Sony. Dynner began her career working for Richard Donner Productions, and then for Wolfgang Petersen's Radiant Productions, and Di Novi Pictures. Prior to that, she was a band photographer from the age of fifteen.

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• Susan Alzner

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  Co-Founder; Chief of Strategy & Operations, shift7

  Susan Alzner is co-founder of shift7, advancing tech-forward, open, shareable practices to drive direct impact on systemic challenges, particularly through scouting and scaling promising solution-makers and solutions. Susan led public engagement at the United Nations from 2010-2018, serving the Office of the President of the General Assembly and the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Her leadership included designing and facilitating open, transparent, and participatory processes for civil society and social entrepreneurs to contribute to the highest-level UN events and processes, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals negotiations and Summit, the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants, and the UN General Assembly dialogues with candidates for UN Secretary-General. Susan received a UN Secretary-General Staff Award for Teamwork in 2015, and was recognized as a finalist for a UN Secretary-General Staff Award for Managing Change in 2016. She led extensive civil society consultations for the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panels and Groups on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Sustainable Energy for All, Global Sustainability, and Climate Finance, as well as for civil society to contribute recommendations to the UN Deputy Secretary-General on UN development system reform. Susan’s prior experience includes Coordinator for the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), and political project manager for musician and social activist Ani DiFranco. She has also organized bicycle rides across the United States to raise awareness and funds for Native American environmental initiatives. Susan graduated from Yale University.

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• Sundeep Kapila

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  Co-Founder, Swasth India

  Sundeep Kapila is co-founder and CEO of Swasth Foundation, a not-for-profit social enterprise committed to Health and Joy for All. Sundeep has worked as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company for 7 years, where he specialized in the Healthcare and Development sectors. IN 2008, he left McKinsey to setup Swasth with the goal of building an eco-system that delivered high quality, affordable and accountable health services to the low income in India. Sundeep graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2001. Post that, he has undergone different programs to gain domain knowledge that is required to build a a health eco-system. He has completed a Diploma of Associateship in Insurance, 2 years of Law Studies, M.D. in Alternative Medicine, a Yoga Instructor Certificate and is a Certified Professional Coach from the International Coaching Federation. In 2019, Sundeep has been selected as a Bernard Lown Scholar by the Harvard School of Public Health. Over the last 11 years, Sundeep and his team at Swasth have setup a network of 25+ Primary Health Care Centers across 2 cities (Mumbai and Ahmedabad) that deliver high quality and accountable healthcare services in family medicine and dentistry to the urban poor, reducing their out-of-pocket expenditure by 50%. He is now looking (1) to scale the Primary Health Care model and (2) to integrate the knowledge of Western medicine and Eastern sciences of well-being to develop a network of Community Based Wellness Center for urban poor focused on chronic diseases like Hypertension and Diabetes.

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• Spiwe Chakawa

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  Director, Chiedza Child Care Center

  Spiwe Chakawa is a development practitioner for over 15 years and her main goal is to see positive change in people’s lives especially children, youth and women. She holds a BSc. Hon Degree in Psychology from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master of Science Degree in Development Studies from the University of Science and Technology. Spiwe is a beneficiary of Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), Zimbabwe. CAMFED has helped her unlock the potential in her over the past 25 years. She has contributed to numerous national programs in the area of children such as implementation of the National Action Plan for vulnerable children was part of the National Steering Committee for Children on the Move in Zimbabwe from 2008 to 2012. She currently sits on several boards for organizations that focus on improving the lives of children such as Board Member for the Private Voluntary Organizations Board in the Ministry of Labor and Social Services which is responsible for the registration and regulation of NGOs in Zimbabwe. She also sits on the board for Hospice Association of Zimbabwe. She has also contributed to the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa –A journal on African Women’s Experiences Buwa! Issue 7 December 2016. Currently, she is a director of a local NGO – Chiedza Child Care Centre focusing on assisting vulnerable children in Zimbabwe since 2013.

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• William M. Abrams

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  President, Trickle Up

  William M. Abrams joined Trickle Up in 2005, following a career as a senior executive and journalist for The New York Times, ABC News, and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to Trickle Up, Mr. Abrams served as President of New York Times Television, which produced documentaries and current affairs programs for cable and public television; President of 1France.com, a website for tourists to France; and a new-business consultant for Discovery Communications Inc. He spent twelve years at Capital Cities/ABC Inc., including five years as Vice President of Business Development for ABC News. He began his career as a staff reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Abrams has master's degrees in journalism and business from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from Tufts University. He has represented Trickle Up at numerous conferences, including the Clinton Global Initiative, the Global Philanthropy Forum, Opportunity Collaboration, and Skoll World Forum. He served for six years on the board of InterAction and currently on the US International Council on Disabilities.

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• Sophie Silkes

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  Director of Marketing and Communications, E-180

  Sophie merged her background in sustainability with her fundraising experience to build a career in marketing for impact-driven organizations. She was a Social Innovation Fellow in Sustainable Food Systems for the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, and is a graduate of McGill University's urban sustainability program. She is now the Marketing Director for e180, the collaborative learning social enterprise behind the peer-learning experience Braindate.

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• Sonja Giese

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  Executive Director, Innovation Edge

  Sonja Giese is founding Executive Director of Innovation Edge (IE), an investment platform with a social impact agenda. IE acts as a catalytic connector and provides financial, strategic and programmatic support to entrepreneurs and innovators from diverse sectors, to positively transform early life experiences for young children living in poverty. Since its establishment in mid 2014, Sonja has led IE in building an exciting portfolio of investments, demonstrating its ability to take ideas from source to scale. Sonja has a degree in Science, a background in public policy, a passion for systems change and 25 years of experience in the development sector. She has engaged extensively with all levels of government and has been instrumental in national policy reform and systems enhancements which have effectively leveraged massive gains for children. Prior to IE, Sonja held senior leadership positions within the University of Cape Town, international NGO Absolute Return for Kids, the community-based Bulungula Incubator, and a national ECD donor consortium, Ilifa Labantwana. She has also consulted extensively to local and international donors and Government on strategy, policy and programme design and evaluation. Her motto, ‘Be the change’.

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• Vishal Talreja

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  Cofounder & Trustee, Dream A Dream

  Vishal co-founded Dream a Dream along with 11 others. Cofounded in 1999, Dream a Dream has invested in mainstreaming Life Skills within education ecosystems and helping transform the core purpose of education in India over the last two decades. Vishal is an Ashoka Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow and a Board Member at PYE Global and Goonj. He has previously been a Founder Director of Unltd India and Board Member of India Cares Foundation. Vishal is a Steering Committee Member of Karanga – A Global Alliance on Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills. He is a Founding Member of The Weaving Lab – A Global Learning Ecosystem of weavers who are advancing the practice and profession of weaving thriving learning ecosystems. He is a Founding Member of Catalyst 2030 – A global movement of social change innovators collaborating to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is also part of the Informal Working Group on the Future of Education & Skills 2030 project by OECD where he has been a Co-chair and Moderator at various convenings. Vishal has been recognized as an “Architect of the Future” by the Waldzell Institut in Austria. He is also an advisor and mentor to Reap Benefit and is deeply committed to mentoring start-up NGOs and young social entrepreneurs. He is a TEDx Speaker, active writer on development challenges and human-interest stories (https://medium.com/@vishaltalreja) and a poet (http://mysoulstirring.blogspot.com/). In 2018, he was awarded the ‘Heroes of Bengaluru’ award. Vishal believes that if we can re-imagine learning to develop empathy, creative thinking, problem solving and collaborative working skills amongst young people, they will be able to overcome adversity and flourish in this fast-changing world.

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• Vandre Brilhante

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  President, Cieds

  I am restless by nature, always in search of new paths, partners and knowledge to inspire new ideals and effective actions that can better create solutions to problems related to poverty and the lack of opportunities for all, especially the younger ones. My daily and future motivation comes from the constant search to promote better social technologies, networks and team building to achieve the main social issues of Brazil and Latin America I founded Cieds 25 years ago, today one of the largest social organizations in Brazil and Latin America. We promote social solutions that generate more income, more health, better education, greater confidence in the future and, above all, prosperity. We do all this by building networks of strategic partners committed to a better Brazil for all. Cieds operates in four programmatic areas – Education, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business, Civic Engagement and Health and Wellness.

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• Tim Cormode

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  CEO, Power To Give Foundation

  For the past 24 years, Tim Cormode had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to be a founder, entrepreneur, and CEO for a charitable organization in the social impact sector called Power To Be . Cormode began his social impact career as the Founder and CEO of a Canadian charity called Power To Be. During his tenure Tim began to see the ways in which the relationship between social impact organizations and philanthropy was unnecessarily burdensome. in 2017, Tim founded and is now the CEO of The Power To Give Foundation. Power to Give is a Canadian boutique venture philanthropy foundation that provides social purpose organizations with unrestricted capital and strategic support, while providing aspiring philanthropists a refreshed approach to giving and the ability to leverage their impact.

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• Teresa Chahine

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  Marcelo Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management

  som.yale.edu/chahine

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• Siobhan Crowley

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  Executive Director, Children's Investment Fund Foundation

  Dr. Siobhan Crowley is the Executive Director for Strong Start at CIFF. She has over 30 years work experience improving health care services for children in Africa, Asia and the UK. Siobhan Joined CIFF from leading the Health team at ELMA Philanthropies. Prior to that Siobhan was Chief of Health & Nutrition for UNICEF in South Africa. Prior to working in South Africa Siobhan led the HIV care and treatment work at WHO, with a focus on children and accelerating access to essential drugs and diagnostics. Siobhan helped transform the WHO guideline development process and spearheaded patient engagement in guideline development at WHO. Siobhan has devoted much of her professional life to improving health outcomes for women and children in the developing world, and has a strong track record in leading development of health policy, designing and delivering programmes across Asia and Africa. With over 15 years in senior technical and managerial positions with WHO, UNICEF and Philanthropy, Siobhan has an excellent understanding of health systems at sub national, national and the global level. She has solid country experience in Europe, Asia and Africa – with time in strategic and technical roles. Siobhan trained as a medical doctor in London, and is an accredited Consultant Physician, with advanced qualifications in pharmacology, health education, public health evaluation and infectious diseases. She is an avid cyclist, theatre and music lover.

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• Silvia Dorado-Banacloche

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  Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island

  Associate professor of management at the University of Rhode Island. I am also a board member of DePaul Industries (www.depaulindustries.com); a social enterprise devoted to identify and create jobs for individuals with employment barriers. In my research, I have explored topics around processes of social innovation within markets as well as the founding, management, and challenges of social enterprises. I hold a Ph.D. in Management from McGill University, a Masters in Planning from MIT, and a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

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• Tara Loyd

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  Executive Director, PIVOT

  Tara Loyd serves as Executive Director to PIVOT which works at the invitation of the government of Madagascar to built a replicable model district for Universal Health Coverage for the country. The model district of Ifanadiana includes UNESCO World Heritage Site Ranomafana National Park. Tara spends summers in Ranomafana with her young children and school years at home in Lexington, Kentucky. Previous to serving as PIVOT's first employee in 2013 and Executive Director since 2018, Tara lived and worked in Lesotho, Malawi, and rural Alaska with a variety of CBOs and as Partners in Health staff. In early 2020, Tara closed the Boston headquarters office of PIVOT to shift authority with resources to the Malagasy leadership team in Ifanadiana district and wrote about it publicly in this SSIR piece last November. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/moving_closer_to_the_problem_and_closer_to_the_solution

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• Steven Drummond

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  Executive Producer, National Public Radio

  Steve Drummond heads up two teams of journalists at NPR. NPR Ed is a nine-member team that launched in March 2014, providing deeper coverage of learning and education and extending it to audiences across digital platforms. Code Switch is an eight-person team that covers race and identity across the network, and in an award-winning weekly podcast.

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• Silvia Bastante de Unverhau

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  Partner, Braymont

  Silvia Bastante de Unverhau is a global philanthropy expert with close to 25 years of experience, and 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 held management roles 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.

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• Sherrie Westin

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  President, Sesame Workshop

  Sherrie Westin is President of Social Impact and Philanthropy for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street. She leads the Workshop’s efforts to serve vulnerable children through mass media and targeted initiatives in the United States and around the world. She serves as Sesame Workshop’s chief mission ambassador, raising awareness, developing strategic partnerships, and cultivating philanthropic support. Westin led the Workshop’s efforts to create the largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response, bringing critical education to refugee children in the Syrian response region. Westin has held leadership positions in media and public service, including Assistant to the President for Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs for President George H.W. Bush. Westin serves on numerous boards, including UNICEF USA, Communities in Schools, and Vital Voices. She was named a “Leading Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine and one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business.”

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• Sharath Srinivasan

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  Co-founder and Director, Africa's Voices

  I am Executive Director and Co-Founder of Africa’s Voices Foundation. How can citizens come together and have their voices better heard to drive the change they want to see in their lives? Where are the democratic innovations that solve for trust, openness, plural views, recognition and action, and not for commercial gain or surveillance? With collaborations across hemispheres, disciplines and sectors, I'm bent on finding solutions that work. The two lives I lead as a change actor, but also a change thinker (I'm also founder and co-Director of the Centre of Governance & Human Rights at the University of Cambridge) redouble rather than divide that ambition. What else? I'm an Australian of Indian origin, married to an Irish woman, with two sons who are proudly British, but currently living in Kenya amidst a near-20 year love affair with eastern Africa, and especially Sudan. Unapologetically, a citizen of the world.

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• Scott Weiss

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  Engagement Lead, Sharehold

  Scott is an expert storyteller, creative director, organizational and experience designer who cares deeply about how people experience the world around them. He is passionate about helping organizations small and large fully realize their creative potential in order to activate purposeful transformation. Prior to joining Sharehold as Head of Strategic Initiatives, Scott was a partner of Community By Design, a social innovation agency that creatively worked alongside partners in the private and public sector to strategically solve social impact challenges. He spent 7 years as the Senior Project Manager and Experience Designer at award-winning design firm, IDEO, where he led immersive experience design projects for clients like Citibank, Target, Nike, IAG, Kate Spade, Hershey’s, AAA, and over 100 more companies and organizations. Additionally, Scott focused a lot of his design efforts collaborating with IDEO colleagues around complicated and systemic aspects of the human narrative such as Aging, Dying, Sex, and Religion.

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• Sarah Shearman

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  Social enterprise correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation

  Sarah Shearman covers social enterprise, impact investing and social innovation at the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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• Sarah Lane Smith

  Delegate

  Policy & Programme Manager, Department for International Development

  I currently work in the Department for International Development's Emerging Futures Team, concentrating on social innovation and adaptive and agile approaches.

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• Sarah Judd Welch

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  Co-Founder & CEO, Loyal by Design

  Sarah Judd Welch is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sharehold, a progress company. Sharehold undertakes meaningful, sustainable transformation on behalf of visionary companies with, for, and by their most important stakeholders – their people. Our innovation and design practice spans Research & Insights, Community Design, and Organizational Design. Sarah believes in the power of community-driven innovation and business as a force for doing good. With over a decade of experience in strategic planning, community design, and digital strategy, her areas of expertise span design research, customer and user insights, and translating strategy into execution, and product management. She brings a user-centric lens to her client work – driving insights through teams and their customers. Sarah’s clients include Google, General Electric, National Geographic, Hearst, Meetup, American Medical Association, The Wing, Grammarly, Pepsi, and many more. Sarah’s work and thought leadership on community-driven innovation have been published in Harvard Business Review, DigiDay, FastCompany and more. She's was an early advocate for social entrepreneurship as a StartingBloc Follow (Boston '09) and early team member of Catchafire. Previously, she led new market expansion for TaskRabbit, and in past lives worked for Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs.

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• Sarah Kearney

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  Executive Director, PRIME Coalition

  Sarah Kearney is the Founder and Executive Director of PRIME Coalition, a public charity based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that partners with philanthropists to place catalytic capital into market-based solutions to climate change. PRIME works closely with foundation grantmakers, DAFs, corporate donors, and individuals/family offices to facilitate investments into early-stage investment opportunities that are optimized for climate impact, attractiveness for commercial co- or follow-on investment, and fitness for philanthropic capital. Before PRIME, Sarah served as Executive Director and Trustee of the Chesonis Family Foundation, a grantmaking organization that supports transformational energy research, development and deployment. Based on her work, Sarah has been inducted into the Raven Society at the University of Virginia, and awarded the 2012 MIT Ronald Heller Entrepreneurship Award, 2014 Caltech Resonate Award, 2014 Echoing Green Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review’s 2014 35 Innovators Under 35, and the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30. Sarah holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. In 2015, she co-founded the Aligned Intermediary, a public benefit corporation that serves long-term investors – sovereign funds, pension funds, endowments, and insurance companies – to deploy capital directly into large-scale climate infrastructure projects.

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• Sarah Hewitt

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  Executive Assistant to Peter Drobac, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Based at the Said Business School Oxford. Previously worked for The Nature Conservancy. Has worked in both private and public/NGO sectors. Publishing background.

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• Santhosh Ramdoss

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  Principal, Skoll Foundation

  Santhosh Ramdoss is a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, supporting Skoll’s Program Related Investments (PRI) and mission investment portfolio. Prior to his role at Skoll, Santhosh was a Director in the India offices of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, where he helped oversee the Foundation’s portfolio of impact investments and was responsible for executing the mission of the Foundation to transform lives of children living in urban poverty. Early in his career, Santhosh helped to launch and manage greenfield financial institutions and development programs at the world’s largest NGO, BRAC. He helped BRAC raise $100 million in equity, debt and grant funds. Santhosh has also founded multiple start-ups in his career. Most recently, he co-founded ThinkChange India, the leading social entrepreneurship portal in the country which was acquired by YourStory.in in June 2013. He also co-founded Profits for People which was focused on creating rural SMEs in Southern India. This venture won a bunch of leading venture competitions and raised seed funding from New York University. Santhosh holds an MBA from one of India’s leading business schools and an MPA from New York University, where he was also a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. NYU honored him with an Alumni Torch Award in 2011.

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• Sana Kapadia

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  Chief Impact Officer, Spring Activator

  Sana Kapadia is a champion for diversity and systems change. Currently based in Europe, a recipient of Business in Vancouver's Top 40 under 40, she is working to support investment managers, advisors and impact-organisations to incorporate a gender lens into their investment and operational practices. In addition, Sana is an Impact Investment Manager at Frankfurt-based Roots of Impact, a pioneer in global impact finance solutions, as well as Chief Impact Officer at Spring Activator, a Vancouver based B-Corp and impact ecosystem capacity builder. A mother of two adventurous trailblazers (under 4), Sana reads voraciously, loves traveling and believes in the transformative power of social impact and aligning capital with values-based business. She is a co-founder of the RAISE Collective, a community of female investors, founders and champions changing the gender ratio in investment, and a gender lens and deal flow advisor to Vancouver-based Active Impact Investments.

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• Samir Patel

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  Chief Innovation Strategist, Blue State Digital

  Samir is Chief Innovation Strategist at Blue State Digital, where he works with a range of organisations to drive civic engagement, impact communities, and innovate in marketing. He has over 20 years of experience in helping brands and non-profits alike put people first to achieve their objectives. Samir has worked across a range of causes and clients including storytelling for GE, brand experience for Virgin, digital products for Google, strategy and digital platforms for Co-op, digital experiences for Tate, user experience for Natural History Museum, campaigns for HOPE not hate, global advocacy strategy and campaigns for Internet Society, and campaign creative for WaterAid. Some of the communities Samir has worked with include the Inuit population in Nunavut, Canada; mothers in need of healthcare in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana; Olympics volunteers in Beijing, China; technology consumers in Tokyo and Shanghai; digital skills learners across 40 markets in Europe; hard-to-reach potential voters in the UK; and consumers and supporters in the UK and US. His previous experience covers innovation, digital strategy, storytelling and filmmaking, as freelance, as owner of a creative video agency, and at agencies such as frog design. A US-UK dual citizen, Samir has a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia (US) and an MA in Film from Staffordshire University (UK). Samir has been a commentator and interviewee for BBC, Virgin, Guardian, Ad Age, and Campaign magazine. Speaking topics have included digital acceleration and engagement, culture and diversity, politics and storytelling at events including Museum Next, Digital Marketing Exchange, Creative Mornings and numerous client offsites.

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• Sameer Raina

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  President, Digital Divide Data

  Sameer is the President at Digital Divide Data. Sameer joined DDD from Magic Software, a leading education technology company, where he was the Business Head for North America and Europe. In his current role at DDD, Sameer focuses on strategy, partnerships, sales, and marketing. Sameer has over 20 years of international experience in executive leadership roles with technology and BPO companies. He has also been involved in various entrepreneurial ventures as a seed investor and business development advisor. Sameer has an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila.

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• Sam Mayer

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  Vice President, Public Affairs at the END Fund, The END Fund

  Sam is currently the Vice President, Public Affairs at the END Fund – the only private philanthropic initiative dedicated to ending the world’s most prevalent and neglected diseases. He is responsible for the organization’s global external engagement, including advocacy and communications that advance the NTD platform and attract additional resources and attention to the NTD sector. Previously, Sam was Executive Director, International Programs at the M∙A∙C AIDS Fund where he oversaw a grant portfolio that supported 130 HIV/AIDS service organizations across 50 countries. There, he devised public private partnerships and strategic health programs that reached over 26 million people affected by or at risk of HIV/AIDS. Prior to that, Sam led global fundraising efforts for a leading sport-for-development organization, Grassroot Soccer. He was also previously Chief Operating Officer for Millennium Promise, and Global Operations Manager at the Clinton Health Access Initiative where he helped establish the organization’s health financing division. Sam currently serves on the board of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. He holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and a BA in Economics from the University of Strathclyde in his native Scotland. Sam lives in New York with his wife and two children, and enjoys competing in triathlons and marathons.

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• Salman Shaikh

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  Founder and CEO, Shaikh Group

  Salman Shaikh is the Founder and CEO of The Shaikh Group (TSG). Before establishing TSG, he was the director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Center, where his research focused on conflict resolution, domestic policy, and geopolitics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Levant (particularly Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Shaikh has extensive experience working the United Nations in a number of offices, including as Special Assistant, Middle East and Asia in the Office of the Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, Political Advisor to the Secretary-General's Personal Representative for Lebanon during the 2006 war, Special Assistant to the Special Coordinator to the Middle East Peace Process, and Programme Officer for the Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict. Shaikh also served as Director for policy and research in the private office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bin Nasser al-Missned, the Consort of the former Emir of the State of Qatar. Shaikh is a respected commentator and policy adviser on the Middle East. He has been featured in key publications and broadcasters, including CNN, BBC, Sky New, Al Jazeera, and NBC, and he has published commentaries with Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.

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• Sally Faiz

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  Senior Advisor, Philanthropy, Constanter

  Sally Faiz is a Senior Advisor in Philanthropy at Constanter, working alongside the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, Porticus and Laudes Foundation. Previously, Sally was Head of Grantmaking at UBS Optimus Foundation, leading a team of grant makers in China, Singapore, Europe and USA and working closely with the banking divisions, clients and nonprofit partners on collective philanthropic initiatives. Sally was Global Portfolio Manager at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), working in child protection, education, early childhood development, child health and nutrition in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia and Europe. She started her career at McKinsey becoming an Engagement Manager working with for profit, social sector and foundation clients in Europe, West Africa and the USA. Sally spent time as a humanitarian relief worker in Angola and Iran and has a BA in English Literature from Bristol University where she was elected President of the Students’ Union.

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• Salim Hussein

  Delegate

  Head of Community Health Unit (Division of Family Health), Ministry of Health - Kenya

  Medical Doctor with MBchB from University of Nairobi, Kenya. Public Health practitioner in the Ministry of Health with a passion for Public Health System strengthening, focus on Community Health system strengthening. Currently, Head of Community Health Services in Kenya since 2013 prior to this I was the Deputy head of the Department of Health Promotion for 4 years before being the Head for 5 years. I have worked as a District Medical Officer for 3years in charge of various Districts, in Kenya.

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• Tim Wainwright

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  Chief Executive, WaterAid

  Tim believes water, sanitation and hygiene underpin all progress in development and is committed to WaterAid’s global strategy to transform lives by ensuring everyone, everywhere is reached with services that last. In today’s challenging world, this requires renewed energy and collaboration with partners from civil society, governments and the private sector. Tim also serves as the chair of Bond, the consortium of UK international development agencies. Before joining WaterAid, Tim spent six years as Chief Executive of ADD (Action on Disability and Development) International, an NGO working to promote independence, equality and opportunity for disabled people in poverty in Africa and Asia. He spent two years as Director of the English Regions for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the UK, and before that held a range of senior roles with Oxfam and VSO in the UK, Beijing and Bangkok. Tim began his career at British Airways, spending eight years in operational research and marketing roles, after completing a degree in maths at Cambridge and a masters at Lancaster. Tim lives in Oxford with his wife and two daughters, where he has been a school governor and, when time permits, removes the larger weeds that grow between the vegetables in his allotment.

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• Rupert Younger

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  Director, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, Saïd Business School

  Rupert Younger is the founder and director of Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation and co-author of The Reputation Game and The Activist Manifesto. His expertise is in reputation and activism, and his views are regularly featured in major news outlets including the BBC, CNN, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is a Trustee of the international mine clearance charity The HALO Trust, and was appointed by HM Queen Elizabeth II as her High Sheriff of Hampshire for 2013-14.

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• Robyn Park

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  Digital Campaigns Specialist, Skoll Foundation

  As the Digital Campaigns Specialist, Robyn amplifies the work of social entrepreneurs through social media and other digital channels. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, she interned on NPR's marketing and communications team in addition to a startup incubator and digital agency. Robyn holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing and a minor in journalism from the George Washington University, where she volunteered at a financial literacy program for youth. She has lived in Chicago, Houston, Seoul, Phoenix, Washington DC, and now the Bay Area (which may be her favorite place so far). Robyn is passionate about the role of storytelling in inspiring ideas and creating social change, and strives to elevate the work of socially driven brands and organizations. Off-hours, she enjoys playing the piano, trying out new coffee shops, and petting strangers' dogs.

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• Rosemary OMahony

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  Chair of the Board, CAMFED

  Rosemary O’Mahony was a partner with Accenture, where she spent 28 years between the Dublin, Chicago, Sophia Antipolis and Paris offices. She specialised in Information Technology (IT) solutions and worked with clients in over 20 countries. Rosemary has used her professional experience of 30 years in consulting to help charities and social enterprises in both the UK and France. Rosemary is a member of the Finance, Audit and Risk committee of Genio, an Irish organisation that is working in collaboration with a number of government departments to implement systemic change in how social services are delivered with a particular focus on disability, homelessness, mental health, dementia and addiction. Rosemary was a member of the global Board of "1001 fontaines" from 2008 to 2018 and is now Chair of 1001fontaines UK. 1001fontaines creates social enterprises to provide clean drinking water to improve the health of vulnerable people in developing countries, including Cambodia.

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• Rola El Chami

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  Programme Advisor, Executive Education-Impact Investing, Social Finance & Impact Measurement Program, Saïd Business School

  Experienced Marketing and Programme Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in diverse industries; such as the Executive Education field, IT & Technology and the Humanitarian field. Skilled in Foreign Languages (fluent in English, Norwegian & Arabic), Creative Writing, Positive Employee Relations, Public Relationship skills, Organisation Skills, and Opportunity Identification. I currently work at Said Business School looking after the Social Impact Finance Portfolio which include; Impact Investing, Social Finance and Impact Measurement.

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• Robert Hokanson

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  COO, LDS Charities

  Robert Hokanson has been involved in international development and relief in various forms for over 25 years. He holds degrees in Near Eastern Studies, International Development and Organizational Behavior. During college he worked in rural villages of the Bolivian and Peruvian Altiplano, supervising health, water, and agriculture projects. He served as program director and vice president of a microenterprise development organization with operations in five countries. For the last 12 years, Robert has worked with LDS Employment Resource Services and LDS Charities where he has overseen initiatives for refugees, clean water and food security. Robert currently serves as director of LDS Charities’ Humanitarian Services division overseeing longer-term humanitarian efforts.

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• Robert Bank

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  President & CEO, American Jewish World Service

  Robert Bank is President and CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the world’s leading Jewish social change organization working to end poverty and realize human rights in the developing world by supporting grassroots activists and progressive social movements. Robert has spent his career championing human rights as an attorney, activist and leader. He previously served in New York’s municipal government and in the leadership of GMHC—one of the world’s leading organizations combatting HIV/AIDS, where he played an instrumental role in the campaign to overturn the ban on HIV-positive people entering the United States and becoming U.S. citizens. Robert received Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship and his leadership has been recognized with GMHC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Partners in Justice Award from AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps. He is an advisor to The Conversation: Jewish in America, and he is on the board of Leading Edge: Alliance for Excellence in Jewish Leadership. Robert’s passion for human rights was shaped growing up in South Africa, in a family that was engaged in the struggle to end apartheid.

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• Liz Jarman

  Delegate

  CEO, Living Goods

  Liz joined Living Goods (LG) in 2014 & became CEO/ Board member in 2018. She sets the vision for how LG partners with African governments to strengthen & deliver high impact, life-saving community health (CH) services. Based in Kenya, where she has lived for 13 years, she leads a team of 450 colleagues across 3 African countries & the US. Liz has overseen a 50% increase in revenue, doubling of the number of CHWs supported serving 7 million people & expanded to Burkina Faso. She led the creation of the 5-year strategic plan (2022-2026) that ensures LG continues to save lives at scale through country-led digitally enabled CH programs. Liz has 30 yrs of experience from private & not for profit sectors. Born in Zambia & living in PNG as a teenager, she is passionate about making a lasting difference at scale. She strongly believes in partnering with others to solve big problems with urgency, learning as you go, failing fast & adjusting until you get it right & developing African leaders.

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• Rintu Thomas

  Delegate

  Sundance Filmmaker, Individual

  Rintu Thomas is an independent documentary director-producer from India and co-founder Black Ticket Films, an award-winning creative agency based in New Delhi. She is a 2018 Sundance Institute|Bertha Foundation Fellow and a Sundance Stories of Change Fellow, 2019. Her work is supported by IDFA, the Tribeca Film Institute, Chicken and Egg Pictures, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Bertha Foundation, Sorfond and the Japan Foundation. A recipient of numerous awards, including the President’s Medal in India, Rintu enjoys producing films that have the power to create social impact and transformation. Over the last 10 years, her films have ranged on from themes of environment, public health, women's rights, sustainable resilience of local communities towards climate change, among others. These films have travelled to film festivals across the world, are being used as advocacy tools for social impact, are included in the curriculum of global universities and showcased at global forums like the United Nations Climate Change Conference – becoming catalysts for new conversations. Rintu loves bookshops, dogs and seashores.

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• Ricardo Gorodisch

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  Founder and Director, Fundacion Kaleidos

  Ricardo is the President of Fundación Kaleidos, an Argentine foundation established in 2000. He is also on the Advisory Board of EQC Impact Investment, Impact Bridge, and Greenwood Place. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Fundacion Kaleidos focuses on gender equality, education, access to health, and early childhood development. Jakairá, a project developed in collaboration with the Swiss foundation Children Action, works with vulnerable adolescent mothers and fathers and their babies. After two decades, our current challenge is to scale up to a national level. For this reason, in 2022 we launched RedMAPA to develop a national network of organizations and to strengthen the bridge with the public sector to promote the well-being of adolescent mothers and fathers and the development of their children on a broader scale.

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• Rick Parnell

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  CEO, Foundation for Climate Restoration

  Executive, advocate, team builder, and optimist, Rick Parnell has leveraged his unique skillset to help the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) pursue concrete and scalable climate restoration solutions. Rick came to F4CR after 16 years with the United Nations Foundation, where he designed the Foundation’s partnership model and put together a team of over 300 committed individuals from across the U.S. and around the world. Under his leadership, the Foundation raised more than $2.2 billion to help the UN solve a range of global challenges, including the deterioration of our climate.

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• Sybill Kern

  Delegate

  Board member, Peter Möhrle Foundation

  Peter Möhrle Stiftung

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• Richard Greenberg

  Delegate

  Managing Director, Social Enterprise Finance, US International Development Finance Corporation

  Richard Greenberg is Managing Director of the Office of Catalytic Investments at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.

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• Rejane Woodroffe

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  Director, Bulungula Incubator

  Réjane is the Director and a co-founder of the Bulungula Incubator (BI), a rural development organization in South Africa. With nearly 20 years of work in rural areas, BI focuses on integrated development strategies in education, health, sustainable livelihoods, and youth acceleration. Her 11-year career in finance culminated in the ABSIP Economist of the Year award. She shifted to the non-profit sector, accruing 13 years of experience, and received the John P. McNulty prize and the 2019 British Council Global Social Impact award. Réjane, an economist and CFA charterholder, holds a Business Science degree from UCT and a Master's in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, UK. She's a Skoll Fellow and part of the Africa Leadership Initiative in the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). Réjane serves on several non-profit boards, including Friends of Bulungula, DataDrive2030, and Equality Collective. She was appointed to board of Aeon Investment Management in 2023.

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• Regina Agyare

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  Fellow, Ashoka - West Africa Office

  Regina is the CEO of Soronko Solutions. She just opened the first coding and human-centered design school for children and adults called Soronko Academy. She was just awarded the 2018 AFS Active Global Citizen Award for her contributions to global competence education and a winner of the Challenging Norms, Powering Economies initiative by Ashoka, Un Women and Open Society Foundations for work to challenge gender norms in women’s economic empowerment She recently spoke at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and on closing the gender gap in computer science. She also spoke at Brookings Institute in Washington DC on Advancing Female entrepreneurship in Africa. She is an ambassador and mentor for thecamp, first European campus dedicated to emerging technology and social innovation. She is listed as one of BBC 100 most inspirational and innovative women for 2017.She was also recently interviewed by Bishop TD Jakes. She was awarded the 2017 Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Emerging Global Leaders Award and awarded by Coca Cola in the Coca Cola young achievers award as one of the big six and a leader in technology. She was also unveiled as the 2016 Vlisco Brand Ambassador. She won Startup Entrepreneur of the year and Soronko Solutions won Social Start-up of the year for 2016 at the Ghana Startup Awards. She was featured on CNN as one the 12 inspirational women who rock STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). She was named as one of the six women making an impact in Tech in Africa and one of 10 female entrepreneurs to watch in emerging economies. She was awarded Young Entrepreneur of the year by the GPA Awards from Africa 2.0 and JCI Ghana Outstanding Young Person award for scientific and technological advancement. Soronko Solutions was nominated for the editor’s choice award in the Women in IT award in the UK. She was featured on CNN African Voices,CNN African Startups ,BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle and Aljazeera. She is an Ashoka Fellow.

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• Rebeca Rocha

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  Director of Special Projects, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

  Responsible for develop and expand ANDE's strategic projects globally and in the regions. Prior to that, led the ANDE Brazil Chapter from 2012-2018. In the past years worked with impact investing, social business, metrics and acceleration topics, leading projects and research in the field. Rebeca has a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the Catholic University of Pernambuco and a Master’s Degree in Globalisation, Business and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

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• Rayah Algheithy

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  Fellow, Individual

  Currently pursuing Master in Business Analytics and Social Entrepreneurship at University of New South Wales. Co-founder of Our Family Development Organisation, a non-profit in Saudi Arabia that focuses on elevating families out of poverty through Education programs. Co-founder of Peak-A-Box, an educational solution for easy early childhood development education to be used for children in refugee camps. Work as an Educational Counsellor at Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

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• Rakesh Rajani

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  Vice President, Programs, Co-Impact

  Rakesh Rajani brings three decades of experience in human rights, education, governance and philanthropy in his role as Vice President, Programs at Co-Impact. Until 2018, he served as the Director of Civic Engagement and Government at the Ford Foundation, responsible for US and global programs on democratic participation, taxes and budgets, and protecting civic space. Previously he founded and served as the Head of Twaweza, an East African organization that promotes citizen agency and open government, and led the establishment of Uwezo, Africa’s largest program to assess basic literacy and numeracy. Prior to that he served as the founding executive director of HakiElimu, Tanzania’s leading citizen engagement and education advocacy organization. Rakesh is also a founding member and past co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, which seeks to restore the social compact between people and governments in over 75 countries covering more than two billion people. He has played key roles in establishing several civil society and media platforms in Tanzania, and consulted on global development for Google.org, the Hewlett Foundation, Hivos and UNICEF, among others. Rakesh serves on several non-profit boards, including the Hewlett Foundation, the International Budget Partnership (IBP), and Innovations in Poverty Action (IPA), and is an advisor to the Luminate, part of the Omidyar Group. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and has been a Fellow at Harvard University. Rakesh holds a master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Literature from Brandeis University. He graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has written and edited over 400 papers and popular publications in English and Swahili. He lives with his independently minded children and wife in New York and is reportedly a very capable house-husband.

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• Rainier Mallol

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  President, Aime

  Rainier Mallol is a young Dominican businessman of 27 years. Mallol is known as the President of AI4Good, a social enterprise that provides artificial intelligence services and products for social impact, with projects in the areas of Public Health (predicting outbreaks of diseases), Agriculture & Aquaculture (creating optimal environments for offspring) , and Civil Society (Creating platforms that reduce juvenile pregnancy and child marriage). Under the leadership of Mallol, his company AI4Good positively impacts the lives of more than 30 million people in Latin American and Asian countries. Rainier is also one of the Young Leaders of the United Nations Organization, having an advocacy role for the 2030 Agenda. As a speaker, Rainier has shared his experiences with organizations such as NASA, Harvard University, MIT, the Clinton Foundation, the OAS, Georgia Tech, and others.

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• Puja Balachander

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  Master of Business Administration, Saïd Business School

  I'm a social impact designer following the lead of vulnerable communities to help them solve their most intractable problems. Throughout my career, I've worked on designing sustainable, equilibrium-shifting solutions with end-users including foster youth, seniors, recent immigrants, minorities, people experiencing homelessness, veterans, Indian youth living in rural and urban poverty, and Malagasy subsistence farmers. Working with users in their language and on their turf is an integral part of my design philosophy; therefore I've practiced and taught design in French, Hindi and Tamil (I'm working on Spanish), all over the US, India, and Madagascar. I'm now an MBA candidate at Saïd Business School, and am co-founding Devie, a social enterprise that aims to improve access to quality early childhood development. We are doing this via an AI based chatbot coach that helps caregivers foster their children's development at home. Devie supports parent wellbeing, empathetically nudges parents to practice research based behaviors that further their goals, and connects parents to community resources that help fill systemic gaps.

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• Priti Bhattarai

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  Director of Programs, Perennial

  Priti is the Director of Programs for Perennial, where she oversees the coordination and administration of all aspects of ongoing programs, including planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and delivering program activities. She is passionate about helping build global communities through mutual understanding, love, and connection. Prior to joining Perennial, Priti was in Nepal working with grassroots NGOs on issues concerning education and gender equity. Her work entailed creating awareness amongst the communities in rural Nepal about issues concerning both health and education, whilst striving for change in the country’s education policy. She has also worked in implementing advocacy programs as part of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Policy and Advocacy team. In addition to working at Perennial, Priti currently serves on the board of Rukmini Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on girls’ education and empowerment in Nepal. She is also the co-founder of GreenValue US, a social enterprise that imports fair trade, recycled paper handmade by marginalized women of rural communities in Nepal. She holds a BA degree from the University of Liverpool in International Business and Finance, and a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics in NGOs and Development, with a focus on social policy and gender and development. Originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, Priti grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She studied and worked in England for eight years before relocating to the US, where she lived in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Priti currently feels at home in Seattle, amidst the snow-capped mountains, which reminds her of the Himalayas.

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• Preethi Nallu

  Speaker

  Migration Analyst, Acting Director at The Signals Network; Founding Editor at Refugees Deeply, NewsDeeply

  Preethi Nallu is a writer, researcher, film-maker and advocacy specialist from India, and the founding editor of News Deeply's independent media platform about forced migration. Born in Iran, raised in India, with a career spanning 13 countries across the globe, she has researched, reported and led global campaigns about humanitarian and human rights issues, including migration and returns of refugees; gender and children's rights; freedom of expression and media reforms. Preethi has worked for mainstream media outlets and global think tanks, and led multimedia campaigns, advocacy and "research visualization" for the UN and international humanitarian agencies - most recently, the Norwegian Refugee Council.

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• Piper Spindle

  Delegate

  Unknown, Individual

  Member of the United States Naval Academy Class of 2023

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• Philip Carroll

  Delegate

  Senior Manager, Health Advocacy, Johnson & Johnson

  Head of advocacy and communications for Johnson & Johnson's Global Community Impact organization.

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• Peter Tibigambwa

  Delegate

  Regional Director, African Prisons Project

  I joined African Prisons Project in February 2013 and I am currently the Regional Director. I have many years’ experience working as a multi-disciplinary professional including program planning, design and management, monitoring and evaluation, IT training and staff capacity building. I am passionate about using my skills and expertise to contribute to criminal justice reform which is fair, just and accessible to everyone regardless of their gender, age, socioeconomic or legal status. As Regional Director, I am responsible for overseeing strategic and key operations across East Africa including influencing the criminal justice system and actors to promote, uphold and fulfill the rights of access to justice for prisoners. I have notably led our work to recognition as best partner and collaborator with Justice, Law and Order actors in Uganda, held the first TED events in East African prisons, and with my team supported more than 6,000 prisoners. More than 80% of our clients have been reunited with their families.

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• Paula Wachter

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  Founder and Director, Red por la Infancia

  Paula Wachter is the Founder and Director of Fundación Red por la Infancia, the social organization she founded in order to promote a comprehensive approach to violence against women and children. Social entrepreneur of Ashoka, is also a member of the Global Alliance to End Violence Against Children of the World Health Organization. Her work was distinguished with the first prize for social innovation in Human Rights in Latin America by Ashoka Changemakers and Ford Foundation. Paula has been promoting significant legislative and public policy changes during the past decade. Accomplishments: Canada Fund Grantee 2015 Ashoka Fellow 2016 Ford Foundation Grantee 2016 International Service for Human Rights fellow 2017 INSPIRE Working Group and Committee Member 2018 Member of the Global Alliance to End Violence Against Children Keynote Speaker for civil society at the 35th Human Rights Council Session, UN Independent expert at Argentina’s UPR Pre Sessions, UN INSPIRE Advisory Board member and Working Group, an initiative from the The World Health Organization (WHO) to end violence against children, in collaboration with the CDC, PAHO, PEPFAR, Together for Girls, UNICEF, UNODC, USAID and the World Bank (agencies with a long history of galvanizing a consistent, evidence-based approach to preventing violence against children). Member of the Argentine National Advisory Committee created by Law 27.210 on Public policies on Gender Violence

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• Paul William

  Delegate

  Co-founder, Nil Gallery

  28 years old co-founder of the Paris based contemporary art gallery Nil Gallery. Manager and gallerist of Prince Gyasi.

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• Kathara Green

  Delegate

  Chief of Staff and Managing Director , Skoll Foundation

  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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• Scarlett Robertson

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  Coordinator, Creative Partnerships, Sundance Institute

  Scarlett began her career in journalism and comes to Sundance from the Open Society Foundation, where she worked in both the Communications department and the Burma Program. She manages all aspects of Sundance Institute’s Creative Partnerships including Stories of Change, a partnership with the Skoll Foundation, and the BBC World Service/Sundance Nonfiction Audio Collaboration. She has also supported the Sundance/CNEX labs in Beijing and Sundance Institute/Knight Foundation artist development programs in cities around the U.S. She also holds a staff advisory role with the Sundance Documentary Fund. Scarlett holds an MA in journalism from Syracuse University.

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• Pankaj Sharma

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  Executive Director - Transform Schools, Transform Schools, People for Action

  Pankaj Vinayak Sharma, co-founded and leads Transform Schools since 2019. An award winning growth stage not-for-profit Transform has proven impact on quality of education in India. He built the organisation ground up, with a strong board, advisors and a skilled leadership team. Transform works in four states of India with arms in New Delhi and London & its work till date impacts 6.2 million children. Pankaj's leadership, management and governance experience spans over two decades with international development organisations in Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, Livelihoods, Child Rights and Humanitarian Assistance sectors. He was the Country Head of Kusuma Foundation until December 2018. His past leadership roles have been at CARE, Project Concern International, India, University of Manitoba & Karnataka Health Promotion Trust. Building upon the work of Transfrom Schools, he aims to impact the education and lives of 20M children by 2025.

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• Pamela Anyoti

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  Builder's of Africa's Future, African Diaspora Network

  Pamela Anyoti Peronaci Founding Partner of Sunshine Agro Products and Owner and CEO of Asante Mama Pamela Anyoti Peronaci is a Uganda with Italian citizenship. Founding Partner of Sunshine Agro Products and Owner and CEO of Asante Mama signature Brand which won the 2017 Eco Excellence Awards in the US as 'Most Socially Responsible' brand and named by EVOX TV as a 'Life Changing Brand'. She graduated in Political Science and International Law and later earned her MSc in Agricultural Economics from University of London Wye College (now Imperial College). She is a Social Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in both Agricultural Policy and International Trade. She worked for several years in FAO in Rome before establishing her own Social Enterprise in Uganda where she currently engages over 11,000 farm families in contract farming.

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• Padmaja Sathyamoorthy

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  Vice President of Technology and Digital Transformation, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Pablo Barrera

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  Curator, TEDx

  For over 15 years, Pablo Barrera has been a leader and a innovator in the cybersecurity industry in Guatemala. You may know him for his work as the Director of Cybersecurity Services at ES, but also as the curator for the TEDxGuatemalaCity event. Pablo has been involved in the academic area teaching and giving conferences in different universities and countries. Pablo believes that education is the path for a better world, he invests his time in his business, his family and his causes.

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• Omer Imtiazuddin

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  Senior Advisor, Innovative Finance, United States Agency for International Development

  Omer Imtiazuddin has over 20 years of experience in the commercial and impact investing sectors. He is currently a Senior Advisor in Innovative Finance at USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact. Prior to this he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Yunus Social Business, an impact investment fund, piloting a new innovative financing product called the Social Success Note to provide clean water to over 1.4 million children in Uganda in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. Before that he was a Senior Advisor at Grand Challenges Canada, a $225 million global health initiative funded by the Canadian government where he led their Scaling Up and Financial Innovations platforms and served as Chair of their Investment Committee. He has also been the Global Health Portfolio Manager at Acumen, a social venture capital fund, where he was jointly responsible for $100 million of committed capital and served on the boards of 7 portfolio companies. Before joining Acumen, Omer worked at the IFC in the Grassroots Business Fund leading their Youth and Informal Enterprise initiative. He also has experience in private equity as one of five investment professionals managing Barnard & Co., a $2 billion venture capital fund. Prior to that he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Omer has advised on numerous global health and impact investing task forces, has lectured at Wharton, Duke and MIT business schools and been cited in mainstream media including the Financial Times. Omer received his BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Oksana Oracheva

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  General Director, Vladimir Potanin Foundation

  Oksana Oracheva is General Director of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation. She keeps strategic programs, partnerships and operations on track, fosters innovative thinking, oversees programs and projects development and is responsible for the Foundation’s international activities and global partnerships. Oksana is member of the Council on Guardianship under the Government of the Russian Federation. Oksana was chair of the Governing Council of the Russian Donors Forum. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2010 Oksana served as Russia Program Director of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program at Moscow office of the Institute of International Education. In 1999–2000 she was an editor of the bi-weekly Russian Regional Bulletin published by East-West Institute Moscow Center. Oksana is a political scientist and has over 20 years of work experience in non-profit sector. Since 1989 she has been teaching different courses on Political History and Political Science. She has written extensively on federalism, center-periphery relations and good governance. Oksana holds a MSocSc in Political Science degree of the University of Birmingham (UK) and a PhD in Political History from Perm State University (Russia) and did research as a Visiting Professor at Yale University. Oksana is a winner of Fulbright and Chevening Scholarship awards.

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• Sandy Clark

  Delegate

  WCDCO, Days for Girls International

  Beginning in the early eighties, I set out to walk a life of purpose. This started me down a path that went from teaching low-income women trade skills, while moonlighting as a firefighter, to serving as a policy adviser to the Governor of Washington, raising funds and building awareness for an international Skoll award winning NGO, Landesa, and directing Grameen Foundation’s philanthropy initiatives. Now with over three decades working for local and international NGOs, my vast experience and networks has allowed me to continue this passion by expanding Days for Girls’ program reach and mission. An organization that has reached over 2 million women and girls with mensural products and health education. When not talking about periods, I also serve as a trustee for a girls school in Humla, Nepal, and read Sesame Street books to my grandchildren. Days for Girls is a two-time Girl Effect Champion, a Global Giving Girl Fund winner, 2015 recipient of the SEED award for gender equity and entrepreneurship, and a Huffington Post ‘Next Ten’ organization poised to change the world in the next decade. Visit our website at daysforgirls.org to learn more or contact me about ways to partner.

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• Nthabeleng Lephoto

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  Managing Director, Touching Tiny Lives

  My name is Nthabeleng Lephoto, Managing Director for Touching Tiny Lives since 2005. I am a native of the remote, rural district of Mokhotlong and have worked with local non-governmental organizations in since 1998. The opportunity to serve and help my community to overcome the combined challenges of HIV/AIDS and poverty has motivated my commitment to working with non-governmental organizations focused on community development. In 2013, I received Ford Motor Company International Fellowship of 92nd Street Y.

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• Noreen Masiiwa Huni

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Repssi

  Noreen Huni has been the leader of REPSSI (the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative), a small regional NGO with an enormous footprint in East and Southern Africa, for most of its seventeen years of existence. She has led the NGO through four strategic phases, to becoming the leading proponent of psychosocial support (PSS) as an enabler of social, education and health outcomes for children and youth. This has included establishing qualifications in PSS that are offered through distance learning across the region; developing easy to use resources to mobilize communities that are used widely around the globe and being a leading advocate for children affected by HIV and for child and youth development in Africa and beyond. She has over 15 years’ work experience in the field of child and youth development. In November 2018, Noreen was bestowed the Klaus Jacobs Foundation ‘Social Innovation & Social Change’ award. Noreen is spearheading the establishment of the Africa Psychosocial Support Institute (APSSI) as a social enterprise, to become the globally recognized hub for child and youth psychosocial and mental wellbeing in Africa. APSSI will foster professionalism and excellence in the provision of PSS and mental health for children and youth in Africa.

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• Nokuthula Maseko

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  Executive Director, Siphilile Maternal & Child Health

  Nokuthula G Maseko is the Executive Director of Siphilile Maternal & Child Health, an organization that works to improve maternal and child health and nutrition; through the implementation of a community-based Mentor Mother program in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland. She provides strategic leadership across the organization to ensure the delivery of quality services in the communities. Prior to working for Siphilile, Nokuthula served as a Public Private Partnership Coordinator of a Mobile Clinic, under the alliance health initiative between Matsapha Municipality, USAID, PEPFAR, Conco and the Government of the Kindgdom of Eswatini. Nokuhula has worked for Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital, The Family Life Association of Swaziland, Sexual Reproductive Health Unit in the Ministry of Health (in a UNICEF supported project for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV), and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation. Nokuthula has passion for Sexual Reproductive Health, including maternal and child health. She is a State Registered Nurse Midwife who holds a Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management)

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• Noha El-Ghobashy

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  Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transformative Technologies

  Noha is the CEO for the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT) whose mission is to develop breakthrough technologies and spin-off businesses to address issues affecting low-income communities. ITT’s portfolio spans energy access, sanitation, food security, and health. She also serves as President of Oxygen Hub, an initiative of ITT. Prior to ITT, Noha served as founder and president of Engineering for Change and Executive Director of the ASME Foundation. Noha earned her BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and has two U.S. patents. She served as Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and currently chairs the External Advisory Board of Columbia University's Mechanical Engineering department. In 2013 she was named the recipient of the American Association of Engineering Societies’ Roe Award and was selected as one of New as one of New York Business of Influence. She has appeared on NPR’s The Takeaway and published in Fast Company.

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• Zach Slobig

  Delegate

  Writer and Editor, The Bridgespan Group

  Zach Slobig is a member of the editorial team at The Bridgespan Group. Prior to joining Bridgespan, he was the Writer and Editor at the Skoll Foundation and worked across its many initiatives. Previously, he worked on the staffs of Agence-France Presse, WIRED, National Public Radio, and GOOD. Before his career in journalism, he served both with City Year and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. He is a product of California’s public higher education system: Masters of Journalism from UC Berkeley, BA in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude from UCLA, and he got his start at mighty little Santa Monica College. Zach is drawn to stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. He has written documentary news features and story-edited independent documentaries that have screened internationally. In 2009 he co-wrote 180˚ South, a feature film about a Pan-American adventure and the quest for conservation from California to Patagonia. Shortly after, he and his wife traced a similar path down the entire Pacific coastline in a pickup truck loaded with camping gear and surfboards. They now live with their young daughter in the westernmost sandy fringes of San Francisco.

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• Nisha Ligon

  Delegate

  CEO, Ubongo Edutainment

  Nisha Ligon is Co-Founder and CEO of Ubongo, Africa's leading kids' edutainment company. Ubongo's popular animated series Akili and Me and Ubongo Kids show in 31 countries in Africa with a monthly audience of over 11 million kids. Nisha is a social entrepreneur with a background in media and science, and a passion for education. She has produced content for the BBC, the Guardian, online learning platforms, and an award winning documentary, Twiga Stars. She was formerly Head of Content at FuseSchool. She has an MSc. from Imperial College London and a B.S. from Yale. At Ubongo, she’s lead visionary, strategist, executive producer/ screenwriter, fundraiser and does whatever else it takes to get Ubongo's products made, tested and released to kids!

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• Niklas Adalberth

  Delegate

  Founder, Norrsken Foundation

  Co-founder Klarna, founder Norrsken Foundation

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• Yawa Hansen-Quao

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Emerging Public Leaders

  Yawa Hansen-Quao is a visionary leader whose career intersects with the values and goals of Emerging Public Leaders. For nearly a decade, she has nurtured female leadership and social entrepreneurship in Africa through the Leading Ladies Network (LLN), a nonprofit she founded in Ghana. Through the Leading Ladies Network, Yawa has fostered an ecosystem of women and girls who have ambitious goals, strong character and resolve to serve as impactful leaders in business, civil society, and government. In May 2012, at the World Economic Forum on Africa, Yawa was recognized as one of Africa’s Rising Leaders and in 2016 was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship in honor of her pioneering work nurturing emerging women leaders. In addition to being a founder, speaker, and author, Yawa served for three years on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community; and is a current member of the Board of Directors of Ashesi University College; a leading liberal arts university in Ghana. She previously served as a leadership consultant to UN Women helping to develop leadership curricula to enhance the capacity of women leaders in East and Southern Africa. Additionally, Yawa served for two years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Women's Institute for Global Leadership at Benedictine University. Yawa holds a MA in Gender, Peace & Security from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, Honors studies in Entrepreneurship & New Product Development at the American University of Rome, and a BSc in Business Administration from Ashesi University College.

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• Nikki Gravning

  Delegate

  Partnerships Lead, Ashoka UK

  Ashoka believes the world needs all citizens to be empowered to create positive change. We identify and cultivate system-changing social entrepreneurs solving deep-rooted social problems. We support them through the Ashoka Fellowship, which is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs. We learn from the patterns in their innovation to mobilize a global changemaking community to transform institutions, systems and cultures worldwide.

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• Yasmin Waljee

  Delegate

  Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

  Yasmin Waljee OBE has been key to establishing and embedding a pro bono culture within Hogan Lovells. The objective is to deliver an outstanding pro bono service to charities, individuals and social enterprises in need who would not otherwise be able to afford such advice. Yasmin helped the firm achieve this by designing and implementing pro bono projects which draw on the firm's commercial legal knowledge and skills to produce measurable outcomes nationally and internationally. Yasmin is an international human rights lawyer and has advised on issues relating to compensation for victims of crime and terrorism including the July 7 bombing victims, the right to life, and regularly works on public policy issues in this area. Yasmin co-leads the firm's award-winning social enterprise and social finance practice. She is the firm's International Pro Bono Partner.

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• Nicole Wilett

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  Deputy Director for Program Advocacy and Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Nicole Wilett is Deputy Director for Program Advocacy and Communications at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leading the gender equality and family planning portfolios. In this role Ms. Wilett leads policy, advocacy, and communications strategies for Melinda Gates’ priority work in the world’s poorest nations. Previously, Ms. Wilett was Senior Vice President for Africa at the Albright Stonebridge Group. In these roles, Ms. Wilett has drawn on the breadth of her previous experience within the U.S. government foreign policy architecture, including at the National Security Council, the U.S. State Department, and the U.S. Senate, where she has long focused on international democracy and governance, human rights, development, and security issues. Previously, Ms. Wilett served as a Senior Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), where she managed oversight of U.S. policy on global health and Africa. Ms. Wilett served twice as Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council, where she coordinated U.S. policy across key national security agencies. Ms. Wilett was Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa. She has served in a variety of other capacities at the Department of State, including her long tenure in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where she managed portfolios in South Asia and Africa and deployed to several U.S. missions. She was also a foreign policy fellow for Senator Hillary Clinton. Before joining the State Department, Ms. Wilett worked for several non-profit organizations, including the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and on domestic campaigns. She has an M.P.A. from Indiana University, where she also concentrated in African studies, and a B.A. from Syracuse University in psychology and women’s studies.

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• William Orum

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  Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

  William Orum is a Partner and member of the Investment Committee of Capricorn Investment Group. He joined the Firm in 2004 and has been based in its New York office since 2008. William has primary responsibility for leading marketable investments, portfolio construction, and risk management across asset classes. Prior to Capricorn, he was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in their global industries group focused on corporate finance and M&A advisory for technology clients. William received a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

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• Nickhil Jakatdar

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  Board Member - GenePathDx, Individual

  Nickhil is the founder and CEO of Vuclip, a video entertainment service (operating under the brand name Viu) with more than 20M active users consuming more than 1 billion hours of content, including Viu Originals (our own produced shows), across India, South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa. Nickhil has helped raised more than $300M in capital from top-tier investors, including NEA, Singtel, Temasek, Foxconn, and PCCW. Before that, Nickhil was COO and Board Member of Praesagus, where he worked closely with the founding team to commercialize their Ph.D. thesis at MIT into a product that is in use across the top chip design and manufacturing companies and eventually sold it to Cadence Design Systems. Prior to that, Nickhil co-founded Timbre Technologies based on his Ph.D. thesis and helped make it into an industry standard that is, 20 year later, the algorithm of choice for state of the art semiconductor manufacturing companies. Nickhil is the co-author of more than 60 patents, an IEEE award, more than 20 conference and journal publications and multiple awards for entrepreneurship. He has helped steer more than 20 companies as an investor, Advisory Board or Board Member. He interests include soccer, magic, and poker. He currently is a Board Member at GenePath Dx.

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• Wade Zamechek

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  Director, African Leadership Academy

  Wade Zamechek is the Vice President of Development at the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. ALA focuses on providing educational programs for young Africans to develop the next generation of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders. Wade brings over 20 years of nonprofit experience, having worked with organizations like Village Health Works, Covenant House, Salvation Army, and New York Blood Center. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from New York University and a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management from the New School University.

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• Neville Gabriel

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  CEO, Other Foundation

  Neville is the founding chief executive officer of the Other Foundation, a community foundation that advances human rights in southern Africa. He was the founding executive director of the Southern Africa Trust, an independent regional funding agency that supports deeper and wider policy engagement between governments and non-state actors to overcome poverty in southern Africa. He is the chairperson of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the chairperson of the Open Society Foundations’ Africa regional advisory committee, a member of the Africa policy advisory board of Bono’s ONE campaign, a former trustee of the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), and a senior fellow of the Synergos Institute.

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• Vu Dinh

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  Director, Program Management-Investment, Skoll Foundation

  Vu serves as Director, Program Management-Investment, particularly engaging with sourcing & selecting new Skoll Awardees, co-leading Community Support initiatives, and supervising the teams' Program Coordinators who form the core operational execution of the team. Prior to joining Skoll, he managed an SAT prep academy, providing guidance and counseling to parents and students on their path towards higher education, targeted towards first generation immigrant families. He has also worked in finance, real estate management and accounting. Vu has been actively involved within the Vietnamese American community, serving on the executive board of a regional nonprofit aimed at fostering cultural awareness, youth leadership and civic engagement. Vu earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA, and is the proud father of 3 young children, currently residing in Houston, TX.

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• Vladyslav Greziev

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  TEDxKyiv Organizer, TEDx

  CEO & Founder of social entrepreneurship, employment platform and recruiting agency – Lobby X. Licensee of TEDxKyiv. Founder of ChangeMakers Networkings series in Ukraine. Supervisory board head at Svidomi Media.

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• Robb Stevenson

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  Commissions Editor, BBC Business, British Broadcasting Corporation

  Digital and Commissions Editor for BBC Business. Looking after TV, radio and digital output , focusing on the intersection between news and social media

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• Natasha Nissar

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  Board Member, MEST

  Natasha has been part of the Meltwater organisation for almost 11 years now, with experience in business development across the Middle East and Africa, Asia and other international markets. Natasha has been Chief of Staff at Meltwater for the past 6 years and has worked very closely with the Founder & CEO on many strategic projects for the business. She also helped build and launch SHACK15, a technology hub and social space of entrepreneurs, founders, start-ups and VCs in San Francisco. In addition, Natasha sits on the board of Meltwater’s non-profit arm – Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST). Natasha is passionate about bridging the gap between Silicon Valley and Africa, and through her work with SHACK15 and MEST, aims to help increase engagement and investment opportunities between the two regions. At MEST, in addition to being a board member, Natasha is passionate about recruiting and bringing on board the next generation of global software entrepreneurs in Africa from across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ivory Coast. With the foundation of solid talent and a strong culture, MEST now has a portfolio of over 40 companies they have invested in spanning across eCommerce, fintech, Agritech, SaaS etc. She continues to be actively involved in the growth of the training program and development of the entrepreneurs-in-training. Natasha has a Bachelor of Science with a major in Psychology and a double minor in Spanish and Women & Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, Canada, a Master of Science in Organisational Psychology from the University of Nottingham,UK and a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Business from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

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• Veronica Colondam

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  Founder & CEO, Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB)

  Founded YCAB Foundation (1999) as the flagship organisation in YCAB social enterprise. With a mission to break generational poverty, YCAB uses financial inclusion as an instrument to enable education by making education the precondition to capital. Impact to date, 5 million youth & women. Through its investment arm, YCAB Ventures makes early stage investments in impact companies that can strengthen & contribute to the mission. Consultative status with the UN-ECOSOC since 2016; ranked 29th in the Top 200 NGO in the World (Geneva, 2022). MSc. from Imperial College London. Alumni of the WEF’s YGL programs in Harvard (2009) & Yale (2014); SE Fellows at MIT & INSEAD & Impact Investing (Oxford). Author and speaker; A Schwabee 2012; Forbes’ 48 Asian Philanthropist 2015; Asia’s Top Superwomen 2021; honoured with 2 United Nations awards (Vienna 2001; New York 2017). An Independent Commissioner of the largest MFi: PT. PNM Indonesia (2018-2023) & currently serves as AVPN Chair.

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• Narges Baniasadi

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  Investor and Advisor, Zinc.vc

  Narges Baniasadi is an entrepreneur, board member, and investor in Health Tech and Social Impact companies. She is interested in opportunities to empower entrepreneurs to create and grow mission-led businesses driven by science and scaled through technology. Previously, she started and built the successful Bioinformatics company Bina, out of a decade of research at Stanford University and UC Berkeley to accelerate the science of DNA Sequencing. She sold her company to Roche in 2014 where she served as Vice President of Informatics until last year.

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• Vanessa Kerry

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Seed Global Health

  Dr. Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit that focuses on the power of investing in health and the health workforce for social well-being, economic growth, equity which transforms countries. Through partnership with governments and in-country academic institutions, under Vanessa’s tenure Seed has helped train more than 20,000 doctors, nurses and midwives and has impacted hundreds of thousands of lives. Seed's impact is rooted in its unique leveraging model that not only provides better care to patients, but also trains future generations, supports the health sector and catalyzes change in the health system. Dr. Kerry’s work has been featured at conferences, in print, online and media including the Aspen Ideas Festival, the United Nations, the World Health Assembly, NPR, PBS, MSNBC and Marie Claire, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times and The Lancet. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, completing her clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her Master’s in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London Schools of Economics and of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently a critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and serves as the Associate Director of Partnerships and Global Initiatives at MGH Global Health. She directs the Global Public Policy and Social Change program at Harvard Medical School where she has focused on links between security and health. She is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She as awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Public Policy from Northeastern University in 2015. She was recently appointed to the prestigious President’s Council for International Activities at Yale University, as a Global Advisor to the Wellbeing Foundation Africa. She is the mother of a six- and nine- year old.

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• Renee Kaplan

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  Chief Executive Officer, The Philanthropy Workshop

  Renee Kaplan is the CEO of TPW (The Philanthropy Workshop), leading a community of 450 global social investors to unlock resources and accelerate impact. She has more than 20 years of business experience in corporate, entrepreneurial, and philanthropy sectors. Prior to TPW she was the Chief Strategy & Programs Officer for the Skoll Foundation where she oversaw the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll World Forum, strategic alliances, marketing & communications, and issue intelligence programs. Her professional background includes eight years at Microsoft in corporate and international marketing—working directly with executive leadership and spending considerable time in India, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Following Microsoft, she was founder and CEO of an e-commerce start up, FutureWorkplace, Inc. After selling her business, she spent six years as executive vice president of the Casey Family Programs Foundation, executing a strategic reorganization of the foundation. She was also the principal of RKaplan Consulting and partnered with clients including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Giving Pledge, and the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civic Society. She lives in the Bay Area, California with her husband and two teenage sons and is an avid soccer (futbol!) player.

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• Topher Wilkins

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  CEO, Opportunity Collaboration

  I have been hosting people in collaborative environments for the purposes of social change for two decades. My purpose is to convene and connect nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers, impact investors and all other agents of positive change, thereby building the ecosystem for the social sector and creating greater opportunities for international social and economic justice.

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• Nageeb Sumar

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  Vice President, Philanthropic Strategies, Fidelity Charitable

  Nageeb Sumar is an expert on philanthropy and global development diplomacy, with over 15 years of experience partnering with organizations and philanthropists to create global change. He joined Fidelity Charitable in September 2018 as Vice President of Philanthropic Strategies, partnering with the nation’s most generous donors in their efforts to catalyze social change in the US and abroad. Previously, Nageeb worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's D.C. office, where he oversaw an international team which engaged governments, foundations and philanthropists to improve the overall effectiveness of the charitable sector. From 2009 - 2015, Nageeb spearheaded the Gates Foundation's strategic partnerships with various G20 governments that provide international aid. He acted as the Gates Foundation's lead representative and spokesman in Canada and Australia across all global issue areas, oversaw its partnership with Japan and Korea, and strengthened its partnership with the US government around polio eradication and childhood vaccines. Nageeb began his career at Oxfam America, where he helped develop and train community savings groups. Through his international engagements, he has work experience in 17 countries and foundation grantmaking experience in 9 countries. At Fidelity, Nageeb oversees a team of philanthropic strategists, who guide individuals and families through their philanthropic journeys, consult on domestic and international grant recommendations, and help connect donors with similar charitable goals.

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• Tom Loper

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  Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives, Aspen Institute

  Tommy Loper is passionate about building a better future by bringing people together in meaningful work and relationship. He is Vice President, Office of Operations & Strategic Initiatives, for the Aspen Institute’s Leadership Division. Since joining the Institute in 2008, Tommy has launched multiple endeavors to broaden and deepen Aspen’s mission for a more just, free and equitable world. Such initiatives include supporting the launch of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, founding the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, and co-founding Weave: The Social Fabric Project with David Brooks of the NYTimes. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Tommy worked at two start-up event production agencies and at age 35 was recognized as a top 20 conference producer in the United States on the BizBash 1,000. He serves on the boards of Friends of New Orleans and The Quorum Initiative. Tommy is a graduate of the School of International Service at American University, he studied at La Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, L’Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and most recently participated in Georgetown University’s Nonprofit Executive Management program. Originally from Massachusetts, he resides with his husband Dirk Sellers, in Washington, DC. Tommy is an avid runner, aspiring chef, space enthusiast and dog lover.

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• Nada Majdalani

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  Palestinian Director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Palestinian Director of EcoPeace Middle East M.Sc.in Environmental Assessment and Management from Oxford Brookes University, the UK. Specialized in the field of environmental management, she served in leading technical positions with several international agencies in the areas of infrastructure development, mainly water and sanitation, solid waste management, sustainable and clean production, as well as various tasks related to institutional advisory support &technical assistant to SMEs. As a strong believer in the impact of proactive dialogue that brings parties in conflict closer, she had been part of several affiliation of Palestinian-Israeli youth groups as a moderator and activist including the OneVoice Movement and the Palestinian-Israeli Young Entrepreneurs Forum. She presented before various prestigious international platforms, including the UN Security Council, NATO, Planetary Security Conference, World Water Week, Berlin Climate Security Conference and Brookings Institute.

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• Tom Fry

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  Venture Advisor, Individual

  Tom has over 25 years of professional experience as an operator, investor and advisor in both the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. His current advisory work includes advising institutions and families on optimizing their philanthropic and investing resources for impact; working with social enterprises on building sustainable/impactful organizations; and advancing the field of social entrepreneurship. Tom currently serves on the boards of Genesys Works, Out Teach, Seed Global Health, Strive Together, Raising The Village, Matriculate and the Knowledge Works Foundation. He has served on 24 non-profit boards and advised dozens on non-profit CEOs. Tom received his MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and holds a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Boston College. Tom lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Anu, and enjoys trail-running, cooking, yoga, and international travel.

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• Thomas Feeny

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  Senior Program Director for Scaling Innovation & the IDIA Secretariat, Results for Development Institute

  Tom Feeny has 25 years of international development experience, with significant project management, organizational management and strategy work. He has worked in range of countries Including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Senegal. As a senior program director and manager of the Results for Development office in London, Mr. Feeny leads R4D’s innovation practice and manages a range of programs within this portfolio, including the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) — a collaboration platform bringing together senior innovation executives from the world's largest funders of development innovation. Mr. Feeny also leads a multidisciplinary team from R4D working with a consortium of partners that is delivering Phase 2 of the multi-year Frontier Technologies program funded by the U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office. This global initiative is working to test and accelerate the uptake of a range of technologies within international development policy and practice.

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• Mustafa Mehrim

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  Chief Financial Officer, Dubai Cares

  Mustafa Mehrim Chief Financial Officer Mustafa Mehrim holds a senior strategic role as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) within Dubai Cares since 2009. In his current position, Mehrim oversees all aspects of the organization’s fund management, investments, including the development and management of a multimillion dollar budget and ensuring the financial viability of its global operations. In his 10 years at Dubai Cares, Mehrim has generated significant investment returns for the organization and optimized operating and overhead costs. As CFO, Mehrim also introduced several policies & procedures to improve corporate governance, accountability, ensuring that Dubai Cares can continue to bring quality education to millions of children around the world. A seasoned finance professional, Mehrim possesses more than 2 decades of financial management experience. Prior to joining Dubai Cares, Mehrim worked at Dubai Holdings, where he explored new revenue streams and achieved a three-fold increase in the profitability within his division. Before that, he maximized revenues and financial accountability at a range of companies, including WorldSpace Inc., Al Qadah Trading Company and Satyam Computer Services Ltd. A prodigious professional, Mehrim holds a number of professional qualifications and certifications. He is a chartered accountant certified by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and received his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Institute of Management Studies, DAVV.

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• Randy Belcher

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  President - Fossil Foundation, EVP Asia, Fossil Group, Fossil Foundation

  Randy C. Belcher is currently the Executive Vice President of the Fossil Group based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for leading the Fossil Group’s commercial sales and distribution businesses in the Asia Pacific region, the global supply chain and product development operations based in Asia and the Company’s global sustainability programs. He also is the President of the Fossil Foundation, the Company’s non-profit foundation focused on youth empowerment. Prior to moving to Hong Kong he was the Senior Vice President – Europe based in Switzerland (Basel) where he led Fossil’s EMEA commercial business. Previously Randy worked in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) with Novartis Consumer Health (NCH) as the President of NCH Brazil and Vice President of the Mercosur Region and in Chile (Santiago) as the Managing Director of NCH Chile. He also held financial and general management positions with the Gerber Products Company and Ernst and Young. In addition to his non-profit work with the Fossil Foundation, Randy is a board member of the One Sky Foundation based in Berkeley, Beyond Vision International based in Hong Kong and Soko, Inc. based in San Francisco and Nairobi. He previously served on the board of Helen Keller International based in New York City. Randy received a BS degree from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the University of Miami.

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• Randy Antik

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  CEO, Searching For Solutions Institute

  Randy Antik is CEO of a public foundation which hosts an annual Imagine Solutions Conference in Naples, Florida. Each year we bring two Skoll Award winners to speak to our audience of very influential private sector citizens. We have brought 26 to date. Our audience of 600+ is capable to provide substantial support to Big Ideas. The foundation started 14 years ago - founded by Randy Antik and 20 influential citizens with connections to SW Florida. We address many important subjects - education, science & technology, medicine, great institutions, social innovators, and more. We do not address any political issues and are seen as non-partisan. Randy met Jeff Skoll many years ago and he invited Randy to attend Skoll 12+ years ago.

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• Tarek Alsaleh

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  Founder, RealtimeAid

  LOCALISE AID AND GET RID OF THE MIDDLEMEN Half Syrian, half German entrepreneur, has won lots of international awards & pats on the back. He reckons he will change the aid system (#localisation #tech) so local people get more of the $$$. "Running my own start-up charity was extremely frustrating, In the aid sector, each organization is competing with each other – for money, for visibility... Local initiatives are struggling to survive, worn down by bureaucracy. I want to change this!" Tarek is now a speaker, thinker and advocate for systemic change. As part of his hands on work supporting million + in Syria he piloted tech tools that cuts paperwork, builds trust and visibility and makes localisation of aid a reality. He currently develops a modular ‘Mobile first’ WebApp, adapting reporting standards like the harmonizing reporting template 8+3, reasonable due diligence, decentralised decision making to manage community lead projects.

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• Tara Sabre Collier

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  Consultant, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Tara Sabre Collier is a global strategist, advisor, impact investor and speaker. She is a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University (focusing on impact investment), as well as strategic advisor to impact funds and development finance institutions. She is the Director of Impact Investing at Chemonics UK and leads the ecosystem building for MOBILIST, the UK government's flagship climate finance programme for developing economies. Observing a clear racial and gender equity gap in the impact investment landscape, she is also an angel investor and advisor for various impact start-ups led by under-represented founders. She has over 15 years of international experience across impact investment, international development and management consulting industries. She has worked for the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations, Ernst & Young, Shell Foundation and GroFin Capital, among others.

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• Muhammed Kisirisa

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  CEO, Action for Fundamental Change and Development

  Muhammed Kisirsa-Mo is Founder & CEO of Golden Boots Uganda, an ex-amateur footballer and #SportsPreneur- his passion for sport and changing lives drove him to start up Golden Boots Uganda. The non profit organization which leverages the power of sport to promote a healthy life style, peace, education and create livelihood opportunities for youth in Peri Urban and rural areas of Uganda. Since its foundation in 2019, the organization has supported over 300 young women and youth with disabilities in Uganda. In the past, Mo was formerly Chief Executive at AFFCAD a youthled organization that has impacted millions of urban slum dwellers of Uganda. Since its inception in 2009, Mo led AFFCAD to develop a concrete vision and positioned the organization to receive funding and secure partnerships with local, international and multilateral institutions including EU, DFID, Mastercard Foundation, US department of State among others that increased the organizations capacity and effectiveness. He has actively served Community Service Director for The Rotary-Rotaract Club of Kampala West and member/technical advisor at Kazo Youth Players Association. He has been recognized for his works, In August 2017, he received the Young Achievers Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2016 he was Africa's Regional Finalist, and he received The Commonwealth Youth Award for Excellence in Development Work, 2013, he became the first African and youth to win, The Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award- Conviction. He is an alum of the European Union’s Young Leaders 2015 and the YouthActionNet Global Fellowship Program October 2012, Generation Change Uganda chapter. His work has drawn attention and visits from high-level personalities such as H.E Neven Mimica, Former Commissioner for International Development Cooperation, The European Union, Ms Farah Pandith, Former Advisor Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, and participated in a Televised African Youth Townhall with President Barrack Obama.

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• Mubuso Zamchiya

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  Managing Director, The Luminos Fund

  Mubuso Zamchiya is Managing Director of the Luminos Fund where he oversees strategic partnerships and advocacy. Previously, he led the Global Partnerships team of Ashoka as Senior Vice President, led organizations in the US charter school sector, and worked at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He is a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and a Rhodes Scholar.

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• Nick Scott

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  Managing Director, Independent Diplomat

  Nick Scott is Associate Director, External Relations at Independent Diplomat, working on Western Sahara as well as ID’s fundraising and communications efforts. Nick joined ID in 2012 as an External Relations Associate. Previously, he worked for the Foundation Center – a leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. He previously lived in East Jerusalem, where he worked with Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy, an NGO that promotes active nonviolence and encourages alternatives to violence among youth and adults throughout Palestine. Nick holds BA in History from Rowan University and a MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has written about international affairs for publications including The Huffington Post, openDemocracy, Foreign Policy In Focus, the Foreign Policy Blogs network, The Post Internazionale, and PhilanTopic.

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• Mona Mourshed

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  President and CEO, Generation: You Employed

  Mona Mourshed is the founding CEO of Generation: You Employed, a global nonprofit organization that supports adults to achieve economic mobility through a career. Generation trains and places adult learners into careers that are otherwise inaccessible, delivering sector-leading employment and income results consistently across 18 countries and 40 professions. Since launching in 2015, Generation has 100,000 graduates (of which half are in the last two years) who have earned $1 billion+ in wages. Mona has authored widely cited reports and articles on education, workforce, and social sector impact; and, she previously founded and led McKinsey & Company's global education practice. Mona was selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s ’40 under 40’, sits on the boards of New America, Teach for All, and Last Mile Health, is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mona has a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D from MIT.

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• Mohsin Ali Mustafa

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  Skoll Scholar, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Dr. Mohsin Mustafa is the co-founder and managing director of Clinic5, an affordable health delivery service in Pakistan. Mohsin graduated from the Aga Khan University and chose to pursue public health for the scale of impact that this field offers. He believes that healthcare and the way it’s practiced requires a radical shift. He is a 2015 Asia 21 Young Leader at the Asia Society and a regional fellow at the Acumen fellowship for social entrepreneurs. In 2018 he joined the Harvard School of Public Health as a Bernard Lown Scholar. He dreams of a Pakistan where basic rights are afforded to all and is working towards that dream through his enterprise. He balances the love for his work with his passion for the outdoors and reading books. Mohsin is also a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust Scholar.

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• Mohammad Arsjad Rasjid Prabu Mangkuningrat

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  PRESIDENT DIRECTOR, Indika Energy

  M. Arsjad Rasjid P.M. is the President Director of Indika Energy – one of Indonesia’s largest integrated energy company which he co-founded in 2000. Since then, he has held chairmanship or board positions Indika’s subsidiaries such as Tripatra Engineers & Contractors, Petrosea and Mitrabahtera Segara Sejati, the logistics company. Outside his corporate life, Arsjad is also active in the impact sector where he founded Indika Foundation which promotes peace and tolerance in pluralism. Serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of YCAB Foundation and is an avid impact investor and philanthropist. His portfolio represents his passion in supporting social innovations in the field of education, inclusive financing and volunteer management. Millions have been impacted through his portfolio companies. Studied engineering at University of Southern California (1990), obtained a degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University, USA (1993). Completed the global leadership programs at Harvard Kennedy School & NUS-Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore (2012); Impact Investing at Said Business School, Oxford (2013); Master Class on Leadership and Decision Making, Yale University (2014); INSEAD on International Directors Program (2016). Arsjad is World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader 2011 and was awarded 2010 Best Executive in Indonesia from AsiaMoney.

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• Stuart Davidson

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  Chairman, Sonen Capital

  Stuart Davidson is the Chairman of Sonen Capital, a dedicated impact investment management firm.. In addition to co-founding Sonen, Stuart is a managing partner of Labrador Ventures, a Palo Alto-based early stage technology-focused venture capital fund, which he joined in 1995. He has invested in over a hundred early stage companies and served on numerous boards. He is a founding board member and funder of Acumen Fund where he chairs the investment committee. Prior to Labrador, Stuart founded and served as CEO of Combion, Inc., which was acquired by Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY). and president of Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALKS). Previously, Stuart worked for MCI Communications and for Warner Communications. He Founding Board Chair Emeritus of IDEO.org and Vice-Chair of REDF where he established the Farber program. He is a trustee of the Woodcock Foundation and served as a member of the investment committee of the Skoll Foundation. Stuart is an advisory board member of the Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS),

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• Mitali Ayyangar

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  Community Health Work Lead, DataKind

  Mitali Ayyangar is DataKind's Community Health Work lead and brings her expertise in community engagement, program operations, M&E, and shared learning to DataKind's work. With more than a decade of experience in humanitarian and international development, she's cultivated deep experience in field-based and remote grassroots capacity building, particularly in the area of community health. Before joining DataKind, Mitali served as program manager for community based healthcare and surveillance with Médecins Sans Frontières. She's witnessed the power of data to be transformative and empowering of the most vulnerable in society. Through extensive M&E consulting work, she's also developed a profound appreciation for data-driven insights underpinning actionable, impactful decisions. At DataKind, Mitali works with talented data scientists from around the world to help them become agents of positive change and social impact, most recently managing a team of over 400 volunteers to assess AI projects for social impact from over 2000 organizations.

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• Phil Collis

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  Managing Director Creative Services, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Staci Alexander

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  Director, Thought Leadership, AARP

  Staci Alexander is the Director of Thought Leadership for AARP and works to amplify AARP’s voice in key conversations around longevity, aging and equity. In her role, Staci leads the AARP Thought Leadership agenda with external stakeholders and allies. In this capacity, Staci develops and executes external engagements with both traditional and nontraditional partners to expand the conversation on the future of aging. Staci has a rich history of cultivating partnerships and alliances in support of mission driven goals across the fields of policy development, philanthropy and communication. Staci has worked as a staffer in the United States Senate, as a lobbyist for urban and rural affordable housing development, and as a grant maker. Prior to joining AARP Staci expanded her communications and outreach skills to work with public media as an Assistant Director with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and Senior Associate of the Community Strategies Group for the Aspen Institute. Staci has a MPA from City University of New York, Baruch School of Public Affairs and a BA in political science from Vassar College.

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• Mireya Vargas

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  Director, Centro Lyra

  Mireya is currently a Fellow at The Distinguished Career Institute (DCI) at Stanford University (2019-2020). She has been an Ashoka Fellow since 1998, is the founder of AC Centro Lyra and has been working more recently with a focus on Well-being initiatives in Latin America since 1990. Actually, she is a writer of her personal memoir. She has been doing psychological and sociological research using Jungian psychoanalytic studies and the personal well-being approach applied to social issues. She has been working with Entrepreneurs strengthening their emotional education and inner well-being, and that of their workers and communities. A comprehensive approach to the psychological is seen as a support in the acquisition of a sense of life, wellness, emotional connection and community. She has numerous academic publications in Spanish and English about Poverty, Social change, Personal Well-being and Sustainable Development and more recently she is publishing her Memoir.

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• Mina Lopezlugo

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  Founder & Executive Director, Pro Bono Venture

  Mina worked as Director in several Multinational Corporates and in the Federal Government of México. Convinced on the power of collaborative building Mina changes her career path and founded Pro Bono Venture, a pro bono intermediary and venture philanthropy operator in LATAM to enhance the impact of social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and organizations focused on solving social and environmental problems with the support of pro bono talent and philanthropic investment in Latin America and now in Europe. Mina is a Secretariat member of the Global Pro Bono Network and the Gender Alliance, BMW Foundation Responsible Leader Network Driver, social entrepreneur, mentor, consultant and proudly Mexican.

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• Sonja Betschart

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  Co-Founder and CEO, WeRobotics

  Sonja is a passionate change agent, facilitator, social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow with a longstanding career both in the non-profit and for-profit sectors. She is also the Co-Founder of WeRobotics, a social impact organization that amplifies local expertise to multiply sustainable solutions for development, aid and climate, driven by local actors and supported by appropriate robotics technologies. Together with her colleagues at WeRobotics, she supports and connects local experts in drone, data and AI technologies. By doing so, they are co-creating a proven and replicable model to successfully localize and shift power at a grassroots level. The model supports locally-led organizations with professional development, knowledge exchange and leadership opportunities, creating a self-sustaining movement for systems change. Sonja has also been voted as one of Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise in 2023 and is joining the #FixTheFlow initiative as a fellow in 2024.

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• Peter Bennett

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  Founder/Director, Peter Bennett Foundation

  Pls refer to my bio: Www. Peterbennettfoundation.org

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• Sofia Breitholtz

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  CEO, Reach for Change

  Sofia is passionate about creating partnerships between sectors to drive positive social change. Sofia has worked with the private and public sectors, as well as with civil society. Sofia’s experience ranges from management consulting to development cooperation with the EU. For the past fifteen years, Sofia has dedicated herself to the field of social entrepreneurship through her work as Deputy CEO of a clean water enterprise, her work at Ben & Jerry’s, and through her role as CEO of the not-for-profit Reach for Change. Reach for Change is a global not-for-profit dedicated to early stage social entrepreneurs. Sofia is dedicated to increasing female entrepreneurship and has launched several programs in this field. Sofia has been awarded top 100 female social enterprise leaders in Europe (2021), top sustainability professional by the business journal Aktuell Hållbarhet (2022 and 2020), and been cited as one of Sweden’s most influential female leaders.

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• Shubhendu Sharma

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  Founder, Afforestt

  Listed #26th on “The World's Top 100 Compassionate Business Leaders” by Salt Magazine U.K. An Industrial Engineer by qualification, Shubhendu creates native, wild, self-sustaining forests using afforestation methodology from Japanese Scientist Dr. Akira Miyawaki. His forests grow 10 times faster than a regular plantation, they are 30 times denser and 30 times more bio- diverse. The method is completely natural and only native species are planted. In past nine years, Shubhendu and his team have successfully planted 144 forests in 10 countries, in some of the most extreme climates and soils. Shubhendu is an Ashoka, TED and INK fellow. Shubhendu's work has resulted in a policy level change both in India and abroad. By doing detailed documentation of his methodology in multiple languages and making it open source, Shubhendu has enabled several people worldwide to make their own forest independently.

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• Michele Beyer

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  USA, Johnson & Johnson

  Michele Beyer is Manager of Social Innovation, Global Community Impact, at Johnson & Johnson. She is responsible for supporting the team’s strategy to keep a finger on the pulse of early-stage innovation to support nurses, midwives and community health workers at the front lines, and is passionate about driving a culture of innovation across the company's partners and programming, including flagship thought leadership innovation activations. Michele also supports J&J's grant partnerships in Health Technology.

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• Annah Mason

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  Writer & Editor, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Michael Park

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  Executive Director, JBJ Foundation

  Mike is a primary care physician and former management consultant who served clients across the private, public, and social sectors in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. His previous work also includes helping to develop and launch the Access to Nutrition Index and establish the Aspen Management Partnership for Health. He is based in Colorado, where he enjoys cycling and skiing with his wife and children.

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• Michael Ryan

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  Director, Philanthropy, TED Conferences LLC

  Director of Philanthropy + Impact at TED, overseeing the nonprofit's philanthropic fundraising and impact initiatives across TED's flagship conferences, climate initiative, democracy initiative, and community programs such as TEDx, TED Fellows, and TED-Ed. Background in nonprofit fundraising, project management, community engagement. Passion for strengthening impact networks for large-scale social change. Based in New York.

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• Shawn Holden Cheung

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  CEO, Raising The Village

  Shawn is the founder and CEO of Raising The Village, a nonprofit working at the intersection of data analytics and livelihoods to end ultra-poverty for last-mile communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. By applying advanced data analytics to agriculture and community participation, Raising The Village increases household incomes through low-cost, high-impact, and community-led interventions. In 2024, Raising The Village crossed the milestone of 1 million lives impacted since its founding in 2015, with an ambitious goal of reaching 1 million annually by 2027. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McMaster University and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. He combines his management consulting background with program implementation and data analytics expertise with the vision to change how non-profits design, implement, and measure projects. Shawn has been recognized among Canada's Top 40 under 40 as an innovator changing how things are done.

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• Michael Kapps

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  Co-founder & CEO, TNH Health

  Michael Kapps is the CEO & Founder of TNH Health, a Brazil-based tech company that uses AI-powered virtual health assistants to educate and monitor the health of hundreds of thousands of low-income patients. TNH's Virtual Assistants communicate with patients via text-messaging and address topics such as pregnancy, chronic diseases, tropical diseases, and mental health. Michael was one of the top 35 under 35 innovators of MIT Technology Review LATAM (2018 edition). He also won the GSG Impact Investing Milenium Award (2017), and was a Social Entrepreneur of the Future Finalist from Folha de São Paulo (Schwab Foundation) (2016). Michael is originally born in Russia and is a Canadian citizen. He graduated from Harvard College (2012) and worked at McKinsey & Company before founding TNH Health.

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• Patrick Kern

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  Member of the Board, Peter Möhrle Foundation

  Meet Patrick Kern – a dedicated member of the board at Peter Möhrle Foundation, a Hamburg-based foundation with a focus on mental health. He is also a founding member of UNICEF NextGen Germany and a board member of other organizations, including Gefangene helfen e.V., a crime prevention NGO, and Edmund Siemers-Stiftung. Patrick is a manager for sustainable real estate at Union Investment and a proud Oxford alumni. He's passionate about strategic philanthropy and collaboration, but above all, he loves his family more than anything.

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• Sharath Jeevan

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  Founder & CEO, Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results

  Sharath studied at Cambridge and Oxford and received his MBA from INSEAD. He was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to global education, and serves on the Education Commission’s workforce group – the pre-eminent institution chaired by the UN’s Gordon Brown. Sharath was founding CEO of Teaching Leaders – an initiative that raised $25 million in government funding to increase attainment for every disadvantaged secondary school in the UK. He was also Head of Social Ventures at eBay UK, a Project Leader at Booz & Co, and a Senior Manager at Action Aid.

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• Michael Berkowitz

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  President, 100 Resilient Cities

  Michael joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2013 to shape the new 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Bank as the deputy global head of Operational Risk Management, overseeing OR capital planning efforts, serving as a primary regulatory contact, and connecting ORM efforts group-wide. Other positions held at DB included COO of Corporate Security, Business Continuity and ORM, responsible for budgeting, operations, and global coordination across six workstreams; head of the Protective Intelligence Unit; CSBC head in APAC; and additional DB management roles in Mumbai, India and New York. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Michael was Deputy Commissioner at the Office of Emergency Management in New York City,where he led the creation of the Public-Private Emergency Planning Initiative and Ready New York citizen preparedness campaign and responded to incidents including the 1999 outbreak of West Nile Fever, Tropical Storm Floyd, the crashes of SwissAir 111 and American Airlines 587, and the World Trade Center disaster.

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• Merrill Press

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  Executive Director, Health eVillages

  As Executive Director of Health eVillages, Merrill leads the non-profit’s global health programs, as well as its U.S. programs focused on Community Health Centers, social services agencies and its new rural aging initiatives. Health eVillages’ mission is to empower healthcare providers to improve global health and well-being through the delivery of mobile technology and community-focused solutions. Health eVillages has been honored for its life-saving impact in the U.S., Haiti, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Health eVillages was founded by philanthropist and healthcare activist Donato Tramuto in 2011, to address the problem of the one billion people who will die prematurely without ever having seen a healthcare professional, had access to medicine or clean water. To “heal-the-villages,” Health eVillages collaborates to advance healthcare access and improve the quality of care by providing state-of-the-art mobile health technology including medical reference and clinical decision support tools, as well as other community-focused resources, to medical and public health professionals in the most challenging clinical environments around the world. Merrill, as a program consultant in 2011, was instrumental to the early success of Health eVillages in Kenya, Uganda and Haiti and led the expansion to several Community Health Centers and other agencies in the U.S. Health eVillages has deployed over 600 tablets and iPads with 60,000 medical apps, e-textbooks, and digital tools to 1000+ healthcare professionals around the world, empowering clinicians and Community Health Workers to save lives and build healthier communities. Merrill also serves as Senior Vice President of Philip W. Johnston Associates and Director of the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Merrill has over 20-years of experience in federal government relations.

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• Sean Mayberry

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  Founder & Executive Director, StrongMinds

  Sean Mayberry is a former diplomat and social marketer who believes that treating depression in women in Africa is the most simple and cost-effective way to address systemic poverty. Sean implemented successful HIV/AIDS and malaria programs in Africa for years, and saw firsthand how undetected, untreated depression negatively affected people’s lives. As a result, in 2013, Sean founded StrongMinds, a social enterprise with the mission of improving the mental health of women in Africa. Sean has served as a SOCAP Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Cordes Foundation Fellow, and a GLG Fellow. In addition to that, in 2020 he won the Humanitarian Award from the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health. Sean has been interviewed about his work with StrongMinds in the Fall 2018 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Forbes. StrongMinds’ work has been covered by The Guardian, the BBC, and The New York Times.

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• Melissa West

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  Director, Advocacy & Communications, VillageReach

  Melissa is a results-driven policy, advocacy and communications professional with a deep commitment to solving health and development issues. She has more than twenty years of experience building partnerships and developing strategies to influence stakeholders and motivate action at global, regional and local levels. Melissa currently leads an advocacy and communications team spanning four countries for VillageReach, an organization that works with governments to solve health care delivery challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, Melissa worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in global policy and advocacy, focusing on nutrition, MNCH, immunization and other global health issues. She led advocacy for polio eradication, developing partnerships with organizations as diverse as FC Barcelona and Rotary International to drive political will and $4.5B funding to end the disease. Earlier in her career, Melissa served in government relations, marketing, and communications for organizations including Amgen and Microsoft. Melissa lives in Seattle with her family, and is the proud mom of two strong girls who want to change the world.

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• Melissa Estok

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  Principal, Albright Stonebridge Group

  Melissa A. Estok is Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Social Impact Practice founder at Albright Stonebridge (ASG), a global strategy firm. Estok is passionate about helping organizations to elevate and advance their core purpose. At ASG, Estok works with foundations, nonprofits, and corporations addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues including climate change, inadequate access to healthcare, and technology disruption. Estok leads teams to develop sustainability and social impact strategies, build cross-sector partnerships, and implement local programs. Previously, Estok was a civil society and elections specialist at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), a nonpartisan nonprofit organization with a mission to strengthen democratic institutions and make governments fairer, responsive to all citizens, and more transparent. Much of Estok’s experience has been in fragile states and countries experiencing political, economic, and social transition in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa.

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• Melinda Arons

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  Senior Vice President of Social Impact, Participant

  Melinda Arons is Senior Vice President of Social Impact for Participant Media, where she is instrumental in helping build campaigns in support of the company’s social impact strategy that address the most important issues of our time. Arons began her career at Fox News and then spent twelve years at ABC News as a producer for Good Morning America and Nightline, where she ultimately became the Chief Political Producer and Senior Producer. While at ABC she won a Peabody and was nominated for multiple Emmys®. In 2013, she joined Facebook to build its Media Partnerships team, and left in 2016 to join the Hillary For America presidential campaign as the Director of Broadcast Media. After the election, Arons ran the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop’s successful campaign to win the MacArthur Foundation’s “100 X Change” $100 million award, and served as the Series Supervising Producer for Katie Couric’s National Geographic docuseries America Inside Out. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University.

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• Mehrdad Baghai

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  Chairman & CEO, High Resolves

  Mehrdad is the co-founder and CEO of High Resolves, a not-for-profit social venture focused on activating human responsibility so that we can address the multitude of global challenges we are now facing. High Resolves has engaged over 500,000 young people in over a dozen countries and has won many awards for its distinctive learning experiences. In his business life, Mehrdad is the Chairman of Alchemy Growth, a boutique strategy advisory firm. Mehrdad advises large companies on their growth strategies and business building initiatives. He specializes in disruptive strategy and designing organizations for rapid growth. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on management theory especially in the growth strategy domain. He is co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller As One as well as international bestsellers The Alchemy of Growth and Granularity. Previously, he was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and co-leader of the Firm’s worldwide Growth Practice. Mehrdad serves as a Distinguished Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, an appointment which crosses all departments across the university. Mehrdad is also the co-founder of Running Cloud Productions and its Business Director. He was the Executive Producer of the award-winning film Descent. Previously, Mehrdad served a three-year term in the public sector as an Executive Director of Australia’s national science agency with overarching responsibility for growth and commercialization. Mehrdad received a B.S.E. with highest honors from Princeton University, an M.P.P. as a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. with high honors at Harvard Law School. Mehrdad is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and winner of the prestigious John P. McNulty Prize. He was also awarded a social entrepreneur of the year award by the Schwab Foundation, partner of the World Economic Forum.

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• Meghan Lowery

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  Director of Special Projects, Greenbaum Foundation

  Meghan O’Brien Lowery is the Director of Special Projects for The Greenbaum Foundation. Meghan has spent the last six years working in the philanthropic and non-profit sectors. She focuses on animal and human rights and the intersectionality of where those issues often collide and create an immense amount of suffering. Meghan previously worked in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, leading a team of 250 staff which provided a suite of holistic social services. She has a passion for empowering her colleagues, staff and youth with finding their voices and creating narratives. Meghan’s work at the Borough of Manhattan Community College allowed her six years to tailor a public speaking curriculum that she now uses to help others create their own two minute elevator speeches and share their missions. Meghan is a warrior for the marginalized, follows a plant-based diet, is a hot-yoga addict and is always laughing. Meghan holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Shenandoah Conservatory and a MFA in Acting from the University of Florida.

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• Megan Takeda-Tully

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  Investment Manager, Grand Challenges Canada

  As an investment manager on the Transition to Scale team at Grand Challenges Canada, I guide investments through the funding cycle, identifying high-potential pipeline investments, performing upfront due diligence on potential venture investments, advising on deal structure applicable to investee type and stage of business, and manage these organizations through their investment cycle to support long-term success and sustainability.

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• Megan MacDonald

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  Director of Strategic Partnerships, Ashesi University College

  With work experience in government, non-profit and for profit sectors, Megan's career arc resonates with advocacy for global equity through service intervention, job creation, education and access to capital. At Ashesi University Foundation she leverages opportunities for partners to join Ashesi's pioneering work investing in innovation and leadership for Africa's future. Before joining Ashesi University Foundation Megan served as the CEO of Sasa Designs, where she led the many regulatory, legal and financial parameters of a growing social enterprise. In 2015, Megan negotiated the asset sale and brand transfer of Sasa Designs to Greater Good Wholesale, a division of CharityUSA.com. Megan’s Entrepreneurial Studies from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business IGNITE program, as well her MA in International Development from the University of Nairobi, guide a unique approach to non-profit development, entrepreneurship, partnerships and strategy.

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• Sara Scherr

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  President and CEO, EcoAgriculture Partners, EcoAgriculture Partners / 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People

  Dr. Sara J. Scherr leads the non-profit EcoAgriculture Partners to promote locally led transformation of agricultural landscapes for food security, rural livelihoods and ecosystem services, which she founded in 2002. She has supported landscape partnerships in Africa, Latin America, Asia and U.S., and advised landscape programs world-wide. In 2011 she co-founded ‘Landscapes for People, Food and Nature’, and in 2019 launched and now chairs the global collaborative ‘1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People’ to accelerate landscape regeneration around the world. An agricultural and resource economist, she previously served as Director of Ecosystem Services at the non-profit Forest Trends, and senior researcher at IFPRI, Univ. of Maryland, and the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF).

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• Meaghan Thumath

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  DPhil Social Intervention, University of Oxford

  Humanitarian. Clinician Scientist. Social entrepreneur. A Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Canadian public health expert, Meaghan is a member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Emergencies Programme (WHE) with deployments to support the COVID-19 and Ebola responses in South Africa, DRC and Sierra Leone. Prior to joining WHO she served as the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Mental Health and Addiction in Canada, and as a street nurse and Senior Practice Leader at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Meaghan founded TMBC Consulting Inc at the University of Oxford to solve complex public health problems. At TMBC We Design. We Build. We Evaluate. TMBC clients have included UNDP, WHO and the Global Fund to End AIDS, TB and Malaria supporting health systems strengthening in over 26 countries in Central Asia, Latin America, West Africa, Central Africa and MENA regions.

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• Sapphira Goradia

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  Executive Director, Goradia Foundation

  Sapphira Goradia is the Executive Director of the Vijay and Marie Goradia Foundation. As Executive Director, Sapphira leads the Foundation’s efforts to improve health and educational outcomes in India through the support of innovative, measurable and scalable initiatives. Prior to assuming her role at The Goradia Foundation, Sapphira worked for a number of NGOs focused on the prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic diseases, including UNAIDS and Population Services International. She holds a BA from Pomona College and a Masters of Public Health from The George Washington University. Sapphira serves on the advisory board of Pratham USA and the board of directors of the global health NGO Antara International. She also serves on the board of directors of Dasra, Women Moving Millions, and TPW.

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• Maura Donlan

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  Chief Advocacy and Partnership Officer, African Development Solutions

  As Adeso’s Chief Advocacy & Partnerships Officer, Maura Donlan supports its mission to imagine and implement a world that has progressed beyond international development aid where local communities self-determine their futures and thrive through their own resourcefulness and tenacity. Before joining Adeso, she drove the Chandler Foundation’s efforts to influence philanthropists to adopt systems change, justice, and equity in their social investments. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of Social Investor Magazine. Previously, Maura worked at MI Philanthropy, Omidyar Network, and GMMB, a cause-related communications firm. Earlier, Maura worked on programs designed to promote economic and political development and gender equity at the United Nations Development Program, United Nations Foundation, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Maura spent seven years working for Ted Turner’s family office supporting his philanthropy and social enterprises.

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• Matthew Grimes

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  Associate Professor, Cambridge Judge Business School

  Dr Matthew Grimes's research examines how individuals and organisations create, introduce, and sustain positive social change by way of entrepreneurship. He is an expert on B Corporations, systems thinking, purpose-driven leadership, and how organisations can harness the power of serendipity to become leading innovators.

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• Sangeetha Ramanathan

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  Director, Contracts and Legal Affairs, Skoll Foundation

  As Director of Contracts and Legal Affairs, Sangeetha provides support for the execution of responsibilities of stewardship and governance for Skoll Foundation. Sangeetha also provides occasional active support for other programmatic imperatives.

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• Elyssa Lewis

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  Sr Analyst, Portfolio and Investments, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Matt Berg

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  CEO, Ona

  Matt is the CEO and Co-founder of Ona - a Kenyan / US based social enterprise dedicated to ensuring equitable access to services to those who need them most. Matt was born in Cameroon, grew up in Senegal and has lived and worked in Africa for over 15 years. Prior to founding Ona, Matt served as the ICT Director for Modi Research Group at Columbia University and was the country director for the Geekcorps’ Mali program where his work focused on promoting ICT and information access in rural Mali. Matt is a PopTech! Social Innovation Fellow and was named to the 2010 Time 100 List for his technology work in Africa. He is a lecturer on ICT4D at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Ona was named a top 50 Genius Company by Time Magazine in 2018.

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• Nina Gené

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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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• Nigel Kershaw

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  Chairman, The Big Issue Group

  Nigel Kershaw OBE is a leading social entrepreneur and impact investor who, since 1974, has had first-hand experience of creating, building and scaling social enterprises and social investment. He joined The Big Issue in 1994, subsequently becoming its CEO and Group Chair. He is also Co--Founder and Director of The Big Exchange. The Big Issue (TBI) is one of the world’s most successful and best-known social enterprises. More than 200m copies of the magazine have been sold in the UK by street vendors and it has inspired over 100 similar publications around the world. TBI set up Big Issue Invest, a social merchant bank, by social entrepreneurs - for social entrepreneurs, and has now invested in over 400 social enterprises across the UK. It currently manages or advises on over $½bn of social funds from its innovative early-stage venture funds and lending to regulated investment funds. Nigel set up a public market arm that advises on public market impact funds, co-founded with Columbia Threadneedle (2013) and Aberdeen Standard Investments (2018) with a third Multi-Asset Climate Solutions Fund launched in February 2021. Nigel co-founded The Big Exchange which is a transformative, fair, accessible and transparent investment platform for social and environmental impact rated funds. People can use their savings to invest in 46 rated funds from 13 asset managers with a combined Assets Under Management of over $60bn. Nigel trained as a litho colour printer and previous to joining The Big Issue, Nigel founded three printing and publishing social enterprises. Nigel is a Social Enterprise UK ‘Champion of Champions’ and winner of the Institute of Directors’ Good Enterprise Award. He currently sits on the Impact Investing Institute’s Advisory Council. In 2010, he was awarded an OBE for services to Social Enterprise.

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• Martyn Illingworth

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  Global Advisor, BasicNeeds

  I'm an expert in community mental health and wellness. I have a passion for quality improvement, service design, and innovation.

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• Martin Rodriguez

  Delegate

  Fellow, Nomada

  I’m an optimist and a feminist. I founded two investigative digital media: Plaza Pública for the Jesuit university in Guatemala, in 2011, and Nómada, 2014. I’m the editor-in-chief and CEO. Was awarded with the National Journalism Prize in 2004 and 2017, and was a finalist at the Premio Gabo of the FNPI in 2013 and 2017. And we were profiled by the Knight Center for journalism in the Americas (University of Texas-Austin) for innovating in our journalism model and in our business model. I have an MA in Latin American Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. I’m a polyglot and a dad.

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• Ruben Vardanyan

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  Co-Founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, RVVZ Foundation

  Armenian-Russian social entrepreneur, impact investor and venture philanthropist. A recognized expert on the global economy, entrepreneurship and education, provides strategic consulting through the membership of boards of directors, advisory boards and trusteeships of commercial companies, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, and public and professional bodies. Among them are the IFC (World Bank Group), business schools in Russia and Brazil, Aznavour Foundation, a major Armenian bank (Ameriabank) and Russia’s auto majors (KAMAZ, SOLLERS). A prominent financier, Ruben is known both for his commercial projects (investment companies Troika Dialog and Vardanyan, Broitman and Partners) as well as his philanthropic programs, such as the first UWC college in Eastern Europe (Dilijan, Armenia) and the Tatev Revival Project, part of which includes the construction of the world’s longest reversible cableway leading to an ancient monastery. Together with their partners, Ruben and his family have invested about $600M in projects in Armenia developing a commercial approach that relies on involving blended financing to find solutions to social problems. They have also raised over $600M to finance the first private business school in Russia – SKOLKOVO. In 2015, Ruben co-founded another global project, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors. He spends a significant amount of his time on projects related to the development and professionalization of charity infrastructure in Russia (Philanthropy Infrastructure – PHILIN) and the questions of wealth and legacy curation (Phoenix Advisors).

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• Marnie Rickards

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  Operations Director, DAK Foundation

  Marnie Rickards is the Operations Director for DAK Foundation, which supports 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. Oxygen ecosystem strengthening has been one focus of this program since 2016. DAK Foundation also supports programs in high-volume SICS cataract surgeries, family planning using LARCs and Community Health Worker inititiaves. Marnie joined the board of Partners For Equity in 2021, an Australian NGO founded to provide aid to communities in poverty, mostly in developing countries and mostly through local, community-based organisations. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Family Foundation (USA). She is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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• Mark Muckerheide

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  CEO, Care Social Ventures, CARE

  Mark Muckerheide is CEO, CARE Social Ventures, a for profit subsidiary of CARE USA. CARE Social Ventures helps CARE convert locally created, locally run philanthropic programs into financially sustainable social enterprises by helping them assess their viability, provide ongoing support to each enterprise, hire CEOs, build a board of directors and structure and raise donations, debt and equity. CARE has the world’s largest global pipeline of owned and operated social enterprises, with 20+ social enterprises providing jobs, income and services for more than a million persons. Previously, Mark spent 20 years as retail executive with Target Corporation. Mark's first 15 years at Target were in brand management, with his last role as general manager of one of Target's billion dollar grocery business units. During Mark’s last five years at Target, he served as Director, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. In this role he was responsible for a $100 million philanthropic portfolio, as well as responsible for co-leading Target's corporate wide effort to create a more business aligned CSR and Sustainability strategy. During this same period, but outside of Target, Mark has created and run several profitable businesses in the industries of real estate, investment, construction and management consulting. This includes being the Founder and CEO of Global Poverty Advisors. Global Poverty Advisors is a consulting firm that works with social businesses, impact investors and international development non-profits to help them leverage business toward the goal of ending global poverty.

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• Mark Goldberg

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  Journalist, Mark L. Goldberg LLC

  Mark Leon Goldberg is the editor of the United Nations and global affairs blog UN Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatches Podcast. He is co-founder of the global humanitarian news clips service DAWNS Digest. For three years running, he's been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 "Twitterati." Mark is a senior fellow with Humanity in Action and a proud former Dan Dutko Memorial Foundation Public Policy Fellow. Mark's work has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The American Prospect, Foreign Policy, The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New Republic, PSI IMPACT, USAID Frontlines, and The Daily Beast. He appears regularly as an an on-air guest for Al Jazeera English, National Public Radio, and the BBC. He has a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.

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• Mark Duey

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  Co-Chief Executive Officer, Water For People

  Mark believes the global water and sanitation crisis can end during our lifetime. Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras and then a consulting engineer before joining Water For People in 2008. He holds an MS in Economics, Finance, and Management from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics where he was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Mark enjoys strong family ties to Central America where his wife and two of his three children were born.

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• Debbie Santos

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  Vice President, Finance, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Mark Cridge

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  Chief Executive, mySociety

  Mark is Chief Executive of mySociety, a UK based social enterprise, who help people be active citizens. mySociety's popular services FixMyStreet.com, TheyWorkForYou.com and WhatDoTheyKnow.com are used by over 11 million people each year; and our open source technology and research is used by individuals, journalists, and civil society in over 40 countries worldwide. Prior to mySociety, Mark enjoyed a diverse 20-year digital career including stints as COO at design consultancy BERG, as a senior advisor at political campaigners Blue State Digital in London, and served on the national executive of the Green Party of England & Wales for five years. Originally studying Architecture at Strathclyde University, he got his commercial start in 1996 working for a small web design agency in Birmingham before setting up glue London, the UK's first digital advertising agency in 1999, going on to become global managing director of Isobar, following glue’s acquisition in 2005.

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• Mark Chilongu

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  Executive Director, Africa Directions

  Mark Chilongu is the current Executive Director of Africa Directions, a Zambian non-governmental organization established in 2001 to build the leadership capacity, skills and confidence of Zambian youth. He is a social worker, administrator, theatre artist/practitioner, acting coach, and director with expertise in financial management, arts management, community based participatory methods in public health, and multi sectorial approaches for health, policy and practice. Mark sits on a number of boards including the US based organisation Communities Without Boarders, Global Alliance for Communities, Senior fellow Skoll Foundation UK, board member Children International Zambia, and a US Embassy Youth Ambassador. His work includes coordinating and managing all Africa Directions programs including resource mobilization, research, supporting government on policy formulation and implementation with a focus on the Arts, Youth Development, Reproductive Health and other Public Health programs.

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• Rebecca Van Bergen

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  Founder and Executive Director, Nest

  Rebecca van Bergen is the Founder and Executive Director of Nest, a nonprofit bringing transparency, business development and advocacy to the global artisan community, including the millions of people who work from home. Rebecca founded Nest immediately after receiving her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Washington University and has since grown the organization to improve the lives of more than 60,000 artisans since the organization’s inception. In partnership with recognized philanthropic partners as well as brands like West Elm, Target, Maiyet, PVH, Mara Hoffman, Patagonia, and Eileen Fisher, Nest’s Standards for Ethical Compliance for Artisans and Homeworkers are radically improving transparency and development in complicated decentralized and home-based supply chains. Rebecca is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Levi Strauss Collaboratory and Ashoka Fellow, and has led Nest to receive numerous awards such as the C&A Foundation’s 2016 Fabric of Change Award.

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• Raphael Mayer

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  Co-Founder of Simbiose Social, Simbiose

  Co-Founder and manager of Simbiose Social (B Corp. certified). Simbiose Social supports corporate social responsibility (CSR) investments of large companies in Brazil through a technological platform that provides information on NGOs, thus optimizing the research, evaluation, and management of a company’s CSR activity. Simbiose currently supports over 40 companies, including Volkswagen, Facebook, IBM, Unilever and Heineken. Since 2017, the platform has facilitated the investment of more that 100 million dollars into social organizations throughout Brazil. Raphael was listed as one of the 30 Under 30 by Forbes in 2021 and won the 2018 Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award promoted by the Schwab Foundation and Folha de São Paulo. With a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and specialization in Social Entrepreneurship from EAESP – FGV, he took courses in management and strategy at Babson University (Boston) and London Business School (London).

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• Rangan Srikhanta

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  Skoll Scholar, Saïd Business School

  Rangan has spent over a decade developing partnerships for social change. As Founder & CEO of One Education, a One Laptop per Child offshoot, Rangan and his team found innovative ways to evolve the operations from one dependent on donations and grants to a self-sustaining social enterprise capable of delivering thousands of low cost, low power, rugged computers for learning. In 10 years, One Education has generated over $25m in revenue, delivered over 70,000 computers across 600 schools and trained over 2,000 teachers in their use to improve impact.

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• Marina Krawczyk

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  Lead, Financial Innovation Lab, United Nations Children's Fund

  Marina is the lead of UNICEF's Financial Innovation Lab - working closely private sector partners and experts in exploring, co-creating and scaling up innovative financial models that generate additional, predictable and sustainable funding for UNICEF's programmes in benefit of children and their families. Marina has worked in UNICEF for the past three years – spearheading financial innovation initiatives. Prior to that, she worked at the Gavi Alliance as Portfolio Manager, Innovative Finance and External Relations. Marina brings over 12 years of experience in private sector and public-private partnerships. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) specialized in Management of International Organizations from the University of Geneva and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication for Development from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Marina is Argentinian and is fluent in Spanish, English and French. Strategic thinker with excellent problem solving skills. She enjoys working collaboratively in multi-cultural environments.

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• Naoko Felder-Kuzu

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  Governing Board Member, Barefoot College

  Naoko is an advisor and author in the area of microfinance, social entrepreneurship and impact investments. Her passion lies in promoting innovative social/business models that provide sustainable solutions to tackle poverty and in advocating a much more effective and efficient use of resources, especially capital. In 2000, Naoko established NFK Felder Consulting to raise awareness on microfinance investments. In 2004, she joined the Board of Frey Charitable Foundation, a Swiss family foundation that focuses in social entrepreneurship. In 2010, she co-founded Socential Ltd, a Swiss social impact organization that intermediates between donors/social investors and social entrepreneurs. In 2014, she co-founded Karmafy, a marketing platform that leverages the opportunity for effortlessly doing good every day by bringing people and products together. She also serves as a Governing Board Member of Barefoot College International and as a member of the advisory board of Pioneering Ventures and B Lab Europe.

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• Randy Newcomb

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  Senior Advisor, The Omidyar Group

  Randy Newcomb is a Senior Advisor at The Omidyar Group. The Omidyar Group is a diverse collection of global companies, organizations, and initiatives founded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar that strive to catalyze social impact globally. As Senior Advisor Mr. Newcomb explores future trends, new and alternative thinking, and diverse points of view to address the challenges we face in the 21st century. Drawing from twenty years of leadership at international levels, Mr. Newcomb supports the mission of The Omidyar Group by weaving together networks of individuals and organizations working together towards a common purpose. Previously, Mr. Newcomb was the founding President and CEO of Humanity United for fifteen years. Working closely with the Omidyar family, Randy grew HU as a values-based organization dedicated to cultivating the conditions necessary to address intractable problems like violent conflict, atrocities, human exploitation, and modern slavery. During his tenure, Mr. Newcomb expanded Humanity United’s work throughout the world, with programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Liberia, Nepal, Malaysia, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, and Thailand. Under Randy’s leadership, HU has fostered relationships and collaborated closely with a network of individuals and organizations – at global, regional, national and local levels – to bring greater levels of dialogue, understanding, action, and new solutions to address the complex systemic problems that are the organization’s focus. Previously, Mr. Newcomb was a Vice President of Omidyar Network, a philanthropic and social investment firm. Prior to Omidyar Network, Mr. Newcomb served for 14 years as CEO of Golden Gate Community Inc., a community-based, social impact organization based in San Francisco. Mr. Newcomb was a Fellow at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University and an International Development Fellow at the University of Bath, Bath, England. He holds a Doctor of Education from the University of San Francisco, a Master of Science degree in development economics from the University of Bath, a Master of Arts degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from the University of Bath.

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• Marilia Bezerra

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  Managing Partner, CARE Enterprises

  Marilia is an experienced shape-shifter, having worked with every size and type of organization, and across the range of social and environmental causes. After establishing an arts education nonprofit in Brazil; spending six years as a leading member of the Clinton Global Initiative; managing Partnerships at Purpose.com, founding Aldeia works--an impact consultancy that served foundations, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies--she took the helm at CARE Enterprises, Inc. (CEI) in 2016. At CEI she has created a $50 million dollars impact first, gender just fund. She graduated from law school in her native Brazil and holds a Master’s in Global Affairs from NYU. She is a mother of teenage girls, has a history of political activism and ran away with the circus circa 1995.

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• Marie Ringler

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  Europe Leader, Ashoka

  Marie Ringler is is a member of Ashoka's Global Leadership Group and leading Ashoka's work in Europe. She holds a number of board positions including as Vice-President of the European Forum Alpbach and Specialisterne Foundation. She was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Broadcasting Agency (ORF). She holds degrees from the University of Vienna, ESADE Business School, Spain and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the late 90`s she helped build Public Netbase, an art institution dedicated to exploring the social implications of the internet and new technologies through the lens of art, and later became its managing director. She was elected into office as a Member of the Regional Parliament and City Council of Vienna in 2001, making her the youngest member. After deciding against a life-long career in politics, she founded Ashoka's Austrian office in 2012, and later led its Central and Eastern European work until she stepped into her current European role.

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• Mariana Costa Checa

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  Co-founder & CEO, Laboratoria

  Mariana is the co-founder and CEO at Laboratoria, an organization enabling women in search of better professional opportunities to start and grow careers in technology. With learning centers across Latin America, Laboratoria is working to ensure women are part of building a more diverse, inclusive and competitive digital economy in the region that can create opportunities for all people. For her work as a social entrepreneur Mariana has been named one of Peru's leading innovators by the MIT, and had the honor of sharing a panel with President Obama at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. She holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Columbia University in New York.

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• Rachel Flynn

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  Director, Funder Alliances, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Maria Westfried

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  Advancement Communications & Strategy Advisor, Black Fox Philanthropy, LLC, B Corp

  Connectress/Creator of Opportunities. Co-craft grounded strategies that create resources resulting in positive impact. I am driven to create opportunities for triple bottom line businesses and organizations. My joy is to effectively connect people and ideas while creating community. I started my career in politics, passionate about helping women run for office at all levels of government and as a founding board member of Emerge, a leadership program for women that has expanded to 27 states. I served on four presidential campaigns, the Clinton Administration White House, US Department of Energy, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (US International Development Finance Corporation). I learned about nonprofit-business-government partnerships in Silicon Valley by working in the San Jose Mayor’s Office with successful housing, education and transportation initiatives. I spent several years exploring film including working on The Bucket List from script to screen. As the daughter of a professor and librarian I am passionate about books and movies. I grew up in Connecticut enamored by childhood summers in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico which became a desire to utilize my experiences to create positive impact in Latin America. Since 2012 my home is Antigua, Guatemala with my Guatemalan husband focused on teambuilding, our elementary school aged son with Down syndrome, my mom, a coyote-mix from Mexico and our Guatemalan-UK dual citizen older children who navigate being bi-cultural in our increasingly interconnected world and share our passion to create positive social and environmental change. Recent work includes Black Fox Philanthropy, Good Hotel Group: a ´profit-for-non-profit´ social business that reinvests profits with partner NGOs that focus on education and entrepreneurship, and Tierra & Lava: a conscious skincare company with Mayan wisdom, genuinely green principles and social impact.

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• Margault Phelip

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  Manager - Impact Factory, Facebook

  Margault Phelip has 10 years of experience in social entrepreneurship before joining Archipel&Co in 2018. At Archipel&Co she develops an Impact Factory to accompany corporates design, test, and scale-up innovative projects with high social impact. She previously co-created and managed two successful social entreprises dedicated to digital inclusion in France : Emmaüs Connect and WetechCare. She worked in various other social projects, in India, Mali, and Costa-Rica as well as the Boston Consulting Group. She graduated from HEC Paris in 2008.

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• Preethi Herman

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  ED, Change.org, and Founder, NGUVU Collective, Change.org

  Preethi Herman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nguvu Collective, (translates to Power Collective) that helps emerging women leaders to unlock their leadership power to create positive impact at scale.

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• Manuel Miandica

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  Country Director, Mozambique, Associação Pára o Desenvolvimento Comunitário Kuwangisana

  Manuel Gabriel Aidao Miandica helped to start up the Kuwangisana program and eventually has become one of the senior management staff. He started various projects in the Caia district and was especially well known for his role in Health Educations as a trainer, youth performer, journalist, and community developer. He has vague experience in Humanitarian interventions, community development, and program implementations in remote areas. He is the acting Country Director and has been with Kuwangisana for the past 17 years.

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• Manal Kelig

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  TEDxCairoWomen Organizer, TEDx

  Dr. Manal Kelig is the Executive Director - ATTA MENA region and the Co-Founder of GWE companies. Manal has a wide range of experience as a historian, speaker and a serial entrepreneur. Manal started her career in 1992 as an Egyptologist/guide and pursued a Master’s Degree in Modern History. Through her work she realized that there was a huge misconception and stereotyping about the status of women in the Middles East and Islamic countries. This encouraged her to choose the Public& Political role of women in Egypt during the 19th century as the subject of her thesis. Her research & job got her active in key issues as women & gender and bridging cultural gaps between West & East. As Manal’s career blossomed, she was still very unsatisfied of how the different tourism industry players were not mindful of the harm caused by mass tourism to the cultural and natural heritage of the MENA region. In 2005 & 2007 she co-founded two companies for Sustainable Travel to MENA region. Manal’s diversified and extensive skills led her to consult for many leading development organizations on sustainable tourism development, and cultural heritage preservation. In 2011 Manal co-founded Hope Foundation for community development with the vision of creating effecting positive change in the world through alleviating suffering and empowering grass root communities. Along the years, Manal became passionate about connecting with talented people of different backgrounds and assisting them to act on their ideas. In 2013 Manal started TEDxCairoWomen, a platform for sharing ideas worth spreading, with a focus on the empowerment of women through digital story telling. Manal’s ultimate goal is to expand the reach and impact of her diversified work to raise awareness of the full potential of the Tourism industry where all players recognize opportunities and responsibilities alike, and leave a positive mark on the society in which they operate and ensure its sustainability.

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• Lydia Darley

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  Events Coordinator, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Lydia Darley is the Team Administrator at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford.

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• Mike Quinn

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  Chief Executive Officer, Zoona

  Mike Quinn is Group CEO of Zoona, an African Fintech that leverages technology, entrepreneurship, and partnerships to enable essential financial services for those who need them most. Since launching in 2009, Zoona has grown to an customer base of over 3 million consumers and 2,000 agent outlets in 3 countries, has processed $2 billion in transactions, and has raised has raised more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2015, the Nike Foundation and Unreasonable Institute selected Zoona for the inaugural Girl Effect Accelerator as one of the top start-ups in the world helping girls out of poverty based on our micro-franchise model that empowers girls and young women to become entrepreneurs. Mike holds an MBA with Distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Skoll Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, along with an MSc in Management Development from the London School of Economics. His entrepreneurial journey started as a volunteer in Ghana and Zambia with Engineers Without Borders Canada, and he has now lived and worked in Africa for 12 years. Mike grew up in Calgary, Canada, and completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2018 and Accion’s Edward W. Claugus Award for Leadership and Innovation in Financial Inclusion in 2017.

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• Luisa Ribeiro

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  CEO, Recode

  Luisa Ribeiro is CEO of Recode. She is a pioneer of the startup movement in Latin América, having founded and managed two of the first startup accelerators in the region, Papaya Ventures and Gema Ventures. Previously, Luisa worked at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris with innovation policies for Latin América and before that she was a consultant in Accenture Brazil . Luisa holds a BA degree in Engineering from PUC-Rio and MBA from INSEAD, and leadership programs in Harvard and Oxford University. In 2013, she was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for Economy & Society.

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• Lucas Johnson

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  Executive Director, Civil Conversations Project, On Being Project

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• Lola Omolola

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  Founder, Female In

  Lola Omolola is a social activist, community builder, and speaker, best known for creating the "Female IN" Facebook group, which provides a safe and supportive space for women from over 100 countries worldwide to connect and empower each other. With over two million members, "Female IN" is one of the most impactful online forums for women, inspiring them to become more confident, visible, and empowered. Lola's commitment to social justice and community building has also led her to create the "Woman with her own money", a community-driven project which aims to inspire and educate women to become financially independent. Lola's contributions to women's empowerment and community building have been recognized by various organizations, including the Bill Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers and Meta's F8.

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• Lisa Kohler

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  Project Lead Falling Walls Lab, Falling Walls Foundation

  Lisa currently serves as Project Lead for the Falling Walls Foundation’s interdisciplinary format for early-career researchers, the Falling Walls Lab. The Lab provides outstanding talents from 60 countries a platform for pitching their innovative ideas – in just three minutes each. Prior to joining Falling Walls in 2015, Lisa worked in non-profit programme and event management, science management, and the Berlin start-up scene. Her enthusiasm for science communication and belief that science can be a catalyst for change drives her daily work conceptualising and organising the annual, global Falling Walls Lab Finale in November, where 100 finalists from 80 international Falling Walls Labs compete for the “Falling Walls Young Innovator of the Year“ title. In the run up to the Finale, Lisa also manages the finalists’ extended programme in Berlin, which among other highlights includes attending the Falling Walls Conference, the Foundation’s flagship event, where 20 of the world’s leading scientists are invited to present their current breakthrough research on 9 November, the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Lisa enjoys creating fruitful experiences for participants that leave them feeling inspired and eager to take their research to new levels. In her freetime, she enjoys discovering Berlin's ever-changing landscapes by bike and on long walking-tours.

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• Lindsay Smalling

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  Head of US Sales, 60 Decibels

  Lindsay is the Head of Sales at 60 Decibels, a tech-enabled impact measurement company using (mostly) phone-based surveys to listen better to end customers and beneficiaries around the world. Prior to 60 Decibels, she was CEO of SOCAP, convening social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and cross-sector leaders through world-renowned events at the intersection of money and meaning. Lindsay was previously Strategic Initiatives Officer at ImpactAssets, consulted on corporate social responsibility programs at Entrepreneurs Foundation, and started her career in financial services at Wellington Management and Lord Abbett. Lindsay graduated from Pomona College, where she was a Division III National Champion in water polo, and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and twin daughters.

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• Olawale Adebiyi

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  Chief Executive Officer, WeCyclers

  Olawale Adebiyi is the Chief Executive Officer of Wecyclers Corporation. Olawale was born on November 29th, 1980 in Lagos, Nigeria and is the immediate elder brother of Wecyclers founder, Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola. Olawale spent his early years in Nigeria where he graduated from Kings College Secondary School Lagos, and then relocated to the United States at the age of 18, to pursue his tertiary degrees. Mr. Adebiyi holds an MBA from Indiana University, Kelly School of Business, and holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology. While pursuing his Master's degree in Chemical Engineering, he was able to work on groundbreaking research on Hydrogen Production utilizing solar energy, and co-authored several patents and publications in the renewable energy field. Between 2006 and 2016, Mr. Adebiyi worked for the largest steel maker in the United States, Nucor Steel. During his time at Nucor Steel, Mr. Adebiyi worked on several projects such as a green field blast furnace construction project, where Mr. Adebiyi was selected to lead the efforts of coal supplier selection and coal blend testing for the $3 billion greenfield project. Mr. Adebiyi also worked as the production supervisor for the company's $700 million greenfield Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) project, which is the largest of its kind in the world. While working on the DRI project, Mr. Adebiyi was involved in every aspect, ranging from, raw material (iron ore and natural gas) acquisition, construction engineering, talent recruitment, plant commissioning, operations and maintenance.

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• Linda Fox

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  Grants Manager, Planet Wheeler Foundation

  Linda is a grants manager at Planet Wheeler Foundation with a particular focus on African projects. The foundation supports practical and effective organisations making a difference in the alleviation of poverty. Internationally our major focus is on health, education and livelihoods, in East and West Africa as well as specific areas of South East Asia.

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• Nicole Kamaleson

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  Founding Partner, Fusion Search Partners

  Focused on mission-driven or for-purpose organizations, Nicole has advised on C-suite talent transitions, justice, equity, diversity & inclusion, board/governance, human capital, and organizational development. She has expertise in sustainability, social finance, global health & wellbeing, food security, philanthropy, impact investing, international NGOs, think tanks/research, human rights, and the environment. Her work has spanned the globe in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For most of her professional career, Nicole has lived and worked from Romania, Kenya, Hungary, England and presently resides in the Caribbean region of the United States, St. Thomas, USVI. Nicole has led senior executive searches at the Board, CEO, C-suite, Vice President, and regional and country director levels internationally. Professionally, she has worked with boards in nearly all of her assignments navigating leadership transitions.

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• Lily Lewis

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  Addiction Philanthropist, Individual

  Lily is an Addiction Philanthropist, specialising in Abstinence Addiction treatment and Prison Reform in the UK. Her focus areas are research, policy change and strengthening & supporting existing treatment providers. She is drawn to developing long term aftercare programs with grass roots, specifically addressing unprocessed childhood trauma, while incorporating a strong emphasis on long term impact measurement. She is responsible for the Mental Health Unit within the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, is a philanthropic adviser to The LTG, and works independently as a philanthropic consultant. She is on the advisory board for the Addiction Unit for The Centre for Social Justice, an Ambassador and strategic adviser to NGO Steps2Recovery, and on the advisory board for The Forward Trust. Lily is currently enrolled at Harvard Kennedy School & University of Zurich studying Impact Investing for Next Gens, and trains part-time to qualify as a Psychoanalyst at the Institute of Group Analysis. She lives in London with her dachshund, Myrtle.

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• Lily Oyare

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  Founder/ Director, Little Rock ECD Center

  LILLY OYARE is the dynamic Founder/Director of Little Rock Inclusive Early Childhood Development Centre, located in Kibera - Ayany Estate, off Kibera informal settlement, Nairobi. Lilly is a testament of how one person's passion can change the world around them. starting with nothing but a mud hut classroom in Kibera in 2003 after the Free primary education was announced by the government, she now runs a landmark School/Centre that caters to the needs 1,323 vulnerable children and children with disabilities of the kibera Slum, with kindergarten schooling, tutoring, special education, Extra- curricular activities, Mentorship and day care programs.

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• Lynda Mansson

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  Director General, MAVA Foundation

  Lynda has been the Director General of the MAVA Foundation since 2010 and continues to believe she has the best job in the world. She is responsible for implementing the strategy of the foundation and leading the secretariat team. .Lynda led the foundation to incorporate a new programme to work on the intersection of economic growth and natural resource depletion which has become a major focus of its work. Given the end of MAVA’s grant-making in 2022, Lynda is now leading the team to ensure the greatest impact of funds invested as well as ensuring the sustainability of work in our areas of interest even after MAVA’s closure. Lynda is deeply invested in developing the leaders the world needs now and tomorrow to meet the global challenges we face. She has an IDC/EMCC coaching certificate and has coached and mentored several dozen people throughout her career. She has overseen the development of two different leadership development programmes and has developed and delivered trainings in leadership, team building, negotiations, conflict within teams, and change management. Before joining the foundation, Lynda spent 13 years with WWF International in Switzerland. She brought with her the experience of managing and directing global strategies for all aspects of office operations in the WWF Network and developing performance tools for its offices. Prior to that, she spent five years in charge of WWF leadership and organisational development. Lynda began her career as a San Francisco stockbroker and then earned an MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is American and Swiss and has two grown sons. Lynda acts as President of the Board of the Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust (PONT). She is also on the board of the African Leadership University and Partners for a New Economy.

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• Lilian Hill

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  Executive Director, Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute

  Lilian Hill leads the Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute as Executive Director with a focus on growing HTPI's impact locally, regionally, and internationally. Lilian, along with her husband Jacobo, founded HTPI in 2004 as a way to develop community leadership and to provide opportunities for the Hopi community to develop sustainable solutions to the problems that exist on the Hopi reservation. In 2001, Lilian founded the Black Mesa Water Coalition, an organization working to address energy and water exploitation on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. Lilian has traveled to Italy, Africa, India, Tajikistan, and Mexico learning, sharing her work, and promoting community sustainability models developed by HTPI. She has studied at the North American School of Natural Building and Northern Arizona University, focusing on Applied Indigenous Studies and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Lilian is a Certified Permaculture Designer and Natural Builder. Lilian is a member of the Tobacco clan and she lives in Kykotsmovi Village along with her husband and children in their hand-built Passive Solar Home. In her free time she writes poetry, prepares delicious meals using locally grown fruits and vegetables, chases chickens and turkeys, runs sandy trails, and enjoys spending time with her family and friends. In 2015 Lilian was awarded the Agricultural Humanitarian of Year Award by the Justin Willie Foundation.

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• Neville Crawley

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  CEO, Kiva

  Neville joined Kiva as CEO in the fall of 2017. He brings nearly two decades of experience leading global business and technology ventures, most recently as the CEO of Quid, a platform that analyzes the world's collective intelligence to help answer strategic questions. During Neville’s career he has worked in China, Nigeria, Brazil, Malaysia and across the Middle East, including 4 years working for McKinsey & Company and as the publisher of China Economic Review. These experiences and his passion for technology and service led Neville to Kiva. He is dedicated to serving Kiva’s mission and delivering ‘loans that change lives’ on the largest possible scale and with maximum impact. Neville graduated in studio arts from Manchester Metropolitan University, studied Chinese at SOAS University of London, and holds an M.B.A. from London Business School.

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• Liesel Simmons

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  Co-Founder and Principal, Blue Haven Initiative

  Liesel Pritzker Simmons is Co-Founder and Principal of Blue Haven Initiative, where she oversees, as an investment strategist, a portfolio focused on holdings that generate competitive financial returns and address social and environmental challenges. The portfolio spans asset classes, from traditional equities and direct investments to philanthropic programs. In addition to working closely with entrepreneurs, nonprofits and co-investors on companies and initiatives that create social, environmental and financial value, Liesel develops strategic partnerships with organizations that support and advance more informed investing. Liesel co-founded Blue Haven with her husband, Ian Simmons. Together, they systematically assessed their portfolios based on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria and financial performance. The restructured portfolios became the foundation of Blue Haven, one of the first family offices created with impact investing as its focus. Liesel is also Co-Founder of IDP Foundation, a private Chicago-based foundation focused on achieving universal primary education. There, she helped create the IDP Rising Schools Program, which leverages microfinance networks to empower nearly 450 low-cost private schools—established and managed by local entrepreneurs—in some of the least-developed regions of the world. Liesel, an engaging and sought-after speaker on impact investing and Next-Gen investors, serves on for-profit and nonprofit boards and investment committees of organizations including ImpactAssets, Synergos, Toniic, Eco-Post, and The ImPact, a network of families committed to the conscientious stewardship of wealth. Liesel attended Columbia University in New York City, where she studied African History. She lives in the Boston area with Ian and their daughters.

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• Lethabo Rampya

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  Associate Program Officer, ELMA Philanthropies Services (U.S.)

  Lethabo is an Associate Program Officer serving under the ELMA Community Grants Portfolio, which invests in community-based organisations that provide essential services for marginalized and vulnerable children in Southern and East Africa. She is actively managing a portfolio of 20 grants across South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Lesotho that focus on health services, children with disabilities, early childhood to secondary education, youth development and employment, orphan care, and refugee children. Her work includes developing and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders and grantee partners. She is always looking for opportunities to support grantee partners as they strive to achieve systems change by developing effective interventions at community level.

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• Leslie Decker

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  Development Consultant, Individual

  Leslie Decker is an impact investor focused on strengthening communities through social justice, transforming education and women’s leadership globally. An advocate for engaging education models, she has supported experiential, interdisciplinary initiatives. As a lifelong activist for empowering women and girls through education, mentoring and community investments, she has focused on collaborations and connections which leverage and accelerate their impact. As a former banker, she brings her financial, analytical and negotiating style to her projects and is uses her visionary approach to solving problems or leveraging collaborations. Leslie is an active non-profit board member, including a Trustee of Mills College, Vital Voices NW Council, Seattle Foundation Advisory Grant Committee and Pushing Boundaries. After ten years in London, she resides in Seattle with her family.

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• Naveen Namboothri

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  Director, Dakshin Foundation

  Naveen Namboothri is a founder trustee of Dakshin Foundation and currently serves as its Director. Trained as marine biologist and received his Ph.D in Marine Biology from the Centre for Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu. He has worked in diverse coastal, marine and island systems across India. His engagement cuts across regional, national and local agencies including government and non-government sectors. He heads the Biodiversity and Resource Monitoring Programme and oversees the establishment and implementation of several marine conservation projects at Dakshin’s field sites such as the community-led fisheries management in the Lakshadweep, citizen science programmes in the Andamans and the long-term monitoring of coral reef ecosystems in the Andamans. Naveen also helps build Dakshin’s Environmental Education Programme and oversaw the production of the publication Treasured Islands. He has more than 30 publications including peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters and reports and has supervised 8 Masters dissertations. He has served on the editorial board of Current Science and as an invited member to the Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology Task Force of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

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• Leslee Udwin

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  Founder and President, Think Equal

  Leslee was voted by the NY Times the No 2 Most Impactful Woman of 2015 (second to Hillary Clinton), and has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright). She has also been named Safe’s Global Hero of 2015, Global Thinker by Foreign Policy. A filmmaker and Human Rights Campaigner, Leslee is no stranger to successful campaigning films. “Who Bombed Birmingham?” (starring John Hurt) for HBO and Granada TV, directly led to the release of the ‘Birmingham Six’ after 17 years of wrongful imprisonment. Her feature film "East is East" (35 prestigious awards worldwide, including British Oscar for Best Film) did much to promote tolerance and the celebration of diversity as between the Asian and British communities and has become a classic film taught in schools across Europe. Her documentary "India's Daughter", has been critically acclaimed around the globe, won 32 awards (including the Peabody Award and the Amnesty International Media Award for Best Documentary 2016) and sparked a global movement to end violence against women and girls. The searing insights yielded by the 2½ journey making “India’s Daughter”, led Leslee to found UK-and-US-based Not for Profit global education charity “Think Equal”, of which she is the Founder and President.

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• Leah Thompson

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  Lead, Enterprising Oxford, University of Oxford

  Leah is a senior officer in the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team (RS-KEIT) at the University of Oxford, and heads up Enterprising Oxford (https://eship.ox.ac.uk/) - an initiative to connect and promote entrepreneurship across Oxfordshire. She works with partners and key stakeholders across the University and region to facilitate collaboration and create opportunities for entrepreneurs. Her latest project is IDEA (Increasing Diversity in Enterprising Activities), an initiative designed to tackle some of the key challenges and inequalities faced by groups who are currently vastly underrepresented in enterprise and industry across the world – the first focus is on women. Her main areas of interest include place-based early stage startup and social enterprise development, tech for good, increasing diversity in entrepreneurship, and community building. Leah has a degree from University of British Columbia in Canada, and has worked in many different sectors, including agriculture, consulting, B2B sales, and IT development.

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• Nancy McGuire Choi

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  Unknown, Individual

  Nancy McGuire Choi is a social sector executive with 15 years of experience in international development, technology innovation, and nonprofit management. Nancy specializes in building the teams, systems, and business models to take mission-driven organizations to their next level of impact and development. Nancy served as Interim CEO and COO at Polaris, an award-winning nonprofit that uses data-driven strategies to disrupt and prevent human trafficking. She previously served as COO at Development Gateway, an international non-profit that creates digital tools to support data-driven decision-making in international development, and as Co-Executive Director of AidData, now a research lab at The College of William and Mary. She holds an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a BA in Anthropology from Harvard University.

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• Lavinia Palacios

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  Financial Advisor, Elystone Capital

  Lavinia has been a Financial Advisor at Elystone Capital, a family office, since 2014. There she is in charge of ESG and Impact Investing activities for the firm's clients. She is actively sourcing impact projects, using a diverse set of financial instruments to solve problems for the poor and the environment. Prior to this Lavinia worked in an entertainment marketing company, Propaganda GEM, where she was in charge of production resources. Lavinia is based in Switzerland where she grew up with Argentine parents. She studied in a Swiss boarding school before attending university in the UK.

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• Laura Rasay Siasoco

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  Grants and Operations Assistant, Skoll Foundation

  Laura joined the Skoll Foundation in November 2018 as the Grants and Operations Assistant. In this role, she works in the grants management team on the grants workflow and grantee communications, as well as support Foundation-wide projects and events. Prior to her current role, she had a career as a research and development bioanalytical chemist within the preclinical pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. She holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Chemistry from Point Loma Nazarene University and California State University - East Bay, respectively. She also volunteers with several non-profits supporting data management and reporting. Outside of work, she enjoys spending quality time with her family and friends, and when she gets a chance dabbles in one of her many hobbies including sustainable gardening, training for endurance races, attending performing arts events, and making sourdough baked items from scratch.

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• Laura White

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  Master of Business Administration, Saïd Business School

  aura’s career has focused on empowering young children and their families. Before joining the MBA program at Oxford Saïd, “Ms. Laura” taught three and four year-old students as a preschool teacher for the District of Columbia Public Schools. She also taught one to four year-olds with autism for the city of DC’s early intervention program. As a former senior intrapreneur and leader of the US Changemaker Schools Network at Ashoka, Laura is passionate about combining her social entrepreneurship experience, her expertise as a highly effective teacher, and her MBA education to make high quality early childhood education and family support available to all families. Laura is currently launching a startup called Devie, which provides an empathetic, knowledgable early childhood coach in every parent's pocket. By making early childhood development coaching accessible, personalized, and informed by behaviour science, Devie makes early childhood development more equitable.

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• Laura Poswell

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  Executive Director, J‑PAL Africa

  I manage the amazing J-PAL Africa team that works to reduce poverty through ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do research, policy outreach and training. We work closely with policymakers, practitioners and development partners in Africa and with our global network of academics. We are currently working on exciting big projects including Teaching at the Right Level Africa (TaRL Africa) and the Africa Research Initiative on Identification, Payments, and Governance.

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• Laura Herb

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  Program Manager, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

  At The Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA TFT, Laura Herb has been able to combine her years of experience in film development with her desire to make a change in the world through the power of storytelling. Prior to the Skoll Center, Laura was Director of Development at Imagine Entertainment where she worked on such films as Ron Howard’s In The Heart of the Sea, the James Brown biopic Get On Up starring Chadwick Boseman, and The Dark Tower, adapted from the novels by Stephen King and starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Laura first began her career in the non-profit sector where she served as a coordinator for the Pittsburgh-based Three Rivers Film Festival and Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival before relocating to Los Angeles. Laura is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and holds a B.S. in Television-Radio-Film. She also moonlights as a freelance story analyst and consultant, works with her own alma mater’s LA office on events for west coast-based prospective students, current students, and alumni, and is a judge for the Women in Film finishing fund.

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• Laura Gordon

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  Senior Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Care.com

  Laura Gordon joined Care.com in April 2018. As Senior Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ms. Gordon oversees all aspects of Care.com’s systems change work. In her role, Ms. Gordon coordinates partnerships and programs both globally and in the US that focus on improving the lives of caregivers and families to provide meaningful career opportunities and access to affordable care, all while increasing female participation in the workforce. Prior to joining Care.com, Ms. Gordon spent nearly ten years working for The Rockefeller Foundation. As Managing Director of Program Influence, Ms. Gordon was responsible for strategic influence campaigns and external communications for the Foundation President and Foundation Initiatives. Prior to joining The Rockefeller Foundation, Ms. Gordon spent three years working for New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, where she supported Speaker Quinn in both her communications division and policy division. Prior to her work in Speaker Quinn’s office, Ms. Gordon was a news editor at NBC news, with a focus on domestic breaking news. Ms. Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, where she majored in Government with a focus on international affairs.

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• Morgan Lance

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  Chief Executive Officer, OneSky

  Morgan 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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• Laura Giadorou-Koch

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  Chief Engagement Officer, DOLIUM

  Laura Giadorou Koch, Esq. Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of laws Laura is a system social entrepreneur, creative changemaker and disruptor on gender parity, an advocate and practitioner on regenerative and inclusive businesses, a passionate about effective tools on conflict resolution, impact investor, a philanthropist in education for innovation on empathy skill, and lawyer (license in NY State and Argentina). For over three decades she has focused on the positive impact on gender parity, microfinance, innovation technologies in social-emotional education.

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• Maria Springer

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  Founder, Capital Department

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• Wendy Nagel

  Delegate

  Director of Resource Mobilization and Communications, Aflatoun International

  Wendy Nagel is Director Resource Mobilisation and Communications of Aflatoun International. Aflatoun is a Social Franchise delivering Social and Financial Education through a network of 200+ partner organizations and 30+ governments. Its mission is to inspire children and young people to socially and economically empower themselves to become agents of change for a more equitable future. Aflatoun International’s programmes are implemented in 100+ countries, reaching 5.4 million children and young people in 2017. In addition to the content itself, Aflatoun International provides all the technical support necessary to develop, implement, evaluate and scale-up Social and Financial Education. The ambition is to empower 20 million children by 2020. Until December 2018 Wendy has worked in several fundraising, marketing & communication positions. She has international experience through various functions at the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, Stichting Bont voor Dieren, Stichting Only Friends, Stichting Olympisch Stadion and AFC Ajax.

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• Kyungsun Chung

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  Chief Imagination Officer, Individual

  Kyungsun Chung is the Founder and CIO of Root Impact, a nonprofit that focuses on building capacity for the social innovation sector in Korea. Root Impact has partnered with RPA to fund and co-develop the “Global Philanthropy Accelerators” program for next-gen donors. Kyungsun Chung also founded Holistic Growth Initiative, Impact investing firm focusing on inclusion, diversity and well-being social enterprises in Korea. Kyungsun is a member of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and is a frequent speaker on philanthropy and social innovation throughout Asia.

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• Molade Adeniyi

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  CEO, WAVE

  Molade Adeniyi, CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), is a visionary leader dedicated to empowering the youth of West Africa with the skills and opportunities they need to realize their full potential. With a profound commitment to achieving her organization's mission, Molade plays a pivotal role in setting strategic business goals and guiding the direction that consistently generates opportunities leading to sustained impact, revenue growth, and added value to the organization. Her commitment to leadership excellence has been acknowledged through her participation as a 2021 Perennial Leadership Fellow and a 2021 West Africa Acumen Fellow. Molade Adeniyi's unwavering belief in the power of the human spirit is reflected in her mantra: "The only thing stopping you is yourself. Your perspectives and your thoughts. If you tell yourself you can't do something, then you can't do it. If you dream, reach, and try, you can make it happen, and if you fail, learn from it and try again

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• Kyla Gineitis

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  Vice President, Citigroup, Inc.

  Kyla has been a member of the Citi Inclusive Finance team since 2017, and has a background in small to mid-sized corporate banking with the Citi Commercial group. Citi Inclusive Finance is a specialist team that works across Citi businesses globally to develop solutions that enable the bank, its clients, and partners to expand access to financial services and advance economic progress in underserved market segments. Citi Inclusive Finance works across Citi to serve more than 150 inclusive businesses and microfinance institutions (MFIs), networks and investors as clients and partners in over 50 countries. The team works with clients engaged in the microfinance, MSME, sustainable agribusiness, affordable housing, clean energy, and education, healthcare, and sanitation sectors to provide financing which spurs economic growth in low income communities across Citi’s global footprint.

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• Kuukua Eshun

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  Individual, Individual

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• Kurt Soderlund

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  CEO, Safe Water Network

  Kurt is founding CEO and board member of Safe Water Network. He developed its strategy and business models and established its international presence. His international experience began as special assistant to the president of the New School University, where he supported the university’s international programs and its president’s work as Chairman of Human Rights Watch. This work included extensive travel to countries in East and Central Europe and Central Asia, informing his view of the importance of nurturing civil society, particularly in fragile states. His private sector experience includes working at Marketing Corporation of America (since acquired by IPG) where he co-led the spinoff of an internet start-up. Kurt and his wife live in Fairfield, Connecticut where he is active in local civic issues as well, notably helping to reinvigorate Fairfield Theater Company, which has since emerged as a leading music venue in the region and, more recently, leading a community effort to address blight at the town’s public works yard. Kurt has degrees from Cornell University and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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• Mike Dennis

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  Head of Brand Partnerships, Freethink

  Mike serves as the Chief Revenue Officer at Freethink Media, a digital publisher bringing stories of innovation and social change to life through documentary filmmaking.

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• Vincent Stehle

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  Executive Director, Media Impact Funders

  Before joining Media Impact Funders in 2011 as executive director, Vince was program director for Nonprofit Sector Support at the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation based in New York City. Prior to joining Surdna, Stehle worked for 10 years as a reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where he covered a broad range of issues about the nonprofit sector. Stehle has served as chairperson of Philanthropy New York and on the governing boards of VolunteerMatch and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Currently, he serves on the board of directors of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

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• Kristen Clark

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  Chief Growth Officer, Dharma Platform

  Kristen is currently the CGO of Dharma Platform, an impact-first data management and collection platform that is changing the way NGOs and Governments think about and use data for good. I’m privileged to attend Skoll for the first time supporting our partners including Riders for Health, Seva Foundation, Geneva Global, and EcoPeace. Previously I was Co-Founder and CEO of Door94, a social enterprise technology platform supporting NGOs focused on Youth Development and before that led the Research & Analytics Business Unit at Sprinklr, a social customer experience management platform. After studying Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University, I spent a year in India following the Dalai Lama before she entered the world of data, which has informed my passion for using technology for social good.

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• Michaela Edwards

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  Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

  Michaela Edwards is a Partner and member of the Investments Team. She serves on the investment committee for all Capricorn strategies and has responsibility for co-leading the investment management of individual client portfolios as well as the Sustainable Investors Fund. She joined the firm in 2019. Prior to Capricorn, Michaela spent nine years as a Senior Portfolio Manager with Norges Bank Investment Management, the sovereign wealth fund of Norway. Before joining Norges, Michaela worked as a research analyst for Russell Investments in London and New York. She started her career on the trading desk of DNB in Oslo. Michaela is a Member of the Board of Directors at Lafayette Square, Osmosis Investment Management and Norselab, as well as non-profit Winrock. Michaela is a graduate of Oslo University College and Cass Business School in London and a CFA charter holder.

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• Kimberly Coletti

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  Senior Director, Innovation, Save the Children

  As Save the Children's Director of LIFT Lab (Leveraging Innovation for Transformation) Kimberly has developed the vision, strategy, and delivery of Save the Children global innovation program. She is a trained human centered design facilitator and works across Save the Children (a $2.7 billion international NGO) to unlock enablers to create a culture of innovation. Kimberly was the initiative lead for the Global Emergency Response Coalition. The Global Emergency Response Coalition, including eight of the leading U.S.based international relief organizations, was created to urge the American public to donate to the new Hunger Relief Fund in response to looming famines and persistent hunger threatening millions of people in South Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen, Somalia and neighboring countries. She holds an M.B.A in Nonprofit Management. She holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Suffolk University and a B.A. in Finance from the University of Connecticut.

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• Mercy Akamo

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  Organiser, TEDx

  Mercy Akamo is the founder of Africa Teens City - a teen mobilisation platform that aims to inspire teenagers to transform their communities, motivate them for change, and educate  and equip them with the tools to to turn their ideas into action. She is a communications specialist with years of experience in the media and experiential industry.  She doubled as the Head of Content and Innovation at Bella Online Media (BellaNaija Weddings) - Africa’s No 1 digital destination for entertainment, lifestyle and weddings content. As an Editor, Mercy oversaw editorial operations and content for BN’s largest brand - BellaNaija Weddings which has over 200+ million monthly impressions and manages a community of over 5 million people. Her industry experience across digital marketing, content creation, insight & intelligence gathering, media reporting and monitoring makes her an industry leader in Africa.     Mercy has worked in Africa's largest conglomerates – Dangote Industries Limited and has built her career over the last 8+ years working in leading media corporations.      She is the co-founder of TUROG Integrated Solutions - a tech, experience design and strategy company. Mercy is a TEDx Ambassador in Africa and the convener of TEDxLagos – Africa’s leading TEDx conference that promotes ideas from the continent. She is also a Skoll World Forum Fellow and she is also the 2021 Class of the Most Influential People of Africa Descent Under 40, Global 100 List. As an avid education advocate, she co-founded an NGO which helps build libraries and computer labs for children living in underprivileged communities.  

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• Kim Dabbs

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  VP, ESG & Social Innovation, Steelcase

  Kim Dabbs is a change agent and advocate who builds cultures of opportunity as the Global VP of Social Innovation and ESG strategy at Steelcase. She is leading organizational change projects around the world and has given talks on her specialities in social innovation, cultural transformation, and belonging at MIT, the Aspen Institute, the Drucker Forum, and the Guggenheim. Her personal experience and professional history of two decades creating, leading, and scaling cultures of belonging across multiple borders have given her unique insights into systemic change. As a Korean-born, American adoptee currently residing in Munich, Germany, she is currently focused on her research and writing on Belonging. Her debut book on this topic, launching in 2024, focuses on helping leaders and organizations with the tools to create cultures of belonging to create a more equitable and inclusive world.

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• Kiah Williams

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  Co-Founder & Director, Sirum

  Kiah Williams (she/her) is co-founder of SIRUM, a nonprofit, for-impact start-up solving one of America’s most pressing problems: medicine access. SIRUM takes unused, surplus drugs and seamlessly delivers them to people in need, using technology to democratize access. Kiah has been recognized for her work at SIRUM as a Forbes 30-Under-30 Social Entrepreneur, America’s 50 Most Influential Women by Marie Claire and Silicon Valley Business Journal 40-Under-40. Kiah earned her bachelors and masters degrees from Stanford University, where she was also the president of the student NAACP chapter. Kiah proudly hails from West Philadelphia and is passionate about health equity in underserved communities.

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• Tina Tan-Zane

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  Assistant to Jeff Skoll, Jeff Skoll Group

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• Sally Walkerman

  Delegate

  Senior Executive, Small Foundation

  Sally Walkerman is an economic development and impact measurement professional with a focus on sustainable development, especially in agriculture and financial services. She has been a Senior Executive with Small Foundation since 2016. Prior to this, she supported the rural development portfolio of the Aga Khan Foundation, coordinated research at Harvard University and worked with entrepreneurs to help them start and grow their businesses. She has lived and worked in Europe, East Africa and south Asia.

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• Kevin Miller

  Delegate

  Executive Director, Ezrah Charitable Trust

  Executive Director and Legal Counsel, Ezrah Charitable Trust, an Africa-focused US private foundation dedicated to serving people burdened by poverty by providing catalytic support to our high-impact implementing partners.

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• Kevin Kwan

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  Executive Director, Individual

  Kevin joined the family office after graduation. He oversees all financial and real estate investments as well as actively sources for business development opportunities for the family office. Kevin also attends various meetings hosted by bankers and investment managers to seek out new investment opportunities and to keep abreast of market developments.

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• Kerry Dolan

  Delegate

  Journalist, Forbes

  Kerry A. Dolan is an Assistant Managing Editor at U.S. business magazine and website Forbes. Based in the San Francisco, she is one of two editors who oversee the magazine's signature Forbes 400 Richest Americans list and the Forbes World Billionaires' list, and has helped spearhead coverage of philanthropy, social entrepreneurs and impact investing. During her more than two decades at Forbes, she has written about a variety of topics including philanthropy, healthcare, renewable energy and global business. Ms. Dolan has won multiple awards for her Forbes articles. She joined the magazine in New York in 1994 following stints at financial newswire Market News Service and at the English language unit of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan’s largest business publication. She has a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from Amherst College.

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• Tiana Epps-Johnson

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  Executive Director, Center for Tech and Civic Life

  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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• Thiri Thant Mon

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  TEDxYangon Organizer, TEDx

  Thiri Thant Mon is the Managing Partner of Pegu Partners (www.pegupartners.com), a capital and strategy advisory firm based in Myanmar and the CEO of the Myanmar Institute of Directors (www.myanmariod.com). She has over 20 years of experience with top international and Myanmar financial Institutions. Before returning to Myanmar in 2013, she was a capital markets investment banker with Morgan Stanley in the UK covering financial institutions, and previously with Capital One in the US and UK where she managed credit risk forecasting. Upon her return, she was a member of the executive committee of Yoma Strategic Holdings where she was Head of Corporate Development. She was also the Myanmar country representative for the CDC Group, the UK government’s development finance institution. Deeply passionate about education, empowerment and the transition of Myanmar into a vibrant member of the global community, Thiri supports initiatives related to corporate governance, institutional capacity building and attracting investment and intellectual capital into Myanmar. She serves as a member of the board of directors of Dawn Microfinance and the British Chambers of Commerce Myanmar and is a trustee for several charities including the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a Prince of Wales Charity. She is a Steering Committee Member of UK FCDO's Business for Shared Prosperity, a private sector development programme for Myanmar and a member of the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee for Myanmar led by the OECD. She also enables and shares voices and ideas of others by founding and organising TEDxYangon. Thiri holds a degree in Economics from William & Mary and a MBA from the London Business School.

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• Maya Winkelstein

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  Partner, The 2030 Fund

  Maya Winkelstein is a Partner at The 2030 Fund. The 2030 Fund is a private initiative that is focused on advancing a just transition to reach Louisiana’s climate goals for this decade. The Fund works with local organizations and community leaders to build a Louisiana that will remain vibrant, resilient, and successful in 2030 and beyond. Maya is the former CEO of Open Road Alliance, where she led the organization’s strategy and growth for ten years. During her tenure, Maya served as Open Road’s inaugural Executive Director and led the organization’s evolution from a single-donor grantmaking strategy to the world’s first impact bridge loan fund with over $15M AUM. In its first ten years, Open Road made over $70 million in loans and grants to impact organizations across the globe.

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• Meagan Fallone

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  Board Member and Director, Barefoot College International

  Currently Entrepreneur in Residence for CARE and Director of Climate Justice. Founder of Step Up Advisers and creator of Soli; the worlds first digital learning management system for smallholder farmers. CEO Emiritus of Barefoot College & Barefoot college International. Schwab Foundation SE. Dedicated Social Innovation and Development Professional with proven track record of innovative approaches to solving "wicked challenges" through design thinking and strong execution rigour. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges across cultures, to best achieve success. Passionate, committed to action and results in the Energy Transition, Agriculture, Climate Change, Women's Empowerment, Social and Economic Justice, focal areas. Pioneer in developing cross sectoral collaboration and systems change approaches to institutionalising development at scale of transformative human centric models. Thought leader, connecter, writer, speaker and mobiliser.

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• Matthew Bonds

  Delegate

  Co-founder and Scientific Director, PIVOT Madagascar

  Matt Bonds is Co-Founder and Scientific Director of PIVOT, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellow at the Mulago Foundation. He has a PhD in economics and a PhD in (disease) ecology. Since its founding in 2014, PIVOT has worked in partnership with the Madagascar government to establish a district level model health system for over 200,000 people. This model system intervention has driven among of the most rigorously evaluated population-level impacts in the world. With novel data systems at all levels of care (community, primary, and secondary care), PIVOT is pioneering a new science of health system transformation.

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• Kathryn Harrison

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  Principal, Portfolio & Investments, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Mary Hedahl

  Delegate

  Chief Development Officer, Fair Trade USA

  Mary Hedahl brings over 20 years of experience fundraising on behalf of human rights, civil liberties, social justice, the environment and the arts. She is currently working as Chief Development Officer at Fair Trade USA. Recently, Mary was the Senior Advisor, Business Development for MCE Social Capital. Her previous leadership positions include Vice President of Development at Human Rights First and Director of Development at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), dramatically increasing the funds raised at both organizations. She also worked as the Eastern Director of Major Gifts at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), overseeing the Major Gifts Department at a time of unprecedented growth. She has served on the boards of the East Harlem Block Schools and the International Theatre and Literacy Project and now serves on the Board and the Executive Committee of the NYCLU.

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• Katherine Lucey

  Delegate

  CEO and Founder, Solar Sister

  Katherine Lucey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister, a social enterprise that has empowered over 10,000 women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa to bring clean energy to their off-grid communities. Katherine is a Schwab Foundation Entrepreneur of the Year, an Ashoka Fellow, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur. She has received recognition and awards for her work with Solar Sister including Forbes “50 Over 50 Women of Impact”, Clinton Global Initiative, Social Venture Network, C3E, and International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Champion of Change Award. She holds an MBA from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia. Before becoming a social entrepreneur, Katherine spent over 20 years as an investment banker on Wall Street providing structured finance solutions to the energy sector.

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• Susan Sherrerd

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  President & Executive Director, Muirfield Foundation

  Susan is a philanthropist, impact investor, advocate, and connector based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who uses her time, talent and treasure in service of those with lived experience who are working to make the world more just and sustainable for all. As President and Executive Director of the Muirfield Foundation, Susan champions, supports, and strengthens the work of social change leaders whose work measurably improves the lives of women and girls in the Global South -- primarily in Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Susan is a funding partner and champion of Co-Impact’s recently launched $1 billion Gender Fund -- a global collaborative focused on systems change to accelerate progress towards gender equality and women’s leadership -- led by the belief that collaboration of funders, NGOs, government, and business with local communities, plus patient capital, are prerequisites to addressing the world's most complex and challenging problems.

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• Mark Cubit

  Delegate

  Trustee, Planet Wheeler Foundation

  Mark works with a number of Australian based funding entities to support social entrepreneurs with a problem to solve.

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• Kate Coles

  Delegate

  Associate Director, Grants, Business for Social Responsibility

  Kate leads development for BSR's programmes and collaborations focusing on women’s empowerment, human rights, and inclusive economies. She builds partnerships with donors, companies and civil society organisations in the EMEA region. Before joining BSR, Kate led the development team at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), where she successfully built partnerships with a broad array of public and private donors and led significant growth in the organization’s resources. Previously, she held development roles within an INGO with programs aiming to improve access to quality education for all in countries across the globe, with a focus on corporate partnerships. Kate holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a B.A. with Honors (first class) in International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington, specializing in the politics of development. She also holds a certificate in teaching English as a second language from Cambridge University.

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• Kim Hjelmgaard

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  Journalist, USA Today

  International correspondent for USA TODAY.

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• Lorene Arey

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  Founder, The Clara Fund

  Lorene Arey is founder of the Clara Fund, a family foundation focused in two key areas: supporting gender equality and sustainable markets. Prior to establishing Clara Fund, Lorene was head of Worldwide Communications at Cisco Systems where she was she played a key role in shaping and positioning Cisco’s public image. The accomplishments of Lorene’s team were spotlighted in the Wall Street Journal in 2000 when Cisco was recognized as the company with the best publicity across all industries worldwide for 1999. Lorene currently serves on the Board of Directors for B Lab, is a founding board member for Healing Cultures, is a Guarantor for MicroCredit Enterprises, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Leadership Studies, Loyola Marymount. She’s a member of Women Moving Millions and The Philanthropy Workshop. She has served on the Board of Directors for Unitus, Women Thrive, Count-Me-In and the Lucile Packard Foundation. Lorene holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with Highest Distinction.

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• Karen Korponai

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  Chief of Staff, to.org

  Karen is driven by building visions into reality. As Chief of Staff at to.org, Karen supports the to.org foundation’s daily operations, leveraging the power of art and creativity to bring people together and using finance as a force for good and in healing the world. to.org is supported by To: Ventures, an investment fund dedicated to backing the most talented founders tackling the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges. She has been focused on building a pilot model in Uganda, which engages Creative Activists to build sustainable communities through the Shadowman Van initiative by connecting and creating programs between polarized communities. One of Karen’s many skills is her ability to foster strategic partnerships between like-minded organizations. Karen's efforts to support the companies within the To: Venture fund led to the first African-made solar street light assembly plant in Mali with Sunna Design. She was also a project lead in Light to Learn, a campaign led by to.org to support a Liberian public-private partnership in education and energy with the Government of Liberia, Akon Lighting Africa and Bridge International Academies. Karen is a founding member of the House of Marley leadership team and launched the brand in over 30 countries, developing and executing marketing plans and managing agency relationships to support Bob Marley’s vision of creating a better world through earth-friendly products. Karen was also founding member of 1Love.org and runs a consulting company to support organizations with strategic planning, business development, events and marketing. One of her first projects included a C-suite position at Akon Lighting Africa, which brought solar energy solutions to 1 million rural households in 15 countries.

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• Karan Pariyar

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  Desi Hoppers, Individual

  I’m a student ... Want to attend the event and also help my friends Desi Hoppers who will be performing there.

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• Kamilah Jones

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  Chief Marketing & External Affairs Officer, New Teacher Center

  Kamilah Jones currently serves as Chief Marketing & External Affairs Officer for New Teacher Center where she leads the organization’s go-to-market strategy aimed at increasing programmatic impact, thought leadership, and public advocacy. Additionally, she heads communications, community engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She joined NTC from Teach For America where she served as the Vice President of Innovation and Brand Experience partnering in an org-wide effort to create an alumni-centric experience that increased brand perception and loyalty. Kamilah has developed marketing communications programming for Lexus, McDonald’s, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, Beam-Suntory, Nordstrom, Obama for America, National Urban League, and PepsiCo. Her work for Verizon obtained more than 1 billion impressions, garnered an American Advertising Federation Mosaic Award and contributed to an Ad Age Multicultural Agency of the Year Award. She is a leader in multicultural markets, social impact marketing, and digital engagement. Her passion is to mobilize consumers and communities toward social impact by delivering exceptional brand experiences. Kamilah is a proud public school parent, a graduate of Texas A&M University and serves on the Advisory Council for the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.

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• Kami Dar

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  Managing Partner & Global Head of Development Innovation, Devex

  Kami is innovator-in-chief at Devex, inspired to develop revolutionary new tools to help development professionals do more good for more people. As founding Executive Vice President at Devex, he leads a global team of analysts, researchers, engineers, and designers to deliver the world-class technologies that have made Devex the definitive hub for more than a million global development professionals.

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• Suzanne Bowles

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  Global Partnerships Specialist, Tostan

  Suzanne is leading Tostan's Global Mobilization Team, a community of visionary partners committed to an equitable future through empowering education and community-driven development. This movement strives to overcome fixed mindset and co-design the communities of the future. Tostan's network of support reflects the interconnected dignified movement sparked by Tostan in West Africa. It advances the story of love, respect and inclusion as the foundation of positive social transformation. The Global Mobilization Team seeks partnership with other community-driven development orgs, strategic investors, and visionaries who will help achieve "Dignity for All" through expert grassroots leadership and radical generosity around the world.

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• Tom Childs

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  Head of Corporate Partnerships, Saïd Business School

  Note that my job title is Associate Director of Fundraising. My primary responsibility is to manage and lead fundraising initiatives and operations to secure philanthropic support for the agreed priorities of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford Saïd in 2014, I worked for the charity Oxfam for fourteen years as a Major Gifts Fundraiser. I have a bachelor’s degree in Communication from Bournemouth University, and a master’s degree in Studies in Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Additionally, since 2012 I have been a Trustee for Cecily’s Fund, a charity based in Oxfordshire that supports orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in Zambia.

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• Julie Greene

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  Skoll Scholar, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Julie’s personal mission is to create opportunities for women to thrive, not simply survive. The social and economic inequality she experienced during two years serving in Peace Corps Rwanda and a year with AmeriCorps in Denver, Colorado inspired her to focus her energy on women’s empowerment. Specifically, Julie is passionate about creating greater educational and economic inclusion for women. Her experience in international and domestic development work, along with education and gender equity programmess, propelled her to co-found The Women’s Bakery (TWB) in 2015. TWB is a social enterprise which builds bakeries and provides vocational training and employment to women in East Africa. With over 50 women employed and five bakeries in Rwanda, TWB continues to expand, with goals for global expansion through franchising. Julie has come to believe that business is one of the best tools for development, social impact, and sustainable change. Julie has built her career in the social enterprise sector, developing high-impact businesses, managing and directing international programmes, and facilitating women’s empowerment through education and employment.

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• Julie Engelhorn

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  CEO, POLLEX GmbH

  As the CEO of POLLEX GmbH, Julie spends her time finding impact investments across all asset classes, with a personal passion for direct deals in Africa. Julie studied medicine and health economics at Heidelberg University, with a diploma in tropical medicine from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. She should be finishing her doctorate on malaria vaccine research, which she performed at the Centre de Recherches Médicales in Lambaréné, Gabon. However, the impact investing world grabs most of her attention.

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• Sithu Thein Swe

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  Head of Partnerships, Proximity Designs

  After spending his life living overseas, Sithu returned home to Myanmar in 2017 and joined Proximity Designs as Analytics Manager of its Farm Advisory Services (FAS) business unit. He works closely with the General Manager to lead FAS's overall strategy, management and operations, with particular emphasis on equipping the field team with data analytics to better support smallholder farmers. He previously spent six years in Los Angeles consulting to nonprofit and philanthropic leaders to link together their organization's impact, strategy, and and business planning.

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• Shan-I Severson

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  WEF, World Education Fund

  I have been an active member of SV2 for many years. SV2 is a collaborative NGO where we pool our resources to invest in social ventures. I have a background in both for-profit technology for 15 years with Sun Microsystems, and founding the US and African-based NGO. I am the CEO of TSF in Tanzania, an educational NGO where I have run the Tanzanian educational arm for the past 10 years. We are focused on infrastructure and IT development in rural Tanzania for promising high school and University In order to expand our successful educational efforts, we have founded The World Education Fund to continue our work in Africa and to expand to India and Nepal as well as working locally in the Palo Alto Ca Area to offer a broader range of educational visual aids to students.

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• Simone Friedman

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  Head of Philanthropy and Impact Investment, EJF Philanthropies

  Simone Friedman is the Head of Philanthropy and Impact Investment for EJF Philanthropies, managing grantmaking efforts across sectors, including sustainable food systems and species conservation. Simone's current focus is on supporting impact campaigns for documentary films and other media projects. Prior to her involvement with EJF Philanthropies, Simone founded and later sold an analytics company that used proprietary software to identify trends in patenting. Simone serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., and is active in several networks for philanthropists and impact investors.

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• Sierra Gonzalez

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  Former Director, Marketing & Communications, Skoll Foundation

  Sierra Gonzalez served as Director, Marketing & Communications for the Skoll Foundation’s on- and offline engagement, marketing, and communications work. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Sierra spent the last decade supporting arts organizations undergoing transformational changes in strategic marketing roles with Stanford Live and Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, SFMOMA, and the Exploratorium. Sierra holds a BS in Product Design from Stanford University and an MA in the History of Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center. In her free time, she enjoys building LEGO sets and browsing bookstores with her daughter and husband.

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• Josie Powell

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  PR Manager, Saïd Business School

  Josie Powell heads the press and communications team at Oxford Saïd communicating the broad range of the School’s activity to global media, and supporting the school's vision to solve some of the world's most pressing and intractable problems. Before joining the school in 2001 Josie held a role in market research, and as an in-house marketing executive. She holds a degree in business studies, a Diploma in Marketing, a Certificate of Market Research, and a Diploma in Managing Digital Media.

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• Roeland Monasch

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  CEO, Aflatoun International

  Roeland Monasch is CEO of Aflatoun International a Social Franchise delivering Social and Financial Education through a network of 350+ partner organizations in 100+ countries. Previously, Roeland worked for over 20 years for the UN (UNICEF & WHO), including as UNICEF Representative in Sierra Leone, Georgia, and Zimbabwe.

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• Robin Bruce

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  President, Dovetail Impact Foundation

  Robin Bruce serves as President of the Dovetail Impact Foundation where she’s honored to partner with exemplary entrepreneurs confronting the greatest challenges of our day. Prior to joining Dovetail in 2017, Robin spent four years as the CEO of the Acton School of Business, an award-winning entrepreneurial MBA in Austin, Texas. In her role, Robin had the privilege of walking alongside extraordinary individuals in their journey to become principled entrepreneurs. Robin holds an MBA from The Acton School of Business and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University. She received Texas Business Hall of Fame's 2010 Award for entrepreneurial achievement. Robin and her husband Taylor live in Austin, Texas with their three children and a giant goldendoodle named Cooper.

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• Stefanie Merck

  Delegate

  Principal, Peter Möhrle Foundation

  Since 2016 Board Member of the Merck Family Foundation

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• Joseph Egger

  Delegate

  Assistant Professor, Duke Global Health Institute

  Joe Egger is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Associate Director for the Research Design & Analysis Core at the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. Dr. Egger's research interests include health systems strengthening and healthcare quality, with an emphasis on novel methods for design and data collection of rigorous health(care) evaluation. Dr. Egger is particularly interested in the role of private social enterprises in global health, and metrics and evaluation for scaling the impact of these enterprises. Joe holds a master's degree in medical geography from the University of Washington and a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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• Lucien Chan

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  Managing Director, Portfolio Impact, The Audacious Project

  Lucien is the Managing Director for the Portfolio Impact team at The Audacious Project. In this role, Lucien ensures that Audacious finalists are thoroughly prepared for investment and that funded projects receive the support they need to maximize their impact. His team is also responsible for Evaluation & Learning. Prior to Audacious, Lucien was a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investment team at the Skoll Foundation. There he led Skoll’s investment practice, including the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship program. During his tenure, he directly led investments for a $40M portfolio spanning five continents and multiple sectors, including climate, health, smallholder agriculture, human rights, education, and employment. A Bay Area native, Lucien received a BBA in Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

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• Spencer Ton

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  Vice President, African Leadership Group

  Spencer Ton is Vice President of Strategy at the African Leadership Group and leads strategy and product development for the African Leadership University’s accelerated schools (ALX) and education finance company (ALFC). Spencer is also a Partner of the Vitrum Group, a strategy and investment firm focused on disruptive solutions and technologies that address supply chain innovation, workforce development, and education in emerging markets.

Prior to this role, Spencer was the first Executive Director of the Cordes Foundation, a private, family foundation based in New York & San Francisco. In this role, Spencer was charged with overseeing the foundation’s strategy in building out a more safe and secure world though the advancement of the foundation’s philanthropic, impact investing, and field building work around women and girls. Spencer is a member of the United Nations Global Accelerator and serves on the board of Ashesi University, Educate!, Design Capital, and the Millennium Campus Network.

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• Jorn Lyseggen

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  Chief Executive Officer, Meltwater

  Jorn Lyseggen is the founder of Meltwater, which he started with $15,000 in Norway in 2001 and bootstrapped into a global leader in media intelligence with 60 offices on 6 continents, serving more than 30,000 corporate clients world-wide. Meltwater was Jorn’s 4th startup, and prior to Meltwater he had two trade sales and a public listing under his belt. He started his career as a research scientist in artificial intelligence at the Norwegian Computing Center and has several patents to his credits. In 2016, Jorn launched Shack15, a data science hub and co-working space in London, with an ambition to create a global network of co-working spaces to foster the next generation of data science startups. Jorn is an active philanthropist, and in 2008 he started Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a tertiary school for training and developing African software entrepreneurs, and a pan-African network of tech incubators spanning Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.

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• Serena de Nahlik

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  Project Manager, Oxford Product Design

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• Jorge Caballero

  Delegate

  Sundance Filmmaker, Individual

  Lives and works between Barcelona and Bogotá. He holds a BA in Telecommunications Engineering, a BA in Audiovisual Communication and an MSc in Interactive Media. Currently studying a PhD in cinema and communication. He is a co-founder of the production company GusanoFilms based in Barcelona and Bogota, as a filmmaker, he has directed several films like “BAGATELA” (Best Documentary film DDHH BAFICI Argentina, Feisal Prize Guadalajara Film Festival…) “BIRTH” (Best film L’Alternativa Barcelona, Best film UNASUR Argentina, best documentary film Latin America TV public network…), “PATIENT” (Best Director Cartagena international film festival, jury prize Guadalajara Film Festival, best director Malaga film festival, Signis Prize Cinema Reencontrés Toulouse, Best Film latitudes Docs- Barcelona …) His films have been selected in very prestigious film festivals around the world like IDFA, SXSW, Cinema Du Reel , Visions Du Reel , Biarritz, Thessaloniki , IFF Oslo or Munich among others. He has won two times the national documenary award in Colombia. He is also the lecturer and coordinator of expanded documentary at the Master’s Degree in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He also teaches in some universities and Latin American film festivals like Universidad del Valle Colombia, DOCSDF Mexico, Ambulante Film Festival Mexico, Cartagena Film Festival, EICTV Cuba or the Ecuador Cinema National Council. He has developed interactive and transmedia projects like "" Cronica de una ciudad que fue“, SXSW VR Cinema, "PATIENT”, “The borders” made with the Art for Change grant by “la Caixa”, Spain; or “Speech Success”, winner of the Haiku call made by the broadcasters NFB Canada and Arte Francia. He has worked as a producer for several broadcasters like DOCTV, Señal Colombia, TV Catalonia Network or Discovery Channel, as well as advertisements and museum projects fordifferent centres in Spain.

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• Lacey Books

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  Founder and Executive Director, YouthRoots

  Lacey’s long-standing passion (some might even say obsession) with youth philanthropy began in high school when she was given the chance to be part of the Youth Advisory Council of the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation. During that experience, Lacey felt that the adults in her world valued her passion and optimism and were resolute in giving her the tools to put those qualities to good work. She was determined to pay it forward. Lacey went on to Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, CA where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience. Upon graduation, she married her high school sweetheart and earned a teaching certificate from Stanley British Primary in Denver, CO. And she worked (and continues to work) for her five-generation family business, The Everist Company. In early 2010, Lacey decided it was time to follow her true passion, inspiring youth to act on their big goals by helping them put a framework to their dreams. Nine months later, YouthRoots was born in full force with the first YouthBoard coming together to enact change in September of 2010. When she’s not relentlessly pursuing one of those projects, Lacey enjoys spending time with her three daughters and husband, volunteering, and pretending she is a world-class artist. She also enjoys anything in the outdoors. You can find her sailing on weekends in the summers and skiing in the winters. She also enjoys mountain biking, climbing and hiking.

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• Liz Wallace Ellers

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  Founder, The globalislocal Fund

  Liz is Founder of The globalislocal Fund, an educational and funding vehicle investing in solutions to poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. globalislocal drives educated, aggregated capital to global development issues by making high-impact global investing accessible and relevant to philanthropists, social investors and foundations.  Ultimately, globalislocal’s goal is to increase dramatically the number of investors and volume of investments actively engaging these issues. To this end, globalislocal is exploring expanding its proven model through strategic partnerships in the United States and abroad. Liz has served as advisor, partner and board member in the fields of economic development, education, and leadership. She is alumna of The Philanthropy Workshop, and a member of The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Liz has received awards for pioneering work both with the Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development and The globalislocal Fund. In her prior life, Liz was an investment banker. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in International Relations from UCLA. Liz has lived in Mexico and Brazil, where she studied economics and international development at Universidad de Sao Paulo.

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• Jonathan Simmons

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  Chief Experience Officer, Lumos

  Currently Chief Experience Officer at Lumos, a Global Children's charity committed to providing effective care systems for children, and ensuring the permanent closure of all children's institutions by 2050. Previously 15 years as founder and leader of one of UK's leading digital consultancies, Zone. Trustee of UK housing charity, Shelter.

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• Joke Le Poole

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  Founder/Director, Max Foundation

  Joke Le Poole is Co-Founder and Director of international nongovernmental organization Max Foundation and the social enterprise MaxTapWater. Max Foundation started in 2005. Joke and her husband Steven lost their eight-month-old son Max and they sought to prevent other parents from suffering the same sorrow. They come from the corporate sector, Joke in marketing and logistics (Heineken), with an engineering background, and Steven from the finance sector. They brought their business expertise and entrepreneurial thinking to bear on child mortality, seeking to prevent it in the most (cost-) effective and long-lasting way. They chose diarrhoea as a leading, preventable killer of children, and Bangladesh for the potential for impact. Joke committed fully to Max Foundation, becoming its chief executive, and leading it to impressive impact, improving 2,5 million lives to date through an evidence-based approach to child health, integrating water, saniation and hygine, nutrition and sexual and reproductive health. In 2019, Joke set up a social water enterprise, MaxTapWater as a spin-off from Max Foundation. MaxTapWater, build and operate mini-grids for piped water supply in Bangladesh to supply easy, safe and affordable water to households. About Max Foundation Established in 2005, Max Foundation is an business driven international nongovernmental organization focused on reducing child mortality in the most efficient and sustainable way by improving poor people’s access to good nutrition, safe water, proved hygiene and sanitation in developing countries. We believe that development aid profits from a business-driven approach. We work with our heart ánd head in order to maximize our impact (www.maxfoundation.org) About MaxTapWater We see a future in Bangladesh without water crisis. A Bangladesh in which every person has safe, sufficient and affordable water delivered straight into their home. The social enterprise Max TapWater was established in 2019 as a spin-off from Ma

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• Joia Mukherjee

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  Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health

  Joia Mukherjee MD, MPH is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health (PIH), an international medical charity dedicated to providing a preferential option for the poor in healthcare. She is an internist, a pediatrician, an infectious disease doctor, and a public health specialist. Dr. Mukherjee has been supporting PIH’s efforts to provide high quality, comprehensive health care to the poorest in partnership with local communities and health officials in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Navajo Nation. Dr. Mukherjee’s clinical foci include HIV, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, mental health, Ebola, human resources for health, and health systems strengthening. She also teaches Global Health Delivery, social medicine, infectious disease and human rights to medical students, residents, and fellows at a wide variety of US and international institutions. She has helped create a new residency and fellowship training program for Rwandan and Haitian physicians as well as global health residencies and fellowships for US trainees at Harvard and other American universities.

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• Shannon May

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  Co-Founder, President, NewGlobe Education

  Dr. Shannon May is President and Co-Founder of NewGlobe. NewGlobe supports national and state governments by creating powerful technology-enabled education systems, using digital transparency and scientifically tested pedagogy to support accelerated learning. Shannon has worked in design of systems for early childhood through secondary school, multi-grade classrooms and cross-age homogenous learning groups. NewGlobe has unequalled experience in transforming educational outcomes at speed and scale, delivering increased learning gains in marginalized and under-served communities. NewGlobe provides integrated teacher support, school management practices, and capacity building for ministerial leadership. This combined with custom software applications and digital publishing enable digital transparency for ministerial leaders, empowering data-driven decision making at both the school and national level. NewGlobe’s government programs serve 2 million children each school day.

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• Santiago Montoya

  Delegate

  Chief Investment Officer, A Glimmer of Hope

  Originally from Bogota, Colombia. University of Notre Dame Graduate. Previously worked at the University of Notre Dame Endowment for 6 years. Currently, serving as the Chief Investment Officer of A Glimmer of Hope Foundation. Grew up playing tennis and enjoy playing still.

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• John T. Stephens

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  Executive Director, BOMA Project

  John joins the BOMA team after serving on our Board of Directors for more than a year. He is a seasoned humanitarian professional committed to bringing transformational solutions to the world’s most urgent problems. As Senior Director of Program & Partnerships at The Vibrant Village Foundation, based in Portland, Oregon, he oversaw 26 grant partners as well as three field teams based in Ecuador, Ghana and Kenya. Previously, John held a number of positions over twelve years at Mercy Corps, supporting staff and programs in the field with technical operational and program support, security management and proposal-writing. John was also deployed as part of Mercy Corps’ emergency response team to natural disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake, and the Lushan earthquake in China. John’s last few years at Mercy Corps were spent supporting programs in the West & Central Africa portfolio. John is based in Portland, Oregon, is married and has two children

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• Sartaj Anand

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  Founder, TEDx

  Sartaj is an entrepreneur with an unreasonable dream to positively impact 1 billion human lives within his lifetime. He enables individuals and organizations all over the world to create exponential social and economic impact. Sartaj believes the mix of systems thinking, emerging technologies and conscious capitalism can resolve our greatest challenges. He has traveled and worked in more than 50 countries so far and now focuses on delivering results that can scale.

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• John Napier Tye

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  Founding Director, Whistleblower Aid

  Mr. Tye earned prominence during the Obama Administration in 2014 as a whistleblower successfully publicizing allegedly unconstitutional activities by the U.S. National Security Agency, for which he was named one of the “National Security Law Heroes of 2014” by Just Security Blog. Tye launched Whistleblower Aid in September 2017 as a pro bono law firm providing desperately needed legal and 360° client support to whistleblowers. Whistleblower Aid helps courageous clients to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking—without breaking the law. Mr. Tye graduated from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School. Mr. Tye has worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Avaaz, and also Southeast Louisiana Legal Services as a Skadden Fellow. He was on the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana.

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• Kirsten Poitras

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  Managing Director, The World We Want Foundation

  Kirsten began her career with Procter & Gamble where she held numerous brand management positions. Wanting to get involved in International Development and poverty alleviation, she went on to study International Affairs at The Fletcher School in Boston and received her Master’s in 2009. As well being the Managing Director of The World We Want Foundation, she is chairperson of the ENLA board in Haiti; a board director of Ture Invest Partners AB, T3 Recycling Kenya, and Virunga Origins; and a board observer for OMC Power in India. In 2023, Kirsten also became the co-owner and director of Waterlovers Beach Resort in Diani Beach, Kenya. Kirsten has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the University of San Diego.

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• Lindsey Powers

  Delegate

  Senior Program Manager, Global Partnerships, Skoll Foundation

  Lindsey Powers joined the Skoll Foundation in 2011 and currently serves as Senior Program Manager for Global Partnerships. In this role, Lindsey cultivates and implements mutually beneficial strategic relationships to advance the Skoll Foundation mission and serve Skoll's community of social entrepreneurs. Lindsey began her career at Starcom Worldwide, the marketing and media arm of the advertising agency, Leo Burnett. There she managed the communications strategies and investments for multiple high-profile consumer brands. After deciding to shift focus to the nonprofit sector, Lindsey worked in development at a number of Chicago-area nonprofits, where she planned and executed fundraising campaigns to magnify the reach and impact of the organizations’ initiatives. Lindsey received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

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• John Lotspeich

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  Vice President, Restoration, Conservation International Foundation

  Leader in conservation and climate action, working for a just transition to a greener, nature-positive economy. Currently leading the restoration portfolio for Conservation International, focusing on human-centered design for the restoration of healthy ecosystems that can support communities through the recognition of indigenous and local land rights. Previously worked across three organizations leading the Trillion Trees partnership to protect and restore the world’s tropical forests. My work has put development and equity at the center of partnerships and as we look to address the climate crisis, it is my firm belief that we must bring human rights and equal opportunity to for in our efforts to address the climate crisis. This was the reality that I saw in my nearly three years in francophone West Africa where I saw the impact of climate change on the daily lifes of those who are already marginalized by the imbalances in the global economic system.

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• John Barth

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  Chief Content Officer, Public Radio International

  John Barth is the Chief Content Officer at PRX, where he finds fresh talent for PRX shows and partners and develops new shows for broadcast and on-demand listening. John oversees a national program portfolio including two daily shows – The World and The Takeaway, the latter produced at WNYC. And, he has been instrumental in creating The Moth Radio Hour and the duPont-Columbia Award-winning investigative program Reveal. He has also launched non-fiction podcasts with Esquire, The Smithsonian Institutions, Outside magazine among others. He was the founding producer of the business program Marketplace, then ran AOL's news operations and business, and was in charge of original content for Audible. He’s been a reporter and news director at public radio stations in Missouri, Minnesota, and Philadelphia and reported for NPR and Business Week. John advises the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and has taught there as an adjunct.

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• Linda Kamau

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  Founder & Executive Director, AkiraChix

  Linda Kamau is the Founder and Executive Director of AkiraChix whose mission is to uncover underserved young women in Africa and equip them with technology skills to compete economically and bridge the gender gap in technology. An engineer turned entrepreneur, Linda nurtured her entrepreneurship skills through the Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She holds a Bsc. in Business Information Technology from Limkokwing University. Linda is part of the Inaugural class of Obama Leaders:Africa (2018) as well as a returning leader 2019. She is also a Segal Family Foundation African Visionary Fellow, a Builders of Africa’s Future Awardee and a 2020 Skoll World Forum Fellow. As the leader of an organization at the forefront of getting more women in technology, Linda continues to champion the inclusion of women in the technical workforce. With skilled women, you are assured not only of economic changes, but also a shift in societal norms.

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• John Amos

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  President, SkyTruth

  John Amos is an expert in the use of satellite images and other remote sensing data to understand and communicate local, regional and global environmental issues. Educated as a geologist (at the University of Wyoming for his M.S. and Cornell University for his B.S.), John spent 10 years applying image processing, image analysis, and digital mapping techniques to conduct environmental, exploration and resource assessment studies for the energy and mining industries and government entities. In 2001, he founded SkyTruth, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to strengthening environmental conservation by illuminating environmental problems and issues through the use of satellite images, aerial photographs, and other kinds of remote sensing and digital mapping. In addition to his role as President of SkyTruth, he serves on the boards of The Commons and Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit organization formed by SkyTruth, Oceana and Google, and on the advisory board of The Ocean Foundation.

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• Richard Hawkes

  Delegate

  Chief Executive, The British Asian Trust

  Richard Hawkes is the Chief Executive of the British Asian Trust, the diaspora-led international development organisation that operates on the cusp of where philanthropy meets social finance, combining an entrepreneurial approach with innovative finance to achieve impact at scale. Richard is on the Board of UNICEF UK, Chair of Motivation and on the Advisory Boards of the World Humanitarian Forum and Charity Bank. He has previously been CEO of Scope and Sense International, International Programmes Director of VSO and Chair of BOND. In 2020 he was awarded an OBE for his contribution to international development.

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• Kim Keller

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  Executive Director, David and Anita Keller Foundation

  As the Executive Director of the David & Anita Keller Foundation, Kim Keller manages a global portfolio of investments in global health, human rights policy and advocacy, and environmental justice. She serves on the boards of Directors of Accountability Counsel, New Media Advocacy Project, UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center, and the National Asia Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). She previously served on the board of Last Mile Health and Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Kim holds degrees from Wellesley College, London School of Economics, and Harvard Kennedy School.

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• Joe Kallarackal

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  UK Director, Spring Impact

  Joe is Spring Impact’s UK Director. As Director, Joe is responsible for developing and leading the UK office’s strategy and operations, as well as overseeing a portfolio of domestic and international projects. Joe’s International projects include: Supporting Dance4Life, a sexual reproductive health rights organisation, to restructure their international network of partners into a social franchise system. Working in partnership with the Argidius foundation to identify and build scalable mentoring programmes. Working closely with Mowgli and Micromentor to expand into Latin America and Africa respectively. Supporting World Health Partners, an Indian telemedicine non-profit, to improve the financial sustainability of their existing maternally focused social franchise. Domestically, Joe currently leads the Spring Impact Scale Accelerator. An initiative bringing together the UK’s largest Trusts and Foundations to support their most promising grantees and new prospects to scale. Joe joined Spring Impact in 2015, bringing nine years experience of advising public and social sector clients from the global management consultancy Accenture. Previous projects include supporting the charity Enablis to define a Latin American expansion strategy, supporting Depaul UK to launch an employability programme and helping to define the global corporate citizenship strategy for Accenture.

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• Joe Brilliant

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  VP of Business Development and Partnerships, Dharma Platform, Inc.

  As both a student (Oxford SBS MBA, Skoll Centre Associate Fellow, '11) and practitioner of social entrepreneurship (Founder, CEO of EduCrate and VP of BD and Partnerships at Dharma) I've been fortunate enough to experience first-hand a wide range of social impact organizations in a variety of roles, stages, and sectors. I look forward to helping social entrepreneurs at every phase of their journey be even more impactful, from compelling storytelling to a sound data practice.

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• Leslie Tsai

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  Director of Social Impact, Chandler Foundation

  Leslie Tsai is Director of Social Impact of the Chandler Foundation where she leads the foundation’s international grant-making portfolio and strategy. Prior to joining the Chandler Foundation, Leslie was on the executive team of a global health nonprofit working on chronic disease prevention in the U.S. and abroad. Leslie started her legal career at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell before moving into the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. Leslie has also worked at the World Bank and has spent time at international institutions such as the United Nations, the African Development Bank, the Supreme Court of Rwanda, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She has been honored as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a John Gardner Public Service Fellow, a Shafik Gabr U.S.-Egypt Exchange Fellow, and a TEDx speaker. Leslie received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.S. in Business Administration and B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

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• Rachel Wald

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  Director of Programs, GLG Social Impact, Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.

  Rachel Wald is a strategic advisor and capacity builder. Currently, she leads GLG’s Social Impact Fellowship. Prior to joining GLG, Rachel was the Metrics Manager at Grassroots Business Fund in Washington D.C., where she focused on collecting and analyzing social impact data. She has also developed impact metrics strategies and strategic plans for various organizations across the sector. Rachel earned a Masters in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin and holds a bachelors degree from Duke University. Before pursuing her graduate degree, Rachel was on the founding team of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that empowers post-9/11 veterans to transform their lives by serving others and directly impacting their communities.​

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• Ruth Mapara

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  Program Manager, The ELMA Foundation

  Ruth is a Program Manager at The ELMA Philanthropies (Southern Africa) where she manages the ELMA Community Grants Program that supports over 120 community-based organizations working to improve the lives of children in Africa. She is responsible for the overall coordination of the portfolio, providing a leadership role in the development of strategy, developing and managing strategic partnerships, manage marketing and capacity-building support of grantees, and grants management. In addition to her philanthropy experience, Ruth is also experienced in managing research projects, facilitating project management training for community-based organizations and working in non-profit organizations in Southern Africa. Ruth is passionate about the development of African communities.

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• Jocelyn Jose

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  Head of Institutional Funding, Breakthrough

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• Leetha Filderman

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  President, PopTech Institute, PopTech

  Leetha Filderman is a strategist and NGO leader intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social progress. She has expertise in the fields of social innovation, public health and social justice. She currently serves as the President/CEO of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on global health, environment, social justice, nuclear non-proliferation and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs. Leetha has a background in strategic development and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She is a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, based in the U.K. Leetha splits her time between Washington, DC and a small seaside village in midcoast Maine.

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• Pippa Hichens

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  Finance Cordinator, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  I have worked at the Skoll Centre for 18 happy years, first as an event co-odinator, more latterly focusing on financial administration. My original training and background was in public horticultural administration having spent 18 years at the Royal Horticultural Society organising the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

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• Joanne Schneider

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  Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

  Joanne Schneider is a Senior Advisor at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She joined RPA in 2009 and helps individuals, families, corporations, and foundations at all points in the giving journey. Her work includes helping clients determine priorities for giving, developing and implementing philanthropic strategies, and managing grantmaking initiatives and giving programs. She enjoys that her role enables her to work with passionate philanthropists across a wide range of issues and geographies to bring needed resources to important causes and to support solutions to our biggest challenges. Prior to RPA, Joanne contributed to grantmaking and programs at the Skoll Foundation, the American Express Corporate Philanthropy Department, and the Morgan Stanley Community Affairs Department. She also managed the Volunteer Services Department of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, engaging donors and creating meaningful service opportunities. Joanne served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, Central Africa. Joanne holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan and a MBA from Columbia Business School, where her focus was Social Enterprise.

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• Laura Stachel

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  Executive Director, We Care Solar

  Dr. Laura Stachel, Co-founder and Executive Director, worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist for 14 years. She holds an MD from the UC San Francisco and an MPH and DrPH from the UC Berkeley, School of Public Health. Her research on maternal mortality in Nigeria alerted her to the deleterious effects of energy poverty on maternal health outcomes. Laura co-founded We Care Solar in 2010 to promote clean energy for safe childbirth in energy-poor facilities. Through their Light Every Birth initiative, they have equipped more than 8,650 health facilities in over 30 countries with We Care Solar Suitcases®—compact solar energy systems providing essential lighting, medical devices, and solar power. Laura and We Care Solar have won more than 30 awards for their innovative technology and programs, including CNN Top Ten Heroes, AARP Purpose Prize, and Zayed Sustainability Prize. Laura is passionate about promoting sustainable energy for healthcare and speaks globally on this topic.

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• Jo Confino

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  Executive Editor, Huffington Post

  Jo Confino is executive editor, Impact & Innovation and Editorial Director of What’s Working, at the HuffPost. He develops long-term editorial projects that are based on social, environmental and economic justice and is a member of the six-strong senior leadership team. He is currently running several major editorial projects ranging from This New World, which focuses on systems change and the transformation of capitalism, to Project Zero, which is highlighting the 1.5 billion poorest people who suffer from neglected tropical diseases. I Jo has chaired events and conferences all over the world for the past 15 years ranging from 1500 people down to much more intimate events. Before joining HuffPost, he was an executive editor of the Guardian and chairman and editorial director of the Guardian Sustainable Business website. During his 23 years at the Guardian, he set up and managed a unique multi-stakeholder development project in the Ugandan village of Katine, and helped create the Guardian global development website. Jo also created and managed the sustainability vision and strategy for the Guardian and its parent company Guardian Media Group. He has completed an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice at the University of Bath and is also a qualified executive coach and a trained facilitator. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Jo is an associate of Leaders’ Quest, a social enterprise that works with leaders to create a more equitable and sustainable world, and is on the faculty of the Singularity University. He is an advisory board member of Parallax Press, a nonprofit publisher, founded and inspired by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, that publishes books on mindfulness in daily life and is a trustee of Theatre for a Change, whose purpose is the empowerment of women and girls, particularly in their sexual and reproductive health.

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• Kathryn Hanson

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  Member, Board of Directors, ReSurge

  Kathryn currently serves on three non-profit boards: ReSurge International, which provides reconstructive surgery for the poor in Africa, Asia and South America; Downtown College Prep (DCP), which is a 4-school charter group serving low income Latinos who are first generation to college; and Creating Hope International, which serves women and girls in Afghanistan. She has served as a board member on several for-profit companies, including Trident and Tab Inc., as well as on boards for several non-profit companies in the education space, including ALearn and RAFT. In her board capacity, she helped to build effective, diverse boards with expertise, candor, and collaborative problem-solving capabilities. She has led boards on Nominating and Governance issues, from strategic guidance to board assessment to board composition and recruitment. She also founded and was CEO of Alearn, a non-profit which provided education services to underserved students to get them on the path to college, and has served as a mentor to first generation students. Kathryn has over 30 years of executive management and consulting experience in high tech companies, with an excellent track record in launching new products, new companies, and new channels.

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• Nikhil Dugal

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  Associate - Systems Change, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Nikhil Dugal works as a Consultant at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship where he has been instrumental in building the Systems Change Observatory, a long-term empirical study of systems change efforts in the social impact space, including pathways, challenges and solutions. Previously, Nikhil was the co-founder of Aadhan Infrastructure, a company engaging in eco-friendly construction practices (www.aadhan.org). Aadhan engaged in building modular container infrastructure for development sector organizations operating in rural and urban areas in northern India. He also has previous experience working in financial inclusion and impact evaluation at IFMR LEAD in India. As a Policy Outreach associate, he helped with the clear communication of complex research outcomes to policymakers, bankers and other stakeholders. He was also the Principal Investigator for a study on the graduation of long-term microfinance clients to formal banking in Tamil Nadu. Nikhil's interests include applied systems thinking, public speaking and facilitation. He is also a Skoll scholar, having completed his MBA from the Saïd Business School at Oxford University in 2018.

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• Jessica Vernon

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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 Fleuti

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  Managing Director, Portfolio & Investments , Skoll Foundation

  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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• Jessica Edwards

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  Director of Impact & Partnerships (& The Flex Fund), Doc Society

  With senior expertise bridging the worlds of creative media and non-profits, Jessica leads Doc Society's strategic partnerships and projects. Previously, she was an impact strategist on films such as Unrest, He Named Me Malala and Ida's Diary. She also has extensive experience working as a documentary and factual television producer/ director and subsequently, as an impact consultant, leading a number of high-profile projects with prominent NGOs. She is a qualified yoga teacher.

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• Jess Brandler

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  Director, OneVoice Europe

  Jess Brandler graduated from Cambridge University in Politics, Psychology and Sociology, specialising in conflict development, and the role of religion in politics. Following her graduation, she was awarded a fellowship at the Central European University in Budapest, where she completed her MA in International Relations and European Studies. During this time, she wrote papers and ran seminars on Palestine and Israel, and volunteered with The Human Rights Initiative (HRSI). After graduating in Budapest, she moved back to London, where she worked with an education sector in universities and schools as Business, Sales and marketing Manager of the company Yearbook Machine. She previously volunteered with the charity Football Beyond Borders. During her time at OneVoice she has helped to develop their flagship education programme into a renown multinational and self-funded project, recruiting and mentoring hundreds of aspiring Israeli and Palestinian youth leaders in the process. Her role as Middle East Director sees her fundraising and advocating for two of the largest grassroots organisations in the region, and assisting their staff and volunteers into becoming as impactful as they can be.

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• Michael Schwall

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  Senior Consultant, Bayer Foundation

  Dr. Michael Schwall is a social innovation strategist and CEO of Dr. Michael Schwall Social Innovation & Strategy as well as a Senior Consultant of Bayer Foundation. Currently he is dealing with building, funding and supporting social enterprise ecosystems in the health and agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. For a number of years, he has been active with in Bayer in developing business strategies for Africa. He started his carrier as a plant physiologist and a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg, Germany and the University of Adelaide, South Australia. After managing several startup companies in plant biotechnology and vegetable seeds Michael worked for a German company as a biotechnologist and a breeder in maize, vegetable and canola. When joining Bayer he worked in chemical research, global regulatory affairs and marketing in Germany and the USA.

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• Kathleen Godley

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  Trustee, Godley Family Foundation

  Dr. Carney Godley is a practicing physician with a plan to focus on philanthropy rather than retiring. She has a particular interest and the intersections of global health, education and the environment. She is proud that the Godley Family Foundation supported 2 recipients of 2018 Skoll awards- Angaza and My Agro. She looks forward to engaging with other funders who share her interest in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Carney Godley graduated from Wellesley College and Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her dermatology residency at Brown.

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• Katherine Lund-Yates

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  Fundraising and partnerships manager, Bioregional Development Group

  I work in the business development team of Bioregional, creating and fundraising for projects that will enable us all to live healthier, happier lives within the means of the planet. The projects I work on focus on scaling solutions for holistic sustainability, typically looking at the role of cities and local authorities in shifting the way citizens live and interact with their enviornment.

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• Michael Gordon

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  professor, Ross School of Business / University of Michigan

  Professor of "good business" -- social entrepreneurship, impact finance, community finance. University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. Ann Arbor, MI< USA Main interest today: getting past our different beliefs so we can work together and live together.

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• Karen Spencer

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  Founder & CEO, Whole Child International

  Karen Spencer founded Whole Child International in 2004 when she discovered an absence of services to address the social-emotional well-being of children living in orphanages. For the past 20 years, she has led an international team to improve systems of care, advocate and influence policy, and conduct related research. She has provided the vision and strategic direction for the organization’s growth, with a passion for systems change, sustainability, scalability, research, and third-party evaluation. The organization’s scope has expanded to reach an even broader group of vulnerable children, while retaining the original focus on emotional well-being. She is co-author of articles published in the peer-reviewed Infant Mental Health Journal and Perspectives in Infant Mental Health, contributing important insights and realistic solutions to the public debate. In 2015, she was elected an Ashoka Fellow for identifying and filling a gap in care for orphans and vulnerable children.

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• Jenifer Morgan

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  Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review

  Jenifer Morgan is global editions editor at Stanford Social Innovation Review. Jenifer was previously senior digital editor at SSIR. She has more than 20 years of publishing experience and has developed award-winning publications both in print and online. Before coming to Stanford University, she was a writer and web consultant for the Redford Center, a social change nonprofit founded by Robert Redford. Previously, she was editorial director of Ideal Bite, an online media company for conscious consumers. She was also the founding magazine managing editor of Shojo Beat magazine and managing editor of MacAddict magazine (now MacLife). Jenifer was a WorldTeach volunteer in Poland through Harvard University’s Center for International Development and earned a Private Pilot License from the Sierra Academy of Aeronautics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, with studies abroad at the University of Leeds, UK.

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• Jen Silverstein

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  Facebook Partner, Facebook

  Jen Silverstein has joined forces with the Facebook team as a committed partner to community entrepreneurs, aiming to build a sustainable industry for their important work. Jen is based in NYC at Incandescent, a strategy advisory firm with a focus on systems change. She is a Teach For America alumni, and earner her MBA from Columbia Business School.

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• Mario Avila

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  Founding Director, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures

  Mario serves as the founding Director of the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures (TFC) at Vanderbilt University, a center that serves as a thought leader for people across the university interested in combining revenue-generating businesses with social impact. He was honored as a 50 Under 40 Social Enterprise Leader by American Express and also selected to represent Nashville as one of Harvard Business School’s Young American Leaders - bringing together some of the country’s top leaders who are working across sectors to help their communities prosper. Most recently, he was honored as one of Nashville’s 40 Under 40 business leaders in 2020. Mario was the CEO of Emerge and founder of Contigo Financial, a socially responsible consumer lender. His management experience includes finance, education, and consulting in three different countries. He teaches various classes on Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship. Mario is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Vanderbilt.

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• Jeff Ubois

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  Senior Program Officer, 100&Change, MacArthur Foundation

  Jeff joined the MacArthur Foundation in 2011 to build what became the Discovery grants program, and has since worked in the Foundation's American Democracy, Philanthropy, and 100&Change programs. Previous to his time at MacArthur, Jeff worked for organizations focused on digital media and innovation, including UC Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems, the Internet Archive, the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, and the Preserving Digital Public Television Project at Thirteen/WNET. In the 1990s, Jeff worked as a journalist covering new technology, and co-founded a silicon valley startup, Omniva, which was funded by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Jeff attended New College in Sarasota, Florida for undergraduate studies, and as joint inventor, has five U.S. patents related to information management. Jeff is a frequent public speaker, and has published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Nation, First Monday, the Journal of Digital Information, and other journals, summarized at http://www.ubois.com. He currently serves on the boards of the Kahle/Austin Foundation, which supports access to digital information; Humanity 2050, which explores challenges of complexity and the human future; and QuestionCopyright.org, a Chicago-based organization supporting free culture and expression.

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• Peter Zahn

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  CEO, Futures Unbound

  Peter Zahn serves as CEO of Futures Unbound, a foundation focused on climate and environment, family wellness, and democratic engagement. He brings three decades’ experience as a leader and innovator across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. An attorney by practice, entrepreneur by blood, and environmentalist by passion, Zahn has served in a range of capacities, including owner of a business law firm, Deputy Mayor of Solana Beach, California, founder of the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce, and company CEO. Zahn cares about growing engaged and sustainable communities. He is involved both on a global scale, and in his local communities of Solana Beach and San Diego, California. He serves on Solana Beach’s Climate Action Commission; and the boards of Cleantech San Diego, the ZIP Entrepreneurship Platform at San Diego State University, City College of New York’s Zahn Innovation Center, and the clean technology Rocket Fund at California Institute of Technology. In addition to the outdoors, Zahn enjoys craft beer brewed in Solana Beach.

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• Jeff King

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  Senior Director Global Sustainability and Social Impact, Hershey Company

  Jeff King is the Sr. Director for Global Sustainability and Social Impact for the Hershey Company. In this position he is responsible for Hershey’s environmental sustainability, farmer livelihoods programming, philanthropic giving and community programs, as well as leading Hershey’s commitment to childhood nutrition programs that expand economic development in underserved communities. Additionally, he led building Hershey’s Energize Learning program in Ghana, opening a factory that produces the nutritional supplement snack ‘ViVi’, that supports the health and nutrition of Ghanaian children through a partnership with the Ghana School Feeding Program. Prior to this position King has held various commercial roles, most recently responsible for the strategic direction and regional execution for the Hershey Company’s two biggest franchises, as the Sr. Director Global Hershey and Reese’s. He has also been the Director of Disruptive Innovation expanding the company innovation portfolio into new businesses and business models. He has also been Sr. Brand Manager for the U.S. Reese’s Franchise, where he was responsible for managing all brand activities for the $1.2 billion Reese’s franchise. King joined the Hershey Company in 2008 from Procter and Gamble, where he held multiple marketing roles of increasing responsibility across brand management, innovation, and shopper marketing. While at P&G, he was noted for restoring growth to P&G’s original brand, Ivory soap, reversing decades of decline. He has a BBA for the University of Toledo, and a MBA from Indiana University.

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• Jeff Chu

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  Manager, Analytics and Accounting, Capricorn Investment Group

  Jeff Chu is a Manager, Analytics and Accounting at Capricorn. He joined Capricorn in 2014. Prior to Capricorn Jeff served as a Clients Operations Manager and Derivative Operations Manager at State Street Corporation. Jeff received his B.S. in Managerial Economics from University of California, Davis and is a CAIA charterholder.

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• Marcie Cook

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  Vice President, Social Enterprise, Population Services International

  Manages PSIs growing Social Enterprise portfolio of businesses and is a leader in Innovative Financing at PSI. In her role as Vice President for Social Enterprise Marcie leads organizational change management, business model evolution and strategy development and execution that sits at the intersection of financing, health, and innovation. She is recognized for strategic vision, driving change, entrepreneurship and system thinking across a diverse portfolio of businesses, organizations, locations, and cultures with long-term experience in East and Southern Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia, including significant time living and working in Afghanistan, Malawi, South Sudan, Pakistan and India. Experience at managing to a double bottom line using proven business and marketing practices for public and private sectors.

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• Peter Oola

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  Program Officer, The ELMA Philanthropies

  Peter Oola is a Program Officer with ELMA Philanthropies. He is an Economist by profession. He holds an MA in Economic Policy and Planning and a Bachelor’s degree in Development Economics from Makerere University. Peter possesses vast experience in early grade education, community outreach, research, and health. Prior to joining ELMA, he held the position of Field Program Officer with the World Education Inc., working in various districts of Uganda where he supported delivery of an early grade reading program.

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• Marc Silver

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  Correspondent, National Public Radio

  Editor of NPR's digital publication "Goats and Soda," which covers global health and development. Author of "Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) Through Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond."

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• Jayant Rastogi

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  CEO, Magic Bus

  Jayant Rastogi joined Magic Bus as the Chief Executive Officer, India in September 2016 and subsequently was elevated as the Global CEO. Jayant comes with 25+ years of corporate experience and was previously the CEO of Motorola Solutions, South Asia and has been in leadership positions at an Asia Pacific level for the last 15 years with organisations like Novell, Tech Pacific. Post Motorola, he had a stint as an investor and entrepreneur co-founding two technology-led ventures - one a social venture focused on providing affordable healthcare for the less privileged and the other an aggregator platform for commercial transportation. At Magic Bus, Jayant has established a strong sense of culture, passion, accountability and responsibility towards the cause, ensuring that each of our 2000 odd employees & 8000 Volunteers strives to deliver a high quality and impact full program. He has built a highly engaged and dynamic team consisting of both the development and corporate sector. In his journey at Magic Bus he has automated business operations brining strong governance, efficiency, rigour besides deepening the impact. He has constantly tried to bring a balance between the benefits emanating from the corporate world and the development sector building an inclusive culture as Magic Bus moves ahead into its next phase.

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• Jay Komarneni

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  CEO, The Human Diagnosis Project

  Jay is founder and chair of the Human Diagnosis Project. Previously, Jay advised preeminent organizations at McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company, helped launch and operate a global alternative investment firm, and participated in Y Combinator, the top technology accelerator. Jay has been recognized as a Thouron Scholar, a Luce Scholarship recipient, a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, an MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 semifinalist, and by the MacArthur Foundation for leading one of eight organizations globally with a bold solution to a critical social problem. Academically, Jay completed five degrees in six years at Oxford and Penn before enrolling in the M.D. program at Johns Hopkins (which he ultimately did not attend).

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• Luiza Serpa

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  Founder, Instituto Phi

  Social entrepreneur, graduated in advertising, she studied MBE in Sustainable Business Management at UFF. Founder and executive director of Instituto Phi, a social organization that bridges social investors and social projects. Responsible for moving 28 million dollars in the last 8 years of activity, supporting more than 1000 social projects throughout Brazil. She is part of the Responsible Leader network of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt and is a Senior Fellow of the Skoll Foundation and Nexus Global, she is part of the strategic committee of Latimpacto. She was elected social entrepreneur by Folha de São Paulo in 2020.

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• Javier Yunes

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  TEDxRosario Organizer, TEDx

  Javier Yunes has a passion for organizing events that trigger creativity and provoke all who dare to attend. He specializes in public speaking training and helping people from all walks of life develop effective communication skills to make an impact. Since his beginnings as an industrial engineer, Javier has also worked in the metallurgical and agricultural sector. He is the licensee of TEDxRosario since 2009, one of the oldest and largest TEDx events in South America. In his role as the TEDx Ambassador for the Southern Cone, he advises and guides the hundreds of TEDx events in the region. Together with a team of incredibly talented individuals, in 2014 he organized the world's largest brainstorming session and, in 2017, the wedding of Antonella Roccuzzo and Lionel Messi.

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• Jude O'Reilley

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  Vice President, Portfolio and Investments, Skoll Foundation

  As Vice President of Portfolio and Investments, Jude O'Reilley is responsible for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship and funding within the Skoll community. When he joined the Foundation in 2014, Jude had more than 18 years of experience in technology, management and entrepreneurship in the private sector. From working with Fortune 500 companies to being the first employee of a health-focused startup, he has launched more than 100 consumer and enterprise products. Jude's professional background includes more than four years at Amazon.com, where he was responsible for product management of the photos experience on the Amazon Kindle Fire, Amazon Cloud Drive and Checkout by Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon.com, he spent the majority of his high-tech career in startups of 5 to 150 people, including Trusera, a place on the web for people to share their personal medical experiences. At Trusera, he helped the CEO raise more than $3.2 million in angel investments and built the team that designed the original product from scratch. He began his product career at Aventail, an early pioneer in the SSL VPN space that was later sold to Dell Inc. Hard won lessons learned along the way included some high profile failures, like the Amazon Fire phone, and the indescribable feeling of bringing together an extraordinary group of people together to solve a very hard problem. Jude earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors in History from Swarthmore College. He lives with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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• Jason Rezaian

  Speaker

  Global Opinions writer, Washington Post

  Jason Rezaian is a writer for Global Opinions. He served as The Post's correspondent in Tehran from 2012 to 2016. He spent 544 days unjustly imprisoned by Iranian authorities until his release in January 2016.

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• Jones Thomas

  Delegate

  Director of Investments, Capricorn Investment Group

  Jones Thomas is a Director at Capricorn Investment Group on the investment team and leads Absolute Return, Credit, and Natural Resources investments. He is responsible for sourcing seeding and fund investment opportunities, due diligence, and deal structuring. Since joining Capricorn in 2018, he has maintained a special focus on climate sustainability investments. Mr. Thomas also leads Capricorn’s carbon offset procurement program for meeting the firm’s net zero objectives. Prior to joining Capricorn, Jones was part of Cornell University Endowment’s investment team, and has also worked at Credit Suisse and Deloitte Consulting. Jones holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, and a Masters in Financial Engineering from Cornell University. At Cornell, he was a JN Tata Scholar. Mr. Thomas is also a CFA Charterholder.

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• James Thornton

  Delegate

  Chief Executive Officer, Client Earth

  James Thornton is a lawyer, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist priest, author, Yale alumnus and founder of Europe’s most innovative environmental group. When aged just 26 James successfully forced the Reagan government to stop companies polluting US rivers. This achievement was one among many during 20 years of successfully taking legal cases against corporations and governments in the US to protect the environment. Among other pioneering work in the US, he worked with Hollywood philanthropists and lawmakers to set up the Los Angeles office of the Natural Resources Defense Councill (NRDC). In 2008 James brought this pioneering approach to Europe and founded ClientEarth. Since then he and his team of lawyers have brought cases throughout Europe on behalf of their one client: the Earth. They’ve taken the UK government to court and won (three times) over air pollution; prevented the destruction of Europe’s last primeval forest; stopped 30 new mega-polluting coal power plants from opening in Poland; and forced a ban on diesel cars in German cities. James and the new ClientEarth office in Beijing work with China’s Supreme People’s Court to strengthen environmental enforcement. James has received a lifetime achievement award from the Financial Times, twice been named Leader of the Year by Business Green and named ‘One of ten people who could change the world’ by the New Statesman. Even more than changing our world, for James it is about changing the way we treat it.

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• Jim Hu

  Delegate

  EVP, Audience, Participant

  Jim Hu is the Executive Vice President of Campaigns & Engagement for Participant, a Jeff Skoll Group company that is dedicated to entertainment at the intersection of art and activism. Participant’s films have earned 85 Academy Award® nominations and 21 wins. In his role, Jim co-leads the team responsible for developing campaigns to amplify the reach and social impact of its film and episodic content. His areas of oversight include strategic planning, operations, campaign measurement and evaluation and digital. Jim first joined Participant in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development and most recently served as EVP of Audience. He is a digital media veteran with a background in operations and strategy at global digital brands including Instagram, Yahoo! and the Los Angeles Times. He holds a B.S. from Tufts University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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• James Snowden

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  Senior Research Analyst, Givewell

  James is a Senior Research Analyst at GiveWell, an organization that identified evidence-based, cost-effective giving opportunities for donors, and shares all all its research publicly. GiveWell moves ~$150 million to its eight top charities each year. Previously, he worked as a researcher for the Centre for Effective Altruism, and a strategy consultant in the private sector.

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• Jim Cannon

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  CEO, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership

  Jim’s aim in life is to make it easy for fisheries ministers to protect ocean wildlife. Fisheries ministers are torn between environmentalists complaining fishing quotas are too high and marine protected areas are too small, and the fishing industry complaining the opposite. In most countries, most of the time, fishing industry interests win. That’s because fishers are the only people who fund and vote for a political party based on their fisheries policies. Jim’s job is to tip that political balance of power, by persuading fishers and local seafood processors to argue the case that marine conservation helps them maintain access to lucrative export markets, protects the jobs of seafood-processing workers (who vote!), and increases GDP – all things government ministers tend to listen to. It’s a tough sell, but Jim and his team have two tricks up their sleeves. First, they are experts at finding viable solutions that protect both the fishing industry and ocean wildlife at the same time. And second, they work with major retailers and seafood brands worldwide to require their suppliers to be pro-active advocates for conservation. Retailers and seafood brands are willing to do this, because they want a diverse, stable and plentiful supply of responsibly-harvested seafood. Jim and his team then work with suppliers worldwide to help them agree on solutions and engage fisheries ministers. Which is why Jim reluctantly spends more time cooped up in corporate and government meeting rooms than out on and in the oceans he loves.

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• Jim Chu

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  CEO, dlo Haiti

  Jim is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist with over 25 years in IT and operating in emerging markets. In the 90’s and 2000’s, Jim worked in the global technology sector in the US and Europe. He transitioned to emerging markets in 2010 and founded dloHaiti in 2013 to provide clean water to underserved communities in Haiti. Today, dloHaiti sustainably serves over 200,000 Haitians with safe water while boosting the incomes of hundreds of local entrepreneurs. More at dloHaiti.com Untapped Global spun out of dloHaiti to bridge the financing gap in emerging markets with Smart Asset FinancingTM, a technology-backed financing solution for SMEs. Today, Untapped has offices in E-, W-, and S Africa and provides Smart Asset Financing to companies with assets ranging from electric motorcycles and delivery vehicles to PAYGO solar irrigation pumps and safe drinking water systems. He is especially focused on electric mobility in Africa. Jim also manages equity funds for early-stage companies in frontier markets. More at untapped-global.com Jim is also the founder of The Nest, an international investment network connecting investors with emerging-market startups from around the world. The Nest hosts virtual and in-person events as well as in-country investment missions to regions with high-growth potential. During the pandemic, The Nest helped facilitate investments over $3M to early-stage companies in over 2 dozen countries. Jim is on the boards of Watering Minds, a US public charity supporting youth in emerging markets (more at wateringminds.org), and MCE Social Capital, a non-profit impact investment firm driving economic empowerment in developing countries. More at mcesocap.org Jim has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and has run companies and teams in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Aside from his native English, Jim speaks French, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese.

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• James Finucane

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  Co-Founder & CTO, mPharma

  James Finucane attended Connecticut College where he graduated cum laude with awards for excellence in mathematics and a major in Mathematics. Before founding mPharma with Gregory Rockson and Daniel Shoukimas, James worked as a freelance web and automation tools developer. For the last 6 years, James has been architecting, building, and maintaining technological systems and applications for developing countries. These systems range from hybrid mobile applications for digital prescription to data dashboards that allow users to explore large multivariate datasets. James Finucane is currently architecting and building the present and the future of mPharma’s technology with mPharma’s talented, global technology team.

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• Jacqui Kemp

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  Major Gifts Officer, Thorn

  I believe that philanthropy has the power to truly change the world. At Thorn, I help people determine the best use of their financial resources for the greatest impact. Prior to Thorn, I managed National Geographic's leadership giving program and corporate partnerships, after training teachers to run an youth development program, DC SCORES, in Washington, D.C. I began my career as an AmeriCorps member at Ashoka. Outside of work, I love trail running, snowboarding, redwood trees, and listening to other people's stories.

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• John Samuel

  Delegate

  Program Coordinator, Shack/Slum Dwellers International

  Working presently in India as restrictions for travel trying to strengthen the communities to fight the pandemic and necessary actions like masks and social distance to be observed and filling the gap between the stake holders and communities to deal this COVID working with the communities to address the issues of job loss happened and finding new jobs and getting the need of medical support and supplies for the communities which is a challenge and concern

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• Izadora Mattiello

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  CEO, Phomenta

  Biologist and master of Science, I worked for more than 5 years with social and environmental projects in scientific research institutes in Brazil, Chile and Holland, interfacing with incubators and startups. At the beginning of 2015 I did volunteer work in fundraising in the 3rd sector and six months later I founded Phomenta, a social business that certifies and accelerates nonprofits. Our mission is to strengthen these organizations through management and innovation education, so they could be more efficient and effective and generate more impact. I also took the Executive Education course in Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford and I am Responsible leader of the BMW Foundation.

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• Vincent Barnouin

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  Managing Director - Strategic Investment, Tortoise Ecofin Platform

  Mr. Vincent Barnouin joined Ecofin, now part of Tortoise, in 2004 and is a managing director. He previously served as Ecofin’s chief executive officer and also held roles of chief operating officer, head of marketing and business development and partner. Before joining Ecofin, he served as head of the European Private Banking Services division of the Russell Investment Group. Previously, he was deputy head of Salomon Smith Barney's equity business in Europe and head of European equity sales in Europe for Goldman Sachs. He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from HEC‐ISA (France) and a Master of Law degree from Paris Pantheon‐Sorbonne University.

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• Jennifer Oakley

  Delegate

  Program Partner, Imago Dei Fund

  Jennifer Oakley works to advance the strategic priorities of the Imago Dei Fund locally in Boston, MA and internationally. Directing and managing a portfolio of investments across multiple sectors, she works closely with partners of the fund. In this role, she explores and cultivates promising new ideas and initiatives and works to build the capacity of existing partnerships. Jennifer has a deep desire to serve as a catalyst to bring together talented visionaries 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 (NEID), Professionals in Christian Philanthropy and Big Bang Philanthropy. Prior to joining IDF, Jennifer practiced law at firms in Washington, D.C. and Boston.

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• Noah Nasiali-Kadima

  Delegate

  Founder & CEO, Africa Farmers Club

  Multi-Award Winning Farmer, Community Entrepreneur, Resident @FCLP, Skoll Fellow

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• Ilaina Rabbat

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  Co-Founder and Executive Director, Amani Institute

  For as long as she can remember, Ilaina has been working actively towards social change. Ilaina started her career at the United Nations Argentine Youth Organization in Argentina. When she was only 19 years old, she moved to Spain to work in the International Cooperation Department of the Youth Council of Galicia-Spain, supporting relations with the European Union. Since then, and consistent with her passion for education, innovation and learning from other cultures, she has worked on community-based projects in Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Haiti. Ilaina was an advisor to the Open Society Foundation and also worked at Ashoka, a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs. There, she held several positions: Director of a youth program in Buenos Aires; Global Campaigns Manager in Washington DC.; Leader of the expansion of Ashoka in Central America; and as a consultant in the creation of the ecosystem of young social entrepreneurs in Kenya. In 2011, Ilaina co-founded Amani Institute, an organization that is developing a new generation of professionals to create social impact. After spending almost three years in Kenya, three years in Brazil, and one year in the United States, she is now based in São Paulo, and acts as the Executive Director of the organization. Ilaina has two Master’s degrees: one in International Studies and Peace and Conflict Resolution from Torcuato Di Tella University (Argentina) and one in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (United States).

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• Jean Paul Warmoes

  Delegate

  CEO, Myriad USA

  Jean Paul Warmoes is the Chief Executive Officer of Myriad USA. He previously served as Executive Director of the King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS) and before that, as Director for International Relations of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF), one of the leading foundations in Europe. Prior to joining KBF, Jean Paul oversaw business development for an ODA consulting firm, and worked in Tokyo, Sydney and Paris. Jean Paul holds a Master’s degree from the Solvay Business School (University of Brussels), and earned degrees in foreign trade and international comparative management. He is fluent in French and Dutch.

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• Jaya Adapa

  Delegate

  Principal, YouTube Social Impact, YouTube

  Jaya oversees global social impact team at the world's largest video platform, YouTube. Through partnerships with NGOs, social activists and content creators, Jaya has built relationships across the social impact community and led YouTube's content strategies in crisis response, climate & sustainability, girls education, and responsibility. Jaya is a subject matter expert in corporate social responsibility, social good content, digital fundraising, and impact storytelling.

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• Hildegard Vasquez

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  President, Hache Uve

  Hildegard Vasquez has led the architectural office Hache Uve, which she created, since 1998, concentrating mostly on preservation and renovation of historic sites such as San Felipe, Panama´s historic district, and the city of Granada, Nicaragua. She is a founding member and president of Fundación Calicanto, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring and conserving the historic and human heritage of Casco Antiguo (San Felipe). Fundación Calicanto projects include the re-socialization of local gangs, educational programs for single mothers, a leadership in the arts program for kids, multi-cultural events, and many direct battles for the conservation of historical heritage. She is also chairman of the board of the Interoceanic Canal Museum and was part of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Arts from 2001 to 2005. Hildegard has a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design and a master of architecture in historic restoration from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She was a finalist for Avon Woman of the Year in 2011, Hero for Panama in 2011, and recognized as a Light in the Community by the Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Panama in 2011. Hildegard is a 2011 finalist for the McNulty Prize, winner of the 2013 Latin America FT/Citibank Urban Ingenuity Award, and recipient of the 2014 RISD Professional Achievement Award. She is a Fellow of the second class of the Central America Leadership Initiative as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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• Justine Lucas

  Delegate

  Executive Director, The Clara Lionel Foundation

  Justine Lucas is the Executive Director of Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation which supports and funds education, emergency response and climate resilience programs around the world. Previously, she was the Global Director of Programs for Global Citizen where she oversaw the GlobalCitizen Festival, events, programs and strategic partnerships. She was a Producer and key force behind the 2012 - 2015 Global Citizen Festivals in Central Park and the 2015 Global Citizen Earth Day event on the National Mall in Washington,D.C. An expert in campaign mobilization, strategic partnerships &developing and leveraging creative campaigns around complex policy issues, she has consulted for both international and domestic nonprofits and worked extensively on grassroots program development around human rights and access to justice issues in Cameroon. Justine is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has a B.A. in History and Anthropology and an M.A. in Global Affairs and Nonprofit Management, both from New York University. Justine resides in New York City.

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• Janet Kleinbaum

  Delegate

  Director of Marketing & Communications, The ELMA Philanthropies

  Janet is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the ELMA Philanthropies, the services arm of The ELMA Group of Foundations. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of ELMA’s external communications and strategic marketing as well as a serving as an advisory and support resource for the ELMA Foundation’s grantees.

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• Joanne Peter

  Delegate

  Director, Social Innovation Hub, Jhpiego

  Dr. Joanne Peter is Director of Jhpiego’s Innovation Hub. She leads a multidisciplinary team that combines frontier technology, human-centered design, market-based solutions, and systems thinking to drive new models of decentralized, data-driven and person-centered care across Jhpiego’s work in 40 countries. Joanne also leads Jhpiego’s Worldwide Innovation Support Hub (WISH), an accelerator program that supports innovators to scale their solutions within complex health systems. Joanne specializes in the use of health technology in low-resource settings. Prior to Jhpiego, she helped establish Johnson & Johnson’s Center for Health Worker Innovation, and worked at Google.org, the UN Foundation and DGMT on a range of health, technology, and innovation programs. Joanne trained in Medicine and International Development at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University respectively. She serves on the Board of Living Goods and the advisory board of Jacaranda Health.

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• Jane Kelly

  Delegate

  Head, Enterprise & Livelihoods, Vitol Foundation

  Jane has over 20 years of experience working in private sector development across sub-Saharan Africa catalysing economic growth through market-based interventions and inclusive business models. In her current role as Head of Enterprise and Livelihoods at the Vitol Foundation, she focuses on building co-funding partnerships to support innovative models and businesses which promote wealth and job creation across MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining Vitol Jane headed up Comic Relief’s Trade, Enterprise & Employment and Social Investment work focusing on agricultural supply chains and enterprise development. Now based in London, Jane spent 10 years living in Zambia working in both the non-profit and private sectors, having previously worked in marketing communications. She holds an MSc in International Development.

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• Jane Choi

  Delegate

  Chief Financial Officer, myAgro

  Jane Sun Choi is myAgro’s Chief Financial Officer where she works closely with the CEO on organizational and financial strategy, and leads the finance team in the development and implementation of financial management systems to support myAgro’s growth. This includes planning, audit, and monitoring of the overall financial, accounting and risk functions. Prior to joining myAgro, Jane helped two social enterprises in Haiti grow and transition from start-up to scalable businesses, including an agricultural company funded by the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. Before Haiti, Jane was the Country Finance Manager for a French NGO in Jordan and Pakistan working with Syrian refugees and Pakistani flood victims. In that role, she managed a €25MM budget and a team of 25 employees in some of the most remote parts of the world. Jane has extensive donor and investor experience managing partnerships with DFID, Clinton Foundation, USAID and several private investors. Prior to her transition to international development, Jane worked on Wall Street in risk management and investments. Jane recently finished a Post Graduate Diploma program in Global Business at Saïd Business School, Oxford, holds an M.S. in Actuarial Science from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Quantitative Finance from James Madison University. Jane is currently based in New York City.

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• Joanna Rau

  Delegate

  Chief of Staff, Skoll Foundation

  Joanna serves as the Chief of Staff at the Skoll Foundation. She works behind the scenes to manage processes that ensure the effective leadership of the organization in a cross-functional, collaborative manner. Previously at Skoll, she supported the Chief Strategy Officer and provided project support to several teams within the organization, furnishing her with a well-rounded, intimate familiarity with the Foundation. Prior to joining Skoll, Joanna spent 11 years as a bilingual Victim Advocate at the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Joanna earned her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. and In her spare time she enjoys baking, running and craft cocktail-mixing.

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• Jamie McGonnigal

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  Director of Business Development, Social Capital Markets

  Jamie is excited to be attending his second Skoll World Forum. He has handled partnerships for SOCAP for five years, following five years organizing RootsCamp, the nation’s largest progressive “unconference.” Prior to that, Jamie produced more than 200 Broadway concerts and events, benefiting organizations such as The Matthew Shepard Foundation, National AIDS Fund, United Nations Association, and Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. For four years, Jamie served as the Director for Camp TLC, a summer camp for inner city teens living with HIV/AIDS, and spent the better part of a year working as an administrator for the UNA's HERO campaign in rural parts of Namibia and South Africa. In his free time, Jamie is a cartoon voice actor for Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and several other animated features and video games. He can also be heard as a political commentator on SiriusXM Progress 127 and HuffingtonPost. He lives in DC with his husband Sean, son Malcolm, and puppies Lily & Rose. Find out more at jamiemcg.me.

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• Jo Ensor

  Delegate

  Global Director, The Philanthropy Workshop

  Jo Ensor is Global Director of The Philanthropy Workshop, an educational provider and network of 450 philanthropists and social entrepreneurs committed to being more strategic with their giving. Jo leads TPW’s global programming and has an interest in systems change, policy influencing, public private partnerships and using the market to achieve social change. Jo has over twenty years experience working in social change, and a background in livelihoods, health, education, and child protection programming. She has worked at the community level in more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia, and was a CEO of the African health organisation, AMREF. More recently, Jo has worked in the philanthropy sector, advising Foundations and individuals on their strategies, promoting effective philanthropy in emerging markets. Jo was CEO of a venture philanthropy fund in the Middle East, and is currently trustee of UBS’s Optimus Foundation, committed to supporting entrepreneurs, new technologies and new models to transform, scale and sustain child development. Jo is a graduate of Oxford University and has a Masters in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London.

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• Tim Carlberg

  Delegate

  Managing Director, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Jim Greenbaum

  Delegate

  Founder & Managing Director, Greenbaum Foundation

  “Being a bystander to suffering is not an option,” is my motto. I’m in my 24th year as a full time philanthropist and have committed to contributing in excess of 85% of my wealth to charitable projects during my lifetime, and the remainder soon thereafter. My primary philanthropic focus is on ending factory farming and moving the world to plant based diets and vegan lifestyles. To that end, my foundation assists and funds approximately 150 organizations throughout the world, and our annual grantmaking is currently in the $6 - $7 million dollar range. I am also an executive producer of several documentary films including Seaspiracy, The Game Changers, What The Health, Cowspiracy, Slay and others.

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• Jeffrey Westphal

  Delegate

  CHAIRPERSON & CO-OWNER, VERTEX INC., Vertex Inc.

  After 30 years in the corporate tax software business, I have formed MeaningSphere, Inc., a platform and collection of tools and services designed to help anyone who wants to create greater meaning in their work life. With the help of a remarkable array of mentors, coaches and authors over the breadth of my career, I came to see the larger meaning of tax software and of business itself. And, thanks to my courageous colleagues at Vertex, I was able to lead with a deep commitment to our shared value of respect, guiding us toward a collaborative approach in all aspects of the business, from governance to customer engagement. For the past 26 years, I have seen business through the lens of meaning and interconnectedness, with all work ultimately devoted to the sustenance and advancement of humankind. We all work to ‘make a living’ while also contributing something, no matter how small or mundane (like tax software) to the betterment of the human condition. If we take all of our efforts and join them together, what emerges is a sphere of meaning. I call that sphere of meaning, MeaningSphere and soon it will become a vehicle for anyone to create a career that truly matters and in so doing create a world inspired by the meaning of life.

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• Hannah Gibbs

  Delegate

  Head of Community and Membership, The Conduit

  Community and Project Manager with extensive experience leading teams in the UK and internationally to deliver international development and social innovation projects. With a BA in International Development and an MSc in Development Management, I began my career working on international health issues including malaria and HIV and AIDS, more recently focusing on institutional development and security sector reform. In the UK I have worked extensively with refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds and with children in need in the London. I currently Head up the Membership and Community Team at The Conduit, bringing together exceptional individuals from across the social impact space and facilitating positive change through collaboration.

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• Natalie Donback

  Delegate

  Associate Editor, Individual

  Natalie Donback is an Editorial Associate and Reporter at Devex. She holds a bachelor's degree in development studies from Lund University and a master's in journalism. She has worked in documentary filmmaking and as a freelance journalist covering politics and culture in Swedish, English, and Spanish. She is now based in Barcelona and produces content for digital content series and media partnerships.

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• Jill Ultan

  Delegate

  Director, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Jessica Posner Odede

  Delegate

  CEO, Girl Effect

  Jess co-founded Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) and is an internationally recognised social entrepreneur. Based in Kenya, SHOFCO catalyses large-scale transformation in urban slums by providing critical services, community advocacy platforms, education and leadership development for girls and women. In August this year, SHOFCO received the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize - the world’s largest annual humanitarian award presented to non-profit organisations judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering. Jess is also a New York Times best-selling author and winner of the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award (2016).

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• Grace Mzumara

  Delegate

  MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine, Saïd Business School

  Grace is a taught graduate student reading International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford as a Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Scholar. She is a Medical Doctor from Malawi interested in child health and International Development. In addition to serving as a Medical Officer with the Malawi ministry of health, Grace is a health consultant of the registered non-profit organisation, ‘UKANI’ Malawi. The organisation seeks to improve access to education for women and girls in Malawi by providing sanitation products and a ‘Back to School’ program for young mothers. Recently, Grace has begun working on designing a cervical cancer vaccination and screening awareness program with the organisation with the aim of preventing Malawis top womens cancer. In Oxford, Grace serves an Outreach director for the Medical Device 3-D printing project under Enactus Oxford. She collaborates with hospital and university representatives to identify clients and define the project scope in target areas. Grace is interested in introducing 3-D technology to solve every day health practice challenges in developing countries. Apart from studying under St Edmund Hall, Grace is a member of the Oxford Union and to read loves to read historical fiction.

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• Godfrey Chesang

  Delegate

  Senior Manager, Thought Leadership & Innovation, MasterCard Foundation

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• Mai Pham

  Delegate

  Director, Information Technology, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Gina Zanolli

  Delegate

  Chief of Staff, Water.org

  Gina Zanolli is Chief of Staff to Gary White, CEO of Water.org & WaterEquity. In this role, Gina serves as a principal advisor to the CEO and works closely with him on all aspects of Water.org and WaterEquity to ensure the organizations maximize every opportunity to transform the sector, innovate, and achieve their vision: safe water and sanitation for all. Since 2013, Gina has worked at Water.org to help design and launch new initiatives. Previous to Water.org, Gina worked at Partners In Health on Dr. Paul Farmer’s team. Gina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Washington.

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• Hilden Allgaier

  Delegate

  Social Innovation Manager, Saïd Business School

  Hildengard Allgaier works as a Social Innovation and Employer Engagement Manager at Oxford University, Saïd Business School. She has over 12 years of professional experience in global teams in Latin America, UK and Europe, including positions in the Steel and Mining, IT and Chemical sectors working across marketing, communications and sustainability. Hildengard holds an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University and sits on the Board of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR). From her background as a corporate intrapreneur she has supported start-ups, foundations, multinational organisations and boutique firms to reach their full-potential by designing educational programmes that help business to connect with their customers and wider stakeholders considering sustainability factors. She also has extensive experience fostering long-term cross-sector partnerships with universities, NGOs, media organisations and think tanks. She is currently working on implementing workshops in Rio de Janeiro (BR) and London (UK) that inspire, engage and equip young people with relevant content and local role models for them to be able to be more resilient and committed when choosing a career path. Previously to Saïd Business School, Hilden worked as a Senior Sustainability and Innovation Specialist for Dow Chemical in São Paulo, Brazil and coordinated communications strategies and stakeholder engagement initiatives for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Before working at Dow, she concluded a Research Fellowship at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), an incubator of academic projects specialising in research and teaching on issues of social inequity, based in Boston, US.

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• Heather Mason

  Delegate

  CEO, Caspian Agency

  Heather founded Caspian in 2005, intent on bringing a scientifically-based strategic discipline to white-glove event production. Her expertise in the innovation and social good business space have led to successful projects around the globe for the Skoll Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Omidyar Network, Ford Foundation and many others. Prior to launching Caspian, she managed events for Charles Schwab, producing conferences across the country. Previous pursuits in film and marketing include time with Fox Studios, Fox TV, the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals. She is an instructor in the Masters program at San Diego State University for Meetings & Events teaching Finance and Economics. She is on the board of the American Sustainable Business Network, and Utah Entrepreneur Organization. She is a frequent speaker and MC.

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• Gianna Goulding

  Delegate

  Associate, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Gianna is a Project Manager specialising in social impact education. She works with international clients in the higher education, charitable and corporate sectors to develop learning programmes and manage cross-sector partnerships. Her current work with the Skoll Centre includes leading Map the System, a global competition that encourages students to develop a systems-thinking approach to tackling social and environmental challenges, run in partnership with 34 universities around the world. Previously, Gianna has managed a portfolio of projects, events and educational programmes relating to social entrepreneurship and social finance, including Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK, the DFI Gender Finance Collaborative, the Skoll Scholarship and Emerge Conference. Gianna holds an MA in Gender & Culture from the University of Leeds and is passionate about advancing women and girls’ leadership across the globe.

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• Milton Speid

  Delegate

  Executive Director, VC Include

  Milton Speid, is the Executive Director of VC Include, a investment fund accelerator and network designed to develop and support diverse, institutional-grade emerging fund managers. Prior to VCI he was the Director of North America at The ImPact, a group of visionary families committed to aligning their assets with their values. He was also responsible for executing the “Beyond the Bay” and Eastern Region strategies that sought to reinforce Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s role as a global social enterprise and the premier philanthropic partner for charitably-minded individuals and corporations. He’s held senior roles at Epic Foundation, TED Talks, and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. He earned a degree in Psychology from the University of Hartford, where he captained the men’s soccer team and was later, in 2018, selected as his university’s Alumni of the Year. Speid lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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• Sharon Burke

  Delegate

  Director, Resource Security, New America

  Sharon E Burke works to balance human security and environmental sustainability. Her focus is on producing and promoting ideas that scale through public policy. She’s a former senior official in the Obama Administration and runs a program on natural resources at New America, a civic organization.

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• Geoff Moore

  Delegate

  Board Member, World Wide Hearing Foundation International

  Geoff is a Board Member of World Wide Hearing Foundation International, and has served in this capacity since 2014. Growing up, some of his earliest memories are of enjoying visits with his grandparents. It was during these visits that he was first exposed to the magic of hearing aids as his grandmother wore one in each ear. As a teenager, he volunteered at the Mackay Centre in Montreal for several years and some of the children he spent time with were hearing impaired. It has been clear since a very young age how transformational hearing aids are, and as a result Geoff is proud to be actively involved championing the work of World Wide Hearing. As part of that work he has participated in innovative hearing screening campaigns in Lima, Peru and in Kahnawake, a Mohawk Community near Montreal. Geoff has built his career over the past 25 years in the global investment management industry. He has held senior institutional sales roles in asset management at Bank of Ireland, Deutsche Bank, GE Asset Management and State Street Global Advisors where he served as a member of the Global Working Group for ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). He has also been an entrepreneur, originating the idea for and co-founding TBC Capital Inc. (Thinking Beyond Consensus), primarily focused on raising capital for impact investment funds. At the time he launched and ran a speakers series on impact investing and social entrepreneurship called EYE4IMPACT.

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• Gisela Porras

  Delegate

  Chair Woman, Dentons Muñoz

  Gisela Porras is the managing partner of Dentons in Panama. Her practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and international finance, with an emphasis on helping clients in transactions between multiple jurisdictions . She has held several positions in the public sector (2004-2009), including those of the General Director of the Tax Authority, Vice Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce and Industries. In 2009 the French Government decorated her as a Cavalliere of the French Legion for her efforts in preventing money laundering. In 2016, following the filtering of the Panama Documents, the President of the Republic designated her as one of only seven expert advisors in the adoption of best practices to strengthen the national platform of Panama. Gisela also works with the communities in her role as President of Voces Vitales de Panamá, an NGO that works on the empowerment of women.

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• Michael Onyango

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  Founder, 4Gotten Bottomillions

  Running largest and most trusted social media platform in Kenya, reaching over 500K persons weekly 4gotten Bottomillions (4BM). Sharing socioeconomic opportunities for free, fully verified. Previously, Regional Coordinator - Communications AfricaCDC - African Union ~ International Consultant - Designed and Supporting United Nations-SDG Innovation Lab in Kenya - DL(Blockchain) & Artificial Intelligence, Taskforce - Ministry of ICT, Government of Kenya https://ict.go.ke/blockchain/ Public affairs, policy and ICT, worked across Africa. 2015 - 2017, County Minister Kisumu Govt. - Comms, Info & Tech. Thought leader covered 38 countries around the world talks and insights. Currently supporting Alliance for Science as Head of Partnerships https://allianceforscience.org/ Contact: monyango@africamail.com

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• Gene Takagi

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  Principal & Editor, NonprofitLawBlog

  Gene Takagi is a principal attorney with NEO Law Group, contributing editor of the Nonprofit Law Blog, and a part-time lecturer at Columbia University. At NEO, Gene has represented over 800 nonprofit organizations on corporate, tax-exemption, and charitable trust law matters. A former manager in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, Gene’s diverse perspectives make him a popular speaker and writer on nonprofit legal topics. In 2016, Gene was recognized by the American Bar Association Nonprofit Organizations Committee as Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer. Currently, he is a board member of BoardSource and The Nonprofit Quarterly. Gene is a graduate of UCLA School of Law and holds a graduate degree in nonprofit administration from USF.

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• Heather White

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  COO, Burning Man

  As COO of Burning Man Project, Heather oversees Burning Man's program development, operations and affiliations. She also manages strategy and infrastructure, supporting the people and teams that drive Burning Man’s work in the world. For over 20 years, Heather has focused on helping organizations with strategy, operations and partnerships specifically in creative endeavors. Throughout her life and career, she collaborates with people on projects and practices that actualize human potential.

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• Sarah Williams

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Propel Capital

  Sarah M. Williams Sarah is co-founder and CEO of Propel, which invests in entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers building a more just and equitable society. Propel uses blended capital (political, investment, philanthropic) and invests 100% of its assets in alignment with its mission. Portfolios include Propel Democracy to build progressive power in the US and Propel Ventures to invest in early stage social impact companies. Previously Sarah led her own consulting firm, working with foundations, donors, and corporations to strengthen giving and impact investing strategies. She also launched and led the Pfizer Foundation, with over $320 million in assets, and worked in government and as an organizer. Sarah is also a lifelong activist, working in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in NYC, at the state level for access to health care, for various candidates for elected office, and with people and families affected by the criminal legal system. She serves on the boards o

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• Gregg Treinish

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  CEO, Adventure Scientists

  National Geographic named Gregg, “Adventurer of the Year” when he completed a 7,800-mile trek along the spine of the Andes. He founded Adventure Scientists, with a passion for exploration and scientific discovery. The nonprofit provides institutions with access to scientific data that can amplify and accelerate solutions to environmental and human health issues. As a result of their work: 1. >3M acres, including on 300 small farms in India, have improved crop yields after samples of the highest‐known plant life on Earth, collected by Adventure Scientists on Mount Everest, have enabled the isolation of symbiotic fungi that help plants thrive in harsh conditions. 2. Major steps have been made toward creating a new suite of interventions against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” in partnership with the Infectious Disease Institute at Harvard and the Broad Institute. 3. Authorities have new tools to catch illegal loggers. Samples from trees they collected are being used to create a map of the genetic and chemical variations of wood. These reference libraries can enable on the spot detection of timber origin and legality. 4. More than 200 governments and scientific institutions are utilizing the largest dataset on Earth for microplastics pollution, which was amassed by Adventure Scientists.

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• Jean Shia

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  Head of Portfolio and Investment, Autodesk Foundation

  Jean Shia is the Head of Portfolio and Investment at the Autodesk Foundation where she invests in a portfolio of organizations using technology for positive social and environmental impact. Jean has two decades of experience working across the public and private sectors in social entrepreneurship, economic development, finance and strategic operations. Jean was previously the Vice President of Business Operations at Driptech, a for-profit social enterprise focused on improving smallholder livelihoods through low cost irrigation technologies. Jean received a MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and a BS with Honors in Urban Studies from Cornell University.

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• George Tsiatis

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  CEO & Co-Founder, Resolution Project

  George M. Tsiatis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Resolution Project. Resolution has built a community of over 600 young leaders in over 80 countries who are solving the most pressing issues facing the world today; through their work, Resolution Fellows have impacted over 6MM people. George also founded Group 113, LLC, a brand management business and certified B Corp which serves impact-focused small and mid-size organizations. George previously worked at a major New York City public relations firm. George received his BA from Harvard University in Byzantine Studies and his JD from St. John's University. He has been published or featured in Forbes, Vice, Huffington Post, and others.

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• Gaby Arenas de Meneses

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  Founder and CEO, TAAP Foundation

  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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• Geoff Revell

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  Managing Director, WaterSHED

  Geoff is the founder and Managing Director of HappyTap (happytap.net), a social enterprise and the global leader in handwashing solutions for low-income settings. This group is expanding globally in response to the Covid19 pandemic. Geoff is also the co-founder of WaterSHED, a leading actor in the WASH sector, recognized globally for its pioneering systems approach to make water, sanitation, and hygiene markets work better for everyone. WaterSHED has set a global benchmark for cost-effectiveness and sustainability in rural sanitation. He previously worked at the World Bank Group on water sector projects in Cambodia, India, and in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to that, Geoff spent four years on the start-up team at a software firm based in Canada, now a unit of CA, Inc.

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• Gabe Brakin

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  Chief Operating Officer, Participant

  Gabriel Brakin is Chief Operating Officer of Participant Media and oversees company-wide strategy, business operations, deal making, legal affairs, and is responsible for the integration and operationalization of Participant’s content, impact and audience strategy. Participant produces annually up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, as well as digital short form programming — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change. Prior to Participant, Brakin was an entertainment and media transactions attorney in the Century City office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Brakin holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, and B.A. in Political Science from UCLA.

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• Matt Patsky

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  CEO, Trillium Asset Management

  Matt Patsky is CEO and Lead Portfolio Manager of the Trillium ESG Global Equity strategy. Matt has over four decades of experience in investment research and investment management. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1984 as a technology analyst. In 1989, while covering emerging growth companies for Lehman, he began to incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors into his research. In 1994, Matt became the first sell side analyst in the United States to publish on the topic of socially responsible investing. As Director of Equity Research for Adams, Harkness & Hill, he built the firm’s powerful research capabilities in socially and environmentally responsible areas such as renewable energy, resource optimization, and organic and natural products. Before Trillium, Matt worked at Winslow Management Company in Boston, where he served as director of research, chair of the investment committee, and portfolio manager for the Green Growth and Green Solutions Strategies.

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• Gbemisola Boyede

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  Founder/CEO, Ask the Paediatricians Foundation

  Dr Gbemisola Boyede is a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician and the Founder/CEO of Ask The Paediatricians Foundation. She started Ask The Paediatricians Foundation, a registered non-governmental organisation in Nigeria first as a Facebook Group in July 2015 out of her passion as a Paediatrician to reduce unnecessary and preventable deaths of children which are often due to ignorance in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Boyede was born and bred in Lagos, Nigeria. She did her undergraduate medical training at the University of Lagos. Dr Boyede is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, Faculty of Paediatrics. She also has the Sub-specialty Fellowship Certificate in Developmental Paediatrics from the College of Paediatricians of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa and a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree in Developmental Paediatrics (with distinction in thesis) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr Boyede is actively involved in academic and clinical research and has published papers in local and international journals. She is a recipient of international research grants. She has presented papers at local, regional and international scientific conferences. Dr Gbemisola Boyede volunteers her expertise as a Paediatrician in promoting child health intelligence for parents via her online Ask the Paediatricians Facebook group and website and free community medical outreaches to children living in indigent communities. Dr Boyede writes and speaks regularly on health care issues of children on National dailies, Radio and TV programmes. Dr Gbemisola Boyede's work on the Ask The Paediatricians Foundation has been featured in many local and international media like the BBC. Dr Gbemisola Boyede is a recipient of many local and international awards and fellowships including Fellow of Facebook Community Leadership Programme 2018 and two time recipient of the Social Media for Social Good Africa Awards (Health) category for 2019 and 2020.

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• Massi Pezzoli

  Delegate

  Chief Program Officer & Exec. Vice President, Touch Foundation

  Massimiliano Pezzoli is Chief Program Officer & Executive VP at the Touch Foundation. Founded and led by Lowell Bryan, Emeritus Director at McKinsey & Co, Touch applies a rigorous data-driven, problem-solving approach to strengthen local and national health systems. Massi leads Touch’s strategy development and program implementation. Prior to joining Touch, Massimiliano was a Senior Manager at McKinsey & Co., where he spent four years serving major clients in the private health sector as well as government and regulatory authorities across Europe, America and the Middle East. Massimiliano holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an Executive MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management from the London School of Economics, and an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan.

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• Gaston Wright

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  Director, Civic Compass

  Gaston Wright has an extensive experience in social innovations and technology for social change. He recently formed Civic Compass, a new think-tank for Latin America dedicated to studying digital rights and their impact on the civic space, as well as other pressing issues such as data protection, content moderation, AI and political polarization. In 2012 he started Change.org Argentina, turning the local operation into one of Latin America's fastest-growing social change platforms with more than 10 million users. After a long tenure working for influential NGOs, he moved to the private sector, where he was Public Policy Manager at Facebook for the South Cone. Previously, he worked at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in the US and Canada for 12 years, where he founded and led the global expansion of Changemaker.com. He also worked as a consultant on digital transformation for the Womanity Foundation in Switzerland and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.

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• Mary Galeti

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  Vice-Chair and Executive Director, The Tecovas Foundation

  Mary Galeti serves as the Executive Director & Vice-Chair of the Tecovas Foundation. The Tecovas Foundation funds social innovation & entrepreneurship by focusing on building community, leveraging new service models and sustainable economic development. Since 2009, Mary has led Tecovas to develop a concrete vision to increase the foundation’s capacity and effectiveness. Galeti also serves as a Principal at Shiplake Partners, a boutique consultancy which helps institutions create and nurture relationships with the communities that exist both internally and externally. As a facilitator, she has helped organizations find consensus around values, mission, and strategy. She has worked with many organizations including the World Economic Forum, The White House, The Open Society Foundations, Independent Sector, the Council on Foundations, and NEXUS. Mary served as a Global Board member of the Global Shapers Foundation, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. She was the Vice-Chair of the StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellowship Program. She served on the Board of the Council on Foundations, & chaired the Family Philanthropy Committee. In 2014, she was named a Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at the Lewis Institute at Babson College. She is a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Values. She is a Startingbloc Fellow and a member of the Global Shapers’ Washington, D.C. Hub. She has an Mst in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge. She has spoken on the issues of values based leadership and generational transition in philanthropy and the nonprofit space at many venues, including the White House, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Council on Foundations, the Global Economic Symposium, the Smithsonian, and The Nexus Global Youth Summit at the United Nations.

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• Fran Perrin

  Delegate

  Founder and Director, Indigo Trust

  Biography for Fran Perrin "Fran Perrin is the Founder and Director of the Indigo Trust which she established in 1999. It is one of the 18 Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, of whom Fran is one of the fifth generation. The Indigo Trust is a UK-based grant making foundation that works to create a world of active, informed citizens and responsive, accountable governments that together drive positive change in society. Indigo funds primarily in sub-saharan African countries. Fran is also co-founder and Chair of the Board of 360Giving, a campaign which supports grantmakers to publish their grants data openly, to understand their data, and to use the data to create online tools that make grant-making more effective. She was formerly an advisor at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, in the UK Cabinet Office. In the past, she has also served as a Chair of the Board of Publish What You Fund and has been a member of DfID’s International Development Sector Transparency Panel. In 2012, Fran was named Philanthropist of the Year by Spears and in 2016 jointly received the Open Data Institute’s first ‘Women in Data’ award from Sir Tim Berners-Lee for her role in 360 Giving."

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• Gabriela Salvador

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  Director, Latin America and The Caribbean, Americares

  Dr. Gabriela Salvador, current Director for the Latin America and Caribbean region at Americares, has more than 20 years of experience working first in the public and private health sector as a medical doctor and afterwards designing and implementing high impact, sustainable health programs targeting very low income populations around the World. Dr. Salvador has expertise in health systems modelling and operations, as well as in health financing. She has served in a variety of senior management, public health and academic positions in different organizations, including Pro Mujer International, Grameen Foundation and Freedom from Hunger Foundation, and continues to work as an adviser for different institutions locally and internationally. Originally from Salta, Argentina, Dr. Salvador studied Medicine at the National University of Córdoba and finished her residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later she completed a Surgical Fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Salvador also earned a Master’s in Public Health in the area of Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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• Marlene Dente

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  Senior Philanthropy Advisor, UBS Switzerland AG

  Marlene "Lena" Dente is currently the Director for Philanthropy, Purpose and Impact at UBS in Switzerland, where she plans and executes the engagement and content strategy for a community of high-impact philanthropists and change makers. She loves writing and creating and producing podcasts - and was initially surprised at how her voiced sounded recorded. Previous work experiences include the World Energy Council as Head of Government Relations and at the World Economic Forum as Associate Director for Geopolitics Programming and as a Global Leadership Fellow. She is passionate about sustainability, responsible development, clean energy entrepreneurs, and the multistakeholder approach.

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• Florentina Daniela Gheorghe

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  Skoll Scholar, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Daniela Gheorghe is one of our 2018-19 Skoll Scholars on the Oxford MBA. Natively from Romania, Daniela has lived and worked in India for the last 7 years where she has helped numerous families gain access to affordable health and education.

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• Flora Keller

  Delegate

  Independent, Next Gen

  Born into an entrepreneurial family in Switzerland in 1973, I am aware of the good luck I‘ve had. I attended an American International school in Zurich and have a degree in Marketing. Travelling the world and seeing the injustices awoke in me a passion to change the system and to find projects and ideas that will be able to do that. I approach this from both the philanthropy as well as the impact investment side. Besides this and my work within our family holding, I own, breed and compete horses for dressage and jumping - my passion above all else and my contact to nature, which I find eminently important: if every child had a passion for nature, interacted with it, learned how our food is produced and our animals are kept, we would all care more about our environment and how we eat.

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• Richard Jones

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  Editorial Director, Devex

  In his role as Editorial Director Richard oversees content for digital series, reports and events, leading a talented team of writers and editors, conducting high-level video interviews and moderating panels at events. Previously partnerships editor and an associate editor at Devex, Richard brings to bear 15 years of experience as an editor in institutional communications, public affairs and international development. Based in Barcelona, his development experience includes stints in the Dominican Republic, Argentina and Ecuador, as well as extensive work travel in Africa and Asia.

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• Fiona Crack

  Delegate

  Senior Editor, BBC World Service, British Broadcasting Corporation

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• Florentina Niradewi

  Delegate

  Curator & Organizer, TEDx

  Florentina is the CEO & Co-founder of Idelaju, a content curation firm based in Jakarta, Indonesia that creates impactful narratives. She is also Organiser & Curator of TEDxJakarta, an independently organised event under license from TED in United States. Florentina has been appointed as TEDx Ambassador to foster TEDx community in Indonesia and the Southeast Asia region since 2020. Being Curator of Impact IDN, an initiative about impact investing knowledge in Indonesia; Florentina has found her interest in the field of sustainable finance with a mission to contribute in saving the world from climate change. She is currently based in the United Kingdom, studying MSc Climate Change Finance & Investment at The University of Edinburgh. Aside from her work and volunteer endeavour, Florentina is passionate about sports and arts. She usually spends her weekends by going outdoor for trail, yoga, painting or making hand-built pottery.

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• Mark Ruffo

  Delegate

  Chief Development Officer, Landesa

  Mark Ruffo is a development and fundraising professional with over 15 years of experience in global health, advocacy and research environments. Mark joined Landesa in 2018 as Chief Development Officer. Prior to joining Landesa, Mark was the Managing Director of Resource Development for Malaria No More and Director of Development for Major Gifts and Corporate and Foundation Relations at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Hospital. He was instrumental in launching the Strong Against Cancer campaign, a $100 million initiative to bring cancer immunotherapies to children. Mark is the co-founder of the Seattle based Science Adventure Lab, a nationally recognized innovative STEM outreach program bringing advanced hands-on science experiences to rural and underserved communities. He serves on the board of Wellspring Family Services, an organization dedicated to preventing family homelessness, and works with Leadership Tomorrow of Seattle to foster collaborative relationships between the private, public and non-profit sectors while building a healthy community. Mark has a Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington, and B.S. degrees in Biology and History from Georgetown University. He was a National Parkinson’s Foundation Fellow in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• Rich Leimsider

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  Executive Director, Safe Passage Project

  Rich Leimsider is the Executive Director of Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit that provides free lawyers to child refugees in the NYC-area who who are being deported. Safe Passage Project currently represents 800+ children with 28 full-time staff and the help of 400+ pro bono attorneys. Earlier, Rich developed and ran programs for social entrepreneurs at Echoing Green, including both the Climate and Black Male Achievement Fellowships. He also created the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education and failed at an attempt to create a national service alumni organization. He serves as a board member of the West African agricultural finance organization myAgro. Rich is a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Business School and has most of an MSW from the University of Texas. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

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• Florence Namaganda

  Delegate

  founder/ director, Mukisa Foundation/Special children's Trust

  I am a social entrepreneur, philanthropist and Neuro development therapist . The founder and director of the Mukisa Foundation, Special children’s centre in Uganda, both organisations work to restore hope and dignity to children with disabilities and their families through the provision of Health, Education, Family empowerment, advocacy, and awareness programs directly in 9 districts, with a nationwide reach through the special children’s Forum, a platform that coordinates and amplifies efforts of both organizations and individuals that are working in the disability space which I head. I am the founder of Dawn children's center which is an inclusive school and serves on the technical working group for the Ministry of Education. I serve on several boards including the Children at Risk Action Network (CRANE), Berakhah Medical Centre and the committee for Gender, social development in the Buganda Kingdom.

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• Marieke Rodenhuis

  Delegate

  Relationship Manager, Nationale Postcode Loterij

  Marieke Rodenhuis studied International Business and Humanitarian Assistance in The Netherlands, USA and Spain. After working 2 years for a local NGO in Honduras she returned to The Netherlands to work for several Dutch development organisations. Marieke joined the Charity Department of the Dutch Postcode Lottery in 2016. This department advises the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board on the annual allocation of funds and manages the relations with the beneficiaries of lottery funding. Within the charity team Marieke is responsible for applications for new long-term partnerships and one-off grants. For the lottery’s portfolio of long term beneficiaries (currently 104 organisations) she is the first point of contact for applications regarding extra funding and contributions from the Postcode Lottery’s Dreamfund.

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• Rebecca Eastmond

  Delegate

  Founder & CEO, Greenwood Place

  Rebecca Eastmond is Co-Founder and CEO of Greenwood Place, which she created to leverage the experience she gained over 20 years’ work in philanthropy. Rebecca began her career as a charity lawyer at Allen & Overy, then became CEO of The Prince’s Foundation for Arts & Kids - taking it from a start-up to working with 33,000 children. She was a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan Private Bank, leading the bank’s philanthropy advisory offering in EMEA for almost a decade. Rebecca serves on the board of two grant-making foundations, is a trustee of Smart Works, and a global council member for Acumen, very different organisations that share a common approach of listening hard to the people they seek to serve and giving them access to the tools they need to build their own better futures. She was a founder trustee of the House of Illustration. She served on the board of the UK’s Philanthropy Review & has received numerous awards for her work in philanthropy. She read law at Oxford.

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• Felipe Cala

  Speaker

  Senior Program Officer, Latin America Program, Open Society Foundations

  Felipe Cala is a senior program officer at the Open Society Latin America Program, where he manages the human rights portfolios. Prior to this, Cala was engaged in advocacy, communications, and policy work with various civil society organizations and the Colombian government. His research has been published by several academic journals, and by the United Nations, for which he co-authored a report on youth engagement and human rights. He is the author of Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America. Cala has a law degree from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), an MPhil. in cultural studies from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Latin American studies from Princeton University.

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• Marie-Louise Skafte Martin

  Delegate

  Founder, Skafte Global Law, P.A.

  Marie-Louise Skafte is the founder of Skafte Global Law, P.A., a boutique consulting firm. She is licensed to practice law in Canada, the United States and England with over 20 years of success across the transportation, aviation, financial services, marine container leasing and logistics industries as well as supporting professional services firms. She serves as Consultant and provides general advice to global companies, executive management teams and acts as outside General Counsel. Prior to forming the firm, Marie-Louise worked in San Francisco as Vice President – Global General Counsel, Head of HR and Corporate Compliance with The Cronos Group leading teams in 19 countries. She also worked for Deutsche Post DHL, with operations in 220 countries holding the position of General Counsel for Canada. She has previously held key management positions for DHL Express (USA), Inc., American President Lines Limited, MasTec, Inc., and the Massachusetts Port Authority. Marie-Louise obtained a JD from Suffolk University Law School, a BA in Labor/Management Relations & Business from the University of Toronto and Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned academic and athletic scholarships. She serves on various boards, has received numerous industry awards. Marie-Louise is also a commercial pilot and resides in Florida with her husband Roger Martin.

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• Felipe Acosta

  Delegate

  Co-founder & CMO, Dondoctor

  Felipe is a Colombian entrepreneur passionate about the intersection of healthcare and technology. He sees entrepreneurship as powerful way to tackle the most pressing problems of society while building successful and profitable businesses. His startup dondoctor runs different initiatives aimed to digitize access to healthcare - An online scheduling system for clinics and hospitals that reduces the friction to book medical appointments - Sexperto.co, a google-like platform that provides sexual information to teenagers and channels them to contraceptive appointments. Also hablalo.com.co and piensalo.co focused on drug consumption and mental health. - A digital tool that helps patients with chronic conditions to stick to their medical treatment Felipe has an MBA from Babson College in Boston, was selected by MIT as a Solver'18, was a delegate Speaker at the One Young World Summit at the Hague and has been part of different accelerators like Mass Challenge Boston.

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• Felicia Hudig

  Delegate

  Account Manager, Charity Department, Nationale Postcode Loterij

  Felicia Hudig is an account manager Charities with the Dutch Postcode Lottery and the Friends Lottery (Charities Lottery). She is responsible for monitoring the dreamfunds, the extra funded projects as well as the one-off grants of the Dutch Postcode Lottery and the Friends Lottery. After a commercial job with Randstad, she started working with a Dutch non-profit organisation, Stichting Kinderpostzegels. She then joined Oxfam working as a programme manager and institutional fundraiser in the Middle East, Northern Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia team. She also fulfilled other roles with Oxfam working in the West Africa team and as a projectleader on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. She then worked as a programme manager with dance4life. Before joining the Lottery, she worked as an independent freelancer for several non-profits.

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• Falko Paetzold

  Delegate

  Managing Director, University of Zurich

  Dr. Falko Paetzold is the Initiator and Managing Director of the first university unit focused on the intersection of social and environmental sustainability and private wealth, the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) at University of Zurich. The Center is a spin-off from the Impact Investing for the Next Generation program for owners of private wealth that Falko co-initiated when he was a Fellow at the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at Harvard University, and which is now a jointly run program. His research explores how members of wealthy families and their advisors can engage in sustainable investing strategies, and how investors can achieve a positive impact in the real world and measure that impact. In the past, Falko developed sustainable investing fund structures and led M&A projects at Bank Vontobel AG in Zurich, and advised banks and family offices as a Partner with the Contrast Capital consultancy. He founded the network GreenBuzz that enables intra-preneurs in several cities to drive sustainability ahead within their firms. Falko holds a PhD degree with magna cum laude distinction from University of Zurich and an MBA degree with Dean’s List and Sustainability Leadership distinctions from University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. During and after his PhD he was a research affiliate and lecturer at ETH Zurich, Fellow at Harvard University, and Post-Doc at MIT Sloan. He is the author or co-author of various sustainable investing studies and articles.

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• Evie Kling

  Delegate

  International Portfolio Manager, David Weekley Family Foundation

  Evie serves as International Portfolio Manager at the David Weekley Family Foundation, which invests time, treasure, and talent in organizations promoting human flourishing. Prior to joining DWFF, Evie was a Senior Account Manager at Gerson Lehrman Group and managed the firm's relationships with both global and boutique consulting firms. Evie graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia and now lives in Austin, TX, where she enjoys year-round sunshine and limitless tacos.

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• Eva Wissenz

  Delegate

  Managing Director & CEO, GoSol.solar

  When I was young, I have always volunteered. I became a young PhD teacher at Paris Sorbonne Uni and I stopped my career in academic studies, publishing and writings when I understood the impact and challenges of the climate / social crisis. I believe energy is one of the key piece of the puzzle: farmers and SME's should have access to clean energy worldwild. With my team, we have created Solar Fire / GoSol to promote a direct thermal solar energy solution which is a mix of low tech and high tech. We empower people in a very effective way through educational trainings. We are working with Plan International, Autodesk Foundation, World Vision and other private and public partners and sponsors. We are currently in our A round. We already have 2 impact investors and are searching for more to close the round.

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• Eugene Kweku Boadu

  Delegate

  Corporate Affairs Director, mPedigree

  Eugene Boadu has more than a decade's experience working across academia, entrepreneurship, and at the interfaces of private enterprise and public administration. He is currently the leader in the operations design and strategy formulation groups in mPedigree, a social enterprise deploying many innovative technologies for human security, trade standards, and market exchange facilitation. He has multiple responsibilities, including P&L control for the organisation’s key product lines and also in functional areas within strategic marketing and scenarios modeling. He has been instrumental in driving several projects and lifting ideas from the strategy board to the ground where impact on the lives of millions of consumers is made and felt every day. Boadu is a prolific speaker and trainer, and has headlined multiple global and regional conferences and workshops on four continents and also played key roles in consultative bodies for both the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN).

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• Esther Tricoche

  Delegate

  Head of Venture Development, RippleWorks

  Esther is the Head of Venture Development for Rippleworks, a philanthropic cryptocurrency fund. In this role, she manages the growth of the Rippleworks portfolio by partnering with funders, identifying scaling social ventures, and scoping high-impact projects. Prior to Rippleworks, Esther was an Associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund and co-founded NewSchools Ignite, an edtech product accelerator. Prior to this, she was a founding team member and led the education division at the Laura & John Arnold Foundation. Esther is an Aspen Institute/Pahara NextGen Fellow, and was named to the 2016 Forbes “30 under 30” list.

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• MARC VENTRESCA

  Delegate

  Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Saïd Business School

  Marc Ventresca is an academic researcher and teacher, on faculty at Oxford Said Business School / Wolfson College since 2004, with focus on innovation, infrastructure, and impact. Before that, on faculty at Kellogg/Northwestern, Naval Postgraduate School, U of Illinois, U of California and with visiting posts at Copenhagen Business School and Mediterranean Business School (Tunis, Tunisia). His work focuses on early moments in markets as well as market-building initiatives in several sectors, in the context of 'unsettled spaces', that is economic and cultural world reshaped by emerging technologies, change in regulatory and governance regimes, and platform capabilities. Prior work is on entrepreneurial activity and social networks, on the rise of alternative financial markets and protocols, and social innovation in a range of complex contexts. He is PI for an Oxford initiative investigating dynamics of space commerce and governance. He has a long, varied affiliation w our Skoll Centre.

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• Esther Benjamin

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  CEO, World Education Services

  Esther Benjamin is a tri-sector global leader, currently serving as CEO of World Education Services. She is a Visiting Fellow with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Previously, Esther was CEO for Africa Operations with Laureate Education. In President Obama’s Administration, Esther led Global Operations for the Peace Corps. She was an executive with the International Youth Foundation and the International Partnership for Microbicides. In 1999, President Clinton appointed Esther a White House Fellow. She began her career with the United Nations, the World Bank, and Grant Thornton. Esther serves on the Board of Directors of Echoing Green, B Lab Global, and Candid. In 2021, Dickinson College awarded her an honorary doctorate in International Education. New York Times best-selling author and Maryland Governor Wes Moore profiled Esther as “The Globalist” in his book The Work: Searching for a Life that Matters.

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• Essie North

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  Chief Executive Officer, Big Change Charitable Trust

  Essie is CEO of Big Change, launched in 2012 to rethink how charity can be a catalyst for positive systemic change. Big Change’s mission is to transform the way we support the next generation through backing the pioneers that are thinking differently about how we set young people up to thrive in life, not just in exams. Essie has overseen the organisation’s implementation of a new approach to venture philanthropy and the bringing together of an extraordinary community to drive change. She is a big believer that education is everyone’s business and has been uniting a cross sector group of leaders who are accelerating the path to system change by ‘Reimagining Education Together’. Prior to Big Change, Essie led the global research and consulting practice on communications and change at the Corporate Executive Board, and is a trained business coach with a background in psychology.

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• Erik Engellau-Nilsson

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  CEO, Norrsken Foundation

  We help entrepreneurs solve the world’s greatest challenges. Check out norrskenfoundation.org

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• Paloma Roldan

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  Executive Director, Ciudad Saludable

  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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• Eric Porterfield

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  Social Good Communications Lead, Facebook

  Eric Porterfield is the communications lead for Social Good at Facebook. In this role, he oversees communications across the product areas of Crisis Response, Health, Charitable Giving, Civic Engagement and Mentorship that help people come together and help one another. Previously, Eric was the Senior Communications Director at the United Nations Foundation, overseeing public relations across campaigns and initiatives focused on global health and development. He also oversaw the development of a press fellowship program that took over 500 journalists to see international development programs around the world. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Eric did a year of service with Americorps and worked as a research assistant at Duke University. With the desire to focus on more international issues and journalism, Eric moved to London to study international affairs at Webster University. Following graduate school, he worked at Good Morning America for ABC News. After living and working in New York, Eric left television to join the international services division of the American Red Cross to cover their work in Asia. After covering international disasters for more than four years and doing humanitarian missions in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Haiti, he joined the UN Foundation in 2010.

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• Niranjan Bose

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  Managing Director, Gates Ventures

  Niranjan Bose is currently the Managing Director (Health & Life Sciences) at Gates Ventures LLC, where he serves as the Science Advisor to Mr. Bill Gates. Prior to joining Gates Ventures in August 2014, he was the Chief of Staff to the President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was with the Gates Foundation from 2007 through 2014, which included a few years with their Enterics and Diarrheal Diseases (EDD) program strategy team, where he was responsible for managing a portfolio of investments, which included clinical development of enteric vaccines (rotavirus, cholera, enterotoxigenic E coli and shigella). Prior to joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he was with Strategic Decisions Group ( and SDG Life Sciences). Niranjan holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Dartmouth College and an MS in biological sciences and BS in pharmaceutical sciences from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

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• Enrica Duncan

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  Project Director and Adjunct Director, NOSSAS

  Enrica Duncan, Director, Mapa do Acolhimento, holds a degree in Political Science with a minor in Global Studies from The New School in New York City. She is currently pursuing a Master's in Development and Conflict Resolution from the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. She has worked with Mapa do Acolhimento and Nossas (formerly Meu Rio) since 2014 where she was chief of staff before dedicating her time to the development of Mapa do Acolhimento. She is a Initiative Marianne for Human Rights Fellow for the 2024 year.

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• Emmanuel Adegboye

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  Program Manager, Andela

  Emmanuel Adegboye is a 2021 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Academy Fellow with the Africa Programme at Chatham House where his research focuses on sustainable urban development and economic opportunities for youth in Africa. He is also the Managing Partner of Utopia Lagos and is leading Utopia’s emerging efforts across Africa. Utopia is an urban innovation group that aims to build the urban ecosystem for emerging cities and their slums across Asia, Africa and Latin America. He believes entrepreneurs will build Africa's future. He is committed to supporting entrepreneurs solving Africa's biggest challenges, building institutions and advocating for policies that create an enabling environment for entrepreneurship to thrive on the continent. He is a certified Project Management Professional with several years of experience managing diverse programs, projects and developing systems for operational effectiveness. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics, postgraduate degrees in Space Applications and Environmental Management and a Certificate in Disciplined Entrepreneurship from MIT amongst other qualifications.

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• English Sall

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  Board Member, Sall Family Foundation

  English Sall is a data enthusiast and researcher at heart. English holds a Masters Degree in Biomedical and Health Informatics from University of North Carolina as well as a PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology from North Carolina State University. English is also a board member of the Sall Family Foundation. Additionally, English sits on the boards of various global health and development organizations including, CARE USA, PSI, The EndFund, African Philanthropy Forum, and Ideas42. English also currently serves as a principle at the Community Health Acceleration Partnership. English is a Co-founder and CEO of a company called Cymantix, specializing in discovery and insight generation with unstructured data. English lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons, 3 Dogs, and 4 Alpacas.

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• Neil Buddy Shah

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  CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative

  Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is the CEO at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health organization operating in 36 countries around the world, committed to saving lives and improving health outcomes in low- & middle-income countries. Dr. Shah was previously the Managing Director of GiveWell, a research and funding organization that directs hundreds of millions of dollars per year to programs in global health and development. He is the co-founder, former CEO and now Board Chair of IDinsight, a global development data analytics and advisory firm with offices across Africa, Asia, and the US. He worked previously at the World Bank and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Dr. Shah holds an AB in economics from Harvard, an MD from Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Shah is the Chair of Anthropic AI's Long-Term Benefit Trust and sits on the Boards of Educate Girls, Prevail Fund, and Harvard IEMI.

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• Liza Mueller

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  Vice President of Thought Leadership, Echoing Green

  Liza is dedicated to ensuring that Echoing Green is a learning organization. As head of knowledge and thought leadership, she supports Echoing Green’s mission to advance global equity and sustainability by increasing our impact potential and influencing the fields of social innovation and philanthropy to move significant resources and shift power to proximate leaders and their communities. Liza Mueller brings nearly two decades of experience in program evaluation, systems design and implementation, and research to her role as Vice President of Knowledge at Echoing Green. Over the last decade, she has transformed the organization’s systems architecture, guided its strategic planning, and launched its knowledge function to creatively leverage data and insights to deepen Echoing Green’s impact. During her tenure at Echoing Green, Liza has previously overseen its operations and programs teams and now regularly plays an advisory role in aligning team strategies across the organization.

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• Emily Wanja

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  Director of African Programmes, Sundance Institute

  Emily Wanja uses storytelling to drive social change. She works in collaboration with organizations, people, and communities that believe a more just world is possible. She is an award-winning Impact producer for the campaign ‘We Can Fight Climate Change’ for the international feature documentary, ‘Thank you for the Rain’. In conjunction with Docubox, she has worked with policymakers across national and county governments, private stakeholders, funders, civil society, and communities, using film as a tool for advocacy. She’s on the Climate Justice Resilience Fund Advisory Council and on the Global Impact Producers Alliance Transitional Committee. She works at Doc Society as the Director of Africa Programmes.

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• Heiner Baumann

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  Executive Director, CASH Coalition: Climate Action for Small Holder Farmers

  Heiner Baumann is the Executive Director of the CASH Coalition. CASH’s goal is to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers. He is also a Co-Founder and Board Advisor of Precision Development (PxD). PxD delivers critical information and digital services to > 9 million smallholder farmers in developing countries. He has over twenty years of experience in starting, funding, managing and advising high growth social change organizations focused on climate-smart, sustainable and restorative agriculture, clean energy, community health, education, and mobile phone based advisory services in developing countries through PxD, Pilot House Philanthropy, the Barr Foundation, The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and New Profit, Inc. Heiner worked for 5 years with McKinsey & Co. He has written about and been a speaker on disruptive innovation in the social sector, nonprofit capacity building and venture philanthropy.

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• Emily Chong

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  Co-Founder, Studio, NationSwell

  Emily Chong is the Co-Founder of NationSwell Studio. NationSwell connects America's leading problem solvers and accelerates their solutions through our unique ecosystem of platforms: NationSwell Council, a membership community of 1000+ leaders who are tackling the nation’s critical issues; NationSwell Studio, a campaign studio that partners with organizations to accelerate ideas, solutions and narratives; NationSwell Publishing, a content platform that tells unexpected stories about the innovators working to move our country forward. Prior, Emily was on the founding team of Catchafire.org, the world’s leading skills-based volunteer platform. In 2015, Emily was recognized by TIME Inc. for her role in surfacing the story of Brittany Maynard and the Right-To-Die movement, the largest global story of the year and TIME’s most viewed story in history. The story has since led to California, Colorado and Washington D.C. legalizing Death with Dignity laws. Emily is Australian born and has lived in eight cities across three continents. She is a third-culture-kid with Australian citizenship, an American accent, and Chinese blood. Her search for belonging and identity has played a huge role in her life’s journey. She is an outdoor enthusiast and spends her spare time rock climbing and hiking all corners of the world. Emily is a Senior Advisor to Catchafire.org and The Biomimicry Institute.

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• Emily Bancroft

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  President, VillageReach

  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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• Nancy Swanson

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  Executive Director, Linked Foundation

  Nancy Swanson is a founding member and the executive director of Linked Foundation, a private foundation that invests in solutions that improve the health and economic self-reliance of women in Latin America and the United States. She served as board chair of the Eleos Foundation where she directed the foundation in investing in pioneering business solutions to eliminate poverty in the developing world. Prior to her decade of work in impact investing, she held senior roles in the private and entrepreneurial telecommunications sector in strategic sales, marketing, and new business development. Nancy has served on several boards including Pro Mujer, the Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund, Leading from Within and the Carpinteria Children’s Project and is a current board member of MCE Social Capital and the Solidarity Dental Foundation. Nancy received her M.A. in from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and her B.A. from UC San Diego

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• Ellie Feinglass

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  Director, Right to Health Program, Namati

  Ellie is the founder of Namati’s work in Mozambique and co-director of Namati’s right to health program. Namati’s health advocates walk alongside communities and frontline health workers to overcome the social and structural barriers that undermine human dignity and access to care. Since 2013 we have helped to resolve over 37,000 health service-related grievances. We partner with government, drawing on our grassroots learning to strengthen the health system at national level. Prior to moving to Mozambique 15 years ago, Ellie worked with Partners in Health in Neno, Malawi, where she was Director of the Program on Social and Economic Rights. She launched the Clinton Foundation’s pediatric HIV program in Malawi and worked in rural Ghana with the Population Council and Ghana Health Service to scale up the national Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative. Ellie holds a MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Northwestern University.

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• Nachson Mimran

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  CEO, TO:

  Nachson Mimran is an entrepreneur, investor, and creative activist dedicated to inspiring collaborations and creating the spaces necessary for community-building. In 2015, Nachson and his brother Arieh co-founded to.org, a private fund and foundation established to address global challenges and to accelerate the world’s most vital ventures. Based in Switzerland and Senegal, Nachson runs the Alpina Hotel in Gstaad. He previously ran the agro-industrial business at Groupe Mimran in Senegal alongside his brother David. In 2012 Nachson and Arieh established the Fondation Marie-Louise Mimran, a charitable foundation named after their grandmother, with the mission of developing education, health, and sports in Senegal. Nachson has also served as the Head of International Affairs on the Senegalese Olympic Committee. As CEO of to.org Nachson spearheads a broad array of creative initiatives. Deploying his endless curiosity and deep desire to serve humankind, Nachson connects diverse communities around the world and facilitates collaboration and co-creation in the most unexpected spaces.

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• Molly Parker

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  Director, Strategic Initiatives, Jeff Skoll Group

  Molly Parker is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Jeff Skoll Group. In her role, she oversees and manages key partnerships and projects across the Jeff Skoll Group portfolio of organizations, including the Skoll Foundation, Participant, and Capricorn Investment Group. Molly began her career in the technology sector, working in e-commerce and business intelligence, before transitioning into impact. Prior to the Jeff Skoll Group, Molly worked at the national anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength in Washington, DC known for its No Kid Hungry Campaign, which is committed to ending child hunger in the United States. Molly holds an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School a B.A. in Government from Cornell University. She lives in New York City and volunteers with the United Nations and the Cornell Alumni Ambassador Network.

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• Elizabeth Ketterer

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  Sr. Administrative Assistant, Skoll Foundation

  As Senior Administrative Assistant, Elizabeth supports the Global Partnerships, PECCS, and CoCo teams. Elizabeth has a strong interest in public health, having developed and managed an array of community Maternal Child Health programs in a county public health department in Washington. She is always learning about health, especially while traveling the world, exploring what life looks like in different communities – most recently in Nepal and Bali. She has a passion for health education and building programs to increase maternal and child health globally. Elizabeth loves to be outdoors running trails in the mountains, dancing, and finding ways to make people smile. On the cusp of completing an Executive Master in Public Health from the University of Washington, in addition to her undergraduate degree in health science and modern dance, Elizabeth looks forward to learning more about the different models and approaches social entrepreneurs use in global health and beyond.

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• Elizabeth Stuart

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  Executive Director, Pathways Commission

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• Liz Sheehan

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  Founder, Care2Communities

  I am an advocate and investor in women's health. For 20 years, I worked in emergency rooms in NYC and rural Appalachia. . I saw firsthand how poverty and lack of education affected health outcomes. I gained a public health and policy degree later to improve the systems that deliver health care and the financing needed to improve the care. I worked for USAID in Mozambique, MSF and HALO Trust in Cambodia and Mozambique. I founded a nonprofit social enterprise in 2010 to meet the healthcare needs post-earthquake in Haiti. Care2Communties continues to deliver care in 11 locations in northern Haiti, partnering with MOH and communities to bring a one-stop-shop model to communities offering lab and pharmaceuticals, primary care, and OB/GYN care. The employees are 98% Haitian. I was a founding member of C-_Impact and Roddenberry Health +1 Fund. I served on the board of Women Moving Millions, Threshold Foundation, Sheehan Family Foundation, and Network of Engaged International Donors.

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• Michelle Wisson

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  Donor Engagement Manager, Girls Not Brides

  Michelle is the Donor Engagement Manager at Girls Not Brides. Michelle works with donors to increase international funding to end child marriage and to support Girls Not Brides’ own fundraising. In this role she has supported the development of the Girls First Fund, which funds community-based organisations championing girls’ rights, and VOW – To End Child Marriage, an innovative initiative leveraging the US wedding industry to raise funds and awareness to end child marriage. Prior to joining Girls Not Brides, Michelle was a Senior Development Officer at Camfed International, developing and maintaining relationships with Camfed’s major donors and partners, and supporting programme management in order to multiply opportunities for girls and young women. Michelle holds an MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies from Cambridge University.

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• Elizabeth Sall

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  Board Member, Sall Family Foundation

  Elizabeth Sall serves on the board of the Sall Family Foundation where she is engaged in a global portfolio of partnerships that includes food production, climate justice, and community-driven development. She is particularly interested in the relationship between top-down system architecting at the planet/country level and bottom-up priorities and empowerment at the family/community level. As meta-issues, Elizabeth has been interested in reducing the friction to access capital and in-kind support for social entrepreneurs who may have difficulty establishing a 501c3 as well as closing the chasm between academia and practice. Elizabeth serves on the board of Rocky Mountain Institute, on the WWF-US National Council and participates in a variety of advisory boards including Planet Texas 2050. In her professional sphere, Elizabeth runs the mission-driven UrbanLabs LLC, an urban science research firm where she conducts applied research to support public policy development, provides technical expertise and management services to public agencies, and generally geeks out about bikes, data, and transit. Elizabeth volunteers with various professional causes including running the workforce development program for the Zephyr Foundation for Improved Travel Analysis as well as various committees, advisory boards and responsibilities with the National Academies of Sciences Transportation Research Board. Elizabeth lives in Seattle with her wife and young son where she enjoys biking along the water and exploring the mountains on foot or on skis. She has a BS in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and an MS from the University of Texas.

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• Greg Coussa

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  Strategic Director, Meltwater

  Greg Coussa is MEST’s Strategic Director, focusing on the organization's scale strategy and partnerships opportunities. Currently, Greg oversees MEST's partnership with Mastercard Foundation, including MEST’s three new, innovative programs: Pre-MEST, MEST Express, and MEST Scale.   Greg is a Senior Fellow in strategy for the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow for the Human Rights organization, Tostan.  Greg serves on the board for The BOMA Project, a high-impact nonprofit for ultra-poor women in the drought-threatened arid lands of Africa – the true “last mile” of economic and social isolation. Previously, Greg founded and scaled the U.S. business of Spring Impact, a consultancy focused on guiding social ventures to scale geographically. During his time at Spring Impact, Greg worked with a variety of social ventures across the globe, established and managed the board of directors, built the US team, and grew annual earned revenue to over $1M. Greg earned his MBA from Said Business School at the University of Oxford and his bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from UCLA.  Greg's published works include: - Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR): To Impact Millions, the Social Sector Needs to Scale Scaling Up - Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR): Enough Innovation Already!

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• Elizabeth Frawley Bagley

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  Ambassador, United States Department of State

  Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is a former diplomat and attorney, who served in numerous positions at the Department of State, including U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994 – 1997); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (1997 -2001); Special Representative for Global Partnerships (2009 – 2010); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2010 – 2013) and Secretary of State John Kerry (2013 – 2017); and Special Representative to the United Nations General Assembly, appointed by President Obama in 2011. Ambassador Bagley currently serves as Chair of SBI, Inc., a rural wireless company located in Show Low, Arizona. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, American Ireland Fund, Atlantic Council, Council of American Ambassadors, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ambassador Bagley graduated cum laude from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, with a B.A. degree in French and Spanish. She is a 1987 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she obtained a J.D. Degree in International Law. Ambassador Bagley is a member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar and District of Columbia Bar. She is the proud mother of two children, a daughter, Vaughan, age 29, a graduate of Stanford University, and son Conor, age 25, a graduate of Yale University.

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• Elizabeth Lowe

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  Innovation Lead, Sustainability & Social Impact, Adobe Systems Inc.

  Growing up in Palo Alto, California, Liz Lowe recognized her own privilege and the growing income inequality in the Bay Area at an early age. This contrast in access to resources and opportunities led Lowe to focus her career on social impact, access and equity. Lowe is the head of Community Engagement for Adobe, managing a team of CSR professionals working to develop and implement global social impact programs across education, creativity, community engagement and diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives. Previously, she was Innovation Lead for the team, and using human-centered design, she built and scaled the Adobe Digital Academy. Named to Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas list, the Adobe Digital Academy is a two-part diversity and inclusion initiative aimed at shortening the pipeline of tech and design talent through a training phase at an education partner and a three-month Adobe apprenticeship. Candidates are sourced from nonprofits and the local community and go from earning under $30k per year to over $100k per year. The majority of graduates have landed full-time jobs at Adobe or other companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Workday and Google. Hiring managers from the program report more innovative problem solving and improved team morale. The Digital Academy launched in San Francisco in March of 2016 and continues to expand to new offices and roles including web development, data science and design. Focused on supporting high-potential individuals, the program offers a number of support mechanisms including a focus on growth mindset, mentorship, community support, and on-going career development to ensure long-term success. Previously, Liz was a strategist at GOOD/Corps, a social innovation consulting firm, helping corporations and foundations align their business strategy with their social impact. She has her MBA from UC Berkeley and enjoys hiking, public speaking, and teaching yoga.

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• Elizabeth Clewett

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  Chief of Staff, Project ECHO

  Elizabeth Clewett, PhD, MBA is Chief of Staff for Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) and oversees the fundraising, communications, and policy initiatives for the ECHO institute. Dr. Clewett joined Project ECHO in 2014. During her time with the organization, she has managed large grants to replicate the ECHO model and led strategy development around sustainable policies to support integration of the ECHO model into the U.S. healthcare system and global systems. In 2018 she was named Director of Replication, leading a diverse team focused on supporting partners around the country and the world as they adopt the ECHO model to support their work. Trained as a political scientist in comparative and international politics, Dr. Clewett’s academic work focused on economic development and democratization in Latin America. Previously, Dr. Clewett has also worked both in the fundraising field and the startup sector.

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• Liz Berry Gips

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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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• Girija Brilliant

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  Board Spouse, Skoll Global Threats Fund

  I received my Ph.D. and MPH from the University of Michigan in social epidemiology.My research has focussed on increasing access of women in rural settings in Asia and Africa to eye health care. I have done this in my role as a founder of the Seva Foundation, along with my husband, Larry Brilliant.I serve on the Commission on Aging in Marin county and the local board of agencies working in disaster relief.I have trained as an Iyengar Yoga instructor and study Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.

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• Elisa Birnbaum

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  Journalist and Co-founder, SEE Change Magazine

  A journalist for over 15 years, Elisa has carved a strong niche as a storyteller of social impact, most recently as the author of In the Business of Change, profiling social entrepreneurs around the world and their lessons learned. For over eight years Elisa has been the publisher & editor-in-chief of SEE Change Magazine, a digital publication of social entrepreneurship that she co-founded – and currently hosts its podcast. Elisa has been a regular columnist on matters of social entrepreneurship for Canada's National Post and was published in a variety of other publications. Elisa also runs a communications consultancy, helping socially minded businesses tell their stories more effectively for greater impact. Elisa is an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow and received a grant from the Canadian Government to produce a digital storytelling project documenting social movements in Canadian history and their key players. The project is now being introduced to students in Canadian classrooms as storytelling workshops using the lens of history and social change. A former television producer, Elisa worked at the CBC and other broadcasters and holds degrees in political science and law.

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• Eli Mitchell-Larson

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  MSc Environmental Change & Management, Saïd Business School

  Eli Mitchell-Larson is an impact investor (formerly New Island Capital) and social entrepreneur (SunFarmer) working at the intersection of technology and climate change. At Oxford, his research focuses on extreme weather climate change attribution and negative emissions technologies.

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• Georgia Pessoa

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  Executive Director, Humanize Institute

  Georgia Pessoa is lawyer by training and comes to Humanize with a range of experience. She has worked at the Roberto Marinho Foundation, leading the environmental area and prior at Rare, serving as the Executive Director of the organization in Brazil. Before she has worked at Moore Foundation, Funbio, WWF, and she had set up the Latin America Regional Climate Initiative (LARCI) in Brazil. LARCI is a consortium of four foundations: ClimateWorks, Children's Investment Fund, William and Flora Hewlett, and Oak. She has a combination of technical skills, experience in conservation, fundraising, and sustainable use endeavors, policies, compliance and legal advisory. She brings a good blend and perspective of NGOs, governments, private sector and funders to Rare. Georgia has abilities to develop and implement socio-environmental programs, strategies, projects, grants, legal frameworks and economic instruments in South America, with over thirteen year’s experience. Team player with proven negotiating skills, highly committed to achieving results. Well connected in the conservation and philanthropic community, and continuing constructive working relationship with dedicated environmentalists in the Brazilian government, private sector, NGOs and universities.

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• Georgia Lewis

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  Marketing and Design Lead, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Georgia works as the Communications Lead at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She brings creativity and a diverse skillset to the Centre, helping to drive the mission and message forward. She graduated with a BA(Hons) in Costume Design at the Arts University College Bournemouth and has worked within different industries and sectors around the UK. Georgia has a keen interest in Anthropology; curious about social culture and its impact on the collective community and individual identity.

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• Elena Crescia

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  TEDxSaoPaulo Organizer, TEDx

  TEDxSaoPaulo Curator & Speaker Coach | Country Director Clubes TED Ed | Program curator at The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change | Program Consultant for the Skoll World Forum, Skoll Foundation - 10+ years experience as speaker coach and content curator. I've helped +1000 people to speak in public, including social entrepreneurs, groups of refugees, corporate teams and C-Level executives. My passion is at the crossroads of social entrepreneurship and effective communication of powerful ideas. I've organized more than 50 TEDx events over the past 10+ years. - Master of International Affairs, Economic and Political Development - Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Master in Financial Evaluation of Development Projects - Université Sorbonne. Impact Investor Manager course by ANDE and JPMorgan with Santa Clara University. - I love languages and I'm fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

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• Elena Bonometti

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  Chief Executive Officer, Tostan

  Elena Bonometti is an Italian national with 25 years of professional experience in Africa, specializing in the field-based management of development programs promoting community well-being, gender equality and economic empowerment. Elena is the CEO of Tostan, an Africa-based organization working directly with rural populations to support community-led development in West Africa. Since 2017, Elena has led the implementation of the Tostan Strategic Engagement Plan (2017-2022) and most recently the participatory development and implementation of the new strategy: In Partnership for Community Well-being (2023 - 2030), committing Tostan to engaging additional networks and clusters of communities, catalyzing the efforts of the ecosystem in the movement towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and deepening the connection between communities and the available resources. Elena holds a Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University/ESADE Business School.

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• Elaine Surnow

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  Founder, Individual

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• Edward Mungai

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  Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Climate Innovation Center

  Edward Mungai is the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC). KCIC supports a holistic country driven approach to accelerate the development, deployment and transfer of locally relevant climate technologies to the private sector. Before joining KCIC, Edward was the East Africa Region head for the Danish International Investments Fund. He has worked for KPMG East Africa in Corporate finance and Transactions services focusing on the financial services sector. Edward has a multifaceted background in Business Advisory, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Investment management. Edward is passionate about sustainable development and the role of private sector as a driver for sustainable development in Africa. He has thorough experience in development financing mechanisms for private sector, with special interests in the agribusiness, renewable energy, financial services, and water and sanitation sectors. Edward is a 2016 Eisenhower Fellow and sits in several boards as well as a faculty member at Strathmore Business School where he teaches Corporate Sustainability and Innovation to executives. Edward has published a book with Palgrave Macmillan on impact investing in Africa. He is also a marathoner and will be on Tokyo Marathon on 3 March 2019

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• Edward Sharp

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  Press officer, Saïd Business School

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• Edith Elliott

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  Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Noora Health

  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

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  Ecopeace co-director, EcoPeace Middle East

  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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• Drew Fink

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  Trsutee, Individual

  Drew Fink is the Cofounder and COO of Lazy Bear Foods, a sustainable beverage startup working to reduce waste in the coffee supply chain through the production of delicious, refreshing cascara teas. Drew is also the Founder and Manager of Windbreak Capital, an investment firm focused on enabling consumers to live healthier, richer lives. Additionally, Drew is the Cofounder of the Torres del Paine Legacy Fund, a non profit promoting sustainable tourism development in Chilean Patagonia. In addition, Drew is on the board of the Cape Eleuthera Institute and the Fink Family Foundation, and was previously a board member of CommonWealth Kitchen. Drew received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BS in Earth Systems from Stanford.

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• Willie Mpasuka

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  Executive Director, Rays of Hope

  Willie Mpasuka is a visionary who educates children and trains teachers in under-resourced communities through Rays of Hope, the nonprofit he co-founded and leads. It has grown from serving 40 students to reaching over 200,000 students in six education districts in Malawi. Rays of Hope is in an advanced conversation with the Ministry of Education to use Teaching at the Right Level in 50 schools potentially benefiting thousands of students in foundational literacy and numeracy. He is a 2008-2009 Urban Promise International Fellow, 2017 African Visionary Fellow, the 2018 Praxis Fellow, a founding member of the Global Alliance for Communities, and received the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Segal Family Foundation.

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• Doug Balfour

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  Chief Executive Officer, Geneva Global Performance Philanthropy

  Doug is committed to big impact in transforming lives, creativity and innovation to keep improving how we achieve that, collaboration as a necessity at all levels of our supply chain in achieving measurable social impact and enjoying and having fun doing it! He is CEO and Chairman of Geneva Global, a global philanthropic consultancy firm serving foundations, individuals and corporations to help improve, innovate and implement amazing change programs around the world. He has almost 40 years experience in philanthropy and international development.

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• Gabriel Diamond

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  Associate Director, Video Production, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Suzana Grego

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  Vice President, Connect & Champion , Skoll Foundation

  As Vice President of the Skoll Foundation's Connect & Champion division, Suzana helps drive the department's strategy and operations, building the Foundation's platform, network, and storytelling assets to support social innovators driving social change around the world. A seasoned philanthropy and tech executive, brand strategist, storyteller, and human rights advocate, Suzana has focused her career on advancing justice, equity, and human rights for all, around the world. Prior to joining Skoll, Suzana led Marcom departments and brands for philanthropies like the Ford Foundation, NGOs like the International Center for Transitional Justice, and corporations like IBM/Lotus. Suzana has developed global strategies, advocacy initiatives, and public campaigns for justice, human rights, and national transition efforts including truth commissions, tribunals, reparations, and memorials around the world. She serves on the board of Media Impact Funders to catalyze greater philanthropic support of trusted, public interest media and journalism. Suzana holds a graduate degree in international affairs from Columbia and an undergraduate degree from Harvard.

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• Dorothy Siemon

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  Senior Vice President- Office of Policy Development and Integration, American Association of Retired Persons

  Dorothy Siemon is responsible for the development and oversight of AARP public policies that address major issues facing older Americans. Dorothy is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She also served as a Commissioner for the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging. Ms. Siemon served as Director of Health and Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) from 2007 through 2013 and then served as Vice President of the Office of Policy Development and Integration through 2017. Prior to joining the OPDI, Ms. Siemon was a senior litigation attorney for over ten years for the AARP Foundation, writing amicus briefs in federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, she served as counsel in numerous class action cases involving Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care facilities. Ms. Siemon graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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• Donald Okudu

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  Creative Director, I-AMVOCAL

  Donald Okudu, is a creative director and Social Entrepreneur. In addition, he is the primary licensee & Curator of TEDxPortharcourt . In 2017, he founded - I-AMVOCAL - an NGO focused on youth engagement in community leadership & stewardship through technology, advocacy & related creative offerings. I-AMVOCAL is currently dedicated to mapping causes around Nigeria , measuring sentiments through engagement metric and focus groups and developing a voting platform that provides transparency and audibility .

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• Vik Mohan

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  Medical Director, Blue Ventures

  Dr Vik Mohan is the Medical Director of Blue Ventures Conservation and a practicing doctor. He is passionate about marine conservation, environmental sustainability and global social justice. Whilst working with communities in Madagascar on Blue Ventures’ community based marine conservation programme, his interest in community health led him to uncover a huge unmet need for health care, and sexual and reproductive health care in particular. Responding to this need, he led the development and implementation of the region’s first sexual and reproductive health service, and oversaw its integration into the portfolio of Blue Ventures’ projects, to form an award winning People, Health and Environment (PHE) programme. After over ten years of supporting the implementation and growth of this programme, he has witnessed first-hand the multiple benefits of working in this integrated and holistic way, from improved natural resource management and community resilience, through to improvements in maternal and child health. His work with Blue Ventures now focusses on supporting others to adopt this approach. As well as supporting scale up in Madagascar, Vik is working to enable replication in Mozambique, Kenya, the Comoros, India, Indonesia and East Timor. Recognising how challenging the work of doctors and social entrepreneurs can be, Vik is increasingly interested in the resilience and wellbeing of his fellow practitioners. He is currently collaborating on a pilot programme to foster greater resilience among doctors in training, with a view to supporting its replication for doctors and social entrepreneurs alike. When he’s not working to support the wellbeing of doctors, coastal communities or marine ecosystems Vik can be found DJing for his community radio station, mountain biking or looking after his beautiful baby daughter.

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• Katusha de Villiers

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  Senior Manager, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  Katusha de Villiers is the Acting Senior Manager as well as a Senior Project Manager with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a specialised unit at the UCT Graduate School of Business. She leads healthcare-focused projects, and supports project work within the education and innovative finance focus areas at the Centre. Prior to joining the Bertha Centre, she was a management consultant with experience working on multiple payer, provider, and pharma/life sciences projects across the American healthcare system.

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• Maharshi Vaishnav

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  Chief Executive Officer, Educate Girls Foundation

  Maharshi is Educate Girls’ Chief Executive Officer and has the privilege of leading an incredible team of over 3,000 field employees & over 20,000 community volunteers to deliver Educate Girls’ mission of mobilizing over 1.5M out of school girls into schools by 2025.An ardent advocate of “education as the greatest enabler of equity,” Maharshi is a home-grown leader at Educate Girls. He joined Educate Girls in its infancy over a decade ago & has contributed in various capacities across different functions at namely operations, program management, Government relations, & fundraising. He headed operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, successfully executed the world’s first Development Impact Bond in education which surpassed both inclusion and learning outcome goals, & has raised over $150M in philanthropic funding. Before making a conscious switch to the social sector, he spent nearly a decade in various roles in the private sector. He holds a graduate degree in Public Policy & Business

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• Diane Robinson

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  Global Special Projects Lead, Teach for All

  As Global Special Projects Lead at Teach For All, Diane leads on high impact priorities for the organization. Diane is currently leading on the external strategy to grow the network in Africa and works to build global partnerships to develop globally informed student visions. Diane began her career in education as a first-grade bilingual teacher through the Teach For America program in Los Angeles in 1994. She taught for four years before assuming senior leadership roles in national and global education non-profits like Teach For America and Global Nomads Group. Diane was born on the island of Jamaica, grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has spent over 20 years at the forefront of education change in the United States and globally. She is committed to seeing students from low-income communities achieve their full potential through her work at Teach For All and through the work she does as an educational consultant and coach. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Vassar College, a Master of Arts in multicultural education from California State University and a Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Diane is also a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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• Sarah Jones

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  Journalist, Sarah Jones Reports LLC

  Sarah Jones is an award winning journalist with a large social media presence and a decade of experience in mainstream TV news. She is one of the top twenty North American Young Leaders chosen by Friends of Europe. Sarah received the Women Economic Forum's highest honor on International Women's Day 2018 in the Hague when she was named one of their "Women of the Decade" in News & Social Engagement. She is an International Women's Media Foundation (IWFM) Fellow and two time International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellow. Sarah was selected as one of the top one thousand most influential Twitter profiles. And on more than one occasion she has been invited to advise senior level military planners and government officials - in the US and allied countries - on social technologies. In 2014 she was voted Best Journalist in Social Media by a panel of industry leaders at the Shorty Awards. While Sarah covers a range of world and US news stories - she is among the top forty female social media influencers for conversations surrounding artificial intelligence. Sarah has been an Online Media Awards judge and Skoll World Forum delegate since 2015. She also founded the international moment of silence and online event "Remembering Fallen Journalists" with co-partners like the Committee to Protect Journalists, Foley Foundation and the UN Foundation's Plus Social Good. The event reached over 9 million people in it's first year and in person events were held around the world. Sarah has worked with Reuters Trust; VICE; Al Jazeera America; TRT World, CNN; ITN's Channel 4 News; Gulf News; BBC World Service; Brook Lapping Productions on the documentary "9/11: The Day That Changed the World"; and ABC 7 News in her hometown of Chicago on a biweekly feature called "Someone You Should Know." Sarah Jones is a graduate of City University London's International Broadcast Journalism Masters program with merit.

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• Katharine Berry

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  Individual, Individual

  Now retired, for many years I raised funds for a consortium of health and social service agencies located in the metropolitan New York City region of the United States. In addition, I have served in a variety of volunteer capacities to support and strengthen the American educational system, both public and private, including participation in governance as trustee. Most recently, my husband and I help to further the important work of the African Leadership Academy by mentoring graduates studying at Yale.

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• Diana Swartz

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  Director of Goverance, Liger Leadership Academy

  Diana has advised non-profit organizations and charities for more than 20 years and has worked with The Liger Charitable Foundation since its inception in July 2009. She specializes in international issues faced by charities, including cross-border giving and fundraising, tax and fiduciary issues with a focus on private foundations, educational and cultural institutions and humanitarian relief organizations. Throughout her career as an attorney in both New York and London, Diana has counseled numerous charities on governance questions and federal non-profit tax law. She received a BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Education – Language, Literacy and Culture from Stanford University, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania and an LLM in Taxation from NYU.

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• Diana Apostolides

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  Program Manager, Education and Learning Department, MasterCard Foundation

  I currently work as a Program Manager with Regional Programs at the Mastercard Foundation, and manage a number of partnerships within our Scholars Program. I previously have held positions with World Vision Canada and Right To Play. With both organizations I managed programs and partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Prior to this, I had spent three years with the Aga Khan Foundation, and with ACTED, based in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In addition to holding an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, I recently obtained a Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation from Carleton University.

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• Kate Groch

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  CEO, Good Work Foundation

  In 2003 South African-born educator, Kate Groch started the nonprofit, Good Work Foundation (GWF), and focused her dream of bringing access to wonder-filled learning to rural South Africans. Together with experts from around the world, Kate has pioneered 6 digital learning campuses designed to infuse entire communities with access to a new way of thinking and learning. Kate with her growing number of staff at Good Work Foundation are creating an Ecosystem of Learning and working bringing opportunity and access to young rural South Africans. Using advances in technology to ensure that no matter where someone is born they have access to world class and wonder filled Education and opportunity. Kate is a firm believer in the potential of Africa and its people and the opportunities that the digital age bring to both

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• Farrukh Khan

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  Senior Director Business Development, Acumen

  Farrukh H. Khan is Senior Director of Business Development at Acumen where he is responsible for global business development and fundraising activities. Previously, Farrukh was the Country Director and CEO of Acumen Pakistan. He is the founding partner and former CEO of BMA Capital Management Limited. He is an experienced entrepreneur and a leading business and financial advisor who has advised on many landmark transactions, including Etisalat’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Pak Telecom. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and has served on various private and public sector boards. Farrukh qualified as a Chartered Accountant from the UK and received a BA (Hons.) in Economics and Finance from the University of Manchester.

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• Devyani Pershad

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  Head, International Collaborations, Pratham

  Devyani leads Pratham's International Collaborations with partners in different parts of the world with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. She also leads Pratham's fundraising efforts with foundations and the organization's marketing and communications activities. Until recently, Devyani was leading Program Management for Pratham's education programs in India.

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• Laurie Goering

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  Journalist, Individual

  I'm a journalist and climate change storyteller. As a reporter, editor and newsletter writer I take complex topics and turning them into human stories anyone can grasp, and I love working with young journalists across the world to develop other great climate change storytellers. I created and for 14 years ran the Thomson Reuters Foundation's award-winning daily news website on the human impacts of a warming planet, recruiting and managing a team of developing world freelance writers in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, many of them in the most climate-vulnerable parts of the globe. Together we told the stories of climate change from the front lines. Prior to coming to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, I was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper based for 15 years in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, South Africa, India and the UK, with substantial time spent as well in Afghanistan and Iraq. I have in-depth experience working in more than 80 countries worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America.

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• Theresa Chen

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  Director of Research, Stop AAPI Hate

  Theresa leads the Evaluation & Learning team, which collaborates closely with Foundation staff and externally with grantees, funders and others to generate thoughtful program analysis and link learning to strategy and actions. Theresa brings to her role over a decade's experience in research, evaluation, and analysis in the public and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, Theresa was the Assistant Director of Research and Policy at The Education Trust--West, where she authored full-length research publications and oversaw in-house analytics on California’s neediest students. She has also led and supported research, assessment, and evaluation of other United States-based programs at KIPP Foundation and the United States Government Accountability Office. In the international space, Theresa served as a Global Monitoring & Evaluation Officer with Room to Read and as a microfinance researcher with the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India. Theresa has a BA in History from UC Berkeley and an MPA from Indiana University – Bloomington.

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• Desmond Blackburn

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  Chief Executive Officer, New Teacher Center

  Desmond Blackburn, Ph.D, is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of New Teacher Center (NTC). NTC is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving student learning by guiding a new generation of educators. Founded in 1998, NTC works in conjunction with school districts, state policymakers, and educators across the country to increase the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders at all levels, with a focus on those working in underserved communities. Desmond began his career in education in 1996 as a High School Math Teacher for Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) where until 2015 he additionally served as an Assistant Principal, Principal, Director of School Improvement, Area Superintendent, and the Chief of School Performance & Accountability. In 2015, he became the Superintendent of Schools for Brevard Public Schools (BPS). Under his leadership, BPS achieved 65% proficiency on 3rd grade literacy assessments, the 10th highest graduation rate in the state, three schools earned the distinguished Blue Ribbon award, and the State of Florida graded BPS an “A” for two consecutive years. As a school district leader, Desmond served both state and national organizations including the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS) and Chiefs For Change. He is a Broad Academy Fellow and Governor Rick Scott recently appointed him to serve on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Safety Commission. His fraternal affiliations include the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He was born in Mt. Vernon, New York to parents, Desmond and Diana. He and his wife, Kelli, have been married for 21 years. They have two sons, Dean and Grant.

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• Desiree Joule-Adam

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  Opinon Editor & Researcher, 7DNews

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• Esha Chhabra

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  Author, Individual

  Esha is a journalist who covers sustainability, development, women's issues, and mission-driven brands. She contributes to a number of international and national publications such as The Guardian, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, Forbes, and more. She has been awarded multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting as well as two reporting fellowships from the UN Foundation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and a Rotary Scholar from The London School of Economics. Currently writing a book for Patagonia on mission-driven companies.

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• Derek Gannon

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  Managing Director, Virgin Unite

  I stepped into the position of Managing Director in July 2018, after initially joining Virgin Unite as a Consultant. Prior to Unite, I founded a consultancy to work with values-led organisations, as well as foundations and various philanthropists and entrepreneurs. I was Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Comic Relief and COO at Guardian News and Media where I focused on major business-change programmes.

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• Delphine Uwamahoro

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  Country Director, The Ihangane Project

  As Country Director of The Ihangane Project, Delphine leads a dynamic team of Rwandan innovators who work hand-in -hand with communities to co-create solutions to achieve their health goals while also strengthening national health systems. Delphine serves as a liaison between The Ihangane Project, local, regional, and national government officials, and other non-profit organizations. Prior to her current role, Delphine served as the Coordinator of the Nutrition for HIV-exposed Infants program, where she successfully established the Five Pillars of Quality. This is an innovative quality improvement framework that has been recognized by the International AIDS Society,Institute for Health Improvement, and the Rwanda Ministry of Health. Delphine is a passionate advocate for community-driven solutions, and speaks eloquently about techniques for building community ownership of health systems, promoting healthy behavior change and the influence of hope on quality of care and health outcomes. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Medical Imaging Sciences and received her Design, Partnership, Management & Innovation for Development (DPMI) certification from the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Delphine was a Johnson & Johnson Global Health at Skoll World Forum 2019.

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• Eric Techel

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  Partner and CFO, Capricorn Investment Group

  Eric Techel is a Partner and member of the Finance & Operations Team at Capricorn Investment Group. He is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer.

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• Deepika Devadas

  Delegate

  Chief of Staff, Programs, Grand Challenges Canada

  Deepika is the Chief of Staff to Karlee Silver (Co-CEO). In this role she provides strategic advice and support on the organization’s program-related initiatives like the EWEC Innovation Marketplace, Impact Fund, Transition to Scale and new Grand Challenges across its Development, Humanitarian and Indigenous innovation areas of focus, and engages with GCC’s strategic partners to help facilitate demand and scaling for innovative solutions. Deepika continues to support the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace, a joint initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, Norad and USAID, a portfolio she previously managed, by leveraging her health and impact investment expertise to support health-focused start-ups and innovations, that serve low and middle income countries, to achieve their investment, growth and impact milestones during and beyond the transition to scale stages. Deepika comes from a background in health sciences and technologies, through her ten years of experience across various scientific disciplines, including infection biology, cancer and bioengineering. She is often called upon as a recognized thought leader in the sector of scaling impactful health innovation in low and middle income countries. Deepika was a postdoctoral scientist with the University of Toronto, at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. She received her PhD from the Hannover Medical School, Germany and her Masters in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Nottingham, UK. Her breadth of international experience also includes her native country, India, where she completed her BSc in Microbiology from the University of Mumbai. Deepika has a certificate in Strategic Management from the Copenhagen Business School and is a candidate for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation.

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• Emma Caddy

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  CEO / Founder, Tiny Totos Kenya

  Emma has 20 years’ experience in social entrepreneurship, innovation and equity. After a decade working on indigenous rights, conservation and community development in Latin America, Emma ran a global impact investment fund from London. After moving to Nairobi in 2012, she set up an impact advisory to support impact clients including the Kenya Bankers’ Association, UNDP and Palladium. In 2014, Emma founded Tiny Totos, a Kenyan social enterprise tackling the childcare crisis through a market solution transforming informal childcare standards and outcomes. Tiny Totos has served over 25,000 children, extending reach through Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Tiny Totos’ childcare innovations have won many accolades, including top prize at the UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Award, 2023. Tiny Totos is also a 2023 MIT Solve winner in Financial Inclusion. Emma has a 1st class BA from Oxford University, a Masters in Resource Management from UBC and an MBA from Said.

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• Debbie Rogers

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  CEO, Reach Digital Health

  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 (Previously Praekelt.org). Her leadership tenure at the organisation, spanning over a decade, demonstrates her ability to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions. Drawing on her advanced Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Digital Arts degrees, Debbie possesses a unique blend of technological problem-solving skills and creative insights.

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• Deb Greenspan

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  Vice President, Glover Park Group

  Since joining The Glover Park Group, Debra Greenspan has worked primarily with clients in the Energy & Sustainability practice, developing and executing comprehensive, creative communications strategies and rapid response plans designed to achieve both reputational and legislative goals. Debra has facilitated major campaign rollouts, been involved with the design, content creation and launch of digital campaigns and has coordinated earned media outreach around major national and international events and conferences. Her past and current client work includes strategic communication services for Iberdrola Renewables, The Climate Reality Project, World Wildlife Fund and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. Debra is also a 2019 Atlantic Council Women Leaders in Energy Fellow. Prior to joining the GPG team, Debra worked for Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) in his D.C. Senate office and then on his presidential campaign. Debra holds a BA with honors in Public Policy from Brown University. In her spare time, Debra dabbles in freelance photography and blog-writing.

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• Kunal Doshi

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  Impact Investment Professional, Capricorn Investment Group

  Kunal Doshi is an impact investor on Capricorn’s investment team. He helps conduct required diligence, evaluate investments, capital raise and assist existing portfolio companies within Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund. He acts as a Board Observor on portfolio companies such as Embrace Innovations, Got It, and Pagatech. Prior to Capricorn, Kunal was an Associate at Greentech Capital Advisors where he focused on projects in the clean energy and sustainability sector. He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst within Citigroup’s Mergers & Acquisitions team. He is also the Founder of Brighter Children, a non-profit organization focused on delivering primary education to children in impoverished communities. Kunal earned his Bachelors of Science from the McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia. He will earn his Master's of Science in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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• David Walton

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  CEO, Build Health International

  David Walton, MD, MPH is the co-founder and CEO of Build Health International, a non-profit dedicated to building health care infrastructure, with a focus on renewable energy and sustainability, in low- and middle-income countries. He is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After obtaining an MD from Harvard Medical School and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, he trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the first Doris and Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity resident. Dr. Walton’s work has focused on health systems strengthening, improvement and expansion of medical care, and medical infrastructure in resource-poor settings. In the more than 15 years in which he worked with Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston-based non-profit organization, he served numerous roles: clinician, administrative director, liaison to the Ministry of Health of Haiti, and Deputy Director of PIH Haiti. He also led several teams that designed, developed, built, and operationalized three hospitals in central Haiti, including Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, a 350-bed teaching hospital, the largest and most advanced public sector hospital in the country. Dr. Walton also led a multi-national team that developed an open-source hospital management information system which has been implemented in over 20 countries. He has received several awards for his accomplishments in Global Health, more recently the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award and GOOD Magazine’s GOOD 100. He has numerous appearances in digital and print media, as well as several publications in the medical literature.

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• Scott Seydel

  Delegate

  Board Director, Seydel Companies

  Chemical engineer and founder of Seydel.com, a global textile and packaging chemical manufacturing company specializing in sustainable chemistry as alternatives to petrochemical synthetic polymer coatings and adhesives. Ellen MacArthur Foundation Board Member specializing in product designs for circularity and agricultural farm management centered on soil rejuvenation.

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• David Muse

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  Chief Executive Officer, Dharma Platform

  David Muse is the CEO of Dharma Platform, an “impact first” software company that allows non-technical users to rapidly design and deploy programs to collect and analyze data — anywhere, anytime — and quickly make informed decisions based on real-time ground truth. David worked as a senior advisor to TPG before taking on this leadership role within the RISE fund. During this time, David provided operational guidance to TPG’s technology team and member portfolio companies. Prior to his engagement with TPG, David was the President and CEO of Enviance, a leading SAAS provider of Operational Compliance and Health Solutions. Before his tenure with Enviance, he held the position of COO at P2 Energy Solutions, the largest independent technology company providing software solutions to the energy industry. He has also served as interim President for inthinc Technology Solutions and as a partner for IBM Global Business Services. He led the global energy practice for SAIC’s business consulting division and held executive positions with Honeywell and Aspen Technology focusing on the automation and software sector. In addition to his professional duties, Mr. Muse served as an adjunct faculty member at Texas A&M University. Mr. Muse received his MBA from McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and holds a B.S., Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University.

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• Molly Bingham

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  President and CEO, Orb

  Orb Media empowers people everywhere to better align their daily personal, professional and civic decisions with their values and objectives. Orb achieves that through its global, collaborative, scientific and data powered rigorous reporting. Molly is the driving force behind Orb. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist, Molly has covered news and conflicts around the globe. Her work has been featured in leading media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Independent, Vanity Fair, and she has appeared on top network and cable television and radio news programs. Named in 2012 by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of “20 Women to Watch,” Molly is at the cutting edge of defining journalism in the digital age, with a unique vision for discovering and covering global stories while making original content accessible and engaging. Molly serves on the boards of The Overseas Press Club and The Listen Campaign. A graduate of Harvard University, Molly was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in 2004.

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• Dave Ross

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  President and Chief Executive Officer, The Task Force for Global Health

  Dave Ross, ScD, is president and chief executive officer of The Task Force for Global Health, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization that works to eliminate, prevent, and protect populations against diseases and other health threats. Dr. Ross provides strategic direction to The Task Force and its 13 programs focused on field epidemiology, pandemic preparedness, neglected tropical diseases, public health informatics, health workforce development, hepatitis elimination, and medical surplus recovery. Dr. Ross is a thought leader and one of the pioneers of public health informatics, a discipline that focuses on using information to improve health outcomes. He founded the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) at The Task Force and served as its director for 16 years before. Under Dr. Ross’ leadership as CEO, The Task Force has launched new collaborative initiatives in leprosy elimination and health workforce development. Most recently, The Task Force worked with stakeholders to articulate a new vision for ensuring all countries have adequate field epidemiology capacity. The Task Force is also looking to scale up human resource information systems across Africa following a model implemented in Kenya that has transformed the management of the country’s healthcare workforce. Dr. Ross has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and frequently serves on national panels focused on public health informatics. Dr. Ross holds a doctor of science degree in operations research from The Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado. In 2016, The Task Force was awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize – the world’s largest award of its kind – for extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering.

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• Sandrine Woitrin

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  Project Co-lead, Wellbeing Project

  Sandrine has a degree in Economics and Business Management from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (with an exchange at ICADE, Madrid). She has worked for ten years at Grupo Vips and was part of the team that opened Starbucks coffee shops in Spain and France. In her last stage at Grupo Vips she developed the Corporate Social Responsibility department. She then studied Naturopathy in Madrid and decided to use this knowledge to support the health of her family and friends. Her interest in the social innovation sector has led her to support different organizations in various roles. Since 2015 she co-leads The Wellbeing Project, a global project that aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing in the social innovation sector. She is also a member of the board of trustees of Chillida Leku and of the Carlos de Amberes Foundation.

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• Dave Blanchard

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  CEO and Co-Founder, Praxis

  Dave is committed to advancing redemptive entrepreneurship, believing that how our world approaches work is the primary factor in the health of our social fabric. To this end, he founded and leads Praxis, a faith-based organization which builds redemptive ventures, community, and content. Previously, Dave was a Principal Designer at IDEO and founded two companies in music and technology. He’s had the privilege of leading one of the prototype IDEO.org projects, serving on the One Acre Fund Board of Directors during graduate school, and speaking at venues from The White House to Harvard. He has a BA from Babson College, an MBA & MEM from Northwestern, and lives in Manhattan with his wife and three boys.

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• Darren Mastropaolo

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  Director, International, Crisis Text Line

  Darren Mastropaolo is the Director of Crisis Text Line International. His goal is to create a consistent global standard for crisis support through 24/7 access for all people in pain and the first global, real-time, mental health dashboard. Since Crisis Text Line launched in 2013, they have processed over 100 Million messages and currently operate platforms in the US, Canada, and the UK. Plans are in place to expand to dozens of other countries in the coming years.

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• Sandra Fisher-Martins

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  Climate Action Mobilisation Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Sandra is an activist, social entrepreneur and 2018 Skoll Scholar at Oxford University. She co-founded Asymmetry, a fund that connects social activism with the capital markets, using short selling as a tool for corporate accountability.

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• Dar Vanderbeck

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  Unknown, Individual

  My work sits at the intersection of innovation and social justice. Currently I am Chief Innovation Officer for CARE USA, leading the incubation of new and radically-more-just business models that could be the future of CARE. In this role, I am also co-founder of Embark, a fund to invest in feminist movements and activists worldwide. Prior to this: Obama Appointee (first term) at USAID, Managing Director for Innovation & Values-based Leadership at Teach for America, Co-founder and Chief Partnerships at Imperative, 2008 field organizer in Florida -- and more. I hold or have held board seats with some amazing organizations such as MicroVest Holdings, CARE Enterprises Inc, Rhize, Level Up Georgia and Chrysalis (Sri Lanka).

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• Daphne Metland

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  Editorial Director,Maternal and Child Health, Johnson & Johnson

  Daphne Metland is Global Director, Maternal and Child Health for BabyCenter, the number one pregnancy and parenting digital resource reaching over 50 million mothers globally each month in 9 different languages. An experienced medical journalist, Daphne is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, a member of the Association of Medical Journalists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As Global Director for BabyCenter, Daphne launched BabyCenter websites in 20 countries around the world. Many of these sites have Health on the Net (HON) accreditation http://hon.ch/ and all have their own medical advisory boards. Daphne now runs the m-health Content Development Team for BabyCenter. She created a library of mobile phone messages under the MAMA banner that are now in use in over 70 countries. Daphne has worked directly on mobile phone messaging programmes in India, China, South Africa, Mexico, and Uganda. She has researched and created messages on Maternal and Child Health, HIV, nutrition, family spacing and early childhood development. She created health content for Facebook Free Basics in 27 languages that has been used in 40 countries. Her expertise in maternal health -- combined with her strong understanding of how to best connect with women on an emotional level -- has proven effective in improving the health behaviours of mothers around the world. Daphne studied behaviour change science with BJ Fogg of Stanford University who runs the Stanford Behavior Design Lab.

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• Rick Spence

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  writer, Financial Post

  Rick is a business writer, speaker and consultant in Toronto specializing in entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. He has been chronicling entrepreneurship for more than 25 years, as a freelance writer, editor and publisher of PROFIT magazine, and a columnist for the National Post. He also writes for Corporate Knights, The Magazine for Clean Capitalism. Rick is also author of Secret of Success from Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies (published by Wiley), a leading-edge book on scaling your business. He is also a director of Startup Canada and a volunteer mentor with the Toronto-based Centre for Social Innovation. He blogs at www.canentrepreneur.com and tweets new-economy news at @RickSpence

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• Danielle Thomson

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  Research Director, TED Conferences LLC

  Danielle Thomson is a consultant for The Audacious Project, a collaborative funding initiative housed at TED that seeks to unlock social impact on a grand scale. Danielle also previously worked on the organization’s $1 million TED Prize, an award given to leaders with creative, bold wishes to spark global change. Prior to TED, Danielle worked at Late Show with David Letterman and received two Emmy nominations for writing on the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Danielle earned her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She’s available to discuss women in film and celebrity trivia at any time.

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• Daniela Uribe

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  Founder, Lazy Bear Tea

  Daniela Uribe is the cofounder and CEO of Lazy Bear Tea, a social enterprise upcycling waste along the coffee supply chain. Prior to funding Lazy Bear Tea, she worked at FSG, a social impact consulting firm where she helped Fortune 500 companies and large foundations define, execute, and evaluate their social and environmental impact strategies. She has worked for conservation and civic engagement nonprofits across the US. Daniela and her husband founded the Torres del Paine Legacy Fund in the Chilean Patagonia. She was born and raised in Colombia and studied International Relations and African Studies at Stanford University.

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• Jessica Lax

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  Coach for Personal & Societal Transformation, The Ember Circle

  Jess Lax is passionate about empowering others to bring their whole hearts forward to create a more just, connected, and beautiful world. She is the founder of The Ember Circle, and focuses on fostering resilience, reconnection, and realignment amongst social impact leaders. An educator, a community builder, and coach - Jess designs and leads transformational experiences. She has been a keynote speaker on international stages about the power of individual action, and has authored multiple publications about sparking an individual's sense of agency. Her early experiences involve starting an award-winning environmental organization that used theatre and bike tours to empower thousands of young people. Jess was awarded a Skoll Scholarship for her work and completed her MBA at Oxford University. Today she calls Ottawa, Canada home.

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• Rajiv Joshi

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  Visiting Executive, B Team

  Rajiv S. Joshi is an activist, economist & social entrepreneur and is a Visiting Executive at Oxford Säid Business School. Raj has spent the last seven years serving as a founding member and Managing Director of The B Team, where he continues to serve as an Advisor. Co-Founded by Sir Richard Branson and ex-Puma CEO Jochen Zeitz, The B Team, which is currently chaired by Paul Polman and Trade Union Leader Sharan Burrow, brings together some of the worlds leading CEOs alongside civil society leaders to help redefine the role of business in society and increase ambition amongst businesses to advance the wellbeing of people and the planet alongside profit. Rajiv is a movement builder, advocate and emerging thought leader. Over the past 15 years, he has supported groundbreaking CEO activism, led youth movements and pioneered multi-stakeholder initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sector to address inequalities, advance human rights and tackle climate change. Before joining The B Team, he served as Executive Director of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and as a Trustee of Oxfam GB and CIVICUS, based in Johannesburg. He also served two elected terms as Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament. In 2014 and 2015 he served on the Founding Board of We Mean Business, driving business-led action on climate change to help secure the Paris Climate Agreement while also playing a key role in shaping the development of the SDGs as Co-Founder of the "World We Want 2015" initiative. Rajiv holds a First Class Honors in Economics from Strathclyde Business School and a Masters in Public Policy and Administration (MPA) from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York.

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• Daniela Terminel

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  CEO, Global Health Corps

  Daniela Terminel is the CEO of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes the movement for health equity by building the next generation of health leaders. Since 2009, GHC has placed and developed creative young professionals from diverse backgrounds into high-impact health positions in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia. GHC’s vibrant, global community of emerging leaders is nearly 1000-strong and growing. Daniela pairs extensive global strategic and operational expertise with a strong commitment to the principle that leadership can change the world. For more than 15 years, she has worked with leaders around the world to transform entrepreneurial ecosystems and create long-term economic development in the for-profit and non-profit spaces. Before joining GHC, she served on the executive team at Endeavor, where she led the organization through a period of expansion across five continents and multiple industries. She was responsible for launching offices in Europe and Africa and managing operations in 10+ markets. She has also held executive roles in the private sector, serving as Managing Director at Biblomodel-Allsteel, a multi-national furniture enterprise. Daniela was born and raised in Mexico City, where she learned the importance of being an active part of society in order to catalyze change. She’s devoted her career to fostering strong leadership in social innovation, which is critical to sustainable development and transformation. Daniela holds a BA in International Business from Universidad Anahuac Norte in Mexico City, and has completed executive leadership programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School and Thunderbird School of Global Management. Alongside living her life with purpose, she loves to cook and is passionate about sports, especially soccer and tennis. Daniela is based in New York City.

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• Daniela Gheorge

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  Skoll Scholar, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Daniela has four years of experience as a social entrepreneur in education in India. Natively from Romania, Daniela has spent four years working in business development, business growth, marketing, and operations in four states of India, across four fields with different social enterprises before she started her own for-profit education technology company, vChalk, in 2014 in Bangalore. Prior to 2011, Daniela studied Communication and Public Relations in Romania and Germany and availed the ERASMUS scholarship. She worked in political marketing for two years before moving to the non-profit sector with Habitat for Humanity in Cluj, Romania. In 2011, Daniela came to India with AIESEC and since then she has worked in waste management, healthcare, and rural craftsmanship in Telangana, Assam, Rajasthan, and Karnataka states. With her work in eye-care in Assam, Daniela won recognition in India and ensured that ERC Eye Care received its first impact investment of $100,000. Since then, the company has grown to serve more than 100,000 patients with access to affordable eye glasses and ophthalmological services in their villages in this North Eastern state of India. In 2013, she received a full scholarship as a Frontier Market Scout, a programme supported by Village Capital to back future social entrepreneurs. In 2014, Daniela conceptualised vChalk to enable parents and teachers to close children’s early learning gaps using technology. Since then, vChalk has won the D-Prize Award in San Francisco, and the NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum Tech for Good Award in India, has been a global finalist in the Global Social Venture Competition by Berkeley Haas in Bangkok and in the Global Ed-tech Startup Awards in Tel Aviv and London. Under Daniela’s guidance, the team at vChalk has impacted 2,500 students from low-income families and had paying repeat customers in under two years of operation.

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• Daniel Shoukimas

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  Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, mPharma

  Dan Shoukimas is passionate about Art, Design, Technology, and the potential for impact where the three intersect. Dan currently brings this mindset to the African healthcare ecosystem, where seeks to make medicines accessible and affordable as a co-founder of mPharma. As Chief Product Officer, Dan is responsible for translating our mission and values into a product direction. He also leads team of product managers and designers who bring innovative solutions to market that help pharmacy owners, patients, and other stakeholders access better, more affordable treatment whenever they need it.

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• Jennifer Higgins

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  Director, Target Foundation, Target

  Jen currently serves as Director of the Target Foundation & Corporate Responsibility. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic direction and overall operations of the Target Foundation. During her 14 years in Corporate Philanthropy, she has led the development and implementation of local, national and global philanthropic strategies and has deep experience with community partnerships, stakeholder engagement, cause marketing, business integration, and corporate sponsorships. She started her CR career leading a finance and operations team developing solutions and processes in support of the work. In addition to her experience in Corporate Responsibility, Higgins has worked in HR and Finance at Target. Prior to joining Target, she worked in the non-profit sector in Chicago.

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• Kayode Ajayi

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  Country Director, Riders for Health

  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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• Jules Kortenhorst

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  CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

  Jules Kortenhorst is the Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute. He is a recognized leader on global energy issues and climate change. His background spans business, government, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit leadership. Since 1982, Rocky Mountain Institute (http://www.rmi.org) has advanced market-based solutions that transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous and secure future. An independent, nonprofit think-and-do tank, RMI engages with businesses, communities and institutions to accelerate and scale replicable solutions that drive the cost-effective shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. BACKGROUND Prior to RMI, Jules was the founding CEO of the European Climate Foundation (https://europeanclimate.org), the largest philanthropic organization dedicated to policy development and advocacy on climate change in Europe. Before launching ECF, he served as a member of the Dutch parliament for the Christian Democratic Party. During the first 20 years of his career, Jules worked in the business world. He was the CEO for International Operations of ClientLogic Corporation, a global leader in outsourced customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. He worked for almost 10 years for Royal Dutch / Shell, among others as managing director of Shell Bulgaria, and he began his career as an analyst at McKinsey & Co. Jules currently serves on the Energy Transition Commission http://www.energy-transitions.org, on the WEF Future Council on Energy and on the Board of Stedin Holding NV. Jules is married to Searl Vetter and has four children. EDUCATION • Masters of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Baker Scholar • Masters in Economics, Erasmus University, Netherlands

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• Damilola Onafuwa

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  Creative Director, StoryMaxima

  Damilola Onafuwa is a visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria, using digital photography, film and mixed media as a medium of expression. The focus of his work is on human-interest stories that creates a consciousness about social issues. He is also interested in how human cultures are formed and how they shape our perception of the world. Born out of curiosity, his work puts a spotlight on humanity in its purest form, on people and culture, serving as the reflective glass with which people see themselves as they were, as they are, and as a tool to inspire hope to become. He is the founder and creative director of StoryMaxima, a professional storytelling organisation. He has been a speaker at TEDx, where he spoke about his work and its impact on human societies. He has also been recognized for his excellent work by The Future Awards Africa and World Press Photo.

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• Dalit Wolf

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  Deputy Israeli Director, EcoPeace Middle East

  Dalit Wolf Golan is the Deputy Israeli Director and Regional Development Director at EcoPeace Middle East, a unique organization that brings together Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis to promote environmental sustainability and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. Through EcoPeace, Dalit contributes to environmental sustainability in one of the most challenging environments imaginable. EcoPeace shows Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians how their national destinies and self-interests are inextricably linked to their environment, and thus to each other; and encourages them to take action and reach out across conflict lines to change policies and advance solutions to pressing environmental concerns. Dalit graduated from the Department of Psychology at Tel Aviv University.

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• Nadia Naviwala

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  Senior Advisor - Global Partnerships, The Citizens Foundation Pakistan

  Nadia serves as a senior advisor to The Citizens Foundation (TCF) where she develops and manages global partnerships. The Economist has called TCF “perhaps the largest network of independently run schools in the world.” Nadia Naviwala is also is the author of "Why Can't Pakistani Children Read? The Inside Story on Education Reforms Gone Wrong" and "Pakistan's Education Crisis: The Real Story." Her work has appeared the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Devex, and Dawn, and has been cited in the Economist. Nadia holds a Masters in Public Policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

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• Craig Heintzman

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  CEO, Arifu

  Craig is the Founder and CEO of Arifu, a Nairobi-based tech company with a chatbot helping people learn skills from the organizations they trust over any mobile phone. Prior to Arifu, Craig conducted livelihood research working with microentrepreneurs in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania. He also held business development roles with the World Wide Web Foundation and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) on projects designed to foster a more open and inclusive Web responsive to the needs of underserved communities globally. Craig received his B.Comm and B.A. Philosophy at Queen’s University, not far from his hometown of Toronto.

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• Connor Diemand-Yauman

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  Co-founder and CEO, Philanthropy University

  Connor Diemand-Yauman is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Philanthropy U, the award-winning organization that launched the first-of-its-kind free online learning platform called Philanthropy University. His academic research on improving learning outcomes has been cited in over 160 academic articles and covered by The Economist, The New York Times, and BBC International. He is the recipient of the Pyne Prize, Princeton University’s highest undergraduate distinction, and was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30.

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• Michael Sani

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  Chief Executive Officer, Play Verto

  I am a social entrepreneur playfully weaving collective impact initiatives. I have 12+ years experience of strategising & co-creating projects that increase community engagement for social impact. I see vulnerability as a strength and have been exploring my own inner journey & consciousness since 2016. Each layer unpeeled is a lesson learnt, an opportunity for wisdom to come from the most difficult of situations. The journey continues. Play Verto seeks to spin traditional research on its head by using play and gamification to generate a sense of belonging from our players. We devise strategies that meaningfully engage our players & support leaders & decision makers to act with confidence on the actionable insights. With over 50 languages within our own fully customisable tech platform & an 80% completion rate, we are perfectly placed to collect data from diverse audiences that bring an authentic voice to your insights.

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• Joan Anway

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  Advisor, Refugee Company

  • 18 years living in Asia Pacific, 20+ years working in senior financial, advisory and sales roles; proven ability to collaborate and deliver results in a multi-cultural environment • Kiva - Risk Analysis analyst • Institutional Advisor, Alterna - Guatemalan Social incubator • Pearl Consulting - Senior Consultant for purpose-driven boutique consultancy focused on delivering mutual benefit for corporate, nonprofit and government partners through the strategic deployment of social impact initiatives. • VP marketing, Boyer Allan Investment Management, an Asian 800M AUM hedge fund, ran all US business operations. • Global Head of Client Account Management, Asia Pacific, ABN AMRO Singapore; Managing Director.

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• Michael Barclay

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  Director, TEDx

  Co-founder and Director-General at TEDxTukuy, the largest TEDx event in Perú. Co-founder and Board member at Kunan, the largest social entrepreneurship accelerator in Peru, providing small grants, support services and research on social entrepreneurs in the country. Leading a new resilient infrastructure project, that connects and strengthens multi-actor collaboration. Tech entrepreneur and co-founder at a videogame company, a consumer hardware company and a B2B SaaS and marketplace startup. World Economic Forum Global Shaper Alumni.

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• Clare Shine

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  Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar

  Clare Shine was appointed Vice President and Chief Program Officer of Salzburg Global Seminar in 2012. Salzburg Global, an independent international organization founded in 1947, challenges current and future leaders to shape a better world. Our strategic programs aim to bridge divides, expand collaboration and transform systems. Salzburg Global now operates as a social enterprise, which combines non-profit mission-aligned programs and networks with an award-winning hotel. Clare has overall responsibility for the design, implementation, evaluation and impact strategy for multi-year programs, partnerships and policy initiatives; cross-sector innovation hubs in selected cities around the world; next-generation leadership development; communications and thought leadership; and the Salzburg Global Fellowship. Over 36,000 Fellows from 170 countries have come together through our work since 1947. Clare’s unusual career spans four continents and many sectors, connecting business, law, policy, media and the arts. From 1990-2011, she was an independent sustainable development consultant for intergovernmental organizations, national and local governments, the private sector and NGOs. She led influential projects on biodiversity and climate change, oceans and coastal development, international trade, transboundary cooperation, and conflict prevention and reconciliation. Clare is a UK-qualified barrister, an Associate of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and a professional mediator and facilitator. Clare is also an experienced journalist who was the Financial Times' theater critic in France from 2001-2011. She began her career in industry, working in the media and publishing sector with responsibility for marketing and new ventures. She holds an M.A. in English literature from Oxford University, UK and post-graduate degrees from London University and the Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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• David Floyd

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  Managing Director, Social Spider CIC

  David Floyd is Managing Director of Social Spider CIC. As part of this role he is a researcher and consultant on social impact investment, and the publisher of three community newspapers. Since 2012, David has been working with social entrepreneurs, funders and investors to help make the UK's social impact investment market relevant to a wider range of charities and social enterprises - and to ensure its delivers additional social impact over and above that provided by mainstream finance. In 2015, he was project manager for the The Alternative Commission on Social Investment, funded by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Since then, David has carried out writing, research and consultancy on social enterprise and social investment for clients including: Access: The Foundation for Social Investment; Big Lottery Fund; Centre for Public Impact; GMCVO; Power to Change and RBS. His most recent report, published in January 2019 by Social Investment Business, gives an overview of the use of the UK's Social Investment Tax Relief, since its launch in 2014. Social Spider CIC launched its first community newspaper, Waltham Forest Echo in 2014 and has since launch two more, Tottenham Community Press and Enfield Dispatch. The publications combine professional journalism with volunteers input from local residents and community organisations - creating a new, sustainable model for local news. Social Spider CIC write about the development of their model on the blog, Start Spreading The News. David is a trustee of Magma Poetry, and a non-executive director of Doing Social and Significant Seams CIC. He is a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Finance Innovation Lab, a member of the Good Finance steering group and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College. He was a speaker at the Social Finance Forum in Toronto in 2017. He writes The Equaliser column for Pioneers Post and blogs at beanbagsandbullsh1t.com

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• Matthew Beighley

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  Editor, Matthew Beighley

  Matthew Beighley is a Director, Editor, and Cinematographer specializing in documentary work for clients like PBS, OECD, United Nations, Skoll Foundation, Edutopia, The MacArthur Foundation, producing episodes of “Behind The Music” and “True Spin” for VH1, as well as music documentary work for MTV, Coachella, Warner Bros, Nonesuch, Univision News, Sony Music and more.

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• Claire Kennedy

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  TEDxExeter Organizer, TEDx

  After a law degree I spent a year as a UK delegate to the European Youth Parliament focussing on the then crisis in Nicaragua. My subsequent LLM at LSE focussed on human rights law. I became a refugee lawyer, leading a specialist team representing survivors of torture and unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK. I was part of the team to set up the Refugee Legal Centre, and also chaired the board of a therapy centre for refugees. Life intervened and I moved to Devon. Ten years ago I co-founded TEDxExeter and have since built and led a team to establish Exeter’s Festival of Ideas. Those early strands - justice, hope, interconnection - are at its heart. We’re licensed by TED and organised by volunteers who are passionate about sharing great ideas and building community. Our events have a strong focus on social justice, migration and refugees, mental health, climate justice, human rights, extremisms and radicalisation as well as AI, data and the arts. We bring together a community of speakers, volunteers and partners with an actively engaged audience. Half of our tickets are low cost, hundreds of young people attend. Alongside the talks we invite activists to inspire positive action. We facilitate meetings between speakers and policy makers, decision makers and thought leaders to make a lasting difference. Tickets sell out in minutes so we livestream widely around the world. With over 25 million views of our talks online the ripple effects are endless. With Bandi Mbubi I co-founded Congo Calling, a campaign for fair trade technology which uses ethically-sourced, conflict-free minerals from the DRC. In 2018 I worked with UNHCR to support refugees preparing for TEDxKakumaCamp, the first TEDx in a refugee camp. I’m also a Director of Egremont Group, an international change management consultancy.

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• Dianne Calvi

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  Chief Executive Officer and President, Village Enterprise

  Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty in Africa. Since assuming the role of CEO in 2010, she has spearheaded the organization's expansion into seven countries, successfully implemented the first development impact bond for poverty alleviation, and conducted two randomized control trials with positive results. Under her leadership, the organization has received awards and recognition for excellence, including Fast Company's World Changing Idea Award in 2023. In June 2023, Dianne received the Stanford President's Award for the Advancement of the Common Good. She also serves on the Board of Directors for InterAction and the National Advisory Board for Stanford University's Haas Center. Prior to Village Enterprise, Dianne served as the President of Bring Me A Book, an early literacy nonprofit. She graduated with a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Bocconi University on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.

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• Claire Joubert

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  Network Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Claire is the Impact Network Manager at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Claire’s background is building networks, partnership development and programme management, predominantly within higher education environments and with a focus on entrepreneurship and social impact. She has also led and managed the portfolio of co-curriculum programmes at the Entrepreneurship Centre, a Centre within Saïd Business School supporting entrepreneurship and innovation within the Oxford Saïd community. Previously, Claire was the Head of Client Engagement and Events at Fast Track, a leading business research and events company. She has also held roles at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge, where she managed the development and delivery of executive education programmes for public and private sector organisations. She began her career managing an education outreach programme in South Africa.

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• Claire Gately

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  Director, Long Term Foundation

  Claire is Chair and a Non-executive Director at Long term Foundation, she has over 25 years’ experience in financial services focused on regulation and fund structuring.

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• Chrystina Russell

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  Executive Director, SNHU's Global Education Movement (GEM), Southern New Hampshire University

  Chrystina Russell is the executive director of Southern New Hampshire University's Global Education Movement, providing US accredited Bachelor's degrees and pathways to employment across 9 sites in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Lebanon, and Rwanda. Previously, she was the chief academic officer of Kepler, a nonprofit university program based in Rwanda. In that role, she launched the organization's no-cost-to-students US-accredited degree program in two campuses -- one in Kigali and the other in Kiziba refugee camp. Previously, she was a founding principal of Global Tech Prep, a high-performing, innovative public school in Harlem, New York. Chrystina started her career as a bilingual special education teacher in the Bronx.

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• Christopher Franck

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  Managing Director, MAC3 Impact Philanthropies

  Christopher Franck is Managing Director at Aquilus Pte Ltd and MAC3 Impact Philanthropies, two entities supporting the investment activities and impact investments of a global industrial family. MAC3 selects approaches & initiatives that seek maximum long-term societal return for its philanthropic dollar whilst being sustainable. We support organizations in Early childhood, Health & Education; as well as the oceans & coastal ecosystems. To amplify its impact, MAC3 is active in selected collaborative philanthropic platforms to meaningfully participate in social and environmental programs that spur organizations with proven approaches to drive long-lasting catalytic system changes. MAC3 believes in the power of impactful storytelling to raise awareness. Powerful imagery shapes ‘seeing’ into ‘believing’. We support world leading and award-winning artists, content creators, influencers and scientists whose visceral messages, through repeated layering, compel sustainable behavior changes.

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• Christine Stoner

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  Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation

  Christine Stoner has spent much of her career with Autodesk, joining the Autodesk Foundation in 2015 as the Head of Engagement, then stepping into the role of Executive Director in 2021. Christine’s role is multi-faceted, strategic, and dynamic – helping Autodesk realize its strategic vision to leverage philanthropic capital to catalyze industry-wide transformation to create a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable world. During her career, she has partnered with nonprofits and startups globally to advance measurable impact outcomes across the Autodesk Foundation’s impact opportunity areas: Energy and Materials, Health and Resilience, and Work and Prosperity. Through the deployment of catalytic capital and harnessing the in-kind resources of Autodesk’s technology and talent, the Autodesk Foundation helps to de-risk innovations that change the world.

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• Irene Chan

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  Head of Public Affairs, Hong Kong Jockey Club

  Ms Irene Chan joined The Hong Kong Jockey Club as the Head of Charities (Communications and Engagement) in 2015. She led the Charities Communication team to spearhead the development of an integrated communications strategy for the Club’s charities projects and engagement strategy with key stakeholder groups. In February 2019, she was appointed to the position of Head of Public Affairs (Corporate & Charities Communications). She now leads and coordinates the Club’s external communications efforts as to showcase the Club’s unique integrated business model and strengthen our development and positioning of the Club as a world class racing and charity organisation to fulfill our purpose of acting continuously for the betterment of society. Irene possesses extensive experience in management, public affairs and corporate communications. She held senior positions in Beijing Olympics Broadcasting Company, The Walt Disney Company and Shell Companies. Prior to joining the Club, Irene served as the Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Hong Kong. In Walt Disney, Irene was a core member of the senior leadership team that orchestrated the communications strategy in the region and the opening of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. Irene obtained her first degree in Policy Making and Administration from the University of Essex, an MBA in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management from the City University Business School in London and a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. She also finished a part-time research course in Communications at the Peking University.

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• Christine Renaud

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  CEO, E-180

  Christine Renaud is the CEO and co-founder of e180 and its flagship product, Braindate. She obtained her Master's in education as a Knox Fellow from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studied informal learning. Before creating e180 in 2011, she harnessed the power of media as a force for change as a podcast producer for Learning Matters in New York City. e180 is, a Benefit corporation (B Corp) based in Montreal, whose mission is to reinvent the ways humans learn across the world. In 2011, , e180 created the web app Braindate.com, which allows participants to have one-on-one or small group, face-to-face knowledge-sharing conversations about a chosen topic. Over 100,000 users from 100+ clients such as Airbnb, GE, Salesforce, C2 Montreal, Morgan Stanley, the Cannes Lions Festival and TED have participated in braindates and helped transform the learning culture at the international events they attend. She was recognized in 2018 as one of the inaugural Canadian Inspiring Fifty, honouring 50 women shaping the future of technology in Canada as well as the Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Startup Canada in 2016, and one of the Most Innovative People in the Event Industry by Bizbash in 2015. She has shared her groundbreaking work on collaborative learning as a speaker in events such as SXSW & SXSWedu (Austin, USA), Morgan Stanley Women Leadership Summit (Chicago, USA), C2 Montreal (Montreal, Canada), Creative Mornings (Montreal, Canada), re:publica (Berlin, Germany).

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• Christine Oliver

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  Head of Research, Kusuma Trust UK

  For over 30 years, Christine has led a wide range of research projects with a particular focus on identifying evidence-based and actionable recommendations for systems change. Christine is currently Head of Research for the Kusuma Trust UK (KTUK) where her work has focused on improving children’s access to quality secondary education in India and in areas of educational underachievement in the UK. She has developed Kusuma’s evidence base from scratch, commissioning and managing research and evaluations of high quality and practical relevance to programmes funded by the Trust in India and the UK. Christine has been instrumental in securing the partnership of J-PAL South Asia to evaluate the scale-up of Kusuma’s innovative remedial education programme for young people in government secondary schools in Odisha, India. This RCT, which is currently underway, is potentially of national and global significance. Before joining the Trust, Christine worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Education, University College London where she managed a wide range of studies on the lives of children and young people in and outside the family. Her evidence reviews on the effectiveness of early interventions informed the launch of the Sure Start programme and her research on the impact of family breakdown on children’s well-being contributed to a shift in policy towards greater support for parents during separation. She led the first national study on child advocacy which led to a change in the law, giving children in public care a legal entitlement to an advocate. Early in her research career, Christine worked as a consultant specialising in strategies to reduce violence against minority ethnic and LGBT communities, and to promote gender equality. Christine received a Masters Degree from Essex University and a PhD from the Institute of Education, University College London, on child advocacy.

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• Christine Kim

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  Director of Strategic Partnerships, Simprints

  Christine Kim is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Simprints and alumnus of the University of Cambridge and Boston College, with academic and field experience in international economic development. She leads the development of the organization’s strategic partnerships with technology companies, private foundations, and institutional donors to synergize key resources that amplify Simprints’ impact worldwide. In addition as Project Manager, Christine manages the deployment and support of Simprints’ key projects in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

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• Luis Sanabria

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  Chief Operating Officer, Fundación Paraguaya

  Luis Sanabria has over 30 years of experience working at Fundación Paraguaya (FP) in institution building, microfinance, and social development. He oversees the operations of all FP programs by leading a team of 500 people to implement poverty elimination programs, entrepreneurial education and self-sustainable schools in Paraguay and other countries. He also exerts direct supervision to the office in Tanzania and programs in countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia where FP works. Under his leadership, FP has received numerous awards: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize (2009), GDN/Japanese Ministry of Finance prize for Most Innovative Development Project (2009), Nestlé Shared Value Prize (2012), ILO Good Practice in Youth Employment (2014), SPTF/Truelift completed a Microfinance, Social Performance Assessment assigning FP a grade of "Leader Milestone" achieving the highest overall score (2016) and Atlas Network's Think Tank Shark Tank (2022).

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• Lou Louis Koboji

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  Founder and Director, Kajo Keji Health Training Institute

  Lou Louis Koboji born in Kajo Keji South Sudan, is the Founder and Director of Kajo Keji Health Training Institute. At 5 Years old, Louis became a refugee in Uganda and had opportunity to study in Uganda, graduating from Makerere University Kampala with Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Technology and completing numerous other public health and management courses including; Perennial Fellowship-Seattle Washington State, African Visionary Fellowship, Unreasonable East Africa Fellowship and United Nation Alliance for Civilization fellowship in Baku, Azerbaijan. Louis has over 10 years of experience working with local government and the Ministry of Health, along with other health institutions in East Africa. Louis established KKHTI in 2013 and is the first South Sudanese founder of a private not for profit health training institute in South Sudan. He believes that the country's health system and capacity will be strengthened by educating Human Resources for Health. Louis is passionate about instilling the Institute's core values in his students for them to serve and save more South Sudanese lives. Currently he is in his third year study Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) in Kampala International University.

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• Christian Habla

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  Master of Public Policy, Saïd Business School

  I am a final year Master of Public Policy (MPP) Candidate at the Blavatnik School of Government. Prior to commencing at Oxford I worked as a commercial and investigative lawyer, in education and at a think tank. Besides specialising as a banking and finance lawyer, I managed strategic pro bono human rights litigations and also pro bono work for SANE Australia. Deeply interested in addressing societal challenges, I completed my honours thesis on the law’s role in suicide prevention and, as a social entrepreneur, have co-founded and lead suicide prevention initiatives in social finance, education and strategic advocacy.

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• Heather Wong

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  Chief of Staff, Atomico

  Heather serves as Assistant Private Secretary to HRH The Duke of Sussex (Prince Harry) at Kensington Palace, where, she focuses on building The Duke of Sussex's strategic initiatives across areas including conservation and sustainable tourism, mental health, sport for social development, HIV/AIDS, and youth engagement in the Commonwealth. Heather works together with strategic partners to navigate the landscape of organisations—from grassroots to global – ensuring maximum potential impact of His Royal Highness' work in these areas. Prior to joining Kensington Palace, Heather served as Associate Director at Milltown Partners, a London based strategic consultancy working with businesses and individuals to solve complex communications, public policy, and reputation challenges. Before moving to the U.K., Heather worked in U.S. government and politics, and served as Communications Director for the Super PAC NextGen Climate; and was a political appointee in the Obama Administration, serving as Acting Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and as a spokesperson for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Heather also was the Communications Director to The Better World Campaign, the issues and advocacy arm of The United Nations Foundation; and spent several years on Capitol Hill as Press Secretary to the House Financial Services Committee and Chairman Barney Frank, and held communications roles in the offices of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and the California Democratic Congressional Delegation, and the (then) Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Heather holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in Politics and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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• Chris Cassar

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  Chief Business Officer, DEM DX

  I graduated from Oxford University in 2004 with degrees in Physiological Sciences and Medicine and subsequently worked as a trainee surgeon in the UK’s National Health Service for 3 years. Following this I worked for Bain & Company as a management consultant in the UK, USA and South Africa, with a focus on healthcare projects. I’m passionate about improving healthcare – especially for those in Lower Income Countries. Dem Dx is a clinical decision support tool that seeks to improve healthcare by offering all healthcare workers the ability to diagnose patients more accurately and with more confidence.

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• David Weekley

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  Founder, Dovetail Impact Foundation

  David Weekley is Chairman of David Weekley Homes, founded 46 years ago, is the largest private homebuilder in the US with over $3 billion of sales in 2022. Since 1992, David has spent half of his time and earnings on philanthropic projects. Philanthropic endeavors for the first decade were primarily in the US, while efforts more recently have been focused internationally, primarily Africa. As Chairman of the Dovetail Impact Foundation, David practices a venture philanthropy model of investing treasure, time and talent to grow and help build competencies in non-profits and social enterprises serving the poor and disadvantaged. The Foundation’s international portfolio concentrates on improving education, health and livelihoods with a focus on helping young, innovative organizations scale up their proven models to reduce global poverty. Whether grants are given locally or internationally, David is committed to improving the lives of the less fortunate.

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• David Rothschild

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  Senior Director, Partnerships, Nia Tero Foundation

  David Rothschild has worked in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and NGOs for the better part of 30 years, mostly in the Amazon. He has worked with Indigenous organizations, NGOs and with funders, including the Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Skoll Foundation and now currently with Nia Tero since 2017.

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• Chris Blues

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  Programme Manager for Social Ventures, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Chris is Programme Manager for Social Ventures. He works to stimulate and nurture social venture activity, develop resilient partnerships, and enable the Skoll Centre to provide a meaningful contribution to the Oxford impact ecosystem. Chris also works on several projects with The Impact Collective, Social Enterprise Academy and on the Investment Board of City Funds. Up until April 2018, Chris was International Director of the Ākina Foundation, New Zealand’s primary social enterprise development organisation. Chris led programmes across the South Pacific and South East Asia. This work included providing enterprise and entrepreneur development programmes, strategic advisory for sector development and brokering impact investment. Chris has had quite a varied career to date. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant with EY and is a fellow of the On Purpose leadership programme. Chris spent time in Uganda to help set up a community social enterprise called the Knowledge Facilitators Club (KNOFACIC) which supports the local community by providing training and creating micro credit unions. Chris holds a Geography BSc Hons from University of Bristol. He is a published scientific author and he was been awarded the Global Influencer Award 2017 (ICAS) and Top 35 Accountants Under 35 2019 (ICAS).

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• James Mitchell

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  Co-Founder & Executive Director, Orkidstudio

  Visionary architect James Mitchell founded Orkidstudio in 2007, determined to bring the benefits of professional design and high quality construction – healthy, safe and dignified spaces – to those who really need them, disadvantaged urban and rural communities around the world. Orkidstudio is based in Nairobi, Kenya, with a team of over 30 professionals (>70 women, >80% Kenyan) creating high quality, affordable and healthy buildings, through an exceptional end-to-end design and construction process, which use local materials and promote opportunities for women. James recognizes the design-and-build process as an economic empowerment opportunity for women, and to drive for gender equality in this vital and growing sector Orkidstudio employs and trains at least 50% women at all its construction sites. In 2018, James founded Buildher along with Skoll Awardee Nick Moon (Kickstart Intl), which equips disadvantaged young women in Kenya with accredited construction skills, leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality within the construction industry. Celebrated in Impact Design Hub’s 40-under-40 in 2017, James has also led Orkidstudio to international recognition, including the Royal Scottish Academy Medal for Architecture in 2013, honoured as a Curry Stone Design Prize Social Design Circle member in 2017 and being shortlisted for the Swiss Architectural Award 2018. In 2017, James was selected for the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship GSBI program and in 2018 as an Aspen Institute Spotlight Health Scholar. James has previously worked for renowned architects, Shigeru Ban in Tokyo and Theo Hotz in Switzerland, and lectured at the Mackintosh School of Architecture (Glasgow School of Art) in Architecture in International Development. James holds two Masters degrees: in Architecture from Cardiff University, and in Fine Art (Visual Arts) from Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London.

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• Chloe Taylor

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  Chief Engagement Officer, OneSky

  Chloe has recently joined the OneSky team as Chief Engagement Officer, where she will act as a public advocate for the organisation in overseeing strategic communications and public relations, as well as engaging key stakeholders to raise organisational profile, and continue to build efforts to ensure all disadvantaged children receive nurturing care and education during their critical early years. Prior to joining OneSky, Chloe was Chief Executive Officer for the British Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, where she led the organisation in engaging UK and local businesses on investment and representing their interests and needs to government. Chloe has also worked for the British Chamber in the Philippines, as well as the London Chamber of Commerce in the UK. She has over ten years of corporate experience in the UK and overseas, across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, and is a Masters Graduate in Public Policy from Kings College London.

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• Chinyere Nnadi

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  Founder, Sela Labs

  Chi Nnadi, is a social entrepreneur dedicated to leveraging cutting edge technology to increase prosperity in the emerging world. He is the founder of Sela Technologies and Sustainability International. Sela is activating development capital by providing secure transactions, reputable economic identities, and real-time data. Sela Citizens execute, and verify projects in a secure, reputation-driven network marketplace of environmental, social and impact investments. Sela ultimately seeks to drive measurable impact against the UN’s SDGs. Sustainability International is working to catalyze the largest cleanup of oil pollution in world history using a win-win social enterprise model that leverages biotechnology, blockchain technology, and the power of Virtual Reality to spread the message. Chi’s work has been featured in Forbes, Knowledge@Wharton, Vice, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and BBC Radio. He is a former management consultant from the Boston Consulting Group. He is also an alum of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, Television.

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• Grace Forrest

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  Co-founder, Director, Individual

  Grace Forrest, BA Abolitionist. Grace is a founding-director of the Walk Free Foundation, an international human rights group with an objective to end modern slavery. Grace has spent extensive time on the ground working with survivors and documenting slavery conditions throughout South East Asia and The Middle East, with a current focus on refugee communities. Grace is also a representative on the Freedom Fund counsel of advocates, is a director of the Minderoo Foundation, and recently joined the board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. In 2018, Grace was awarded Nomi Network’s Abolitionist award and GQ Australia’s Humanitarian Award for her work to end modern slavery, was named The United Nations Association of Australia’s Goodwill Ambassador for Anti-Slavery and was appointed as one of ten global leaders to One Young World’s Young Leaders Against Sexual Violence initiative, which will work to create tangible change in preventing sexual and gender-based violence worldwide. Grace is a passionate storyteller and photographer, with a focus on the resilience of individuals to overcome some of the worlds greatest challenges. Through her work with the Freedom Fund and their front line community partners, Grace works to put a face to modern slavery with the aim of highlighting slavery as a problem of the collective. She has documented stories of survivors from Thailand, Nepal, India, Syria, Lebanon, North Korea, Jordan and Indonesia. Grace has had her work exhibited in a number of publications throughout the world, including the cover of CHANCE (a magazine co published quarterly by the American Statistical Association and Taylor & Francis Group) Modern slavery issue in 2017.

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• Charlie Meredith

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  Global Partnerships Manager, TED Conferences LLC

  As a Global Partnerships Manager for TED, Charlie represents non-profit foundations and multi-national companies in their alignment with innovative ideas and creative solutions presented on the TED stage. Charlie lives in Brooklyn and was raised in Chicago by parents from England and Haiti.

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• Charles Berry

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  , Individual

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• Changkun Shen

  Delegate

  TEDxChengdu Curator, TEDx

  He is a visual and audio content producer, speaker coach, event planner, innovative educator and lifelong learner. He dedicates to uncover the behind-the-scene stories for independent creators and social innovation practices in China. He is an experienced TEDx organizer with more than a decade of exceptional track records, like consecutively founded city named TEDx brand in Chongqing and Chengdu, and made their TEDx brand rank in the most impactful TEDx events list all around China. Besides, he holds the master degree in Strategic leadership towards sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.

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• Chandler Tuttle

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  CEO & Editor In Chief, Freethink

  Chandler is the CEO and Editor in Chief of Freethink, a new voice in media for a new generation of leaders. Freethink takes viewers on a journey to the frontiers of our changing world to meet the people who are changing it — entrepreneurs, innovators, activists and artists who are thinking differently and making a difference. Prior to Freethink, Chandler studied film at NYU, worked at Focus Features and served as the Creative Director for the Oslo Freedom Forum, an international human rights gathering described by The Financial Times as “Davos for Dissidents.”

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• Celina de Sola

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  Co-Founder and President, Glasswing International

  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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• Cathy Ferrier

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  Associate Director, Partnerships, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Cathy joined the Skoll Centre, in Oxford in March 2019 as Associate Director of Partnerships. Previously she was the Chief Executive at Sentebale, The Princes’ Foundation for Children in Africa, since 2012. The charity was started in Lesotho supporting orphans and vulnerable children, and delivering psychosocial support to children affected by the HIV epidemic. Over the period the charity has seen considerable growth. In 2017 Cathy was appointed Chair of The Circle, an organisation started by Annie Lennox working for equality for women and girls, in a fairer world. Cathy was previously Fundraising Director at Oxfam, where she was responsible for raising over £100m per annum and led the fundraising and branding strategy for Oxfam International. Prior to joining the charity sector, Cathy’s commercial career spanned 20 years in buying and marketing roles for leading retailers, including the Burton Group, the Walt Disney Company, WH Smith and Borders. Cathy, is married and has three daughters, and lives in Oxfordshire.

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• Cathryn Wood

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  Director of Strategy and Development, Development Media International Associates CIC

  Cathryn graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, after which she spent seven years at the BBC, where she was a Radio 4 Producer. Cathryn is a Winston Churchill Fellow and has carried out research and capacity building projects with the Community Radio Sector in Malawi. She has worked closely with and evaluated maternal health radio programmes in a number of Commonwealth Countries. Prior to joining DMI, Cathryn worked in grant-giving for the Wellcome Trust, with a particular focus on engaging with the broadcast sector. At DMI, Cathryn leads on developing new areas of activity for DMI and on securing new funding and building new partnerships in order to maximise DMI’s impact on improving health and saving lives.

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• Cristina Yoon

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  Senior Director, Grants Management, Skoll Foundation

  As Senior Director of Grants Management at the Skoll Foundation, Cristina is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient grantmaking operations, systems, and policies to support the foundation’s mission and strategic goals. She is recognized nationally for her expertise and speaks regularly on technology, grantmaking best practices, legal compliance, and international grantmaking. She was one of the first employees of the Skoll Foundation In addition to working at the Skoll Community Fund and the Skoll Global Threat Funds, Cristina held positions at Stanford University and Walt Disney Internet Group focusing on content delivery and user experience design. Cristina currently serves on the advisory council and committee of NGOsource and Technology Affinity Group. She is a former board member of PEAK Grantmaking, the nation’s leading association dedicated to advancing the knowledge and skills of grants management professionals. She was also a principal contributor to the GM Guide, a comprehensive online publication on best practices in grants management. Cristina has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women and Gender Studies and a minor in Film Studies.

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• Flora Bracco

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  Senior Partnerships Associate, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

  Flora has been creating and strengthening cross-sector partnerships for Sustainability through Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in emerging markets since 2014. Prior to joining ANDE as Senior Partnerships Associate in 2019, Flora worked with corporate social responsibility in Latin America and Africa at AMGlobal Consulting in Washington, D.C. and as partnerships coordinator at Artemisia, a leading social impact business accelerator in Brazil, her home country. Flora holds a B.A. in International Studies with a focus on International Development and a Chinese Language Minor from American University's School of International Service and a specialization degree in Sustainability Management at FIA/ FEA - USP.

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• Jenny Scharrer

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  Head of Division, KfW Development Bank

  Jenny Scharrer is head of division for financial sector development and education with KfW Development Bank. Her work has focused on agri-finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. In that capacity she has been responsible for setting up several fund such as the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund, the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria and Lending for African Farming Company (LAFCo) on the Board and Credit Committee of which she is serving as a member. Before joining KfW in 2011, Jenny was working with the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, helping to administer the German Stimulus Pact issuing federal guarantee schemes for distressed companies during the financial and economic crisis. Prior to that, Jenny worked for OXFAM Hong Kong as a strategy team manager in Vietnam on improving agricultural value chains to increase income for smallholder farmers. Before moving to Vietnam, Jenny has worked for McKinsey & Company in Germany and Bahrain on economic reform projects.

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• Cassandra Staff

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  Chief Operating Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship

  Cassandra Staff is the Chief Operating Officer for Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, where she supports the success of the team that supports social entrepreneurs globally. An East Side San Jose native, Cassandra has been with the Miller Center since 2010, when she learned about social entrepreneurship through Santa Clara University's MBA program. Through her work with Miller Center, she has had the honor of working with hundreds of social entrepreneurs directly and supporting a high-performing team of professionals and students, building her skillset in program and project management, facilitation, program development, operations, organizational development, communications, and human connection. Prior to a career in programs, operations, education, and social entrepreneurship, Cassandra worked at the family commercial construction firm, cared for the elderly, tutored English, coached volleyball, waited tables, led aquarium tours, and walked dogs. She enjoys learning from the abundant wisdom of life on Earth, being of service, movement and sport, expanding and understanding through art, and sharing delicious food and silly jokes whenever possible.

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• Cristiana Velloso

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  COO, Saude Crianca

  Cristiana Velloso is COO of Instituto Dara (formerly Associação Saúde Criança) where she has been working since 1999. She started at the Institute as a volunteer working directly with the families participating in the program, she was hired as a project manager, focusing on the replication of the methodology, and since 2008 she has been a director. She has a B.S. in Nutrition Science from UNIRIO ( Universidade do Rio Janeiro) with specialization in maternal and infant nutrition and post-graduation degrees in Social Responsability and the Third Sector and in Project Management. She is Brazilian, married, has one son and two daughters and lives in Rio de Janeiro.

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• Felix Brooks-church

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  CEO, Sanku - Project Healthy Children

  Having dedicated his adult life to ending micronutrient malnutrition, Felix Brooks-church co-founded and leads Sanku, an award-winning social enterprise based in Tanzania, working to combat hidden hunger and save lives by giving small mills the tools they need to fortify maize, an East African staple. Before co-founding Sanku, Felix spent years in Southeast Asia improving children’s lives through education projects. During that time, he discovered the importance of nutrition as a preventative measure, understanding that adequate nutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life could prevent the most common and tragic health problems before they occur. Over the past decade, Felix has refined micronutrient delivery systems and developed economic models for sustaining small-scale flour fortification. He led all aspects of product development and engineering for the award winning Sanku Dosifier technology (2019 Time Magazine Invention of the Year, 2018 IoT Evolution Product of the Year, 2018 Fierce Innovation Award, and 2013 Ashoka Changemakers’ Grand Prize). Felix holds a BA in Geology from Oberlin College and has been selected by the Mulago Foundation as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow. Sanku currently provides access to the basic human right of nutrition to 1.4 million East Africans and is on track to reach 25 million people by 2025.

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• Caroline Staffell

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  Senior Manager, International Business Development and Europe Hub, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, The

  Caroline is a Senior Manager in the Resource Mobilisation, Private Sector Partnerships and Innovative Finance team, at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In this role she manages Gavi’s engagement with the European Commission and private sector partnerships that bring innovation to Gavi’s mission.

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• Caroline Harper

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  Chief Executive Officer, Sightsavers

  I was appointed to Sightsavers as CEO in 2005 - the organisation has grown five fold since then, widening and deepening our impact. Our mission is to prevent avoidable blindness and to fight for the rights of people with disabilities, working in low and middle income countries. We play a leading role in the campaign to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, managing large consortium contracts for the British Government and major philanthropists. I sit on various boards including the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and the International Civil Society Centre (based in Berlin). Prior to Sightsavers I worked in the oil and gas industry. I spent 11 years at Hess Corporation where I built their retail gas and electricity business from scratch before selling it for £120 million. I then ran my own interim management business where our biggest client was a Finnish gas and electricity organisation - we overhauled and sold their British gas and electricity subsidiary. I was educated at Bristol university (BSc in Physics) and Churchill College Cambridge (PhD). I received an OBE for services to the gas industry in 2000 and a CBE for services to visually impaired people in 2015. I received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bristol.

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• Jenna Rogers-Rafferty

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  Founding Partner, Raise Up Advisory

  Jenna Rogers-Rafferty is a strategic fundraising consultant and KickStart International's Chief Partnership and Strategy Advisor. She has dedicated much of her career to accelerating community-based organizations during their startup phase and held leadership positions with grassroots groups in Uganda, Liberia, and Staten Island, NY. Jenna began working in East Africa while pursing her undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics at the University of Notre Dame and, upon graduating, helped the university to launch the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies & Solidarity. Jenna’s on-the-ground experience working with founding teams and local communities to identify needs and advantages, then design and execute programs, has enabled her to successfully fundraise for and communicate impact. Jenna earned a Master's in International Development from The New School and is passionate about replacing traditional charity with models that empower individuals to be the agents of their own change.

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• James Logan

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  European Director, Global Fund for Human Rights

  James Logan is the Director of the European Office since 2017 and brings a range of experience promoting social change and human rights—as an activist, a researcher, and as a grant maker. He is committed to empowering and supporting activists and movements and was previously the Associate Director at the Human Rights Initiative of Open Society Foundations where he was responsible for developing grant-making practice, strategy, and learning. Prior, he was part of Oak Foundation’s International Human Rights Program where he supported organizations working to investigate and achieve justice for human rights violations around the world as well as managing portfolios related to new technologies and communications. He has worked with the Panic Button, a technology-based initiative for human rights defenders and started his career as a country specialist at Amnesty International, investigating and campaigning against abuses in Turkey. He serves or has served as an adviser to Benetech’s Human Rights Program, the Human Rights Funders Network, and the Thomas Paine Initiative, a collaborative initiative using strategic communications to build support for human rights in the UK. James is a Turkish-speaker and has a first degree in Turkish and Arabic from Oxford University and an LLM with Distinction in Public International Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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• Carla Grados Villamar

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  Co-Founder, Lucha Startup Studio

  Peruvian social entrepreneur and ecosystem builder. Co-Founder of Lucha Startup Studio, 1st impact venture builder in the country, proa.pe and Khana Peru. Former Executive Director in Kunan, Peruvian Social Enterprise Platform, and Social Enterprise Director at Peru´s Business Council for Sustainable Development Chapter. +8 years working in social innovation and sustainable finance, partnering and working with the UN, APEC, OECD and IDB, in between others. Current LATAM Growth Lead at 60 Decibels.

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• Jacqueline Geis

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  Chief Executive Officer, Videre

  Jackie is the CEO of Videre est Credere, where she has spent the past decade building it into a highly respected human rights documentation organization. Under her leadership, Videre has exposed genocide; revealed systematic political violence; uncovered widespread corruption affecting the lives of millions; and spurred concrete policy changes and action. Jackie’s experience spans start-ups and large institutions; the public and private sectors; and work across justice, human rights, technology, and climate. A keen strategist, she has conceptualized, built, and led internationally-focused initiatives at a wide range of organizations, including the Brookings Institution, US State Department, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and American Bar Association. She is a member of the International Criminal Court’s Technology Advisory Board and a sought-after advisor and speaker on security and documentation efforts in complex human rights environments.

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• Cara Smyth

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  Founder, GCNYC Fair Fashion Center

  Cara Smyth is the Vice President of Glasgow Caledonian New York College (GCNYC), the first international institution of higher education in the United States to receive degree granting authority, and founder of the renown Fair Fashion Center (FFC). With the unique mission to facilitate the incorporation of sustainable practices into fashion, the FFC is proving the business case for sustainability by turning global issues into industry opportunities. The FFC is home to the only CEO coalition working on collective impact initiatives towards a systems change in the fashion sector. In her role bridging the industry, academia and a sustainable future, she now serves on the Sustainability Advisory Council for Marie Claire, is a board member for Glasgow Caledonian University, Sing for Hope, and a Tribeca Disrupter. In the past year, she delivered the keynote presentations at the Textile Exchange and Bluesign conferences, spoke on the first-ever sustainability panel at the WWD CEO Summit, and presented at the Bloomberg Vanity Fair Climate Exchange.

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• Cara Bradley

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  Chief Strategic Partnerships and Philanthropy Officer, PATH

  Cara Bradley is PATH’s chief strategic partnerships and philanthropy officer. Ms. Bradley leads a global team focused on establishing transformative, high-impact partnerships with industry, foundations, trusts, private philanthropy, and community groups to ensure health is within reach for everyone. Ms. Bradley joined PATH in 2015 to build the organization’s Corporate Partnerships division. Before joining PATH, Ms. Bradley led a multidisciplinary fundraising team as head of fundraising for the International Rescue Committee, Europe. In addition, she held global fundraising and partnership leadership roles at the United Nations Children’s Fund, WaterAid, and the United Kingdom’s leading charity for children with disabilities, Whizz-Kidz. Ms. Bradley holds a BA in English and American Literature from the University of Kent. She is an accredited member of the Institute of Fundraising and sits on the committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety.

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• Claire Wathen

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  Managing Director, Global Alliances, Skoll Foundation

  Animated by the power of connection, Claire cultivates and leads strategic relationships, Foundation-wide engagements, and regional activations of the Skoll network to advance social progress. Since joining Skoll in 2016, Claire has led multi-year global network building efforts and launched initiatives to increase access and inclusion, including the Skoll Fellowship and TEDx Skoll Series across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Claire is a co-creator and hosting team member of Wasan Network and advises organizations on growth and network strategies. As a University of Oxford Visiting Fellow, Claire applies her multi-disciplinary background in contemporary dance, ecology, and philanthropy. She collaborates with Oxford researchers, industry practitioners, and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship to teach and write about networks, collaboration, and collective leadership. Prior to Skoll, Claire managed the San Diego Zoo's internal innovation and biomimicry lab under the CFO. She worked with corporate R&D teams, co-led organizational experiments, and developed programs to help deepen human connection with biodiversity. She is an alum of Seth Godin's altMBA, CCL, AVPN Impact Investing Fellowship, RSA, and JPCatholic University. After 15 years of studying and teaching contemporary dance, Claire now choreographs spaces for people to connect and co-create a more just future.

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• Camilla Nestor

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  CEO, MIX

  Camilla is a leader in the social impact space, with a two decade career inspiring high-performance, global development organizations to drive social change through innovative solutions, strategic partnerships, and operational excellence. She currently serves as CEO of MIX, the premier data provider for socially responsible investors and businesses focused on inclusive finance. MIX’s data platform covers thousands of mission-focused financial service providers in more than 100 developing markets. MIX helps socially responsible investors who move 10 billion USD annually to monitor their portfolios and increase their investments in underserved sectors, including agricultural finance, clean energy finance and inclusive fintech. Prior to joining MIX, she spent over a decade in leadership roles at Grameen Foundation, latterly as senior vice president of programs, driving innovative programming at the intersection of financial inclusion, agriculture and health. While overseeing Grameen’s impact investing arm, she expanded the portfolio to invest in new sectors, including agriculture and emerging technology. Previously, she worked at Citigroup executing debt financing for emerging markets firms. Camilla holds an MBA and master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she currently serves as an adjunct professor.

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• Caitlin Heising

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  Vice Chair, Individual

  Caitlin Heising is vice chair of the Heising‐Simons Foundation, a family foundation based in Los Altos and San Francisco, California. She received a Master of Public Administration at the London School of Economics (LSE) with a focus on social impact, graduating with distinction in 2020. Previously, she worked with Article 3 Advisors, a human rights and strategic philanthropy consultancy based in San Francisco. In 2014, she joined the board of the Heising‐Simons Foundation, where she has developed a grantmaking program focused on human rights and criminal justice reform in the U.S. Caitlin serves on the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch and is the vice chair of HRW’s U.S. Program Advisory Committee. She sits on the Advisory Council of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice based in London. She is also a founding member of Maverick Collective, a global community of strategic philanthropists and advocates working to end extreme poverty by improving the health and rights of women and girls around the world. She was a 2016 Research Fellow at Institute for the Future, where she collaborated on research projects exploring the future of philanthropy and social innovation. Caitlin holds a BA in international relations from Brown University.

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• Erin Ricci

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  Global Programs Manager, Bohemian Foundation

  Erin Ricci serves as Global Programs Manager at Bohemian Foundation, a philanthropic, grantmaking institution based in Fort Collins, Colorado that empowers citizens and is committed to the care and enrichment of local, national, and global communities. Bohemian Foundation’s Global Programs identifies and supports organizations that address some of our most serious global challenges at the intersection of health, poverty, and the environment. Global Programs funds organizations and entrepreneurs around the world that are dedicated to making a significant impact and are on the path to a sustainable and scalable business model. Erin currently serves on the Executive Committee of Big Bang Philanthropy and on the Ten Thousand Villages Fort Collins Board of Directors. As a Foreign Service Officer for USAID, Erin supported global U.S. Government efforts to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies, serving in Central America (Deputy Program Office Director), Central Asia (Deputy Country Office Director), and in D.C. (Deputy Director, Office of South and Central Asian Affairs). She received Meritorious Honor Awards for her service in Central America and Central Asia. As a Program Officer at Heifer International, her work supported the USA Country Program’s efforts to link low income consumers with local food producers. Erin has held several academic appointments at the University of Kentucky, Transylvania University, and Eastern Kentucky University. Her doctoral dissertation in cultural anthropology at the University of Kentucky examined livelihood strategies of small farmers in rural Costa Rica. Early in her career she served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer for the Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union, supporting their mission to provide affordable financial services to low-income and rural communities in Appalachia. Erin was born and raised in rural Kentucky. Today, her family calls Fort Collins, Colorado home.

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• Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana

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  Interim Director, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  Bulelwa is the Interim Director for the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She has been appointed by the UCT Graduate School of business (UCT GSB) for 2018 as a consultant to lead the development of the GSB’s strategy and resulting programs and initiatives for UCT GSB hub in Philippi Village. Bulelwa will be assisting the UCT GSB in the on-going development of UCT GSB strategy, stakeholder engagement and communication, program design and implementation, leadership at UCT GSB’s Philippi hub, fundraising and developing a monitoring and evaluation framework. The former CEO of the Cape Town Partnership, Bulelwa is a town planner with extensive experience in managing and coordinating public-private partnerships for area based management. An urban revivalist at heart, she has spent the last twelve years with the Cape Town Partnership managing, developing and promoting Cape Town’s Central City as an economically thriving, creative and valued public and private space in which to live, work and play.. Bulelwa is a member of the board of a number of national and international bodies. These include – Pragma Holdings and she is currently a chair of Pragma Africa board. She is also a board member of the International Downtown Association (IDA- USA), Placemaking Leadership Council (USA) an ambassador for the Cape Town International Convention Centre, member of the World Design Capital 2016 International Advisory Committee for Taipei and a World Cities Summit Young Leader. Bulelwa was a member of the UCT council (2015-2018), and Chaired the University Buildings and Development committee and represented UCT Council on the Baxter Theatre Board

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• Cindy Chen

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  Portfolio Director, King Philanthropies

  Cindy is the Director of King Essentials at King Philanthropies, where she oversees strategic grantmaking and key partnerships related to the King Essentials program. She brings to this position more than a decade of experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, and her areas of expertise include strategy planning, program design, business model design, impact assessment, and investment due diligence. Before joining King Philanthropies, Cindy served as a strategic advisor to high-impact social entrepreneurs and philanthropic institutions. Previously, she was a Director at the Skoll Foundation, where she focused on improving the foundation’s resource and investment decisions through deep analysis of portfolio performance and by tracking ecosystem inflection points. Cindy holds a B.S. in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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• Erin Hulme

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  Director of Philanthropy, World Health Organization

  Erin Hulme is part of the Philanthropic Partnerships Team within the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she works with philanthropists to learn, co-fund and collaborate with the Gates Foundation on Global Health and Development opportunities. She started her career at the United Nations Foundation (UNF), where she supported the Partnership Development team in cultivating new, global public-private partnerships. Following her work with UNF, Erin worked for the International Business Leaders Forum where she managed strategic partnerships and initiatives with Fortune 500 companies and global stakeholders. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Erin was head of corporate relations at Pacific Northwest Ballet. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Systems.

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• Bruno Defelippe

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  Co-Founder and Executive Director, Koga Impact Lab

  Adventure Race competitor. Co-founder of Koga Impact Lab, Sistema B Paraguay, Loffice, and ASEPY. Fellow for Ashoka (2017) and for the Center for Development and Democracy of Stanford University (2015). Koga is the first certified B-corp of Paraguay, its purpose is to accelerate the growth of startups. Sistema B Py is the association responsible for promoting the development of B-corps (companies with economic, social and environmental impact). Loffice is the main co-working network in the country. ASEPY- Entrepreneurs Association of Paraguay works to facilitate entrepreneurship in the country. Previously Bruno was a volunteer and CEO of Techo Paraguay. In this period, Techo built more than 3,500 temporary houses and mobilized more than 25,000 volunteers. Bruno was a Global Shaper for the Asuncion Hub (initiative of the WEF). He is also a member of the advisory councils of Enseña por Paraguay, Unicef, and TECHO.

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• Bruce Robertson

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  Founder and CEO, Gulu Agricultural Development Corp

  • Education: Hilton College, University of Natal (MSc. Agricultural Economics); Cambridge University (M.Phil. Economics and Politics of Development • Founder and CEO: Gulu Agricultural Development Company Ltd o Largest company in northern Uganda, operates three cotton ginneries, three sesame processing operations and an oil mill o Largest producer of certified organic cotton in Africa and of certified organic sesame in East Africa o Trains 85,000 farmers per year in agronomic and financial literacy skills o Buys cotton and organic sesame from 120,000 farmers across northern Uganda • Chairman, Uganda Ginners and Cotton Exporters Association (UGCEA) o Comprises 26 cotton ginners in Uganda o Works in a Public / Private partnership with the parastatal Cotton Development Organisation to provide 300,000 farmers across Uganda with seeds and cotton inputs • McNulty Prize Laureate, 2017 for the TRAIL project, training 60,000 farmers across northern Uganda • Moderator for the Aspen Institute • Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network

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• Brooke Istook

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  Director of Programs & Partnerships, Thorn

  Brooke leads the vision and strategy for Thorn’s work focused on preventing the online sexual exploitation of children through early interventions and youth-centric programming. She also oversees Thorn’s key partnerships to foster collaboration and support across the field in order to eradicate child sexual abuse material from the internet. Brooke joined Thorn in 2014 to lead the development and deployment of Spotlight, Thorn’s sex trafficking investigation tool, and helped build Thorn’s strategy, product and operational capabilities. Prior to joining Thorn, Brooke spent over 12 years working in IT consulting, operations, and program management, supporting Fortune 500 clients in telecommunications and entertainment. She holds B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Alabama and an M.A. in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Seminary.

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• Gurpreet Singh

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  Senior Program Manager, Skoll Foundation

  As a Senior Program Manager at the Roddenberry Foundation, Gurpreet contributes to the design and implementation of the +1 Global Fund and other Roddenberry programs. Prior to joining the Roddenberry Foundation, Gurpreet contributed to the Evaluation and Learning teams at the Skoll Foundation and David and Lucile Packard Foundation, as well as to multiple non-profit organizations and government agencies. An explorer at heart, he enjoys diving into new books, music, cuisines, urban and outdoor adventures, and more. He is thoroughly enjoying his journey through life, while attempting to fulfill his obligations to the community of life on Earth that makes his journey possible.

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• Bronwyn Dugtig

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  Associate Director, Executive Education, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Bronwyn Dugtig is an Associate Director in Executive Education at the Säid Business School, University of Oxford. Before moving to Executive Education in 2024, Bronwyn lead social impact education at The Skoll Centre of Social Entrepreneurship, specialising in experiential learning and impact education. Before joining the team at the Skoll Centre, Bronwyn was the Head of Community Engagement at Monash South Africa and the National Director in South Africa for YouthActionNet, where she founded the MSA LEAD (Leading Entrepreneurship for African Development) programme, connecting social entrepreneurs to a global network. Bronwyn is a co-founder and Director at Engage South Africa, a social enterprise committed to safeguarding and

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• Gayle Peterson

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  Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School

  Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Gayle directs Oxford Impact Investing Programme and Oxford Social Finance Programme and co-founded Women Transforming Leadership. These highly successful executive education programmes have reached more than 1000 students from 80 countries. The programme has spurred impact partnerships worldwide from Dubai and Zambia to Brazil and India. Gayle’s course content is based on interviews with more than 1,800 senior executives in social investing in 20 countries. Research has resulted in more than 20 programmes of study and 50 case studies analyzing the first-in-field. Gayle asks students to tackle the world’s most complex issues—poverty, climate change and conservation finance, equality, modern day slavery, gender. She challenges students to find their moral compass and leadership teaches ethics, leadership, and complexity, gender lens investing, and performance measures for impact at a community and leadership level.

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• Brie Rogers-Lowery

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  Head of Community Partnerships, Facebook, Facebook

  Brie is Head of Community Partnerships, Europe at Facebook, a new team central to Facebook's mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Prior to joining Facebook, Brie launched the petition platform Change.org in the UK, starting as their UK Director before leading their work across Europe. Brie has over a decade of experience in online campaigning, empowering people to use digital tools to start, grow and sustain communities & campaigns, having worked with a range of International NGOs helping them harness the power of technology to build global movements. Brie was named Top 35 Women Under 35 by Management Today, one of the BBC’s top 100 Women of 2014 and awarded Women of the Future for Tech & Digital.

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• Christina Luna

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  Former Program Coordinator, Skoll Foundation

  Christina serves the Asian markets and communities in the United States and abroad in event management, marketing and logistics roles. With a focus on the entertainment industry, Christina’s clientele uses music and the arts to create positive messages for the underrepresented. She worked previously at the Skoll Foundation providing support to the Community & Convenings and Portfolio & Investments teams. Christina earned her Masters of Science in Management from Notre Dame de Namur University.

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• Brian Walusimbi

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  Executive Director, Bless a Child Foundation

  Brian Walusimbi is the founder and executive director of the Bless a Child Foundation (BCF), a nongovernmental organization that provides care support services to children from the ages of 0-12 years suffering from cancer and related infections. Established in March 2007, Bless a Child Foundation was founded as a result of a realized need that paediatric cancer patients in Uganda had inadequate access to medical care and support. Through our various care activities Bless a Child Foundation ensures that all paediatric cancer patients referred access the proper diagnosis and cancer treatment required. In addition, BCF conducts additional activities to ensure that the paediatric patients under our care continue to the extent possible to live normal lives including making certain that they receive educational services, games and entertainment while undergoing treatment. Since it’s inception Bless a Child Foundation has supported more than 7,000 children suffering from cancer.

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• Ellen Ssuubi

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  Executive Director, Wells of Hope Ministries

  Ellen is the Executive Director of Wells of Hope Ministries, an organization that provides effective and compassionate programs for prisoners and their families in Uganda, focusing on children with parents in prison. The organization reaches out to over 1,000 beneficiaries with psychosocial and spiritual support as well as running a junior and high school for children. Ellen has 17 years’ experience working with prisoners, their families and children. She has devoted her time to ensure quality delivery of services at Wells of Hope, and has led the growth of the organization from five volunteers to 50 young, vibrant and qualified staff. Ellen believes her greatest achievement is her ability to restore hope to the children and their families affected by imprisonment. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences degree from Makerere University Kampala, postgraduate certificates in school, trauma and resilience, Medical Social Worker Counseling, Child Protection, and Social Work. She is also currently undergoing a leadership development training to enhance her leadership skills.

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• Brian Dawson

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  Sundance Filmmaker, Individual

  Brian Dawson is an American filmmaker, director of photography and designer based in Brooklyn. He's completing a documentary on gun violence in America that follows a trauma surgeon, a CDC researcher and an NRA point man through a story of unlikely common ground. He's also working as a director of photography on a documentary series with Zero Point Zero Productions (ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN, MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION WITH DAVID LETTERMAN). He previously worked behind the camera on Netflix's FlintTown. This year, he was named a Sundance Institute Stories of Change Fellow. Last year, he held an academic appointment as a Fellow in the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2016, he was named a National Geographic Explorer. As a filmmaker, Dawson has contributed to, among others, Netflix, National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Guardian and Outside Magazine, and has worked in China, South Sudan, India, Kenya, Germany, Uganda, Vietnam, South Africa, Nepal, Jordan and Switzerland. He’s collaborated on projects with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stanford University, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sidewalk Labs, Marie Stopes, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Hewlett Foundation. He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Knight Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and National Geographic Society. Previously, Dawson was a designer at IDEO in San Francisco. Before that he led the design of a venture-backed startup in New York City. He grew up the youngest of four in northern New York, the son of a forestry professor.

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• Timothy Cross

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  President, YouthBuild International, YouthBuild USA

  Tim Cross is the founding President of YouthBuild International (YBI). He joined YouthBuild USA in 1996 holding several positions including Vice President of Field Services over seeing the national domestic field operation and then served as YouthBuild USA’s Chief Operating Officer for three years before launching YouthBuild International. In YouthBuild programs, out of school and unemployed young people, ages 16-25, acquire basic education, job readiness, technical training and leadership skills while building permanent community assets such as housing, community centers, schools, playgrounds and ‘green’ infrastructure. YouthBuild was established in the United States 40 years ago and has expanded to 360 program sites in 45 US states and 23 countries, enrolling 16,000 young people each year. YBI in-county partners include NGOs, global development institutions, governments, bi- and multilateral donor organizations, and private-sector companies. These partners are working in industrialized nations, emerging economies, and developing countries. YouthBuild manages global partnerships with firms, including Prudential, Starbucks, JP Morgan Chase, and Saint Gobain, and over the last ten years has grown its partnership with Catholic Relief Services from one country to eight, on two continents.

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• Brett Jenks

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  Chairman and CEO, Rare

  The President and CEO of Rare, Brett Jenks has been a champion of behavior change for nearly 20 years. He leads Rare’s international mission to equip people in the world’s most biologically diverse countries with the tools and motivation needed to sustainably manage their natural resources. During his tenure with Rare, Jenks has created large-scale partnerships with Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Oceana, Environmental Defense Fund, UNESCO, AVEDA, Encourage Capital, National Geographic and the ministries of environment and fisheries of many nations. Under his leadership, Rare has grown nearly 3,000 percent since 2000. He is now focused on helping the organization expand climate-smart conservation solutions on a global scale – “solutions at the scale of the challenge” – including sustainable management of small-scale fisheries and coastal habitats and ensuring reliable clean freshwater supplies. As a filmmaker, Jenks helped create television commercials for Fortune 100 companies including Dunkin’ Donuts and American Express, and he also helped produce some of first music videos to be broadcast on MTV. He ultimately quit the film business and traveled to Costa Rica, where he built an award-winning eco-tourism program, training local people as guides. His career in conservation had begun. Jenks served as the Costa Rica field coordinator for WorldTeach, a nonprofit based at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. He is a Catto Fellow, Braddock Scholar and McNulty Prize laureate with the Aspen Institute, a member of the Closed Loop Fund’s investment committee, an advisor to the Grantham Trust, and was awarded the Rose-Winner Prize in 2017.

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• Syed Irteza Ubaid

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  Ambassador, TEDx

  Irteza Ubaid is the Head of Business Development at Shams Power, Pakistan’s leading distributed solar generation company, where he looks after corporate strategy, business development and fundraising activities. He is the TEDx Ambassador to Pakistan and curates TEDxLahore. He is also on the board of Pakistan based NGO, Safe Delivery Safe Mother, which is tackling maternal healthcare in Pakistan by training and developing health workers and practitioners in Government run healthcare centers. He holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from NUST and an MBA from LUMS.

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• Tarun Varma

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  Initiatives Manager / Curator, Early Insights, Lego Foundation

  Initiatives Manager in the Learning through Play in Early Childhood team at the LEGO Foundation. Manages partnerships in Latin America, East Africa and Denmark. Leads the technology work in the early childhood team and supports how trends are considered in the early childhood portfolio. Before LEGO consulted clients across India, South Africa, Armenia and the UK related to learning and investment in early childhood. 2011 Teach for India Fellow. Co-founded and ran Gaboli, a firm that builds software services for higher educational institutions. Started career with Tech Mahindra in their junior management cadre running programs across India and the UK. 2016 1+1 MBA with an MSc in Child Development and Education, Pershing Square Scholar. Likes to trek, climb and ski. Curates, Early Insights, a community on early childhood www.earlyinsights.org

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• Brandon Kinport

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  Social Impact Partnerships, Artefact Group

  Brandon lives in Seattle, WA where he earned his Master’s at the Evans School of Public Affairs, part of a small cohort of Peace Corps Fellows where he served two years in Liberia, Costa Rica working with the regions child and family services agency. After a decade in the public sector Brandon now leads social impact partnerships and programing at Artefact, a design consultancy that works with foundations and businesses to solve human and social challenges through design and technology.

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• Faraja Nyalandu

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  Executive Director, Shule Direct

  Born and raised in Tanzania, Faraja is a resourceful social entrepreneur passionate about developing cutting edge programs that address challenges in our communities. In 2013, she established Shule Direct, a thriving organisation providing comprehensive web and mobile educational platforms offering national curriculum-based learning content across multiple subjects to over 5 million in and out of school youth. Faraja is an elected Chairperson for the Tanzania Education Network, the official education CSOs network in the country. In 2020, World Economic Forum appointed her as a Young Global Leader, a tenure for 5 years. She has been recognized regionally and nationally, with several awards, as a Leading Woman in Technology for her work with Shule Direct. Faraja is a qualified Lawyer with an LLB and LLM (Master of Laws) in Human Rights and Migration. She is a wife and a doting mother of two.

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• Brajesh Kumar Dubey

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  Senior Programme Manager, Foundation for Ecological Security

  Brajesh Dubey has worked with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) for more than 24 years. Soon after completing his Masters in Rural Development from Xavier Institute of Social Service, he joined FES field teams in Rajasthan. In his initial years, he was engaged in building a sound understanding of scial-ecological context and the systemic barriers and opportunities to design and implement community led restoration of land and water bodies. Over the years, he has lead field operations through State teams of Foundation for Ecological Security to realize the organisational goals and objectives. He presently manages the partnership portfolio of FES, and supports in developing program strategies, managing organisational growth, project management including project planning and fund raising. In this role, he engages with enablers and aggregators such as NGOs and State Government partners. Besides being the project lead of multi-location projects, he also leads scale strategy of FES

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• Elca Grobler

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  Founder and Director, My Choices Foundation

  In 2011 Elca left a career in banking and finance to follow the call she felt to serve women in India by working for their empowerment. In 2012 she founded My Choices Foundation. My Choices has grown to become a national leader in addressing domestic violence and sex trafficking in India, and recognized internationally for the ingenuity of its work. Under her leadership, My Choices Foundation has helped peacefully resolve over 6,000 cases of domestic violence and has equipped over 1 million individuals living in high-risk areas to stay safe from human trafficking. Through it’s anti-trafficking initiative, My Choices Foundation has established the first national helpline exclusively for trafficking and has received over 24,000 calls since its inception ,and is leading the coalition effort to prevent sex trafficking across India. Elca has been awarded the 50 Most Impactful Social Innovators award and AGSM Alumni Award for Social Impact and Public Policy for her work in India. Accolades: 2015, eNGO Jury Special Mention for Women Empowerment. Awarded for online campaigning against gender-based violence. 2016, Social Media for Empowerment Award Grand Jury Award for Women Empowerment. Awarded for the #Respect2Protect campaign. 2016, ESOMAR Paper of the Year Award for excellence in Market Research. Awarded for the Red Alert Research Paper exploring the determinants of male behavior perpetuating sex trafficking. 2017, 50 Most Impactful Social Innovators Award 2017, AGSM Alumni Award for Social Impact and Public Policy 2017, Notes to My Father, the world’s 1st VR documentary on sex-trafficking created in partnership with Oculus and Facebook made its world premier as an Official Selection at SXSW Film Festival. 2017 Grassroots Justice Prize for The #WalkTogether Prize for Courage 2018 - OpenIDEO Top 5 Global Idea

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• Bonnie Weiss

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  Founder, CRI Foundation

  Bonnie Weiss is Co-founder & President of CRI Foundation (www.crifoundation.org) launched in 2004. CRI aims to strengthen health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Bonnie has built out the CRI portfolio to include organizations that implement Community Health Worker Programs, Primary Care Medical Programs and organizations that focus on Global Health Research and Medical Product Development.

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• Emma France

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  Global Development & Strategic Engagement Director, mothers2mothers

  Emma established the European office of m2m in 2011. Emma began her career as a project finance lawyer at the International Law Firm, Allen & Overy. She has served in various board roles in national and local charities, including as Vice-Chair of Amnesty International UK. Emma is currently a trustee of the Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust. She has also served as a Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School whilst consulting with charities around strategy and change. Emma leads m2m’s global donor and strategic partnerships strategy, and takes responsibility for shaping our advocacy, public engagement and policy positions. She holds day-to-day responsibility for m2m’s European and North American Resource Mobilisation operations.

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• Bob Filbin

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  Chief Data Scientist, Crisis Text Line

  Bob Filbin is Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at Crisis Text Line, which offers 24/7 support for people in crisis by text. Crisis Text Line has the largest data corpus on crisis in the world, with over 105 million messages exchanged between crisis counselors and texters in crisis. Bob believes the data can have two impacts: improving Crisis Text Line’s service, and improving the crisis space as a whole. Internally, his team developed a “texter triage” algorithm that detects imminently suicidal texters and moves them to #1 in the queue; externally, 5 academic research papers have been published using Crisis Text Line’s data, including one that found the majority of texters experiencing abuse never mentioned “abuse.” In short, smarter detection can lead to crisis prevention. Bob was named one of the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 40 Under 40 in 2016, and an Allstate Aspen Ideas Festical Scholar in 2019. He writes and speaks frequently on Data for Social Impact.

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• Emily Lam

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  Lead Graphic Designer, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Elli Clark

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  Head of Philanthropic Projects, The Guardian

  In her role as Head of Philanthropic Projects at Guardian News and Media, Elli oversees operations and day-to-day management across the Guardian's global philanthropic portfolio. She joined the Guardian as a project manager in the philanthropy team in October 2014, having spent two years previously at a content agency.

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• Eddie Mandhry

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  Founder, Prometheus

  Eddie Mandhry, formerly a Senior Fellow at Schmidt Futures, has recently embarked on a new venture, Prometheus X, with the support of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. This initiative is positioned at the cutting edge of AI and talent development, aiming to make significant strides in how talent is discovered and nurtured, especially in underserved communities. He has previously held leadership roles at Yale University and NYU. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and Hampshire College. He holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in Political Science and African Studies from Hampshire College.

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• Sorina Campean

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  Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement Lead, Saïd Business School

  Sorina currently leads on Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement for the Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School. She is responsible for developing the Centre’s network of external collaborators to accommodate entrepreneurs and business leaders of varying seniority levels and their involvement in the Centre’s activities. Sorina has a history of successfully working with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels, having previously served as Leadership Programs Director for the Aspen Institute office in Bucharest. During her 5 years engagement with the Aspen Institute, her main responsibilities were focused on creating and developing networks through educational programs attended by business and civic leaders from across the world. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Sorina worked for General Electric, on internal and external communication as well as with several local NGOs on good governance and social inclusion projects. Sorina completed her BSc in Bucharest, specialising in International Business and Economics. She then moved to Barcelona to pursue a Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University. Sorina is also an alumna of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community.

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• Bijal Brahmbhatt

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  Executive Director, Mahila Housing Sewa Trust

  Ms. Bijal Brahmbhatt is the Director of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT). A civil engineer by training, she is an expert in habitat improvement, community development, housing finance and urban climate change resilience. She oversees the MHT’s operations at the national level. She represents MHT on several Government committees, under her leadership MHT has won awards including the “Global Resilience Partnership” in 2015, United Awards A2R award 2018, MHT declared 'WINNER' of Innovation Challenge hosted by Urban Labs Innovation Challenge, announced by the University of Chicago Urban Lab and Delhi Government. (October 2016). She is a fellow of Womanity Foundation and Social Innovation Fellowship Rockefeller. Bijal’s Publications Include : 1. Securing Services And Tenure To Support Urban Work: The Approach of Mahila Housing Trust, India. 2. Upgrading Women In The Construction Industry, with Renana Jhabvala, 2000. 3. Good Governance Through Partnership: Ahmedabad- Parivartan Programme, Shelter HUDCO, Vol. IV, No. 2, December, 2001. 4. Improving Urban Slums, Improving Health, Health Exchange, Summer, 2009 5. Mobilising Women for Change – Case study of Sanjaynagar, Ahmedabad, with Pooja Shah, Working Paper 7, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, April, 2010. 6. Ahmedabad – More but Different Government For Slum Free And Livable Cities, with Patricia Clarke Annez, Alain Bertaud, Marie-Agnes Bertaud, Chirayu Bhatt, Bimal Patel & Vidyadhar Phatak, Policy Research Working Paper 6267, World Bank, November, 2012 7. What Getting Land Title Really Means: An ‘Anti-Commons’ in Ahmedabad, India? With Patricia Clarke Annez & Bimal Patel, Working Paper 9, World Bank, May, 2014 8. Emulating Mortgages For The Benefit Of The Poor: Financial Innovations by Mahila Housing SEWA Trust, with Matthais Nohn, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Organizing and Globalising, November, 2014

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• Donné Nicol

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  Special Adviser, The Presidency Republic of South Africa

  Donné Nicol is a Special Adviser to the President of the Republic of South Africa. She is the former Chief Executive Officer of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, which works to improve education, promote skills development and develop small and medium Black business through its partner entities, Adopt-a-School Foundation, Kagiso Shanduka Trust, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust and Black Umbrellas. Donné lead the Foundation since its establishment as Shanduka Foundation in 2004. Throughout this period, she was instrumental in driving the organisation’s strategic focus and mission through model building and collaborations with like-minded organisations. Prior to 2004, she was Executive Assistant to President Cyril Ramaphosa for eleven years during which she was instrumental in setting up the Adopt-a-School Foundation and acted as Executive Director for its first year of operation. While assisting President Ramaphosa in his capacity as ANC Secretary General she facilitated the establishment of Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust to provide financial support to disadvantaged tertiary education students. She was also a coordinator for the ANC National Executive Committee and National Working Committee. Special tasks included the planning and management of the ANC National Conference in 1994 and the administrative coordination of the ANC list process in 1994. She is a trustee of the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust, Mabindu Business Development Trust and the Constitution Hill Trust. She is a board member of the Adopt-a-School Foundation and Black Umbrellas.

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• Diana Walker

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  CEO, Walker Impact Strategies

  Diana works in market based and philanthropic social impact strategy, ESG, partnerships, and thought leadership. She works with corporations, governments, investors, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists to develop innovative and measurable environment, social and governance business lines as well as large scale philanthropic investment allocation. Diana has spent more than 15 years building impact initiatives and partnership alliances in climate change and corporate sustainability, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, risk mitigation of social impact endeavors, new market opportunities and market research, and impact investment funds. Diana founded Walker Impact Strategies in 2012, which focuses its work as a boutique firm to support private and public sector clients across multiple industries to help them grow and measure their social impact work sustainably and most effectively. Diana also works with companies and investment funds to help to build out effective models of social impact measurement. Diana is Co-Chair of the Independent Advisory Group of Travalyst, Chair of the Social Sector Accelerator, and sits on the Board of Counterpart International and Maverick Next. She is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader and a Member of The Conduit and Nexus Global, She is certified and trained by the McKinsey Corporate Management Leadership Academy. She has spent time mentoring young social entrepreneurs through the Resolution Project’s Guide Program.

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• Deborah Drake

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  Vice President, Investing in Inclusive Finance, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION

  Deborah Drake has been with the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) since its inception in 2008. As Vice President, Investor Engagement and Research, she leads CFI’s investor engagement and governance efforts to strengthen the inclusive finance ecosystem. She also directs the Financial Inclusion Equity Council (FIEC), a membership organization of private entities making equity investments in financial institutions in the developing world. Deborah also leads CFI's research work in the impact investing space. Prior to the establishment of CFI, Deborah held multiple leadership roles at Accion focused on developing and implementing financial initiatives to facilitate access by microfinance institutions to capital. She managed Accion’s $9 million guarantee fund for Latin America and the United States and led the financial analysis unit dedicated to data collection and analysis to achieve greater financial transparency and establish international standards of financial performance for microfinance institutions. Deborah also was responsible for the development and delivery of training to microfinance institutions in the areas of transformation, governance and investment readiness. Deborah is co-editor of The Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development, and the co-author of Alchemists for the Poor: NGOs as Financial Institutions. Before joining Accion, she was a banking specialist at the World Bank and a commercial banker. Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MBA from Babson College. Deborah speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese and is a board member of Vista Ventures Social Impact Fund and Director Emerita of Root Capital.

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• Beth Larsen

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  Project Manager, Impact Finance, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Expertise in non-profit development, social entrepreneurship and fundraising. Beth has been developing non-profit programmes for 10+ years and has a passion for supporting community-driven solutions. Industry Expertise: Impact Measurement, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, Nonprofits. Impact Interests: environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, education, global health. Hobbies: salsa dancing, running, mentorship. A specialist in impact measurement and a crusader for grassroots development. Bethany has an MBA + MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention from the University of Oxford. Awards: Pershing Square Graduate Scholarship, Forte Fellowship, Rhodes Scholar Finalist, Gervais E. and Mary K. Reed Community Service Award.

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• Seth Cochran

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  Founder & CEO, Operation Fistula

  Seth Cochran, founder of Operation Fistula and Impact Intel, is a leader in using data for social and environmental change. His expertise in data analytics drives his commitment to gender equality and innovative solutions in nature-based carbon removal. Recognized in social entrepreneurship, Seth aims to connect with forward-thinking innovators at the Skoll World Forum. He is passionate about forming impactful partnerships, mentoring in data analytics, enhancing operational efficiency through data, and exploring sustainable, nature-driven approaches to carbon sequestration.

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• Sergio Pancorbo

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  Senior Consultant, International Finance Corporation

  Sergio Pancorbo offers design and technology consulting services to address development challenges, with a focus on financial inclusion, forced migration, emergency relief, health, and education. From 2017 to 2020, he served the Peruvian Government, initially leading the Digitization Office for SMEs and subsequently heading the Digital Services Office at the Prime Minister’s Office. Before his government role, Sergio undertook various leadership positions in the private sector, starting in the energy sector before transitioning to banking. In his last two years there, he was responsible for initiating the innovation and digital transformation office, tackling critical areas such as talent, change management, and agile execution. Sergio completed his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Católica University in Peru. He also holds a Master in Management from IESE-ISE School and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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• Daniel Wordsworth

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  President and CEO, American Refugee Committee

  Daniel Wordsworth is the President & CEO of the American Refugee Committee (ARC), an international humanitarian aid agency operating relief programs throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Wordsworth is an entrepreneur who came to ARC after several years leading for-profit start-ups in China. At ARC he has applied those principles of entrepreneurship to the humanitarian world. Wordsworth has ingrained in ARC's worldwide teams a bias for action and put in place the framework and culture for new ideas and approaches to emerge. Under Wordsworth, ARC received the Drucker Prize in 2011. He has led the formation of several breakthrough humanitarian enterprises and platforms, and organizational revenues have more than doubled in his 9-year tenure. Wordsworth has 20 years of experience in the field, having risen through the ranks of Christian Children's Fund and established emergency response programs throughout Africa and Asia. He has also lived and worked with the urban poor in Australia and Hong Kong. He started his career in the Royal Australian Navy.

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• Bennett Rathbun

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  Program Officer for International Philanthropy, Pilot House Philanthropy

  Bennett Rathbun leads the global philanthropy initiative at Pilot House, 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, climate, and gender equity. Bennett has been leading Pilot House's global philanthropy in a full-time capacity since 2020, having previously served as an advisor to the family's international giving since 2017. 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 attended 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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• Daniel Buchbinder

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  CEO and Founder, Alterna Impact

  Daniel Buchbinder is the Founder and Director of Alterna, a social innovation platform advancing social and environmental change in Latin America. Since Alterna´s conception Daniel has led the cultivation of +4000 entrepreneurs and impact SMEs in Central America. He leads a fantastic 50+ international team that share his passion to cultivate change from the ground-up. Since 2018 Alterna is an active impact investor solving the “missing middle” with its funds Devela and Acceso. Daniel is an Ashoka Fellow since 2016 and has received recognitions from organizations such as Skoll, ROI and ADEL. He is co-Chair of the steering committee for the Mexico and Central American Chapter of ANDE and belongs to a range of boards in companies and is a founding member of the Central American Impact Investment Platform (PIIC), part of the GSG. Daniel holds a BA in Business Administration (ITAM) and MSc´s in Environmental Technology and Business (Imperial College) and Environmental Geography (UNAM).

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• Benjamin Kumpf

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  Head of Innovation, Department for International Development

  Benjamin Kumpf is the Head of Innovation at the UK Department for International Development. Prior to this engagement, he led the Innovation Facility of the United Nations Development Programme. In this capacity, Benjamin managed a flexible fund to support experimentation, exploration and the scaling-up of development innovations. Over the past 13 years, he has worked on programmes and policy design at the intersection of digital technologies, innovation and global development. Benjamin’s past experience includes work with UN Volunteers, with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the International Agricultural Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and others in India, Jordan, Nepal and Rwanda as well as multiple years of journalism on development and humanitarian topics.

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• Dia Chakraborty

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  Fellow, Individual

  As a fellow with the Portfolio and Investments team, Dia works to understand the innovative models and impact of Skoll's social entrepreneurs, identify new entrepreneurs for the Skoll Award and surface new opportunities for future portfolio investments. Prior to Skoll, Dia was a Teach for India fellow where she taught kids in a primary government school in New Delhi. Before her transition to the international development space, Dia worked in real estate mortgage finance with Evalueserve in Gurgaon, India. Dia recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with a masters in International Education Policy and Management where she chaired the Annual Social Ventures Summit. In her free time, she likes to listen to old classical music and go for short hikes .

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• Rudolf Hilti

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  Founder & Chair, HUS Institute

  Rudolf “Rudi” Hilti is an purpose driven entrepreneur and visionary from Liechtenstein. Rudi considers himself a global citizen, a responsible optimist and a change maker, who invests his emotional and financial resources exclusively in initiatives which are aligned with his values focusing on integrity and sustainability. Rudi is among others the founder of the sustainable investment company RHEINEST and the nonprofit The System Change Foundation with THE HUS.institute, a "house" for imagination and a platform to explore the transformation of the old economy into an ecologically as well as economically sustainable digital modern era. The foundation sees itself as a value-based global village for global topics to rethink systems and global challenges holistically, independent of higher national interests.

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• Benedicte Wilhelmsen

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  Board Observer, Wilstar Social Impact

  With a passion for art and a family background in business, Benedicte runs her own clothing label supernaturae and has recently set up a textile sourcing consultancy that works connects artisans with a global market. She has a wide set of experience; from working with designers such as Ulla Johnson and Proenza Schouler to developing human-centric design concepts for UN projects in Dahod, she is also on the board of Wilstar, a philanthropic organization aimed at empowering social entrepreneurs to make a change in the world. She has studied at Central St. Martins, London and Parsons School of Design, New York, lending her a decisive mind that’s rooted in commercial reality when developing innovative concepts. She is fond of spotting and creating opportunities that bridge cultures and create rural employment through the techniques of art and design.

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• Ben Link

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  Executive Manager at Alliance for a Healthier World, Johns Hopkins University

  Ben has over 15 years of experience working in both the non-profit and private sectors on initiatives related to global health and development in diverse settings across southern and eastern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Navajo Nation. Ben is the Executive Manager of the Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World; a University wide initiative to bring together faculty, staff and students to tackle complex opportunities in global health equity. Prior to this role he worked with the AMPATH consortium based in Eldoret, Kenya and before that served as Chief of Staff and Director of Board Relations at the non profit organization Partners In Health. The conceptual thread running through Ben's global health delivery experience is the notion that well resourced public sector healthcare delivery systems, complete with high quality and accessible educational systems, represent the greatest opportunity for transformation.

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• Colman J. Chamberlain

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  Global Managing Director, Unreasonable Group

  Guided by impact, human-centeredness, a learner's mindset, and the need to make work work better, Colman and his team at Unreasonable repurpose capitalism to drive lasting and scalable change. Working with Accenture, Johnson & Johnson, Barclays, and the U.S. State Department, among others, Unreasonable builds community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems. Over the past six years, Unreasonable has grown a community of 230 ventures, which have raised $4.5 billion in financing, $3.5 billion in revenue, and positively impacted more than 350 million lives. In addition to Unreasonable, Colman serves on multiple Boards, including ReGenerate's Advisory Board and The Science Museum Group's Sustainability Board. Previously, Colman taught at Stanford University's d.school and Columbia University, as well as served as Senior Innovation Director at Nike, a senior HIV/AIDS official in the Botswana government, and a Founder of two start-ups.

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• Becky Booth

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  Director of Programs, SHONA

  Becky is the Director of Programs at SHONA (previously known as Unreasonable EA). Based in Kampala, SHONA supports the growth of early stage businesses across East Africa. Becky has been leading SHONA's programs in East Africa for the last two years. Prior to working at SHONA, Becky was the founder and CEO of Tempo (previously known as Spice). Becky is a board member of a Ugandan Dance Fitness company and a Wales based Community Development Charity.

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• David Higgins

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  Impact Investment Lead, Johnson & Johnson

  Impact Investment Lead at Johnson & Johnson since 2017.

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• Chris Berger

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  Director of Communications, GHR Foundation

  My purpose is to work in partnership to create racially-conscious spaces that foster radical collaboration and meaningful impact. Recognizing how race matters in my life and work, I aim to lift up the voices and ideas of Black, Indigenous and people of color to accelerate the change they seek. At GHR Foundation, my role is responsible for global platforms and engagement strategies that advance innovative, community-centered impact initiatives. I champion racial consciousness and intersectional equity within the social sector as a member of the GHR's management team, co-lead of the foundation's $1M BridgeBuilder global innovation challenge, and collaborator with platforms including World Economic Forum, Skoll World Forum, Devex, Racially Conscious Collaboration, OpenIDEO, and more. Previously, I worked in global social impact at communications agency Weber Shandwick. My prior role was a strategy partner to social entrepreneurs and purpose-driven organizations—many with a global focus—through my consultancy Berger Brands. For two decades, I have worked with visionary changemakers on pressing international issues such as child labor, fair trade, migration, global health, press freedom, and more.

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• Barbara Van Dahlen

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  Founder and President, Give an Hour

  Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D., named to TIME's 2012 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, is the president of Give an Hour™, a nonprofit she founded in 2005 to provide free mental health services to the military and veteran community. A licensed clinical psychologist practicing in Washington, D.C., she received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland in 1991, her M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland in 1987, and her B.A., summa cum laude, from California State College in 1982. Give an Hour's nearly 7,000 mental health professionals have given more than 277,000 hours of care valued at over $27M. In 2017, Give an Hour began expanding its model – and is now providing free care to other populations in need. Give an Hour also leads the Campaign to Change Direction®, a global initiative focused on changing the culture of mental health, which launched in March 2015 with former US First Lady Michelle Obama as keynote speaker. Dr. Van Dahlen has received numerous awards, including the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Citation and the Richard Cornuelle Award for Social Entrepreneurship of the Manhattan Institute in 2013. In 2014 she was honored by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army as an outstanding civilian who has made significant voluntary contributions to our military and the United States Army. She also received the 2016 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Lifesavers Gala Public Service Award and was appointed in January 2016 to serve on the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, & Nutrition.

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• Charlotte Burson

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  Senior Manager, Global Community & Development, B Team

  Charlotte joined The B Team as part of the founding staff team, shaping the organization’s development and community-building priorities from the outset. Charlotte believes deeply in the power of partnerships to deliver collective solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. In her role as the Head of Development, she focuses on cultivating strategic partnerships and strengthening the long-term sustainability of The B Team. Charlotte has diverse experience working across the non-profit sector, including in business mobilization, disability and community services, youth engagement in political fora, and international development, with previous roles in Canada and New Zealand.

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• Baljeet Sandhu

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  Innovator in Residence & Founder of the Knowledge Equity Initiative, Migrant & Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU)

  Baljeet Sandhu is a UK human rights lawyer, a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and Founder of the Knowledge Equity Initiative (KEI) at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University. Baljeet’s core interests span education, innovation, entrepreneurship and social and economic justice. She has spoken widely on the need for inclusive and equitable opportunities for changemakers with direct lived experience of the social and environmental problems we collectively seek to tackle in the world. KEI is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary research, education, and practice program seeking to share knowledge and learning across local, national, and global communities. Through a broad range of multidisciplinary partnerships, KEI explores how institutions, investors, entrepreneurs and educators can meaningfully and equitably value both lived and learned experience to lead positive social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Baljeet is an adviser to philanthropists, investors, and government departments, and is a founding partner of the 2027 Talent Programme, a collaboration with leading UK organizations and funders to diversify the UK philanthropic sector and bring community power into grant giving. Before joining Yale University, Baljeet was the founding director of the Migrant & Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) and founding partner of Kids In Need of Defense UK, successfully leading a wide range of national and global legal, policy and access to justice strategies to protect the rights of vulnerable migrant and refugee children. She has served as a Special Adviser to the UK Children’s Commissioner; the UK Home Office Children’s Asylum and Immigration sub-committee and has also served as an Expert Advisor to the Strategic Legal Fund for Vulnerable Young Migrants, where she helped shape and inform the design of an innovative funding program for strategic litigation and policy work in the UK.

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• Bahia Shehab

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  Fellow, Individual

  Bahia Shehab is an artist and author based in Cairo. She is Professor of design and founder of the graphic design program at The American University in Cairo. She frequently lectures internationally on Arab visual culture and design education, peaceful protest, and Islamic cultural heritage. Her artwork has been on display in exhibitions, galleries and streets in over 27 cities internationally. Her work has received a number of international recognitions and awards which include a TED Senior fellowship, the BBC 100 Women list and a Prince Claus Award. She is the first Arab woman to receive the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture. Shehab is the founding director of Type Lab@AUC. Her publications include You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution, At The Corner of a Dream, A Thousand Times NO: The Visual History of Lam-Alif and the award winning co-authored book A History of Arab Graphic Design.

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• Pip Wheaton

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  Consultant, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Growing up in rural Australia made Pip intensely curious about humans’ impact on the rest of the natural world. Her childhood saw her planting trees and rounding up sheep, finding snakes in her bedroom and echidna in the garden, and solo walks gazing at exceptionally starry skies. Pip works on climate change, both locally in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, New Zealand, for Wellington City Council, and globally with Ashoka. She has worked across South Africa, the UK and Aotearoa. Currently, Pip is working on a playbook for unlocking agency in climate changemakers. Based on learnings from dozens of world-leading social entrepreneurs, it is a collaboration between Ashoka and the Skoll Centre at Oxford University. Pip is a award-winning social entrepreneur for founding enke: Make Your Mark, a youth leadership organisation in South Africa. She was a WEF Global Shaper, won a Skoll Scholarship to complete an MBA at Said Business School, and is an Ashoka Fellow.

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• Ayesha Wagle

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  Managing Director - Capital, Rippleworks

  Ayesha leads that Capital team at Rippleworks, where she has worked since late 2018. Prior to her current role, Ayesha served as President of Komaza, a social venture working to revive the productivity of degraded lands in the world’s most deforested areas. Previously, Ayesha worked at Morgan Stanley in New York within the company’s Fixed Income Division. She then spent five years managing the global loan portfolio at MCE Social Capital, a California non-profit committed to reducing poverty by financing microentrepreneurs. Ayesha graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics and International Relations and has a Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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• Bill Rodriguez

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  Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

  As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Bill Rodriguez plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation’s senior leadership team, he also helps to execute the Foundation’s strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Bill serves with primary responsibility for DRK’s international portfolio. Bill currently serves on the boards of DRK portfolio organizations BarefootLaw, Brastorne, Cowtribe, Food for Education, MaTontine, Numida, OceanMind, VIA Global Health, and Vula Mobile. Bill resides in Botswana with his wife, Rebecca, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and their two young daughters. Bill is a physician, entrepreneur, and leader in global health. He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, more than a dozen national government organizations on global HIV and tuberculosis treatment and pandemic response, as well as numerous start-up for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises, focused on global health technologies, diagnostics and laboratory support, and workforce training. Bill is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and infectious disease at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident.

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• Beth Collins

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  Managing Director, Impact Investing, Catholic Relief Services

  Beth Collins, Catholic Relief Services' (CRS) Managing Director of Impact Investing, has structured and led CRS's impact investing and innovative finance activities since their inception in 2015. A leading global humanitarian and development agency, CRS reaches over 130 million people across more than 110 countries. Beth oversees CRS' multi-prong impact investing strategy and serves as Chair of Azure Source Capital, LLC, a financing vehicle developed by CRS to expand communities' access to water services in Latin America. Beth has a 30-year executive career with global experience spanning corporate and nonprofit sectors throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Beth holds a B.A. in International Studies from Miami University and an MBA in Finance from NYC.

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• Breanne Svehla

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  Associate Director for Operations, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Breanne brings a blend of international development and higher education experience to the Skoll Centre Team. She has held several roles at the Centre over the past nine years and currently spearheads all operational functions. Breanne began her career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture working on development projects in Armenia and the Republic of Georgia. She then served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working with university students in the Republic of Moldova. Previously she was the director of Policy Internship Programs at Texas A&M University. Breanne holds a BS in Agricultural Development from Texas A&M University.

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• Patti Parson

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  Managing Producer, PBS NewsHour

  Patti Parson is the Managing Producer of the PBS NewsHour. As a key member of the development team, she helps provide editorial, managerial and financial supervision for the show’s tape production. Patti works closely with correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro to report on the work of social entrepreneurs and equity issues. Her own productions and those she has supervised, have won numerous awards. Parson started her television career on the crew at KCTS/Seattle. She switched direction a bit to become the station’s Director of Promotions and later returned to production as senior producer for its public affairs programming. She also helped produce a PBS special and a Bill Moyers’ Journal. Parson earned her bachelor’s degree from Smith College, and her master’s degree from the University of Washington. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her letterpress printer husband and is the proud mom of her transgender daughter.

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• Avani Patel

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  Portfolio Director, Peery Foundation

  Avani Patel joined the Peery Foundation as Portfolio Director in November of 2013 to strengthen the foundation’s contribution to closing the opportunity gap for youth in East Palo Alto. Her career in education started through Teach for America as a teacher in East Palo Alto. She has worked in both traditional and charter school systems and has served as a school site and district administrator in the Ravenswood City School District, the public school district in East Palo Alto. She graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Sociology and African & African American studies. In addition, she pursued her Masters in Education and received her doctorate in Educational Leadership.

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• Audrey Giacomini

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  Head of Programs and content, World Innovation Summit for Education

  Audrey Giacomini Manager, Innovation for Quality and Access, WISE Audrey Giacomini is the Manager, Innovation for Quality and Access at WISE. WISE is an international, multi-sectoral platform for creative thinking, debate and purposeful action, which has established itself as a global reference in new approaches to education and in building the future of education through collaboration. In her role, Audrey, with her team, is in charge of managing WISE programs (Wise Prize for Education, Wise Awards, Wise Accelerator, WISE Emerging Leaders and Learners’ Voice program) and is also involved in the curation of content for different WISE conferences. Before joining WISE, Audrey was already engaged in a decidedly international career, with a focus on development and educational projects; first in China in an NGO, then at the Delegation of the European Union in Eritrea, and finally at Total in Uganda and then in Paris as Assistant Dean for International Affairs of the Paris School of International Affairs – Sciences Po

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• Boris Bulayev

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  CEO and Co-Founder, Educate!

  Under Boris’s leadership, Educate! has grown to become the largest youth skills provider in East Africa, meaningfully impacting over 250,000 youth across Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. With a team of over 240 staff and 300 youth mentors, the organization has received much acclaim for its work, including the 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and the 2015 WISE Award. Educate! was also highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative, the UN’s Generation Unlimited as one of 20 innovative youth solutions, and by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. Before jumping into Educate! full-time, Boris worked at startup incubator Loeb Enterprises. Boris is a recipient of the 2011 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize, and a two-time Forbes Top 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur.

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• Noa Gafni Slaney

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  Executive Director, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation

  Dr. Noa Gafni is an experienced entrepreneur, board member, and expert in social innovation. Her career spans sectors and continents, from working with the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to exiting a social impact consultancy in the United Kingdom and running an institute at one of the most diverse campuses in the United States. Noa speaks frequently on topics related to social and environmental issues, contributes to leading publications, and hosts a podcast, Impact Reimagined. She sits on the boards of USA for UNFPA and Forum for the Future. Noa currently serves as Faculty at Columbia University’s Climate School and Social Innovation Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is frequently featured in the press, including the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and Wall Street Journal.. She is currently writing a book, Incovate: How Impact and Inclusion Drive Innovation

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• Ashok Mahbubani

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  Founder, The EKTA Foundation

  Ashok has participated in the establishment and growth of family-owned businesses in India, Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Spain and the United States. In the US, Ashok built a supply chain logistics and contract manufacturing business. The Multitronics Group became a preferred supplier to the world’s largest Automotive Module manufacturers through 2018. Ashok preserves his links with the industry as a student-observer of Autonomous/Connected & Electric Vehicles with a special interest in related cyber challenges. In 2008, Ashok and his wife, Amrita, co-founded The EKTA Foundation. EKTA’s unifying principle is the enhancement of human dignity through education, for lasting social impact. EKTA supports new directions in Education, with Open Future Institute in NYC, creators of The QUESTion Project™, a Social & Emotional Learning program that empowers high school students to build purposeful, fulfilling lives. Ashok has been a Council Member at Hult Prize Foundation, the largest student-driven social enterprise development platform in the world. As a Mentor & Judge, he works with global Teams of aspiring entrepreneurs to help them build sustainable for-good, for-profit businesses. Ashok was invited by Schmidt Futures to participate in their flagship social impact program, Alliance for the American Dream. As a National Panel Member, Ashok helped to select the best of three teams from Universities in Arizona, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin, each with promising ideas to increase income for middle-class families in their community. In early years, EKTA completed projects with stellar partners in Education, Information Technology and Water, to change ground realities in Haiti for the better in a sustainable way. EKTA is a benefactor of the Streisand Women's Heart Center in Los Angeles where gender-specific diagnostic protocols have been developed, to save lives through preventive care for women at risk.

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• Ashley Clark

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  Senior Director of Investor Relations, Global Health Corps

  Ashley is a passionate, dynamic and results-driven leader with over 15 years of proven experience in leading enterprise sales teams in the specialized medical software space, managing upwards of $35M a year in sales. Ashley has a deep passion for driving impact in the healthcare sector to help improve the quality of lives for all. She is also a social entrepreneur dedicated to doing well by doing good. A lifelong philanthropist and connector, Ashley was inspired to use her skills to start a business at the intersection of profit and purpose which led her to Global Health Corps. She is now thrilled to be leveraging all of these skills at GHC to help further expand the massive impact of tomorrow's healthcare leaders. Ashley holds BBA in Organizational Behavior and Business Policy and a BA in French Language from Southern Methodist University. Ashley is an avid skier and loves being outdoors, from powder days in the mountains to stand up paddle boarding on tropical seas. She is also an enthusiastic explorer and loves to travel and connect with people all over the world. She has supported communities from Native American populations in the US to Haiti and Nepal and beyond in her quest to help improve the lives of those without access to quality healthcare. As a doer dreamer, she is also into big ideas : generating them, enrolling others around them and giving them flight.

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• Bob Bloom

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  Chief Financial Officer, Heifer International

  Bob Bloom is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Heifer International. Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. Formed in 1944, today Heifer works in over 20 countries around the world bringing sustainable agriculture to areas with a long history of poverty. Heifer’s focus on sustainable agriculture (principally through livestock) is complemented with a strong emphasis on social capital development. As Chief Financial Officer, Bloom oversees all financial, treasury, technology and human resources activities. Since joining Heifer, Bloom has led an effort to build global systems to support the organization’s strategy of scaling up impact and diversifying revenue sources. This effort includes integration of the new financial systems with other operating systems including donor CRM, project management and monitoring & evaluation (M&E). Bloom has also actively visited country program offices throughout the world meeting small holder farmers in the communities where Heifer works and developing public/private partnership opportunities. Prior to joining Heifer, Bloom served as Chief Financial Officer at several companies including Vestcom International, Acxiom Corp. and Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

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• Asher Hasan

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  Founder & CEO, doctHERs

  Dr. Asher Hasan is a disruptive innovator and a serial entrepreneur in the areas of digital health and financial inclusion. He is the Founder and Chairman of NAYA JEEVAN, an insurtech-fintech that finances the health & well-being of informal and formal workers in corporate value chains. He is also the Co-Founder & CMO/CEO of doctHERs, a gender-inclusive, telemedicine-powered, digital health & wellbeing platform that is Asia’s first Fortune 20 impact venture (https://fortune.com/ranking/impact20/2020/docthers/) A TED speaker, TED fellow and MIT SOLVER, Asher has previously served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Social Innovation (2012-2014) and is a 2011 World Economic Forum/Schwab Foundation Asian Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Prior to launching NAYA JEEVAN, Asher served as the Senior Director of US Medical Affairs for Amylin, a leading biopharmaceutical company in San Diego, California.

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• Arunma Oteh

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  Visiting Scholar, Saïd Business School

  Ms. Arunma Oteh OON has been an Academic Scholar at University of Oxford, since January 2019. Her research areas of focus are capital markets, economic development, financial technology and sustainability. She is also a member of the London Stock Exchange Africa Advisory Group. She was previously Treasurer of the World Bank, Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria, Group Vice President and Group Treasurer, African Development Bank Group. She started her career in 1985, at Centre Point Investments Limited, Nigeria. Ms. Oteh holds an MBA from Harvard Business School(1990) and a BSc, First Class Honors from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka(1984). Ms Oteh has also served on several boards and has received several awards notably Nigeria’s Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) National Honour. She is one of Power List’s 2020 top 100 people of Black Heritage in the UK and was named one of Africa’s 50 most influential African women by Forbes Africa in March 2020.

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• Collin Dunn

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  Senior Digital Director, Resource Media

  From Resource Media’s Portland office, Collin works across the organization’s programs to bring digital campaigns to life. He helps clients navigate the complexities of the new media and digital world, make savvy choices on the web and other digital platforms, and use those platforms to activate and inspire existing bases and new constituents. With a decade of experience in editorial and management roles for environmental NGOs and digital media companies, blogging, writing, and editing for the web, Collin has expertise in content creation, digital research, and social media management.

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• Myriam Khoury

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  Vice President - Innovation, Mercy Corps

  Myriam serves as Vice President for Innovation at Mercy Corps where she champions initiatives to spark, support, and scale innovative solutions for social impact in fragile and frontier markets. She helps internal and external entrepreneurs leverage Mercy Corps’ global network of staff and community connections across 40+ countries, and tap into the organization’s many private and public sector relationships. Myriam also serves on Mercy Corps’ Executive Team. Previously, Myriam oversaw Mercy Corps’ Technical Support Unit whose subject-matter experts help develop partnerships and strategy, conduct cutting-edge research, cultivate organizational learning, and advise teams around the globe. In this role, she helped launch and steward the organizations’ gender integration initiative. She also lived in the Balkans and Caucasus for over a decade where she managed post-conflict development initiatives and dynamic teams. Myriam has a degree from Brown University.

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• Muriel Lamin

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  Head of Business Development - Commercial, Operations, Philanthropic, British Broadcasting Corporation

  Muriel is a strategist with extensive experience across the global media landscape. She leads a multifunctional team working across philanthropic partnerships, business development, technical delivery, operations and communications. She has worked in a range of business development and commercial strategy roles within the media and advertising industry, both in the US and UK, including Time Inc., Hearst, and BBC. Further, she has written and presented research papers on the impact of advertising on digital content consumption and cultural statistics for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Through public speaking engagements and pro-bono work, Muriel has also led discussions on sustainable monetisation opportunities for publishers in emerging markets. She holds an MSc with Distinction in Management from the University of Bristol and a BA in Media and Modern Literature from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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• Arturo Benito

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  CEO, Impact Bridge Asset Management

  Throughout most of my career I have combined my professional career in Investment Management with my personal involvement in Non-Profit organizations. I started a social enterprise in Cambodia and a Non-Profit in Peru. Finally, 5 years ago, I combined both the Investment Management and Non-Profit worlds by launching an Impact Investment program through 4 Funds. In October 2018, I focused 100% on Impact investing by founding Impact Bridge, a specialized Impact Investment Manager based in Spain. We firmly believe that everything meaningful that Humankind has achieved has been through our ability to cooperate in a massive way. Impact Bridge has the mission of promoting quality Impact Investing by encouraging the collaboration of the different stake holders. We help Foundations, Families and Institutional Investors invest in Impact and bring about social change. Through our non-profit arm, Impact Bridge Foundation, we sponsor PhDs and other research programs in impact measurement, we organize events to promote Impact Investing and we train future leaders in the Impact space. I am an alumnus of Harvard Business School and professor of ESG and Impact investing at IE Business School.

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• Arlene Isaacs-Lowe

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  President, Moody's Foundation

  Arlene Isaacs‐Lowe is the Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Moody’s Corporation and President of The Moody’s Foundation. With a focus on creating long-term shareholder value, she champions the integration of CSR activities across Moody’s operating companies and functions and has oversight of philanthropic giving and employee engagement initiatives. She was appointed to this role in 2017, and under her leadership, Moody’s has embarked on a global and comprehensive CSR strategy that aligns with its businesses opportunities. Her mandate is the enhancement and differentiation of Moody’s brand and reputation through authentic societal engagement that is reflective of the company’s culture, expertise and priorities of its stakeholders. Previously she was head of Moody’s Investors Service Relationship Management Team responsible for driving revenue and market coverage across Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Over the past two decades, she has held analytical and business roles of increasing importance at Moody’s Investors Service. Ms. Isaacs‐Lowe has multi‐faceted experience in developing and successfully executing enterprise wide strategic plans, and is a skilled leader, adept at productive collaboration; and building and motivating multi‐disciplinary teams. Ms. Isaacs-Lowe has melded her professional expertise with her philanthropic interest by serving on the boards of several non-profit organizations including Howard University School of Business, The Executive Leadership Council, Enterprise Community Investments and Northside Center. A graduate of Howard University, Arlene Isaacs‐Lowe was named one of the business schools most prominent alumni. She holds an MBA, summa cum laude, from Fordham University. She is a member of the New York State Society of CPAs, the New York State Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute.

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• Arieh Mimran

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  Co-Founder & CIO, to.org

  Arieh dedicates himself to using finance as a force for good. In 2015, he co-founded to.org, a private fund and foundation that co-creates with activists, ventures, and non-profits to address global challenges. As Chief Investment Officer, Arieh directs investment strategy and works closely with the fund’s portfolio companies. He is based between Switzerland and Senegal, where his family’s agro-industrial business, the Groupe Mimran, has been committed to socio-economic development for two generations. Arieh became involved in the family business at a young age, working closely with his brother Nachson. In 2012, Arieh helped create the Fondation Marie-Louise Mimran, a charitable foundation devoted to healthcare, education, and athletics in Senegal. Still actively involved, Arieh continues to advise the board on its strategy. While studying at Princeton University, Arieh collaborated with his professors to conduct a series of novel sociological studies on finance and elites that shed light on how financial resources, power, and prestige contribute to inequality. He places his insights at the service of foundations and family businesses to help design governance systems that facilitate alignment of interests between various stakeholders. Arieh built the Mimran family office and investment program. As CEO, he oversees strategy across the global portfolio. He also sits on the board of the Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise, the largest private-sector employer in Senegal, and leads it’s agriculture and food technology strategy.

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• Mohamed Amersi

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  Chairman, Inclusive Ventures Group

  Mohamed Amersi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Amersi) is the Chairman of the Amersi Foundation which supports initiatives in education, building cohesive societies, inclusive capitalism, governance and the futures agenda (https://amersifoundation.org).The Foundation also launched the Inclusive Ventures Group (https://inclusiveventures.com), a responsible profits social impact investing platform that has invested in education, livelihood, health and waste management in Africa and Asia. Mohamed Amersi is a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford and is a member of the Development Board of the British Academy, a member of the Boards of Orb Media, Unchain, the Islamic Reporting Initiative, the Governing Council of the Royal Agricultural University, the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, the Global Leadership Council of the Said Business School, University of Oxford , the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Global Advisory Board of the Oxford Foundry. In addition, Mohamed Amersi is the Chairman of the iShia Foundation, the International Advisory Council of the British Asian Trust, a member of the Global Partners Council of the Institute of New Economic Thinking and a Trustee of Prince’s Trust International and the Rose Castle Foundation.

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• Michael Taylor

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  Director, International Land Coalition

  Michael Taylor is the Director of the global secretariat of the International Land Coalition (ILC). ILC is hosted by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a UN Agency in Rome, Italy. Michael is a citizen of Botswana, with a PhD in Social Anthropology. He has worked on human rights and environmental issues for 30 years across Africa and the rest of the world. The International Land Coalition is a global alliance of 300 multilateral and civil society organizations based in 90 countries. Its members represent over 80 Million land-users across the globe.

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• Aprile Age

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  Executive Director, McNulty Foundation

  As the Executive Director, Aprile has driven the Foundation's growth into programs that elevate and support leaders around the globe. Under her tenure, the Foundation has invested over $30 million and spearheaded a series of successful new initiatives including the McNulty Prize and scholarship and leadership development programs in the US and globally. Aprile launched the McNulty Prize to support bold, visionary leaders addressing barriers to health, education, and economic opportunity. Passionate about the power of storytelling, Aprile has been the executive producer for a series of short films that share the inspiring work of change-makers around the globe. A cross-disciplinarian by intent, Aprile holds a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn and enjoys urban biking adventures with her eight-year-old son.

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• Aparna Hegde

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  Urogynecologist, Researcher, Founder and Managing Trustee of ARMMAN, ARMMAN

  Dr. Aparna Hegde is Founder of NGO ARMMAN, which creates scalable mhealth based programs to impact maternal & child health in 21 states of India (as of August 2024, interventions implemented by ARMMAN have reached 53 million women and trained 430,000 health worker). She is an internationally renowned Urogynecologist trained in Stanford and Cleveland Clinic and Assoc Prof (Hon) and founding Head of Dept. of Urogynecology at Cama Hospital, Mumbai, India’s first University-based Center of Excellence in the field. Dr. Hegde is Chair of FIUGA, the foundation arm of IUGA (International Urogynecology Association), Chair of IUGA Publication Committee and member of the Editorial Board of International Urogynecology Journal. Dr. Hegde is an accomplished researcher with over 75 abstracts/publications, and an NIH grantee. Dr. Hegde was listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2021 (15th spot), and was awarded the Skoll Award (2020), Elevate Prize (2021), Ashoka Senior Fellowship (2021), TED Fellowship (2020) etc

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• Bennett Grassano

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  Managing Director, Samaschool

  Bennett has a background as a Tech Entrepreneur, Web Developer, Community Leader, Fundraiser, and Business Developer at leading Social Enterprises. As Vice President of Strategic Development at Kiva Bennett designs and capitalizes new initiatives for Kiva. He is a co-founder of Kiva Labs, a program to accelerate product innovation among social enterprises and financial service providers and manages partnerships with major foundations and corporations such as the MasterCard Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Omidyar Network, Cisco and Google among many others. Awards include the Yale School of Management-Goldman Sachs National Nonprofit Business Plan competition for TechSoup Stock, an online product philanthropy service that went on to distribute over $1 billion in technology and a Google Impact Challenge award for Kiva Labs.

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• Cheryl Zimlich

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  President & CEO and Board Member, Bohemian Foundation

  Cheryl Zimlich serves as President & CEO and Board Member for Bohemian Foundation. The foundation works to empower citizens and is committed to the care and enrichment of local, national and global communities. The foundation’s Global Programs area seeks to identify and support organizations addressing some of our most serious global challenges at the intersection of public health, poverty and the environment. In addition to serving Bohemian Foundation, Cheryl has held board and leadership positions with more than a dozen organizations. Locally, she serves on UniverCity Connections, the Downtown Development Authority, and Give Next’s Advisory Committee. At the state level, she works to advance music education in schools by serving as an advisory board member of Take Note Colorado. Nationally, she is on the boards of Music Will and Book Trust. Cheryl is a CPA whose early career was as an audit professional. She earned a B.S. Business Administration from CSU.

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• Marion Ntiru

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  Director, Programs, The ELMA Philanthropies

  Marion Ntiru is a Director, Programs at The ELMA Philanthropies Services U.S. Inc., based in New York City. Currently, she manages the portfolio of The ELMA Growth Foundation, which supports organizations with scalable models of improving the lives of low-income communities in Africa. A national of Uganda, Marion was born and raised in Kenya before moving to New York City in 1992. Prior to joining ELMA, Marion worked in the consulting and financial services sector in New York for twelve years. Marion holds a BA in mathematics and economics from Mount Holyoke College, and an MBA in international business from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is a board member of the African Entrepreneur Collective (finance committee chair), and an alumna of the Consortium, MLT, and Echoing Green programs.

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• Anupah Makoond

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  Msc. Evidence based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Saïd Business School

  Anupah has spent the last five years working on projects aimed at consolidating peace in countries affected by violent conflict. She is currently an MBA 1+1 candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is pursuing an Msc. in Evidence Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, which will be combined with an MBA in 2019-2020. She is also co-chair of the 2019 Oxford Africa Conference. Prior to arriving at Oxford, Anupah worked with Interpeace and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, where she supported dialogue processes and conflict data initiatives in several conflict affected countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Timor-Leste and Burkina Faso, among others. Prior to her work with peacebuilding organisations and humanitarian agencies, Anupah led advocacy efforts on drug policies and harm reduction programmes in her home country of Mauritius. Anupah holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an Msc. in Global Affairs and Peacebuilding from New York University.

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• Luis Palacios

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  Founder & CEO, Elystone Capital

  In 1981 Luis received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Universidad Catolica Argentina.  His first engineering job was to set up and run a  cube sugar plant in Lagos, Nigeria.    In 1986 he received a MBA degree from INSEAD and started his career as a Private Banker at Hentsch, then Morgan Stanley and finally in 2002 he founded Elystone Capital, a multifamily office. Elystone Capital is committed to provide investment solutions, with the long term mission of making impact investing strategies a growing part of its wealth allocation.

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• Anup Akkihal

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  Chief Executive, Logistimo

  Anup Akkihal is an action researcher with two decades experience engineering complex systems, building diverse teams, and crafting strategy across industries – from defense to healthcare. He has enjoyed the privilege of designing field-tactical logistics systems for the United States Army, elevating automotive manufacturing in Latin America, managing global SAP enterprise software projects, and advising governments & United Nations agencies on supply chain management & technology. He co-founded Logistimo in 2011 as a collaborative effort to pioneer inclusive value networks across frontier markets of Asia & Africa. This work has strengthened rural access to essential products, improved market linkages for village producers, and in the spirit of sustainability, has enabled local participation and decreased the carbon footprint these activities would have otherwise made. Anup was born and raised in West Virginia, USA. He studied at the Johns Hopkins University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• Anubha Rawat

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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 Foundation, a private foundation based in Australia. DAK primarily focuses on sub-saharan Africa and Asia in three areas – women's health programmes (birth injury repair and family planning), restorative eyesight surgery and distribution of medical equipment, focussing on oxygen systems. Anubha is passionate about program development and initiatives championed at the local level. Anubha 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 Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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• Louisa Brassey

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  Principal, The Lucille Foundation

  Louisa is a Co-Founder at Greenwood Place where she focuses on helping people engage easily in philanthropic giving in an entrepreneurial and impactful manner. She works directly with clients and families to help them draw out and achieve their goals. Louisa studied History at Princeton University and focused on the anthropological aspects of her course, always having had an interest in people and different cultures. After graduating she worked as a producer at CNN before moving on to work in video production, advertising and documentary filmmaking. Louisa's passion for the way film can have an impact on people’s lives and change the way society views other cultures led her to consider a purpose driven career in philanthropy. She has a strong interest in social businesses and believes that finding solutions to global problems through enterprise is at the core of the future of philanthropy. She serves as Chairman of her family foundation, the Lucille Foundation.

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• Charles Richter

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  US Director, APOPO

  Charlie joined the APOPO team in December 2014 as US Director, based in Washington DC. At APOPO Charlie is responsible for building new partnerships and projects with US based organizations and government funders that can help APOPO build its Research and Mine Detection programs. Charlie also leads global innovative finance fundraising at APOPO, and is currently managing and planning a multiple year extension of the first ever Development Impact Bond for Mine Action and linked agricultural development in Cambodia financed by FCDO and private foundation investors. Charlie also plays an instrumental role in fundraising for APOPO’s ongoing Ukraine program, which will focus on the deployment of APOPOs game changing Technical Survey Dog technology for rapid reduction of crippling landmine contamination. Finally Charlie is the executive for APOPO's independent US based 501c3 organization.

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• Anu Bhatnager

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  Partnerships, Ashoka UK

  Ashoka believes the world needs all citizens to be empowered to create positive change. We identify and cultivate system-changing social entrepreneurs solving deep-rooted social problems. We support them through the Ashoka Fellowship, which is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs. We learn from the patterns in their innovation to mobilize a global changemaking community to transform institutions, systems and cultures worldwide. Anu Bhatnagar is an On Purpose Fellow, a Londoner from India, a former stock broker, a tree lover, and an advocate for systems change (Ashoka) and social investment (Big Society Capital).

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• Loic Comolli

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  Co-CEO, NESsT

  Mr. Loïc Comolli is Co-CEO of NESsT, where he oversees donor relations, advisory services, governance, and finance. He launched and oversees the NESsT Enterprise Fund, an impact investing fund deploying loans into social enterprises. Loïc has twenty years of experience spanning the private and nonprofit sectors. He has worked in 30 emerging market countries, providing consulting and financing to 1,000 social entrepreneurs. He is a seasoned consultant to multinational companies, social enterprises, foundations, and nonprofit organizations. He launched new NESsT programs in Brazil, Poland and Romania, and set up the organization’s first U.S. office. Loïc has strong expertise in the design of corporate programs and partnerships with leading businesses such as Nike, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, and Accenture. Prior to NESsT, he worked in economic litigation consulting for Fortune 500 clients. Loïc has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business, and a BA also from the University of California at Berkeley. He speaks fluent English, Spanish and French.

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• Tom Kagerer

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  Partner, LGT Venture Philanthropy

  Tom is a Partner, Health-Lead, and a member of the Executive Team at LGT Venture Philanthropy (LGT VP). Tom is leading LGT VP’s Health work to improve access to primary health services for underserved communities in Africa and India. In his previous role as Head of Impact Management at LGT VP and Lightrock, Tom institutionalized Impact Measurement and Management systems and processes. In his first role as Head of Talent at LGT VP, Tom managed the LGT Impact Fellowship, which connects portfolio organizations with mid-career professionals. In 2009, Tom himself completed the LGT Impact Fellowship. As a fellow, he worked with Heart Social Investments, a social enterprise incubator in South Africa, to support social enterprises addressing the needs of low-income customers. Before joining the philanthropic sector, Tom spent nine years with BMW in Germany and the UK. He gained experience in different management positions, in-house consulting, call center management, dealer operations, and IT.

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• Antonio Dominguez

  Delegate

  Director of Fundación Azteca, Fundación Azteca

  Antonio serves as Director in Fundación Azteca since August 2018. He joined Grupo Salinas in 2016 where he has participated in the group’s Executive Councils among others.

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• Lindsay Coates

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  Managing Director, BRAC

  As Managing Director of BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI), Lindsay leads BRAC’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty through a focus on the world’s poorest people. Lindsay and her team work to realize SDG 1 and for the uptake of the Graduation approach by policymakers, development finance agencies, national governments, non-governmental organizations, and microfinance institutions. The Graduation approach, developed by BRAC, has been proven to break the poverty trap by addressing the multi-dimensional challenges that ultra-poor households face. After typically two years in the program, ultra-poor families transform their lives: they have a steady income, savings and skills, nourished children that attend school, a support network of peers and neighbors, and confidence in their ability to build a better life for their families. Thus far, UPGI has worked in thirteen countries implementing Graduation programs as well as various large-scale NGO partners operating globally. Lindsay is a sought-after writer and speaker for a range of topics such as sustainable development, social protection, innovation and inclusive economies. Before joining BRAC, Lindsay was the president of InterAction, where she oversaw management, advocacy and outreach. She served on the Obama administration’s Task Force on Global Poverty, the steering committee of the World Bank Global Partnership for Social Accountability, the executive committee for Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, and the boards of Episcopal Relief and Development, United States Global Leadership Coalition, and Development Gateway. Lindsay began her career practicing civil rights law in various capacities including private practice and in government. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of the South (Sewanee) and the University of Mississippi School of Law and attended the London School of Economics.

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• Lakshmi Sundaram

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  Executive Director, Girls Not Brides

  As Executive Director, Lakshmi Sundaram is responsible for ensuring that Girls Not Brides delivers on its strategy and advances our collective efforts to end child marriage. Since joining Girls Not Brides in 2012, Lakshmi has taken the Partnership from a special project of The Elders to an independent legal organisation, and overseen its expansion to more than 1000 members in over 95 countries. She is particularly interested in broadening our understanding of effective approaches to address child marriage, and ensuring that the funding, policy and programme support are available to ensure that girls around the world can thrive. Lakshmi is experienced in forging alliances across the public, private and NGO sectors, encouraging diverse people and groups to join forces for change. Her background is in global health partnerships, including at the World Economic Forum’s Global Health Initiative and at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics in Switzerland, with Voxiva in the United States and with the Ministry of Health in Rwanda. Lakshmi holds a BA in Biochemistry, as well as Master of Public Health and Master of International Affairs degrees. She is a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum. A Swiss citizen, Lakshmi is fluent in French and English, and speaks some Tamil, German and very basic Spanish.

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• Simon Clark

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  Reporter, Wall Street Journal

  Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer of stories about people and events from Afghanistan to Kenya, from Tower Hamlets to the City of London, from New York to Edinburgh. During travels as a reporter and feature writer I have met and told the stories of presidents and impoverished farmers, steel tycoons and steel workers, renewable energy entrepreneurs and oil industry executives, bankers and maids -- people who earn millions of dollars a month and people who live on a dollar a day. I seek to honour the people I meet with understanding and respect for their world and their perceptions. I do this because I believe that all human experience of life is equally valuable, regardless of financial wealth or social status. I combine a sophisticated understanding of financial markets and corporate finance with a deep concern for human rights. My stories reflect my quest to report about the fullness of human experience rather than compartmentalizing activity into separate economic, political and social spheres.

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• Anshu Gupta

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  Founder Director, Goonj

  Popularly known as the Clothing Man and recipient of 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Anshu Gupta has done Mass communications twice and has a masters in Economics. Starting as a freelance jour-nalist, Anshu left a corporate job in 1998 and founded Goonj with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it among the list of subjects to work on, for the development sector. Under his leadership Goonj has taken the menacing growth of urban waste and used it efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale rural development work. By creating barter between two new currencies; labor of the beneficiaries and old material of cities, Anshu has built the genesis of a parallel economy which is not just cash based but trash based. Anshu is an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow and has been listed by the Forbes magazine as one of India’s most powerful rural entrepreneurs. Anshu brings to the table an instinctive empathy and connect with people by dignifying the act of giving. By using what the world considers a part of the problem i.e the discard of the cities, as a part of the solution it offers a doable, sustainable and viable economic model for eliminating poverty and its related issues. In the macro picture Anshu has identified some basic needs outside the radar of the development sector and the civil society, that too by structuring imaginative solutions using urban waste. The citation of Magsaysay award, known as Noble of Asia , conferred to him in 2015 summerises it well in a few words. It says- “The Board of Trustees recognizes his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India, his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a sustainable development resource for the poor, and in reminding the world that true giving always respects and preserves human dignity.”

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• Kelo Kubu

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  Co-Founder, Gamatong

  Kelo is the founder of Peo Labs, an ag-tech accelerator focusing on women farmers in Southern Africa, a program that she developed as part of her TED Residency in 2018. She is a senior TEDxAmbassador and is the curator and licensee for TEDxJohannesburg. She is a TED Speaker, and 2018 Skoll World Forum Fellow. Kelo holds a Degree and a post-graduate Diploma in Finance and Business Administration, both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She is an alumnus of Singularity University, the Silicon Valley-based institution focusing on exponential technologies.

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• Anselm Kenneth

  Delegate

  Individual, Individual

  I attended the event in 2014. When my grandad Dr. Jockim Arputham won the award. Sadly he passed this November 2018. I'm a student in Coventry University in UK. My grandpaa is my role model, if one man change the world is true. Its him he changed my world. I'm motivated to follow his footstep. A difficult path but nothing is easy. This event is a big deal for me. Since this is my final year at university. I would like follow my dream to become like my grandpaa. This is a good platform for me.

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• Annie Theriault

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  Chief Investment Officer, Grand Challenges Canada

  Annie is the Chief Investment Officer of Grand Challenges Canada and the Managing Director of the EWEC Innovation Marketplace, an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, NORAD, and USAID. Annie is also the Managing Partner of Cross-Border Impact Ventures, a new impact investment firm partnered with Grand Challenges Canada to launch a health technology venture capital fund focused on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health investing with a gender lens. She is a Founding Member of The Big Push, an accelerator for women-led tech companies, and an advisor to Silver Maple Ventures, a Toronto-Based fintech company offering a full suite of solutions for private placements in early and growth stage companies. Prior to these roles, Annie spent most of her career investing in private companies as a venture capitalist and lender across multiple sectors and stages, including several impact investments. Annie obtained her PhD in Management from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, is a CFA Charterholder and holds the ICD.D designation.

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• Anne Avis

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  Board of Directors, KQED

  Anne serves on the boards of Global Press, KQED and Internews. Formerly Chair of the Board of KQED Public Media, she now chairs KQED’s Campaign to raise funds for digital transformation, regional news, and media for education. She is a former trustee of MASS MoCA, Fund for Global Human Rights and the NPR Foundation. She is an informal advisor to the Irrawaddy News Group, based in Myanmar. Anne lives in Palo Alto CA with her husband Greg. They have three grown children. She was raised in Massachusetts and is a graduate of Williams College.

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• Annabelle Townley

  Delegate

  Business Development, Saïd Business School

  I work within Executive Education at Said Business School, specifically on the Social Impact programmes. Through my role, I work closely with faculty, programme directors, and administrators at the School. l also work with individuals and organisations, to provide a strong pipeline of applicants for programmes and ensure that alumni remain connected with the School.

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• Kiva Iscol

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  Vice Chair & Chief Strategist, IF Hummingbird Foundation

  Kiva Iscol is Partner at Buena Vista Ventures, a family office focused on angel, venture capital and real estate investments resulting from a belief first in the who people lead them. Kiva is also Vice Chair and Chief Strategist of her family’s IF Hummingbird Foundation committed to creating social, economic and educational equality worldwide. Currently, she is leading the Foundation’s Hearts on Fire Program which has two major components: The Visionary Initiative which looks to engage, enlist and assist the next generation of global talent to tackle the world’s most pressing problems, and the Educational Initiative which seeks to inspire and engage youth through the stories of Hearts on Fire's Visionaries and Speakers. Hearts on Fire hopes encourage people of all walks of life to join the social change movement while supporting and promoting social change rockstars. Previously, Kiva managed marketing, public relations and investor relations throughout the finance, real estate and sports industries. She is a graduate of Cornell University, and an avid sportswoman, accomplished in skiing, tennis and riding.

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• Anna Zimmermann Jin

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  Director, Evaluation & Learning, Skoll Foundation

  Anna Zimmermann Jin joined the Skoll Foundation in 2016 and currently serves as the Associate Director on the Evaluation & Learning team. She is responsible for managing the Foundation’s research agenda, producing intelligence on the issue areas, geographies, and ecosystems the Foundation’s awardees operate in, and assessing the impact of Skoll’s portfolio to support ongoing learning and evidence-based decision making. Anna has eight years of experience in the global health and environmental fields, spanning research, consulting, and program management. Most recently, as a Senior Consultant at SDG, Anna worked with clients at global health foundations and public-private partnerships to design analyses to inform their R&D portfolio investment decisions, stakeholder engagement strategies, and program performance metrics. Previously, at Impact Carbon, she provided technical and carbon finance consulting to clean cookstove and water treatment projects serving low-income communities in Asia and Africa. Anna is proficient in Mandarin and lived in China for more than two years, where she completing research projects focused on environmental improvements made for the 2008 Olympics and the contribution of household energy use to air pollution and adverse health impacts. Anna earned an M.S. in Global Health & Environment from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. She holds a B.A. in Biology with minors in Environmental Studies and Chinese from Kenyon College.

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• Betsy Beaumon

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  Chief Product Officer, The Valuable 500

  Betsy Beaumon is the outgoing CEO of Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good in education, poverty alleviation, and human rights. In her 12 years at Benetech she also served as President and VP Global Literacy. Betsy has been advocating for ethical and inclusive technology for over a decade and is focused on innovating around the immense potential of technology to drive inclusion, equity, and justice to positively impact marginalized communities across the globe. A social entrepreneur and engineer, Betsy brings a unique perspective on topics such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, civic/social impact tech, and data privacy. Betsy holds a degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and a certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Delivering Social Impact at Scale.

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• Jorge Rubio Nava

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  Director Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.

  Jorge Rubio is a founding member of the Citi’s Global Inclusive Finance Group based in London, UK, which was created in 2005 to spearhead the firm’s commercial efforts to support social and financial inclusion around the world. He has participated in the design of Citi's strategy to support the expansion of financial services through Citi's businesses in over 40 countries. This worked has been externally recognized with Citi’s award as the 2017 World’s Best Bank for Financial Inclusion by Euromoney. Jorge has structured milestone inclusive finance transactions in the capital markets (2006 IFC/Financial Times Sustainable Deal of the Year Award and 2001 Sustainable Banker of the year Award) including the first investment grade local issuance for a microfinance institution and IPO’s as well as the first London Stock Exchange listed global IPO. His work around social and financial inclusion spans sustainable value chain development and digital financial services reaching the unbanked.

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• Rob Pettit

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  Founder/Director, NewSeas

  My focus is expanding the production of sustainable aquaculture, using businesses to drive sustainable, scalable, and value-generating change in our relationship with the sea. Project Developer & Project Finance Professional with 15 years experience leading design, building, financing, and management of projects in “frontier” markets. MBA (Skoll Schollar Oxford University, 2008).

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• Juan Caballero

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  Vice President of Programs, Latin America and Caribbean, Build Change

  Juan Caballero is a pioneer and advocate of resilient retrofitting for existing housing and a trusted advisor to governments, multilateral institutions, and others on how to strengthen housing quality. He has overseen the strategy, planning, and implementation of Build Change Programs in Latin America, The Caribbean, and South East Asia; and has participated in knowledge development, technical guidelines and manuals, housing subsector studies, and post-disaster reconnaissance teams. He has a Master’s in Project Management and is an Architect licensed in Honduras and Colombia.

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• Parmy Olson

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  Senior Technology Writer, Forbes

  I write about AI and health tech for Forbes magazine.

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• Angeline Chin

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  Global Community Impact Asia-Pacific Lead, Johnson & Johnson

  Angeline Chin Angeline is the new Head of Global Community Impact Asia Pacific for Johnson and Johnson(JNJ). In this position, she will play an important role in designing the strategic giving for JNJ and communicating JNJ's social impact efforts both internally and externally across enterprise in this region. Prior to this, she was with Credit Suisse for 7 years as the Head of Corporate Citizenship for Asia Pacific. Her role there was similar, working with partners across 13 countries in Asia focusing on education for the disadvantaged. Angeline brings over 20 years of experience from the private sector, not-for-profit organizations and government. She started her career as a regulator with the Securities Commission Malaysia and has been working in the financial services sector throughout her career. She was also involved in setting up a Not-for-Profit organization and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong managing the Institute for 7 years. She is legally trained and holds a Master in Law from City University Hong Kong, Masters in Finance from RMIT and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Harvard Mason fellow.

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• Jenneke Olson

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  Community Manager, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Ange Muyubira

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  Founder & Executive Director, Kaz'O'zah

  With a vision to challenge the cycle of poverty, Ange Muyubira set out on a mission to rewrite the social impact narrative of her home country Burundi. Through innovative projects rooted in the fashion/artisanal sector, she is helping Burundian and Ugandan artisans -with a special focus on women, youth and refugees- to become self-sufficient. At the same time, she is shaping the East African region as rising fashion hub. Having had to flee the country due to political conflicts in 1999, Ange found herself working for different high-end fashion designers based in London, such as Chanel, Carolina Herrera, Tom Ford etc. There, she would gain an invaluable expertise of the fashion industry. Returning to Burundi, she decided to support development in her community. By combining her passion for fashion and indigenous techniques from East Africa and the will to make a difference, she implemented the Kaz'O'zah social impact model. The model, which is based on skills development, economic and social empowerment, has already touched more than 958 artisans´ lives and has brought several thousands handmade products inside the homes of clients. Since June 2017, Kaz´O´zah is also operating in Uganda. This has made Ange a sought after speaker in countless international conferences. It has also earned her awards such as the Angel for Africa in 2016 in Uganda and 2017 Honoree Award in Washington DC. She was also listed among 50 influential persons in Burundi in 2014

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• Monika Lessl

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  CEO Executive Director, Bayer Foundation

  Monika Lessl is Executive Director of the Bayer Foundation with a focus on Science&Social Innovation and Senior Vice President at Bayer AG. At Bayer she heads Corporate R&D and Social Innovation. In her role she leads strategic R&D across Bayer`s Pharma, Crop Science and Consumer health divisions and is responsible for Bayer`s global societal engagement. She is a member of Bayer’s Global R&D Executive Committee and the Global Medical and Regulatory Governance committee. Her focus is to drive innovation and societal transformation for a sustainable future. Next to her research work she published a number of articles on collaborative innovation, entrepreneurship and business transformation in leading journals like Harvard Business Review. She has been ranked by the Handelsblatt as Top100 women in Innovation and together with her team got finalists of the Master of Reinvention Award of the London Business School” in 2018 and received the The best Innovation team award by Fast Company 2020

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• Joan Platt

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  President Foundation, Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation

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• Jennifer Holt

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  Technical Consultant, Building Markets

  Jennifer Holt works in the field of private sector development and is known for her expertise on using market forces to create jobs in frontier economies. Currently, Jennifer advises the Livelihood Impact Fund on investments supporting market linkages and job creation. Prior to this, Jennifer was the CEO of the award-winning social enterprise Building Markets, a New York-based organization that creates jobs and reduces poverty by connecting entrepreneurs in the developing world to new opportunities. Under her leadership the organization created over 70,000 full-time jobs in Afghanistan, Haiti, Timor-Leste, Liberia, Myanmar, and Turkey by helping local businesses win more than $1 billion in supply chain deals. Jennifer has led a successful peacekeeping reform project at the United Nations and more than half a dozen studies on the economic impact of international aid spending. She also worked for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Refugee and Demography Program and has been an advisor o

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• Andrew Sawyer

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  Chief Investment Officer, Maine Public Employees Retirement System

  Andrew Sawyer is the Chief Investment Officer of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. Prior to working at MainePERS, Andrew served as the Vice President and Portfolio Manager at TD Bank, Pension and Investment Manager at Raytheon, Investment Analyst at Prime Buchholz & Associates, and the Trust Department Head at Fuji Bank. Andrew is a CFA Charterholder and a CAIA Charterholder. Andrew attended the University of Maine where he received a BA in Business Administration and Finance and raced with the Varsity Ski Team. In 1993, Andrew earned an MBA from Pace University. He has also been involved with a broad range of civic, healthcare, and charitable activities. He currently serves on the Holderness School Board, Maine 529 College Saving Plan Investment Advisory Committee, MaineHealth Investment Committee, and the Maine Port Authority Board.

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• Anna Brosnan

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  Chief Investment Officer, Small Foundation

  Anna joined the Small Foundation executive team in 2009. Since then, she has worked alongside Small Foundation partners to build the business ecosystem for rural enterprises that improve the lives of people living in poverty in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Anna became a Director of Small Foundation in 2017, before taking up her role as CIO in 2018. Before joining Small Foundation, Anna worked for Headline Publishing Group in London, UK. Anna has a BA in Literature and French from Trinity College, Dublin, a post-graduate Diploma in Business Studies from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin, and a first-class MA in Literature and Publishing from the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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• Aoife McArdle

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  Director of Business Affairs, Social Impact Experiences, Airbnb

  Aoife is Director of Business Affairs and Social Impact Experiences at Airbnb. Her passion is combining innovation and disruption with opportunity for social impact and economic empowerment. In addition to overseeing business affairs for Airbnb, she’s one of the early leaders behind Airbnb Experiences - a new way for travelers and local hosts to connect with one another via uniquely curated community experiences. Her team focuses on unlocking the power of the Experiences platform to help local non-profits and NGOs connect with new supporters and raise individual giving. Prior to this role, Aoife was General Counsel for Airbnb in Europe, Middle East and Africa where she played an instrumental role in the development of the first home sharing regulations. Aoife has over 17 years of experience working in game changing businesses including Skype and Apple.

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• Andrew Cairns

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  Chief Executive Officer, Community Sector Banking

  Andrew Cairns joined Community Sector Banking as its Chief Executive Officer in March 2016. Before joining the team, Andrew held several management positions with a number of multinational companies, both in Australia and internationally, including more than 15 years with the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Group. Between 2012 and April 2016, Andrew was Head of Customer Led Connections at Bendigo Bank. Here, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the Bank’s strategic direction for online banking and social media. As Head of Community Solutions and Partnering prior to this, he drove the Bank’s community engagement initiatives, including within the not-for-profit and philanthropic sectors. Andrew was Chief Executive Officer of Community Telco between January 2001 and October 2010. Under his leadership, Community Telco saw increased shareholder value, profit growth, and the deployment of a national franchise network. These roles followed a sixteen year career that spanned a range of strategic and management roles in the engineering, mining and pay TV industries. It’s Andrew’s passion for growing start-ups and fostering innovation that brings him to Community Sector Banking. Andrew’s vision is for a specialist not-for-profit banking service that adds value to the sector and strengthens the community in the long term. He also brings with him an intimate knowledge of the not-for-profit world as a board director of Haven; Home, Safe and Loddon Mallee Housing Services. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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• Basil Demeroutis

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  Managing Partner, FORE Partnership

  Mr. Basil Demeroutis serves as a Managing Partner at FORE Partnership, a sustainable real estate investment platform. He set up the firm in 2012. Previously, Mr. Demeroutis served as a Partner at Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Prior to this, he served as a Partner at Jargonnant Partners, where he shared responsibility for acquiring, managing and successfully exiting a €400 million European property portfolio and disposed its investments in 2007. Mr. Demeroutis spent the first half of his career in banking, where he financed aircraft, satellites, ships and other cash flowing assets, including real estate. He moved to the buy-side in 2002, and over 13 years he has been working exclusively with private investors on their real estate strategies. He is a Trustee of the Institute of Imagination. Mr. Demeroutis graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering from Cornell University in 1991.

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• Andreas Zeller

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  Managing Partner, Open Capital Advisors

  Andreas Zeller is co-CEO of Open Capital Advisors (OCA), a management consulting and financial advisory firm focused on accelerating social impact in Africa. We support African social entrepreneurs to scale their businesses and support global investors, including foundations, impact investors, and institutions, to design and deploy innovative capital solutions. Since 2010, OCA has supported 1400 engagements for social enterprises, impact investors, and development partners, raising $1.5 billion in capital. Our team is 170 people based in Africa and we operate in 30 countries across the continent. Prior to co-founding Open Capital, Andreas was part of IFC’s infrastructure investment team in DC and Citigroup and Credit Suisse’s investment banks in London, and New York.

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• Andrea Wolffenbüttel

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  Communication Director, Institute for the Development of Social Investment

  Andrea Wolffenbüttel is IDIS's communication director. She is a journalist, and she has a System Analysis degree, as well as a specialization in Economics. She has worked as a writer for companies like O Estado de S.Paulo (The State of São Paulo), SBT, and CBS News (USA). She has managed Gazeta Mercantil's Data and Research Center and was an editor for the Desafios do Desenvolvimento (Development Challenges) magazine, published by the UN's Development Program and the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA, the Institute of Applied Economic Research). She was a communication and press relations coordinator at the Secretaria Municipal de Transportes de São Paulo (The Municipal of São Paulo's Transportation Department), including Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET – the traffic engineering company) and the public transportation manager at SPTrans. In the third sector, she has acted as communication and content manager for Instituto Akatu for Conscious Consuming and, more recently, in the same position at Fundação Maria Cecília Souto Vidigal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-wolffenbuttel-89711921/

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• Antonella Broglia

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  Owner, TEDx

  TEDx Ambassador for Europe for 7 years and Ashoka Ambassador for the last 15 years. A passion for stage in any shape or form: I love to make social innovation more visible and to train changemakers of any age and part of the world to be better at public speaking. Actress at Theatre for the People Madrid Spain.

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• Andrea Crossnan

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  Executive Producer, The World, Public Radio International

  I'm the Interim Executive Producer for The World - public radio’s premier daily global news program. The program is a unique collaboration among three leading media entities: PRI-PRX, the BBC and WGBH. The World is carried on almost 300 public radio stations and reaches a weekly broadcast audience of three million listeners across the United States and Canada.

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• Barr Even

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  Investment Associate, Dalio Foundation, Inc

  Barr is an investment associate at the Dalio Foundation where he focuses on the impact investing portfolio. Previously he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, in public health in the Israeli Defense Forces, and at Al Gore's responsible investing fund Generation IM. He was born in Israel and grew up in the UK

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• Hazel Taylor

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  Associate Director, Acumen

  Hazel's passion is to build partnerships across the world to support the development of groundbreaking social enterprises, moral leaders and disruptive ideas that challenge and change the status quo. Over the last two years, Hazel has been leading the capitalization of Acumen’s new blended finance Climate Resilient Agriculture Fund, set to launch in June 2019 and impact the lives of 10 million smallholders in East and West Africa. Hazel previously worked at the Vitol Foundation, where she managed a portfolio of investments in agriculture, energy, workforce development and job creation across Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has also worked as a CSR consultant to the energy industry in West Africa, as Deputy Director of a non-profit in Asia and as a Program Manager for the Swiss Stock Exchange in Europe. She holds an MSc in Development Management, an MSc in Technology and a BA in Latin American Studies.

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• Andrea Apponi

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  Executive Director, Arapyaú Institute

  Andrea Apponi is currently Executive Director of the Arapyaú Institute, a private family foundation with the mission to promote Brazil’s transition to a just and sustainable society. She is in charge of the Arapyaú Institute’s general management in order to maximize the positive impact in sustainable development in Brazil. She is also board member of the Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture and the Institute for climate and society (iCS) With more than 20 years’ experience in business management, marketing, start-up of operations and turnaround processes across segments in multinational companies such as Whirlpool Corporation, Alpargatas and Bridgestone. Andrea Apponi holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Escola de Engenharia Mauá, post-graduation in administration-ESAN, specialization in finance from Business School of São Paulo and MBA from São Paulo University.

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• Anbreen Ajaib

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  Executive Director, Bedari

  Anbreen Ajaib human rights activist from Pakistan with focus on right of women and girls, including their protection from violence and discrimination, access to education and employment and their participation in electoral processes. Anbreen envisions a world free of all forms of violence and abuse for all segments of society.

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• Avery Bang

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  CEO, Bridges to Prosperity

  Results-driven social entrepreneur with 10+ years building and leading global teams. Under Avery’s leadership, Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) has connected over one million people to essential health care, education and economic opportunities. University of Oxford MBA.

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• Laura-Jane Silverman

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  Director, LSE Generate, London School of Economics

  I get to spend my waking hours alongside the best and brightest socially driven entrepreneurs at LSE, leading the entrepreneurship centre at the School here in London as well as our global start-up hubs. I manage LSE Generate which is a community of innovators who can engage with our programme, seek mentorship, funding and a home where they can be equipped to go out and solve some of society's most pressing problems. Prior to LSE I ran my own careers and recruitment consultancy focussed on climate change and before that I worked in TV. Many moons ago, I studied languages at Cambridge Uni. I am passionate about parent-tech, and any innovation that clearly contributes to a better tomorrow. I also quite like my kids, spider plants before they got cool, mulled wine in a mug and Liverpudlians.

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• Anna Pienaar

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  Executive Director, Responsible Labour Initiative, Global Battery Alliance

  Anna is Executive Director of the Responsible Labour Initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance. She has a wealth of leadership experience in the human rights and international development sector, having spent 15 years in the non-profit sector building partnerships to prevent modern slavery, support education and promote women’s economic empowerment. She most recently served as Executive Director of the Global Battery Alliance in 2021, supporting its transition from an initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to an independently run organization. Prior to that, she served as Global Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs at the human rights NGO International Justice Mission (IJM) where she led the global strategy for engaging public and private sector actors to address human trafficking in global supply chains. In this role she facilitated the formation and launch of the Global Survivor Network, an international group of survivors of slavery and violence now leading advocacy movements across three continents. Anna served on the Advisory Board for the RLI during its launch in 2017-2018; and the multi-stakeholder RLI Steering Committee from 2019-2021. She was a founding member of the Global Battery Alliance in 2017, serving on the Executive Board (2017-2019); and was Chair of the Markets Policy Working Group for Delta 8.7 (2020-2021).

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• Ana Saenz de Miera

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  Leadership Group Member, Ashoka

  Clinical psychologyst and Masters Degree in Humanities, I have worked for 15 years in the social sector. I am oriented towards social entrepreneurship and project creation, new leaderhsip and system change. I am 38 years old. Married and mother of four daughters. Today, at Ashoka, I am coleading a global movement that brings together social entrepreneurs, companies, public administration, youth and schools to work towards a society where everyone realizes their changemaking potential.

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• Ana Morales

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  Bord Member, Glasswing International

  Ana Morales is a London based, Mexican activist and strategic philanthropist. She has worked for over 20 years in violence prevention, education and poverty eradication, with particular emphasis in Latin-America. She is a Founding Member of Maverick Collective, an initiative to transform the lives of women and girls around the world and lift them out of poverty. She is also a Board Member of Glasswing International, a non-profit organization that addresses the root causes of poverty and violence through public education and health, employability and community development. Ana is currently part of the team leading the charge in Mexico.

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• Ana Bakshi

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  Director, Oxford Foundry, University of Oxford

  Ana is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Oxford Foundry, the University of Oxford’s multidisciplinary entrepreneurship centre. She is an entrepreneur who has a strong track record in effecting systems change and culture change within universities, and she is an expert in building global best-practice frameworks for entrepreneurship centres, creating university-based accelerators that complement academic research, and designing transformational experiential learning programmes and teaching models. Ana is passionate about diversity and social inclusion. She believes that education has a unique ability and responsibility to address the world’s challenges, and that by building communities of support, and embedding entrepreneurship into the curriculum at universities, young people are empowered to develop their ideas into businesses that have positive impact, and that directly contribute to GDP and to the growth of local and global economies. As an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder, Ana creates successful partnerships and builds global networks of thought-leaders, business leaders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and experts. She firmly believes that the most impactful innovation happens at the intersection of industry, talent and academia – and that by building and leveraging on these structures and networks, we can change the face of learning, entrepreneurship and education worldwide. Under Ana’s leadership, within 24 months, the Foundry has built a diverse community of over 3,000 students. It has delivered over 7,500 hours of student experiential learning, and enabled Oxford’s first scholarship for black students from disadvantaged backgrounds. By bringing together multidisciplinary expertise from academia and industry, and connecting this with student talent, the Foundry is tackling some of society’s most pressing problems. The Foundry has accelerated 19 ventures across two cohorts of its 6-month long OXFO L.E.V8 accelerator programme, who have raised £8m and created 70+ jobs globally, and their impact is already being felt worldwide. Collectively they have saved 1800 cubic tonnes of CO2 in the hospitality industry through sustainable laundry technology, developed and scaled a rechargeable lighting solution to give schoolchildren in remote villages in India an additional 30 minutes study time each evening, and published books that have enabled over 500,000 children from BAME backgrounds in 35 countries to see themselves represented in the stories they read. Nurturing talent and taking a data-driven approach to developing and refining programmes is at the heart of Ana’s ethos. At Oxford, Ana has pioneered ‘5:5’, the University’s unique five-stage entrepreneurship learning model, with a five-step delivery method. She has established initiatives to support Oxford’s future women leaders, built a Student Advisory Board model, established a global Advisory Board and launched Oxford’s first inter-College student ideas competition. Prior to Oxford, Ana was Co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Institute, King’s College London, spinning out the Institute internally, founding the Institute’s first incubator, accelerating 50+ ventures and upskilling 10,000 students, leading to the team winning a Higher Education Team Enterprise award in the Enterprise Educators Awards. Ana is a trustee of Ascend Charity, which provides key skills to hard-to-reach and marginalised groups, and she is a member of Fast Company’s globally-elected Impact Council. She has a Master’s degree in International Development and has worked in government and the third sector.

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• Amy Walburn

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  Chief Development Officer, Last Mile Health

  Amy Walburn is the Chief Development Officer for Last Mile Health. In this role, she leads the Partnerships and Development team to cultivate transformative partnerships that advance and elevate Last Mile Health’s impact. Amy joined Last Mile Health in 2015, serving as the Director of National Partnerships in Liberia before transitioning into the role of Director of Partnerships and Development in Boston in 2016. Amy brings over 10 years of diverse international and nonprofit management experience to her work with Last Mile Health, previously working as a project manager at the American University of Beirut and as Director of Financial Reporting at Fonkoze in Haiti. Amy holds an MBA from the American University of Beirut and a BA in Religious Studies from DePaul University.

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• Anthony Bennett

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  Director, Global Witness

  Anthony Bennett is a Director at Global Witness, a global NGO seeking to protect human rights and the environment by fearlessly confronting corruption and challenging the systems that enable it. We want a better world - where corruption is challenged and accountability prevails, all can thrive within the planet’s boundaries, and governments act in the public interest. As Global Witness’ Director of Development, Anthony builds and manages relationships with global partners, raises philanthropy through investor prospecting, and drives key stakeholder relationships. He has twenty years experience of cultural enterprise and international development experience, having worked at a senior level in philanthropy across the cultural, educational and environmental sectors. Anthony has a BA and Post Graduate Diploma from Glasgow School of Art; a Masters degree from Chelsea School of Art; and is a Board member of Islington Giving, and a trustee of Historic Churches Scotland. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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• Eugene Amusin

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  Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.

  Eugene Amusin is Head of Strategy and Client Solutions, Director for Social Finance at Citi. Eugene is responsible for designing strategy and delivering client solutions with social impact in emerging markets. Eugene has more than 20 years of structuring, product management, technology and customer relationship experience. Eugene is a proud dad of two kids and based in London.

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• Amy Mullen

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  Chief Development Officer, Root Capital

  Amy Mullen is the Chief Development Officer of Root Capital. Utilizing a mix of philanthropy and investment capital, Root Capital invests in the growth of agricultural enterprises so they can transform rural communities. Amy leads resource development with the goal of generating broad support for Root Capital’s transformative work with small and growing agricultural businesses in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. Amy has over two decades of experience securing vital partnerships and financial resources for mission-driven not-for-profit organizations across the spectrum of policy, advocacy, campaigning, and program implementation in the fields of international development, with Oxfam America, and at the intersection of people, environment, and development, with the Trust for Public Land and Sierra Club.

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• Anshu Taneja

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  Country Director, VisionSpring

  Managing Director, India

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• Amy Low

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  Managing Director, Portfolio Communications, Emerson Collective

  Amy works across all of Emerson’s communication and media investment platforms, collaborating with partners to change the conversation—to make a persuasive case, on issues from education reform to immigration and conservation, that progress is possible. She’s seen it happen before — how the power of a great idea, backed by a movement of motivated people, can bring down barriers and lift up lives. Before joining Emerson, Amy served as chief advocacy and engagement officer at Landesa, a non-governmental organization committed to reducing rural poverty by helping the poor to secure land rights. Before that, she spent nearly a decade with the political and communications consulting firm, GMMB, where she advised the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on building support for education reform, early learning, and addressing family homelessness. Amy began her career in issues-based advocacy working with Porter Novelli in Washington and New York City, where she served as the firm’s international project manager. And when not at work, she’s proudly raising her son and daughter, teaching them to be resilient, grateful, and unafraid, whether at school, at home, on stage, on the court, and especially in the band.

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• Amos Odero

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  Associate Program Manager, MasterCard Foundation

  International development professional with over eight years of work experience and extensive international exposure, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. Expertise in program design, project management, program evaluation, data analysis and engaging partners & stakeholders. Currently as Associate Programme Manager at Mastercard Foundation, I monitor and manage a portfolio of approximately $50 million in projects across Africa, working closely with partner organizations and other stakeholders. This work includes program development and implementation monitoring, budget review, and knowledge sharing.

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• Anna Patton

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  Managing Editor, Pioneers Post

  Anna joined the team in 2018 as Managing Editor at Pioneers Post and Fable Bureau, bringing over 10 years' experience as a freelance journalist, writer/editor and communications specialist. With a focus on international development and social enterprise, Anna has also worked in-house at international organisations including Euclid Network, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and British Council, as well as for a Brussels-based communications agency. She oversaw the communications of the Belgian government's aid work in Tanzania for a year, and has led community/youth media projects in Uganda and Kenya and more recently through the youth charity Exposure in north London. Anna is a Fellow of the On Purpose social enterprise programme.

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• Amit Madheshiya

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  Skoll World Forum Fellow, Individual

  Amit Madheshiya is a Cannes prize-winning filmmaker and World Press Photo winning photographer. His work is supported by the Sundance Institute, New York Times, MacArthur Foundation, IDFA Bertha Fund, Bertha Foundation, Goethe-Institut, India Foundation for the Arts, National Foundation of India, Arts Council of England and the University of Heidelberg. The Cinema Travellers is the debut feature documentary of Amit Madheshiya co-directed with Shirley Abraham. The film premiered as an Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival 2016, to a standing ovation. It won the Special Jury Prize for L'Oeil d'or: Le Prix du documentaire. The film has played a hundred and twenty five film festivals worldwide. It is the first Indian documentary to have achieved the rare festival trifecta of Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. The film has won nineteen awards, including the President’s Medal in India. Amit's recent film Searching for Saraswati is India's first OpDoc for the New York Times.

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• Amelia Hapsari

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  Southeast Asia Framework Change Leader, Ashoka

  Amelia Hapsari creates communication and storytelling strategies that build and strengthen Ashoka's Everyone a Changemaker movement in Indonesia. Ashoka works with change leaders and strategic partners across the ecosystem of growing up years in Indonesia to enable every child master empathy and every young person practice changemaking. Previously, Amelia was the Program Director of In-Docs, an organization that builds the ecosystem that enable documentary films to create impact.

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• Anna Bouchier

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  Swiss Director, APOPO

  Anna has a 10 year business development background in the humanitarian/social entrepreneurship sector and is overseeing the European development of APOPO. Anna started her career at UNIDO in operational follow-up and technical coordination of field offices, before joining Ashoka, where she supported the development of their fledgling foundation in Switzerland, and their program to promote hybrid economic models. She joined APOPO in 2014 to strengthen its European anchor and initiate international partnerships. Anna holds an MA in Corporate Strategy & Finance from Science Po Strasbourg (FR) and the University of Sussex (UK).

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• Ameena Hussain

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  WISE - Director of Programs & Chief Curator, World Innovation Summit for Education

  Dr. Ameena Hussain is the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). In her current role, Ameena oversees research and programs in the thematic areas of Innovation for Quality and Access and Learning Ecosystems. She also leads the delivery of the WISE Global Summit and WISE programs; including the WISE Prize for Education, WISE Awards, WISE Learners’ Voice, WISE Emerging Leaders and Doha Learning Days (the city’s first and largest learning festival). Since joining Qatar Foundation in 2006 as one of the original members of the Education Division, Ameena played a key role in establishing student programs and services working closely with the higher education institutions in Education City. She previously served as the Director of Student Life at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha. Before Qatar Foundation, Dr. Hussain worked in the Supreme Education Council as a teacher, then as an English Department Coordinator, and at Maersk Oil as a Senior HR Specialist. She holds a Doctorate in Global Education from the University of Southern California - Rossier School of Education, a Bachelor of Arts and Education in English Language and Literature from Qatar University, and a Diploma in Human Resources from the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development of the UK. Dr. Hussain has substantial experience in education innovation and leadership, content curation and program development.

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• Amanda Wilkinson

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  CEO, Motivation Charitable Trust

  Amanda has built an impressive career within the voluntary sector over the last 25 years, and before joining Motivation in 2017 as CEO, held a variety of senior leadership positions, with particular expertise in income generation, building and driving financial growth and sustainability. Amanda has significant experience in international development and disability fuelled by a drive to live in a fairer inclusive world. Throughout her career she has sought to make a difference by bringing inventive solutions to challenges in impactful programme delivery and developing new approaches to unlock funding. She has created award-winning cause-related marketing partnerships with top global consumer brands, worked with governments to build national disability and mental healthcare provision and built collaborations between public sector and voluntary sector actors to maximise the social return on projects focussed on the most vulnerable within a community. Motivation is an international charity and social enterprise dedicated to improving the quality of life of disabled people living in some of the world’s poorest countries. Founded on the principles of improving inclusion and transforming lives through user-centred design, it has grown into a unique international development agency which embraces technology and design to make sustainable change.

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• Amanda Clarke

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  Executive Director, Manan Trust

  Manan Trust aims to drive long-term change in communities by supporting high-quality non-profits across Asia. Within a broad remit of health and education, we partner with organisations working in gender equity and reproductive rights, child protection, mental health, and empowerment of vulnerable groups. We support organisations that respect, empower, and value the strengths of local communities. We strive to build partnerships based on mutual trust and shared learning – we constantly learn from our partners and are ever-evolving as a funder. Manan provides unrestricted, multi-year funding and supports partners in developing organisational capacity, strategic plans, and robust monitoring and evaluation systems. Manan is based in Hong Kong and facilitates the philanthropic giving of FSSA Investment Managers. We currently fund more than 20 organisations in 8 countries across Asia, including the Philippines, Cambodia, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and India.

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• Allison Archambault

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  President, EarthSpark International

  Allison Archambault , president of EarthSpark International since 2010, won the US Department of Energy’s 2017 C3E International Award for her 15 years of work driving innovation in energy access in Haiti. Under her direction, EarthSpark has launched vanguard community-scale solar-powered smart grids in Haiti and contributed national market research to fundamentally shift the energy access trajectory of the country towards clean energy microgrids. EarthSpark has also launched 3 companies including SparkMeter, a smart grid technology company now active in 25 countries. After writing her undergraduate thesis on rural solar electrification in Mali, she began renting solar panels in the Dominican Republic in 2003. From 2005-2008, she ran the Renewable Energy Partners Program for an early smart-grid startup which was building distributed solar+storage solutions in the US. Allison also worked with 3TIER, Inc. to promote the role of advanced weather prediction modelling for efficient siting and forecasting of large-scale renewables. Allison was lead author of WWF’s 2012 report “Solar PV Atlas: Solar Power in Harmony with Nature – Towards 100% Renewable Energy” and has authored and co-authored several other technical and opinion pieces. Her development and implementation of 'Feminist Electrification' in EarthSpark business models won the 2018 UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award.

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• Allie Mahler

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  Chief Creative Officer, Sharehold

  Allie Mahler is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sharehold, a multidisciplinary innovation agency that works with visionary organizations to undertake meaningful, sustainable transformation with, for, and by people. As an advocate and practitioner of human-centered design, Allie believes in the power of community and the humans within them to create positive impact in the world. Her clients have included the City of New York, Harvard University, The Wing, Austin College, the American Medical Association, NY Tech Alliance, Venture for America, and many more mission-driven organizations and their teams. In her previous work life, Allie was the Experience Lead at IDEO, a founding team member at the Centre for Social Innovation, and the co-founder of Be Social Change. She’s worked with hundreds of nonprofits and social impact organizations to build their capacities and capabilities internally through hiring, teaching courses, hosting events and programming, and developing strategic plans. Allie started her career teaching ESL in India and Uganda, East Africa. Allie is an Adjunct Professor in the Strategic Design and Management Program at Parsons School of Design and at the NYU’s School of Professional Studies where she teaches a Studio Course on Human Centered Design Strategy and Design Research. She is recognized as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and frequently speaks about the power of leveraging design thinking in reimagining the impact of communities.

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• Anina Tweed

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  Director of Development, Hack the Hood

  Anina Tweed cultivates new partnerships that support and grow the HtH community as Director of Development. Anina brings a decade of experience shaping funding partnerships that leverage technology and innovative financing mechanisms to empower communities and address inequality. Most recently she was at Living Goods, working with leading foundation and corporate donors to raise $24M for the expansion of digitally-enabled community health across East Africa. Prior to that, Anina mobilized more than $13M in domestic capital to finance the creation of affordable housing, charter schools, health centers, and healthy food spaces in under-served communities across the United States at the Low Income Investment Fund. Anina is particularly passionate about supporting collaboratives of funders to combine their resources, connections, and expertise in order to create greater impact and learning. ​ Anina is a graduate of UC Berkeley, a Northern California native, and half Swiss-German mountain girl. Outside of work, she can be found cooking up elaborate meals, cuddling with her cat, tending to her numerous plants, hiking the coast searching for whales, or finding the best groove to dance to with friends.

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• Geoffrey Lean

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  Editor-in-chief, Our Planet

  GEOFFREY LEAN, believed to be the world's longest-serving environmental specialist journalist, covering the field (taking in energy, agriculture, and world development) for almost 50 years, mainly at the The Yorkshire Post, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph, where he wrote a weekly column for six years. His work has been widely syndicated internationally and he has written regularly for such leading publications as The New Statesman, The Daily Mail, and The Evening Standard.. His consultancies incude the Global Environment Facility and the Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development. In 1997 he was the UK Government’s official delegate to Commission IV of the General Conference of UNESCO, on Britain’s return to the organisation. He has served on the Jury of the Goldman Environmental Prize since 1996 He is the author of Rich World, Poor World (George Allen and Unwin, 1978; Japan Publications Inc, 1980), co-author of Chernobyl, The End of the Nuclear Dream,(Pan 1986, Vintage Books 1987, and 17 different language editions), and General Editor of The Atlas of the Environment (Hutchinson and Prentice Hall, 1990: Helicon and HarperCollins 1992). In 2000 and 2001 he won Scoop of the Year in the London Press Club and the British Press Awards (the British equivalent of the Pulitzers) and in 2002 the Martha Gelhorn Award for investigative journalism. His other awards include: Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship (1972), the Communication Arts Award of Excellence (1986), UNEP Global 500 (1987), the CLEAR Award (for achievement in the campaign to ban lead from petrol) (1989), Journalist of the Year in the BEMA (1993,2002) and the Greenhouse Political (2016) Awards, the Schumacher Award (1994) and the Lifetime Achievement award of the International Media Awards (2017) In 1998 he also received the special ‘Foundation Award’ for global lifetime achievement at the launching of a new environmental journalism prize by Reuters and IUCN.

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• Allie Burns

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  CEO, Village Capital

  Allie brings nearly two decades of experience working with entrepreneurs and innovators at the intersection of tech and social change to her role as CEO of Village Capital. Prior to joining the organization in 2016, she served as a senior executive at Revolution and the Case Foundation, the venture capital firm and private family foundation created by former AOL executives Jean and Steve Case. In that role, she led the organizations’ communications and marketing teams, and was instrumental in the development of major initiatives including the Rise of the Rest, the Startup America Partnership and the Be Fearless campaign.

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• Alexandra Quinn

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  Chief Executive Officer, Health Leads

  Alexandra Quinn is the CEO of Health Leads, a US based NGO that partners with communities, health systems and public health to address systemic causes of inequity and disease. Alexandra has spent two decades in the federal government and non-profit sectors, focused on equity, justice, education, and health. She was recently a W.K. Kellogg Community Leadership Network Fellow focused on racial equity, racial healing and leadership and was named to the “Care100 list” as one of the most influential people in care in 2020. Alexandra holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. from Georgetown University, CHW from City College San Francisco. and resides in Oakland, CA with her two kids, two dogs and partner.

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• Alexander Svetakov

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  Founder, Absolut-Help Foundation

  Philanthropist. Founder of Absolut Help Foundation

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• Alex Noyes

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  Full Political Scientist, RAND

  Alexander Noyes is a full political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he was an adjunct political scientist at RAND, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an adjunct research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. From 2015 to 2017 he served as team lead for Niger and Nigeria at the U.S. Security Governance Initiative, a White House initiative focused on improving security governance in Africa. He focuses on peace and security issues, including security sector reform, security cooperation, defense institution building, power sharing, violent extremism, and electoral violence, mostly in Africa. His work and commentary have appeared in a variety of media and academic outlets, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, BBC World, BBC Radio, Voice of America, Vice News, International Peacekeeping, African Studies Quarterly, and several edited volumes. He holds a doctorate from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, a master's degree in African studies from Oxford, and a bachelor's degree in government from Connecticut College. He is a cofounder of the Zimbabwe Working Group and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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• Alex Muhereza

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  Health Information Systems Specialist, United Nations Children's Fund

  Alex Muhereza, throughout the last 7 years has been working on the convergence of ICT and humanitarian development in Uganda. He witnessed the explosion of mobile innovations in Uganda in the late 2011 during his work with UNICEF, WHO and Ministry of Health Uganda. While serving as a Health Information Systems Specialist, he has managed multi-stakeholder engagements in eHealth and Health Information Systems including: - mTrac, Mother reminder, CHMS, FamilyConnect and DHIS2. Currently, he is supporting Government of Uganda & development partners on adoption of digital services for improved Health Service Delivery. This involves managing relationships and technical integration between 1)Government of Uganda including Ministries, Departments & Agencies, 2)Development & Implementing partners, 3) Private Sector partners e.g. Mobile Network Operators, Aggregators and Software Development Vendors to institutionalize USSD, SMS, Voice and Web applications. In addition he's actively participating to the development of sector strategies and policies that will guide on Digital Health tools implementation and sustainability in Uganda as well as contributing to development of standards for replication in other related development contexts.

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• Cassia van der Hoof Holstein

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  Director, Global Health Equity, Emerson Collective

  Cassia van der Hoof Holstein is Director, Global Health Equity at the Emerson Collective. She serves on the boards of Partners In Health and Plus 1, and on the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board at the University of Global Health Equity, in Rwanda. She is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Previously, Cassia served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Paul Farmer--who loved the annual trip to Oxford for the Skoll World Forum, and the beloved community he got to see there. She was Associate Director of the Global Health Delivery Partnership at Harvard Medical School, Chief Partnership Integration Officer at Partners In Health, and founding Director of Rural Health at the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI). Cassia studied Literature at Harvard College, and got her start in global health in Senate Kennedy's Poverty Issues Office. She is a San Franciscan, birth doula, mother of three, and adherent of the Oxford comma.

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• Alex Gladstein

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  Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation

  Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex’s writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, The Guardian, Monocle, NowThis, NPR, Quartz, TIME, WIRED, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, presented at the European Parliament and U.S. Department of State, and participated in Singularity University events from Berlin to Johannesburg, where he is a Guest Lecturer on decentralized technology and bitcoin. He currently lives in the San Francisco area.

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• Brian Celler

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  Music manager / Entertainment Consultant, Individual

  Live and recorded music entertainment industry expert. Strategic, visionary brand-builder with multi-faceted career experience in artist management, global marketing strategies and live touring. Multinational artist management experience with two of the pre-eminent firms in the industry. International strategic leadership roles at the two biggest record labels in the world, spearheading all marketing, launch planning, publicity and promotion for artists at every stage of development. Highly skilled in sustainable live music touring, as conceptual and implementation lead for the routing, strategy and financial modeling for multiple global acts’ tours, including the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.

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• Alejandra Martinez

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  MBA Student, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures

  I'm an Ecuadorian economist with experience in finance and agri-businesses. I am also a Vanderbilt Business MBA Candidate for the Class of 2019. After graduation I will be joining McKinsey's Latin American practice in Bogota, Colombia. I'm passionate about politics, economic development, and sustainable businesses. I hope to have an impact in Latin America throughout my career.

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• Aleena Kawe

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  Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, Red Star International, Inc.

  Aleena M. Kawe is the founder, president and CEO of Red Star International, Inc., a U.S. based non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Indigenous self-determination for healthy and vibrant communities. Aleena believes a systems approach to solving challenges – one that considers worldview, relationships, leadership and the collective will – is the key to achieving health equity. Aleena is a leader and advocate in Indigenous health, with more than 20 years of experience working in partnership with communities to achieve their aspirations. Most recently, Aleena received national recognition for her leadership in developing the first national public health institute in the US to focus solely on Indigenous wellbeing. Prior to Red Star, Aleena served as the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Education Director, and as the American Indian Research Center for Health Administrator at the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. Aleena is an enrolled member of the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians with cultural ties to Pascua Yaqui Tribe - Old Pascua Pueblo in Tucson, Arizona. She has a master’s degree in public health from The University of Arizona, where she is an adjunct faculty at the Global Health Institute. Aleena lives in New Zealand with her husband, Frank Te Mihinui Kawe (Ngāti Ranginui/Ngāti Kahungunu), who is active in the traditional voyaging practices of the Māori of Aotearoa and across the Pacific.

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• Betsy Brown

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  Partnerships Lead, Devex

  Betsy is the Devex Partnerships Lead for the US wish special focus on West Coast partnerships. Her work encompases all activities performed by Devex – from partnerships at global conferences to developing digital content communication initiatives to strategic survey research an more, she helps partners leverage the Devex media platform to amplify their messages. She brings experience from the worlds of media (Atlantic Media) and international development (International Justice Mission), and is passionate about bringing together diverse minds to create meaningful dialogue around the biggest challenges in world today.

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• Alan Robbins

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  Executive VP and Co-Founder, Devex

  I'm a Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Devex, the media platform for the international development community. These days, I lead our Partnerships function, which includes several amazing teams like Advertising Strategies, Devex Live (events), Digital Communications, Global Recruitment Services and Surveys & Advisory Services. Prior to starting Partnerships in 2013, I launched and built the Devex Membership function, growing it from scratch to more than 1,000 companies, aid agencies and NGOs using our subscription services to find projects, recruit staff, find partners and keep on top of the latest insider news.

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• Alexander Wankel

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  Founder, Company Director, Kai Pacha Foods

  Alexander Wankel grew up as a Peruvian-American in the US and has spent 6 years working in social entrepreneurship, primarily by building ethical supply chains for smallholder farmers and artisans in the rural Andes. As founder of Kai Pacha Foods he launched the first plant milk made with native quinoa and tarwi- two climate smart miracle crops scalably produced by smallholder farmers using regenerative agriculture practices. KPF answers surging consumer demand for plant milks that are protein rich, good-tasting, ethically sourced, and environmentally sustainable. Prior to this Alex worked supporting alpaca and textile SMEs, exported handmade jewellery, and helped coordinate a quinoa biodiversity conservation program where he developed an extensive knowledge of underutilized Peruvian foods that are some of the healthiest and most environmentally friendly in the world. Alexander holds a degree in Anthropology from Brown University and is currently an MBA candidate at the University of Oxford. He is also remotely managing the expansion of Kai Pacha Foods in Peru.

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• Al Rangarajan

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  Country Manager, India Literacy Project

  I am a passionate and conscientious leader in the non-profit education sector in India. I have 3 decades of experience in developing and executing programs at the grassroots level and organisation co-ordination in this space. I currently serve as the Country Manager (India) for India Literacy Project, a developmental support organisation working to be a catalyst 100% literate and educated in India. I am involved in performing pre-funding assessments and multi-stage evaluations of the execution of all projects. I also help manage the daily operations of ILP, including managing relations, partnerships with the NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) partner organisations. I was a Fellow and participated in Skoll World Forum 2019 at Oxford, UK. I have built my career in the non-profit world living by the philosophy of empathy towards my target audience, and delivering effective solutions keeping in mind their living conditions, perceptions and aspirations for a brighter future. I worked as a National co-ordinator at Rejuvenate India Movement (RIM) as a liaison with premier institutions across India. I conceptualised, designed and anchored the relief and rehabilitation efforts of Tsunami-affected families in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu on behalf of RIM & Exnora International. I have co-authored the book “In the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi: Life and writings of N. Krishnaswamy”. I have a post-graduate degree in Commerce & have completed a development management course covering Social Sciences (Economics, Sociology, Political Science). I believe in the development of the youth and their education as the future of any country, and to that end, I serve as Non-Academia Member of Board of Studies of Department of Public Administration, University of Madras. I am particularly interested in development efforts around EducatCorporate Social Responsibility, Micro-Finance, Disaster Preparedness and Micro Enterprises.

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• Angeliki Kosmopoulou

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  Executive Director, AC Laskaridis Foundation

  Angeliki is the Executive Director of the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation. She holds a PhD in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College (USA) and has studied towards an MBA at Leicester University. Following a career in archaeology and cultural management she worked in communications, as a consultant and content specialist for multinational companies, small businesses, public and private organizations, politicians, artists and scholars. She has also served as advisor and speechwriter for several politicians, on the national and local level. She is Vice President of the Greek National Tourism Organization and has been appointed National Coordinator for Greece’s transition towards the ban of single-use plastics. She mentors women in public life and entrepreneurship, and sits on the Board of Directors of The People’s Trust and the Advisory Board of DIANEOSIS. A published scholar in classics and archaeology, she is a regular contributor to Greek media.

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• Bernadette Moffat

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  Executive Director, The ELMA Philanthropies

  Bernadette Moffat, the Executive Director of ELMA Philanthropies Services (Africa), directs philanthropic initiatives for the ELMA Group of Foundations in southern Africa. Serving on the Boards of ELMA Philanthropies Services (US) Inc. and the ELMA South Africa Foundation, she plays a crucial role. As chairperson of Masana wa Afrika and Ilifa Labantwana, Bernadette supports local change-makers and strives for universal access and quality outcomes for young children. Additionally, she is a Trustee of the Discovery Foundation, advancing education for medical specialists in South Africa. Recognized with the Ordre de Merité in 2007, Bernadette holds a magna cum laude BA from Wellesley College and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University. Her diverse career underscores a commitment to positive change and community empowerment.

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• Nick Tilsen

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  President & CEO, NDN Collective

  Nick Tilsen President & CEO, NDN Collective Nick is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, father of four and founder of the NDN Collective. Nick has over 18 years of experience in working with non- profits and tribal nations on projects that have a social mission. Prior to NDN, Nick founded and served as the Executive Director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation for 12 years. Working in his home community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to build place-based innovations that have the ability to inform systems change solutions around climate resiliency, sustainable housing and equitable community development. Nick created the NDN Collective to scale these place-based solutions while building needed philanthropic, social impact investment, capacity and advocacy infrastructure geared towards building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples. Nick has received numerous fellowships and awards from Ashoka, Rockefeller Foundation, Bush Foundation and the Social Im

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• Aric Noboa

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  President, Impact(Ed) International

  Aric Noboa serves as the President and Executive Producer of Impact(Ed) International, a nonprofit organization using the power of media to transform education and equip young people in marginalized communities. Established by Discovery, Inc. (home of Discovery Channel, HGTV, Science, Eurosport, etc.), Impact(Ed) has created dynamic learning environments for over 2 million students in 16 countries, improving student outcomes, teacher effectiveness and community engagement. Through entertaining movies and television programs, Impact(Ed) generates social change and engages tens of millions of people around education, life skills, gender, the environment and public health. Aric has produced a variety of award-winning media to advance specific social impact goals including narrative features: "Inside Story," about football, love and HIV, and the most widely seen film ever in Africa; "The Lucky Specials," broadcast in 22 countries and designed to help audiences respond to tuberculosis; and "Shaina," produced to decrease gender-based violence. His television productions include "Discovery +," a magazine-style talk show demonstrating the value of girls’ education; and "My Better World," an animated series around life skills for adolescents. Aric’s current media projects include a narrative feature to deinstitutionalize children and a new media brand by, with and for African youth. Aric established the Transformational Media for Social Impact Leadership Summit at St. George’s House Windsor Castle, served on the board of FilmAid International, and together with international production teams has received industry honors and festival awards from Los Angeles to Zanzibar. Before Discovery, Aric was legislative staff to a member of the US House of Representatives, a community health volunteer in Benin, and an assistant teacher. He is passionate about media for social impact, sustainable technology, and the intersection of media, development and education.

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• Adler Aristilde

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  Director, Innovation and Impact, Global Affairs Canada

  Acting director, Innovation and Impact, at Global Affairs Canada since October 2018. Previous roles at Global Affairs Canada include Deputy Director, Business Intelligence (2017-2018), Deputy Director for Impact Assessment (2014-2017), and Senior Analyst, Development Policy and Research (2010-2014). Experience with other Canadian government departments such as Employment and Skills Development Canada, and Environment Canada. Main background in strategic policy, spanning 15-year career in the Canadian public service. Holds Masters degree in public policy and administration, also studied political science and practiced journalism. A Canadian of Haitian origin, Adler enjoys dancing salsa and spending time with his family and twin daughters.

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• Simon Taylor

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  Director, Global Witness

  Simon is a director of the NGO Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org), which he co-founded together with friends and colleagues, Charmian Gooch and Patrick Alley in 1993. Simon is a Steering Committee member of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (https://fossilfueltreaty.org/steering-committee). Simon was a co-founder of the Publish What You Pay campaign (www.pwyp.org), in 2002. He has extensive public-interest advocacy & policy making experience across multiple jurisdictions. His work has also sought to hold human rights abusers, the corrupt and corporate criminals to account, including using the law. He was a complainant to the Milan Public Prosecutor, which led to the trial of Shell and Eni for their corrupt deal for the OPL 245 oil block in Nigeria (See public documents: https://shellandenitrial.org/). Simon, Charmian & Patrick have concluded a succession process at Global Witness, leaving staff in November 2023. They remain on the board.

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• Edward Diener

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  Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel, King Philanthropies

  In September 2018, after nearly 13 years at the Skoll Foundation, I joined King Philanthropies as its first COO/GC. I have been in the philanthropy sector for over 22 years, working in various legal and financial roles at 4 Silicon Valley private foundations. A lawyer and certified public accountant by training and profession, my passion is supporting the efforts of highly effective organizations to alleviate extreme poverty at scale.

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• Abrar Chaudhury

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  Research Fellow, Saïd Business School

  Dr. Abrar Chaudhury, a senior research fellow at the Saïd Business School and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, holds a multi-year British Academy Fellowship. With 20+ years of global experience in technology, consulting, and research, he specialise in environmental management, climate leadership, sustainable development, climate finance, and corporate purpose. His current research focuses on how dedicated climate funding and emerging technologies shape climate action in emerging economies. He was integral to a pioneering Oxford-EY Global collaboration on corporate 'purpose' among MNCs. Abrar is also an experienced teacher and program director at Oxford, contributing to various MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs. He holds a PhD in Environmental Change and Management (awarded best dissertation by US Academy of Management), an MBA, an MSc in Environmental Management (with Distinction), all from the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant.

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• Julie Cordua

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  CEO, Thorn

  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 55 countries, have reached more than 3 million people and have helped identify more than 18,000 child victims of abuse. Julie came to Thorn from (RED) where she was VP of Marketing/Communications and helped establish the brand as one 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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• Abraham Leno

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  General Manager, American Refugee Committee

  A former refugee in Guinea, Abraham watched his mother sell her jewelry when there was nothing left to trade just to feed the family. He and his siblings worked a porters on street corners so that they could have a meal, sometimes making less than a dollar a day. His relief and development work is inspired by memories of those humble beginnings and the generosity of many others. Through his work he is not only reliving his past experiences but most importantly stimulating others not to just survive but develop and thrive. In 2015, Abraham was recognized for his dedication to humanitarianism as a New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute.As GM for Asili, a social enterprise prioneered by The American Refugee Committee, Abraham facilitates the development and achievement of Asili strategy and cultivates relationships with local actors, investors, and the community at large. His passion is working with refuggees and development.

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• Gregory Rockson

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  Co-Founder and CEO, mPharma

  Gregory Rockson is the Co-founder and CEO of mPharma. mPharma is building a next-generation health management organisation (HMO) in Africa. Its portfolio of solutions includes vendor-managed inventory services, primary care solutions for community pharmacies and data analytics. Founded in 2013, mPharma is headquartered in Ghana with operations in 8 other African countries, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Gabon, Uganda and Togo. The company also owns Haltons, Kenya’s 2nd largest pharmacy chain, and Vine Pharmaceuticals in Uganda and manages a network of 600 pharmacies and GoodHealth shops serving millions of patients annually. His contribution to the healthcare industry earned him a Skoll Award in social entrepreneurship in 2019. Gregory received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Westminster College, was a PPIA Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a Rotary Scholar at the University of Copenhagen. Gregory also founded the Big Brother

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• Abosede Alimi (George-Ogan)

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  Founder, Women in Leadership Advancement Network

  Abosede George-Ogan, Founder, Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN) is a tri-sector leader with over 20 years' experience working across the non-profit, private, and public sectors as a development professional. She started her career with AcrionAid International and has led CSR and Sustainability for leading Banks and Samsung. Abosede also served as pioneer Director, Strategy, Funding and Stakeholder Management at the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) as part of a team creating jobs. In these roles, she worked to improve the health, education, and economic outcomes in over 30 states in Nigeria and five cities across West Africa all with an inclusion lens. She has a degree in Political Science/Public Administration from Igbinedion University, an MSc in Communication for Innovation & Development from the University of Reading and a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also Vital Voices VV Engage fellow.

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• Sanjay Kadaveru

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  Founder & President, Action for India

  Sanjay Kadaveru is the Founder & President of Action For India (AFI), an initiative to help social entrepreneurs in India overcome barriers to scale and achieve greater impact at the Bottom of the Pyramid. AFI connects social innovators with impact investors, mentors, technology resources, government contacts and local partners. Launched in 2012, AFI is headquartered in New Delhi, India and has a chapter in Silicon Valley, California. Earlier this year, the organization launched AISEA, an AFI promoted social entrepreneurship accelerator at IIT Hyderabad and 3iPartners, an AFI affiliated impact investment fund, where Sanjay serves as a Co-founder & Partner. Prior to launching AFI, Sanjay managed investments at The Seven Hills Group, a family office based in the US, where he supported the deployment of $50M in capital across several sectors: energy, media, IT, infrastructure and education. He is also a co-founder of the Center for Healthcare Innovation, a US based not-for-profit thought-leadership organization focusing on the life sciences. Sanjay is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, and served as a Co-Chair for TiECon East. He also serves as Vice-Lead for the Social Entrepreneurship SIG at TiE Global. Earlier, Sanjay co-founded the AP Technology Leadership Council, a non-profit networking organization created to provide pro-bono business consulting services to civic and governmental causes in the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh. Sanjay is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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• Paul Macek

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  Vice President, Programs, World Cocoa Foundation

  Paul Macek is the Vice President of Programs for the World Cocoa Foundation, where he manages WCF’s global portfolio of projects and programs. In this capacity, Paul leads WCF’s country engagement and the technical areas of agricultural productivity, social development, and the environment. He is particularly passionate about social impact investing and entrepreneurship on the African continent where he has lived and worked for over 20 years. Before joining WCF, Paul worked with prominent international relief and development non-profits. Paul was the Senior Director for food security and livelihoods with World Vision, where he led a team responsible for the acquisition and implementation of more than 30 programs and projects worldwide. The annual $85 million portfolio of projects comprised of a diverse range of technical areas that included food security, agriculture, humanitarian assistance, climate change and adaptation, and economic development. Prior to joining World Vision, Paul held several prominent positions with Catholic Relief Services throughout sub-Saharan Africa. These positions included Country Representative (Uganda and Zambia); Deputy Regional Director for Southern Africa; Regional Emergency Representative in Southern Africa; and Program Manager in Benin and South Sudan. Paul graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) with a BA in History and Political Science and holds an MA in International Affairs from American University (Washington, DC) with a focus on development studies and political economy. When he’s not working, Paul enjoys spending time with his family, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and traveling.

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• Zinah Saleh

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  Founder & CEO, Ishtar Handmade Soap

  i was born and raised in Iraq all of my life, after a long journey to continue my studies during war and worst situation in Iraq i was successful to graduate from business administration at the age of 22 , i started after that working and volunteering in humanitarian organization (Alrawdh) where i focused to help women in need, i found my passion in life which is empowering and helping women in Iraq specially widowed and refugee and displaced women and ending child marriage and help girls go to schools, in 2014 i started my own business (Ishtar) which is a small business to support women by training them and hiring them inside the company , we faced many difficulties as it was the first women business that was self funded , but we were very successful to hire 12 women full time and over 25 women part time all around Iraq , we hired widowed women , women who live in poverty, and young women who want to finish their study , we are working now to increase the number of our shops and hire more women and start the next project which is about supporting the girls in poor families to go to schools and not be married at a young age .

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• Rachel White

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  President, Guardian.org Foundation

  Rachel White is president of theguardian.org and executive vice president, philanthropic and strategic partnerships at Guardian News and Media. Working across global editorial teams she develops, funds, and executes editorial project that drive measurable impact. Prior to joining the Guardian, she served as executive vice president and interim president of the Washington D.C.-based, journalism-centered think tank New America Foundation. Working across media, policy, government, the private sector, and philanthropy, she led the organization in advancing new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States, and launched New America NYC and New America Live. From 1995 to 2005, Rachel worked for the World Wildlife Fund where she launched programs in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Houston, and served as lead on the Living Planet Campaign.

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• Pascale de la Fregonniere

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  Executive Director, Cartier Philanthropy

  Pascale joined Cartier in July 2013 to launch Cartier Philanthropy, a grant-making foundation committed to improving the lives of the most vulnerable. Under her leadership, the foundation has invested some CHF 100M to support impact-driven non-profit organisations operating in over 30 countries. Pascale’s two decades' work in humanitarian and development efforts proved an invaluable background for her work in philanthropy. She began her career as an intern at the UN in New York and soon found herself on the team of the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Mogadishu, Somalia. She then joined UNICEF in Baghdad, Iraq, and later was back on the team to lead donor relations for the USD 100M Iraq country programme. She also took part in on-the-ground efforts in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Between stints on the ground, much of her work focused on raising the funds to support UNICEF’s operations and and managing funding relations with field offices in Africa and South-East Asia.

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• Melissa Bime

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  Founder & CEO, Infiuss

  Melissa Bime is a 22 year old licensed Nurse from Cameroon. Being of the medical background, Melissa got to experience first hand the challenges patients in Cameroon faced at the hands of the health care system. She is passionate about addressing these problems and she believes that by leveraging on simple technologies, we can go a long way to provide solutions to this problems. At the age of 20 after completing Nursing school, Melissa decided to start INFIUSS, which is an online blood bak that connects hospitals with blood banks to those without blood banks. Through her work with INFIUSS, and her passion for entrepreneurship, Melissa hope to be able to continuously propose and provide solutions to Africa;s ever growing health care concerns.

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• Ana Pantelic

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  Chief Strategy Officer, Fundación Capital

  Dr. Ana Pantelic is social entrepreneur with a decade of experience working at the intersection of systems change, social innovation, and economic opportunity. As Chief Strategy Officer of Fundación Capital (a 2014 Skoll Awardee and nonprofit social enterprise improving the financial lives of millions of families living in poverty), she is responsible for spearheading impact and innovation processes globally and across the organization. She is also Founder of LISTA, a digital initiative proven to build the financial health of low-income and vulnerable people at scale, which has been used by more than half a million people and been embedded into national social protection policies, spanning ten countries. Specializing in poverty reduction through the lens of finance, with expertise in technology and women's economic empowerment, she develops evidence-based hybrid solutions to achieve social impact at scale. She has published a number of academic and technical articles in three languages, including the book "Disrupting Poverty in Developing Countries" in the Serbian language. She has lived and worked on three continents and spoken at conferences across 20 countries. Prior to Fundación Capital, she has worked for USAID, academic research institutions, and in the education space. She holds a PhD from the University of Belgrade in Serbia, an MA in International Relations and BS in Communication, both from Boston University, and is fluent in three languages.

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• Brittany Boettcher

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  Managing Director, Operations & Programs - Investments, Skoll Foundation

  Brittany currently serves as Managing Director, Operations & Programs - Investments at the Skoll Foundation. As Director, she leads a team responsible for supporting the sourcing and selecting of strategically aligned investments for the Skoll Foundation’s portfolio. Brittany joined the Skoll Foundation in 2006 and has led major programs for the organization, including the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship that has invested in over 120 global organizations, and co-led the Skoll’s Portfolio Intelligence practice aimed at developing insights on portfolio impact. Brittany is experienced in strategic program development and in identifying leaders in social innovation poised for systems-level impact. She is passionate about building partnerships to drive more equitable and inclusive practices in philanthropy and supporting underrepresented leaders on their path to impact. She holds a BA in Internal Affairs with a minor in Japanese from the University of Colorado Boulder and MBA from Presidio Graduate School.

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• Abebe Bekele

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  Founding Dean, University of Global Health Equity

  Abebe Bekele, MD, FCS, FACS Dean of Health Sciences, Professor of Surgery Professor Abebe Bekele, MD, FCS, is UGHE’s founding Dean of Health Sciences. He is a General and Thoracic Surgeon and a Professor of Surgery at Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine in Ethiopia. Professor Bekele is a fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa (COSECSA) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS). He also serves as a Member of Council and Chairman of the Examinations and Credentials Committee at COSECSA. Professor Bekele has fellowships from the American College of Surgeons, the University of Washington, and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). Professor Abebe has published more than 55 original articles, case reports and book chapters in international journals. He is a recipient of many regional and international awards and recognitions. Professor Bekele has previously served as CEO of the Tikur Anbessa (Black Lion) Teaching and Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia and Dean of the School of Medicine of Addis Ababa University. He has vast experience in education leadership in Ethiopia, which includes teaching at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and fellowship level, simulation-based teaching, and educational research. He is actively engaged in the Global Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative and has served as a Senior Advisor to the Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia in the Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS) flagship initiative. He is married and a father of three daughters.

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• Tanya Selvaratnam

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  Co-Founder, The Federation

  Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer and an Emmy-nominated and multiple Webby-winning producer. She has produced for the Vision & Justice Project, Joy To The Polls, Glamour Women of the Year, The Meteor, For Freedoms, Invisible Hand, Rubell Family Collection, The Shed, NGO Forum/Fourth World Conference on Women in China, World Health Organization, Planned Parenthood, and numerous artists such as Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Since 2007, she has been a producer for Aubin Pictures, whose latest film AGGIE is about collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund and the creation of the Art for Justice Fund to fight mass incarceration. In 2020, she was a volunteer for the Biden-Harris Policy Committee and served as Content Chair of Arts for Biden-Harris. Selvaratnam’s essays have been published in the New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, CNN, The Art Newspaper, SheKnows, and McSweeney’s. She is the author of "THE BIG LIE" and "Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence" (Harper, February 2021). "Assume Nothing" has been optioned by ABC Signature/Disney Television Studios and is in development with Joanna Coles as executive producer. She has served on the boards of the Third Wave Fund, For Freedoms, Boom Arts, The Wooster Group, Groundswell Community Mural Project, Let It Ripple, and DV Leap; and is an advisor to The DO School. Selvaratnam received her graduate and undergraduate degrees in Chinese language and legal history from Harvard University. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA, Selvaratnam is based in New York City and Portland, Oregon. tanyaturnsup.com

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• Sonia Ben Ali

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Urban Refugees

  Sonia Ben Ali is the Director and Founder of the non-profit URBAN REFUGEES, (www.urban-refugees.org) and a recent Ashoka Fellow. She holds a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Affairs from the French Institute of Political Sciences of Bordeaux, and started working with refugees and IDPs in 2007. DSonia started working with refugees and IDPs in 2007 in Bogota (Colombia) with a local NGO. She then worked on refugee protection programs in Casamance (Senegal), in a refugee camp of the Palestinian Territories and in Beirut (Lebanon) with both NGOs and UN agencies. Sonia holds a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Affairs from the French Institute of Political Sciences of Bordeaux. She is a Ted X speaker, a finalist of the Echoing Green Fellowship 2016, was awarded the prize of social innovator by Deloitte Australia and social entrepreneur of the year 2014 by ShoeString.

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• Ralph Regenvanu

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  Member of Parliament, Republic of Vanuatu

  Ralph Regenvanu was the Director of the National Museum of the Republic of Vanuatu from 1995 to 2006 and Director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council from 1995 to 2010. He was a founding Board Member of both the Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA) and the regional cultural sites preservation organization, ICOMOS Pacifica, and was on the international drafting committee of the “Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage” which was adopted by the General Assembly of UNESCO in 2003. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee of Experts assisting preparation of the 2009 UNESCO World Report on Cultural Diversity. Since 2008, Ralph has been a Member of Parliament in Vanuatu and has held many Ministerial portfolios in Government. In 2013, as Minister of Land and Natural Resources, he initiated a major overhaul of the land laws of Vanuatu aimed at enshrining the jurisdiction of customary law to determine rights to customary land and the ‘free, prior and informed consent’ of traditional owners to dealings in their customary land. From 2013 also, Ralph was Co-chair of the National Sustainable Development Plan Core Group which was responsible for developing Vanuatu’s ‘National Sustainable Development Plan 2016-2030’ which was launched in early 2017. Ralph is an inaugural Committee member of The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty which was founded in 2010 and is currently serving as Vanuatu's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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• Nicola Galombik

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  Executive Director, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

  Nicola is a business leader and social innovator, driving multi-sector partnerships for systems change and inclusive economy. As Executive Director of Yellowwoods Holdings she leads the group’s efforts to drive system inclusion and sustainability through, and with, its portfolio of businesses that include financial services, restaurants and eco-tourism businesses. Nicola also manages Yellowwoods’ innovative social financing and grant making. Under her leadership, Yellowwoods has incubated a portfolio of African non-profit social enterprises, including SmartStart Early Learning and the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator for which she won the Skoll Award in 2019 and the World Economic Forum Schwab Foundation 2020- Corporate Social Intrapreneur award. She is a McNulty Prize awardee for her work in the Aspen Global Leadership Network, a member of the Ministerial Task Team on Post School Education and Skills in the context of 4IR and sits on the Advisory Board of Africa Leadership Group.

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• Nick Grono

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  CEO, Freedom Fund

  Nick was appointed the inaugural CEO of the Freedom Fund in January 2014. The Fund is an ambitious effort to mobilise the knowledge, capital and will needed to end modern slavery. Nick serves on the advisory councils of Global Witness and the McCain Institute. Previously, he was the inaugural CEO of the Walk Free Foundation and beforehand the Deputy President and Chief Operating Officer of the International Crisis Group. Nick is a lawyer by background and served as Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Australian Attorney-General from 1999-2001. He has written a book on non-profit leadership due to be published in July 2024.

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• Madeline Holland

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  Deputy Executive Director, Talent Beyond Boundaries

  Madeline is the Deputy Executive Director at Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB). Madeline joined TBB as an early team member in 2016 and has been an integral part of developing the organization’s goals, processes, strategy, and story. She is based in TBB’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. and spends significant time in TBB’s offices in the MIddle East. She joined TBB after serving as Manager of Development and Communications at the Cisneros Center for New Americans in Northwest Arkansas and working with the Economic Empowerment Team for resettled refugees at the International Rescue Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in American History and Literature. Her thesis research focused on the role of storytelling in the application process for asylum, and was published in the Fall 2018 issue of Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees.

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• Amy Herskovitz

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  Advisor, Fortitude Fund

  Amy has well over a decade of experience in strategic philanthropy, impact investing, scaling social enterprise, and creating systems networks. She has worked to support non-profit social entrepreneurs and innovators in multiple sectors including health, social justice, economic development and education with focus on capacity building, scale, and sustainability. She was the founding Executive of The Pershing Square Foundation and the Principal of Fortitude Fund. She has been involved with a number of boards including Echoing Green, New Profit, Harvard Global Health Initiative, Zahn Center for Social Enterprise, and the NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program. She currently sits on the boards of I-MAK (helping make life saving medications affordable to all) and Dig Deep (creating a water and sanitation sector in the US to provide clean water to the 2.3 million Americans who currently lack access). Prior to this work she has decades of experience working and teaching in Mental Health with a specialization in rapid evaluation, adolescent and family treatment, and trauma, including work with survivors and first responders immediately after September 11th. She currently lives in upstate New York and consults with non-profits and foundations on a variety of topics.

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• Abdulrahman Alzuebi

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  Programs Officer, Dubai Cares

  A development professional with engineering background and oil and gas experience. Interested in data and how does monitoring and evaluation methodologies influence the design of development projects. Working on a diverse portfolio ranging from deworming, to community mobilization and capacity building, to ed-tech.

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• Sharmila Surianarain

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  Chief Impact Officer, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

  Sharmi serves as the Chief Impact Officer for Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa. She is a fierce advocate for opportunity and social justice for young people and women across the African continent, and is a keen analyst and thinker on the future of work. She leads on Harambee's impact and systems change agendas, including key funder partnerships, research and learning agenda, and data science and pathway intelligence work. She also oversees Harambee's work in Rwanda and is the chair of the Rwanda Global Business Services Growth Initiative Advisory Board, incubated by Harambee to drive the growth of GBS jobs in Africa. She is an Aspen African Leadership Initiative Fellow, Class of 2020, an RSA Fellow, and sits on the Boards of Emerging Public Leaders, Metis, Instill Education and is on the 2021 G7 Impact Taskforce. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master’s degree from Northwestern Kellogg

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• Shirley Abraham

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  Skoll World Forum Fellow, Sundance Institute

  Shirley Abraham is a Cannes prize-winning Indian documentary film maker. Her work is supported by the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, New York Times, IDFA Bertha Fund, Bertha Foundation, BBC, Filmmaker Fund, Catapult Film Fund and Asian Network of Documentary. She has been a fellow of Sundance Labs, Cluster of Excellence Heidelberg, TasveerGhar, India Foundation for the Arts and Goethe-Institut. The Cinema Travellers is the debut feature documentary of Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya. The film premiered as an Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival 2016, to a standing ovation. It won the Special Jury Prize for L'Oeil d'or: Le Prix du documentaire. The film continues to have a prestigious festival run playing a hundred and twenty five film festivals worldwide. It is the first Indian documentary to have achieved the rare festival trifecta of Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. The film has won nineteen awards, including the President’s Medal in India. Shirley and Amit have recently made Searching for Saraswati, India’s first Op-Doc for the New York Times. The film is supported by the MacArthur Foundation, Sundance Institute, Catapult Film Fund and Hartley Film Foundation.

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• Samuel Choritz

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  Policy Advisor, United Nations Capital Development Fund

  Sam has been working on international development with the United Nations since 2002. He is currently the senior policy adviser for strategy and analysis at the United Nations Capital Development Fund, which makes finance work for the poor. Prior to this appointment, Sam was the senior policy adviser to the United Nations Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia, helping to bridge divides between relief and longer-term development operations. Previously, he worked as a speechwriter for the UNDP Administrator, and before that as an adviser on global public health for two United Nations Secretaries-General. Sam has also served with UNDP in Yemen and supported efforts to recover from the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005. He is from South Africa. He holds a Master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor’s degree (honours) in politics, philosophy, and economics from the University of Oxford. He is married with two daughters.

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• Shantanu Pathak

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  Co-Founder and CEO, CareNx Innovations

  Shantanu is creating an ecosystem for quality pregnancy care in low resource settings of India. His initiative CareNX with the team of 20 people is ensuring sustainable approach and efficient healthcare delivery model. 'CareMother' the flagship product of CareNX is a platform for doorstep care and management of high-risk pregnancies. CareMother is recognised by Her Majesty ‘The Queen of England’, UN-Women, Botnar Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada etc. Shantanu is awarded by “The President of India’s Innovation Scholar Award in 2015”, Google SMB Hero Award in 2017 and Top 10 Innovator by MIT, DST and Lockheed Martin in 2018. He also plays key role in R&D for Women’s Reproductive Health at NanoBios Lab, IIT Bombay. As a PhD scholar from IIT Bombay he has developed cervical cancer screening device for self-screening. Recently, OECD published his article in “Development Cooperation Report 2018” titled -Bringing affordable and accessible maternal healthcare to the poorest districts of India. He is keen on sustainable partnerships for enabling quality pregnancy care in India.

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• Olivia Muiru

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  Executive Director, B Lab East Africa

  Olivia is the Executive Director and founder of B Lab East Africa. In her role, Olivia is working on building a community of people using business as a force for good in the region; from recruiting B Corps to capacity building for organisations in the region. Prior to this role, Olivia was the Global Partner Manager at B Lab supporting its network of regional partners. She also worked as a Standards Analyst helping companies going through the B Corp Certification process, and supporting impact investors to measure and report their social and environmental impact. Prior to joining B Lab, she worked at Microfinanza Rating (MFR) as a Social Rating Analyst in their African Regional office. During her time with MFR, she worked with Microfinance Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa in rating their social impact and running target client focus group discussions. Olivia was recognised in 2017 as an Emerging Leader by Skoll and Mastercard Foundation and 2018 Top 40 Under 40 Women in Business in Kenya. She serves in the B Lab East Africa Board and is part of the Sustainable Inclusive Business, an arm of Kenya Private Sector Alliance Foundation, Circle of Influencers.

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• Ifrah Mohamed Arab

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  Founder & CEO, SuperMom

  Ifrah Mohamed Arab is the founder and CEO of SuperMom, a social enterprise that taps into the initiative of unemployed and underemployed women from marginalized communities and through basic financial training turns them into a sales force that distributes fast moving consumer goods within their communities hence closing the last mile distribution gap. Born and raised in a marginalized community herself, her greatest passion is to improve her community especially the lives of women in her community by empowering them to earn a living that helps them raise their families. SuperMom currently has 100 women in its network fully trained, distributing FMCG’s to 6000 households reaching 30000 rural BOP consumers in North Eastern Kenya. We have partnered with major manufacturing companies, local distributors and wholesalers to help close the last mile distribution gap. Supermom has been selected among the best 12 startups in Africa by the Anzisha Prize. Ifrah is an advisor to RESI(Refugee Employment Skills Initiative) by The International Trade Centre where she consults on women entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in fragile settings. She also currently serves as the Ye! Community ambassador for Kenya where she brings together other young entrepreneurs from around the country to create networks, organize pitching and capacity building events, introduce them to opportunities among other activities that help them grow their businesses. Ifrah is an Echoing Green semi finalist, Anzisha Fellow, Emerging Leader at Skoll Foundation and winner of the Young Entrepreneur of the year 2016 Kenya at the UNCTAD14 youth forum. She is an experienced founder with a demonstrated history of working in the executive office industry. Skilled in Leadership, Marketing, Strategic Planning, and Business Development. She is a strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) focused in Law from University of Nairobi.

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• Abbie Jung

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  Asia Director, Nexus Global

  Abbie Jung-Harada is the Asia Director for NEXUS, a global community of next generation changemakers, Co-Chair of the East and Southeast Asia Chapter for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of intermediaries supporting entrepreneurs in developing countries, and co-founder of Synergy Social Ventures, a philanthropic organization which supports and engages in philanthropy, investment and social entrepreneurship as innovative tools for sustainable development. Abbie believes in the power of collaboration among social change leaders and creates such opportunities in Asia and between Asia and other regions around the world. She currently works with social entrepreneurs, family business intrapreneurs, philanthropists, social investors and intermediaries to utilize the full scope of new social change models and funding tools to solve pressing socioeconomic and environmental problems. She has an undergraduate degree in neuroscience from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in international public health from Columbia University.

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• Yasmina Zaidman

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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 strategic corporate 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 ICRW. Ms. Zaidman has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship for over twenty-five years. She served on the board of the White Ribbon Alliance for almost seven years, and is still serving on the boards of KadAfrica as well as Fundacion Cacao de Colombia.

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• Thabelo Ramatlapeng

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  Director of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Lesotho

  Biography PERSONAL DETAILS NAME : THABELO RAMATLAPENG SEX : FEMALE MARITAL STATUS : MARRIED PHYSICAL ADDRESS : QOATSANENG HA TSAUTSE CATHEDRAL AREA MASERU POSTAL ADDRESS : BOX 745, MASERU 100 TELEPHONE : (+266) 22312111 (HOME) (+266) 62851085 (CELL) (+266) 51867303 (CELL) E- MAIL : tramatlapeng@gmail.com NATIONALITY : LESOTHO PASSPORT NUMBER : DB 000544 LANGUAGE : FLUENT IN ENGLISH, SESOTHO & RUSSIAN RESUME Dr. Thabelo Ramatlapeng is a Public Health Specialist. She completed her medical training in 1979 at Kharkov Medical Institute in the then USSR, she later got her Master Degree in 1982 at Hadasssah School of Public Health in 1982. Dr Ramatlapeng has worked in the health sector of Lesotho from 1983, where she worked as head of Disease control in the Ministry of Health. She was part of the health team that introduced Primary Health Care in Lesotho post Al-MA ATA. She held several positions in the Ministry of Health. In 1998 she was promoted to the position of Director General of Health Services the position she held until 2004 when she opted for early retirement. In 2004 she worked for Lesotho Red Cross Society as its Secretary General until 2006. In 2007 she joined UNFPA and worked as SRH advisor until 2012. In 2015 she re-joined the Ministry of Health as Public Health Specialist to assist with the implementation of reforms

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• Tanya O'Carroll

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  Director, Amnesty Tech, Amnesty International

  Tanya co-founded and directs Amnesty International's global technology and human rights programme. Amnesty Tech undertakes investigations, campaigns and advocacy in relation to the human rights impacts of new and frontier technologies, whilst simultaneously investing in and pioneering new technologies, tools and tactics to benefit the human rights movement.

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• Sonali Khan

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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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• Smruti Jukur

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  Architect and Urban Planner, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centre (SPARC)

  Smruti J is an urban development professional working base in India and extended work in Asia and Sub-Saharan African cities. Smruti is currently the Programme leader at SPARC-Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centre which is an affiliate for the transnational Slum Dwellers International (SDI) network, which spans over 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is presently based at Mumbai and works on projects in India and within the network of SDI especially in South East Asia, Sub-saharan Africa. The network operates from the premise that organized communities of the urban poor are central to the generation of inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. SDI federations organize around daily savings, profiling and enumerating their settlements, and partnering with government to implement incremental upgrading of slums. She works closely on the “Know Your City” Campaign which is mapping and creating digital footprints of community-led informal settlement profiling, and mapping, the KYC campaign supports partnerships between local governments and city . She has worked with Planning and Architecture Universities and published on a number of topics of relevance to her work at SPARC and SDI. Smruti is an Architect and holds a Masters in Urban Planning with special focus on Informal Habitat, Infrastructure and Transport planning and Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad

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• Sekou Dgeorges Manubah

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  Co-Founder & Director of Football, Monrovia Football Academy

  I am Sekou Dgeorges Manubah, borne unto the union of Mr. and Mrs. Musu Sekou Manubah at the St. Joseph catholic Hospital, old road, Congo Town, Monrovia, Liberia. I am a former professional soccer player (Liberia National Lonestar). I began my soccer career in Liberia at a very young age where I played in the top flight of Liberia's soccer league with invincible eleven, the former club of the current President of the republic of Liberia and former Ballon D'or winner,H.E. Pres George M. Weah

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• Samuel Azout

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  Chairman, Fundacion Futbol con Corazon

  Samuel Azout is the Founder and Chairman of “Futbol con Corazon” (www.fcc.futbol), an NGO dedicated to creating safe and peaceful neighborhoods in Colombia by improving life opportunities for children and young adults in underprivileged areas. His work is specifically directed at reducing youth violence, preventing recruitment by illegal forces and promoting gender equality. Mr. Azout was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1959. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Cornell University (1981) and a degree of Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (2007). Before becoming a social entrepreneur, Samuel held the CEO position at Carulla Vivero S.A., the second largest retailer in Colombia, for 10 years, until he led its sale to Grupo Exito in 2006. He has served a member of the Board of Directors of Almacenes Exito, Bavaria SabMiller, Aerorepublica, Fundacion Colombia and Fundacion Pies Descalzos, the NGO founded by Colombian singer and celebrity Shakira. He also belongs to the Ashoka Support Network (ASN). In addition, Mr. Azout was the Chairman of the Board of Fundación Carulla for three years and founded Aeiotu (www.aeiotu.org), the largest NGO in Colombia in the field of early childhood development. Samuel Azout served as Senior Advisor for Social Prosperity to the President of Colombia (2010 -2011) and as Director of the National Agency for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (ANSPE) 2011-2013.

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• Rodney Foxworth

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  Founder, Common Future

  Rodney Foxworth has spent over 15 years working at the intersection of community development finance, economic inclusion, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Worthmore, a specialist consultancy and private investment firm focused on creating ownership and wealth for diverse communities and stakeholders. Most recently, Rodney served as CEO of Common Future. Previously, he founded Invested Impact, an intermediary that facilitated millions of dollars in philanthropic and impact investment capital into community economic development projects and social entrepreneurs of color. An inaugural Ford Global Fellow and a Skoll Awardee for Social Innovation, Rodney serves as Vice Chair of Nonprofit Finance Fund, Treasurer of Race Forward, and board director of Rhia Ventures, RockHealth, and SOCAP Global.

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• Peter Bisanz

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  Executive Director - Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

  As executive director of The Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA TFT, Peter Bisanz brings his extensive experience as a social entrepreneur, filmmaker and global communications expert to build awareness and transform social capital in a way that affects society positively. Bisanz was formerly the head of development and communications for the Global Knowledge Networks (GKN), the think tank to the World Economic Forum where global experts work to address the most pressing challenges facing the world today. Prior to joining the Forum, Bisanz was the founder and director of Entropy Films and the Beyond Our Differences Foundation, where he created socially relevant documentaries, films and education programs on global issues. In 2007, he was named one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and currently serves on their advisory board. Early in his career, he worked at Paramount Pictures and later became vice president of development at the Ladd Production Company where he helped develop more than 40 projects including An Unfinished Life starring Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez, and the Oscar-nominated film Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck. Bisanz has a B.F.A. in film and television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an M.B.A. from University of Oxford’s Said Business School and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He was a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship at the School’s Center for Public Leadership.

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• Oren Yakobovich

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  Founder & CEO at Kamara Global Group / President at Videre Est Credere, Kamara Global Group

  Oren Yakobovich is an experienced social entrepreneur who has been challenging and disrupting unjust systems. He combines traditional knowledge gathering with new technology and cutting-edge tools to shine a light on abuses and hold power to account. He is the founder and CEO of Kamara, a social enterprise that works with human rights and grass-roots organisations building resilience through holistic security management and strategic investigations aiming to protect both the organisations and the social impact investors funding them. He co-founded Videre Est Credere, an NGO that equips oppressed communities with customised technology to uncover information from places where media can’t or won’t go. Prior to that, he led the video department at B’Tselem, training hundreds of citizens fighting for justice in the West Bank. Oren is an Ashoka Fellow, a Ted Global Speaker, the recipient of the 2016 Skoll Award, the One World Media Award and The International Media Award's Cutting Edge.

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• Misan Rewane

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  CEO, West African Vocational Education

  Misan Rewane is co-founder and CEO of WAVE. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Misan is no stranger to the challenges of education and social mobility. When her parents, unable to ignore the education system's breakdown, were compelled to send her to the U.S. for university, she resolved to help transform the region's education system. After graduating from Stanford University, she worked with The Monitor Group, TechnoServe, and the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives. As an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, she partnered with fellow West Africans who were passionate about  tackling youth unemployment and launched WAVE in 2013. WAVE tackles youth unemployment by identifying motivated but underserved West African youth, training them on crucial employability skills, and connecting them to entry-level job opportunities. By turning motivated young talent into reliable human capital for local businesses, WAVE inspires positive change in employer attitudes, creating a fairer and more inclusive labour market.

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• Madeleine Ballard

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  Executive Director, Community Health Impact Coalition

  Dr. Madeleine Ballard is the Executive Director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, network of health delivery organizations in 40+ countries working to ensure community health workers get the fair pay, supplies, and ongoing support they need so everyone can have access to high quality healthcare. Dr. Ballard is also an Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She holds a PhD in evaluation science (EBSI) from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and was previously the founding Program Manager at Last Mile Health. With the Coalition, she builds the collective action networks required to conduct (i) large-scale research on the practices that enable community health workers to deliver better care to more people and (ii) advocacy to ensure those practices get adopted by health systems everywhere. Join us: www.chwimpact.org

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• Lindsay Branham

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  Founder, Novo Films

  Lindsay Branham is an Emmy-nominated and visionary film director, a social scientist, environmental psychologist and author. She is the founder of the film production studio NOVO, where she has pioneered collaborative film-based interventions globally, focusing on mitigating inter-religious violence, increasing resilience, reducing bonded labour, increasing psychological wellbeing and more. Her mobile cinema projects have reached millions of people globally. Notable directorial works include "Even in the Rain" (2018 Venice Film Festival), "The Hidden" (2018 Tribeca Film Festival), "Behind the Fence" (2017 SXSW Grand Jury Award) and "The Deep Place" (2017). Lindsay is currently completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge on the embodied and reciprocal relationship between humans and the Earth. Her book Heartwood is forthcoming in 2025 by Sounds True. She is a Cambridge Trust Scholar. Lindsay is committed to the spiral-like relationship between storytelling, ecology and justice.

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• Judy Kibinge

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  Founder / Creative & Executive Director, Sundance Institute

  Judy is the pioneering filmmaker and behind Docubox, The East African Film Fund. Starting her career as a copywriter then Creative Director at McAnn Erickson, the leading advertising agency in East Africa during the 90s, she wrote some of the regions favorite adverts before transitioning to filmmaking and playing a pivotal role in sparking a modern filmmaking movement in Kenya. She wrote and directed early films like the romantic comedy 'Dangerous Affair' and socially charged narratives such as 'Killer Necklace' (2009) and 'Something Necessary' (2010). Her passion for documentaries, fuelled by her experience creating non-profit videos, is showcased in ‘Headlines in History’ (co-directed with Sir John Akomfrah) and 'Scarred: Anatomy of a Massacre' (2013). In 2013, Judy established DOCUBOX, the first filmmaker-founded fund in Sub-Saharan Africa dedicated to supporting independent African documentary filmmakers, by offering screenings, grants, labs and hugs. Over the past decade, DOCUBOX has invested nearly $2 million in over a hundred features and short films, training, development and screenings. She's currently trying to raise an endowment fund for the organization and needs all the help she can get to make this happen! Judy is a founding member of the Creative Economy Working Group (CEWG, an active member of the global D.I.S.C.O network (Decentralised Independent Story + Culture Organisers) and has been part of the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences since 2017, serving on the Documentary Branch Executive Committee since 2018. Her industry efforts were recognized with the an award from Women in Film Kenya for the Most Influential Woman in Film 2021, as well as a Head of State commendation, and a Lifetime Achievement the following year from The Kenya Film Commission. Judy has been itching to get back into writing and directing for years and is working on two new short fiction films as well as developing a Manifesto Film for African Filmmakers.

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• Katja Iversen

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  President/CEO, Women Deliver

  Katja Iversen is the President/CEO of Women Deliver – a leading global advocate for investment in gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women, with a specific focus on maternal, sexual and reproductive health and rights. Iversen, an internationally recognized expert on development, advocacy and communications, has more than 25 years of experience working in NGOs, corporates and United Nation agencies. Previously, she held the position as Chief of Strategic Communication and Public Advocacy with UNICEF, a position she came to after almost six years of leading the team responsible for advocacy and communication on reproductive health with UNFPA. She holds a master’s degree in communications, bachelor's degree in public administration and certificates in management, conflict resolution, and international development. Iversen has worked in global development for more than 20 years and has an extensive network within the UN, development communities, and global media. She has counseled and trained multiple Fortune 500 executives on cross cultural management and cross cultural communication. She is a member of Prime Minster Trudeau’s G7 Gender Equality Council, the Unilever Sustainability Advisory Council, the MIT Women & Technology Solve Leadership Group, and an International Gender Champion. Iversen was recently named 2018 Dane of the Year and included in the top 10 of Apolitical’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy. She is also a sought lecturer and speaker.

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• Isidoro Hazbun

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  Director, Public Policy and Development, Amazon Conservation Team

  Isidoro works closely with and supports the Executive Vice President in the day-to-day management of programs, specifically for activities related to the development and implementation of conservation strategies, the achievement of ACT-wide field impact objectives, and the attainment of fundraising objectives. He has a decade of experience working with indigenous peoples to advance their collective rights to lands, resources, culture, and self-determination, particularly in Latin America. Isidoro holds a Master’s from Harvard University, and a Bachelor’s from Virginia Tech. At present, he is pursuing graduate studies at the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy.

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• Gary Gottlieb

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  Chief Executive Officer, Partners In Health

  Gary Gottlieb is CEO of Partners In Health, a global NGO providing a preferential option for the poor in health care in severely resource constrained settings. He assumed this role after serving on the PIH Board of Directors for a decade. He is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2012-2016 and as its chair from 2016-2018. From 2010 until February of 2015, Dr. Gottlieb served as CEO of Partners HealthCare, the parent of the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, the largest health care delivery organization in New England and among the largest biomedical research and training enterprises in the US. From 2002-2009, he was president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also served as President of North Shore Medical Center and as Chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health System. Prior to coming to Boston, Dr. Gottlieb spent 15 years in positions of increasing leadership in health care in Philadelphia. He established the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center’s first program in geriatric psychiatry and developed it into a nationally recognized research, training, and clinical program. He served as executive vice-chair of psychiatry and associate dean for managed care at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and as director and CEO of Friends Hospital, the nation’s first freestanding psychiatric hospital. Dr. Gottlieb received a B.Sc. cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.D. from Albany Medical College in a six-year accelerated program and he completed a psychiatry residency at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center. As a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn, he earned an M.B.A. with distinction from Wharton.

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• Frank Beadle de Palomo

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  President & CEO, mothers2mothers

  Frank Beadle de Palomo joined mothers2mothers (m2m) as Chief Executive Officer in October 2012, bringing with him 35 years of experience in global health, including significant achievements in HIV prevention, care, and treatment, as well as U.S. and global infectious and communicable disease prevention, treatment, research, and advocacy. m2m is an African-based organisation that provides health care to families who need it most, delivered by women who know them best. Through its Mentor Mother Model, m2m employs local women living with HIV as community health workers who deliver integrated primary health care services in communities. Since 2001, m2m has created nearly 12,000 jobs for women living with HIV as frontline health workers, reached more than 15 million people in sub-Saharan Africa with life-changing health services, and achieved virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV among its enrolled clients for the past nine years.

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• Edith Naisubi

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  Co-Founder & President, AgriSan

  Edith Violet Naisubi is a Ugandan studying MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh. She did a Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration at Ashesi University, Ghana as a MasterCard Foundation scholar at both institutions. Edith is interested in social entrepreneurship, the open-source movement, and transformative leadership. Edith co-founded AgriSan which focuses on helping women in Eastern Uganda who are sole breadwinners to collectively grow a farming business and develop financial literacy, among other skills.

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• Denielle Sachs

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  Senior Director, APCO Worldwide

  Denielle Sachs is the senior director and global head of APCO Impact, the social impact and sustainability group within APCO Worldwide that focuses on climate and sustainability, racial and gender justice, philanthropy, as well as helping companies embed purpose, CSR and ESG in their business strategies. Ms. Sachs joined APCO in 2020, when the firm she founded, The Tembo Group, was acquired and has since overseen the acquisition of LA-based firm, Global Philanthropy Group. Previously, she spent eight years as the director of social impact for McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, she helped build the Social Sector Practice, as well as architected and led the firm’s first-ever global corporate citizenship strategy, including the creation of the Firm’s 501(c)(3), now McKinsey.org. She holds a Master of Arts in International Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University.

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• Cathy Clark

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  Faculty Director, CASE at Duke, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship

  Cathy Clark is Faculty Director at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Founding Director of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. Cathy is globally recognized as a collaborative visionary and pioneering influencer in the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. She has been named a B the Change Champion, Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year in 2020 by the World Economic Forum, and one of the 2021 Agents of Impact by Impact Alpha. She has written hundreds of blogs, case studies and papers, co-authored a book called The Impact Investor, and has created two online courses reaching over 50,000 global learners. Previously, Cathy was an investor at Flatiron Partners, a philanthropist at the Markle Foundation, and policy convener at the Aspen Institute. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA from the University of Virginia.

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• Christiane Amanpour

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  Chief International Anchor, CNN

  Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international anchor and host of the network's award-winning, flagship global affairs program "Amanpour," which also airs on PBS in the United States. She is based in the network's London bureau. Her illustrious career in journalism spans more than three decades joining CNN in 1983. Amanpour rose through the organization becoming the network's leading international correspondent reporting on international crisis in the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Palestinian territories, Iran, Sudan, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Egypt, Libya. She has interviewed most of the top world leaders over the past two decades and Amanpour has received every major broadcast award, including an inaugural Television Academy Award, eleven News and Documentary Emmys, four George Foster Peabody Awards, and nine honorary degrees. In 2014, she was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame and in 2018 was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Amanpour is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.

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• Anab Jain

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  Co-founder and Director, Superflux

  Anab Jain is a filmmaker, designer and futurist. She creates worlds, stories and tools that provoke and inspire us to engage with the precarity of our rapidly changing world. Following an extensive career in the design and foresight industry, working for some of the world’s biggest organisations such as Microsoft and Nokia, she co-founded Superflux, an experimental design, foresight and technology studio in London, UK. Alongside her practice, Anab is Professor and Programme Leader for Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Over the last 15 years, Anab has gained international recognition for her work and commentary on design, innovation, emerging technologies and complex futures. She is the recipient of the Award of Excellence ICSID, UNESCO Digital Arts Award, and Grand Prix Geneva Human Rights Festival, as well as awards from Apple and the UK Government’s Innovation Department. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, V&A Museum, Science Gallery Dublin, National Museum of China, Vitra Design Museum, and Tate Modern. Anab has delivered talks and keynotes at several conferences including TED, MIT Media Lab and MOMA’s first design summit ‘Knotty Objects’, PICNIC, NEXT, WCIT2010, LIFT, SIGGRAPH, Global Design Forum, EPIC, Design Engaged and FuturEverything.

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• Alasdair Harris

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  Executive Director, Blue Ventures

  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

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  Founder, President & CEO, Fundación Capital

  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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• Aaron Walker

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  Founder and CEO, Camelback Ventures

  Aaron is on a journey to live in the spirit of his baseball hero, Jackie Robinson, who said “a life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” With this ethos, Aaron taught ninth grade English in West Philadelphia, put together deals for companies large and small as a lawyer, and supported new ideas to improve education as a portfolio director for the NYC Fund for Public Schools. Aaron is humbled to say that he graduated from the University of Virginia and Penn Law School. He also knows that this doesn’t entitle him to anything and is ready to earn his keep.

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• Tara Houska

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  Campaigns Director, Honor the Earth

  Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, the Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She spent six months on the frontlines fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is currently engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline. She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a non-profit committed to eradicating Native stereotyping. She has given a TED talk, a keynote at Harvard, received an “Awesome Women Award” from Melinda Gates, and was named an “Icon” on the cover of Outside Magazine’s 40th Anniversary edition. Tara has contributed to the Guardian, Huffington Post, Indian Country Today and been featured on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Democracy Now, and BBC.

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• Susan Myers

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  Principal, SEM Strategies

  Susan has served as Strategic Advisor to Goal 17 Partners, a non-profit organization that provides a platform for private-private collaboration toward sustainability, equality and accessibility since January 2020. She also serves as an adviser to the UN World Food Programme and a social impact firm, 196, where she advises corporate clients on their strategies on the Sustainable Development Goals and multilateral engagement. Susan’s current work builds on a 20-year long tenure working with the UN and the global policy-making community, most recently as Senior Vice President of the UN Foundation where she managed the organization’s unique relationship with the UN and led its presence in New York. Susan has worked with leaders from the UN, government, business, civil society and academia, brokering partnerships and building efforts to drive progress on global development and the SDGs. She is also active in her local community as a Board Member of Community Lifestyle in Hoboken, NJ.

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• Sue Riddlestone

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  CEO & Co-founder, Bioregional Development Group

  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 Bhattacharya

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  CEO & President, Breakthrough

  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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• Shamika Ravi

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  Director of Research - Brookings India, Brookings Institution

  Shamika Ravi is Director of Research at Brookings India and a Senior Fellow of Governance Studies Program, at Brookings India and Brookings Institution Washington D.C. She is also Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. She leads the Development Economics research vertical at Brookings India, where the focus is on financial inclusion, health, gender inequality and urbanisation. Ravi is a visiting professor of Economics at the Indian School of Business where she teaches courses in Game Theory and Microfinance. She is also affiliated with the Financial Access Initiative of New York University. Ravi publishes extensively in peer-reviewed journals and writes regular opinion pieces in major newspapers. Her research work has been featured and cited by BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and most national and regional newspapers and magazines in India

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• Sean Hinton

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  Senior Investment and Strategy Executive, Terbish Partners

  Sean Hinton is an impact investment and strategy advisor to major philanthropies, family offices, and corporations. From 2015 - 2022 Sean was the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and Director of the Economic Justice Program at the Open Society Foundations. Prior to this, he was a strategic investment advisor focusing on China, Mongolia, and Africa and the social and economic impact of large-scale extractive investments working for Goldman Sachs (Asia) and the Rio Tinto group. He began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and worked for many years in film, television and newspapers. He is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, and an Executive-in-Residence at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and serves on the boards of: Natural Resources Governance Institute, Nature Finance, and the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland.

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• Sarah McLachlan

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  Founder, Sarah McLachlan Foundation

  With over 30 years in the recording industry, Sarah McLachlan is a multi-platinum singer and songwriter best known for her intimate vocals and relatable lyrics. Canadian-born, McLachlan is a multiple Grammy and Juno Award winning artist who has sold over 40 million albums throughout her career and was recently inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. McLachlan has also been awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, in 1997 McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians and brought more than 2 million people together over its three-year run. Lilith Fair raised over $7 million for local and national charities and helped launch the careers of numerous female performers. The festival was the most successful all-female music event and was the top-grossing touring festival during its run. In 2002 McLachlan founded her non-profit organization, the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. The School of Music serves over 1,000 at-risk and underserved youth in Vancouver and Edmonton each year and provides, at no cost: • A high-quality music program staffed with talented mentors, youth facilitators & guest artists • A space for at-risk and underserved children and youth to develop the confidence they need to explore their strengths and overcome their challenges • An opportunity for students to develop strong relationships with their peers and instructors • A long-term commitment that nurtures trust, growth, and personal development The school is funded entirely through private donations and McLachlan covers 100% of the administrative costs through her Foundation, so that all funds raised go directly to the student's education. The scientific evidence of music's value is increasing every day, there is no doubt that music has a positive effect on every child's life.

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• Sarah Zak Borgman

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  Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  Sarah Borgman is an Advisor to the Skoll Foundation. She was recently Vice President, Convenings & Community, where she had executive oversight for the Skoll Community of Awardees and Skoll’s high-profile platforms that accelerate entrepreneurial approaches to the world’s most pressing problems. As part of her responsibilities, she oversaw the Skoll World Forum, the premiere 1,200-person, week-long convening at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, U.K. Sarah has more than 25 years of executive and general management experience, with a focus on marketing, communications and convening experience in the public, private and government sectors. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, she served as the VP of Communications at the X PRIZE, the VP of Communications at the Prostate Cancer Foundation and a VP at Porter Novelli where she directed numerous entertainment, Fortune 100 and advocacy accounts. Sarah also worked for the Clinton Administration as the director of marketing for the Peace Corps and also served as a communications officer at the National School-to-Work Office at the U.S. Department of Education. Early in her career, Sarah gained significant broadcast experience as a weekly panelist on a national public affairs television show and has served as a spokesperson for several federal departments and non-profit organizations. She has participated in various speaking/ moderating/ steering committee roles in prominent organizations and gatherings such as the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Global Leadership Network Action Forum, Opportunity Collaboration, Independent Sector, BSR, Wellbeing Project, among others. She is trained in the IFTF’s Foresight Programming Method and in the Aspen Institute’s intensive Moderator Program. Sarah started her career as part of the communications team for Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) and earned a BA in political science and international relations from Boston College. She is currently enrolled in graduate school at Denver Seminary. In her off-time, she and her husband try to stay ahead of her 11-year-old daughter and twin, seven-year-old boys.

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• Rupert Howes

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  CEO, Marine Stewardship Council

  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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• S. Olasford Wiah

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  Director of the Community Health Services Division, Ministry of Health, Government of Liberia

  I was born May 15, 1976 and begin my primary education in 1979. I became a professional health worker when I graduated as a Physician Assistant from the Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts in Liberia in 2009. Over the years, I have serve in many different positions in the health care delivery system in Liberia including both clinical and public health roles. I have benefited from different trainings both locally and internally. My love for community health was stimulated when I lost two of my clients (one HIV/TB co-infection male and a positive HIV pregnant mother) which I strongly believe that they would not have die if only there were Community Health Workers in those remote communities Thereafter, I was promoted as the Community Health Department Director (2012 to 2018) a position which I use to improve the health care system in River Gee and reforming the community health program. Currently I serve as the Director for the Community Health Services Division of the central Ministry of Health and with the passion to achieving greatness, I am of the strongest conviction that with the support of all you, we can build a stronger linkage between the community and the Primary Health Care System with the aim to achieving Universal Health Coverage for all here in Liberia.

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• Omri Marcus

  Speaker

  Head of Screenz Originals, Screenz

  Omri Marcus's job is to make things interesting. No, really. For well over a decade, he has been developing, managing, and editing content in digital, mobile, OTT, and traditional TV. Marcus is a creative director who works with media and tech companies. He writes regularly for a variety of international publications on trends in content and technology. Starting as a comedy writer on Israel’s most popular TV programs, Marcus received an Entertainment Master Class scholarship to study the international content industry, following which he embarked on an exclusive, multi-year development contract with Red Arrow Entertainment. In 2014 Marcus founded Comedy for Change, an international initiative that connects prominent writers and content people from all over the world. Comedy for Change has done events in Jerusalem, London, New York, Austin, and more. Every year the initiative honors comedy that generated social change with its Finger Award - chosen by the global comedy writers community.

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• Neo Tapela

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  Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

  Dr Tapela is a physician, public health researcher and global health advocate passionate about reducing reducing premature and avoidable deaths of those most vulnerable in the world. She is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health, focusing research on understanding burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa, and developing innovative patient-centered solutions to healthcare service delivery. Her research is informed by multi-disciplinary, hands-on experience in the public, non-profit, and academic sectors. She has served as special advisor on NCDs to the Rwanda Ministry of Health, as Director of NCDs Program with Partners In Health-Rwanda, and most recently led the National NCDs Program in the Ministry of Health and Wellness of her home country Botswana. Dr Tapela trained at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. She maintains appointments as Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Research Associate at Botswana Harvard Partnership. Her work as a global health innovator has been recognized in her selection as Aspen New Voices Fellow and an African Cancer Leaders Institute Awardee.

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• Michael Jenkins

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  President & CEO, Forest Trends Association

  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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• Michael Painter

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  Managing Director, Programs, Nia Tero Foundation

  Physician, attorney and health policy advocate, Michael is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He works tirelessly scouring the nation and the world looking for ideas and innovation that will help build a better, just and healthier future for all on a rapidly warming planet. In 2003-2004, Michael was an RWJF Health Policy Fellow with Senator William Frist, MD, then Majority Leader where he was the Senator’s lead staff person for “Closing the Health Care Gap Act” (S2091). Prior to that, Michael was an attending physician and the chief of medical staff at the Seattle Indian Health Board, a community health center serving urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. Michael holds a JD from Stanford Law School and an MD from the University of Washington.

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• Michael Eckhart

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  Adjunct Professor, Columbia University

  Currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs. (SIPA). Retired in 2019 from Citigroup as its global head. of environmental. finance. Previously, was the founder and President of the American Council. on Renewable Energy. (ACORE) and the SolarBank Initiative in Europe, India and Africa. Earlier, was CEO of United Power Systems, partner at. Arete Ventures, manager f strategic planning at General Electric Company, and aa Principal at. Booz. Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Eckhart earned a BSEE from. Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and served in the US Navy Submarine Service.

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• Megan Smith

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  CEO shift7; Former US CTO, shift7

  Megan Smith is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist. She recently created shift7, a company driving tech-forward innovation for faster, scaled impact. Smith served as the third U.S. chief technology officer from 2014-2017 helping the President and his teams harness the power of data, innovation and technology on behalf of the nation. Smith recruited top tech talent to serve across government collaborating on pressing issues, from data science, AI and open source, to inclusive economic growth and criminal justice reform. Her teams focused on broad capacity building by co-creating all-hands-on-deck initiatives, including the public-private program TechHire, the Computer Science for All initiative, and the Image of STEM campaigns. Smith was vice president at Google for eleven years leading new business development where she managed early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations and technology licensing across the global engineering and product teams; she led acquisitions of Google Earth, Maps, and Picasa; and later was a VP at Google[x] where she co-created SolveForX and Women Techmakers. Earlier, Smith served as CEO of PlanetOut, worked on early smartphone technologies at General Magic and at Apple Japan. Smith is an advisor to the MIT Media Lab, Vital Voices, Thinkof-Us, the Malala Fund, which she co-founded and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She was selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she serves on the board as a life member. She completed her master’s thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.

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• Mark Kramer

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  Managing Director, FSG, FSG, Inc.

  Mark R. Kramer Founder, Kramer Impact Capital Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, FSG Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Mark Kramer is a leading researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on philanthropy, business strategies for social impact, and impact investing. He is best known as the co-author of seminal articles in Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review on Creating Shared Value, Collective Impact, and Catalytic Philanthropy. Mark co-founded FSG with Michael Porter, a 160-person global social impact consulting firm, that includes the Shared Value Initiative, the Collective Impact Forum, and Talent Rewire. In 2021, Mark stepped back from active management at FSG to create an impact investment firm, currently in formation. Mark also serves as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, a member of the Aspen Philanthropy Group and an advisor to Kimberly-Clark and Nestle. Previously, Mark served as President of the private equity firm Kramer Capital Management. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, The Wharton School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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• Marcus Bleasdale

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  Managing Director, Wilstar Social Impact

  Marcus is the Managing Director of Wilstar the non-profit social impact investing arm of Aweco AS a Norwegian asset management company owned by the Arne Wilhelmsen family. His work there has focused on financing social entrepreneurs and assisting them in a sustainable change to create a better world. With a proven ability to oversee major philanthropic and social impact investment operations, He has a passion for social and environmental impact, climate change advisory, and social advocacy tactics. Marcus has also worked, together with Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership to engage understanding around climate challenges and innovative solutions for a better world. Marcus is also one of the worlds leading documentary photographers and a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. He uses his work to influence decision-makers and policymakers around the world. His work on Human Rights and Conflict has been shown at the US Senate, The US House of Representatives, The United Nations and the Houses of Parliament in the UK and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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• Marcel Fukayama

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  Executive Director, Sistema B

  Marcel Fukayama is an Impact Entrepreneur, Cancer Survivor and Cathedral Builder. He has been involved with different initiatives in new economy. Co-Founder of Din4mo with objectives to empower entrepreneurs that solve social problems and to develop innovative structures that drive capital to both low income families and social enterprises. Co-Founder of Sistema B Brazil to strengthen the B Corp community and redefine success in business. He is currently the Executive Director of Sistema B International leading the B Corp Movement in 19 countries, 670 certified B Corps and 30,000 businesses using the Skoll Awardee B Lab’s BIA to manage their triple impact. Major in Business, MBA and MA in Public Admin at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is committed to work with the social society and policy makers and inspire innovation and new public policies. He coordinated the Brazilian Presidency Campaign of Marina Silva and Eduardo Jorge (REDE/PV) in 2018. Currently, he sits in the Committee for the National Strategy of Impact Investing and Impact Business of the Brazilian Ministry of Economy. Previously, he pioneered by creating one of the first internet cafés in Brazil at 17-year-old and served as CEO of Skoll Awardee CDI Global working with a network in 15 countries to use technology for social change.

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• Lisa Jackson

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  Managing Partner, Imago Dei Fund

  Lisa is the Managing Partner for the Imago Dei Fund based in Boston, MA. Lisa has worked in the social sector for over two decades in a variety of roles. She began her career in education and psychology as a professor at Boston College. Her research there was focused on agency and self-efficacy in youth at the intersection of racial and gender identity. Realizing how much she enjoyed working with youth and being more directly engaged with schools, Lisa decided to leave academia to manage a federally funded college access and success program for the Boston Public Schools (GEAR-UP). As her eclectic trajectory evolved, Lisa stepped into organization leadership positions focused on evaluation and assessment, risk management, research and strategy development. Prior to joining the Imago Dei Fund (IDF) in 2018 as its Managing Partner, Lisa served as the Vice President for Research at The Center for Effective Philanthropy, and the Managing Partner for Portfolio Investments at New Profit, Inc. Both of these experiences shaped her perspective on philanthropy providing a solid foundation for her to step into her role at IDF. Lisa serves on several boards including College Advising Corps, SPARK Microgrants, My Life My Choice, Boston Schools Fund, Compass Working Capital, and New England International Donors (NEID). She is also a former elected member of the Brookline School Committee. Lisa has a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Psychology from Howard University.

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• Kristen Venick

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  Director of Corporate Giving, Niagara Bottling

  Kristen Venick is the Director of Corporate Giving for Niagara Bottling, LLC. Niagara Cares, the corporate giving arm of Niagara Bottling, supports organizations that are using innovative ways to address the global problem of clean water and sanitation for all. They also partner with organizations that provide educational opportunities for vulnerable children in the communities where Niagara team members live and work. Ms. Venick is also a pediatric nurse practitioner and continues to work in nursing in the elementary education setting,.

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• Kennedy Odede

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  CEO and Co-founder, Shining Hope for Communities

  Kennedy is one of Africa’s best-known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. He grew up in Kenya's Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty first hand. At age ten he became a street child. Still, he dreamed about changing his community. In 2004, he had a job in a factory earning $1 for ten hours of work. He saved 20 cents and used this to buy a soccer ball and start Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of the people of Kibera, SHOFCO became the largest grassroots organization in the slum. Today, SHOFCO impacts over 300,000 slum dwellers across 10 urban slums in Kenya, and is the largest employer in Kibera. In 2018, SHOFCO became the youngest-ever organization to receive the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest humanitarian prize awarded to nonprofits that have made extraordinary contributions to alleviate human suffering. Although he was entirely informally educated, Kennedy received a full scholarship to Wesleyan University, becoming one of Kibera’s first to receive an education from an American liberal arts institution. He graduated in 2012 as the Commencement Speaker and with honors in Sociology. He later served on the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. He was awarded the 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship, which is given to the world’s best emerging social entrepreneurs. He was named to FORBES "30 under 30 list" for top Social Entrepreneurs in 2014. He is a New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid: Love, Hope, and Loss in an African Slum, co-written with his wife and partner, Jessica Posner Odede. He has published opinion articles on urban poverty in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Project Syndicate. He previously served on the United Nations International Commission on Financing of Global Education Opportunities. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a UBS Global Visionary.

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• Julius Mbeya

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  Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance

  Julius is currently the Co-CEO of Lwala Community Alliance, where 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. As a community health enthusiast, he leads pro-CHW efforts in Kenya working closely with the MOH and community health actors through the Community Health Units for Universal Health Coverage (CHU4UHC) of which he is the chair. He has also offered capacity support to nonprofits across Africa and globally. Julius holds an MA in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Nairobi, is a published author and a member of several professional associations. He is a voice for locally led development, an advocate for trust based philanthropy and sits on the boards of foundations and local organizations.

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• Judith Bruce

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  Senior Associate and Policy Analyst, Population Council

  Judith Bruce joined the Council in 1977. She is a senior associate and policy analyst with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program. Through policy analysis, evidence-based intervention design and capacity building, she has changed the way we think about quality of care from the client’s perspective and about the potential of the poorest, most excluded girls. Bruce leads efforts to develop programs that protect the well-being and expand opportunities of the poorest adolescent girls in the poorest communities. The programs often include social support, mentoring, and meaningful educational opportunities including financial literacy and health information and access. Her work engages local organizations, governments, NGOs, and donors in a multi-country effort to place adolescent girls at the center of the global health and development agenda. She was among the first to illuminate the scope and negative impact of child marriage—including violence and discrimination. Earlier in her career, she published the family planning quality-of-care framework, which was instrumental in the global shift in family planning programs from target-driven approaches to a focus on quality, as defined by a program’s ability to meet clients’ needs. The framework remains the foundation for defining the goals and evaluating the outcomes of family planning and reproductive health programs. Recently, she served as co-chair of the UN Expert Group Meeting on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl-child. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1977. In 1993 she received the Association for Women in Development’s bi-annual award for outstanding contributions to the field. A graduate of Harvard University, Bruce has written extensively on population policy, the quality of reproductive health services, adolescent girls’ status in the developing world, and women’s access to and control of resources inside and outside the household.

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• Jennifer Pahlka

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  Founder, Code for America

  Jennifer Pahlka works on making government work for people in the digital age. She is the founder and former executive director of Code for America and served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. She also co-founded United States Digital Response, which helps government respond to the Covid-19 crisis with volunteer tech support. She was named by Wired as one of the 25 people who has most shaped the past 25 years. She served on the Defense Innovation Board for four years. Her book Recoding America comes out in June 2023. Jennifer is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, California.

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• Jessica Lapenn

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  Ambassador, United States Mission to the African Union

  Ambassador Jessica Lapenn is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the African Union and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Just prior to this assignment, 2016-2019, she was the Chargé d’Affaires in South Africa. Previous leadership roles include Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kigali. Ambassador Lapenn joined the Foreign Service in 1994 and has served overseas in Jeddah, Riyadh, Paris, Tbilisi, Baghdad, and Jerusalem. In Washington, she worked for the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, as the desk officer for Libya and Tunisia, and as the director of the Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Bureau of International Organizations. She was an advisor on Security Council matters at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York and spent a year as a fellow in a Congressional office. Ambassador Lapenn was born and raised in New York City. She received a BA in Women’s Studies from Harvard College and an M.Phil in International Development from Cambridge University. Her twelve-year old son has been along for all her most recent adventures.

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• Iman Bibars

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  Leadership Group Member, VP, Ashoka--Middle East Office

  A visionary for social entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment, Iman Bibars is the founder of Ashoka Arab World and the Regional Director for AAW since 2003. She is the Vice President of Ashoka Global since 2009. With her direction, Ashoka Arab World has expanded to 11 countries in the MENA region, identifying and supporting more than 110 leading social entrepreneurs. Dr. Bibars has and continues to be a pioneer in the field of social entrepreneurship and women empowerment. She is the founder and global leader of the Women’s Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship (WISE) since 2011. She co-founded Egypt’s first microfinance organization, the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW), which supports impoverished female heads of household. In addition, Dr. Bibars is also the founder and leader of AWSIF, the Arab World Social Innovation Forum since 2009. She has also founded Ibtikar Khana, the first and only school for social entrepreneurs in Egypt and the Arab region. With an international career spanning from UNICEF to the World Bank, she is a renowned social development expert, with experience working with women organizations and social entrepreneurs in MENA, Europe, and other regions around the globe. Dr. Bibars is a sought-after trainer and consultant, and the author of several regional and international books. Dr. Bibars holds a PhD in Development Studies from Sussex University and a BA and MA in Political Science from The American University in Cairo. She was a Peace Fellow at Georgetown University and a Parvin Fellow at Princeton University.

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• Emily Arnold-Fernandez

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  President and CEO, Asylum Access

  Emily Arnold-Fernández is the President and CEO of Asylum Access, the leading global refugee human rights organization. After learning that most refugees spend decades deprived of basic rights, Emily founded Asylum Access in 2005 to create a world where refugees can live safely, move freely, work and send children to school, and rebuild their lives. Today, Asylum Access has impacted more than 2 million refugees worldwide, working intensively across multiple countries and at the global level to dismantle barriers to refugees' economic and civic participation and ensure all refugees have a fair chance at a new life. Emily's achievements have earned her numerous accolades, including the Equality and Nondiscrimination Award from Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination (2016); the prestigious Grinnell Prize (2013); and recognition by the Dalai Lama as one of 50 “Unsung Heroes of Compassion” (2009). She served as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University in Fall 2012 and on the Advisory Board of Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre from 2014 to 2017. Emily holds a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Pomona College. She lives on an island in San Francisco Bay with her spouse and three-legged dog.

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• Cristi Hegranes

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  CEO & Publisher, Global Press Institute

  Cristi Hegranes is the CEO of Global Press and the Publisher of Global Press Journal. Cristi founded Global Press in 2006 to create a new form of ethical, accurate global news. Her values-driven approach to journalism prioritizes dignity, diversity and transparency. In her role as CEO and Publisher, Cristi leads the business side of the organization, which is committed to keeping editorial processes 100 percent independent. Cristi is an expert in local journalist security. She created the industry-leading Global Press Duty of Care program to provide for the physical, emotional, digital and legal security of its journalists. The program establishes best practice for care of local journalists in challenging markets. Previously, she had a successful career as a journalist for Village Voice Media in New York and San Francisco. She has a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Cristi served as a fellow-in-residence at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida and has taught courses in entrepreneurship and journalism at San Francisco State University and California State University. Cristi was the Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University in 2017.

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• Chiwetel Ejiofor

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  Actor, Director, and Writer, Individual

  Academy, Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy award nominee and BAFTA and Olivier winner Chiwetel Ejiofor has worked with some of the industry’s most prolific directors and talent. His extensive film credits include: Maleficent 2, The Lion King, Sherlock Gnomes, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, Come Sunday, Mary Magdalene, Doctor Strange, The Martian, Secret In Their Eyes, Triple 9, Z For Zachariah, 12 Years A Slave, Half of a Yellow Sun, Savannah, 2012, Salt, Endgame, Redbelt, American Gangster, Talk To Me, Inside Man, Children Of Men, Kinky Boots, Four Brothers, Slow Burn, Melinda & Melinda, Serenity, Red Dust, She Hate Me, Love Actually, Three Blind Mice, Dirty Pretty Things, It Was An Accident, My Friend Soweto, G: M T Greenwich Mean Time, Amistad and Tonight at Noon. Ejiofor’s theatre credits include: Everyman, A Season In The Congo, Othello, The Seagull, The Vortex, Romeo and Juliet, Blue/Orange, Triumph Of Love, Sparkle Shark, Splash Hatch On The Going Down, Macbeth, Othello, Oh! What A Lovely War and Julius Caesar. Chiwetel’s television credits include: Dancing on the Edge, The Shadowline, Tsunami: The Aftermath, Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Trust, Murder In Mind, Mind Games and Screen Two.

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• Carlos Souza, Jr.

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  Associate Researcher, Imazon

  Carlos Souza Jr. holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Pará State Federal University, Brazil, an M.Sc. in soil science from Penn State University, US, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara, US. He is currently an associate researcher at Imazon, where he focuses on remote sensing for mapping and monitoring forests, forest degradation, land use and land cover change, surface water monitoring, and spatial modeling. Dr. Souza Jr. has co-authored over 100 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. He is also the co-founder of Terras App, an IT company that provides solutions for sustainable landscapes, and the MapBiomas Institute, IAMap. Dr. Souza Jr. has been honored with the Skoll Award and is a Mulago Foundation Fellow.

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• Blessing Mene

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  Founder and CEO, Vetsark Limited

  Blessing Mene is a seasoned entrepreneur with a passion for agriculture, finance and technology. He is currently the CEO of Vetsark Limited, an agritech startup based in Nigeria, where he has been working full-time. Vetsark's vision is to transform agri-financing in Africa and to build with our partners in agriculture the opportunity to manage and finance their farms and agribusinesses, using the right tech tools, guiding them to best performance and increased profitability for a sustainable growth. In terms of education, Blessing holds a Masters in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Rome Business School Nigeria. He is also an Ashoka Fellow, Goalkeeper Rebuilder, among others. Overall, Blessing is a driven and accomplished professional with a wealth of experience in agriculture, economic development, and entrepreneurship. He is committed to making a positive impact in the world through his work in the private and non-profit sectors, and his pursuit of advanced education.

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• Ai-jen Poo

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  Director, The National Domestic Workers Alliance

  Ai-jen Poo is the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. She is an award-winning organizer, thought leader, and social innovator, and a leading voice in future of work and family care solutions. As co-founder of the Domestic Workers United (DWU), a city-wide, multiracial organization of domestic workers, she led the way to the passage of the nation’s first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, historic legislation that extends basic labor protections to over 200,000 domestic workers in New York state. In 2011, Ai-jen co-created the national Caring Across Generations campaign to ensure access to affordable care for the nation’s aging population and access to quality jobs for the caregiving workforce. Ai-jen is a 2014 MacArthur “genius” Fellow, TIME 100 alumna and has been featured at United State of Women Summit, Aspen Ideas Festival, Obama Foundation Summit and the Women’s Convention. She has been an influential voice in the #MeToo movement and participated in the Times Up action at the 2018 Golden Globes. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, TIME and CNN.com. She is author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Follow her at @aijenpoo.

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• Xavier Helgesen

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  Founder, Enduring Ventures, Inc

  Founder, Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company. Founder/Chairman Better World Books, $70 Million revenue profitable e-commerce business, 10 million customers. Founding CEO, Zola Electric. Leading Solar Company in Africa. 1 million users, $100MM+ equity raised. Oxford Skoll Scholar 2011.

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• Usha Barwale Zehr

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  Director and Chief Technology Officer, Mahyco

  Dr. Usha Barwale Zehr is Director and Chief Technology Officer at Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Private Limited (MAHYCO), India. She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Subsequent to her formal education, she worked at Purdue University in the Sorghum improvement program. She has been utilizing new technologies and tools including biotechnology for improving the quality and productivity of seeds and agriculture. In addition, Dr. Zehr serves as Director of Barwale Foundation (a non-profit Research Foundation). She also serves on the Board of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa.

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• Susan Burns

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  Advisor, Global Footprint Network

  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. 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 Development Committee of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC) where she is a vocalist. She is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster children, a member of the Social Justice Ministry of Imani Community Church in Oakland, and a member of ICJJ (Interfaith Coalition for Justice in Our Jails).

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• Solomon Benge

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  Founder & Executive Director, Fundi Bots

  I am passionate about the intersection of education, design, business and technology. In 2011, I founded Fundi Bots, an education non-profit with a mission to accelerate learning for (science) students in Africa. Fundi Bots aims to promote better learning outcomes, improved career prospects and real-world technological advancement in African schools and communities through training and experimentation in hands-on, project-based and skills-oriented science disciplines, starting with robotics. Today, Fundi Bots works with more than 180 schools, 400 teachers and 11,000 students in Uganda. Our goal is to accelerate science learning and provide workforce training for one million young African people by 2030. Through my work with Fundi Bots, I was selected as a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow and a 2014 Ashoka Fellow. Echoing Green and Ashoka Fellowships provide financial, logistical and advisory support to emerging world leaders to pursue ideas that try to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. In 2017, I was selected as an African Visionary Fellow by the Segal Family Foundation.

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• Sanjeev Arora

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  Founder & Director, Project ECHO; Professor of Medicine, Univ. of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Project ECHO

  Sanjeev Arora, MD, is the founder of Project ECHO and the Executive Director of the ECHO Institute. A pioneer in democratizing specialized medical knowledge for the good of humanity, Dr. Arora launched Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico in 2003 as a solution for helping all patients receive quality care faster. Today, the ECHO Model is being applied around the globe, with programs in North America, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia and partnerships with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. ECHO topics have expanded beyond health care to include K-12 education, climate change, public safety and more.

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• Sarika Bansal

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  Editor in Chief, BRIGHT Magazine

  Sarika Bansal is the founder and editor-in-chief of BRIGHT Magazine, which tells fresh, solutions-oriented stories about social change. She has been a journalist and editor for eight years, largely focused on global health, poverty, and social enterprise. Her byline has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Guardian, VICE, Forbes, FastCompany, and other publications. Prior to founding BRIGHT Magazine, she incubated two social impact publications at Medium, developed curriculum and tools for journalists at the Solutions Journalism Network, and served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She lives in a cottage in a forest in Nairobi, Kenya with her husband and elderly German shepherd.

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• Ritah Namwiza

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  Founder & Team Leader, Collage

  Ritah Namwiza is a youth advocate with a special interest in how young people can harness technology to create and sustain livelihoods, improving their lives, and those they care about. She is a co-founder of Collage and Development Connection, both e-based platforms that bring development opportunities closer to young people. Ritah has supported various initiatives that equip youth with the skills they need to meaningfully contribute to development processes, including the implementation of Agenda 2030 and has worked with the Restless Development BIG IDEA programme, the UNAIDS Special Youth Programme and the Global Campaign to End Child Labour.

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• Rebecca Onie

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  Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Health Leads

  Co-Founder of The Health Initiative, a national campaign to catalyze a new conversation about and increased investments in health, including access to healthy food, safe and affordable housing, and well-paying jobs. Previously, Onie co-founded Health Leads to enable physicians and other healthcare providers and caregivers across the country to address these fundamental drivers of patients’ health. Health Leads armed thousands of healthcare institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, and best practices to address their patients’ resource needs, ultimately serving as a model for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s Accountable Health Communities pilot, the first federal pilot to screen and navigate patients to basic resources. Onie is a MacArthur “Genius” awardee, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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• Ray Suarez

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  Freelance Journalist, Individual

  Ray Suarez is a host of the radio and podcast series WorldAffairs, heard on KQED San Francisco and public radio stations around the country, and a Washington reporter for Euronews. He recently completed an appointment as the McCloy Visiting Professor of American Studies at Amherst College. Suarez hosted Inside Story, a daily news program on Al Jazeera America, until the network ceased operation in 2016. Suarez joined American public television’s nightly newscast, The PBS NewsHour in 1999 and was a senior correspondent until 2013. During his years at the NewsHour he was assigned to cover global health. His reporting from Africa, Asia, and Latin America won many awards. He hosted NPR’s Talk of the Nation from 1993-1999. In more than 40 years in the news business, he has worked as a reporter in London and Rome, as a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, and for the NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Suarez is the author of three books: Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation (Penguin, 2013), The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999, reporting on the causes of the destitution found in American cities after the Second World War, andThe Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America, examining how organized religion and politics intersect in America. His next work, on immigration, political, demographic, and cultural change, will appear in 2023. He is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to American Politics (June 2012), and many other books, including How I Learned English, Brooklyn: A State of Mind, Saving America's Treasures, and About Men. He’s been published in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Britain's Independent, Harvard University's Nieman Reports, and the Chicago Tribune.

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• Raj Panjabi

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  Board Member, Skoll Foundation and President Emeritus, Last Mile Health

  One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, Raj Panjabi is a renowned physician, entrepreneur, and former White House official. Dr. Panjabi served as White House Senior Director, leading the pandemic and biological threats office for President Biden at the National Security Council. He played a pivotal role in the largest global vaccination campaign in history against COVID-19 and numerous infectious disease outbreak responses. He oversaw White House efforts to prevent the next pandemic, including playing a lead role in implementing the National Biodefense Strategy, American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, President’s Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, and the U.S. Global Health Security Act. Panjabi also led the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative. Panjabi is Entrepreneur In Residence at Emerson Collective, co-founder at Last Mile Health, and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

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• Quratul Ain Bakhteari

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  Founding Director IDSP - Pakistan, Institute for Development Studies and Practices

  Born in 1949 , raised in a refugee settlement in Karachi, completed high school and married off. Had 3 children at 21 , completed Masters in social work, first community assignment construction of pit toilets in the homes of 5000 poor families living in squatter’s community. The sanitation project helped create national policy , Completed PhD “ Sanitation to development “ from university of technology LOUGHBOROUGH UK . Created methodologies of creating partnerships with the communities in Balochistan, established 2200 rural girls primary schools, enrolling more than 200,000 girls. Establish INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND PRACTICE 7000 graduates, created Leadership training for Community Midwives 400 women empowered as Community midwives, Organic agriculture with 300 small and landless farmers. Environment friendly campus for University of Community Development.

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• Peter Drobac

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  Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  A medic, global public health specialist and social entrepreneur, Dr Peter Drobac is a Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford, and the outgoing Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Centre promotes social innovation by developing talent, promoting actionable insight through research, and catalysing deep exchanges with a global community of innovators.Peter was a co-founder and first Executive Director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Working at the intersection of health, education, and technology, UGHE aspires to train the next generation of global health leaders and to become a worldwide innovation hub for health care delivery science.Peter has nearly two decades of academic, clinical and policy experience in global health. He played a key role in the transformation of Rwanda’s health system, which has delivered unprecedented gains in population health and prosperity. As Executive Director of Partn

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• Perry Chen

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  Founder and Chairman, Kickstarter

  Perry Chen is an artist and the founder of Kickstarter, a public benefit corporation whose mission is to help bring creative projects to life. Chen was Kickstarter's CEO at its launch, stepped away from its operations from 2014 to 2017 to focus on his artistic practice, and now serves as CEO and Chairman. Since its launch in 2009, 16 million people have pledged $4.1 billion on Kickstarter, funding 158,000 creative projects. A 2016 study found that Kickstarter projects had spawned more than 8,800 new companies and nonprofits and generated more than $5.3 billion in direct economic impact. But a unique aspect of the Kickstarter system is that it allows creative work to be funded regardless of its potential economic prospects — giving creators a way to bypass traditional industry gatekeepers. Similarly, Kickstarter doesn’t measure its success in terms of market share. The company's 2015 conversion into a public benefit corporation, which Chen spearheaded, requires it to commit to its mission over the pursuit of profit maximization. Other elements of its PBC charter include commitments to never sell user data or exploit tax loopholes. Chen is now a vocal advocate for improved corporate citizenship in the tech industry and beyond. Chen's work as an artist has been exhibited in New York, Berlin, and Mexico City. He was a TED Fellow in 2010 and a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab in 2016, and was appointed to the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy in 2017. In 2013 he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

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• Neil Jeffery

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  Chief Executive Officer, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor

  Neil has been Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) since early 2014. He has over two decade’s experience of successfully leading and growing organizations, social enterprises and innovative partnerships, in both Europe, North America and globally. He previously led social enterprises delivering services to base of the pyramid consumers in the energy and agricultural sectors and headed a policy institute in Washington DC working to enhance the impact of US policy in the Andean Region. He holds an MBA with distinction from Cass Business School, an MA from the University of Cambridge and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has published with Cranfield University and the US Institute for Peace.

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• Mohammed Adjei Sowah

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  Mayor of Accra, Accra Metropolitan Assembly

  Mayor Sowah is a Social Entrepreneur with over 23 years of work in local economic development and small business development. He holds MSc in Local Economic Development from the Institute of Local Government Studies, Ghana and a BSc in Public Administration from the University Of Ghana, Legon. Mayor Sowah is a Vice Chair (Africa) of the Steering Committee of “C40 Cities”; a Global Climate Leadership Group focused on Mayoral led climate change and mitigation actions. Mayor is the Founder & Executive Director of the Social Enterprise Agenda. He is also the Founder of MAS Investments Ltd. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Beyond Aid Project, a social enterprise that builds capacity for young vulnerable women in rural and urban low income communities to add value to locally available raw materials for their economic empowerment. Mayor Sowah is an avid reader and collects a lot of books. He is a sports enthusiast and chairs the Greater Accra Swimming Association and is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the Trust Sports Emporium.

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• Martin Fisher

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  Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KickStart International

  As a pioneer in using business models to solve poverty, Martin is the co-founder & CEO of KickStart, a non-profit SE with a mission to enable millions of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to pivot from rainfed to irrigated farming, earn a lot more money, adapt-to-climate-change & climb out of poverty. KickStart designs & promotes lowest-cost irrigation technologies & to-date over 390,000 farmers have used its pumps to grow, harvest & sell high-value crops year-round, independent of rains. Their highly profitable & resilient farms have lifted 1.5M people out of poverty. With almost no irrigation in SSA, millions more can irrigate & gain income & food security. KickStart partners with hundreds of organizations to promote irrigation, develop new technologies, innovate new ways to reach & finance farmers, & advocate for system changes. With a Cornell BSc, a Stanford MSc & PhD, a Fulbright in Kenya, and many awards, Martin is a Skoll & Schwab SE & a Stanford Engineering Hero.

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• Mark Campanale

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  Founder and Executive Director, Carbon Tracker Initiative

  Mark is founder and executive chair of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non profit financial think tank. Best known for the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis, the lexicon of ‘stranded asset’ risk is now common place in climate finance language. Mark commissioned and was editor of Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble? In 2011 and more recently, Mark co-founded ‘Planet Tracker’. Mark is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing their capital markets framework analysis. Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth. Prior to forming these groups, Mark worked for major institutional asset management companies in building sustainable asset management franchises. Mark is a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care between 1994 and 1999, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds from 1999-2008. Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003). Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’ and Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK. Mark is an advisor to Consilium Capital, serves on the Advisory Board of Tribe Impact Capital and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s sustainable finance programme. Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.

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• Mark Plotkin

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  President, Amazon Conservation Team

  Dr. Mark J. Plotkin has led the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) since 1996, when he co-founded the organization with Liliana Madrigal. He is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent three decades studying traditional plant use with traditional healers of tropical America.Among his many influential writings, Dr. Plotkin may be best known for his popular work Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice (1994), which has been printed continuously and in multiple languages. His most recent book, The Amazon – What Everyone Needs to Know, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.Dr. Plotkin has received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation, the Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award, and, with Liliana Madrigal, the Skoll Award. In 2010, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Lewis and Clark College. Dr. Plotkin was educated at Harvard, Yale and Tufts University. His ongoing podcast Plants of the Gods is available on Apple Podcasts and other platforms.

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• Lisha McCormick

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  Chief Executive Officer, Last Mile Health

  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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• Kirk Hanson

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  Author and Independent Consultant, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

  Kirk O. Hanson stepped down recently as Executive Director of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, one of the leading global centers for the study of applied ethics, where he held the John Courtney Murray, S.J. University Professorship in Social Ethics for 17 years. Previously Kirk taught business ethics at the Stanford Business School for 23 years and is recognized as one of the founders of the academic field of business ethics. He has been an emeritus faculty member at Stanford since 2001. Hanson writes and has published widely on managing the ethical and public behavior of corporations and their leaders. His current research interests include the design of corporate ethics programs and the responsibilities of boards for the ethical culture of organizations. Hanson has consulted with more than 125 corporations, nonprofit organizations, health care entitles, and government bodies on the design of ethics programs and the resolution of ethical dilemmas.

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• Kola Masha

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  Founder & Managing Director, Babban Gona Farm Services, Ltd., Babban Gona

  Kola is an award-winning social entrepreneur dedicated to solving Africa's leading social challenge, dramatic rise in insecurity. Kola brings significant leadership experience across four continents and multiple leading companies, including General Electric (GE), Abiomed and Notore. In addition, Kola brings extensive public sector experience as the former Senior Advisor to the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture. Kola is globally recognized as a thought leader in African Agribusiness. In recognition of his leadership in driving positive change on the African Continent, he has received several global awards including the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship and Rainer Fellowship. Kola holds an MBA (Honors) from Harvard and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Specialties: Impact Investing, Agricultural Development, Smallholder Farmer Development,

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• Kate Mohan

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  Senior Manager, Target Foundation

  Kate Mohan leads Target Foundation’s global philanthropy, working with community leaders around the world to create equitable economic opportunity. Kate has more than twenty years of experience designing and implementing philanthropy and social responsibility strategies. She believes strongly in the power of cross-sector partnership, community voice, continuous learning, and humility. Her areas of expertise include social innovation and entrepreneurship, international development, corporate responsibility & philanthropy, human rights, forced migration, post-conflict reconstruction, rule of law, and complex humanitarian crises. Kate is a graduate of St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota) where she earned a Bachelor of Arts and was a double major in philosophy and theology. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, USA with her husband and two sons.

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• Karabi Acharya

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  Director, Global Ideas for US Solutions, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Karabi Acharya, ScD directs the Global Ideas for US Solutions portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This portfolio draws inspiration from how other countries are achieving health and well-being for all members of the society and identifies best practices in order to adapt them to improve health and well-being in the United States. She is a public health anthropologist and worked over 20 years on international health and development issues in over 15 countries. Previously, Acharya was global director for Ashoka, a network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, where she led Ashoka’s efforts to document the system changes that Ashoka Fellows achieve. Prior to Ashoka, she worked for the Academy for Educational Development where she worked to bring community voices and perspectives into policy and program design. She was also on faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Karabi holds a Doctor of Science from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and is a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow. She enjoys crossing boundaries; both conceptual and geographic and practices “Blue Marble Thinking” daily.

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• John Valverde

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  President & CEO, YouthBuild USA

  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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• Joel Bolnick

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  Managing Director, Secretariat, Shack/Slum Dwellers International

  Joel is one of the co-founders of SDI. This globally recognized initiative began in 1991 when he teamed up with visionary Indian slum dweller Jockin Arputham, linking South African shack dwellers with Indian Pavement Dwellers. The result has been the evolution of a trans-national movement of the urban poor that now spans 34 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Joel is the Managing Director of SDI's Cape Town based Secertariat.

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• Jim Polan

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  Vice-President, Office of Development Credit, US International Development Finance Corporation

  Jim Polan is the Vice-President of the Office of Development Credit at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). He was formerly the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) VP for The SME Finance Department. Jim manages the DFC’s direct lending programs typically for amounts under $100 million to companies in over 100 emerging markets around the world. From 2003 Jim introduced, designed and implemented exceptionally innovative, developmental and award winning products including those involving MSME, impact, renewable/clean tech energy and low income housing finance resulting in a multi-billion dollar increase in assets and significant economic and social developmental benefits. Prior to assuming the role of Vice-President Jim has led project teams to project finance transaction closings throughout the world, covering sectors including manufacturing, Private Power, Transportation, Communications, Mining, Tourism, Agro-Industry and franchising representing tens of Billion Dollars in foreign direct investment in over 150 developing countries. Prior to joining OPIC in 1995 Mr. Polan spent the previous 15 years working for development finance banking institutions in Botswana and has been a financial and economic consultant to financial institutions throughout Southern Africa and the Far East. While in Africa, Mr. Polan sat on over 45 Company Boards of Directors. He managed and closed over 100 project finance deals. Mr. Polan conceived of, arranged financing for and developed the first Private Hospital in Botswana, was its Board Chairman, and went on to be its Chief Executive Officer. He was an active member of several SADC economic fora and delivered papers on several subjects concerning the private sector and development in Southern Africa.

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• Jennifer Schechter

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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 began working in Togo as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2004 where she was privileged to partner with a community-based association of people living with HIV/AIDS, called AED-Lidaw. Integrate Health grew out of this partnership. Since taking on the role of CEO 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. Jenny is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship with the Mulago Foundation, a recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, and a recipient of the Cordes Fellowship.

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• Jim Taylor

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  Co-Founder & CEO, Proximity Designs

  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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• Jagdeesh Rao Puppala

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  Founder, Foundation for Ecological Security

  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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• Indhu Rubasingham

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  Artistic Director, Kiln Theatre

  Indhu Rubasingham is the Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre. Productions as Artistic Director include: Red Velvet (Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award, also at St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC and Kenneth Branagh Season, West End), A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Multitudes, The House That Will Not Stand, Handbagged (Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, also West End transfer and UK tour), Paper Dolls, The Invisible Hand, Holy Sh!t, and White Teeth. Other selected directing credits include: The Great Wave, Ugly Lies the Bone, The Motherf**ker With The Hat, The Waiting Room, The Ramayana (National Theatre); Women, Power and Politics, Stones in His Pockets, Detaining Justice, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Fabulation, Starstruck (Tricycle Theatre); Belong, Disconnect, Free Outgoing, Lift Off, Clubland, The Crutch, Sugar Mummies (Royal Court); Ruined (Almeida); Yellowman, Anna in the Tropics (Hampstead); Secret Rapture, The Misanthrope (Minerva, Chichester); Romeo and Juliet (Festival Theatre, Chichester); Pure Gold (Soho Theatre); The No Boys Cricket Club, Party Girls (Stratford East); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep); Heartbreak House (Watford Palace); Sugar Dollies, Shakuntala (Gate); A River Sutra (Three Mill Island Studios); Rhinoceros (UC Davis, California); A Doll’s House (Young Vic).

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• Francisco von Hildebrand

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  President, Gaia Amazonas

  Francis von Hildebrand is the President of Gaia Amazonas (Fundación Gaia Amazonas). Gaia Amazonas is a Colombian NGO whose mission is to protect the Amazon, biocultural diversity, and socio-environmental resilience by actively partnering and collaborating with indigenous peoples’ processes and organizations. Francis has led Gaia Amazonas as its Director and CEO since 2012 and previously worked for a decade as a researcher advancing development and conservation projects in Amazonia with indigenous communities in Colombia and transfrontier projects. Francis is a Development Studies professional and an expert in local development strategies, local governance, and intercultural environmental management, emphasizing community-based research and participation.

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• Fred Swaniker

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  Founder & CEO, African Leadership Group

  Fred Swaniker is on a mission to bring better leadership to Africa and the world. He is the founder and CEO of the African Leadership Group – an ecosystem of organizations that are catalyzing a new era of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders. Over the past 15 years, he has founded and led the pre-university African Leadership Academy, the African Leadership University, the African Leadership Network and ALX — a next-generation leadership development and talent sourcing platform. Collectively, these endeavors aim to transform Africa by developing 3 million African leaders by 2035. He is also the founder of The Room, a talent agency for the world’s ambitious doers. Fred previously worked as a McKinsey consultant before earning an MBA from Stanford and becoming an entrepreneur. He is an Echoing Green Fellow; Aspen Institute Fellow; and most recently, was recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s most influential people of 2019. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Macalester College, Middlebury College and Nelson Mandela University.

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• Fenella Kernebone

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  Head of Curation, TEDxSydney, TEDx

  Fenella Kernebone is Head of Curation for TEDxSydney, where she programs one of the most acclaimed TEDx series' in the world. She hosts a podcast about storytelling called Lumina with film school AFTRS and will be hosting a new podcast through the Art Gallery of NSW for the Brett Whitely Studio, set for release in 2021. With a long career as a presenter and producer in television and radio – ABC TV’s Sunday Arts and Art Nation, Triple J’s The Sound Lab, Radio National’s By Design and SBS TV's The Movie Show – Fenella is also a sought-after MC, moderator and keynote speaker. Through her company, Frankly Group, she drives a range of projects from curating events, storytelling and presentation training, video and podcast production, and other creative initiatives. Fenella is also an elected volunteer Board Director with the National Trust (NSW)

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• Erin Harrington

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  Senior Manager of Philanthropy, Rosewood Family Advisors

  Philanthropy professional with grants, finance, and operational expertise across the non-profit, corporate, and foundation sectors. Currently the Senior Manager of Philanthropy at Rosewood Family Advisors.

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• Ella Gudwin

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  Chief Executive Officer, VisionSpring

  Ella Gudwin is the CEO of VisionSpring, a social entrepreneur and strategist with more than 20 years of experience in global health and international development. Before coming to VisionSpring, she served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Program Development at AmeriCares. She completed her Master's in Emerging Market Economics and Southeast Asia studies from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. She regularly speaks about hybrid business models which blend earned revenue with philanthropy; growing a purpose-driven business that serves low-income customers; and measuring social impact.

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• Emily Courey Pryor

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  Executive Director, Data2X

  Emily Courey Pryor is a social impact executive and gender equality advocate. She is the founding Executive Director of Data2X, a civil society organization that works to eliminate gender bias from the world’s major data sources and drive use of that data to improve the lives of women and girls. Data2X works with partners – UN agencies, governments, civil society, academia, and the private sector – to improve gender data and its use for better, smarter decision making. In addition to a focus on gender equality, she has a passion for and experience working in global health, international disaster response, and peace and security. Emily took a running start in her career at the American Red Cross, managed Gilead Sciences’ corporate philanthropy, and has built and led a variety of start-ups, including the UN Foundation’s initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment and the Girl Up campaign. She was also a founding investor in a utility-scale solar energy company. Emily received her MPH from the University of Michigan and BA from the University of Florida. She lives in Nashville with her husband and children.

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• Debbie Aung Din Taylor

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  Co-Founder, Proximity Research Lead, Proximity Designs

  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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• Atinuke Lebile

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  COO, CATO Foods and Agro Allied Global Concepts

  ATINUKE LEBILE, a vibrant lady with utmost interest in Agriculture and its value chain, and her passion for agriculture and feeding the nation and ensuring Food security has made her the Strategist Officer for Ogunmod Farms and Farmers' Academy and the Co-founder of Cato Foods and Agro-allied Global Concepts, that is committed to addressing Malnutrition especially in children under 5 and pregnant women using staple foods A graduate of Agricultural Science from University of Ilorin, who also works with rural communities to mentor young out-of-school girls on various entrepreneurial leadership skills through her initiative called MAGIC (mentor A Girl Child) and SheAgric Initiative where she raises intending female farmers, empower and motivate women and youth into Agriculture and its value chain to ensure Food security, Poverty reduction and curbing unemployment in Africa. Atinuke also earn a certificate in Business and Entrepreneurship from Purdue University, Indiana USA. Certificate in Enterprise Management from Enterprise Development Centre at the Lagos Business School and she is also an Alumni of FATE Foundation. She is a global ambassador for A world at School, 2015 Global Alliance for youth Leadership Fellow, 2016 YALI(RLC)West Africa Fellow and 2017 Mandela Washington fellow under the flagship of Young African Leaders initiative of former USA president, Barrack Obama, 2017/2018 Leap Africa fellow. Atinuke who love to be called a Cutefarmer, is presently the Program and Membership Mobilization Officer for Youths Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD), Nigeria.

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• Alexis Bonnell

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  Chief, Applied Innovation & Acceleration, US Global Development Lab

  Over her career, Bonnell has developed and delivered over a billion dollars of humanitarian and development programming in over 25 conflict, post-conflict and emergency countries, in almost every sector from education to stabilization, for more than 30 international bilateral donors, 10 U.N. agencies, the military and the private sector. She has held positions with every side of development including: implementers, donors, policy makers and beneficiaries. With more than 20 years of experience in management and communications, Bonnell has worked with: Wall Street and “dot.coms,” and on projects such as the Middle East Peace Plan, Afghan and Iraqi elections, tsunami response, Pakistan and Haiti earthquakes, construction projects, and major logistics operations. After years of working overseas, Bonnell returned to the United States with USAID as the senior adviser on business transformation and knowledge management. She then served as the Chief of Engagement for the Office of Education, where she helped shape the USAID education strategy. Bonnell was a founding senior member of the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID. Most recently, Bonnell served as the Division Chief for Applied Innovation and the Office Director for Engagement and Communications in the Lab. She has supported over 9 Grand Challenges and Prizes, Development Innovation Ventures, many prize, hackathon, and other internal and external innovation approaches. Bonnell was the creator and founder of the Global Innovation Exchange and Global Innovation Week. Bonnell has been recognized by teams inside USAID, across the Interagency, development and the private sector for actively building coalitions around innovative approaches. Bonnell believes that first and foremost innovation is "A voracious appetite for excellence" and it is the job of every person to innovate. She is honored to work hand in hand evryday at USAID with some of the most innovative people on earth.

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• Adva Saldinger

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  Senior reporter, Devex

  Adva Saldinger is an Associate Editor at Devex, where she covers U.S. foreign aid policy as well as the intersection of business and international development. From development finance to trade and social entrepreneurship to impact investing, Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.

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• William Foster

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  Managing Partner, Bridgespan Group

  William Foster is a partner in Bridgespan’s Boston office and the firm’s managing partner. He is an active thought leader on issues of philanthropy and social change. Since joining the firm in 2002, William has supported the success of some of the sector’s most innovative philanthropies (e.g., Blue Meridian Partners, Co-Impact, TED Audacious) and some of the highest impact nonprofits (e.g., Youth Villages and Anti-Defamation League). He has a particular focus on the diligence, structuring, and supports required for philanthropic “Big Bets” and strong funding models for nonprofits. William spent eight years as the Head of US Advisory Services, working closely with Bridgespan’s partners to guide the overall consulting practice. During this time, William worked with leaders across the firm to evolve Bridgespan's services for philanthropies and nonprofits, to deepen Bridgespan's commitment to equity, and to expand Bridgespan significantly. Based on his clients’ experiences, William has dedicated himself to research on the topics of philanthropic "Big Bets" and nonprofit funding models. In February of 2019, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published “Becoming Big Bettable.” In November of 2015, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published “Making Big Bets for Social Change.” William has served as the executive director of the Jacobson Family Foundation (now known as One8), an outcomes-oriented funder making grants to support educational excellence, equality, and Jewish continuity in the United States and Israel. Prior to joining Bridgespan, William worked at Bain & Co. He received his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. William serves on the board of Phare Bio and chairs the board of Gann Academy. He lives outside of Boston with his wife Rachel and their four wonderful children.

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• Willy Foote

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  Founder and CEO, Root Capital

  Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $1.7 billion in loans to 770 agricultural businesses in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these businesses have bought and marketed crops for 2.4 million smallholder farmers, reaching over 10 million people in rural communities. Willy is a Skoll Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Global Fellow. He served for nearly a decade on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and serves on the Strategic Advisory Council of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. Willy holds an MS in development economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Yale University.

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• Terry Gilbey

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  General Manager & CEO, Esalen Institute

  Terry Gilbey is a seasoned executive who has worked in both for profit and nonprofit organizations leading change, bringing stability, and empowering organizations to step into their full potential. While his primary focus has been solving complex problems within organizations and teams, he also has started companies from the ground up. Terry retired from the corporate world 10 years ago and first came to Esalen as a work scholar. He later returned as an extended student, and then remained on with a handful of community members during the Institute's closure. At that time, he worked in the Esalen Kitchen and supported the management team as they worked through the complex task of re-opening. Terry was named General Manager to oversee and support daily operations and, in January of 2018, took on the additional responsibility for Programming, Human Resources, and Marketing and Communications. In June 2018 Terry was appointed CEO. Terry strives to maintain an attitude of continual learning, leadership trustworthiness, and personal authenticity. He has experience and a proven track record in transforming organizations, projects, and people through a focus on continuous improvement, integration, and adoption of industry best practices and processes, effective team-building and collaboration, customer satisfaction, financial responsibility, and cross-functional relationships. Having lived and worked in multiple regions of Europe, North America, and Asia, Terry also values how geographic and cultural diversity can broaden perspective and strengthen a team.

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• Stuart Candy

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  Director, Situation Lab, Carnegie Mellon School of Design

  Stuart Candy is an award-winning designer and educator who narrowly escaped a career in law to become a pioneer of experiential futures practice, augmenting the collective capacity for foresight by any means necessary. Bridging strategy, policy, art, and activism, his work has been exhibited, published, taught, and played internationally, appearing in museums, festivals, universities, and city streets, on the Discovery Channel, and in the pages of The Economist and Wired. He is currently Director of Situation Lab and an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Candy has helped communities, creatives, and leaders worldwide to articulate and shape their preferred futures, working with aligned organisations including the Omidyar Group, Obama Foundation, United States Conference of Mayors, University of Oxford, UNESCO, IDEO, Arup, Interface, Burning Man, Dubai Museum of the Future, and Cook Inlet Tribal Council. He is a founding member of the Foresight Advisory Board at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Switzerland), as well as a Fellow of the Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), INK (India), World Futures Studies Federation (France), and The Long Now Foundation (USA).

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• Sujatha Sebastian

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  Co-Founder, Conveners.org

  Sujatha thrives helping changemakers and communities find ways to collaborate and solve large-scale social problems. She believes that convening is a powerful tool for transformation. An experienced facilitator, she uses creative design frameworks to help leaders and organizations embrace learning, growth, and exploration. Her approach enables groups to cultivate trust, spur innovation, and identify solutions. Sujatha brings 17 years of experience to her work as a social impact consultant, capacity builder, and strategist. She is founder the Conveners Group and co-founder of Conveners.org. Through her work, she has advised leading social sector organizations working in health equity, ethical apparel, financial empowerment, education, cyber security, and more. Her clients include the Aspen Institute, Hewlett Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and many others. Sujatha grew up in a multicultural household, the daughter of an immigrant entrepreneur and a midwife. She brings a diverse background in community economic development, international relations, and education to her work. She received a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Bryn Mawr College and MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

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• Sebastien Marot

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  Executive Director, Friends-International

  Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, an award winning global social enterprise which supports over 200,000 marginalized children and youth each year. He has led the expansion of the organization into 18 countries across 4 continents, developing best practice programs that provide protection and social reintegration services including access to employment for youth and parents, school reintegration for children and family conservation. Friends-International also established and powers the award-winning ChildSafe Movement that selects, trains, certifies and supports key actors of society to better protect children. It has also developed an international network of over 60 organizations (3PC), working together to develop and coordinate best quality services. To support this expansion, Friends-International utilizes a series of social business models providing training opportunities and financial sustainability.

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• Sakena Yacoobi

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  President and CEO, Afghan Institute of Learning

  Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is the President & Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an organization she founded in 1995 in response to the lack of education and health care that the Afghan people faced after decades of war and strife. Dr. Yacoobi is also the President & Executive Director of Sakena Fund formerly known as Creating Hope International (CHI). Dr. Yacoobi has established 352 Learning Centers, four schools, a hospital, and a radio/ TV station in Afghanistan and is the recipient of six honorary doctorates including from Princeton University. Each year, Dr. Yacoobi speaks at numerous events, conferences and at institutions such as the UN, Stanford University and Oxford University. Dr. Yacoobi particularly enjoys engaging with youth at schools, inspiring them to be globally minded citizens. Most recently in 2022 in response to the devastating fall of the nation, after the Taliban took over; Girls once again banned from schools, Dr. Yacoobi’s AIL staff with her

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• Sam Parker

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  Founder, FIGURE80

  Graduating from Oxford University in 1983, Sam worked for 17 years in the agrochemicals and commodity trading businesses, with responsibilities across Latin America, Africa and Asia. During this time, Sam took a two-year break to work as a volunteer with street children in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2002, he moved into the development sector with the International Save the Children Alliance, leading the organisational development of its 30 national members. 2006, Sam joined Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), as its first CEO, and became a Skoll Awardee in 2014. In 2015, Sam was appointed Director of the Shell Foundation, which funds the expansion of renewable energy to low-income consumers who have no access to electricity. Recognizing the crucial importance of business in achieving the SDGs, in 2021, Sam co-founded Agile Governance Inc., a B-Corp that helps social enterprises to transform business performance and raise more capital through smart, agile governance.

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• Roger Martin

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  Institute Director, Martin Prosperity Institute

  In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger Martin serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 25 Harvard Business Review articles. Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Verizon. A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.

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• Prince Gyasi

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  Visual Artist & Co-founder, Boxed Kids

  Prince Gyasi is a Ghanaian international visual artist. He is the co-founder of Boxedkids, a non-profit organization helping kids from the slums of Accra get an education. After finishing his secondary education at Accra Academy Senior high school in Accra, Prince started taking pictures in 2011. He bought his first iPhone in 2014 which became the primary tool he uses in creating his art pieces. He began with snapshots of friends, family, and models from his hometown of Ghana and then realized he could seriously use his phone as an instrument of creation and as a means of expression. Using an iPhone to shoot is a way to distinguish his art from other visual artists and photographers and in doing so he breaks the codes of this singular and elitist art. His work is about conveying feelings through colors and giving the floor to marginalized people that are often left aside in society. Prince considers his use of vibrant colors as a therapy to his audience and aims at leaving a “strong, positive imprint on the people’s heart and soul.” Some of his most poignant themes include motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood. Prince Gyasi was signed to Nil Gallery Paris in 2018 and had a solo show at the gallery in November 2018. His works have also been exhibited at the Seattle Art Fair 2018, the Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary art fair, and the Investec Cape Town art fair. Recently, he was mentioned by Vanity Fair (magazine) as one of the top 9 visual artists to follow in 2018. In December 2018, he worked with Apple Inc. on a project in Ghana entitled “A Great Day In Accra.” The documentary highlighted the HipLife music scene in Ghana. In this project, he shot Ghanaian HipLife musicians like Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Reggie Rockstone, Okyeame Kwame, among others.

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• Pooran Desai OBE

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  Founder, OnePlanet and Co-founder, Bioregional, Bioregional Development Group

  Thirty years of working in sustainability.

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• Paul van Zyl

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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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• Peris Bosire

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  Co-Founder, FarmDrive

  'm a Computer Scientist with successful experience in using technology to innovate and distribute high-impact, scalable solutions. My most recent work is at the intersection of finance, technology and agriculture. I co-founded FarmDrive - a data analytics company using the power of alternative credit scoring to increase sustainable lending from banks to smallholder farmers (SHFs) and small businesses (SMEs) in the agriculture sector. My career aspiration is to build meaningful technology platforms that improve lives.

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• Paul Rice

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  Founder & CEO, Fair Trade USA

  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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• Nithya Ramanathan

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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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• Nguhi Mwaura

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  Program Manager, Co-Impact

  Nguhi Mwaura is currently focused on strategies for directing more philanthropic funding to African-led initiatives. Previously, Nguhi was a fellow in the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. Before joining Skoll, she worked as a Program Manager at Schole, an investment firm that acquires and manages schools across Africa, where she helped refine and expand their strategy for East Africa. Nguhi also served as a management consultant at Dalberg, advising a diverse range of clients on issues from agriculture to early childhood education. A Kenyan national, Nguhi has lived and worked in various countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and is dedicated to supporting African entrepreneurs to drive development on their own terms.

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• Nina Smith

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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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• Neal Keny-Guyer

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  CEO, Mercy Corps

  Neal Keny-Guyer is a social entrepreneur driven by the belief that a better future is possible. Since 1994, Neal has served as Chief Executive Officer of the global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps. Under his leadership, Mercy Corps has grown into one of the most respected international relief and development agencies in the world, with ongoing operations in more than 40 countries, a staff of 5,000, and global revenue of over $450 million. Fast Company ranked Mercy Corps one of the most innovative social-change organizations in the world and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls Mercy Corps “a first-rate aid group.” A native of Tennessee, Neal started his career working with at-risk youth in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. After attending business school, he moved to Thailand to aid Cambodian refugees with CARE and UNICEF. In 1982, Neal began his tenure with Save the Children, rising to become Director of Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. He designed and implemented high-impact relief and development programs in some of the most war-torn and politically sensitive regions in the world. Neal holds a B.A. in Public Policy and Religion from Duke University, a master’s degree in Public and Private Management (M.P.P.M.) from Yale University, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Portland State University. A former trustee of the Yale Corporation, Neal remains very involved with the University, serving on the Yale President’s Council on International Affairs and the Board of Advisers of the Yale School of Management (SOM). Neal is as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System.

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• Muzoon Almellehan

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  Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF

  I am Muzoon from Syria, I am an education activist and I work with Unicef as a GoodWill Ambassdair. I had to flee my country 2013 with my family for seeking safety in Refygee camps in Jordan, because of the war in my homeland, since then I have been advocating for children’s rights, especially their right to have access to education.

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• Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter

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  Executive Director for Strategy and Content, Social Capital Markets LLC

  Michelle is an impact investor, strategist and social entrepreneur. In her role as Executive Director for Strategy and Content at SOCAP, she leads the programatic direction and curation for the largest impact investment conference. She is also a General Partner at IMPAQTO Capital, a revenue-based financing fund for investing in the missing middle of impact finance in the Andean region. Before her current role, Michelle was the CEO and co-founder of IMPAQTO, a B Corporation with a mission to support impact entrepreneurs reach their goals by building the ecosystem and network they need to thrive. IMPAQTO offers coworking spaces, a business accelerator, innovation consulting services and an impact investing fund to Latin American entrepreneurs building a better world. Michelle is a recent mother of twins and lives in Quito. She holds an Mst in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master's in Public Policy, UC Berkeley.

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• Mindy Lubber

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  Chief Executive Officer and President, Ceres

  Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks have grown significantly in size and influence. As a well-known global thought leader, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders to consider all material financial risks and opportunities—including those related to climate change, water scarcity and nature loss—in decision-making. She has also received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership including the ’Champions of the Earth award, the UN's highest environmental honor; the Barron’s Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance every year since 2020; the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network; the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation; and the Nonprofit Times 2022 Power & Influence Top 50.

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• Matthew Forti

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  Managing Director, One Acre Fund

  Matthew Forti is the Managing Director of One Acre Fund, now the largest nonprofit social enterprise working exclusively to improve the yields, incomes, and resilience of over 4 million African subsistence farmers. Matt played an instrumental role in One Acre Fund’s founding, helping to raise the seed capital and becoming its inaugural Board Chair. Today Matt coordinates the organization’s global operations, including partnership and business development, corporate finance, monitoring & evaluation, and the organization’s governing boards. Prior, Matt was a Manager at the Bridgespan Group, co-heading its performance measurement practice and working in the global development practice area. Matt received his MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management and BA summa cum laude from Northwestern University. Matt writes extensively on the topic of performance measurement, including through a blog series for Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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• Maryana Iskander

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  Chief Executive Officer, Wikimedia Foundation

  Maryana Iskander is CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. She spent 10 years as CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa, winning the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019. Prior to this, she served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was an associate at McKinsey & Company, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She is a Henry Crown Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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• Marc Freedman

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  Founder and Co-CEO, CoGenerate

  Marc Freedman is Founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org), and a faculty member at The Yale School of Management. Freedman is the author of five books, including most recently, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations. He co-founded Experience Corps to mobilize people over 50 to improve the prospects of low-income elementary schools, and the Purpose Prize, an annual award for social innovators in the second half of life. Freedman is an Ashoka Senior Fellow; was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum; and has been honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. A former visiting fellow at Stanford University, King’s College, London, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, he holds an MBA from the Yale. He lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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• Liz Diebold

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  Managing Director, Skoll Foundation

  Liz is Managing Director at the Skoll Foundation, where she identifies and leads timely, strategic investments in Awardees with whom we see extraordinary potential for large scale and lasting change in the world. She also serves as a collaborative advisor to grantees and multiple external partners. Liz has significant experience in the broad areas of investment and finance in developing markets - from digital financial inclusion to fund structuring and facilitating supply chain investments with small local firms and large multinational corporations - and deep agriculture sector knowledge. She is passionate about growing markets and empowering economically disenfranchised people around the world with choice to pursue a range of economic livelihoods. Prior to joining Skoll, Liz held positions with USAID, World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OPIC, and as a development consultant. Liz is a Midwesterner at heart (KCMO!) and a globalist in spirit who never ceases to be moved by human kindness.

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• Lucy Lake

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  Executive Chair & Advisor, CAMFED

  Lucy joined CAMFED in 1994, shortly after it was founded, and went on to become the CEO. In 2023, Lucy stepped aside as CEO and continues as Executive Advisor, working with the executive and boards to position CAMFED for its next phase of development. Under Lucy’s leadership, CAMFED was awarded the Hilton Humanitarian Prize and the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, and has been recognized by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD for best practice in taking development innovation to scale. In 2020, Lucy was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Development alongside Angeline Murimirwa, now CAMFED's CEO, for her contribution to gender equality in education. Lucy is a founding member and former Co-Chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, a member of the High-Level Steering Group of the Education Commission’s Workforce Initiative, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Education Monitoring Report.

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• Lisa Witter

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  Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Apolitical

  Lisa Witter is an eternal optimist, executive, entrepreneur, and author. She is the CEO of the Apolitical Foundation, a not-for-profit set up by Apolitical.co to advance the revitalization of democracy through effective and transformational public and political leadership. She is co-founder and board member of Apolitical, the global learning network used by public servants in 170+ countries. The tech company’s mission is to accelerate the transformation of government. She’s a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, serves on and has co-chaired the Forum’s Council on Agile Governance, and served for six years on the Brain and Behavior Council. She is a former public servant with deep experience in gender and behavioral science. She was recently awarded, along with her co-founder Robyn Scott, the 2020 Creative Bureaucracy Award.

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• Liliana Madrigal

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  Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Amazon Conservation Team

  Liliana Madrigal is Co-Founder and Vice-President of ACT, created in 1996 with Dr. Mark J. Plotkin. Her special mandate is providing the vision, strategic direction, and organizational leadership to advance ACT’s mission. Additionally, Liliana oversees ACT’s fundraising and programmatic activities, traveling frequently to South America to meet and work with ACT's local teams and indigenous partners. Previously she led conservation efforts with the Fundacion de Parques Nacionales de Costa Rica, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy. In 2006, Liliana won the Circle of Bridge-Makers Award from the Angeles Arrien Foundation. She and Dr. Plotkin were co-awardees of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2008. In 2017, she was awarded a residency fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Liliana lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband Dr. Mark J. Plotkin.

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• Kumi Naidoo

  Speaker

  Global Ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace & Dignity; Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Africans Rising

  Kumi Naidoo is a South African born human rights and climate activist. He has served as International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 to 2016) and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 to 2020). Kumi has lectured at Fossil Free University and was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy until early 2022. Kumi is currently a Senior Advisor for the Community Arts Network (CAN) and a Special Advisor to the Green Economy Coalition. He is Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and continues to serve as a Global ambassador, Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. Kumi is a Visiting Fellow, Oxford University and Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College and has started the Ricky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Arts in honour of his son.

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• Krista Tippett

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  Journalist, Public Radio Host, Author, On Being Project

  Krista Tippett founded and leads the On Being Project, an independent non-profit public life and media initiative. She created and hosts the Peabody award-winning On Being public radio show, which is carried on over 400 public radio stations across the U.S., and the On Being podcast, which was downloaded 52 million times in 2017. She also curates the Civil Conversations Project, an emergent approach to conversation and relationship across the differences of our age. In 2014, President Obama awarded Krista the National Humanities Medal at the White House for “thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence. On the air and in print, Ms. Tippett avoids easy answers, embracing complexity and inviting people of ​every background to join her conversation about faith, ethics, and moral wisdom.” Krista grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, became a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and later received a Master of Divinity from Yale University. Her first book, Speaking of Faith, published in 2007, is a memoir of religion in our time, including her move from geopolitical engagement to theology and the cumulative wisdom of her interviews these past years. In 2010, she published Einstein’s God, drawn from her interviews at the intersection of science, medicine, and spiritual inquiry. Krista’s 2016 New York Times best-selling Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living opens into the questions and challenges of this century.

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• Keely Stevenson

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  CEO, Skoll Foundation

  Keely Stevenson is an entrepreneur and an investor. She is CEO and Co-founder of Weal Life, a digital health company focused on leveraging mobile technology to make it easier for people to care for each other during times of health crisis, advanced aging or chronic illness. She has served as a board member, mentor and advisor to start-ups and established companies in healthcare, biotech, energy, housing, education and finance around the globe. Previously, she’s built global initiatives, including in her role as CEO of Bamboo Finance USA. Bamboo is one of the world’s first and largest private equity firms focused on balancing social impact and commercial returns ($300M AUM). She’s also led the world’s first online community for social entrepreneurs as an early Skoll Foundation team member. She has worked on five continents. She studied politics at UC Berkeley and received an MBA from Oxford University where she was a Skoll Scholar.

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• Kate Raworth

  Speaker

  Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

  Kate Raworth is an economist dedicated to making economics fit for the 21st century. Her book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist is an international bestseller that has been translated into 15 languages, and it was long-listed for the 2017 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, and is an advisor to the Global Challenges programme of the Stockholm School of Economics and to the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey. Over the past two decades Kate has worked as Senior Researcher at Oxfam, as economist and co-author of the UN’s Human Development Report, and as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute based in the villages of Zanzibar. She holds a BA and MSc from Oxford University and an honorary doctorate from Business School Lausanne.

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• Jordan Kassalow

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  Founder, VisionSpring

  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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• Josh Karliner

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  International Director, Program and Strategy, Health Care Without Harm

  Josh Karliner helps lead Health Care Without Harm’s worldwide systems change efforts to build a zero emissions and climate resilient health care sector. He has coordinated HCWH’s international work since 2005, co-creating and developing of the organization’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, with members now in 76 countries. Closely collaborating with the World Health Organization, Josh also led HCWH’s successful worldwide campaign to eliminate mercury in healthcare. He is author of two books along with a wide variety of academic and popular publications on global environmental and health policy. Josh is a member of the board of directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, and the Save the Waves Coalition. He lives in San Francisco, USA.

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• John Marks

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  Founder & Managing Director, Search for Common Ground

  John Marks is the founder and Managing Director of Confluence International, an Amsterdam-based NGO that specializes in Track II diplomacy and TV production to promote social change. Until 2014, he was President of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO, which he founded in 1982. SFCG was nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. John also founded Common Ground Productions (CGP) and has produced or executive-produced TV series in more than 20 countries. He is a Visiting Scholar in Peacebuilding and Social Entrepreneurship at Leiden University in the Netherlands. With his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he is a Skoll Awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, and, additionally, he is an Ashoka Senior Fellow. A best-selling, award-winning author, he graduated from Cornell University and was a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. He has an honorary PhD from the UN’s University of Peace in Costa Rica.

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• Joe Madiath

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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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• Joel Simon

  Speaker

  Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists

  Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization that defends press freedom and the rights of journalists worldwide. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post and many others. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. He is the author of three books: We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages, and Ransom (Columbia Global Reports, 2019); The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia University Press, 2014), and Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge (Sierra Club Books, 1997).

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• James DeMartini III

  Delegate

  Chairman, Seiler LLP

  Jim DeMartini is the Chairman of Seiler LLP. In his role as a trusted advisor, Mr. DeMartini counsels clients in matters including income, estate and gift tax planning, wealth management, all facets of real estate, and charitable gift planning. Currently, Mr. DeMartini is a member of the Board of Directors of the Skoll Foundation and the Stupski Foundation. Mr. DeMartini was also Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of Sports Association for Youth, a non-competitive baseball league that currently benefits more than 1,000 Bay Area youths annually. Additional past community activities include Notre Dame de Namur University Trustee, Executive Committee Member, and Chairman of the Audit Committee; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur of California Advisory Board; Santa Clara University English Advisory Board; Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford Capital Campaign Committee; Stanford University Medical Center Friends of Orthopedics; Chair of the Santa Clara University Men’s Golf Committee; and Skoll Global Threats Fund board member. From 1999-2004 Mr. DeMartini served on the Board of Directors of Mid-Peninsula Bank, a member of the Greater Bay Bancorp group. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Golden Gate University. Mr. DeMartini pursued graduate studies in taxation and speaks on a variety of related topics. Mr. DeMartini is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and California State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

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• Jeroo Billimoria

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  Co-Founder and Chief Facilitator, 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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• Jennifer Corpuz

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  Senior Global Policy and Advocacy Lead, Nia Tero Foundation

  Jennifer Tauli Corpuz coordinates the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program of Tebtebba – Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy Research and Education, an organization based in the Philippines. An indigenous woman from the Kankana-ey Igorot People, and a lawyer by profession, she attends to the legal needs of Tebtebba partner communities and conducts regular trainings on indigenous peoples’ rights in the international system. Jennifer graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law and obtained her Master of Laws from the Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy (IPLP) Program of The University of Arizona. She was the 2012 Indigenous Intellectual Property Law Fellow at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and since then has been an active participant in the WIPO IGC negotiations on the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. She was involved as negotiator and expert for the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), representing indigenous peoples’ views and positions at the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

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• James Nardella

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  Chief Program Officer, Last Mile Health

  As Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health, James guides programs that strengthen community health systems, upskill the community health workforce, and deliver community-based care and treatment in Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. He also oversees Last Mile Health’s key influence initiative, Africa Frontline First, which aims to improve the design, durability, and amount of community health financing coming from government, philanthropy, and multi-lateral institutions. Prior to joining Last Mile Health, James served as a Principal on the Portfolio & Investments Team at the Skoll Foundation and led the Foundation’s relationship with a $40M portfolio of current Skoll Awardees. Before Skoll, James led the Lwala Community Alliance, a health and development organization known for its community approach to increasing child survival, skilled delivery rates, and access to HIV care in rural Kenya. James has a Master's in International Ed Policy from Vanderbilt University.

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• Henry McLoughlin

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  Director of Strategy, Capricorn Investment Group

  Henry is director of advocacy at Capricorn Investment Group, a firm that invests in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape Joby Aviation and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. At Capricorn, Henry helps catalyze capital towards the solutions to the climate change crisis. Prior to Capricorn, Henry was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris, Casablanca and Dubai and with Oliver Wyman in New York. His last year as a consultant was spent with the World Economic Forum where he was in charge of the infrastructure finance initiative, a project aimed at rapidly scaling up essential infrastructure, including renewable energy, in emerging countries. Henry is a former captain in the French Marine Infantry, serving within NATO forces in Afghanistan in 2007. He is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure (rue d’Ulm), of Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Paris and of the Saint-Cyr Special Military School (ROTC).

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• Hashem Selph

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  Head of Production, Soul Pancake

  As lead producer and head of production at SoulPancake, Hashem Selph has produced and provided oversight for over 500 short-form videos reaching an audience of over 10 million. Mr. Selph has also worked as story producer for cable television programs in the US, as well as a production manager and coordinator for numerous feature documentary films released in theaters globally.

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• Heather Grady

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  Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

  Heather Grady is a Vice President in the San Francisco team of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and leads the practice area of Environment and Climate Change, including a range of funder collaboratives, advisory engagements, and research. She co-founded and leads the Shifting Systems initiative that encourages funders to place longer-term, more adaptive funding with grantee partners to enable them to create systemic impact. She oversees a portfolio of over 40 sponsored projects and advises philanthropists and foundations. Her perspectives and practice have been influenced by two decades living and working in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She previously worked with the Rockefeller Foundation, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, and Oxfam Great Britain. She is on the board of Doc Society, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Wildlife Justice Commission, the Dropbox Foundation and Forum for the Future, and the Advisory Council of Daughters for Earth.

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• Harish Hande

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  CEO, Selco Foundation

  Harish Hande, Founder SELCO Harish Hande is a renewable energy entrepreneur with over 25 years of grassroots experience in understanding, developing and deploying sustainable energy solutions for underserved communities. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2011. Today SELCO is an umbrella of organizations, each tasked to address gaps in the energy access ecosystem namely SELCO India (1994), energy access enterprise; SELCO Foundation (2010), non profit R&D, SELCO Incubation Centre (2012), nurturing grass roots energy enterprises and finally SELCO Fund (2016), deploy patient capital.

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• Geci Karuri-Sebina

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  Associate, South African Cities Network

  Geci is a Johannesburg-based scholar-practitioner who mainly works on urban planning and governance issues. She is currently currently an Associate of South African Cities Network, Visiting Research Fellow with the Wits School of Governance, and National Organiser of the Civic Tech Innovation Network in South Africa. Geci’s experience and interests span a range of development foresight, policy, innovation and practice topics, particularly relating to cities and local systems. She has two decades’ experience working and publishing in these fields. Her recent publications include the book Innovation Africa (Emerald ) and a foresight journal special issue on Urban Futures. Geci previously worked with South Africa’s National Treasury Neighbourhood Development Partnership Grant programme, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Advanced Policy Institute. She holds Masters’ degrees in Urban Planning and Architecture from UCLA, and a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is active a number of roles including as a Regional Advisor: Africa Innovation Summit; Curator: The Emergence Network, Council Member: South African Council of Planners; Board member: African Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (AfricaLics) and Plan Act NGO; founding director: Southern African Node of the Millennium Project and co-founder: ForesightForDevelopment.org; Associate Editor: African Journal for Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (Taylor & Francis) and Africa Regional Editor: foresight (Emerald).

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• Gene Falk

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  CEO, mothers2mothers

  Gene Falk is one of the few people to lead major ventures in both Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Building on this experience, he founded and heads strategic consulting firm FalkAdvisors|DGB whose mission is to help funders and the not-for-profits they support achieve the best results from their collaborations, avoiding risks and pain points, and sidestepping obstacles that rapidly burn through money, time and other valuable resources. Previously, Gene headed mothers2mothers (m2m) and was a recipient of a Skoll Award for this work. Prior to that, Gene was a senior executive at Showtime and HBO.

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• Gary White

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  CEO and Co-founder, Water.org

  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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• Gary Barker

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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 founder of Equimundo, which has worked for 20 years in more than 40 countries. Gary is co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign working in 50 countries to promote men’s involvement as caregivers, and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 700 NGOs. He co-created and leads the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), the largest-ever survey of men’s attitudes and behaviors related to violence, fatherhood, and gender equality. He is a co-author of the State of the World’s Fathers reports. 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. 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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• Erin Worsham

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  Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship

  Erin is the Executive Director of CASE at Duke University. CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. Erin also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member with Duke University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative teaching a course on Social Innovation and advising a course on Impact Investing. Prior to her work at Duke, Erin worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, developing public-private partnerships at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working on private sector development issues at the World Bank, and serving at a nonprofit think tank. She has a BA from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/erinworsham

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• Erik Brodt

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  Director, Northwest Native American Center of Excellence, Northwest Native American Center of Excellence

  Erik Brodt, MD Anishinaabe – Minnesota Chippewa Erik grew up near Chippewa Falls, WI and spent summers with family in the rural areas around Bemidji, MN. Dr. Brodt earned his M.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and completed residency in Family Medicine at the Seattle Indian Health Board – Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency in Seattle, WA. Dr. Brodt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He practices in the OHSU Scappoose and Warm Springs Tribal Health clinics, while also serving as the founding Director of the OHSU Northwest Native American Center of Excellence. Erik is a fierce believer in occasional magic working to eliminate Native health disparities and improve Native American Health Professions programming nationally through creative partnerships and collaborations. An entrepreneur at heart, Erik and his wife Amanda have explored the fashion ecosystem through their global collection Ginew – featured in Vogue & GQ; culinary creativity and sustainable food systems; and the digital media non-profit WE ARE HEALERS. In his free time Dr. Brodt enjoys spending his time in Portland, OR with his wife Amanda, daughter Honukōkūlaniokauna’oa (Honu), their dogs Stinky & Pippa, and a motley crew of friends comprised of change-makers, mavens, and creatives.

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• Erika Soto Lamb

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  Vice President, Social Impact Strategy, Comedy Central

  Erika Soto Lamb drives change on the toughest cultural and political issues via powerful and persuasive campaigns. Erika is the founding head of social impact strategy at Comedy Central, Paramount Network and TV Land. She was previously the founding chief communications officer at Everytown for Gun Safety, where, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, she helped build the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country that includes Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Michael Bloomberg-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Erika was previously a vice president at Ketchum, a global PR firm where she provided reputation management counsel to a major foreign government and other international clients. Earlier in her career, Erika focused on media relations and message development for political candidate and issue campaigns, as well as for public and private sector clients. Erika’s (pro-bono) side hustle is helping elect more women and people of color because she believes representation matters. Erika also sits on the board of the Violence Intervention Program, Inc., a direct service and advocacy organization working to end intimate partner violence and empower women – and in particular Latinas – in New York City. Erika has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. She is a native of border town El Paso, Texas and now resides in New York City with her family, including two young sons.

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• Elizabeth Nyamayaro

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  Senior Advisor to United Nations Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

  Elizabeth Nyamayaro is Senior Advisor to United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Global Head of UN’s HeForShe Initiative, a global solidarity movement which seeks to engage men and boys as advocates for gender equality. A strong advocate for women rights and economic empowerment, Ms. Nyamayaro has worked at the forefront of Africa’s development agenda for more than two decades in both the public and private sector, and previously held positions with UNAIDS, World Health Organization, World Bank and Merck. Born in Zimbabwe and a Political Scientist by training, Ms. Nyamayaro holds a MSc in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and she has completed executive education at Harvard Business School.

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• Elizabeth Hausler

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  Founder & CEO, Build Change

  World-class social innovator. Safe housing advocate. Bricklayer. Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is the Founder and CEO of Build Change and a global expert on resilient housing, post-disaster reconstruction, and systems change. Elizabeth’s strategic direction and leadership have grown Build Change from a few employees in 2004 to a global team spread across five continents. She is the recipient of many honors, and in 2011, was named the US Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. Together with Build Change, she was awarded the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2018, she received the University of California, Berkeley’s Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award. Elizabeth is also an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, and an Echoing Green Fellow. Dr. Hausler has headlined top conferences, lectured at eminent universities, and been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, BBC News, Forbes, Elle Magazine, ABC News, and Bloomberg Business.

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• Dunstan Allison-Hope

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  Managing Director, Business for Social Responsibility

  Dunstan oversees BSR’s human rights, women’s empowerment, and inclusive economy practices. Previously, Dunstan led BSR’s information and communications technology and heavy manufacturing practices. He brings significant experience working in North America, EMEA, and Asia on a diverse range of issues such as technology and human rights, privacy and freedom of expression, sustainability reporting, sustainability strategy, and stakeholder engagement. In recent years Dunstan has been focused on the intersection of disruptive technology and human rights, and in 2018 published three papers on the importance of taking a rights-based approach to artificial intelligence. Dunstan has worked with companies such as Facebook, Google, Cisco, Microsoft, BT, Telenor, Telia, and AT&T on technology and human rights. Dunstan facilitated the multistakeholder process of developing global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. He also helped create the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a collaborative initiative of more than 100 ICT companies improving conditions in their supply chains. Dunstan participated in the process of creating the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines, and is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, reporting, and human rights. He also co-authored the 2010 book, Big Business, Big Responsibilities. Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications' corporate responsibility team. Dunstan has an M.Prof. in Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.

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• Eleanor Allen

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  CEO, B Lab

  Eleanor is the CEO of Catapult For Change, PBC. Catapult For Change provides leadership coaching for executives and teams and management consulting services. Eleanor believes that we all have tremendous potential yet sometimes we encounter obstacles that hold us back. She started Catapult For Change to help clients tackle those obstacles using a holistic approach to problem solving and personal growth so each person can grow and reach their potential with grace and joy. This includes supporting clients with personal inner work (developing a practice to promote individual well-being) and professional skill building so they can find their zone of brilliance to succeed and thrive. Eleanor is the former CEO of B Lab Global and Water For People. She is also a corporate board member, management consultant, technical specialist, and professional engineer. She enjoys ultra/endurance cycling, hiking, cooking, and exploring Colorado and beyond with her husband, two boys, and two dogs.

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• Donald Gips

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  Chief Executive Officer, Skoll Foundation

  Don Gips is the Chief Executive Officer of the Skoll Foundation, a global philanthropy with a mission to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. With a career spanning public service, politics, business, nonprofits and technology, Gips leads the Foundation’s work investing in, connecting, and championing social innovators around the world. In 2008, Gips helped lead President Barack Obama’s transition team and then served in the White House as his Director of Presidential Personnel at the beginning of the Administration. From there he went on to serve as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa from 2009 to 2013. There he was recognized for his efforts to promote improved relations with South Africa when the U.S. State Department chose him as the recipient of the 2010 Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service. During the Clinton Administration, he served as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore and Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. At the FCC, he helped design the first spectrum auctions for licenses to utilize the continuum of frequencies used to provide wireless services ranging from radio broadcasting to mobile communications and satellite services. In 1993, he helped create the framework for what would become the U.S. national service program, AmeriCorps, that continues to enroll more than 200,000 Americans each year in public service. Gips has also held various roles in the private sector. He was head of Corporate Development at Level 3 Communications; led the Africa practice at Albright Stonebridge Group; and served as a venture partner at Columbia Capital and a Senior Advisor at Blackstone. He began his private sector career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He currently sits on the board of CassTech, Africa’s leading provider of information and telecommunications services, and is on the Board of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund US. He has also served on the boards of Zayo, Mindspeed, Liquid, Omnispace, and Nextnav. Don received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He is married to Elizabeth (Liz) Berry Gips. Don and Liz have three grown sons: Sam, Peter, and Ben.

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• Dorothy Stoneman

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  Assisstant to the Director, Opportunity Youth United

  Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and board chair of the first YouthBuild program, started in 1978 and still operating in East Harlem. She created and led YouthBuild USA from 1988 through 2016 to spread this program throughout the nation and internationally with public funds and fidelity to the program philosophy and design. There are now 260 YouthBuild programs in the US and 80 in 21 other countries. Over 200,000 YouthBuild students have built over 35,000 units of affordable housing in their communities while earning their High School Equivalency diploma. Stoneman is currently the assistant to the director for Opportunity Youth United (www.OYUnited.org) a multi-racial movement of low-income young adults and their allies working to diminish poverty and increase opportunity in America. They have produced a broad policy agenda and organized Community Action Teams in 20 communities. Stoneman graduated from Harvard University in 1963 and joined the Civil Rights Movement. She lived and worked in Harlem for the next 24 years, in the Public Schools, at the parent-controlled East Harlem Block Schools, and with the Youth Action Program empowering young adults to create community development projects of their own design. She received the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship, John Gardner Leadership Award, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Harvard Call to Service Award, and the Boston “Woke White Woman” award. In 2018 she contributed to “Healing Our Divided Society,” a book tracking the 50 years since the Kerner Commission Report. This would be a good read for anyone interested in ending poverty and racism in the United States.

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• Deval Sanghavi

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  Co-Founder & Partner, Dasra

  Deval is the co-founder of Dasra, an India based strategic philanthropy foundation which brings a field building approach to create systems change in India. Over the past 20 years, Dasra has actively shaped the philanthropic sector by building stronger institutions such as Magic Bus, Educate Girls and SNEHA, has worked with leading foundations including Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, Tata Trust, Omidyar Network and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and works closely with government departments at a state and national level to put impact first in the development agenda. Dasra's work spans across a spectrum of focus areas, such as creating collaborative funding platforms in the fields of Adolescents, Urban Sanitation and Democracy and Governance in India. Reinforced through a research-backed approach and institution building for non-profit organisations, Dasra focuses on prioritizing human lives at the centre of all of its thinking. As co-founder, Deval provides strategic guidance and support to a 100+ member team, is an advisor to multiple family foundations and serves as a trusted confidant to leading NGO leaders and management teams.

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• Deepti Doshi

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  Co-Director, New_Public

  Deepti is the Co-Director of New_ Public. Her work has focused on the intersection of social media, community organizing and leadership development over the last two decades. Prior to New_ Public, she set up Meta's New Product Experimentation team and established Meta’s Community Partnerships team to build products (namely, Groups), programs, and partnerships that support community leaders. Deepti is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Wharton Business School and holds a bachelors degree in Psychology. She is a TED Fellow, an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow and Ideas Scholar, and her work has been featured in multiple publications.

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• David Linde

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  CEO, Participant

  David Linde is CEO of Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. Linde is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, content, impact campaigning, operations, and acquisitions. Participant titles include Oscar winners Spotlight, Green Book, American Factory, CITIZENFOUR, The Cove, An Inconvenient Truth, ROMA and A Fantastic Woman; as well as Contagion, Good Night Good Luck, Flee and in television, Emmy®-winning content such as Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. Linde’s background spans production, global distribution and building companies from the ground up. He served as chairman of Universal Pictures, co-founder of Focus Features and CEO/owner of Lava Bear Films, where he produced multi-Oscar® nominee Arrival. Linde currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees and Film Independent's Board Of Directors.

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• Daniel Viederman

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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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• Chris Jochnick

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  President and Chief Executive Officer, Landesa

  Chris 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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• Charmian Gooch

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  Co-Founder & Director, Global Witness

  Charmian Gooch jointly led Global Witness's first campaign, exposing the trade in timber between the Khmer Rouge and Thai logging companies and their political and military backers. Subsequently, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness’s ground-breaking campaign to combat ‘blood diamonds’; Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of this work. In 2014 Charmian was awarded the TED Prize, given to an ‘extraordinary individual with a creative and bold vision to spark global change’. In the same year, Charmian along with Global Witness co-founders Patrick Alley and Simon Taylor, received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, awarded to ‘transformative leaders who are disrupting the status quo’. She was also named one of Fast Company’s 100 most creative people in business and is a Young Global Leader Alumni.

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• Carne Ross

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  Executive Director, Independent Diplomat

  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 Simons

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  President, mPedigree

  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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• Ben Pyne

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  Principal, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Ariane Campbell

  Delegate

  Associate Program Manager, MasterCard Foundation

  Ariane has been with the Mastercard Foundation since 2014, and is currently an Associate Program Manager. She works on Youth Livelihoods and Education programming across several countries in Africa and with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Before joining the Foundation, Ariane worked for 6 years in international education, first as a teacher, and then in educational recruitment for a large K-12 public education reform. She holds a Bachelor of International Development from the University of Guelph, and a Master of Immigration and Settlement Studies from Ryerson University.

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• Atti Worku

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  co-CEO, African Visionary Fund

  Atti is a leader and advocate with over 10 years of experience as a nonprofit CEO. Throughout her career, Atti experienced the biased and unjust challenges of raising philanthropic dollars in the U.S. for a locally-led, community-centered African organization. As the AVFund’s Africa-based co-CEO, she is focused on supporting the personal and organizational growth of African visionaries and their innovative impact ideas. Prior to joining the AVFund, Atti founded and led Seeds of Africa, a nonprofit developing the educational foundation for the next generation of Ethiopia’s leaders. Since 2008, Seeds has impacted over 2,000 people, transforming the livelihoods and trajectories of students, their mothers, and their families in the community of Adama, Ethiopia. Atti writes, speaks and moderates panels about power dynamics and racial injustice in philanthropy.

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• Anne Marie Burgoyne

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  Managing Director, Social Innovation, Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective

  Anne Marie Burgoyne is the Managing Director, Philanthropy at Emerson Collective where she leads the organization’s philanthropic investments across a wide array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity. Anne Marie has served on the boards of over 30 nonprofits and is currently on the boards of Hope Enterprise Corporation, The Management Center and Waverley Street Foundation. Anne Marie was a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, a nonprofit Executive Director, an investment banker, and an executive of a technology services company. Anne Marie received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and holds a BA in English and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two terrific girls and enjoys walking, yoga, cooking and cabaret singing.

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• Anna Birney

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  Director, School of System Change, Forum for the Future

  Anna is Director at Forum for the Future where she leads their systems change capacity building work. She found the School of System Change which seeks to build an international learning community of change makers using systemic practices to address complex challenges of our times. She also runs and coaches a number of initiatives including the Marine CoLAB and works with organisations from foundations such as OSF, Caluste Gulbenkian, civil society organisations and businesses. She also cultivates living change inquiries into deeper questions that look to challenge the deeper structures and mental models of the way we live and work. She is the author of Cultivating System Change: A practitioners companion which is based on her PhD of the same title.

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• Dr. Angela Gichaga

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  Chief Executive Officer, Financing Alliance for Health

  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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• Andrew Jack

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  Global education editor, Financial Times

  Andrew Jack is global education editor for the Financial Times, writing on educational issues around the world and editorial lead for the free FT schools programme (www.ft.com/schoolsarefree). He was previously head of curated content, deputy editor of the big read section, pharmaceuticals correspondent, and a foreign correspondent in France and Russia. He is author of "Inside Putin's Russia" and "The French Exception"

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• Aakash Sethi

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  CEO, Quest Alliance

  I have over 20 years of experience in Education & Youth Employment programs and have been engaged in developing networks for knowledge creation and policy advocacy in corporate responsibility and technology for development. As the founder & Chief Executive Officer of QUEST Alliance that promotes the use of technology in schools & vocational training to develop self learning pathways for children and youth, I aim to transform classrooms and skill training programs into vibrant hubs of self-learning; role modelling teachers as 21st Century facilitators and re-designing education technologies (both traditional to digital) to put young people in charge of their own learning and career pathways and empowering unemployable youth. I was an active member of AIESEC the world's largest youth for 5 years. I am an Ashoka fellow and an Asia 21 fellow and serve on the board of Children's Movement for Civic Awareness and Dalit Shakti Kendra.

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• Zahid Torres-Rahman

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  Founder and CEO, Business Fights Poverty

  Zahid has over 25 years’ experience in business and international development, and is passionate about helping businesses collaborate with others to scale their social impact. Over his career he has helped create nearly 20 networks and communities that bring people together for social impact. Zahid is the Founder and CEO of Business Fights Poverty, a Founding UK B Corp. Business Fights Poverty has grown into a global community of people and organisations passionate about building an equitable and resilient future. By curating purposeful collaboration, Business Fights Poverty helps companies and their partners access the insights and relationships they need to unlock new opportunities for business and social impact.

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• Whitney Smith

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  Founder and CEO, Whit and Wisdom

  Whitney Smith brings her over 25 years of experience in the leadership of innovative and progressive projects and organizations to her work as a consultant. Whitney is also the visionary Founder of Girls For A Change and scaled the organization from 10 girls in the US to over 20,000 girls globally during her 13-year tenure as CEO. Whit And Wisdom is a boutique consultancy that is completely head over heels in love with corporations, social ventures and individuals who are out to make our world a better place. Whit and Wisdom specializes in strategy, facilitation, project management, negotiation and problem solving. We work with corporations to develop and implement CSR strategy, pro-social marketing campaigns and philanthropic endeavors. We advise companies and entrepreneurs on product development, finance strategy, business and partnership strategy, brand, and culture when the goal is meeting a double bottom line. We partner with foundations, high net-worth individuals and families to develop giving strategy and implement high leverage philanthropy. We assist high performing social ventures and social entrepreneurs to design strategy, achieve scale and generate revenue. ​

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• Wendy Levy

  Delegate

  Executive Director, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture

  Wendy’s creative work takes place at the intersection of storytelling, innovation and social justice. As the Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, she is focused on facilitating collaboration, innovation, leadership and cultural impact in the media arts field, leading new national and international programs like HatchLabs, Arts2Work and The Innovation Studio. Arts2Work launched in January 2018 with the very first federally-registered National Apprenticeship Program in media arts and creative technologies, a new initiative representing the hope for the future of creative work in the US, and a pathway out of poverty for a new generation of diverse artists and storytellers. Previously, Wendy was a Senior Consultant at Sundance Institute, helping develop the Sundance/Skoll Stories of Change Program and the New Frontier Story Lab. Wendy also directed the MacArthur Foundation-funded Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, the first public media Innovation Lab in the US. She began her career in film as the Festival Director for the Film Arts Festival for Independent Cinema at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. Wendy is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award for distinguished contribution to the media arts field.

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• Victoria Hale

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  Founder & CEO, Institute for OneWorld Health

  Victoria Hale, PhD, is a pharmaceutical scientist/executive and global health social entrepreneur, and is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sacredmedicines.earth which is developing Ayahuasca Tea for psychiatric disorders. She was founder & CEO of two successful nonprofit pharmaceutical companies, OneWorld Health (2000; tropical infectious diseases) and Medicines360 (2009; contraception). OneWorld Health was the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the US. She is a MacArthur Fellow, was inducted into the US National Academy of Medicine, has been recognized as an outstanding global social entrepreneur by Skoll, Ashoka and Schwab Foundations. Her drug development experience was obtained at the FDA and Genentech, Inc. She earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Univ California San Francisco (UCSF) where she is presently Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering and Experimental Sciences. Dr Hale is a member of the MAPS Board of Directors. Victoria lives in San Francisco, CA. https://www.sacredmedicines.earth/

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• Tim Hanstad

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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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• Teresa Guillien

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  Managing Director, Resource Media

  Teresa is Managing Director and leads Resource Media's work with philanthropies, nonprofits and agencies that are dedicated to social impact, public health and social justice. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. She serves on the Board of Directors of EarthCorps, on the Advisory Board of the Max Foundation, and teaches an annual nonprofit communications course at the University of Washington.

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• Teri Schwartz

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  Dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

  Teri Schwartz is the Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) where she has launched an exciting new vision and long-range plan that re-imagines entertainment and performing arts education as an interdisciplinary enterprise grounded in humanistic storytelling, social impact, technology and innovation and global diversity. Prior to becoming Dean at UCLA TFT, she successfully served as the founding dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television. Schwartz is an award-winning feature film producer, whose many films garnered nominations for Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe, Grammy and MTV awards. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America; Directors Guild of America; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves on the Television Academy Foundation’s Board of Directors; The Hawn Foundation Board of Directors; the Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors; the UCLA TFT/UCA Storytelling Institute in Cannes Executive Board; the Los Angeles Theater Alliance Board of Governors; the NAACP Entertainment Industry Advisory Board; the Governing Council of the Los Angeles-India Film Council; and the Board of Trustees of the Swarovski Foundation. Dean Schwartz was just appointed by the University of California’s Board of Regents to the California State Summer School for the Arts Board of Trustees. Schwartz received the 2018 UCLA Community School Bruin Partnership Award for Service and Distinction; the 2015 recipient of the CayFilm International Film Festival’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Film Producing; the 2013 American Spirit Award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors for her Special Achievement in Educating New Filmmakers; and Variety’s 2012 Media Mentor of the Year.

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• Taddy Blecher

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  CEO, Community and Individual Development Association, Community and Individual Development Association City Campus

  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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• Susan Collin Marks

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  Peace Ambassador, Search for Common Ground

  Susan Collin Marks, Peace Ambassador for Search for Common Ground, an internationally renowned peacemaker and peacebuilder, has worked in some of the most conflictual places on the planet, mediating, facilitating dialogue, and establishing supporting peace initiatives. In recent years, she focused on counsellin and supporting high level political, institutional and civil society leaders worldwide, including cabinet ministers, military generals, and members of the US Congress. In September 2014, she stepped aside after 20 years as vice president of what grew into the largest peacebuilding NGO in the world, and moved from Washington DC to Europe. Search for Common Ground was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Susan has numerous awards and honors. Susan writes, speaks, counsels, teaches, and supports peace initiatives internationally. She holds a vision of a world of peace and dignity. She believes that our common humanity binds us together more than our differences divide us.

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• Sridhar Prasad

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  Partner, Bridgespan Group

  Sridhar is a partner in The Bridgespan Group's Boston office. As part of Bridgespan’s Philanthropy and Global Development practice areas, Sridhar has worked with a number of nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropic collaboratives, including Women’s World Banking, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Lever for Change, and The Audacious Project. Much of his work has focused on building successful platforms to harness and direct philanthropic capital in order to both reduce perceived barriers for aspirational philanthropists and increase access to scale capital for high-impact change agents. Sridhar holds a BA in history from Columbia University, a JD from the Harvard Law School, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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• Stephan Chambers

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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 Idriss

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  Chief Executive Officer, Search for Common Ground

  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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• Sandy Herz

  Delegate

  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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• Sally Osberg

  Speaker

  Vice Chair and Senior Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of the world’s most pressing problems and developed innovative platforms for connecting civil society, government and private sector leaders with societal problem solvers. Among these platforms are the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and the Sundance Institute’s “Stories of Change” initiative. In 2015, Sally and Roger Martin published Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, which articulates a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and distills lessons for practitioners, academics and impact investors. Her thought pieces have appeared in leading social impact and business journals and books; in 2015, she and Roger Martin were honored by Thinkers 50 for their intellectual leadership in the field of social enterprise. Prior to joining Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, Sally served as the founding Executive Director for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, a pioneering institution in the field. Sally currently serves as the Chair of the Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education in Africa) USA Foundation, on the Philanthropy Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada, on the Advisory Council of the Elders, as Vice Chair of the Social Progress Imperative and as a board director for New America and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School of Oxford University. She received her M.A. in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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• Richard Fahey

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  Special Advisor, Skoll Foundation

  Richard Fahey served as Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation from 2004 to 2021, where he contributed to the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems. Richard now serves as Special Advisor to the Foundation. As COO, Richard led the Skoll Foundation’s finance, impact measurement, technology, and other business management functions. He was the key executive staff interface between the Investment Committee and the Capricorn Investment Group which manages the Foundation’s endowment. Richard worked closely with the Foundation’s investment manager to align the Foundation’s investment capital with its mission. Prior to joining Skoll, Richard spent nearly 25 years with the Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of senior operations, infrastructure, finance policy, and controller positions. He earned his B.A. at Georgetown University in Economics and History, and his M.B.A at the University of Chicago.

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• Richard Ray Perez

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  Director, Creative Partnerships, Documentary Film Program, Sundance Institute

  “Rick” Perez oversees a portfolio of Sundance Institute strategic partnerships focused on the convergence of nonfiction filmmaking, innovative thought leadership, and themes vital to contemporary societies. These initiatives include Stories of Change, a Sundance Institute partnership with the Skoll Foundation that harnesses the power of storytelling to advance the work of leading social entrepreneurs. Mr. Perez is also a senior reviewer for the Sundance Documentary Film Fund; frequently participates as a speaker, panelist and moderator at domestic and international events focusing on non-fiction filmmaking; leads workshops on documentary storytelling; and nurtures filmmakers throughout the world, including artists traditionally underrepresented in the field of non-fiction cinema. In addition to his work at Sundance Institute, Mr. Perez executive produced and directed the feature documentary, Cesar’s Last Fast, a film about the spiritual commitment of American civil rights and labor leader Cesar E. Chavez that premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Prior to joining the Sundance staff, Mr. Perez was an executive producer at Brave New Films where he produced two documentary series and directed a third. Richard Ray Perez holds a bachelor of arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University.

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• Randall Kempner

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  Senior Advisor, Energy and Environment Program, Aspen Institute

  Randall Kempner is Senior Advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program. His primary focus areas are climate investing, climate philanthropy and the intersection of climate change and economic development. He recently served as the CEO of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, a Texas-based grantmaking foundation that seeks innovative, sustainable solutions for environmental problems. For the previous eleven years, Randall worked as a VP of the Aspen Institute and the founding executive director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of nearly 300 organizations that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He presently serves on the advisory boards of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Center for Global Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Chair of the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund, a family foundation focused on his hometown of Galveston, Texas.

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• Rachael Clay

  Delegate

  Director, Ethicore

  Rachael Clay founded the Impact Agency, Ethicore, in 2008 to strengthen the social and environmental impact of business, NGOs, funders, institutions and their movements and partnerships. Her focus is on understanding the impact agenda, developing strategies for impact and bringing stakeholders together to create transformational change. She delivers through Ethicore and her pro-bono work. As an impact innovator, Rachael has twenty five years' experience of insight, engagement, strategy, and partnerships to influence social change. She worked for Oxfam for a decade and prior to that in the public and private sectors. Her increasing focus is on finance for impact.

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• Philip Brown

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  Impact Banker, Individual

  Philip is an Impact Banker and Senior Risk Officer who works, to scale mission driven organisations, to achieve positive sustainable outcomes. With over 40 years’ global experience within Citigroup across multiple divisions and functions, including Risk, Country Head, Business and staff positions in the US, Europe, Sri Lanka, Channel Islands and Audit and Risk Review for EMEA, he has a wealth of experience of many different facets of banking. Recently retired he was a founding member and Managing Director Risk of Citi Inclusive Finance Group. Here he enabled Citi’s global businesses to commercially engage in inclusive finance (including Inclusive Fintech). This resulted in more than $4 billion in financing for microfinance and inclusive businesses. Before moving to Citi Inclusive Finance, he was Citi’s Risk Director for Project Finance and Structured Trade Finance within EMEA. Current external roles include the Governing Council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, Emeritus member of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Financial Inclusion, the Investment Committee of the Habitat for Humanity MicroBuild Fund, Chair of the Credit Committee of Root Capital and the Finance Audit & Risk and the Finance & Risk and the Lending Committee of Big Issue Invest.

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• Peter Tufano

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  Peter Moores Dean; Dean of Said Business School, Saïd Business School

  Professor Peter Tufano has served as the Peter Moores Dean at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford since July 2011. His work focuses on financial innovation, especially that which improves lives of low-income families. This work is reflected in his research; the social enterprise he founded to support wealth-building by the American families (buildcommonwealth.org); and policy engagements credited with influencing US policy, including the U.S. American Savings Promotion Act. As Dean, he has emphasized the role of business education in addressing the major challenges of the world through deeper connections with the broader university and a clearer articulation of purpose. At Oxford, this orientation has manifested itself in the Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme; the “Global Opportunities & Threats: Oxford” required course that emphasizes systems interventions and leadership; a set of new entrepreneurial projects including the pan-University The Oxford Foundry and the global partnership with Creative Destruction Lab; the promotion of humanities in the leadership curriculum; and the promotion of a responsible business agenda oriented around the UN SDGs. Before joining Oxford, Tufano spent 33 years at Harvard, with more than two decades on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he co-founded the Harvard University Innovation Lab (i-Lab).

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• Peggy Clark

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  CEO and President, International Center for Research on Women

  Peggy Clark is President and CEO of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the leading women’s research organization in the world. Throughout her career Peggy has worked to tackle and address gender inequality, including women’s economic security, health, and well-being. She is currently leading a major restructure of ICRW to build a global network of Gender Centers of Excellence to support the next generation of expertise and solutions to build a more gender equal world. Prior to ICRW, Peggy was the Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group, Executive Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Director of Realizing Rights, Chair of the Women’s Policy Group and Program Officer, Ford Foundation, and Director of Small-Scale Enterprise and Credit at Save the Children. Peggy is Chair, African Leaders Malaria Alliance ;Vice Chair, Ashesi University Ghana; Board Emeritus, Calvert Impact Capital; Board Member Last Mile Health.

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• Patrick Alley

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  Co-Founder & Board Member, Global Witness

  Patrick is one of the three founders of Global Witness. Founded in 1993 Global Witness has become one of the world’s leading investigative organisations dedicated to rooting out corruption and environmental and human rights abuses around the world, with Patrick taking part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe. Taking the findings to lawmakers and into the boardrooms of multinational companies Patrick and his colleagues have challenged the assumption that you can’t change things. Global Witness now has major focus on tackling the climate crisis. Patrick is the author of Very Bad People, published in 2022, which charts some of Global Witness’ key investigations. Alongside his two co-founders Patrick received the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the same year that Global Witness won the TED Prize. Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for their work exposing the murderous trade in blood diamonds.

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• Pamela Roussos

  Delegate

  Chief Community Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship

  Pamela Roussos is Chief Community Officer, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. She is responsible for developing and furthering strategic relationships, partnerships and alliances that span Miller Center’s global footprint. Previously, she spent 20 years building and leading venture-backed software companies. Pamela began mentoring social entrepreneurs in 2010 and has been dedicated to and inspired by them ever since. She is a sought-after speaker for her expertise in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, global accelerators and place-based initiatives designed to spur economic growth in under-developed communities in the US and around the world.

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• Pat Mitchell

  Speaker

  Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders, Pat Mitchell Media

  Throughout her career as an award-winning journalist, producer and media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women as the first woman President of PBS and of CNN Productions. Today, Pat is a co-founder, host and curator for TEDWomen and co-founder and managing partner of ConnectedWomenLeaders, a cohort of global women leaders, across generations and geography, who are launching a global, women-led campaign for climate justice titled Project Dandelion. She is Chair Emeritus of the Sundance Institute and just received the Vanguard Award for philanthropy. She also serves on the board of The Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, The Woodruff Arts Center, and the VDAY movement to end violence; she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council and Chair Emeritus of the Women’s Media Center which established an annual award in her name. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman,” Mitchell shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

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• Olivia Leland

  Speaker

  Founder and CEO, Co-Impact

  Olivia Leland is the Founder and CEO of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative for equitable systems change at scale, focused on advancing gender equality and elevating women and girls’ power, agency and leadership at all levels. Olivia has more than two decades of international experience in philanthropy, government, and the non-profit sector. Prior to Co-Impact, Olivia was the founding director of the Giving Pledge – an effort launched by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett to help address society’s most pressing problems by encouraging increased philanthropy. Previously, Olivia worked in microfinance and financial inclusion, and in the areas of strategy development, multi-sector collaboration, and advancing gender equality.

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• Ned Breslin

  Delegate

  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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• Neelam Chhiber

  Delegate

  Co-founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation

  Neelam Chhiber is the Co-founder of Industree. For the past three decades, she has been working on regenerative economic transformation of India’s most vulnerable women by unleashing their abilities to build and scale self owned collective enterprises, able to leverage economies of scale. A holistic eco system built on digital and financial services, enables them to use design, technical, marketing and management solutions to bridge the urban-rural divide. Neelam and her team have already impacted 500,000 lives and ensured cumulative market access of over 58 M USD, with a clear focus on Equity, Gender and Climate. Their work ensures that women in communities have access to work close to their homes, becoming part of mainstream value chains with customers such as IKEA, H&M Home, Fabindia, and the Future Group, in climate positive value chains. This gives them greater control over their economic security and also significantly improves social gains.

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• Navalayo Osembo

  Delegate

  CEO, Enda Athletic Limited

  Navalayo Osembo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Enda Athletic, Inc. Osembo is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has worked internationally, including in the US, UK, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya where she utilizes her diverse skills as an accountant, a lawyer, risk manager, and in international development. She is from a town near Eldoret, Kenya, that has produced generations of the world’s greatest distance runners. Prior to creating Enda Athletic Inc., Osembo started a sports academy in Bungoma, Western Kenya, to provide sports proteges from disadvantaged backgrounds access to much-needed professional training without compromising their education. In order to maximize social impact in Kenya through sports, Osembo teamed up with her Co-Founder to create Enda Athletic Inc., a made-in-Kenya running shoe brand that creates jobs, invests in local communities, and spurs economic development through exports.

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• Namrita Kapur

  Delegate

  Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation

  Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises on the philanthropy of founders of one of the oldest VC firms and of a Fortune 500 company. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised National Geographic on its impact investing strategy. Namrita is also an angel investor in the Portfolia fund of funds, which focuses on educating and activating female angel investors. She serves on the Boards of Environmental League of Massachusetts, Center for Business & Environment at Yale, IE-Brown Executive MBA Program, Massachusetts Environmental Justice Council and the Museum of Science. She holds two degrees from Yale and one from Princeton.

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• Molly Melching

  Delegate

  Founder, Tostan

  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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• Michael Green

  Delegate

  CEO, Social Progress Imperative

  Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop of ‘The Economist’) of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society. Previously Michael served as a senior official in the U.K. Government’s Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programs to Russia and Ukraine and headed the communications department. He taught Economics at Warsaw University in Poland in the early 1990s. His TED Talks have been viewed more than three million times. His 2014 Talk was chosen by the TED organisation as one of the ‘most powerful ideas’ of 2014 and by The Telegraph as one of the 10 best ever.

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• Martin Burt

  Delegate

  Founder & Executive Director, Fundación Paraguaya

  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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• Mallika Dutt

  Delegate

  Program Director, Gender Equity and Governance, Breakthrough

  Mallika 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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• Madhav Chavan

  Delegate

  Co-Founder, Pratham

  Madhav Chavan moved from the field of Chemistry to the field of literacy a few years after his return to India having acquired a Ph. D. in the United States and some post-doctoral experience there. He worked in the field of adult literacy from 1989 to 1994 inspired by the National Literacy Mission launched by late Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India. In 1994, Unicef in Mumbai put him in charge of creating a ‘societal mission’ to universalize primary education in the city of Mumbai. As a result he co-founded Pratham that started in 1994-95 as a Mumbai based organization and has now grown to be one of India’s largest NGOs working across the country with millions of children every year with a focus on basic learning outcomes including reading and math. Its flagship programs, Read India and the Annual Status of Education Report have earned the organization a reputation as a pedagogy and advocacy innovator that has influenced policy and practice at the national and international level. He stepped down as CEO of Pratham Education Foundation but continues to be on its Board and actively leading the new experimentation in use of technology for education. Madhav has been personally recognized for his work with the WISE Prize and The Skoll Award for social entrepreneurship among other honors. His organization, Pratham, has received the Kravis Prize for Leadership, the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for developmental work and the LUI Che Woo Prize for positive energy.

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• Ma Jun

  Delegate

  Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs

  Ma Jun began his career in 1993 working for the South China Morning Post, where his research on China’s environmental problems spurred him to publish the 1999 book China’s Water Crisis. In 2004 he was selected as a Yale World Fellow. Upon returning to China, Ma Jun founded the non-profit organization the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) in Beijing in 2006. As Director of IPE, Ma Jun led the development and launch of China’s first environmental public database, the Blue Map, with website and mobile app platforms. The Blue Map collects air, water and soil quality data from across the country, as well as pollution source information that provides a foundation for green credit and green finance systems. The Green Choice supply chain program he and colleagues initiated has motivated more than 3000 suppliers of major global and local brands to openly address their violation problems. In 2006, he was awarded as China’s “Green Person of the Year” and was named as one of TIME Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People. Ma was also honored with the Magsaysay Award in 2009 and Goldman Prize in 2012 for his environmental protection work in China, as well as the 2015 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his innovative approach to “lifting the veil” on China’s pollution problems.

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• Mabel van Oranje

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  Founder, Girls Not Brides

  Mabel van Oranje is a global advocate for equality, justice and freedom and serial entrepreneur for social change. During the last decade, she played a catalytic role in the creation and growth of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, the Girls First Fund and VOW for Girls. Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and VOW for Girls (chair). She is also an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, the Graca Machel Trust and The Elders. Mabel is a champion of Girls Not Brides, and a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow her tweets @MabelvanOranje

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• Luis Szaran

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  Founder and Director, Sonidos de la Tierra

  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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• Larry Brilliant

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  Founder and CEO, Skoll Foundation

  Dr. Larry Brilliant is a physician and epidemiologist, CEO of Pandefense Advisory, senior advisor at the Skoll Foundation and a CNN Medical Analyst. Previously on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and the NGO Ending Pandemics; president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund; vice president of Google, and founding executive director of Google.org. He co-founded the Seva Foundation. Earlier, he co-founded The Well, a progenitor of today's social media platforms. He was an associate professor of epidemiology and international health planning at the University of Michigan. He lived in India for nearly a decade where he was a key member of the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme for SE Asia as well as the WHO Polio Eradication Programme. He was the founding chairman of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS); member of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk; and a "First Responder" for CDC's bio-terrorism response effort. He is also an author.

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• Josh Nesbit

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  Former Chief Executive Officer, Medic

  Josh Nesbit is the co-founder and former CEO of Medic, a nonprofit organization founded to improve health with and in the hardest-to-reach communities. The open-source software helps over 35,000 community health workers provide care for more than 20 million people in Africa and Asia. These health workers deliver care and services, door-to-door, through more than 1.5 million home visits each month. Together with our partners, we envision a more just world in which health workers are supported as they provide care for their neighbors, universal health coverage is a reality, and health is secured as a human right. Before co-founding Medic, Josh studied global health and bioethics at Stanford University, where his qualitative research focused on pediatric HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Josh is an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow. He has served on the Board of Directors for Developing Radio Partners and IntraHealth International. Josh was selected by Devex as one of 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development, received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development, and was named by Forbes as one of the world’s 30 top social entrepreneurs. In 2014, Medic received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2016, Josh accepted a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. Josh is continually inspired by health workers around the world.

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• Jim Fruchterman

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  Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters, Benetech

  Jim 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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• Jessie Coates

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  Global Impact Entrepreneurship Leader, EY (Global)

  As EY Global Impact Entrepreneurship and Markets Leader, Jessie brings together entrepreneurs, corporates and public sector institutions to help scale new technologies and business models that purposefully drive progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A chartered accountant by trade, Jessie began her career in corporate finance before working as a consultant with clients across the social, private and public sectors. Since 2017, she has focused on combining public and private sector capabilities to help life-changing impact entrepreneurs overcome barriers to scale, primarily in emerging market contexts. She also serves on the board of several local and international impact enterprises and nonprofits. Jessie holds a BA and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, graduating with a First Class Honors, and is an alumna of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program.

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• Jessamyn Shams-Lau

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  Executive Director, Peery Foundation

  Jessamyn Shams-Lau joined the Peery Foundation as its first staff member in 2009, helping to shape the foundation’s initial strategy and portfolios. As Executive Director, Jessamyn supports the Peery Foundation team, guides overall strategy, and develops a grantee-centric approach across the foundation’s portfolios. Jessamyn uses her experience as part of the founding Ashoka U team in her hands-on role as a Board Member of BYU’s Ballard Center, where she created curriculum now taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Jessamyn has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London and an MBA from Brigham Young University.

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• Jess Ladd

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  Founder, Callisto

  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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• Jess Search

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  Chief Executive, Doc Society

  Jess is a founder of Doc Society, which has funded and championed the work of independent documentary filmmakers around the world since 2005. Writing with Fire, I Am Softie, The Edge of Democracy, CITIZENFOUR, The Territory, The Square, Virunga etc Currently obsessed with Climate and Democracy narratives and protecting the space for independent storytelling. Jess is also a trustee of MSI Reproductive Choices, the world's most effective family planning and abortion provider in 37 countries. Jess is also chair of UK think tank IPPR and a board member of crowdfunding innovator Kickstarter. Jess is a big fan of the Skoll World Forum.

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• Jeremy Hockenstein

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  Co-Founder and CEO, Digital Divide Data

  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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• Jeanne Bourgault

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  President and CEO, Internews

  As President and CEO of Internews, Jeanne Bourgault leads the strategic management of the organization and its programs in more than 80 countries around the world. Bourgault has overseen Internews’ growth in areas underserved by local media, such as Afghanistan and South Sudan, and under her leadership Internews has led the growing sector of humanitarian information, expanded into US programs to meet unique domestic information gaps, developed strategies to address the growing challenges of digital information technology, and centered the information needs of women and girls throughout its programs. During her tenure, Internews has piloted and developed innovative programs including the Earth Journalism Network, United for News, and the Listening Post Collective. Prior to Internews, Bourgault worked internationally in countries undergoing dramatic shifts in media and political landscapes. She joined Internews in 2001 as Vice President for Programs after six years with the U.S. Agency for International Development, including three years at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and as a strategic advisor for media and community development programs in post-war Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. Bourgault has consulted on international program design and evaluation for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Triangle Institute, and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, among others. Bourgault speaks on issues of global news, women’s media leadership, information technology, and participatory community development worldwide, including venues such as the Skoll World Forum, the Global Philanthropy Forum, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. She serves on the Media, Entertainment, and Information Industries Steering Committee for the World Economic Forum, and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Media Development.

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• James Mwangi

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  Founder and CEO, Africa Climate Ventures

  James Irungu Mwangi is the founder and CEO of Africa Climate Ventures, where he is working to build and accelerate transformative climate-smart and carbon-negative businesses across the continent. James is also the founder of the Climate Action Platform – Africa (CAP-A), a public benefit organization launched in 2021, to unlock Africa’s potential for inclusive prosperity through Climate Positive Growth. Previously, James co-founded the Dalberg Group, where over a 20-year period, he led the firm's expansion into Africa, served as Global Managing Partner and then as Executive Director. He is an independent director on several boards including the Skoll Foundation, the Global Centre for Pluralism, One Acre Fund, Old Mutual Limited and Koko Networks. James holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University. He is a 2022 Climate Breakthrough Awardee, a 2021 Yale World Fellow, a 2009 Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow and a 2013 Young Global Leader.

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• Ion Yadigaroglu

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  Managing Principal, Capricorn Investment Group

  Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. Prior to Capricorn, Ion was a Director with Koch Industries, executing a range of acquisitions and investments. Prior to Koch, he was a founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bivio, a software startup in Colorado, and the second employee of Olsen & Associates, a foreign exchange analytics company. Ion was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Physics from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Stanford University.

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• Holly Gordon

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  Chief Impact Officer, Participant

  Holly Gordon is the Chief Impact Officer at Participant, overseeing the company’s social impact strategy and campaigns, furthering Participant’s mission to create storytelling that inspires positive social change. These global, multi-year campaigns are driven by the company’s content and powered by strategic partnerships to address the most important issues of our time. Prior to joining Participant, Gordon co-founded Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education. Selected by Fast Company as a member of the League of Extraordinary Women and named by Newsweek/Daily Beast as one of 125 Women of Impact, Gordon is also an Executive Producer for the Girl Rising film at the center of the movement. Forbes Magazine named the Girl Rising campaign the #1 Most Dynamic Social Initiative of 2012. In 2015, Holly was selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar and currently serves on the boards of MAKERS and Girl Rising.

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• Heidi Kuhn

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  Founder and CEO, Roots of Peace

  Heidi Kühn is the Founder and CEO of Roots of Peace. Since launching the organization in 1997, ROP has developed over 30 agricultural value chains impacting over a million farmers in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Croatia, Guatemala, Israel, Palestine and Vietnam. In 2021, Heidi's visionary leadership was acknowledged with her inclusion in the inaugural Forbes 50 Over 50 “Women Who Are Leading the Way in Impact” List. Heidi has also received other prestigious awards including: the UC Berkeley Alumni of the Year Award for Excellence in Achievement (2002), the World Association of NGOs Peace & Security Award (2005), the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2006) and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service (2007). Heidi is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Economics, and a former CNN reporter and producer. She lives in California, with her husband, Gary, with whom she has 4 children and 6 grandchildren.

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• Gidon Bromberg

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  EcoPeace co-director, EcoPeace Middle East

  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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• Gillian Caldwell

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  Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID, United States Agency for International Development

  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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• Fred de Sam Lazaro

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  Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

  Fred de Sam Lazaro is a correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and executive director of the Under-Told Stories Project. He was a regular contributor and substitute anchor for PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Fred also has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acclaimed documentary series, Wide Angle. Fred has reported from 70 countries with a focus on the myriad issues that underlie poverty and human suffering. He founded the Under-Told Stories Project, now located at the University of St. Thomas, designed to use storytelling to enhance students’ understanding of the pressing global issues of our time. Fred has received three honorary doctorates, numerous journalism awards and fellowships from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Michigan. He serves on the board of Sahan Journal, a non-profit news service focused primarily on the affairs of Minnesota's BIPOC and immigrant communities

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• Fleur Bakker

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  Founder, Refugee Company Foundation

  Fleur Bakker is the driving force behind the Refugee Company and social enterprise A Beautiful Mess. Fleur is social entrepreneur, pioneer and co-creator driven by a clear vision on social justice. For more than 19 years Fleur has been working on programs and concepts aimed at improving the perspectives of refugees in the Netherlands and abroad.

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• Essam Daod

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  Co-founder and Mental Health Director, Humanity Crew

  Dr. Daod is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who grew up in Israel in a small Arab Palestinian village in the Galilee. He specialized in child and adolescent psychiatry and graduated from psychoanalytic school. In 2015, he flew to Greece for a humanitarian rescue mission where he co-founded Humanity Crew and has been working with refugees ever since. Currently, he is an avid refugee mental health activist and researcher who has spoken in countless conferences and media outlets all over the world advocating for the importance of mental health support for refugees. In 2016 Essam and Humanity Crew were awarded "The Defenders of Refugee Rights Award" at the 4th Edition of Cities Defending Human Rights in Barcelona. In 2018, he became a TED Fellow and Speaker. www.essamdaod.com | www.humanitycrew.org

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• Elizabeth Smith

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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 less developed countries’ full participation in global markets stems from her time living and working with 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.  Previously she had consulted at the UNDP for six yeas with the UN Office of South-South Cooperation forwarding the work of the Creative Economy for Development Agenda.  Liz started 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 recipient for her work documenting endangered song.

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• Emily Kasriel

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  Deep Listening - Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London

  Emily Kasriel is writing a book on Deep Listening, developing the approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College in London and previously as a Practitioner in Residence at the LSE. With the British Council and the BBC, she recruited 1000 people in 119 countries to train in Deep Listening and trains cohorts of leaders with the UK’s Forward Institute for responsible leadership. She is a journalist and has been a media executive at the BBC for many years, leading multiple high impact global projects as well as producing and reporting from five continents. Previously she has been a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, and hosts interviews. More on her website EmilyKasriel.com

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• Edith Chapin

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  Vice President and Executive Editor, National Public Radio

  Edith Chapin is the Vice President and Executive Editor of NPR News. In that role she resumes responsibility for the NPR newsroom, setting daily news priorities, and directing all of NPR's news-gathering teams. She has full authority to work across the newsroom to ensure that desks, shows and digital teams are rowing in the same direction on major stories and coverage, so that NPR can be consistent and collaborative in our approach to news on all of our platforms. From 2017-2019 she led NPR's efforts to build a collaborative journalism network with NPR Member stations. When Chapin was named Executive Editor in 2015 she was charged with overseeing all desks and reporters, and helping to set the agenda for the entire News division. Previously, Chapin was the senior supervising editor of NPR's International Desk. She managed a team of correspondents based outside the United States committed to bringing listeners dynamic stories of the world's people, politics, economy, and culture. Prior to joining NPR in 2012, Chapin spent 25 years at CNN and worked her way up from intern, to bureau chief to vice president. Most recently, Chapin was the Vice President and Deputy Bureau Chief of CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau, where her strategic editorial and management responsibility included oversight of the 2009 presidential transition coverage and daily coverage of the White House and Capitol Hill. Chapin contributed to Covering Catastrophe (Bonus Books, 2002), a book recounting the events of 9/11 in an oral history format. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations sits on the board of The Masters School. She holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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• Edgar Villanueva

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  Founder, Decolonizing Wealth Project

  Edgar Villanueva is a globally-recognized author, activist, and expert on the intersection of race, wealth, and power. He is the author of the best-selling book, Decolonizing Wealth and is the founder and CEO of Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital. Edgar advises organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to global and national philanthropies and nonprofits on advancing racial equity inside of their institutions and through their community investment strategies. He holds two degrees from the Gillings Global School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

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• Dipender Saluja

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  Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group

  Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of the Technology Impact Fund, Capricorn Investment Grp, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. TIF is an early investor in iconic companies like Tesla, Redwood Materials, Planet, SpaceX, FORM & Helion. Prior to CIG, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global leader in electronic design, where he built & managed businesses that worked closely with electronics companies around the world. Prior to that he was at Data General (EMC), Honeywell, ROLM (IBM), & GFERC. He’s an electrical engineer by training & attended UND, Univ of Minnesota & Stanford. Dipender serves on the boards of AST, Electric Hydrogen, Halio, Joby (NYSE:JOBY), Navitas (NDAQ:NVTS), QuantumScape (NYSE:QS), Saildrone, SPAN & Summit Nanotech, International Solar Alliance, IonE, the Cyclotron Road Leadership Council, PRIME IAC, & commissioner of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP).

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• Debra Dunn

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  Director, Stanford University

  Debra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African Leadership University and the Wellbeing project. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world. Pre-Covid, Debra was a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative. Pre-Stanford, Debra was a business executive at Hewlett Packard where the common threads in her broad, 22-year career were driving large scale change, creating new businesses and producing positive social impact and good business results concurrently.

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• Dariush Brizuela-Nothaft

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  Head of Content Studios, Soul Pancake

  Dariush Brizuela-Nothaft started working in digital media when he joined Maker Studios in 2010. There he focused on building out the creator network, developing original content for the gaming vertical, and incubating new styles of formats that could translate to other ecosystems. After Disney acquired Maker Studios, he stayed on at Disney and oversaw key integration initiatives geared at creating synergies between the digital creator network and the studio, including the Disney XD by Maker program and the Force Fridays toy unboxing livestream. His mother is Persian and Polish, and his father is Bolivian and German-American. He grew up in Bolivia, Argentina, and San Diego.

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• Darnell Moore

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  Head of Strategy and Programs, U.S, Breakthrough

  Darnell L. Moore is the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. He is currently Head of Strategy and Programs at Breakthrough US and is the former Editor-at-Large at CASSIUS (an iOne digital platform) and a senior editor and correspondent at Mic. He is co-managing editor at The Feminist Wire and an editor of The Feminist Wire Books (a series of University of Arizona Press). He is also a writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia University.

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• Daniela Papi-Thorton

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  Educator, Systems-led Leadership

  Daniela Papi-Thornton is an educator whose work focuses on systems-led social interventions. Daniela has served as a Lecturer at Yale School of Management, Watson Institute, and Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she was the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She continues to consult with Oxford’s Skoll Centre and other corporate and educational clients and she lectures globally on systems-led leadership. Her report and subsequent article, Tackling Heropreneurship, have been widely referenced. From that research she designed a tool called the Impact Gaps Canvas, used at universities around the world. At Oxford she launched educational programming designed to help incorporate systems thinking into social entrepreneurship education, including Map the System, a contest now running at ~40 global institutions. Daniela’s work in education design builds upon six years of emerging market entrepreneurial experience in Cambodia, running a hybrid social enterprise. She co-authored a book, Learning Service, focused on shifting mindsets and practices related to volunteer travel. Her 2018 Ashoka U Big Idea Talk and her TEDx talk on Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship highlight some of her philosophies.

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• Dan Berelowitz

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  Founder, Spring Impact

  Dan founded Spring Impact based on his experiences working across a range of social sector organisations, and his frustration on seeing great ideas not scaling up. With Spring Impact, Dan has developed scale strategies and implementation plans with over 200 organisations ranging from Skoll Awardees such as Tostan and FES to Bezos Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and several leading social businesses. Dan is always looking for ambitious teams seeking to break through barriers on their journey to impact. A regular presenter and writer, Dan is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Clore Social Leadership Fellow and a Rothschild Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He graduated from the University of Nottingham and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Leadership and Public Policy Executive Program.

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• Dakshitha Wickremarathne

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  Co-Founder, Youth Advocacy Network Sri Lanka

  Dakshitha Wickremarathne is a development practitioner striving for social justice. His childhood during the times of conflict in Sri Lanka has sparked his passion for peace and equality. His work in the areas of health, gender and reconciliation lead him to be appointed by the UN Secretary-General as the youngest member of the Every Woman Every Child Independent Accountability Panel. As the Co-Founder and the Programme Director of Youth Advocacy Network Sri Lanka, Dakshitha continues his ground-level work while also shaping strong policies grounded in evidence and science. Dakshitha completed his Bachelors in Social Work winning the gold medal for the Best Academic Performance and received a Post Graduate Diploma in Diplomacy and Global Affairs. He is a Women Deliver Young Leaders Alumni and a Youth Champion of Asia Safe Abortion Partnership. With UNFPA, as a Master Trainer, Dakshitha has extensive experience in working with young people and most at-risk populations in Asia and the Pacific. Dakshitha served as the youngest Assistant Director for Office for National Unity and Reconciliation chaired by the Former President of Sri Lanka. Dakshitha was a Commissioner in the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well Being and a Youth Advisor to UN Women’s Global Civil Society Advisory Group.

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• Crystal Echo Hawk

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  CEO, IllumiNative

  Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee) is the founder and CEO of IllumiNative, the first and only national Native-led organization focused on changing the narrative about Native peoples on a mass scale. IllumiNative has been instrumental in changing the narrative and representation of contemporary Native peoples in key sectors of entertainment, pop culture, media, and politics. Crystal is known nationally as a thought leader, innovator, acclaimed speaker, and skilled executive who builds meaningful collaborations. In leading IllumiNative, she has led partnership building with industry leaders such as Nielsen, Netflix, NBC Universal, Amazon, Disney, Marvel, and others. Crystal also serves as a member of Nielsen’s External Advisory Council and the Comcast Diversity Council. Crystal was featured in People Magazine as one of the ‘2021 Women Changing the World’ and she was profiled in Lifetime’s ‘Women Making History’ hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021.

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• Christian Seelos

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  Director, Stanford Social Innovation Review

  Christian Seelos is Codirector of the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Most recently he served as the Leo Tindemans Chair on Business Model Innovation at the Department of Economics and Business at KU Leuven (Belgium) and as the Director for Social Innovation Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Innovation for Change Initiative. Previous positions included academic visitor at the Skoll Center at Oxford University (UK), Director of the Platform for Strategy and Sustainability at the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School (Spain), and Associate Professor at the Institute for Tumor Biology and Cancer research at the University of Vienna (Austria). He teaches MBA and executive courses in International Business, Global Strategic Management, Innovation Strategy, and Social Innovation and consults with various organizations in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Christian’s research on innovative business models in the context of deep poverty was recognized by the Strategic Management Society (Best Paper Award for Practice Implications, 2007) and also won him the gold price, 2008 of the IFC-FT research competition on private sector development. Together with Johanna Mair, he recently published the book "Innovation and Scaling for Impact" by Stanford University Publishing that won the Terry McAdam Book Award 2017 for “the most inspirational and useful new book contributing to nonprofit management“, the 2018 Academy of Management ONE award for “best organizations book 2015-2017", and was nominated for the thinkers50 award 2017 in the category of innovation. Christian earned his PhD in Molecular Biology and is widely published in both the Natural- and Social Sciences. He also held management positions in the private industry and at the United Nations where he co-led the disarmament work of Iraq’s biological weapons.

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• Chris Underhill

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  Principal of Mentor Services, BasicNeeds

  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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• Cheryl Fraenzl

  Speaker

  Director of Programs, Esalen Institute

  With a strong commitment to personal growth and social transformation, Cheryl has served as the Director of Programs for Esalen Institute since 2006. Cheryl has work in a leadership capacity supporting emerging ideas through the Wellbeing Project, Esalen Program Ambassadors, the Holistic Center’s Network and numerous other strategic partnerships. Prior to Esalen, Cheryl focused on transformative education as well. For over 5 years, Cheryl worked as the Central States Regional Manager for Programs Abroad for AFS International Exchange Programs, for over 3 years as the Director of Volunteer Development for the Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area and for over 5 years as the Program Coordinator at the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Business/School Partnership program. Cheryl resides in Carmel, CA where gardening, beekeeping, and singing play a major role in her life.

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• Charmian Love

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  Co-Founder, B Lab UK

  Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good. She is the Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her areas of focus include the rise of profit and purpose business models, circular economy and mobilizing a ‘Movement of Movements’.

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• Ceda Verbakel

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  Strategic Designer and Facilitator, Situation Lab, Carnegie Mellon School of Design

  Ceda is a design strategist and facilitator who makes sense of fuzzy human stuff to build better interactions, services & systems. Ceda is currently completing her Masters in Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Before making her way to design, she completed a double degree in bioethics & genetics, worked as a sexual health & relationships educator across Melbourne, and most recently, ran an educational maker space in Toronto.

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• Catherine Cheney

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  West Coast Correspondent, Devex

  Catherine Cheney is a Senior Reporter for Devex, the media platform for the global development community. She covers the West Coast of the U.S., focusing on the role of technology and innovation in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. And she frequently represents Devex as a speaker and moderator. Prior to joining Devex, Catherine earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, worked as a web producer for POLITICO and reporter for World Politics Review, and helped to launch NationSwell. Catherine has reported from around the world, and freelanced for outlets including the Atlantic and the Washington Post. She also works for the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit that trains and connects journalists to cover responses to problems.

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• Caty Borum Chattoo

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  Director, Center for Media & Social Impact, American University

  Caty Borum Chattoo is Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), an innovation lab and research center at American University that creates, showcases and studies media designed for social change; and Assistant Professor at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C. She is an award-winning documentary producer, scholar, professor and strategist working at the intersection of social change, documentary and entertainment storytelling. Her book about the role of comedy in social change, with co-author Lauren Feldman, "A Comedian and An Activist Walk Into a Bar: The (Serious) Role of Comedy in Social Justice," is forthcoming from University of California Press. Her documentary book, "The Blackfish Effect & Other Stories: Documentaries & Social Change in the Information Age," is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. In 2017, she launched The Laughter Effect, a research and creative initiative that examines the role of comedy in social justice. Her social-justice documentaries have aired internationally and nationally on the Sundance Channel, Pivot, NDTV (India), PBS World, Link TV, KCET, DirectTV and theatrically. CMSI's biennial national convening, "Story Movements," brings together creative producers, social justice activists, scholars and others to illuminate civic media and social change. A former collaborator with TV producer Norman Lear and former SVP in social impact communication at global agency FleishmanHillard, her peer-reviewed research on the intersection of storytelling, creativity and social change is featured in leading journals, including Journal of Communication, Journalism, Mass Communication and Society, and more. Borum Chattoo's creative and research work in media and social change has been supported by more than 25 grants from media foundations, including the MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy, and others.

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• Carolina Gil Sánchez

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  Colombia Program Director, Amazon Conservation Team

  Abogada con estudios de Historia, tiene una larga experiencia en conservación, áreas protegidas y trabajo con comunidades locales, especialmente indigenas. Desde Amazon Conservation Team, Carolina y su equipo han trabajado arduamente con Indígenas y Campesinas en la protección de los bosques de la Amazonia y los medios de vida de las comunidades locales. Trabajo que han extendido a la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Antioquia y la Orinoquia. Es una convencida del trabajo en equipo y de la acción colectiva, cree que la mejor forma de construir liderazgo es desarrollando capacidades en los distintos actores que interactúan en el territorio, un buen líder local o institucional dependen de las fortalezas de su comunidad y de su equipo. Es especialista en tender puentes y articular el trabajo de la sociedad civil, con las comunidades y la institucionalidad pública para el logro efectivo de resultados orientado a la protección de los bosques. Bajo su coordinación y gracias a la “acción colectiva”, el equipo que lidera en Colombia ha impulsado de manera articulada con las comunidades locales y las entidades del gobierno importantes logros para la conservación ambiental y el fortalecimiento de las comunidades.

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• Bunker Roy

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  Director, Barefoot College Tilonia

  In 1966, as a young post-graduate student from a privileged urban background, Bunker Roy volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states. This experience changed him. He committed himself to fight poverty and inequality. He founded the Barefoot College in Tilonia (also known as Social Work and Research Centre) in 1972 to bridge the inequality gap and demystify technology with the people and put it to good use in the hands of poor communities. This radically simple approach to ending poverty, by tapping the wisdom, skills, and resourcefulness of the poor themselves, is less expensive and more successful than approaches that rely on external experts. Barefoot College recruits illiterate villagers and trains them to build and maintain life-changing technologies and systems such as solar electricity, water and sanitation, schools and clinics, artisan businesses, and community engagement.

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• Bruce Lowry

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  Vice President, Investments, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Brenda Coughlin

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  Director of Producing and Impact Strategy, Sundance Institute

  Brenda Coughlin joined Sundance Institute in September 2018 as Director of Producing and Impact Strategy, a newly created position designed to drive the Institute’s cross-disciplinary and artist-forward impact strategy, focused on the production of compelling work across documentary, fiction, and emerging media, as well as Sundance’s engagement programs and advocacy for independent art and media. She overseas Creative Partnerships, including Stories of Change, the Institute’s 10+ year partnership with Skoll Foundation, and leads Sundance’s field-building initiatives for non-fiction producing. Prior to joining Sundance, Brenda’s projects as an independent producer include Academy Award-nominated Dirty Wars (2013) about the US drone program, and director Laura Poitras’ last two features: Academy Award-winning CITIZENFOUR (2014), about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Cannes premiere Risk (2016), about Julian Assange. She produced Laura Poitras’ 2016 solo exhibition, Astro Noise, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which featured six new immersive installations. Other producing projects include Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson (2016), Steve Maing’s Crime + Punishment (2018), and Nancy Schwartzman’s Roll Red Roll (2018). With the late historian Howard Zinn, she co-founded the performing arts and education non-profit Voices of a People’s History, and is a producer of the associated The People Speak project, executive produced by Matt Damon. Brenda has worked as a consultant and on staff with foundations and non-profits for many years, including Bertha Foundation, Compton Foundation, First Look Media, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. She is on the boards of Lannan Foundation and of Curious Communications, home of The Laura Flanders Show.

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• Bradley Myles

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  Former Chief Executive Officer, Polaris

  Bradley Myles is former CEO of Polaris, a global leader in the fight to eradicate human trafficking and to restore freedom to survivors. Since 2002, he has devoted himself to combating human trafficking and modern slavery on a local, national, and global scale. Mr. Myles' early efforts focused on directly serving survivors, researching local human trafficking markets, and helping to build Washington DC's first-ever Human Trafficking Task Force. Under Myles' leadership, Polaris has worked to strengthen the U.S. national movement against human trafficking through policy advocacy in all 50 states and through a wide range of training and capacity-building programs. He also helped launch Polaris's operation of the United States National Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888), a 24/7 operation that has now identified and responded to more than 50,000 cases of human trafficking nationwide, received calls directly from over 10,000 survivors, and formulated a unique typology of the 25 major types of human trafficking that exist in the present-day United States. This hotline and data hub model is now regarded as one of the best-functioning anti- trafficking hotlines in the world and has become a focal point of Polaris' growing global programs. Mr. Myles is currently focusing his efforts on Polaris’s future strategy for the next decade, which includes working towards better anti-trafficking hotline coverage globally to build a stronger safety net for all 25 million victims of human trafficking worldwide, strengthening partnerships with the world's leading technology companies, and undertaking new data-driven intervention efforts targeted towards eliminating specific types of modern slavery in the U.S. and around the world. Mr. Myles holds degrees in Psychology and Political Science from Stanford University. He is the 2017 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Bill Drayton

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  Founder and CEO, Ashoka, Ashoka

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

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• Bart Houlahan

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  Co-Founder, B Lab

  Bart Houlahan co-founded B Lab in 2006. B Lab is a non-profit organization with offices in 33 countries, driving economic systems change to build a more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy. Its mission is to serve a movement of people using business as a force for good by shining a light on leaders through a corporate certification (6000+ Certified B Corporations in 70+ countries), and then providing easy pathways for others to follow. B Lab encourages all companies to manage their social and environmental impact using the B Impact Assessment (250,000+ companies engaged). The organization also advances policy initiatives to upend shareholder primacy and advance stakeholder governance (Benefit Corporation legislation passed in 43 states and 10 countries). Prior to B Lab, Bart was President of AND 1, a $250 MM basketball footwear and apparel company. Bart is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a recipient of the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Bart Weetjens

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  Co-Founder, APOPO

  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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• Barry Kerzin

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  Founder and Director, Altruism in Medicine Institute

  Ven. Dr. Barry Kerzin is an American trained physician and Buddhist monk who is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the Centre for Buddhist Studies, HKU, as well as an Honorary Professor at the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences. He is the founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute (AIMI) and founder and chairman of the Human Values Institute (HVI) in Japan. For 32 years he has been providing free medical care to the poor up to high lamas. He is training compassion for 18,000 nurses at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and for Google employees in Japan, London, Singapore and USA in 2021, as well as other big international companies. Barry has been a speaker in 2 TEDx talks, presented medical grand rounds at Stanford Medical School and lectured around the world including Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His brain has been studied at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has authored four books.

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• Avary Kent

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  Co-Founder Conveners.org, Conveners-Org

  Bringing new companies from idea to reality is Avary Kent's passion. She blends scientific analysis with business acumen and operational expertise to help bring new companies and products to market. She excels in companies that are focused on creating new holistic systems to manage growth and scale to create high impact products and services. She is the Co-Founder of Conveners.org and through that role applied her expertise in facilitation, experience design, capacity building trainings, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and human centered design to support organizations to increase the effectiveness of convening as a tool for change. For the last three years she has worked extensively with Kaiser Permanente and developed new programs and projects including www.resiliencecompass.org.

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• Babusi Nyoni

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  Artificial Intelligence Evangelist, Individual

  When I'm not formulating strategy to grow products in emerging markets I write and speak on technology and I make things with Artificial Intelligence. I have a strong passion for fresh new ideas that will change the lives of those around me and I am a firm believer that Artificial Intelligence is on the brink of shaping the technological zeitgeist worldwide.

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• Ari Johnson

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  Chief Executive Officer, Muso

  Ari Johnson, MD, is co-founder and CEO of Muso, and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Global Health Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in the fields of infectious disease, health systems design, socioeconomic determinants of health, AIDS, and migration. The co-recipient of the 2021 Charles Bronfman Prize, Ari trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at the University of California San Francisco. Over the past fifteen years, Ari has supported Muso to design and build Rapid Care, a strategy to accelerate universal access to healthcare. A 2018 study in BMJ Global Health documented how communities served by this strategy achieved and sustained a rate of child death lower than any country in Sub-Saharan Africa for five years running. Muso cares for more than 500,000 patients, and supports governments to redesign their national community health systems.

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• Arbind Singh

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  Executive Director, Nidan

  Arbind 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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• Ann Mei Chang

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  Author, Lean Impact, Individual

  Ann Mei Chang is a leading expert on social innovation and author of Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good. Ann Mei served as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID and first Executive Director of the US Global Development Lab, engaging the best practices for innovation from Silicon Valley to accelerate the impact and scale of solutions to the world’s most intractable challenges. In addition, she was Chief Innovation Officer for Pete for America, Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps, and Senior Advisor for Women and Technology at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to her pivot to the public and social sector, Ann Mei was a seasoned technology executive, with more than 20 years’ experience at such leading companies as Google, Apple, and Intuit, as well as at a range of startups. As Senior Engineering Director at Google, she led worldwide engineering for mobile applications and services, delivering 20x growth to $1 billion in annual revenues in just three years. Ann Mei earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellows’ class of 2011. She has been recognized as one of the “Women In the World: 125 Women of Impact” by Newsweek/The Daily Beast in 2013, "23 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech" by Business Insider in 2019, and "20 Top LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs, Executives and Thought Leaders" by Global Shakers in 2019.

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• Ann Cotton

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  Founder, CAMFED

  A lifelong educationalist, I began my career teaching English at secondary level before focusing on children excluded from mainstream education. Following research in Zimbabwe, I founded CAMFED International to support and advance the education of rural girls in sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation has grown into six countries, working with Ministries of Education and an array of other partners to extend education beyond the secondary into the tertiary level as well as providing financial intelligence training and job creation programmes. CAMFED’s work is rooted in rural communities and credits its strength and success to the creative endeavours and resilience of these communities as well as the alumna of young women supported by CAMFED and now more that a quarter of a million strong.

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• Andy Bryant

  Speaker

  Executive Director, Segal Family Foundation

  Andy Bryant joined the foundation as Executive Director in 2010. He leads the foundation’s team and implements the vision of the board of directors. He has overseen an increase in the foundation’s annual giving from $2 million in 2010 to over $18 million in 2022 alongside the growth of the partner portfolio from 30 organizations to now well over 300. The most important quantifiable changes that Andy has overseen: 1) African staff: Zero in 2010 to 70% in 2022 2) African-led partners: Zero in 2010 to over 80% in 2022 3) Grant decisions made in Africa: Zero in 2010 to nearly 100% in 2022 He has worked in international development for many years in Africa and Asia, including positions with Tanzanian Children’s Fund and TechnoServe. Andy completed a BA from Princeton University in 2003 and subsequently graduated from Syracuse University in 2007 with a MPA in International Development.

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• Andy Thornton

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  Managing Partner, Silvan Ingredient Ecosystem

  Andy is the founder and Managing Partner of Silvan Ingredient Ecosystem. Silvan is an ecosystem that enables the world’s most sustainable and regenerative ingredient growers to meet the demands of the modern brand and consumer.

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• Andrew Kassoy

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  Co-Founder & CEO, B Lab

  Andrew is co-founder and board co-chair of B Lab, the nonprofit organization behind the B Corp movement. B Lab’s vision is stakeholder capitalism - an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all. B Lab drives systemic change by changing the culture, behavior, and structure of business and the capital markets. The movement is led by the example of nearly 8,000 Certified B Corporations in 80 countries. Before leaving the private sector to co-found B Lab, Andrew spent 16 years as a partner in private equity funds at DLJ, Credit Suisse, and MSD Capital. He and his co-founders have won numerous awards and recognition, including a New York Times Visionary, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the McNulty Prize. He is a lecturer at Princeton University, where he teaches a course on stakeholder capitalism with his wife, Margot Brandenburg, and he has served on numerous for profit and non-profit boards. Andrew lives in Brooklyn with his wife and four children.

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• Anas Aremeyaw Anas

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  Investigative Journalist, Tiger Eye Foundation

  Anas Aremeyaw Anas is an undercover journalist, attorney and private detective working in Ghana and across the African continent. In disguise, he finds his way into asylums, brothels, prisons, orphanages and villages, where he methodically gathers evidence for hard-hitting stories -- then presents the evidence to authorities to see criminals prosecuted. On the 6th May 2018 Anas released Number 12, so named because corruption was the "12th player on the football team". This exposé implicated almost the entire football administration in Ghana and resulted in the President of Ghana dissolving the Ghana Football Association (GFA). The then GFA president, Kwesi Nyantakyi, who was also an executive member of FIFA, was filmed by Anas accepting a bribe. He was later banned for life by FIFA. International referees were also involved, such as Kenyan FIFA referee Marwa Range. He was filmed receiving US$600 before a previous game from Anas's investigative team posing as top Ghanaian football executives, leading to Marwa's withdrawal from the World Cup. A week before the 2018 FIFA World Cup was due to start, the BBC released the documentary. In the weeks following, other figures such as Super Eagles Coach Salisu Yusuf were found to be involved in the scandal. Two years prior, Anas went undercover for two years to expose a total of 34 judges engaged in corruption-related activities. These judges and over 105 judicial staff were caught on camera receiving bribes to influence judgment in Ghana’s courts. Anas currently works as a lead reporter on Africa Investigates, a documentary series on Al Jazeera, which empowers African journalists to investigate and tell their own stories. Under the Africa Investigates project, Anas has so far produced over ten (10) award-winning investigative documentaries across the continent. He is best known for his works in anti-corruption and human rights, for which he has won countless national and international awards.

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• Andrea Coleman

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  Founder and board, Riders for Health

  Andrea Coleman is co-founder of Riders for Health and founder of Two Wheels for Life. She is life-long motorcyclist and co-founded Riders with Barry Coleman, her husband, and motorcycle sporting hero, Randy Mamola in 1996. She has worked for 30 years to show that a systematic approach to managing motorcycles and motorised vehicles in Africa means health care can be delivered – predictably and reliably, however harsh the conditions or however remote the community - money saved and people employed and trained to a very high standard. Andrea’s motorcycle racing life and her work in promotion and sports management provided her with a practical outlook and a set of skills that have helped to guide the financial and advocacy development of the work of Riders for Health. In 2013 Andrea won the Women of the Year Award, sponsored by Barclays Bank for her part in revolutionising medical provision across Africa. In 2006 she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award. Andrea was select

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• Amessouwe Kuassi

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  CEO, Terre A Terre Benin

  I was 15 when I first got introduced to environmental issues through the GLOBE program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), through which I discovered how one could be useful to their community. With my peers, we would observe and identify clouds in the sky, manage our local weather station and share our experiences weekly with other students. On hearing about my involvement in 2004, the Director of LC2 TV offered me a position as a TV host, on a show to bring awareness to the youth. From the University of Benin, I hold a master’s degree in the Environment and graduate as a journalist after I trained in journalism, video shooting, and editing skills in France. In 2015, at the National Fund for Environment and Climate (FNEC), I Contributed to design communication plan and campaign; organized conferences and workshops on Environment and Climate. As Director of Communication at the Ministry of Digital Economy and Communications of Benin in 2016, I designed and implemented communication strategies for the Minister and the Ministry. Since COP22, I am a member of EJN, an American journalist network, and run the first environmental communications startup in Benin since 2017 with three main areas of intervention: Terre à Terre Bénin: www.planeteterreaterre.com 1- Communication (CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility and Planet Terre a Terre TV, the first environmental Web TV in Benin) 2- Environment: our social component, by trainings, workshops, conferences, debates, environmental events, environmental communication campaigns, environmental alerts. 3- Technical assistance for companies, Institutions, Organizations : Coordination of communication services; Adaptation of existing communication tools to new audiences; Press relation. At COP 24 in Katowice, Poland in December 2018, I launched the first environmental Web Tv “Planete Terre a Terre TV” www.planeteterreaterre.tv Today, I have fifteen years’ experience as a journalist.

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• Amitabha Sadangi

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  CEO, International Development Enterprises (India)

  We promote market based approach to poverty reduction. Till date 1.7 million smallholder farmers households moved out of poverty by adopting our small scale irrigation technology

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• Alix-Ines Lebec

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  Founder & CEO, Lebec Consulting

  Alix Lebec is an entrepreneur and strategic adviser to the business, non-profit, philanthropic, and impact investing community. With more than 16 years of experience in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the US, Alix’s recently launched Lebec Consulting to challenge status quo philanthropy. This innovative firm helps corporations, foundations, social entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth individuals achieve their greatest social impact through strategic philanthropy and impact investments. With sustainability, innovation, and systems change at the center of its strategy, Lebec Consulting thinks outside the box and aims to normalize a new kind of philanthropy: one that is catalytic, venture, and cooperative. Alix started her entrepreneurial journey at The World Bank in Paris and Southeast Asia, followed by the Clinton Global Initiative where she built and led innovative public-private partnerships, communication strategies, and social impact programs focused on women and low-income communities. In 2010, Alix joined Water.org, a non-profit dedicated to ending the global water crisis, co-founded by entrepreneur Gary White and actor Matt Damon. In 2016, she helped launch WaterEquity, an impact investment manager, to accelerate Water.org’s impact and harness the power of global capital markets. As WaterEquity’s Chief Investor Relations Officer, Alix raised $200M+ in philanthropic and impact investment capital. She holds a Master of Science in Social Policy and Economics from the London School of Economics, and received her Bachelor of Arts in International Business from the American University of Paris.

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• Alex Nicholls

  Speaker

  Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  Professor Alex Nicholls MBA is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: social and impact investment; the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; and Fair Trade. To date Alex has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and six books. He has over twelve thousand citations of his work. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

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• Agnes Kalibata

  Speaker

  President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

  As President of AGRA, Dr. Kalibata leads the organization’s efforts with public and private partners to ensure a food secure and prosperous Africa through rapid, sustainable agricultural growth, improving the productivity and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers. Prior to joining AGRA in September 2014, Dr. Kalibata was Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI). Dr. Kalibata has held several other leadership positions, including Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture and Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Rwanda. She also worked for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Uganda, and various other agricultural development organizations. She sits on various boards, councils and commissions including the Global Commission on Adaptation, the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, the Global Panel for Agriculture & Food Systems for Nutrition, the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, the Malabo-Montpellier Panel, the International Fertilizer Development Corporation (IFDC), Bioversity International, Africa Risk Capacity Board, and the Strategic Advisory Council of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), among others. Dr. Kalibata has a distinguished track record as an agricultural scientist, policy maker and thought leader. She was awarded the Yara Prize, now the Africa Food Prize, in 2012, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Liège in 2018 and will receive the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal in 2019 for her work to drive Africa’s agricultural transformation through modern sciences and effective policy thereby improving livelihoods of stallholder farmers. She holds a doctorate in Entomology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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• Achim Steiner

  Speaker

  Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

  Achim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017 and will serve for a term of four years. The United Nations General Assembly confirmed his nomination on 19 April 2017, following his nomination by Secretary-General António Guterres. Mr. Steiner is also the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group, which unites 40 entities of the UN system that work to support sustainable development. Over nearly three decades, Achim Steiner has been a global leader on sustainable development, climate resilience and international cooperation. He has worked tirelessly to champion sustainability, economic growth and equality for the vulnerable, and has been a vocal advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining UNDP, he was Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. Mr Steiner has served across the United Nations system, looking at global challenges from both a humanitarian and a development perspective. He led the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016), helping governments invest in clean technologies and renewable energy. He was also Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Achim Steiner previously held other notable positions including Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams. Achim Steiner has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States. He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA) from Worcester College, Oxford University and holds an MA from the University of London/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

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• Abera Leta

  Speaker

  Executive Director, PIH-Lesotho, Partners In Health

  Dr. Abera Leta, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician with over 17 years of experience in project management, health program implementation, and health system strengthening. Dr. Leta currently serves as Executive Director of PIH-Lesotho (PIH-L), where he is responsible for health system strengthening initiatives across Lesotho. Dr. Leta is a leading technical advisor to the Ministry of Health for its National Health Reform. Dr. Leta previously served as TB/HIV Program coordinator for the World Health Organization in Ethiopia. Dr. Leta received an M.D. from Addis Ababa University, and an M.P.H. from the School of Community Health at the University of Nottingham.

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• Aakash Ganju

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  CEO, Saathealth

  Dr Aakash Ganju is a healthcare entrepreneur and the CEO of Saathealth, an impact focused digital health company building AI powered tools for targeted interventions and positive outcomes for health workers and consumers. Trained in medicine and management, Aakash started his career leading research teams at Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson and developing mobile health solutions for underserved populations across Asia and Africa. He has been a health technology entrepreneur since 2011, working at the intersection of behavior change sciences, user centred design, health and technology to develop and deploy sustainable health technology solutions serving patients in infectious diseases, women and children?s health and chronic diseases. Aakash is passionate about integrating human-centricity, technology and collaborative solutions to build healthcare experiences of the future.

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• Aaron Pereira

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  Project Leader, Wellbeing Project

  Aaron is excited about the interplay between our inner lives and the broader world. Aaron Pereira is currently Project Lead for The Wellbeing Project. The Wellbeing Project is focused on catalysing a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. It emerged from a 7 year sabbatical ending in 2012. The Wellbeing Project is co-created with Ashoka, Georgetown University, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and Synergos. Aaron worked with the Guggenheim on an urban labs project, co-founded a pilot social enterprise to address housing issues in Mumbai slums, and explored neighbourhood life through a project in Paris. Aaron was co-founder of CanadaHelps and Vartana. CanadaHelps engages over 4 million Canadians and raises over $400 million a year for social sector organizations. It also works with over 20,000 charities on capacity issues. Vartana was focused on addressing financing needs in the social sector. Vartana played a key role in the early development of the field of social

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• Wawira Njiru

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  Founder and Executive Director, Food for Education

  Wawira is the founder of Food for Education, a social enterprise that is creating the blueprint for school feeding in Africa. Led by African women, they leverage payment technology and smart supply chains to source nutritious ingredients from local smallholder farmers, simplify distribution, and bring high-quality daily school meals to children. They have provided over 15 million meals since their first central kitchen opened in 2016 and their scalable, efficient model is creating a sustainable path to solve the child nutrition crisis for over 200 million African children. Wawira is the winner of the 2022 Global Icon Award by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a 2021 Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, 2020 Ford Foundation Global Fellow, a 2018 Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a recipient of the Builders of Africa Award 2018, one of 2018’s Top 40 under 40 women in Kenya, and the youngest recipient of the University of South Australia’s alumni award in 2017. She is also the inaugur

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• Wendy Wong

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  Community Manager , Skoll Foundation

  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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• Shauna Carey

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  CEO, IDEO.org

  Shauna currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, leveraging her deep expertise in both design and social impact to oversee the strategy and vision for IDEO.org. Previously, in her role as Executive Design Director & Chief Communications Officer, Shauna worked alongside design teams and communities to surface insights to unlock new possibilities, create narratives that inspire action, and share stories about the impact of design. Over the past nine years at IDEO.org, Shauna has worked on projects and programs focused on advancing health equity, criminal justice reform, refugee rights, gender equality, and climate resilience. She also previously served as Managing Director and co-lead of our New York studio. Prior to joining IDEO.org, Shauna worked to expand access to quality education and health care at organizations like Room to Read and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. She also helped launch and grow a number of mission-driven startups in Europe and the San Francisco Bay Area. A social scientist at heart, Shauna holds a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Outside of work, she’s happiest barefoot on a beach somewhere or at home in Brooklyn, where she can usually be found wandering around with a strong cup of coffee in hand.

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• Shivani Garg Patel

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  Chief Strategy Officer, Skoll Foundation

  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.

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• Selorm Branttie

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  Global Strategy Director, mPedigree

  Selorm Branttie is the Global Strategy Director for mPedigree, the industry leader in using innovative mobile technologies to counter the faking of products using mobile technology. Since joining mPedigree in 2010, Selorm has been responsible for the expansion of the service under the mandate of NAFDAC in Nigeria and seeing the technology to industries including but not limited to Automotive, Cosmetics, Textiles and several Fast Moving Consumer Goods brands. Selorm led efforts to put mPedigree on course to provide traceability applications for crop seed varieties in East Africa, with plans to bring other agro-inputs under the ambit of the surveillance program. He is also responsible for the design and dissemination of public information related to drug supply chains and anti-counterfeiting, working closely with stakeholders like regulators and pharmaceutical co-operatives in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Sierra Leone. Selorm is an Aspen Global Voices 2019 fellow and a Skoll Enterprenurship Award winner for 2019. Selorm was a founding member of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, a think tank that directs on issues related to development and governance. His efforts contributed to the organization being named among the world’s top 100 think tanks by the United Nations and in the top 5 of African research institutes in consecutive years by the University of Pennsylvania

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• Safeena Husain

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  Founder & Executive Director, Educate Girls Foundation

  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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• Robert McCarthy

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  Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Saïd Business School

  Robert McCarthy is the Director of Development and Alumni Relations. In that role, he leads the School’s philanthropy and alumni engagement programmes. Originally from the United States, Robert has worked in the field of development and external relations since 1988 for a range of major cultural institutions in North America, world-class universities in the UK, and several global humanitarian and international development NGOs. He has over 15 years of Major Donor fundraising experience in the UK’s University sector including at LSE, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford. Most recently, Robert has been based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Brazil, he has worked as an independent fundraising consultant, providing strategic advice and practical support to a range of NGOs and CSOs including Médicos Sem Fronteiras (MSF)Brasil, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) Latin America, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor, Conectas, and Instituto Igarapé. Prior to this, Robert was Head of Major Donors at Transparency International’s Secretariat in Berlin, Germany.

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• Robert Annibale

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  Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.

  Bob Annibale Global Director, Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance financial institutions, corporations, investors and municipalities, working across Citi’s businesses and geographies to expand access to financial services in underserved communities. Since joining Citi in 1982, Mr. Annibale has held a number of senior regional and global treasury, risk and corporate positions in Athens, Bahrain, Nairobi, London and New York. Bob serves on the U.S. FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisory Council on Financial Education and Inclusion. He serves as a Founding Member of SAGE’s Housing Advisory Council supporting the senior LGBT community, and serves on the board of the Citi Foundation, Accion International and the Bedford Stuyvestant Restoration Corporation. In 2014, Bob was honored by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change for his work leading Citi’s programs promoting immigrant integration and citizenship in the United States. His leadership contributed to Citi’s recognition by Euromoney as the inaugural “Best Bank for Financial Inclusion” and “Latin America’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance”. Bob was individually recognized by Euromoney as a “Global Impact Banking Champion”. In 2018, he was again named by the Financial Times as one of the OUTStanding Top 100 LGBT Business Leaders for the fifth consecutive year. Bob, a U.S. and U.K. national, holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Vassar College, New York, and an M.A. in African Studies (History) from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

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• Olanrewaju Suraju

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  Chairman, HEDA Resource Centre

  Mr. Suraju Olanrewaju is the Chairman of Civil Society Network Against Corruption. Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) is a coalition of over hundred and fifty Anti-corruption organizations whose primary aim is to constructively combat corruption and ensure the effective monitoring of various Anti-graft agencies in the fight against corruption and contribute towards the enthronement of transparency, accountability, probity and total commitment in the fight to eradicate corruption in Nigeria. He is instrumental to the formation of several multi stakeholders partnerships, networks, coalitions and organizations around the issues of good governance, human rights, anti-corruption and sustainable development across Nigeria and Africa. He presently sits on board of several Organizations. He consults for institutions on transparency and accountability in government. He is a Fellow of the Chevening scholarship and Netherlands Fellowship Program. He holds Post graduate Diplomas and

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• Lindsey Spindle

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  President, Samueli Family Philanthropies and COO, H&S Ventures, Samueli Foundation

  Lindsey Spindle serves as President of the Samueli Family Philanthropies and Chief Operating Officer of H&S Ventures which oversees all the Samueli Family’s for-profit and not-for-profit activities. The philanthropic entities operating under the oversight of H&S Ventures include the Samueli Foundation, the Anaheim Ducks Foundation, the San Diego Gulls Foundation, the Irvine Ice Foundation, and The Rinks Foundation. Spindle was President of The Jeff Skoll Group, where she connected and advised Mr. Skoll’s entrepreneurial portfolio of philanthropic and commercial organizations that include the impact entertainment company Participant, Capricorn Investment Group, and the Skoll Foundation. The Skoll Foundation’s mission is centered on social entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on five main, interrelated areas: climate change, inclusive economies, protection of democracy, pandemics prevention and health systems strengthening, and racial justice. Participant has produced more than

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• Kristin Moyer

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  COO & Head of Portfolio, Mulago Foundation

  Kristin leads Mulago's grant and investment portfolio and oversees operations. She joined Mulago in 2013 to grow and support an exemplary portfolio of social investments – grants, debt and equity – in high-impact organizations with a scalable solution to meet the basic needs of the poor. Her background spans the private, public and nonprofit sectors, including stints in investment banking, the US Peace Corps, the US National Park Service, and organizations focused on early childhood development and immigrant job placement. Kristin has brought these varied experiences to philanthropy since 2008. Prior to Mulago, she was a Principal at the Skoll Foundation, where she worked with social entrepreneurs, and Program Finance Officer at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, where she focused on environmental conservation.

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• Laura Hattendorf

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  Head of Grants and Investments, Mulago Foundation

  Laura is responsible for Mulago’s operations, investment strategy and execution, leading a team that sources, vets and manages over 100 funding relationships (grants, debt and equity) with social enterprises in Africa and South/Southeast Asia. Since Laura joined the foundation in 2007, Mulago has provided over $150 million in early stage funding for many iconic social enterprises, including Educate Girls, Last Mile Health, Living Goods, Muso, Zola and One Acre Fund. Laura is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business – teaching Formation of Impact Ventures – on the board of Innovations for Poverty Action and an advisor to many social enterprises around the world. Laura thrives in entrepreneurial environments and most of her professional career has been in early stage companies. She received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and her MBA and Certificate in Public Management from Stanford University.

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• Kevin Starr

  Delegate

  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 50 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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• Karen Tse

  Delegate

  Founder and CEO, International Bridges to Justice

  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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• Jim Bildner

  Delegate

  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 210 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 300 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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• Jacqueline Novogratz

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  Founder & CEO, Acumen

  Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen. Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies and leaders with character, competence and moral leadership. Acumen invests pioneering philanthropic capital in sustainable businesses addressing the toughest problems of poverty. Under Jacqueline’s leadership, Acumen has invested $128 million in 128 companies providing critical goods and services to more than 260 million low-income people across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the United States. Acumen also has launched KawiSafi, an impact fund focused on off-grid solar in East Africa and is in the process of building several other for-profit facilities. Acumen also cultivates a new kind of leader through its Fellows Programs and +Acumen, its online school for social change. To date, the organization has built a corps of 500+ Fellows. More than 450,000 individuals from 192 countries have taken +Acumen’s online courses. Acumen is now reimagining a global university designed to integrate the transformational depth of its fellowships with the scale of +Acumen to equip thousands of young changemakers with the tools and ecosystem to lead in today’s world. Jacqueline sits on the board of the Aspen Institute. Her best-selling memoir The Blue Sweater chronicles her quest to understand poverty and bring dignity to the poor. In 2017, Forbes listed Jacqueline as one of the World’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.

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• Gary Cohen

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  President, Health Care Without Harm

  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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• Francois Bonnici

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  Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership

  Dr François Bonnici is public health physician, professor, social change practitioner and foundation leader with over two decades of experience working across multiple countries, and sectors. Deeply rooted in context and frontline work, he has worked extensively with civil society, movements, foundations, governments, multilaterals and business in progressive and catalytic partnerships that seek to advance the work of primary actors, and understand the organizational practices of “systems work” towards more transformative social change. He currently serves as Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, an international foundation dedicated to advancing the most impactful and innovative models of social change, and concurrently as Head of Social Innovation at the World Economic Forum. He was Founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town from 2011-2018, establishing a globally recognized institute for knowledge, capacity and action advancing the discourse and systemic impact of social innovation in Africa. He is the co-author of the upcoming book, The Systems Work of Social Change, and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. He has been recognised as an Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Fellow, Rhodes Scholar and Associate Fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. He was a founding board member of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in South Africa, and a board member of the Social Innovation Exchange.

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• Annalisa Adams-Qualtiere

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  Chief People Officer, Skoll Foundation

  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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• Anushka Ratnayake

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  CEO & Founder, myAgro

  Anushka is recognized as a Global Leader in designing digital financial tools for smallholder farmers & designing for greater gender inclusion. She’s a serial entrepreneur who has had leadership roles in some of the most awarded and recognized social enterprises in the last two decades – Kiva.org, One Acre Fund and now myAgro. She’s a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, TED speaker, and Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship. She lives in Senegal, where myAgro is headquartered. myAgro served 115,000 farmers across West Africa last year and helped them increase their income by 35%. myAgro’s North Star is to reach 1 million farmers by 2026.

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• Andrew Youn

  Delegate

  CEO, One Acre Fund

  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.

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• Alessandra Orofino

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  Executive Director, NOSSAS

  Peri’s founder, Alessandra Orofino, is an expert in mass communications and large-scale mobilization, boasting extensive experience in grassroots campaigning, as well as film and TV production. Alessandra served as Executive Director for 12 years of NOSSAS, Brazil’s largest membership-driven campaigning organization. Her outstanding contributions at NOSSAS earned recognition through the Obama Foundation fellowship program and the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation. Additionally, Alessandra serves as the showrunner for Greg News, a highly acclaimed political satire show on HBO Latin America, and has also taken on the role of producer for two feature-length documentaries directed by Academy Award nominee Petra Costa. Alessandra actively contributes to various boards and committees, including sitting on the Board of Trustees at Luminate Foundation.

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• Aaron Huey

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  Founder, Amplifier

  Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer and Explorer, a Stanford d.School Fellow, and Founder + Chief Creative of Amplifier.org. As a photographer Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines including several cover stories. His photo career started with a photo essay in teh Smithsonian about his solo walk across America in 2001 (3,349 mile in 154 days). As a Stanford Knight Fellow and then as one of the first d.School Media Experiments Fellows, Huey focused on using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world to evolve his storytelling. That resulted in many projects beyond traditional photography, including the evolution of his art and advocacy non-profit Amplifier, where he created the global art phenomenon called "We The People" with a small team now based in South Seattle. Huey’s Bear Ears Virtual Museum VR experience, won the Webby for best VR Interactive Design in 2019 and parts of that project will become Pre-Colonial History and Cultural Heritage lessons in AR and VR for K-12 classrooms across the US in 2021. Huey is currently working on a set of new AR experiments at Amplifier. But, perhaps most importantly, Huey was named the 3rd coolest Dad in America by Fatherly.com after Lebron James and Kelly Slater.

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