Skoll World Forum 2020
Thursday, January 1, 1970
Speakers
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Ray Long leads the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) as President and Chief Executive Officer.
ACORE is the oldest nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to expanding the use of renewable energy technologies for American homes and businesses. This mission is as…
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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…
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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…
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Dr Zainab Kabba is an educator, researcher and institutional strategist. She has a background in technology and education, with expertise spanning the pharmaceutical industry, schools, higher education and the non-profit and charity sectors. Her previous work in early-childhood education focused on…
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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…
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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…
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Director of Development, The Elders
Vanessa joined The Elders Foundation in April 2019 and establishes relationships with the loyal and generous donors who support The Elders’ work. Vanessa is constantly excited by the possibilities for philanthropy to achieve sustainable change when it supports advocacy at national and…
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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…
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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…
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Executive Director, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Thane Kreiner, PhD, is Executive Director of Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Howard & Alida Charney University Professor at Santa Clara University, the Jesuit university in Silicon Valley. Miller Center accelerates entrepreneurship to end global poverty and protect the planet. Through its…
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Marcelo Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management
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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…
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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…
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Solvist, Catalyst Group
A Social Investor, Shiv Kumar has 30 years of experience solving complex social problems in India and internationally. A post-graduate in management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) co-founded the Catalyst Group of institutions, consisting of nine entities that further the health…
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Founder and CEO of The Nest & Toucan Ventures, Toucan Ventures
Rasha Khawaja is Founder of The Toucan Project and Co-Chair of the Saïd Foundation. Rasha’s innate desire for knowledge took her to Brown University where she studied Psychiatry and Cognitive Science.
Further education followed at both Oxford University and Cambridge University before Rasha…
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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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Director of Integrated Capitals and Learning, Heron Foundation
Onyeka Obiocha is Director of Intergrated Capitals and Learing at the Heron Foundation. Previously, he was the Managing Director at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and the inaugural Director of Innovation at Dwight Hall, focusing on developing trainings, programs, and partnerships to…
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Nicole joined the Skoll Foundation in 2019 and serves as Grants Manager. In this role, she supports the goals of the grants management team that advances the foundation’s mission and strategic goals through effective grantmaking operations, systems, and policies. Prior to joining the Skoll…
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Mirella’s guiding principle in life has been that everyone can be a changemaker. A Brazilian journalist by training, Mirella has created multiple ventures in her home country as well as outside Brazil. While she lived in Mozambique, she created a citizenship course for primary school children so that they…
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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…
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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. She now focuses on using her experience to help not…
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Head of Foundation, Atlassian Foundation
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I'm the head of the Atlassian Foundation. We focus on helping to educate the world's disadvantaged youth and helping to bring out the best of business, through the Pledge 1% movement.
I've spent the last 10 years of my career helping to deliver social impact. Prior to that I had a lengthy and…
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As Executive Administrative Assistant to Don Gips, CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Martina provides high-level tactical and administrative support to both the CEO and other executive office staff. Her role is multi-faceted, including planning and coordinating a wide variety of on and off-site meetings and…
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Mara Lee Durrell joined Rise in 2024 as its Executive Director, whose mission is to educate, heal, and empower children by embedding trauma-informed, play-based programs in vulnerable communities around the world. For nearly a decade prior she was the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and the…
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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…
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CEO, Serena & Lily
Lily Kanter is the founder and CEO of Boon Supply Co and co-founder and board member of Serena & Lily – a lifestyle brand based in California.
Lily has 30 years of experience in the business and technology sectors, and has held leadership positions at Microsoft, Deloitte & Touche, and IBM.
Lily left…
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Director of Leadership Giving, MSI United States
Kim Woodward is the Director of Leadership Giving at MSI United States (MSI US) - a 501(c)3 non-profit that supports the work of MSI Reproductive Choices, one of the largest providers of contraception and safe abortion, globally. Kim began her career in the for-profit sector, first at Boston Safe…
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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…
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Board member, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Board member - Peter Möhrle Foundation
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Founder Analyst, Deep Science Ventures
Joaquin Viquez is trained as an Agricultural Engineer with an M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Engineering and an MBA from the University of Oxford. Passionate social entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in Latin-American working in environmental projects, water and sanitation, known for his…
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Director, Social Impact, National Centre of Indigenous Excellence
Indu Balachandran is the Director of Impact at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE), leading a new initiative in Indigenous impact measurement and narrative. Previously Chief Operating Officer at the NCIE, Indu has worked in enterprise development in the creative and social…
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Harriet is completing a Business Administration Apprenticeship with Oxford University which is due to finish next September 2020. She works with the Skoll Centre Team in an Events and Administration role, helping to organise the logistics for the Skoll Centre’s events. Before her Apprenticeship…
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As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive GHC’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Since 2012, she has overseen GHC’s leadership development programming and training curriculum, partner recruitment and selection, and impact…
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Founder & CEO, Center for Workforce Inclusion
Gary A. Officer is a seasoned C-suite executive with extensive leadership experience across the workforce development, affordable housing, consumer finance, and public policy sectors. Known for his strategic vision and ability to drive transformational change, Gary has successfully led national…
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Gary Z. Linnen is the CEO of PeerForward following its original co-founders. Mr. Linnen has steered PeerForward’s programs for more than a decade, cultivating deep experience in youth development, program innovation, and organizational leadership. He has contributed to virtually every function of…
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CEO, Echale a Tu Casa
Francesco Piazzesi, who grew up in Mexico is deeply passionate about home ownership and community building for the poorest of the poor. Piazzesi founded in 1985 Adobe Home Aid, a non-profit that teaches communities how to make robust construction materials out of 90% natural earth. After…
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As Chief Executive Officer at Girls Not Brides, Faith is responsible for supporting and motivating the implementation of the Girls Not Brides Partnership Strategy, and ensuring the secretariat is responsive to the broader movement to end child marriage.
She is responsible for ensuring that Girls Not…
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CEO, Checkups Medical Centre, Saïd Business School
I am a co-founder of a health tech startup based in Nairobi, Kenya. We run a network of medical centers that leverage technology to offer services including consultation, remote diagnostics, and drug delivery. Having raised funding, we are currently in our series B funding for 25 Million Dollars to…
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As Chief of Staff and Managing Director, Kathara Green helps the Executive Office operate at its highest level, all in service of the Skoll Foundation vision and mission. Before stepping into this role, Kathara curated programming for the Skoll World Forum and other events, as well as supported strategic…
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Digital Marketing Apprentice for the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, assistant to the Senior Marketing and Communications Officer.
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S.C. Johnson Professor of Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell University
Christopher Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University and is a leading expert on how businesses can achieve the elusive triple bottom line of social, environmental and financial performance. He is the author of Better Business: How the B Corp…
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Co-Founder and Board Member, MiracleFeet
Chesca co-founded MiracleFeet in 2010. She led MiracleFeet as Executive Director and CEO until 2022. During that time, the organization grew to support 300+ clinics in over 30 countries, enrolling over 65,000 children in treatment, developed a low-cost brace and a sophisticated data collection…
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CEO & Co-Founder, Transform Schools, People for Action
Pankaj Vinayak Sharma has built Transform Schools ground up, with a strong board, advisors and a skilled leadership team. Since 2019, Transform has worked in eight states of India along with affiliates in New Delhi and London and has impacted 9.7 million children. He has 25 years of leadership…
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Founding CEO, Elevate Prize Foundation
Carolina García Jayaram is the CEO of The Elevate Prize Foundation, a global nonprofit that is committed to bringing visibility to the work of changemakers, creating a fanbase for good, and inspiring action on an international scale — with the mission to Make Good Famous.
García Jayaram…
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Skoll Scholar, Saïd Business School
Anjali Sarker is a social innovation expert and international development practitioner, currently working at the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford. Previously she worked at BRAC, one of the largest NGOs in the world, to bring digital financial services to one million women in Bangladesh…
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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…
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CEO, Cadasta
Amy Coughenour Betancourt is a social innovator who has dedicated three decades to supporting community-led organizations across the globe to implement effective, sustainable solutions to the world’s biggest problems. She is currently the President and CEO of Cadasta Foundation, which…
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Interim co-CEO; CFPO, Code for America
Zeryn Sarpangal is the interim co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial and People Officer at Code for America. Code for America is a non-profit that believes government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. Prior to joining Code for America, Zeryn worked in various roles on…
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Founder, Jasmine Social Investments
Sam began his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which became New Zealand’s biggest Internet business when it sold in 2006.
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding the online auction website Trade…
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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…
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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…
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Executive Director, Human Rights Likeminded Office
Yoni Ish-Hurwitz is the founder and Executive Director of the Human Rights Likeminded Office (HRLO.org), an NGO providing substantive analysis and information to support the advancement of human rights at the United Nations. Mr. Ish-Hurwitz served as a human rights delegate at the Permanent…
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DIRECTOR, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
I am called Yufenyuy Kevin Ngwayi an African male precisely from Cameroon working with African
Development Association (A.D.A) as the Director. A.D.A is a non-governmental organization
accredited with United Nations with its overall objectives to improve the quality of life of the…
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Executive Director, Child Safe
Executive Director for ChildSafe. Yolande has a Master’s degree in Public Health from University of Manchester. She is a child protection specialist with over 20 years of experience in the field of vulnerable children. She has worked both in her home country and internationally in this field. Her work…
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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…
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Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP
Yasmin has long believed that business and impactful entrepreneurship could be harnessed to promote a sustainable future for the next generations. The HL BaSE programme was developed by Yasmin and partners to harness the specialist practice areas of the firm to find a way to combine the…
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Head of Cartier Women's Initiative, Cartier Women's Initiative
Wingee serves as the Global Program Director of the Cartier Women’s Initiative. Founded in 2006, it is a program that supports women social impact entrepreneurs globally. Her passion in social impact sprouted from her undergraduate days at Berkeley, with a specific passion for empowering…
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Youth Director at Earth Guardians, Earth Guardians
Earth Guardians’ Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, (his first name pronounced ‘Shoe-Tez-Caht’) is a 19-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful voice on the front lines of the global youth-led environmental movement. At the early age of 6, Xiuhtezcatl began speaking around…
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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…
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Founder, Campaign.com
William Gondokusumo is the founder and CEO of Campaign.com, where he and his team are working towards empowering Changemakers to take action #ForChange. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has shown that each individual's actions can make an impact in making our world a better place. Since its…
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Chief Operating Officer, Clearly
Will Straw CBE is Chief Operating Officer of Clearly, a charity which aims to bring clear vision to the 2.7 billion people worldwide denied it as quickly as possible. In this capacity, Will has played a leading role in raising the profile of poor vision within the United Nations, Commonwealth and World Health…
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Co-CEO and President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Walter is Co-CEO and President of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), and leads all program teams. He previously served as executive in charge of advisory and sponsored project practice. He began as an Advisor at RPA in 2004.
Prior to RPA he helped lead a family owned firm focused on defense…
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Vice President of Development, 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…
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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…
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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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Dr., Individual
Dr. Vladas Lašas is serial entrepreneur, innovator and business angel based in Lithuania. He has a PhD in Computer Science. His area of business interests is logistics, technology startups, e-mobility. His portfolio includes UPS ASC Lithuania, ElintaMotors.com, ElintaCharge.com, Oxipit.ai…
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Head of Economic Opportunities, Department for International Development Jordan, Department for International Development
I am currently the Head of DFID's Economic Opportunities Team in Jordan. I am responsible for our macroeconomic and private sector programming.
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Founder and Director Women in Action for Women, Women in Action for Women
Victoria Nyanjura
Victoria hails from Oyam district in northern Uganda. Victoria is a survivor of Lord’s Resistance Army abductions in northern Uganda and a women’s rights advocate. She has shared her story and amplified the stories of other women who went through abduction from local, national…
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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…
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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…
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CEO, Opportunity Collaboration
I have been convening and connecting people for the purposes of social change for almost two decades, starting with co-founding the Highland City Club, a membership community of 300 changemakers in Boulder, Colorado, to managing Dunton Hot Springs, one of North America’s top all-inclusive…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Director, Global Philanthropy, Street Business School
Director, Global Philanthropy - Street Business School (SBS) & Owner - Red Philanthropy Consulting
Tifany leads philanthropic partnerships, thought leadership, and stakeholder engagement for SBS as they scale their entrepreneur training and self-efficacy program through a social franchise model…
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Practice Lead, Scaling Innovation, Results for Development Institute
I have worked in international development for the last 25 years in a range of capacities, including programme director positions driving innovation and collaboration among some of the world’s leading development institutions, philanthropic foundations and government agencies; senior management…
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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…
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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…
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Economic and climate justice warrior and advocate with cross-sector experience. Currently running sustainable development initiatives for various governments and building a tech platform to link family offices and institutional investors with de-risked climate and social investments opportunities…
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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…
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Director, Mosaic, The Boardroom Africa
Tamsin is a social entrepreneur and venture catalyst who has been involved in the design and expansion of a string of high-social impact initiatives in Africa, the UK and Australia. She is a regular commentator on innovation ecosystems, women in leadership and good governance.
Based on her track…
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President and CEO, Generation: You Employed
Mona Mourshed is the founding CEO of Generation: You Employed, a global nonprofit that supports adults to achieve economic mobility. Generation trains and places adult learners of all ages into careers that are otherwise inaccessible, delivering sector-leading employment and income results…
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Indonesia Director, Tara/European Climate Foundation, European Climate Foundation
Suzanty Sitorus is the Indonesia Director for the Clean Energy Programme of Tara, the philanthropy-funded energy transition platform for Asia hosted by the European Climate Foundation. Based in Jakarta, Suzanty leads Tara’s grantmaking strategy for clean energy in Indonesia and support ongoing…
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CEO, Save the Children (Germany)
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Unknown, Individual
Sue is Managing Director of Social Development Direct (SDDirect), a leading provider of social development assistance and research services, offering in-depth thematic expertise in conflict prevention and peace building, governance voice and accountability, girls’ education, women’s economic…
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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…
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Founder, Population Works Africa
Stephanie Kimou is the Ivorian-American founder of PopWorks Africa. She is an international development professional responsible for successful communications and advocacy programs related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. With a background in youth and gender, she has…
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CEO, The Light Foundation
Stephanie serves as founding director of The Light Foundation since its inception in 2019. The Light Foundation targets the most vulnerable children and families facing extreme poverty.
With multiyear grants the foundation focuses on highly effective programs, supports the mission of outstanding…
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Managing Director & COO, elea Foundation
Stefan Kappeler is Managing Director & COO at elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization (www.elea.org), an active philanthropic impact investor fighting absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means supporting social enterprises and entrepreneurial organizations in creating sustainable and…
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As Managing Director of Creative Services, Phil Collis is responsible for any creative / multimedia products for the Foundation, and oversees in-house films, website properties, social media and syndicated channels in direct support of the Foundation’s strategy. In addition, Phil also manages the online…
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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…
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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…
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Executive Director, Woodcock Foundation
Stacey Faella is the Executive Director of the Woodcock Foundation, a progressive family foundation that supports efforts to improve the educational, economic, and environmental circumstances of communities in need. Stacey works across the foundation’s programs, which span social enterprise…
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Co-Founder and Co-Pilot, WeRobotics
I am a passionate social entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow and Forbes 50 over 50 Member. I am 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…
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Executive Director, Gardens for Health International
Solomon Makuza is the Executive Director at Gardens for Health International (GHI), a for impact non-profit that works at the intersection of health and agriculture to provide community-based, effective solutions to malnutrition in Rwanda. GHI partners with health clinics and schools in rural and…
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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…
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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…
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Managing Director, Longview Philanthropy
Simran coordinates Longview Philanthropy’s research, grantmaking and advocacy work. Prior to joining, she was a research analyst at Goldman Sachs, working on a two-person team recognised as the best sell-side stockpickers in London in 2018. While there, she also became a Chartered Financial…
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Board Member and Philanthropist, ReSurge International
Sheila is a hands-on philanthropist for many of the organizations she supports. She is a former board member and currently sits on the Advisory Board of Samaritan House, a non-profit safety net organization that helps move neighbors in need out of poverty toward economic opportunity. She also…
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Senior Program Officer, Pacific Foundation Services
Executive Director
Senior Strategist, West Division
Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services Americas
Professional History
As a UBS Senior Strategist, Shawna co-leads Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services for the West Division. Shawna works closely with advisors to support families on achieving…
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As part of the Public Engagement, Communications, and Creative Services team at the Skoll Foundation, Annah writes content and communications that drive visibility, resources, and support for social innovators. She previously managed social enterprises that equipped hundreds of women with skills…
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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…
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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…
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Country Director, Integrate Health
2001, collaboration to create an NGO on HIV. 2003, collaboration to create Integrate Health to strengthen the PHC system. 1992 - 2004, I worked for MoH Togo in support of PHC. I pleaded in favor of IH's mission as it works with the system in place, supporting the provision of accessible and quality…
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DEAN, JOAN B. KROC SCHOOL OF PEACE STUDIES, University of San Diego
Patricia Márquez is the Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Innovation at the University of San Diego. She is also the dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, the first stand-alone school of peace and justice in the United States. The Kroc School prepares students from around the…
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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…
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Chief Investment Officer, Mercy Corps
Scott Onder is the Chief Investment Officer of Mercy Corps where he leads the agency’s global strategy for impact investing, innovative finance, Web3 initiatives, and strategic partnerships with technology ventures.
Scott is also the Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director of Mercy Corps Ventures, the…
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Partner, Praxis
Scott Kauffmann is the Partner for Content at Praxis, an NYC-based global nonprofit advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. In this role, he oversees Praxis’s thought leadership and brand, including a group learning experience (Praxis Course), a podcast (The Redemptive Edge), a digital magazine…
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Founder - Catalyst Campaigns, PopTech
Scott Goodstein is best known for his work with unique political campaigns that blend art, music, and culture. Having co-founded Punkvoter.com, Rock Against Bush, Artists for Obama, Artists for Bernie, DailyAction, CreativeMajority, and Abortion Action Force he has built impactful programs that have…
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Executive Director, Conservation Strategy Fund
Scott leads Conservation Strategy Fund's international team of economists, analysts and experts in conservation economics, seeking solutions to our greatest environmental challenges through the use of applied economics. Scott joined CSF after seven years at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as…
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Executive Director, Marhub International
Sarrah is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Marhub International, a nonprofit organization that aims to eliminate barriers for refugees seeking pathways to safety and the chance to rebuild their lives. Marhub’s digital platform enables refugees to navigate bureaucracy and connect with…
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Chief Service Officer, Conveners-Org
Hi, I'm SaraJoy. I'm the co-founder of Conveners.org. We help organizations get the right people in the right rooms having the right conversations to change the world.
If you'd like to know more... Winning a Social Venture Competition in 2009 launched me into a career as a social entrepreneur--a…
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Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer,
KivaSarah joined Kiva in June of 2019 to identify, build and strengthen partnerships vital toward our collective aim of creating a financially inclusive world for all.
Besides Kiva, Sarah advises a range of philanthropists, nonprofits building or restructuring initiatives, and social enterprises looking to attract…
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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…
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Director of Community, Legacy Venture
Denise joined Legacy Venture in 2005 and serves as the Director of Community. She builds and manages Legacy’s diverse community, which includes philanthropic individuals and foundations invested in Legacy funds as well as venture capital and philanthropic partners.
Denise works with the Legacy…
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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…
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Founder/CEO, ClimateResilient.Earth | Konbit.one
I am involved in multiple global networks such as Catalyst2030, Bounce Beyond, and Transformation Mapping Systems & Analysis Network and involved in numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations wherein, as an Ambassador, I can connect the dots and make things happen with humility.
I am…
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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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As a Portfolio Manager, Elyssa helps identify investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, and support the work and impact of portfolio partners. With a background in learning and evaluation, she is passionate about building authentic relationships with social innovators, learning together about…
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co-founder of Rwaq MOOC education and HEAD of NAWA VC for Social Entrepreneurship, Rwaq
Serial Entrepreneur who created multiple Social Entrepreneurship startup such as RWAQ for on line education and KASB a market place to Productive families as well as Founding NAWA VC that invested in social impact startups. work multiple high position in both the Private and public Sector, recently…
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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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Senior Director, Global Foundation Partnerships, Heifer International
Andrea Dhamer currently leads Global Foundation Partnerships at Heifer International. For 75 years, Heifer has worked to end hunger and poverty in partnership with the communities we serve. With a seed investment of livestock or agriculture, we build capacity for small scale farmers to access…
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Senior Policy Advisor - Access to Justice, The Elders
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Executive Director, International Accountability Project
Ryan Schlief
Executive Director, International Accountability Project
A life-long activist, Ryan has led local and global human rights campaigns specializing in economic and social rights for more than 20 years. Ryan is a specialist in community mobilization, global campaigning and using…
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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…
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Operations Director, DAK International Network
Marnie Rickards is the Operations Director for DAK Foundation and a Director of DAK International Network, which jointly support practical solutions for healthcare delivery in low resource settings.
Marnie oversees the Biomedical and Equipment programs, partnering with locally embedded health…
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CEO, Pula Advisors
Rose Goslinga is the CEO of Pula, a company that is radically restructuring agricultural insurance, using technology to scale climate insurance to smallholder farmers in emerging markets. Pula works in more than 11 countries across Africa and Asia and since its founding in 2015, facilitated crop…
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Rohit is a partner at The Bridgespan Group, where he has spent the last decade working with clients on thorny challenges related to strategy, organization, and leadership. Through his work, Rohit is committed to help build a vibrant civil society reinforced by dynamic leaders, community-led…
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Fjord Director Peru and Chile, Insitum
Started INSITUM Operation in Peru 7 years ago. Last year the company joined Accenture design and innovation practice, Fjord. Also contribute in non profit organizations related to social entrepreneurship and sustainable development. At this point I am looking for opportunities to help social…
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Co-Founder, The Social Co.
Rebekah is Co-Founder of The Social Co., the team that initiated the 50 For 50, Pledge It Forward and Samsung Power To Progress movements in September 2014, May 2017 and August 2018 respectively. Together, the team brought together more than 100 individuals, 90 corporations and more…
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Debbie Santos is the Vice President, Finance at the Skoll Foundation where she has primary responsibility for the Foundation’s financial matters and oversees the grants management, legal, accounting and finance functions. Debbie has spent most of her career helping organizations optimize across…
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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…
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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…
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CEO, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Maps and drones for social good.
Community led solutions, responsible AI, open source.
Audacious Project 2020: mapping an area home to one billion people affected by poverty or disasters
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Co-Founder & CEO, African Management Institute
Rebecca Harrison is the Co-Founder and CEO of the African Management Institute (AMI), an edTech scaleup pioneering high-impact workplace learning for Africa’s ambitious companies and talent. Under Rebecca’s leadership, AMI has grown from an idea on a whiteboard to become Africa’s leading…
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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…
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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…
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Chair of Advisory Council, Transparency International
Following an executive career in international organisations in the private and NGO sectors, I now have a portfolio of non-executive and trustee board roles.
I'm the Chair of the Transparency International UK Advisory Council; Senior Independent Director of Drax Group plc; a Board member of the…
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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…
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CTO and Managing Director, Emerson Collective
Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technology Officer at Emerson Collective, where he focuses on using technology and data to accelerate solutions that promote social good. Prior to joining Emerson Collective, Raffi served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where he…
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General Director, Ma'an Network
Raed Othman
Date of Birth: 20 May 1972
Personal status: Married
Home Address: Bethlehem.
Mobile no.: +972 59 9258705:
Email: raed@maannet.org
Work Address: MAAN MEDIA NETWORK
Al-Majd Building, Al-Karkafah st.
Bethlehem, Palestine.
Tel: +970227460085,
Fax:…
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Former Senior Director of Eng, Individual
Radhika has started and been responsible for several critical products at Google. Starting with leading the Ads team in 2000, Radhika went on to work on core websearch, and then founded Google Images, growing it to over 1B queries/day. She then went on to build Google Travel Search to help users…
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In her role at the Skoll Foundation, Rachel supports strategic engagements with aligned funders in order to direct additional support and resources to Skoll’s social entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Rachel launched and led key efforts at Omidyar Network to amplify the impact of the…
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LAWYER, TESK Advogados
Corporate lawyer with academic background in the field of Law and Economics, with LL.M from the Universität Hamburg, in Germany, and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, awarded by the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE). Founding partner at TESK Sociedade de…
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As Deputy Director of the ICCT, Rachel serves as a close partner to the Executive Director in the development and implementation of program strategies to eliminate the climate and health impacts of the transportation sector. She also works to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the…
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Chief Executive, Child Rights and You
Puja believes that children are the foundation of every nation’s growth and development aspirations, and must be at the centre of any development discourse. It was this belief that inspired her to become a part of the social sector, after she completed her post-graduation in Human Resources from…
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Founder, NGUVU Collective, Nguvu Collective
Preethi Herman, CEO and Co-Founder of Nguvu Collective, leads an international network of hundreds of women campaigners across Africa and South Asia. Recognised by the Obama Foundation, The Times, and Forbes, Preethi's transformative impact model supports women campaign leaders to win…
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Manager, Global Analysis, Global Centre for Pluralism
Poorvi Chitalkar is the Manager of Analysis at the Global Centre for Pluralism. She leads GCP’s applied-research on the sources of inclusion and exclusion in diverse societies and the development of practical tools to help practitioners advance inclusion, including the Global Pluralism Index. A lawyer by…
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Executive Director, GRAVIS
Dr. Prakash Tyagi is the Executive Director of GRAVIS and Founder-Director of GRAVIS Hospital. In his academics, he has studied Medicine, International Public Health and Geriatrics. In India, Dr Prakash Tyagi is the Executive Director of GRAVIS and has been leading the organization for over 15 years…
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Co-Founder/CEO, Center for Policing Equity
Phillip Atiba Goff is the Co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity, and a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University. He received his AB from Harvard and PhD in Psychology from Stanford. He quickly became a national leader in the science of racial bias by…
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CEO, Progressive Multiplier Fund
Ran Greenpeace and runs Progressive Power Lab which starts and manages organizations that move millions of dollars and people into progressive causes, including Progressive Multiplier Fund, Progressive Power Lab, Membership Drive, and Grassroots Team. Phil has no hair.
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Chief Impact Officer, Thank You Group
From a young age, Pete’s perspective on life was shaped by his upbringing in south-east Asia and after finishing a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts specialising in management and international development, Pete officially joined the Thankyou team in 2012.
Thankyou generates and redistributes…
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Chairman, BOMA.ngo
As the Chair of The Board of Directors at The BOMA Project (BOMA.ngo), I help lead a nonprofit organization that empowers women, youth, and displaced persons in the drylands of Africa to overcome extreme poverty and climate change. With over five years of experience in this role, I oversee…
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Executive Director, PACEMaker International
Dedicated to ensuring that Africa’s students have access to quality education, Peggy founded Promoting Access to Community Education (PACE) in Kenya, which recruits high school graduates to volunteer in public schools as teaching assistants. PACE offers a win-win solution for the volunteers…
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Lydia Darley is the Team Administrator at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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CEO, Future First Kenya Alumni Trust
Pauline is the CEO of Future First Kenya. She joined Future First Global in 2012 to implement an alumni engagement pilot programme seeking to support public schools in the UK and In Kenya to effectively engage their alumni.
Over the past six years, she has played a vital role in shaping alumni work in…
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Founder CEO, Cage Free Productions
At his core, Paul j Lynch is an adventurer working at the intersection of activism, storytelling (video), and academia. Another way to sum him up – a family man that loves to surf and explore our world. Professionally, Paul utilizes the power of story to solve problems, build awareness, and inspire…
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CEO/Founder, Entertain Impact
Paul Katz is the founder/CEO of Entertain Impact, a leading social impact agency. Over the last two decades, Paul's marketing and advocacy campaigns have raised awareness, support, and funds for philanthropic, social justice, and purpose-driven organizations including the African Wildlife Foundation…
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Director of Programs, World Connect
Patrick Higdon is the Global Director of Programs at World Connect. In this role he is responsible for overall program quality and integrity and he guides the program strategy, advises and supports the global hubs, and represents the organization's interests in strategic partnerships. He is also the…
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CEO, La Cocina VA
Patricia Funegra is a social entrepreneur with expertise in economic development using sustainable and innovative programs. Founder and CEO of a successful nonprofit organization La Cocina VA focusing on workforce and entrepreneurship development, and vocational and technical education…
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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…
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Chief Operating Officer, Co-Impact
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General Secretary, Released Bonded Labourers Association
Pachaiyammal Arul is the General Secretary for the Released Bonded Labourers Association (RBLA) state chapter, a network of more than 1,000 women and men who are using their freedom to advocate for others still enslaved. She is employed as a cluster coordinator for the State Rural Livelihood…
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Chief Executive Officer, Precision Agriculture for Development
A former UK civil servant, think tanker and non-profit entrepeneur.
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Chief Executive Officer, Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation
Osayi Alile is a quintessential leader with over 20 years in the Small and Medium
Enterprise (SME) and the third sector with a wide array of experience covering
International Development, Business and Philanthropic Management, Fundraising
and Sustainability.
Her degrees in Sociology and Public…
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Founder and Executive Director of Skateistan, Skateistan
Founder of Skateistan - the first NGO to combine skateboarding with creative education to empower children. Over 12 years experience of running a fast-growing organization that changes lives every day. I'm an innovator and I encourage my team to try new things. Lifelong skateboarder and…
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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…
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Chief of Staff, Open Society Foundations
Nicole Wilett is chief of staff at the Open Society Foundations. Wilett has long focused on the intersection of democracy and governance, human rights, gender, development, and security challenges.
Before joining Open Society, she worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she served as…
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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…
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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…
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Chief Executive Officer, Anseye Pou Ayiti
Originally from Haiti & Co-Founder/CEO of Anseye Pou Ayiti, Nedgine has experience in the non-profit sector with a particular focus on instructional excellence, curriculum implementation, and leadership development. Her past roles at Achievement First, WorldTeach, and Partners In Health has…
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Managing Director, Geneva Global
As Geneva Global’s Vice President & Managing Director for Philanthropic Services, Nathaniel oversees all of the firm’s client-facing work and deliverables. Those services range from supporting philanthropists as they identify priority areas for investment; developing operational strategies to…
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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…
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Founder & CEO, Longview Philanthropy
Natalie is the Founder & Executive Director of Longview Philanthropy, a nonprofit which connects the world’s leading philanthropists with outstanding opportunities to protect future generations.
Natalie works with philanthropists individually to plan and execute their giving plans. Prior to founding…
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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…
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Chair of the UWC International Board, UWC International
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro chairs two International Boards:United World Colleges (UWC) and also Womens Learning Partnership (WLP). She also serves on the Council of London School of Economics, and is a member of Care International and UN Global Compact Boards.
Dr. Kanyoro is a former President and…
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Non-Executive Director, FAST Standard Organisation and F1F9
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Chief Executive Officer,
OneSkyAs CEO of OneSky for all children, Morgan leads a team working across Asia that trains caregivers in best practices of ECCE so that vulnerable young children can thrive. The OneSky team always works partnership with local government with a goal of changing systems of care for the better. Prior to…
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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…
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Founder and Executive Director, The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development
Rabbi Yonatan Neril founded and directs The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, which reveals the connection between religion and ecology and mobilizes faith communities to act. Raised in California, Yonatan completed an M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University with a focus on global…
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Executive Director, Kisumu Medical Trust
Monica Oguttu is the Founding Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), an indigenous organization established in 1996 based in Kisumu with a network of over 350 health providers expanding access to quality Maternal and Child Health in underserved…
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Executive Director, Girl Up Initiative Uganda (GUIU)
Monica Nyiraguhabwa stands as an extraordinary force in the realm of social entrepreneurship and nonprofit leadership. In 2012, she co-founded the Girl Up Initiative Uganda (GUIU) with a mission to build a vibrant movement of girls and young women through transformative leadership, sexual and…
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Professor, Center for Global Health Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Medicine
I am a physician-scientist focused on improving health care in resource-poor populations in Haiti and Africa, particularly for HIV and cardiovascular diseases. My interest and participation in global health began at Harvard Medical School and residency working with Partners in Health in sub-Saharan…
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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…
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CEO and Co-Founder, citiesRISE
Moitreyee Sinha is the CEO and Co-Founder of citiesRISE, a global multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to driving paradigm shifts in youth mental health and well-being. Since 2017, citiesRISE has developed a portfolio of mental health interventions through city innovation hubs spanning India, Kenya…
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Head of Global Policy & Social Impact, Lyft
Michael Masserman is a Senior Advisor at The Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), where he draws on high-level experience in international expansion, social impact, and global government affairs to advise ASG clients in the technology and innovation sectors. Michael is based in San Francisco, CA, and…
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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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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…
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Mike Davis became CEO of Global Witness in February 2020. Under his leadership, Global Witness has embarked on a new strategic direction: shifting the balance of power from big polluters profiting most from climate breakdown to the people most adversely affected.
From 2016 to 2020 Mike was Global…
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Professor, Villanova University
Michele Pistone is a Professor of Law at Villanova University. In 1999, she also founded the Law School’s in-house Clinical Program and founded and directed the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES). In August 2020, Professor Pistone launched the first-ever online certificate…
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Partner, Capricorn Investment Group
Michaela Edwards is a Partner at Capricorn Investment Group, an impact focused Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). She helps families and foundations to invest sustainably and with impact through customized and discretionary portfolios that align with their values. Prior to joining Capricorn…
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Michael Zakaras is Director of Ashoka United States and founder of Ashoka’s All America initiative, which pushes the boundaries of social entrepreneurship beyond coastal cities. He is the co-author of the 2023 book "America’s Path Forward: Conversations With Social Innovators on the…
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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…
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Executive Director, InPACTO
Currently, I am Executive Director of InPACTO, an Institute that runs The National Pact that involves the productive sector at the public and private agenda to eradicate slavery at the supply chain. The initiative, which was, generate in a partnership and support between USDOL- USA Labor…
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Assistant to Jeff Skoll, Jeff Skoll Group
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International Advocacy Director, Fuel Freedom Foundation
Melissa Blaustein has taken on many pursuits. In her day to day work, she runs the Fuel Freedom Chair for Energy and Social Development at the Fuel Freedom Foundation, where she travels the world working with the top ranked European Business School IESE and its partner universities in…
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Unknown, Individual
Megan Dunbar is the Executive Director of Wild4Life Health, a US-based not-for-profit that was established to work in partnership with the local government to strengthen primary health care delivery in underserved areas in Zimbabwe. Over the last year, Wild4Life Health made a commitment…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Director of MoPoTsyo Patient Information Centre, MoPoTsyo Patient Information Centre
Maurits is Founder and Director of a Cambodian social enterprise for chronic care called MoPoTsyo Patient Information Centre (www.mopotsyo.org). It sets up Peer Educator Networks for chronic disease (primarily diabetes and cardio vascular disease) which are self-managed and largely…
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CEO, SocialColectivo
I dedicate myself to inspiring by connecting to generate positive transformation in the society.
I work on the co-creation of solutions for the future of business with a positive impact on people and society, generating new narratives, promoting a change in mentality, making ideas visible and…
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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…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Buildher
Tatu is an entrepreneur, an architect and a built environment enthusiast. As Buildher’s CEO, Tatu drives the strategic growth and initiatives of the organization, ensuring constant innovation in all aspects of program implementation and development. With over 14 years’ experience in the built…
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As Principal on the Portfolio & Investments team, Kathryn conducts diligence and produces profiles on Skoll Awardees, and supports strategic investment opportunities leading to lasting, large-scale social change.
Prior to joining Skoll, Kathryn managed private-sector partnerships at Direct Relief, a global…
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Senior Director, Global Impact
Matthew is a Managing Director at Global Impact where he leads the fundraising and partnerships team. In this capacity, he directs strategy and implementation for resource mobilization efforts to help non-profit organizations achieve their funding goals. He also leads philanthropic strategy and…
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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…
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Lead, Merck for Mothers, Merck for Mothers
Merck for Mothers has committed $500M to help end preventable maternal mortality. We do this by investing in innovations and contributing our company's business expertise in order to accelerate the process through which these innovations achieve impact at scale. I am looking forward to…
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President & Executive Director, Muirfield Foundation
Susan Sherrerd is a leader in philanthropic strategies for gender equity and a global advocate for women and girls. As President and Executive Director of the Muirfield Foundation, Susan supports historically underfunded, women-led, and girl-serving nonprofits across the United States and Global…
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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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Director of Strategic Partnerships & Global Programs, Merck for Mothers
Mark Allen has had over 20 years of professional experience in both the private and international development sector. Currently Merck for Mothers’ Director of Strategic Partnerships and Global Programs, Mark is responsible for managing strategic partners across the program portfolio as well as…
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Senior Director, Executive Office, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Marjorie Paloma, senior director, executive office, leads the Foundation’s efforts cultivating strategic relationships and partnerships to advance a Culture of Health. Paloma believes that the Foundation is uniquely positioned to leverage research, investments, leadership, relationships, and networks to…
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Managing Director, Europe, Forward Global
Marie-Louise Gourlay is Forward Global’s Managing Director, Europe. She’s worked in social change for the last 15+ years, and within the philanthropy sector for the last 10 years, with a particular interest in strengthening the sector in order to achieve greater systemic change.
Marie-Louise works…
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CEO, Humanity Crew
Maria Jammal is a Palestinian-Israeli lawyer, human rights advocate, and co-founder of Humanity Crew, a pioneering international organization providing mental health and psychosocial support to conflict and disaster-affected communities.
Maria is widely recognized for her role in raising awareness and…
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Sr. Director, Product Design & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
Margeigh Novotny is Sr. Director of Product Design & Strategy at the Wikimedia Foundation - the non-profit organization that runs the hundreds of Wikipedias worldwide. In this role she focuses on the system-level design challenges associated with making all the world’s knowledge accessible to all…
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Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Marcie Bianco, PhD, is an editor at Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is a columnist at the Women’s Media Center, and her writing can be found online at NBC, Pacific Standard, Quartz, Rolling Stone, Salon, Vox, and Vanity Fair, among other outlets. Bianco writes, lectures, and makes media…
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Masters Student, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures
Hi! I'm Marcelo from Paraguay. Currently I'm a masters student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA. In my country I've worked with more than 700 entrepreneurs in a project to help them grow their businesses and make them more sustainable. The program is now a government program and…
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Senior Philanthropy Consultant, WHO Foundation
Stefanie Verdorfer is a Senior Philanthropy Consultant with over 16 years of experience working with Philanthropists and international organizations. She is currently working with the WHO Foundation, developing high-value philanthropic partnerships and collaborations.
Previous roles include Manager…
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CEO, Social Docs
Brazilian, 40 years old, married, father of three, marketing executive, fan of soccer, cinema, literature, brands and communication, I believe in the power that stories have to engage, inspire and unite people around a cause, an ideology or a brand.
After 10 years of experience working in strategic…
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Founder, Africa Gems
Marc Sarosi has been working in Africa with gem mining and colored gemstones since 1982. He has built a gemstone business with an emphasis in colored gems from throughout the continent of Africa. He has been operating an eCommerce business called AfricaGems.com since 1997. Marc and…
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Chairman of the Board, Fundación Carvajal
Manuel Jose Carvajal has a BS in Business Administration from Babson College with a Master in Printing Technologies from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He worked in Carvajal S.A. from 1978 until 2014 where he held various posts in areas of production, human development and total quality…
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Laboratory Coordinator, University of Massachusetts
Makenson Deroly is a Laboratory Coordinator and Instructor in the University of Massachusetts network. He has over 10 years of experience in laboratory science, program administration, and systems design. He supports education initiatives in Haiti and across Haitian diaspora communities…
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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…
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Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer at Partners In Health (PIH), a global health nonprofit organization rooted in social justice that brings the benefits of modern medical science to impoverished communities in 11 countries. She received her BSN degree from Northeastern University, as well…
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Roeland Monasch is the Co-CEO of Aflatoun International, a social franchise delivering Social, Financial, and Entrepreneurship Education through a network of 400+ partner organizations across more than 100 countries. Aflatoun’s mission is to inspire young people to empower themselves socially…
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Director of Communications, The Elders
Luke leads the strategic development of The Elders public advocacy and positioning. Prior to The Elders, Luke headed up the communications and public relations teams at WWF UK and has spent 20 years working on international human rights issues, conservation, climate change and sustainability.
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President, Dovetail Impact Foundation
Robin Bruce serves as President of the Dovetail Impact Foundation, where she is honored to partner with exemplary entrepreneurs who are confronting the greatest challenges of our day. The Dovetail Impact Foundation invests in poverty alleviation at scale, with a focus on healthcare, education…
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Principal, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Member of the board of trustees from Merck Family Foundation
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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…
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CEO & Founder, Partners for Possibility in South Africa
Dr Louise van Rhyn is a social entrepreneur. She believes the worlds' huge intractable problems can be solved through cross-sector collaboration and a solid understanding of complex social change. She holds a Doctorate in Complex Social Change and has founded a few entrepreneurial organisations…
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Head of Program Management, International Justice Mission
Loretta is Social Worker with over 18years of experience in the NGO sector. She started her career as a Research Assistant in the Department of Criminology, University of Madras and then transposed to the NGO domain. She joined International Justice Mission, Chennai in 2013 and served as the…
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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…
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Founder/Director, Max Foundation
Joke Le Poole is the Founder and Co-CEO of Max Foundation, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring a healthy start in life for every child. She also serves as Chair of Max Social Enterprise, a social business spin-off delivering safe piped water to rural communities in Bangladesh.
Joke…
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Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer, Village Enterprise
Liz Corbishley is an experienced non-profit Executive with a passion for social impact, strategy, and building partnerships. She loves working with like minded teams to solve problems, make things better, and scale impact. She facilitates partnerships and conversations that unlock new ideas and…
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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…
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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…
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Co-founder, Executive Director, Issroff Family Foundation
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Global Portfolio Manager, Peery Foundation
As Portfolio Manager, Lindsey is responsible for guiding the International Grantmaking strategy at Peery Foundation. Day to day, she manages relationships with global and regional, current and prospective grantees, including conducting due diligence, reporting to the Board of Directors, and…
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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…
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Executive Director, Individual
Lindiwe Mazibuko is a South African public leader, writer and academic fellow. She was the first black woman in South African history to be elected Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
Mazibuko is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Apolitical Academy, a non-partisan movement to…
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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…
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Linda Greer is a Ph.D. environmental toxicologist serving as a Senior Global Fellow for the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a Skoll awardee and leading environmental NGO in China. She is focusing on increasing corporate oversight and responsibility for the environmental impacts of their…
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Executive Director, Government to Citizen Changemakers Foundation
Commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1996, he operated 6 attack submarines in various capacities. He was also part of the team which constructed India’s first indigenous nuclear propelled submarine. On promotion to the rank of Commander, he headed the Submarines’ Division in the Naval…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Partner, Legacy Venture
Laurie is a partner of Legacy Venture as well as the president of 4K Productions, an independent film production company focused on developing social impact projects. She previously developed and executed communications strategies in the venture capital, technology, and university advancement…
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Skoll Centre Administrator 18 years. Previously worked with Royal Horticultural Society. Presently running a farm under environmental stewardship.
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Head of Impact, Echoing Green
Laura Weidman Powers is a social entrepreneur whose career has spanned the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors. She is currently the Head of Impact at Echoing Green, investing in early-stage social entrepreneurs globally. Prior to this she was Entrepreneur in Residence at New Media…
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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…
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President and CEO, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Ms. Mapp is the President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), a global nonprofit that remains at the forefront of philanthropic growth and innovation with a mission to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world. RPA currently advises on and manages more than $500 million in…
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Director Food Systems Department at Oxfam America, Oxfam America
Dr. Laté Lawson-Lartego is Oxfam America’s Food Systems Theme Department Director. Dr. Lawson-Lartego has over 20 years of experience across the private and nonprofit sector. He is passionate about making the world a just and equitable place for everyone, especially for under-privileged people…
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Laila Brenner is co-author of Nonprofit Fundraising 101 and Nonprofit Management 101, and is currently serving as the Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at Code for America. As a veteran fundraiser, Laila has raised millions of dollars for a variety of national organizations and causes…
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CEO, Equalize Health
As CEO of Equalize Health (formerly D-Rev), KristaDonaldson leads the design and scaling of disruptive medical devices to address global health inequities. To date, nearly 1M people – mostly children and young people - have been treated by one of Equalize Health’s products in 70+countries. In…
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Global Leadership Group Member, Ashoka,
AshokaSocial innovator and leader with global track record. Currently leading Ashoka in North America and co-leading the built-up of Next Now, global collaborative networks that unite innovators around audacious goals, in spaces such as Technology & AI, Gender, Climate Change, Aging. Expert in…
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Co-Founder, GGEM Farming
A proactive highly driven commercial farmer, and agri-value chain builder with a background in law and property development. Ko has diverse International experience gained while working for value driven organizations in the UK, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
He champions respectful farmer…
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CEO, CBM UK, CBM Global
As Chief Executive at CBM UK-Global Disability Inclusion and BasicNeeds (former Skoll Awardee pioneering community mental health models), Kirsty works alongside people with disabilities and partner organisations in Africa & Asia. She is passionate in her promotion of systemic global change…
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CEO, Maisha Meds
Jessica Vernon, MD — CEO. Jessica is the founder & CEO of Maisha Meds and a qualified medical doctor. She has overseen Maisha Meds' growth to support over 4,000 pharmacies and clinics in four countries in Africa that provide care for over 20 million patients every year and direct improvement…
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Senior Program Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Kimberly Bardy Langsam is Senior Program Director for CASE, managing and contributing to a number of projects bringing together insights and hard-won advice from the social venture community to support the field in scaling more efficiently and effectively. Projects include CASE Smart Impact…
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Airbnb, Head of Social Impact, Airbnb
Kim Rubey is the global head of social impact and philanthropy at Airbnb, where she leads the company's work to utilize the power of the Airbnb community and the resources of the company to positively impact communities around the world. In this role, Rubey oversees all of Airbnb's social…
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Lead, External Funding & Strategic Partnerships, Flame Tree Initiative.
Kiki Chmielewski has been involved with a number of community and international NGOs. Her work has primarily been focused in non-profit fundraising and partnership development. She studied International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where she developed an interest in non-profit work. Kiki…
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Deputy Chair of The Elders, The Elders
Ban Ki-moon served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016. He joined The Elders in 2017, and has been the group’s Deputy Chair since November 2018. Prior to the UN he served as South Korea’s Foreign Minister (2004-06) and as a diplomat in his country’s foreign service…
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Jess leads Skoll’s Portfolio & Investment team operations and initiatives that support cross-organizational collaboration. She manages a team of professionals who work across Skoll’s strategic grantmaking programs and defines processes for continuous improvement across the broader…
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Head of Social Impact, Ripple
Ken is a multi-sector leader known for working with innovative, mission-driven companies, organizations and individuals to create social and environmental impact at scale.
Ken is currently Head of Social Impact for Ripple, a leading fintech company working to transform the global financial…
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Ken is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Glasswing. He believes that strong, local organizations are key to sustainably addressing development challenges.
Ken has over 12 years of management and marketing experience in the private sector, and has served as Vice President of Corporate…
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Senior Consultant, Bayer Foundation
Dr. Michael Schwall is a Senior Consultant for Bayer Foundation , initiating and managing of projects focused on Health, Agriculture, and Women Empowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa with a reach of more than 25 Mio people. With over 20 years of experience at Bayer AG, he has held various…
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President, Stone Steps Foundation
Karen Paterson is president of Stone Steps Foundation, a California-based philanthropy dedicated to advancing social and economic justice through innovative and scalable solutions to the problems of poverty. Prior to Stone Steps, Karen was a founding director of Moxie Foundation where she led…
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Trustee, Godley Family Foundation
Kathleen Carney-Godley, MD
Trustee, Godley Family Foundation
Dr. Carney-Godley is a retired physician and trustee of the Godley Family Foundation. She has a particular interest in the intersections of global health, the environment, women’s health and social justice. Her focus includes engaging with…
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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…
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President & CEO, Kids Help Phone
I have the privilege of leading Kids Help Phone, Canada’s only national bilingual 24/7 e-mental health service, supporting youth as young as 5 and as old as 28 who reached out to us more than 2.1m times in 2019. I worry about young people in Canada, however they identify themselves, and know that…
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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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CEO, Upaya Social Ventures
Kate is a fierce believer that global poverty is not inevitable and that entrepreneurialism is one of the sharpest tools to fight it. She leads Upaya Social Ventures, a nonprofit organization that accelerates and invests in early stage companies that create lasting jobs for the poorest of the poor in India…
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Artistic Director, Micro Galleries, Micro Galleries
Kat is an urban disruptor and creator of public art interventions that focus on positive social change. Kat creatively leads the global arts initiative Micro Galleries, is owner, writer and curator for women-identifying initiative, Urban Nasty, is an Advisor for French-based global arts initiative United…
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Founder & CEO, Whole Child International
Karen Spencer is a renowned social entrepreneur and systems change expert, known for driving transformative solutions across child welfare, land management, and sustainability.
As the founder of Whole Child International, she pioneered a pragmatic approach to implementing…
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Executive Director, CRI Foundation
Kara Weiss is the Executive Director of CRI Foundation, a strategic philanthropic foundation focused on cost-effective, high impact interventions geared to those living in poverty in low- and middle-income countries. Kara oversees CRI’s three programs: CRI Health, CRI-DIV, and CRI Research, and works…
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Piyush Tewari is a 2024 Skoll Awardee. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SaveLIFE Foundation (SLF), a nonprofit committed to saving lives on roads in India and beyond since 2008. He is best known for getting India a Good Samaritan Law and developing an award-winning model for…
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CEO, 1001 Fontaines
Julien has been leading 1001fontaines since 2015, focusing his work on designing the organization’s scaling up strategy, providing support to the current countries of operation, investigating growth opportunities, and contributing to the 1001fontaines’ thought leadership.
A graduate of ESCP Europe…
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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…
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SVP People and Culture, Massy Group
Julie Avey
Julie is the SVP People and Culture for the Massy Group (Caribbean Conglomerate with 12,000 employees). A native Trinidadian who grew up in Australia and Scotland and has travelled extensively throughout her career. From 2013 to 2016, Julie and her family spent time in Colombia where she…
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Mental Health Director CBM/BasicNeeds, CBM Global
Julian Eaton is Mental Health Director for CBM, which incorporates BasicNeeds. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a psychiatrist focused on public health, and his work involves promoting greater access to health care…
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Director Partnerships South East Asia, British Council
Julia Kim-Davies joined the British Council in November 2015 as Partnership Development Director Arts, East Asia. Her most recent position, as Director Partnerships South East Asia, focuses on developing multi-stakeholder partnerships and initiatives across the British Council’s portfolio spanning…
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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…
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Currently in charge of Fundación Capital's Presidency for Business and Partnerships Development, I have worked as an independent development consultant in financial inclusion, besides previous work in an international development NGO, as well as acting as a government officer in social…
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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…
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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…
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Member of The Elders, The Elders
Following ministerial appointments in finance, trade and defence, President Santos assumed the Colombian Presidency in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. In September 2012, he publicly announced that his government had entered formal negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of…
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Sistema B Colombia
I have a Social Communication bachelor degree and a Master's In Developing and Planning (MDP). I have more than 16 years of experience in project management focused on social and economic development, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding, through a systemic approach. During my…
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Co-founder, Humanitix
Josh was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Australia (2018), received the New South Wales Premiers Medal, and won the Google Impact Challenge for co-founding Humanitix with his best friend Adam McCurdie.
Humanitix is a self-funding charity disrupting the heavily resented ticketing…
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CEO, Unlocking Communities
Josh Goralski is the founder and CEO of Unlocking Communities, a social enterprise that empowers local entrepreneurs to sell water filters and stoves in Haiti and Ukraine (coming soon to West Africa and South America). He is a certified nonprofit professional (CNP) with a master's degree in social…
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Paul Radu is Co-Founder and Head of Innovation at OCCRP. He founded the organization in 2007 with Drew Sullivan. He leads OCCRP’s major investigative projects, scopes regional expansion, and develops new strategies and technology to expose organized crime and corruption across…
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CEO, Techfugees
Joséphine GOUBE, Executive Director at TECHFUGEES : Graduate from both Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics, Josephine is the Executive Director of Techfugees, a grassroot community and online movement mobilising refugees, social entrepreneurs & humanitarians to respond…
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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…
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Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jose “Oying” G. Rimon II is the Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is concurrent Director of the The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a business unusual platform providing reproductive and health…
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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…
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Executive Director, Health in Harmony
Health In Harmony is a climate solution. A pioneering Planetary Health organization, we invest precisely in rainforest communities' locally designed solutions for systems change. Our investments reverse poverty and deforestation to protect climate-critical tropical rainforest to halt global heating…
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Chief Operating Officer, Zoe Empowers
Chief Operating Officer
Zoe Empowers
Raleigh, NC
September 2019 - Present
Zoe is a global network of local organizations equipping orphaned children and vulnerable youth to overcome life threatening poverty and experience the fullness of life. Over the course of our three-year program, these…
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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…
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CEO, Tru Social Inc.
Jim is a serial social entrepreneur with three decades experience in tech and four in regenerative design, sustainability and climate. He is co-founder and CEO Tru Social and JLINC Labs, and co-founder of Planetwork.
In May 2000, Planetwork produced the first international conference on global ecology…
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CEO, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Jim Cannon is CEO and founder of Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.
Jim has worked on fisheries, forestry, and conservation issues in Asia, Europe, and the Americas for more than three decades. He was named Intrafish’s “Person of the Year” in 2009.
Jim founded SFP in 2006 to scale-up the impact of…
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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…
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Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships, Tribeca Film Institute
Jill Mosebach is a dynamic change agent and partnerships director specializing in storytelling and narrative change. She brings nearly 15 years of experience in relationship management, organizational and program strategy, resource mobilization, and change management. She serves as the…
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Assistant General Manager, LUI Che Woo Prize
Jessica Cheng is Assistant General Manager at LUI Che Woo Prize – Prize for World Civilisation. The prize, established by Dr Lui in 2015, aims to promote world civilisation through recognising individuals and organisations that have made outstanding contribution to the building of a better world for all. A…
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Interim Chief Executive Officer,
VidereJesse is the Interim CEO at Videre Est Credere, a non-profit organisation supporting persecuted communities to use customised technology to document human rights violations. Prior to this he held positions in both London and Washington D.C. with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, focusing on…
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President, Africa-America Institute
Kofi Appenteng is the President of the Africa-America Institute (AAI). He has 30 years of domestic and international experience as a corporate lawyer, investment banker and board director.
Appenteng serves on the Atlantic Institute Governing Board, the International Advisory Board of IE University…
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Chief Strategy & Operations Officer of Emergent, Global Development Incubator
Jon is a director at the Global Development Incubator. GDI is a non-profit incubator of ground-breaking ideas that can reach impact at scale. GDI stays with partners through the long haul, helping with their biggest strategic decisions and the details of execution to help them build their ventures better…
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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…
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Program Partner, Imago Dei Fund
Jennifer Oakley is a Program Partner with the Imago Dei Fund and works to advance the fund’s strategic priorities locally and internationally. She works closely with current and potential grantee partners, managing a portfolio of investments across multiple programming areas. In this role, she explores…
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CEO, Rock Health Foundation
Katie is an entrepreneurial leader committed to equality and justice who has launched groundbreaking, inclusive programs that address complex global issues with a focus on public health innovation and the role of innovative financing and leadership in systems change. As the CEO of RockHealth.org…
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Founder & CEO, Africa Farmers Club
Multi-Award Winning Farmer, Community Entrepreneur, Resident @FCLP, Skoll Fellow
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Executive Director, Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health
Jedidah Maina has over ten years of experience as an activist, researcher, program manager, and organizer concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a focus on the right to love who you love, contraception for all ages and safe abortion. Jedidah joined Trust for Indigenous Culture and…
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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…
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Executive Director, Ubuntu Center for Peace
Dr Jean Bosco Niyonzima is the co-founder of and Executive Director for the Ubuntu Center for Peace. He has over 12 years of leadership and management experience in international development and humanitarian contexts, having worked in 7 African countries for different organizations…
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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 &…
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Board of Trustees, Segal Family Foundation
Janis resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Vail, Colorado. She and her husband Ronny are blessed with five children and nine grandchildren.
Janis earned her Masters degree in art education in Connecticut. She is retired from a career of teaching in the public and private sector.
Janis is a founding…
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Director of Marketing & Communications, The ELMA Philanthropies
Janet Kleinbaum is the Director of Marketing and Communications for ELMA Philanthropies, which develops and manages strategies, grantee investments, and partnerships for The ELMA Group of Foundations. In her role, Janet is responsible for overseeing all aspects of ELMA’s external…
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Praxis Venture Partner - Africa, Praxis
Jeff Dykstra is a Venture Partner with Praxis and Co-Founder & Principal of Four Corners Exploration, an initiative that guides leaders and couples into beautiful, wild places to slow-down, reflect, and focus on what truly matters, and offers executive coaching to select Senior Leaders.
For 16 years, Jeff…
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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…
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Chief Financial Officer,
myAgroJane 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…
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Philanthropist, Individual
Joanne Kagle leads a small fund focusing on grassroots, front-line healthcare projects serving the most vulnerable. We currently foster collaborations and leadership training among medical professionals at UCSF and Partners in Health, with special emphasis on nursing and diabetes care. Current…
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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…
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Tim is a Managing Director on the Portfolio and Investments team at the Skoll Foundation. He is responsible for identifying high-potential social entrepreneurs and applying the Foundation’s assets to help social enterprises create large scale and lasting change to social injustice and inequity…
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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…
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Founder, Hindawi Foundation
After 15 years of working in the education sector, Jackie Hindawi is excited to join the philanthropic community. She is a Duke University and Haas School of Business graduate and has spent her career in education, operations, finance and technology consulting. Jackie is just entering the philanthropic…
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Senior Program Manager, Rising Tide Foundation
Education:
University of St.Gallen, Master of International Affairs and Governance
University of St.Gallen, Bachelor in Business Administration
Work experience
KPMG Switzerland, Head Climate Change & Sustainability
BSD Consulting, Switzerland, Senior Consultant, Head of the Team Sustainability…
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Founder & CEO The Bleu Blanc Rouge Foundation, Bleu Blanc Rouge Foundation
Isabelle started the Bleu Blanc Rouge Foundation after adopting her son Milo from Ethiopia 9 years ago. Through her local operations in Addis Ababa, she supports around 100 teenagers in family homes and through a variety of interventions including academics, healthcare, psychological counselling…
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CEO, Inua Advocacy
The same as mentioned in this link: https://skoll.org/attendee/innocent-magambi/
with a slight edits as follows:
Organisation: Inua Advocacy
Title: CEO
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Jill is the Director of Event Production at the Skoll Foundation. Jill's work centers on building bridges for the social entrepreneurs and innovators dedicated to advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work, she plays a key role in helping connect and celebrate this dynamic…
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Chair, Partnership for Change
Founder and Chair of Partnership for Change, (pfchange.org) focusing on empowering children, youth and young women through education and job creation in Ethiopia.
Founder and Chair of Drøbak Montessori Foundation, K12 education
Chair of Montessori Norway
Board member: Search for…
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Country Director, Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust
Imelda has spent the last 3 years working to expand access to quality health services for marginalised populations both at policy and individual levels. She is the Executive Director for Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust, a local nongovernmental organisation that focuses on the health and well-being of…
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Board Chair, Nest, David Lynch Foundation, Pitt Rivers Museum, Summer Fields School
Iliane invests in and mentors a number of early-stage women-led businesses, with a focus on sustainability, supply chain and eCommerce. She also works in film as an Executive Producer.
She is a regular panellist on development and sustainability and recently launched working sessions on…
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Consultant, Evaluation & Learning, TCC Group - Philadelphia
Ijeoma is a consultant within the Evaluation & Learning practice of TCC Group, a social impact consulting firm based in New York, NY. Ijeoma possesses a wealth of experience in the social sector with particular expertise in the psychology and public health disciplines. As a trained psychologist with…
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Director, Rockefeller Foundation
Hunter Goldman rejoined The Rockefeller Foundation in 2019. As a Director on the Innovation team, he manages special projects that explore the intersection of technology and the Foundation's programmatic interest areas. His role involves incorporating new frontier thinking with other teams…
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Managing Director, Leksell Social Ventures
With a background of building local resilience at grass root level throughout the international development sector, Hugo is currently using investment theory (and practice) to catalyse entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of todays structural societal challenges. With Sweden as a base, Hugo…
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Founder, Myanmar Youth Empowerment Opportunities
Htet is on the mission to empower the capability of human potentials for an equitable world through building personalized learning and opportunities community Edtech for Myanmar youths.
Htet has 10+ years of experience in Edtech focusing on the Myanmar market with background in Economics…
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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…
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Executive Director, Strategy and Projects, Qatar Foundation
Hisham Nourin heads Strategy, Administration and Projects at Qatar Foundation’s Community Development Division. During his tenure over the past 8 years at the Foundation Hisham has been a change agent driving strategic excellence and transformation through reviewing and scaling high impact…
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Director, Nature Pays, WWF
With a 16 year career spanning the private, public and NGO sector across multiple countries, an experienced senior sustainability leader currently leading WWF's new global initiative - Nature Pays - creating market access opportunities for enterprises within WWF's conservation programming…
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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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Executive Director, Penta Medical Recycling
Henry Iseman, born and raised in New York City, is Founder and Executive Director of Penta Medical Recycling. After seeing the life-changing impact of prosthetic limbs while working with U.S. veterans, Henry was determined to make prosthetic care more accessible to amputees worldwide. Mr. Iseman…
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Mrs, Agerup Foundation
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Regional Head - Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana, International Finance Corporation
Hector Gomez Ang leads the IFC ‘s operations in Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana - based in Luanda.
Hector was IFC’s Brazil Country Head for Brazil between 2014 and 2019 when IFC invested in excess of US$10 billion in Brazil and led the origination of a $20 billion infrastructure advisory…
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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…
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Chairman, Transforming Philanthropy Initiative
Felipe Medina leads the Transforming Philanthropy Initiative. This initiative creates a community of strategic philanthropists to facilitate collaboration and exchanges of best practices and lessons learned with the objective of increasing volume of effective social investments in Latin America. Felipe has…
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Director of Strategy, Segal Family Foundation
Dedo is a networks orchestrator and global leadership enthusiast. With background in targeted and strategic philanthropy, he has spent over a decade of his career at the intersection of public good and private interest. He works with incredible teams and organizations, across the US, Europe and Sub…
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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…
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Founder, IndiaSpend
Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder, BOOM & IndiaSpend
Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist who has reported and written on Indian business for over 25 years. He is a media executive and entrepreneur whose ventures are safeguarding the transparency, accuracy, and integrity of the internet in…
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CEO, Creative Metier
Glynis Rankin is the founder CEO of Creative Metier. Creative Metier contributes to social and economic development by strengthening funders, social impact investors and investees and by building sustainable multi-stakeholder networks and local markets for executive coaching, human capital and…
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West Africa Director, Acumen
Meghan is the West Africa Director for Acumen, where she oversees the organization’s work supporting entrepreneurial solutions to problems of poverty, through Acumen’s pioneer investing and leadership development programs. Meghan joined Acumen in 2013, and was leading the global…
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Giulia Zino is the Head of Donor Relations for Proximity Designs, an award-winning social enterprise based in Myanmar that focuses on designing and delivering affordable, income-boosting products that complement the entrepreneurial spirit of rural families. She is based in Yangon (Myanmar).
Giulia…
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Managing Director, Autodesk Foundation
Jean is the Managing Director of the Autodesk Foundation, where she oversees grantmaking and investment in a portfolio of 50+ ventures and organizations innovating new technologies and solutions to address climate change mitigation, adaptation and workforce development. She also leads…
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Principle, Reiss² Consulting, TrueChild
Gina Reiss is an entrepreneurial, executive manager with three decades of organizational and fund raising experience in the nonprofit sector at the state, national and international levels. She has raised over $35 million for human rights, social justice causes and has worked across many cultures…
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President & CEO, Resolution Project
George M. Tsiatis is the President and CEO of Resolution Project and Enactus Global. Resolution has built a community of over 700 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 6.5MM…
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CEO, DigDeep Right to Water Project
George McGraw is the founder and CEO of DigDeep. DigDeep is the leading non-profit focused on closing the Water Access Gap in the U.S. It conducts groundbreaking research, spearheads community-led water infrastructure projects, and amplifies advocacy efforts across the sector. George also…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Founder and CEO, Lucky Iron Fish
Dr. Gavin Armstrong is committed impact entrepreneur. He is currently serving as the Founder and President of Lucky Iron Fish Enterprise®, a social enterprise attempting to alleviate iron deficiency around the world using a simple health innovation. Through this role he was a Fulbright scholar at…
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Founder, Dharma Life
Gaurav Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Dharma Life, a social enterprise with the mission to improve the lives of the poorest segments of society through a rural entrepreneurship model. He also runs a small family office private equity portfolio focusing on seed-funding eDarly stage, highly…
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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…
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CEO, International Justice Mission
Gary Haugen is CEO and founder of International Justice Mission.
Before founding IJM in 1997, Gary was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he focused on crimes of police misconduct. In 1994, he served as the Director of the United Nations’ investigation in the…
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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…
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Director, Citrone 33
Gabriela (Gabby) Citrone is a bold, young philanthropist committed to giving back to her community and empowering others to invest in social impact initiatives. Gabby believes that constant learning and collaboration is necessary to become a stronger, more effective philanthropist and advocate…
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Trustee, Godley Family Foundation
My wife and I are active physicians with an interest learning how health issues can be addressed internationally. We consider health challenges to include many of the relevant issues in people's living environment.
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Program Director, Pathway Foundation
Francesca DeMarco is Program Director for The Pathway Foundation in Lugano, Switzerland, a grantmaking family foundation which seeks to improve people’s lives in the developing world by supporting established organizations with a proven track record in health, education and the environment.
A…
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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…
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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…
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Senior Lecturer, SEEK-GSP
Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu MD, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Makerere University, School of Medicine, and she is currently based at the Mulago National Referral Hospital since 2013. She leads mental health research projects in northern Uganda whose results are…
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Founder, Thandeka Travel
Erin Summe is the founder of Thandeka Travel, an Africa-based company that connects impact investors directly with local organizations addressing clean energy, health care and education. Through intimate immersions, Thandeka aims to create relationships and dialogues that will allow funders to…
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Chief Impact Officer, Impact Investment Group
Erin is Chief Impact Officer at Impact Investment Group, an Australian impact investment funds manager. Impact Investment group is owned by the family office of Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman and invests in behalf of its 500 clients across a range of investable opportunities that deliver…
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Global Head of Impact Computing, Amazon
Erika is the Global Head of Impact Computing at Amazon Web Services where she helps customers leverage the power of cloud computing to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges—whether that means mapping the world’s water supply, curing cancer, or mapping the world's water supply…
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Director, TEDx Ciudad de Mexico
I’m a Sociologist dedicate to understand people, markets, habits and brands. I run my own boutique agency in Mexico City. TEDx is my passion and I devote most of my free time to it. Now organizing the first TEDxCiudadDeMexico. I love to be here!
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Vice President, Communications, Participant
Shapiro joined Participant in 2019 as the company’s Director of Social Impact Communications and was soon promoted to Vice President of Communications. She now serves as Senior Vice President of Communications and Brand in the department of Campaigns and Engagement. Prior to…
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Founder & CEO, Warc Africa
Emiliano was born in Buenos Aires, on May 28th 1984. He is an entrepreneur, business leader and investor in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. As Founder & CEO of Warc Africa, he sits at the intersection of fighting hunger and leveraging capital markets for conscious economic…
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Executive Director, Open Source Wellness
Dr. Elizabeth Markle is a licensed psychologist, speaker, writer, researcher, and Associate Professor of Community Mental Health at California Institute of Integral Studies. She is the co-founder of Open Source Wellness, an Oakland-based nonprofit offering experiential behavioral health and wellness via a…
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CEO, Norrsken Foundation
We help entrepreneurs solve the world’s greatest challenges.
Check out norrskenfoundation.org
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Educator, expressive arts therapist, artist, environmental educator, environmental activist and feminist. Executive Director and also partner at NGO Ciudad Saludable and Director of Urban Interventions and performance at Gender Observatory Peru.
Diploma in Environmental Education for…
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CEO, iDE
Lizz became CEO in January 2019, after 5 years as COO during which she led the global team to growth through strong management, business development leadership, and a commitment to financial integrity. “iDE brings the best in development, combining impact and value for money with an…
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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…
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CEO & Founder, KARAMA
Hibaaq Osman is the founder of Karama, a movement to end violence against women, and deliver sustainable, inclusive peace and democracy in Africa and the Middle East. Taking grassroots issues to the global stage, Hibaaq’s career has encompassed reconciliation and peacebuilding in Somalia and…
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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…
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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…
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Drew Kodjak is a prominent figure in the field of environmental policy and vehicle emissions regulation. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the environmental…
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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…
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President, Indiana Polyclinic, Indiana Polyclinic
Dmitry M Arbuck, MD was born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. He
earned his medical degree in Russia and then in the USA.
Dr. Arbuck formed a pain management
clinic that grew into the multispecialty, multidisciplinary facility,
Indiana Polyclinic (IPC). IPC specializes in treating the most difficult
cases…
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Emily Bancroft is a global leader in systems change, dedicated to transforming health care delivery. She sets the vision for how VillageReach works with governments, private sector and technical partners to build responsive primary health care systems that are focused on the under-reached. Emily is…
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As Chief Operating Officer at the International Council on Clean Transportation, Diane Tworog implements global operations strategies and practices to advance the nonprofit’s goal to decarbonize the transport sector. She oversees the development, administration, finance, IT and human resources…
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Head of Grants, Kusuma Trust UK
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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…
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Vice President, Institutional Relations, Americares
As vice president of institutional relations, Diana Maguire oversees relationships with corporate and foundation partners supporting Americares health programs for people affected by poverty or disaster. The leading global nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies, Americares…
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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…
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Founder, The Valerian Fund
Elizabeth is a clinician, public health consultant and global health impact investor. She founded Care2Communities in 2010 to meet the health care needs of women in Haiti after the earthquake. Leveraging innovation, philanthropic dollars and social enterprise principles, C2C has continued to serve…
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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…
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Founder, Welcoming America
David Lubell is the Founder of Welcoming America, and recently shifted his full-time focus to the organization's international efforts as the Founding Director of the Welcoming International program. An accomplished social entrepreneur, David inspires people to build a different kind of world -- one…
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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…
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Venture Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Liz Berry Gips has over three decades of experience in the education sector in the US and in Africa. She has held leadership roles at NGOs, philanthropies and development agencies. Liz is a Venture Partner at DRK Foundation, supporting the scaling of innovative social enterprises. She is…
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GM, BorrowLenses, Shutterfly, inc.
Eugénie FitzGerald is the Sr Director and General Manager of BorrowLenses, an online rental business with a sustainable soul that is changing the way photographers and videographers access gear and expertise in the U.S. She is a growth-oriented senior operating executive and general manager…
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Senior Director of Development, ProLiteracy Worldwide
As Senior Director of Development for ProLiteracy in Syracuse, NY, Lara Pimentel is responsible for guiding the philanthropic goals and social impact of the 60-year-old adult literacy nonprofit. ProLiteracy is a nonprofit social enterprise with a successful publishing arm that serves adult literacy programs…
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Chief Executive Officer,
TostanElena Bonometti is a well-regarded management professional applying global business development strategies toward improving communities's well-being. After expanding community development programmes for African women via the United Nations and Embassies of France and Italy, Ms…
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Director of International Programs, Unbound
Daniel Pearson serves as Director of International Programs for Unbound, a nonprofit organization that creates platforms to empower communities and families in their efforts to overcome extreme poverty. Current platforms include individual and group cash transfers to support solutions implemented…
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Executive Director, Global Partners for Development
Daniel has more than 20 years experience working with non-profit community based organizations with extensive expertise in board and community relations, fundraising, resource development, program and clinical services management and planning, executive coaching and grant writing.
He has…
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Edith is committed to helping patients and their loved ones prepare for the demands of caregiving. Her work focuses on the intersection of research, policy, and design in global health systems. Edith is an Ashoka, Rainer Arnhold, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Echoing Green fellow. She…
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Executive Director, Semilla Nueva
Curt grew up on a small organic farm in rural Idaho. He founded his first development organization at 18. After graduating college, he moved to Guatemala in January 2009 to start a for-profit agricultural inputs company. In 2011, he founded Semilla Nueva to find new agricultural technologies…
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Courtney Evans Henke is Director of Development for Last Mile Health, an organization that partners with governments to design, strengthen, scale, and sustain community health worker systems to bring healthcare to all communities - regardless of distance from a doctor. Courtney possesses over 10…
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Yana Abu Taleb, a dedicated environmental advocate and peacebuilder, serves as the Jordanian Director of EcoPeace Middle East. A unique regional organization that brings together environmentalists from Jordan, Palestine, and Israel to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts…
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President/CEO, Health Equity International
Conor Shapiro, MPH, assumed the position of President and CEO at Health Equity International in 2011, leading the organization’s operations in Haiti and the United States. Under his tenure, St. Boniface Hospital has emerged as the leading referral hospital in southern Haiti. Conor has overseen the…
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Chief Executive Officer, Conexus Financial
Colin has been an investment industry media publisher and conference producer since 1996. In his media career, Tate has launched and overseen dozens of print and electronic publications. He is the chief executive and major shareholder of Conexus Financial, which was formed in 2005, and is…
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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 currently leads.
Founded in 2009, it has grown from serving 40 students to reaching over 240,000 students in six education districts in…
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Gabriel is an award-winning filmmaker who tells stories of global social change leaders.
As executive producer for the documentary #SolutionsInsideOut series, he’s working to shift the way the development sector approaches storytelling in the Global South.
He started working with video at age 13 at…
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Director of Philanthropy, Internews
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Creative Director, I-AMVOCAL
Donald Okudu** is a visionary Creative Director and Social Entrepreneur with a passion for fostering community and leadership among youth. As the primary licensee and Curator of TEDxPortHarcourt, Donald has brought together innovative minds and inspiring ideas to drive positive change.
In…
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Director of Civic Activation, Burning Man
Christopher Breedlove is an American designer, community builder and experiential producer. Christopher currently works as the Director of Civic Activation at the Burning Man Project where he oversees the Burners Without Borders (BWB), Regional Network, Civic Arts, and Global Granting…
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Director of Strategic Partnerships, Helvetas USA
Christina is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Helvetas USA where she supports Helvetas’ water and rural access portfolios. Christina has spent her career focused on research and implementation across a range of sectors including WASH, health, nutrition, energy, and infrastructure. Previously…
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Global Director, Savings Groups, CARE
Christian is an experienced manager with demonstrated record of innovation and success working with teams across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In his current role, Christian leads the global scale up of CARE's proven savings group model, aiming to reach 60 million members by 2030. Over the…
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VP & Director of Programs, Packard Foundation, David and Lucile
Chris DeCardy is Vice President and Director of Programs. He oversees grantmaking across the Foundation’s program areas as well as the Communications and Evaluation departments. He also works with the CEO and Board on special grantmaking and has led several cross-foundation…
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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…
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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…
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Director of Partnerships, Segal Family Foundation
Cher-Wen is Segal Family Foundation’s Director of Partnerships. She leads the foundation's work engaging peers in the funding community to advance its mission of building an equitable community of donors and doers, committed to working in true partnership.
Following the completion of her…
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Journalist, Individual
Laurie Goering is an award-winning climate change journalist and editor, who has written about and run coverage of climate change issues for more than 20 years, from about 80 countries. She was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper based in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, South…
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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…
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CEO, Tendrel
My life purpose is to inspire and connect others to achieve extraordinary things. I am a polymath who lets my mind travel to explore new ideas in uncharted territories. I pursue what excites me and what makes my mind bend in new ways. I seek colorful souls with the same intense curiosity to…
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Founder and Executive Director, Our Sisters Opportunity
Delphine Uwamahoro is a social entrepreneur, a global health professional, a fashion designer and a philanthropist. Prior to founding Our Sisters Opportunity-OSO, she was the Country Director at TIP Global Health for over 8 years, an International Health NGO which achieves lasting improvement…
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Partner and CFO, Capricorn Investment Group
Eric Techel is a seasoned finance professional with almost three decades of experience in investment management. He began his career at Deloitte, where he spent 11 years in the Special Acquisition Services Group, focusing on due diligence for acquisitions by firms like KKR. In 2007, he joined…
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Former Chief Executive Officer,
PolarisCatherine Chen has spent nearly 25 years building innovative social justice programs and pushing for systems change on behalf of marginalized communities. Most recently she served as CEO of Polaris, a 2017 Skoll winner. At Polaris, she launched the Resilience Fund to provide 18 months of…
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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 for ERM. On moving to Nairobi in 2012, she set up an impact…
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Director of Individual Giving, Fund for Global Human Rights
Catalina currently serves as the Director of Individual Giving at the Fund for Global Human Rights and owns her own company, Envaluate, Inc. She has worked as a programmatic and strategic development consultant for organizations such as: Search for Common Ground, One World Youth, and…
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Debbie Rogers, a dynamic leader passionate about advancing mobile technology for health, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role as CEO of Reach Digital Health and a board member of Turn.io. Her leadership tenure at Reach, spanning over a decade, has demonstrated her ability to…
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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…
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Board Director, Seydel Companies
Scott Seydel studied chemistry at Georgia Tech and began his career in textiles before founding The Seydel Companies, which expanded internationally through partnerships and acquisitions. In the 1980s, he shifted focus to renewable, biodegradable, and recyclable products. Scott has served on…
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Chief Development Officer, Girl Effect
The status quo is unacceptable. For the past 15+ years I've pushed back by working for transformative organizations addressing gender inequality, poverty, conservation, and peacebuilding as a fundraiser and storyteller. I welcome any opportunity to have an insightful conversation with a curious…
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Deputy CEO, Small Foundation
Liz is Deputy CEO at Small Foundation, an innovative family foundation focused on increasing income-generating opportunities for poor rural people in sub-Saharan Africa, through MSME development. A philanthropic funder with extensive global experience, Liz manages the foundation's expertise and…
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CEO & Founder, A Breeze of Hope
Brisa De Angulo, J.D., M.A., is CEO and Founder of A Breeze of Hope Foundation, which operates Bolivia’s first specialized center providing trans-disciplinary legal, social, and psychological services to child survivors of sexual violence. Brisa--a survivor of childhood sexual violence--is a pioneer in…
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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…
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Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube
Breanna Zwart’s work is rooted in a clear mission: bringing partners together to amplify and support diverse voices through the power of technology. Breanna’s strategic eye for business priorities is laser-focused on driving both profit and social impact through her foundation of public policy and…
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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…
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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…
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Sr. Director, UHNW Solutions, Royal Bank of Canada
Ben Winograd is a member of RBC’s Enterprise Strategic Client Group and engages with the next generation of RBC’s most strategic families to provide guidance as they prepare to take on leadership roles within their family enterprises, or start their own venture. Through the delivery of bespoke…
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Managing Editor, SciDev.Net
Ben Deighton is the Managing Editor of SciDev.Net, the world’s biggest news service covering science in a development context. Ben is responsible for overseeing SciDev.Net content, ensuring its editorial independence and the quality of articles and multimedia products. Ben is a board member of the…
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Executive Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Becca Heller is the Executive Director and co-founder of IRAP. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work with IRAP, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Charles Bronfman Prize, the American Constitutional Society David Carliner Public Interest Award, a Skadden Fellowship, a…
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Kayode Ajayi is a Marine Engineering graduate who has established a remarkable career in international operations and strategic leadership in healthcare logistics. After earning a degree in marine engineering, Kayode quickly demonstrated a keen aptitude for navigating complex terrains and…
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Creative Director, StoryMaxima
Damilola Onafuwa is a visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria, using photography, film as a medium of expression. The focus of his work is on human-interest stories that creates a consciousness about social issues. His work puts a spotlight on humanity in its purest form, on people and culture, serving as the…
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principal, Pace Able Foundation
Bart is a principal at Pace Able Foundation, an organization that works with early stage social impact entrepreneurs operating in the Global South. Pace Able’s primary mission is to directly support entrepreneur partners with technical assistance and some financial support. The partners’ sectors include…
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Community Engagement Lead, Stripe
Aylin Oncel leads community engagement globally at Stripe, a tech company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. She's passionate about leveraging tech for good and finding innovative solutions to old problems. Aylin received her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law and her B.A. in…
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Senior Advisor - Global Partnerships, The Citizens Foundation Pakistan
Nadia is a senior advisor to The Citizens Foundation (TCF) and a nonresident fellow with the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. She is the author of "Pakistan's Education Crisis: The Real Story," as well as several articles and opinion pieces about public education reforms and financing in Pakistan…
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
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Director, New America
Autumn McDonald heads New America CA--the largest hub of New America--a civic enterprise focused on issues of economic equity. New America CA is a change accelerator that lifts up local innovation, community voice, and collaborates and convenes to influence policies, and outdated systems and…
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Director, Artha Impact (Rianta Capital), Rianta Capital Limited
Audrey Selian currently serves as Director of the Artha Impact associated with Rianta Capital Zurich. Rianta is a dedicated investment advisory vehicle to a single family office – and Artha has been initiative involving the deployment of private equity finance to last mile service businesses serving the…
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Founder and CEO, Nourish^N
David leads the Nourishment Economies Coalition (Nourish^N): an international group of social entrepreneurs, community enterprisers, and scientists focused on nutrient-cycling strategies to stimulate economic, cultural, and biological vitality -- and building social and business enterprises around the…
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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…
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Executive Director, World Wide Hearing Foundation International
Audra Renyi is the executive director of the non-profit World Wide Hearing and the founder of earAccess, a for-profit social enterprise. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street dealing with private equity firms. Ms. Renyi has also worked with Doctors Without Borders, in Chad; in Rwanda…
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Founder and Chair, Adara Group
TBA
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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…
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Founder & CEO, The/Nudge Institute
After 17 years of starting and scaling various businesses, Atul started The/Nudge Foundation to do poverty alleviation work. Atul is now serving both The/Nudge and Give as their CEO.
Over his 5-year stint at InMobi as its Chief Business Officer, Atul helped scale the organisation to a global leader in…
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Managing Director, MEST
Originally from a small city in India called Madras (now Chennai) - Ashwin is an Interactive Designer/Developer, specializing in UI/UX and product growth. After studying a Bachelors in Computer Science, Ashwin joined the bandwagon of high innovation by joining Honeywell. Two months later, he switched…
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Executive Director, Godley Family Foundation
Ashley is the executive director of the Godley Family Foundation, which supports innovative solutions to global health, climate justice and gender equity challenges in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa. Prior roles include: serving as a program officer in the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and…
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Founder, People’s Courage International
Born in India to an excluded community, Ashif is President and CEO of People's Courage International. He is also cofounded Jan Sahas with the dream of empowering socially excluded communities drawing from his own lived experience. He’s since grown the organization from five volunteers to a…
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Claire Joubert is the Programming Manager at the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), where she leads curriculum design for the interdisciplinary Ellison Scholars programme. With expertise in educational programme design, network building, and partnership development—particularly in…
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Managing Director, IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV
Åsa Skogström Feldt, managing director of IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV.
IKEA Social Entrepreneurship supports social entrepreneurs all over the world, to create greater opportunities for vulnerable people and communities, through impact investments, partnerships and development programs…
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Arthur Mills IV, an innovative leader and collaborative solution finder, joined New Teacher Center’s Executive Team in 2019 as Chief Operations Officer leading NTC's finance, human resources, and technology solutions groups. His wealth of experience in dynamic and challenging roles within both the…
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Director, Paloma Sjahrir Foundation
Paloma Sjahrir Foundation is a newly founded organization that focuses on building better ecosystems for eco-startups and women led small enterprises.
Before that I co-founded and was Country Director of Change.org Indonesia and cofounder and curator of TEDxJakarta.
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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…
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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…
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Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent for NPR, where she also co-hosts the podcast Life Kit for Parenting.
Kamenetz is the author of several acclaimed books on learning and the future. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life…
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Executive Director, NEID Global - Network of Engaged International Donors
Ina Jamuna Breuer is Executive Director of NEID Global, which is a US based peer-to-peer learning community of global donors, social investors, and family foundations. Previously Ina was the Executive Director of Beyond Conflict, where she worked for 17 years to help leaders in the Middle East…
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Luis Fernando Sanabria is the COO at Fundación Paraguaya where he is responsible for implementing the organization’s programs and social innovations in Paraguay and worldwide. Fundación Paraguaya was named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization by the…
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Founder, VitalTalk
Anthony (Tony) Back is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle and Co-Founder of VitalTalk, a nonprofit devoted to improving physician communication with people living with a serious illness. Dr. Back graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and had…
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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…
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Senior Director, Partnerships, Nia Tero Foundation
David Rothschild is Senior Director of Partnerships at Nia Tero, where he has worked since 2017. David was part of a small team that helped build Nia Tero. He helped develop its Amazon program, and is now focused on leading Nia Tero’s expansion into Africa. Prior to Nia Tero, David held various…
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Senior Managing Director Europe, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Lisa is a senior philanthropic executive with a twenty-year career focused on impact and systemic change. She has worked with numerous foundations and family offices on program and portfolio development. She has served as CEO of Bernard van Leer Foundation, Chief Strategy Officer at Porticus…
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Managing Director of Philanthropic Collaboration, Co-Impact
Anna-Marie is a global philanthropy expert bringing two decades of experience across the civil society and private sectors to her role leading the Philanthropic Collaboration team at Co-Impact. She is passionate about the potential for philanthropy to do more and do better by supporting just and…
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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…
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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…
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Head of Corporate Responsibility, Qualcomm
Angela Baker oversees Corporate Responsibility at Qualcomm, the company that transforms how the world connects, computes, and communicates. Qualcomm was just named #1 on Fortune Magazine’s Change the World list, which focuses on companies that are addressing social challenges…
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CEO, PurePlus+
Amy Keller is Co-Founder and CEO of PurePlus+ - a revolution in the whole plant foods based economy. PurePlus has created a healthy candy wafer from the most climate impactful, imperfect and nutrient dense fruits and vegetables. Each piece of healthy candy provides stealth nutrition through…
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Director, Salesforce.org Impact Labs, Salesforce.Com Inc.
Amy believes in the power of design to create positive change in the world. At Salesforce.org Impact Labs, she leads a collaborative program to co-design innovative technology solutions that address the toughest social issues facing us today. To date, Amy’s work has focused on addressing…
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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…
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Executive Director and President, Measures for Justice
Amy Bach has been the Chief Executive Officer of Measures for Justice since 2011. She founded the organization as a follow-up to her book, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, which won the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. In June 2011, Echoing Green selected Amy as a Fellow out of…
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Celina is a social entrepreneur from El Salvador. She is co-founder and president of Glasswing International, which addresses the root causes and consequences of poverty and violence in 12 countries, through education, mental health, and youth empowerment initiatives.
She has over 25 years…
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Director, Equal Measures 2030, Equal Measures 2030
Alison Holder is Director of Equal Measures 2030, a civil society and private sector-led partnership that connects data and evidence with advocacy and action, helping to fuel progress towards gender equality.
Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) is a unique cross-sector partnership of leading organizations…
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Chief Executive Officer, A Glimmer of Hope
Alicyn Yarbrough leads Glimmer’s efforts to reduce poverty and build resilience in rural Ethiopian communities. She guides the development and expansion of the organization’s community-led approach that centers around income growth, good health and continuous access to education. Since…
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Director of Programmes, The Elders
Jenny joined The Elders in June 2015. She worked for the previous 12 years at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID): leading the UK Government’s efforts to help Indonesia address climate change, based in Jakarta; and also working for DFID in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Global Head of CSR, SAP
Alexandra van der Ploeg is Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at SAP globally. Alexandra is responsible for setting the strategic direction of CSR focused on bringing to life SAP’s higher purpose of “helping the world run better and improving people’s lives” through strategic partnerships and…
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Director and Professor, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity
I am currently the Director of the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE) at Montana State University, a center dedicated to community-based partnerships to improve health equity in rural and American Indian communities. I was also the founding director of the…
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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…
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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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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…
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Head of Emerging Futures and Technology, Department for International Development
Head of Emerging Futures and Technology and the UK's Department for International Development
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Executive Director, CLEAR Global
Aimee is an executive leader and global change maker with over 30 years of experience in humanitarian and development action. A long proponent of system change, Aimee saw the potential use cases for CLEAR Global’s innovations, hired an excellent team and has led visionary programs to harness…
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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…
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Chief Executive Officer,
VidereJackie 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…
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Founder/CEO, Late Nite Art
Adam Rosendahl is a facilitator, artist and experience designer. Through his experiential workshops and trainings, he fuses art, music, and dialogue as a vehicle to breathe imagination and connection into teams, organizations, and conferences.
As the Founder and Chief Experience Officer of LATE NITE…
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Co-founder / Co-CEO, Humanitix
Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Humanitix - an Education non profit that believes every deserves the opportunity to thrive no matter their background. Humanitix is a leading social enterprise that disrupts the notorious events ticket industry by harvesting the profits from resented booking…
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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…
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Founder/CEO, MITIMETH
Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro
Founder, MitiMeth
Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro is a Computer Scientist turned Social Entrepreneur. She is the Founder of MitiMeth, an award-winning Social Enterprise transforming waste and building livelihoods through the transformation of invasive aquatic weeds and…
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Co-Founder & CEO, The Flight School
Abby Falik is a founder and futurist creating new pathways for human flourishing. Through her ventures, writing and speaking, she helps people move from doing what’s expected to doing what matters – for themselves, and for a more hopeful and humane future.
Her work has been featured in The…
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Managing Director, Stanford Center for Health Education, Stanford Center for Health Education: Digital Medic
Aarti Porwal is the Managing Director of Stanford’s Digital Medic, a program within the Stanford Center for Health Education that improves global health by spreading evidence-based health information and building capacity for the health workforce. Under Aarti’s leadership, Digital Medic has become a…
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Founder, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Christopher Hohn is the founder of the Children’s Investment (TCI) Fund. Through donation of the hedge fund's profits he endowed the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). CIFF is focused on improving the lives of children, particularly those living in poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and…
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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…
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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…
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Advisor, Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV)
Yasemin is the Director of Ozyegin Social Investments, a network of institutions including the Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV), Husnu Ozyegin Foundation (HMOV), Iz Child Centers, and Ozyegin University based in Turkey. Ozyegin Social Investments focuses primarily on education, from early…
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Whitney May is Co-founder and Director of Government Services with the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She leads a nationwide initiative that supports a learning community of U.S election officials who want to administer more resilient, trustworthy, and voter-centric elections. Prior to founding CTCL…
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consultant, Individual
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Test, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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 nine years developing community engagement and workforce development programs. Most recently, she…
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Executive Director, Bless a Child Foundation
Brian Walusimbi is dedicated to transforming the lives of children battling cancer in Uganda and Kenya. As the Founder and CEO of Bless a Child Foundation, established in 2008, Brian has championed care and support for pediatric cancer patients. Through his vision, thousands of children and…
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Chief Sustainability, CSR and Communication Officer, ReNew Power
Vaishali Nigam Sinha is the Chief Sustainability, CSR and Communication Officer at ReNew Power, one of India’s largest renewable energy IPPs (Independent Power Producer). Under the ambit of ReNew India Initiative (RII), Vaishali drives the company’s engagement, corporate social…
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US Board Trustee, Spring Impact, Spring Impact
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Founder and CEO, LifeBank
Temie Giwa-Tubosun is a social entrepreneur, healthcare advocate, and CEO of LifeBank Group, Africa’s healthcare supply chain engine. She is an alumnus of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies with over 12 years of health management experience working with the Department for…
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SECRETARY GENERAL FOR HEALTH IN DRC, DRC Ministry of Health
Education : 2008 master in public health at the school of public health of the university of Kinshasa, 2005 diploma of specialized studies in immuno-hermatology and transfusion of the university of Liège in Belguim
To date: secretary General for health , director of faily health and specifc groups, in…
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Director, Applied Recovery Co
Chris Raine is an Australian social entrepreneur with a focus on mental health and addiction. He is the founder and former CEO of Hello Sunday Morning and the current CEO of Australians for Mental Health. He is also the co-founder of Clean Slate Clinic, a home telehealth alcohol detox service with a…
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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…
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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…
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President & CEO, Citizens Foundation, The
Asaad has been an ardent supporter of the cause of education for the last two decades and has contributed towards the building of schools through TCF for the last fifteen years. He joined TCF three years back as its CEO after a long association as a supporter. He holds an MBA degree from the…
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Director, Resource Mobilization and Communication,
ARMMANSwati is responsible for the creation and execution of a resource mobilization and communication strategy for ARMMAN, a disruptive India NGO leveraging technology to implement low-cost, highly scalable solutions addressing pervasive systemic gaps leading to maternal and child mortality and…
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Chief Catalyst, Catalyst at Large Ltd.
Suzanne Biegel, Chief Catalyst at Catalyst at Large, and Co-Producer of the GenderSmart Investing Summit
Suzanne is a globally recognised expert on gender-smart investing. Her work has influenced hundreds of institutional and family investors, and billions of dollars in capital to move with a gender…
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President, Wadhwani Impact Trust
Sunil Wadhwani is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He co-founded, and was Chairman and CEO of IGATE Corporation, which provides a broad range of Information Technology services. With over 34,000 employees on four continents, IGATE has been…
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Sumitra has close to 30-years global experience in innovation in the private sector and civil society; has founded, activated and mobilised over innovations globally within organisations, as a civil society leader and within networks. She is a social entrepreneur with in-depth experience in social…
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Director, Kyaninga Child Development Centre
Steve is the co-founder of the Kyaninga Child Development Centre (KCDC) (www.kyaningacdc.org) KCDC was founded in 2014 and provides much-needed high-quality specialised and affordable assessment, treatment, education, and support to children living with disabilities. KCDC’s team has…
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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…
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Group Head of Partner and Industry PR, Skyscanner, Skyscanner
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Former Co-Founder and Executive Director,
CONEXSUSCarina Pimenta, National Secretary for Bioeconomy (vice-minister level), Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil
Carina Pimenta holds a degree in Business Administration from EAESP-FGV and a master's degree in Social Development from the University of Sussex. Carina Pimenta…
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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…
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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…
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Donny Bridges is Co-founder and Director of Civic Data of the Center for Tech and Civic Life. He leads a team that’s helping to make information about government and elections accessible to all Americans nationwide and developing the data infrastructure that US civic engagement organizations need…
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Head of Strategy Group, Omidyar Network, Omidyar Network
As Chief Strategy Officer, Sonny develops and advances Omidyar Network’s corporate strategy and planning, and oversees our impact, learning, and research agendas. He also leads some of our international work.
Sonny is a strategy, philanthropy, and investment professional with more than two…
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Village Health Works
Deogratias "Deo" Niyizonkiza, VHW's visionary founder and CEO, is a leading advocate for the most impoverished people in the world. His compassion, expertise, and life experience have made him a key voice in global health and international development.
An American citizen, Deo was born in rural…
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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…
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Chief Executive Director, Humana People to People India
Mr. Westgaard has been working with Humana People to People India (HPPI) since February 2004 and is one of the integral members of the HPPI team in India. He has over the years supported a wide portfolio of work in child education, community development, environment and public health…
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I'm the Executive Director of Voice of the Free - VF Foundation, Inc. A seasoned management expert and a seasoned social worker. I've been with Voice of the Free for 19 years already.
An expert in private and public sector partnership, built and
manages the first ever anti-human trafficking taskforce in…
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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…
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Shahed is committed to creating inclusive global health systems that recognize and support caregivers. Prior to Noora Health, he focused on improving healthcare for incarcerated populations and developing diagnostics for low- and middle-income settings. Shahed is also an associate faculty member…
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President, Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation
Catalina Escobar graduated in 1993 from Clark University with a degree of Business Administration, studies she combined with other academic programs in economics in Europe and Japan at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka. She later completed a M.B.A. at the INALDE Business School in…
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Founder & CEO, Operation Fistula
Seth Cochran is a builder at heart, passionate about uniting people to create lasting impact. As the founder of The Sidebar, a community dedicated to fostering meaningful connections, he thrives on bringing changemakers together to drive social innovation. Throughout his career, he has founded or…
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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…
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Director, Strategic Partnerships, Tenure Facility
Sehr (Sahar) Tejpar is a social entrepreneur with an MBA from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, where she received multiple scholarships for her expertise in social impact. She holds a Masters in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics and has over a decade…
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As Director of Impact and Development at Glasswing International, Sandra Contreras draws from two decades of experience working with communities across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Her work with the Salvadoran government and organizations like FINCA, Save the Children, and…
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As the Mozambique Country Director, Ruth is responsible for the overall programmatic and administrative aspects of the organization in Mozambique, serving as the primary representative of Mozambique operations to the government and to VillageReach’s Seattle headquarters.
Ruth brings a…
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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+…
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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…
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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…
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Executive Director, Women in Global Health
Dr. Roopa Dhatt, WGH Executive Director and Co-Founder, passionately advocates for gender equality in global health. As an Internal Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, she co-founded Women in Global Health in 2015, leading a movement with 46 chapters and 90,000…
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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…
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Chief Growth Officer & Sr. Advisor to CEO, Girl Effect
Colman is driven by a fervent belief in humanity's untapped potential. A serial entrepreneur, C-suite advisor, and innovation architect, he leverages his expertise to reshape how we tackle the world's most pressing challenges.
As the former head of innovation at the Nike Foundation and Global…
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Executive Director, AMP Health, AMP Health
Robert Newman is a pediatrician with more than 30 years of experience in global health and development, and has worked extensively in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He is Executive Director of AMP Health, a Johannesburg-based non-profit working with African governments to develop…
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Managing Director, Individual
Randall currently sits on the board of Acumen Academy UK and is on the UK advisory board for Room To Read. He is also a crisis volunteer for Shout Crisis Text Line. Over the past ten years, he has been an investor in early stage companies both in the US and UK. Previously, Randall worked in private…
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Ramesh Padmanabhan is the CEO of ARMMAN. Ramesh was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Piramal Foundation prior to joining ARMMAN, leading technology initiatives across primary education, primary healthcare and safe drinking water. Prior to joining the Piramal Foundation in 2016, Ramesh…
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Co-founder, Lend a Hand India
Raj Gilda, a banker-turned-social entrepreneur, leads resource mobilisation and external relations at Lend A Hand India. With over 20 years of experience in education, banking, insurance, and IT, he transitioned to full-time work in the social development sector in 2011. His past roles include…
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Dr. Radha Rajkotia is a dynamic leader known for her unwavering commitment to driving innovation, impact, evidence, and positive change in the realm of international and economic development.
As the Chief Executive Officer of Building Markets, she champions market-based solutions for small…
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Founder/Trustee, Issroff Family Foundation
David Issroff is a man of many talents! He’s not just a seasoned investor across various asset classes, but also an intellectually curious and funny person who loves to explore the world around him. He was born in South Africa, matured in the United Kingdom and lived in Switzerland for many years prior…
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Partnerships Director, GiveDirectly
Rachel is Partnerships Director for GiveDirectly, based in London. She joined GiveDirectly from the Overseas Development Institute where she was Head of Strategic Partnerships for governance and climate change. Prior to this, she worked on climate change and sustainable development in strategy…
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CEO, Tarsadia Foundation
Priya is the CEO of Tarsadia Foundation, a California based foundation dedicated to unleashing human potential through global investments in inclusive mobility, crises and threats and human transformation. Drawing on 20 years of experience, her passion is building bridges and catalyzing partnerships…
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Business Development Manager, Global Partnerships, British Broadcasting Corporation
Pooneh Ghoddoosi is a seasoned media professional working in editorial, commissioning, media partnerships, and international media strategy.
With decades of experience in journalism, presenting, and editing, Pooneh now oversees Global Partnerships between the BBC World Service and external…
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Advisor, Ford Foundation
Ex-Deloitte Consulting, Clinton Foundation, Paul Volcker Advisory. Currently Ford Foundation. Focused on Investing/ESG
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Programme Manager - Travalyst, Sussex Royal - Travalyst
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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…
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Managing Director, Programs and Capital, Rippleworks
Ayesha leads all Programs and Capital 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…
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Executive Director, Kidz Can
Daniel McKenzie is the Executive Director of KidzCan Zimbabwe, a foundation dedicated to supporting children with cancer. He holds a degree in Mass Communication and Philosophy and is a 2021 graduate of the Global Scholars Program in Fundraising. In 2024, he completed the Executive Leadership…
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Vice President of International Affairs, AARP
As Vice President of International, Peter Rundlet develops and executes AARP's international strategy to position AARP as the global thought leader on aging. An accomplished strategic thinker and visionary leader, Rundlet leads the enterprise-wide strategic direction for international engagements…
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Co-founder and CEO, Impact Hub Bogota and Latam
Social innovator, weaver, passionate about creative ideas & collaborative actions for a more sustainable and equitable world. Facilitator of co-creation processes for the development of social and environmental initiatives. Wide experience as consultant and entrepreneur in sustainability, education…
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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…
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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…
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Founder / Executive Director, Slum2School Africa
Orondaam Otto is committed to building Africa’s future by providing education for children and youths across underserved communities, improving education and human capital development policies, and promoting reform based leadership to eliminate socio-economic inequalities and achieve…
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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…
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Social impact investment manager, Open Value Foundation
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Executive Director, Resonate
Norette brings a wealth of experience in program management, strategic planning, and business development to her position as Executive Director. Before joining Resonate, Norette was proud to help improve cancer control for Canadians through her work at the Canadian Partnership Against…
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CEO and Co-Founder, Educate!
Boris Bulayev is the CEO and Co-Founder of Educate!, which empowers youth in East Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. A former refugee from Latvia, Boris believes in the transformative power of mentorship and education—opportunities that helped him rise from welfare and…
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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…
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MBA Student - Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
A social impact professional from Bangalore, India. I’m passionate about solving issues on unemployment and poverty. Having completed a Masters in Physics and Electronics Engineering, I chose to pursue a career in a philanthropic organization, working for Tata Trusts. I designed and implemented…
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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…
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Founder, NM Impact
Natasha is a Next Gen impact investor, philanthropist and mental health activist. She is a convener to the core and is passionate about leveraging her deep network to build and support a global ecosystem of local change-makers that, together, create sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing…
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Managing Director Aquilus Pte Ltd, Co-Founder Alatus Capital, MAC3 Impact Philanthropies
Antoine is a founding partner of Alatus Capital, a European-based value investment management firm. For over 15 yrs, the firm has been privileged to work with a number of pre-eminent global foundations, endowments and pension funds.
In 2002 he founded MAC3 Impact Philanthropies, to support…
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Philanthropist-Co-Founder & Co-Chair, de Gaspe Beaubien Foundation & Co-Founder, Business Families Foundation, de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation
Nan b de Gaspé Beaubien
Nan Bowles (Nan b) de Gaspé Beaubien is a businesswoman and a pioneer in the advancement of family enterprise. As Co-chair of the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Foundation, she devotes her time to philanthropic endeavours that continue to break new ground supporting…
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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…
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Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, GroundTruth Project
Charles Sennott is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Tshe GroundTruth Project. He is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national and local journalism. A leading social entrepreneur in new media…
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Head of Commercialisation & Global Partnerships, BBC World Service,
BBCMuriel is currently Head of Commercialisation and Global Partnerships at BBC News, where she leads a multifunctional team working across editorial philanthropic
projects, commercial strategy and communications.
Prior to this, Muriel worked in a number of roles across the media industry, including…
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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…
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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…
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Director of Impact Investment, The Velocity Collaborative, Friedkin Philanthropies
Merrill Gregg is the Director of Impact for the Velocity Collaborative, an initiative of Friedkin Philanthropies. The Velocity Collaborative is a US-based, globally operating philanthropic collaborative that addresses pressing environmental problems using innovative approaches at the intersection of…
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VP Impact + Marketing, Tarsadia Foundation
Kate Faith recently joined the Tarsadia Foundation as their VP, Impact and Marketing, where she is focused on creating pathways for individuals and communities to unleash their full potential and become the architects of their own future.
Kate Faith has dedicated her career to working at the…
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Curator and Storytelling Consultant, TEDxLondon, X Equals
Maryam is the Director and Curator of TEDxLondon and TEDxLondonWomen and co-host of
TEDxLondon’s podcast - Climate Curious. She has been coaching TED and TEDx speakers for ten years. The talks she has worked on have been distributed by TED to over twenty million viewers, influenced…
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Managing Director, International Psychosocial Organisation gGmbH
I am a cultural scientist and have worked for many years in the field of sociology and MHPSS networks in Germany. Today I coordinate the “Ipso Care Center” in Berlin, where we provide professional, psychosocial counseling in 19 languages.
Ipso - international psychosocial organization - is an…
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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 portfolios of the ELMA Growth Foundation, which supports organizations with scalable models of improving the lives of low-income communities in Africa, and the ELMA…
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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…
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VICE-CHANCELLOR, University of Oxford
Professor Louise Richardson AAS ACSS FRSE RIIA
Professor Louise Richardson is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. She was previously Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.
A native of Ireland, she studied history in Trinity College, Dublin before gaining her PhD at Harvard…
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Projects Director, DAK International Network
With over 20 years of experience working in international development, Anubha is the Projects Director at the DAK International Network (DIN), a charitable Foundation based in Australia. DIN primarily focuses on four main areas – women's health and maternal, child and neonatal health…
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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…
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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…
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Vice President - Operations, Educate Girls
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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…
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Manager, Instiglio
Linda is a strategic and technical lead in Instiglio East Africa, where she leads and coordinates Results Based Financing projects.
Prior to joining Instiglio, Linda was a manager in Deloitte East Africa. Over the nine years spent at Deloitte, she worked with clients in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, providing…
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Liby T Johnson is the Executive Director of Gram Vikas, Odisha. He has led large-scale, impactful efforts over nearly three decades in the community development sector in India with civil society and governments. His experience spans diverse sectors as water, natural resources, migration…
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Chief Executive Officer - BRAC UK, BRAC UK
After spending twenty years working in international development across the world Lewis joined the BRAC UK team in late 2014. Lewis started his career working on projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in partnership with governments to assist them to develop community based services for…
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Chief Executive, Fidelity International Foundations
Chief Executive of the Fidelity UK, Bermuda, Europe and Asia Pacific Foundations. Accomplished leader with significant experience in spearheading programmes to strengthen organisational performance and impact, enabling social/environmental change and business growth. Extensive experience…
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MBA Student, University of Oxford
I am a current MBA student at the University of Oxford where I am a member of Impact Lab, the Skoll Centre's co-curricular pathway for students committed to careers in social impact. Prior to the MBA, I worked as a manager for a higher education consulting firm and as a researcher for…
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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…
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Executive Vice President, Campaigns & Engagement, Participant
Laura Kim is co-head of Campaigns + Engagement at Participant where she is involved in all aspects of the campaigns around the company’s films, episodic and series.
Kim has been at work on “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Descendant,” and past titles “Flee,” “Collective,” “American…
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Interim Head of Funding, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Laura leads on strategic donor partner relationships for Camfed International and has over 10 years' experience forging reciprocal, sector-leading partnerships between major international companies and charities, and has worked for several national and international charities including Save the…
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President and CEO, IREX
Kristin Lord is President and CEO of IREX, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to building a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world by empowering youth, cultivating leaders, strengthening institutions, and extending access to quality education and information. Prior to joining IREX in…
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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…
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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…
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Product Manager, X, The Moonshot Factory
Ashley is an entrepreneur and engineer focused on innovating energy and water technologies to enable access for the world’s poor. She loves bringing novel ideas into reality and scaling them- to date, product she developed have been used by over 3 million people in 7 countries. She’s currently a…
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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…
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Program Coordinator, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Kelly supports Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisor's global philanthropy team and has managed a number of complex initiatives including the SDG Philanthropy Platform, the Scaling Solutions initiative and individual philanthropy client engagements. She regularly organizes events for RPA’s funder…
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MBA Student, University of Oxford
KC Harris is a current MBA student at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, KC has spent her career working in international development managing economic development, governance, and civic engagement programs. After…
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Chief Advancement Officer, Shining Hope for Communities
Katherine Potaski is the Chief Advancement Officer of SHOFCO. Prior to this, she served as the Director of Development at the Synergos Institute, the Associate Director of International Fundraising at The Hunger Project, and as a Program Associate at the Vera Institute for Justice. Katherine holds a…
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Juan is the forward-doing CEO, of Build Change, pioneering resilient retrofitting solutions for existing housing, resilient new construction, and serving as a trusted advisor to governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and beyond. With a wealth of experience and expertise, and over 13 years with the…
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Executive Director & Professor of Law, Minority Rights Group International, Minority Rights Group
Joshua Castellino is Executive Director and Professor of Law, Minority Rights Group International. Previously, he was Dean of the Schools of Law and Business at Middlesex University, London, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland. He has held visiting…
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Vice President, Brand Partnerships & Strategy, Freethink
With prior experience in business development and
strategic partnerships at Hanover Research, AmpliFi,
and The Scout Guide, Blair Milam joined Freethink in
2019 where today she manages cross functional
teams and countless content partnerships.
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Chairperson, UVU Africa
Joshin Raghubar is a technology and impact venture entrepreneur. He is Chairperson, and a founding community member, of UVU Africa. UVU Africa works at the intersection of government, business, and society to develop high growth, future-fit, inclusive African regional economies through…
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ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER-INNOVATIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation
Joram Patrick Mugisha (MOOGY) is a Ugandan born in Kinkiizi, Kanungu District. His ultimate mission in life is to the effectively promote the effective utilization of intellectual property as a vehicle for promoting the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (2030) and Africa’s Agenda 2063…
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Jenneke works as Program Manager, Connect & Champion.
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…
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Investor, BrainWeb Investment GmbH
I am a seasoned Serial entrepreneur and investor in the hosting space. For more than 20 years, I have founded, invested in, advised, and led a diverse array of companies around the hosting and SaaS space. With my investment company BrainWeb, I am looking at investment opportunities. I want to…
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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…
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President Foundation, Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation
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Director of Institutional Philanthropy & Partnerships, Fair Trade USA
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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…
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Philanthropy Advisor, Greenwood Place
Jeanne Morales Work is a Senior Foundation Executive at Greenwood Place with a background in corporate law. Jeanne started her career working at O’Melveny & Myers (Los Angeles and London offices) with a practice that included international corporate finance, corporate governance, M&A…
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Senior Expert, Siemens Stiftung
Bastian is Director of Investor Relations at Yunus Social Business. In his role he is building bridges between impact invcestors, philanthropists, foundations and exceptional social entrepreneurs in emerging economies. Furthermore he is leading the innovative finance portfolio at YSB and is a regular…
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Managing Dirctor, IDEO LLC
Jason helps lead IDEO’s Center of Excellence for Systems Change, a new team focused on leveraging the company’s diverse capabilities and networks to drive long-term systemic change and to helping IDEO evolve to be more impactful at a systems level. Since 2013, Jason has served as Managing…
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Senior Partner, World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists
Founding Partner of 1875 FINANCE a leading Independent Asset Managers and Multi Family Office in Switzerland and Europe.
Board Member of the H&B AGERUP FOUNDATION which is a privately owned charitable foundation focusing on maternal health.
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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…
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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…
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Board Member Dioraphte Foundation, Dioraphte Foundation
Jacqueline Detiger has more than 20 years working in the field of philanthropy in the Netherlands. She has worked as a senior manager for Dutch grantmaking foundations and family foundations. She is a board member of Dioraphte Foundation, a grantmaking foundation with focus on projects in…
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I am the chief communications officer at MSC - the leading ecolabel promoting sustainable fishing organisation. My brief at MSC covers communications, marketing and stakeholder engagement across 22 countries. Previously, I have worked for the commercial sector and not-for profit sectors, notably in…
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Director, Selco Foundation
Degree in Product Design SRISHTI INSTITUTE OF ART, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY, Bangalore. Masters from MIT, Cambridge, Have been in SELCO Foundation from the beginning of its inception in 2010. Responsible for all planning and strategies.
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Heather is the Marketing and Communications Manager at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Previously, she has worked in academic publishing for Oxford University Press and Wiley, where she managed the marketing for learned…
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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…
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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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Executive Director, Audacious Project @ TED, TED Conferences LLC
Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding platform that sources big ideas from the world’s most gifted change-makers — and pools the resources of donors around the world to give them lift-off. To date, over 5.9B dollars has been catalyzed for 60 bold ideas.
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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…
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Sr. Advisor, United States Agency for International Development
Portfolio Manager and co-lead for DIV Venture Assistance Program (technical assistance to grantees).
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Co-Founder, CEO, Jibu
Galen's passion is decentralized technology for local business ownership, and leveraging franchising for scaling solutions to meet basic needs. Galen/ Jibu's work in franchising is recognized by Forbes 30u30, BBC, Stanford Social Innovation Review, EY, and other major media. Galen co-founded Jibu in…
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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…
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Leadership Development, Lemann Foundation
Felipe is the Leadership Development & Strategic Partnerships Director from the Lemann Foundation, an organization that strives to make Brazil a more just and equitable place by guaranteeing access to high-quality public education for Brazilians of all backgrounds while supporting the development of…
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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…
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Chairman, AC Laskaridis Foundation
Evi Lazou is Chairman of the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation, a private, independent grant-making foundation, working to make a positive difference for people and for nature in Greece and across the Hellenic world. The A.C Laskaridis Charitable Foundation operates entrepreneurially…
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Professor, Drought Resilience Impact Platform
Evan Thomas is the Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a tenured Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and the…
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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…
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Founding Partner, IDinsight
Esther Wang is a Founding Partner of IDinsight, based in Washington, D.C. leading external capital development.
Esther was IDinsight Chief Operating Officer from 2014-2019 and established IDinsight’s Global Operations Team. She oversaw the growth of the global team from 30 to 150 staff around…
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CEO, Splash
Founder and CEO at Splash.
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Emily has served as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President over her 13 year tenure at Citizen Schools. I will continue to serve as a senior advisor to Citizen Schools through the end of June.
Prior to joining Citizen Schools, Emily led business planning and development at the Walt…
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Social Impact Investor, Chair Board Ashesi University Foundation, University of Washington
Emer is a social impact investor passionate about higher education and women’s empowerment. She is the Chair of The Ashesi University Foundation –educating the future ethical leaders of Africa, and a board member of Women’s World Banking, which works to advance women’s financial inclusion…
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Trustee, Aurum Charitable Trust
I am a funder focused in the main on 1) criminal justice; 2) refugees and asylum seekers; and 3) climate change.
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Changemaker Education and Network Engagement Manager, Ashoka Canada
Anna Johnson is the Programme Manager for Map the System at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She works with institutions around the world to develop curricular and co-curricular offerings of Map the System with the ultimate goal of encouraging…
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Theatre Professor, International Foundation for Theatre Education and Research
Elaina Artemiev graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) with MFA in Directing. Later she completed Ph.D. at the same institution. She is one of disciples of Maria Knebel who was a distinguished Russian Theatre director and the student of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Michael Chekhov…
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Southeast Asia Framework Change Leader,
AshokaAmelia 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…
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Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Eduardo is a Director at Capricorn Investment Group, responsible for sourcing investment opportunities, due diligence, and deal structuring. Eduardo joined Capricorn in 2016, upon completion of his MBA .Previously he was an associate at Pragma Patrimonio in Brazil, in the Real Assets and Private…
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Director of Partnerships,
APOPOAnna is managing the European partnerships of APOPO, a ground-breaking organization developing and promoting the use of Animal Detection Systems for humanitarian purpose, such as landmine and tuberculosis detection.
Anna started her career at UNIDO in operational follow-up and technical…
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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…
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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…
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Director of External Relations & Special Assistant to the President, Ashesi University College
Eben represents Ashesi University, a private, not-for-profit, liberal arts institution that has quickly gained a reputation as one of Ghana’s finest universities. In the eighteen years since its founding, Ashesi has created a curriculum and model grounded in the liberal arts that fosters critical…
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CEO, Be Girl, Inc.
Diana Sierra is the co-founder and CEO of Be Girl, a social enterprise focused on bridging the access gap in Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH). She aims to empower women and girls by providing high-quality products and menstrual education to those in need. With a Master's degree in…
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MPP Candidate, University of Oxford
I was brought up in India, where firsthand experience of educational inequality inspired me to work towards creating an equitable learning environment for children. To understand the challenges in the education system, I joined the Teach for India fellowship, where I taught at a government school in…
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Executive Director, The Signals Network
Delphine Halgand-Mishra is the Executive Director of The Signals Network, an international non-profit organization which supports whistleblowers and help coordinate international media investigations that speak out against corporate misconduct and human rights abuses. She previously served as…
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Managing Director, Esquel Group
Dee Poon is the Managing Director of Brands and Distribution at Esquel Group, a global leading textile and apparel manufacturer with operations located worldwide.
Dee is a board member of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (Hong Kong), a member of the Asia Advisory Board at Christie’s, on…
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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…
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Managing Director, Peery Foundation
Dave Peery is the Managing Director of the Peery Foundation, a family foundation based in Palo Alto, California. The Foundation invests in and serves social entrepreneurs and leading organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Dave is an advocate for common-sense…
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Social Impact Partner Manager, YouTube
I lead YouTube's global scaled education work with NGO’s and purpose driven creators to help them build content strategies on YouTube. This support is to help nonprofits, creators and brands to engage with the 2b logged in monthly users on YouTube to help them achieve their social…
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Adviser to the Minister, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
I am currently an advisor of the Minister at the Ministry of Health, Ethiopia. I have been working at the federal government office for seven years. I have ample experience in developing countries' health systems specifically the Ethiopian Health system.
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Executive Director, WE
Dalal Al-Waheidi is a dynamic, results-oriented executive leader with over 19 years of experience in the not-for-profit sector, focusing on entrepreneurial and high-paced organizations. She is highly focused on setting the strategic paths, organizational missions and philosophies while positively impacting…
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Founder, Absolut-Help Foundation
Philanthropist. Founder of Absolut Help Foundation
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CEO & Founder, African Diaspora Network
Almaz Negash, a pioneering figure in Silicon Valley, is celebrated as one of the inaugural members of President Biden’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States. Recognized as one of the 50 Leading African Corporate Women by Leading Ladies Africa, and honored as…
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Chief Executive Officer, First Nations OWEESTA Corporation
Chrystel Cornelius is the President & CEO of the Oweesta Corporation, a national Native CDFI intermediary predominantly serving Native communities across the United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Ms. Cornelius has worked with Native communities for most of her professional career, with more than…
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Chad serves as Water For People's Chief Development Officer in Denver, CO. He has traveled to over 60 countries in a 20-year period, educating and engaging communities, schools, corporations and individuals to end global poverty and the clean water crisis.
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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…
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Principal, YouTube
Candace Yu is a Principal with YouTube Social Impact and believes in the power of storytelling to affect change. Candace advises YouTube Creators, including nonprofit leaders and organizations, on content strategies that build awareness for a cause and amplify calls to action. In the past year…
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Camille Eiss is Chief of Global Partnerships and Policy at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a global network of investigative journalists that exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account. She leads strategic planning, new partnership development…
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Director, Impact and Partnerships, Aspen Institute
Alexis Ettinger is Director, Impact and Partnerships for the Leadership Division at the Aspen Institute. She leads a portfolio of partnerships, programs, and strategic initiatives to accelerate the impact and future growth opportunities of the Division and its global network of leaders. Alexis has spent her…
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Adjunct Lecturer and Executive Director, Social Innovation + Change Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
Brittany provides strategic direction across the portfolio of activities for SICI. As Adjunct Faculty, she designs and teaches in SICI’s social impact accelerator as well as a course called Effective Implementation.
Brittany joined SICI after serving as Founding Executive Director of the education…
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CEO, Feedback Labs
Britt Lake is CEO of Feedback Labs, a nonprofit working to support the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors to listen and act on feedback from those at the heart of their work in high-quality, equitable, and inclusive ways. Prior to this role, Britt was a member of the executive team at GlobalGiving…
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Head of Governance, Facebook
Brent Harris is the head of governance and director of strategic initiatives for Facebook. He leads the company's teams building an independent oversight board for Facebook and developing new forms of governance for the Internet. Before Facebook, Harris was a director at Redstone Strategy…
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Finance Director, Peter Möhrle Foundation
Bjoern Landsberg joined Peter Moehrle Holding in 2018. Previously, Bjoern worked for a global Renewables Group as a Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance pioneering the development, financing and operations of high performance solar systems around the globe. Before, Bjoern worked…
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Founder and Executive Chairman, Centre for Public Health & Development
Dr. Bernard Olayo is a physician and public health specialist with vast experience in health projects’ management and policy advisory work to improve the health status of underserved populations through health systems improvement with a focus on emerging markets. Dr. Olayo has over 15 years of…
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Executive Director, The ELMA Philanthropies
Bernadette Moffat is Executive Director of the ELMA Philanthropies Services (Africa), based in Cape Town, South Africa. In this role, Bernadette oversees the philanthropic work of the ELMA Group of Foundations in southern Africa. She serves on the Boards of the ELMA Philanthropies Services (US) Inc…
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Senior Adviser - UN Strategic Partnerships & Lead Coordinator SDG Partnership Platform, Kenya, UN SDG Partnership Platform
ARIF NEKY
Arif Neky is the Senior Advisor for UN Strategic Partnerships at the Resident Coordinator’s Office and the National Coordinator of the SDG Partnership Platform in Kenya - co-created by the UN system and the Government of Kenya. He has also helped in the co-creation of the SDG…
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I am a co-founder and board member of Global Witness, and together with colleagues, Charmian Gooch and Patrick Alley, we were Skoll awardees in 2014. I remain on the board of Global Witness.
But since concluding our succession process, I have set up a new organisation called Hawkmoth. We…
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Head of Philanthropy, EMEA, Bank of America
Anthony oversees the philanthropy programme in Europe, Middle East and Africa as
part of the Public Policy, ESG and Capital Deployment team. Before joining the bank,
Anthony established the responsible business programme at Nomura for the EMEA
region. He started his career at Lehman…
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Dr. Besser recognized the need for a support program to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to their children. He founded mothers2mothers (m2m), in which mothers living with HIV are employed as Mentor Mothers to work in health centers and communities, educating and supporting…
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CEO, UnLtd India
I head UnLtd India, a launchpad for social entrepreneurs who are designing and executing innovative solutions to pressing problems in India. Over the last 12 years, UnLtd India has incubated 236 social entrepreneurs who have impacted more than 5.6 million lives through their for-profit or…
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MSc Student of Environmental Change & Management, University of Oxford
I am reading for a MSc in Environmental Change and Management through the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute. I have previously worked in corporate social responsibility in Haiti, on food systems in Brussels, and in international development cooperation at the UN Office for…
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Gopi Gopalakrishnan has long experience in implementing large-scale service-delivery programs. WHP initially delivered primary health care to rural communities in India and Kenya and is now expanding its scope to primary education and livelihoods. The approach is to enhance with technology and…
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Greg Rockson is the co-founder and CEO of mPharma, a pharmacy-first primary care operator serving 1.4 million patients annually with essential primary healthcare across ten African countries. Since launching mPharma in 2014, Greg has overseen its growth and expansion and has led the…
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Executive Director, MicroMentor, MicroMentor
Anita leads MicroMentor within Mercy Corps, a global leader for business mentoring. This tech enterprise provides access to free business mentoring for hundreds of thousands of small businesses, especially women, demonstrating real business outcomes through mentoring. She is the co-founder of…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Spark MicroGrants
Sasha Fisher is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spark Microgrants. Her experiences in South Sudan, South Africa, India, and Uganda led to her passion for community-first development and, in July 2010, she moved to East Africa to develop the Spark Microgrants system of change. In addition to leading…
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Strategic Advisor Cartier Philanthropy, Cartier Philanthropy
Pascale joined Cartier in July 2013 to launch Cartier Philanthropy, a grant-making foundation committed to improving the lives of vulnerable communities around the world. She later launched Cartier for Nature to address the biodiversity crisis and contribute to preserving and restoring…
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EVP, The Schmidt Family Foundation
Amy Rao is executive vice president of The Schmidt Family Foundation, where she has served on the board since 2006. Before joining TSFF full time, she was the founder and CEO of Integrated Archive Systems, a Silicon Valley-based system integrator and reseller she led for 26 years. Amy is the co-chair…
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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…
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Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Adrienne DiCasparro works on the Giving Pledge, a public commitment to giving the majority of one's wealth to charitable causes (www.givingpledge.org). She works closely with philanthropists, their staff, and family, to help them navigate the sector and have the greatest possible…
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Founder & CEO, Praava Health
Ms. Sylvana Q. Sinha, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Praava Health, is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer and entrepreneur. Ms. Sinha built Praava Health from scratch after experiencing the challenges facing the Bangladeshi health system first-hand. Praava’s “brick-and-click” healthcare platform…
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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…
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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…
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A Social Architect by profession. A community organizer by training. A Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Management by education.
Presently leading the thrust of Gawad Kalinga in empowering/enabling small land holder farmers to build productive farms focusing on high value products. Creating a…
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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…
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Sharmi Surianarain serves as the Chief Impact Officer, Harambee Youth Accelerator, Sharmi 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. Sharmi leads on Harambee’s impact…
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Executive Director, African Philanthropy Forum
Mosun Layode is a development professional with two decades of experience in international development and nonprofit leadership. At African Philanthropy Forum (APF), she works with established and emerging philanthropists to drive strategic philanthropy and crowd in support for proximate…
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Musician, Individual
Mia Kami is a Tongan singer/songwriter and is currently teaching at Tupou College Toloa in Tonga. Mia is passionate about indigenous sovereignty, climate change, ocean conservation, youth work and education in the Pacific region. She attended the University of the South Pacific where she…
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President, Umsizi Fund
Amy M. Brakeman
President, Umsizi Fund
Since 2005, Amy has partnered with emerging African leaders to enhance human capacity, increase access to opportunities, and strengthen organizations. Amy worked closely with the African Leadership Academy which develops entrepreneurial leaders from…
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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…
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Chief of Development and Partnerships, Acumen
Yasmina Zaidman is the Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at Acumen, which works to change the way the world tackles poverty. She leads its work with funding partners that share Acumen’s commitment to entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. She spearheaded Acumen’s gender…
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Shawn MacDonald is CEO of Verité, a civil society organization that promotes workers’ rights in global supply chains through research, consulting, training, assessments, and policy advocacy. Shawn has broad international experience in labor rights, social entrepreneurship, workplace health, and…
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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…
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Rodney Foxworth has spent over 15 years working at the intersection of community development finance, economic inclusion, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship. He is Co-Founder of Worthmore, a strategic advisory and impact investment studio. Most recently, Rodney served as CEO of…
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Paulo holds a joint appointment between the Department of Engineering Science and Saïd Business School. His primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change and innovation management. The emphasis of his work is on transforming unjust…
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Founder & CEO at Kamara Global Group / President at Videre Est Credere, Kamara Global Group
Oren’s entrepreneurship in social justice focuses on harnessing technology,
contributing to initiatives for the advancement of democracy and holding power to account. His current organisation, Kamara, has deployed significant technical capacities for monitoring online civic space in both open and…
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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…
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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 social and environmental production studio NOVO, with media reaching 25M+ worldwide. She pioneered community-based collaborative journalism…
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Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation, Autodesk Foundation
Joe Speicher is the Executive Director of the Autodesk Foundation – supporting the innovators and entrepreneurs tackling the world’s most pressing challenges through design and engineering. Prior to joining Autodesk, Speicher was on the founding team of Living Goods, where he spent six years…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Managing Director, FINCA
Ami Dalal is the Managing Director of FINCA Ventures, the impact investing vehicle of FINCA International. FINCA Ventures seeks to improve MSME and household productivity and increase human resilience in frontier markets through investments in social entrepreneurs working in the energy, health…
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Alasdair Harris leads the Ocean Resilience & Climate Alliance (ORCA), a philanthropic initiative advancing transformative solutions at the intersection of ocean and climate action.
A marine biologist and social entrepreneur, Al has over two decades of experience building and leading organizations…
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Yves Moury is the Founder and CEO of Fundación Capital, a global organization aiming at asset-building for the poor and climate action. He has been honored as a Schwab Foundation (the sister organization of the World Economic Forum) Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Awardee, in recognition…
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Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of organizations in 63 countries working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America – which has proven to be an…
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Founder and Chairwoman - Vera Cordeiro graduated in medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1975. From 1978 to 1998, she worked at Hospital da Lagoa, a Federal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally working as a general practitioner. She founded and led the…
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Sue is CEO and co-founder of Bioregional, a 2009 Skoll awardee, Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur. Sue and team work with partners and clients to create homes, communities and products and services which enable us to live well within a sustainable carbon and ecological…
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An intrepid entrepreneur, Sohini has been dabbling in the development sector for more than 30 years, mostly on issues of women and girls. Currently, she is a senior advisor to the Accelerator for Shifting Gender Norms Through Education, building a collaborative of successful and evidence-based…
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Sarah is currently the Chief of Staff for the Jeff Skoll Group. In addition, she helps a variety of organizations achieve their goals around impact-focused convenings, strategic community building, fundraising and communication functions. Prior, Sarah oversaw the Skoll Foundation's Community of…
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Chief Executive Officer, Forum for the Future
Sally oversees Forum’s mission to accelerate transformation to a just and regenerative future. This involves working with global businesses such as HSBC and Walgreens Boots Alliance and a wide range of non-profit, membership and philanthropic organisations via one to one partnerships and…
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Sam Gregory is an award-winning human rights advocate and technologist. As Executive Director of the human rights network WITNESS, he champions their global work to ‘fortify the truth’, supporting millions of frontline human rights defenders and community media-makers using video and…
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CEO, ONE
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli joined the ONE Campaign in April 2024, as the first African CEO/President. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is the founder of LEAP Africa and African Food Changemakers. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance
Julius is an international development expert, and the Co-CEO of Lwala Community Alliance. In this role, he works with communities to catalyze their own change through innovative programming that is going to scale, influencing health systems and putting communities at the center of their own…
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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…
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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…
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Unknown, Individual
Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak is the Global Investigations Editor at the Associated Press, based in Washington, where she works with the best team of multimedia investigative reporters in the world. She re-joined AP in 2019 after a two decade tour through the news industry, with stops at NPR…
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Executive Director, Social Finance, The British Asian Trust
Abha leads the British Asian Trust's Social Finance work across South Asia. She is a founding member of the British Asian Trust, contributing to its design and leadership during the start-up years and now to its ongoing growth. She has led pioneering social finance work with Government(s), private and…
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Susan Burns is a Skoll Awardee and Philanthropic Advisor with Unleashing Generosity helping donors increase their impact and give joyfully.
She is a co-founder of Global Footprint Network, one of the world’s leading scientific organizations addressing global ecological limits. She is also the former…
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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…
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I am the first social entrepreneur to serve as Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN). I bring a spirit of inclusivity and collaboration to the organization. Currently, I also serve as a Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.
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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. Dr. Arora is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Arora launched Project ECHO at the…
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Founding Member, Resourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative
Sana Ali Mustafa is a feminist human rights activist and movement leader fighting against oppression in Syria and around the world. Sana is CEO of Asylum Access where she leads the organization’s work on refugee rights and refugee leadership, and she is the first and only female CEO of an…
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Vice President and Head of Global Strategy and Business Development, Booking Holdings
V P and Head of Global Strategy and Business Development at Booking Holdings, the world's leading online travel company. At Booking Holdings, Rob is responsible for overall company strategy, corporate business development, and the company's global sustainability strategy and programs. He has…
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The Honorable Dr. Raj Panjabi is former White House Senior Director and globally recognized as a distinguished authority in healthcare, public policy, entrepreneurship, and technology. Dr. Panjabi is Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, leading the Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative, which is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If you have heard of “footprint”, as in carbon or ecological footprint, you already met Mathis Wackernagel. He created this metric with his PhD advisor 30 years ago. Then he co-founded Global Footprint Network, a sustainability think-tank, known for its annual calculations comparing each country’s…
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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…
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Cecilia is an internationally acclaimed slavery fighter. Through VF, she rescues, heals, and reintegrates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Working together with partners they protected more than 30,000 at risk and exploited young girls.
Cecil was instrumental in the…
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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…
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Founder & Managing Director, Babban Gona Farm Services, Ltd.,
Babban GonaKola 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…
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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…
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Jim Taylor is the Co-founder and Chief Executive of Proximity Designs – a social business that has created a platform for change in rural Myanmar. The big idea twenty years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After…
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Jagdeesh Puppala is leading the Common Ground initiative as Chief Convener and is also the CEO of Living Landscapes, promoting systems leadership for environmental governance and resilient rural livelihoods.
A dedicated practitioner, his entire career has focused on the sustainable management…
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Founder and CEO, Panorama Global
Gabrielle Fitzgerald is the founder and CEO of Panorama and co-founder of Pandemic Action Network. With decades of experience in politics, policy, and philanthropy, Gabrielle has become a recognized voice and thought leader on catalytic philanthropy, women’s leadership, and pandemic preparedness…
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Ella is a social entrepreneur and global health strategist with more than 25 years of experience in international development. Under her leadership, VisionSpring has corrected the vision of more than 12 million low-income adults and children and unlocked $2.6 billion in income earning potential at…
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Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Proximity designs and delivers innovative and profitable low-carbon farming products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and…
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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 $2 billion in loans to…
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Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International (FI), 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…
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Dr. Yacoobi serves on several boards and panels including, the Women’s Refugee Commission, International Advisory Council for the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, New Global Citizens, the Advisory Council for the Center for Social Impact Learning at the Middlebury Institute…
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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…
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Co-Founder & CEO, The Conduit
Paul is a human rights lawyer and served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission where he worked closely with Nobel Laureates, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. He co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an…
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Paul Rice is the Founder of Fair Trade USA, the leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America. Since launching the Fair Trade Certified™ label in 1998, he has grown it into one of the fastest-expanding segments of the food and apparel industries, partnering with over 1,700 brands, including…
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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…
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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…
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Principal, Nina Smith Consulting
Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and Principal of Nina Smith Consulting, advising clients on human rights in supply chains; sustainable social enterprises; global governance structures; and multi-stakeholder engagement. Nina was founding Chief Executive of GoodWeave International, where…
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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…
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Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global initiatives have grown significantly in size and influence. As a global thought leader, Lubber regularly…
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Mechai Viravaidya’s work centered on reducing births (family planning), reducing deaths (fighting the spread of HIV), reducing dependency (establishing social enterprises), eradicating poverty (community empowerment) and reducing ignorance (reinventing Thai education).
He was also appointed to…
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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 ~5 million African subsistence farmers. Matt played an instrumental role in One Acre Fund’s founding, helping to raise the seed…
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I am the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia. I spent a decade as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a social enterprise building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment. Previously, I served as Chief Operating…
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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…
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Executive Chair & Advisor,
CAMFEDLucy 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…
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Jordan is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, author, and the founder of VisionSpring. He is also the co-founder of EYElliance and a partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates.
Jordan founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo…
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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…
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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…
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Founder Chairman, 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…
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President, One Family Foundation
Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, with decades 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…
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Chairman, Walker Family Foundation
Co-Host Systems Catalyst Podcast; Ex-Chair current board New Profit; Co-author Generosity Network; Founding Partner Community Health Acceleration Project; Chair UVA Contemplative Sciences Center; Board Giving Tuesday; Board Leadership Now (Democracy); Co-Founder BridgeBuilders Wellbeing…
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Motivated by a passion for building resilient health systems and leaders, James Nardella serves as Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health. Through partnership with governments, Last Mile Health expands access to high-quality community-based primary healthcare for millions of people living in…
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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…
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Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Heather Grady is a VP in the San Francisco team of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She leads on funder collaboratives and oversees a portfolio of more than 40 sponsored projects in environment, climate change and cross-cutting issues including migration, public interest media, and democracy…
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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…
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Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org, WaterEquity and WaterConnect, three 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…
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Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 25 years of international experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs. Prior to joining ICTJ in 2014, he was the…
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Executive Director, CASE, Duke University
Erin L. Worsham is a thought leader, professor, and coach helping individuals and organizations drive social and environmental change. She currently serves as the Executive Director of CASE at Duke University, an award-winning center that has taught thousands of students and engaged tens of…
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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…
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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…
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Eleanor Allen is a visionary leader in organizational excellence, engineering, and water management. As the Co-founder and CEO of the World Flourishing Organization (WFO), she brings her extensive experience to drive workplace wellbeing and professional flourishing on a global…
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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…
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Partner, Working Capital Fund
Dan Viederman engages and supports entrepreneurs in pursuit of innovative tools to scale improvements for marginalized workers in global supply chains. He is a Skoll Award-winning social entrepreneur and leader in supply chain innovation, having led Verite for fifteen years. He began his career…
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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 engagement. He is the co-founder and former director of two pioneering…
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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…
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Founder Independent Diplomat. Former ED. Now writer and adviser to various democratic movements around the world.
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CEO, Skyscanner
Bryan Dove is CEO of Skyscanner having originally joined the business in 2015 as Chief Technical Officer. Previously, Bryan has held senior leadership positions in the likes of Microsoft, Skype and Amazon. During his time with Skyscanner, Bryan has been instrumental in leading and growing…
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Bright Simons, is the President of mPedigree [link to: www.mpedigree.net], a social enterprise working on three continents with governments, Fortune 500 companies and activists to safeguard human health and food security using technology. A career inventor and innovator, his current projects…
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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…
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Managing Director, Social Innovation, Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective
Anne Marie Burgoyne has led Emerson Collective’s philanthropy since 2013. Under her leadership Emerson has become a major funder that supports important work across an array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity, fostering community among…
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Chief Executive Officer, Nuru International
Aerie has been leading Nuru as its CEO since 2020. Prior to assuming his current role, Aerie had been part of Nuru's senior leadership since the organization's earliest days. He led the design of the Nuru model and scaling for the past decade. Aerie's passion for serving vulnerable and…
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CEO, Quest Alliance
Aakash empowers unemployable youth to navigate the future of work & learning by mastering 21st century skills through self-learning.
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Consultant/Advisor/Collaborator,
WITNESSYvette ("YAT") works as a consultant, advisor, and board member to help strengthen mission-driven organizations and social entrepreneurs. I combine my learnings as the former Executive Director of WITNESS.org with my experience in global for profit companies and tech start-ups; and my ongoing…
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Vice-Chair, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad is a renowned global development leader, currently serving as Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors. Previously, he was the Foundation's first Chief Executive Officer, a position he held for five years. Tim co-founded Landesa with Roy Prosterman and served as its…
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Managing Director, Rippleworks
Tim Kunihiro is the Managing Director, Portfolio for Rippleworks, a non-profit foundation that provides the practical support entrepreneurs need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs and funding directly support 200+ of the fastest growing, most impactful social ventures…
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Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO/ co-founder of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute, a multi-award winning educational institution, in 11-locations across 3-countries.
Dr Blecher co-founded the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson.
He is Chairperson of the E3 initiative for the…
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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…
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Sridhar is a partner in Bridgespan's Boston office. Sridhar has worked with a number of nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropic collaboratives, including Women’s World Banking, the Inter-American Development Bank, Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and The…
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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 cofounder of its 100X Impact Accelerator. From 2000 to 2014 he directed the University of Oxford’s MBA and was the founding Director of Oxford University's Executive MBA programme. Before joining the Marshall…
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CEO & Co-Founder, Yunus Social Business Funds gGmbH
A leader in the social business movement, Saskia co-founded Yunus Social Business (YSB) together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. YSB Funds invests in social businesses in developing countries with affordable financing and growth support. Their portfolio of social businesses…
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Shamil Idriss leads Search for Common Ground (Search), a global organization committed to transforming the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions. With 650+ staff working in 35 countries, Search is the largest dedicated peacebuilding…
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Independent, Individual
Sandy Herz is an established philanthropic leader, strategist and storytelling evangelist. After talking to 100 leaders across sectors to better understand our evolving world and where we can double down for collective benefit, Sandy has been publishing her learning as The Elephant & Butterfly project…
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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…
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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…
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Executive Director, Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition
Randall Kempner is founder and executive director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition, a network of philanthropic support organizations dedicated to promoting more, and more effective, climate philanthropy.
Randall recently worked as senior advisor to the Aspen Institute Energy and…
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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…
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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…
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Interim Executive Director, Aspen Institute
Peggy Clark is the Interim Executive Director of Aspen Global innovators Group, Chair of Ashesi University Foundation, and a strategic consultant to foundations and non -profits. Peggy has had a long and distinguished history at the Aspen Institute that includes founding the Economic Opportunity…
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In 1993 Patrick & two friends founded Global Witness, which became one of the world’s leading investigative organisations dedicated to routing out corruption & environmental and human rights abuses around the world. Patrick led & took part in numerous undercover investigations. Alongside his…
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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…
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Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion, Pat Mitchell Media
Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for womenʼs leadership who has used her diverse spheres of influence to elevate womenʼs stories and representation and to lead for a more just, equitable and sustainable world. Currently, sheʼs the Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders, a collective problem…
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Founder & CEO, Co-Impact
Olivia Leland is the Founder and CEO of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative that brings together local changemakers and funders to strengthen health, education, and economic systems and advance gender equality and women’s leadership. With over two decades of experience in…
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Founder, The Invitation
Building an Invitation to reimagine child welfare in the US, getting water flowing through humanitarian work and blessed to have been supported in the writing of a book centered on the Ukrainian frontline where service and courage glistened and wowed, allowing (startlingly) Heaven on earth to unfold…
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Co-founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation
Neelam Chhiber is the Co-founder and Managing Trustee of Industree Foundation, which has empowered vulnerable communities in India for over three decades. Her work focuses on building self-owned collective enterprises, enabling women artisans and farmers to integrate into sustainable value…
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Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation
Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises environmentally-focused philanthropists, including the co-founder 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…
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Partner, Bridgespan Group
Michael Etzel is a partner in The Bridgespan Group’s Boston office. Since joining Bridgespan in 2006, Michael has focused on effectiveness across the full spectrum of financing for social impact.
Michael focuses on overcoming the risk of “impact-washing” in impact investing. His clients include Bain…
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Dr. Martin Burt is social entrepreneur who has developed two social innovations: the financially self-sufficient agricultural high school model and the Poverty Stoplight, a new poverty metric and coaching methodology that is currently being implemented by more than 510,000 families and 850…
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Program Director, Gender Equity and Governance,
BreakthroughMallika Dutt is the Program Director of Gender Equity and Governance at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is a longtime advocate for equity and well-being for people and planet, with deep experience in advancing justice through an intersectional lens. Prior to joining the foundation…
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Mabel van Oranje is a serial entrepreneur for social change, committed to advancing equality, freedom and justice. She has founded, led and advised numerous network organisations, campaigns and initiatives promoting international human rights and development.
Most recently, she has played a…
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LUIS SZARAN
Conducter, composer and musicologist. UNESCO Artis for Peace
Musical Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of Asunción. Music studied then in Asunción in Santa Cecilia's Conservatory, Rom.e Conducted more than 2.500 concerts whit noted orchestras in Germany, Italy, France, Spain…
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Managing Director, Osprey Foundation
Louis is Managing Director of the Osprey Foundation, where he leads programs on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and sustainable energy/cleaner cooking. In addition to managing a portfolio of grants and impact investments, Louis works to advance these sectors through systems change…
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Executive Director, Digital Action
Liz Carolan is founder and Executive Director of Digital Action, a campaigning organisation working to protect democratic rights from digital threats. She has been working at the intersection of technology, governance and democracy for 15 years. Her work with government has included supporting…
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Co-CEO, African Visionary Fund
Katie is a fundraiser and strategist with over 12 years of experience in nonprofit management and 10 years working in East Africa. While in East Africa, Katie witnessed first-hand the inequities within the philanthropic sector as well as the power of community-led development. As co-CEO of the African…
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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…
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
After starting two successful for-profit AI companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built…
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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…
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Jess Ladd has dedicated her career to advancing sexual health and wellbeing through a public health lens and through using technology tools. She created her own major in Public Policy and Human Sexuality at Pomona College and has a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and Health…
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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…
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Jeremy Hockenstein is the co-founder and current Chair of Digital Divide Data, and won a Skoll Award in 2008. He now leads the Livelihood Impact Fund, a foundation focused on increasing incomes of lower income people, primarily in sub-saharan Africa.
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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…
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CEO, Global Opportunity Youth Network
Jamie is the Founding Director of The Aspen Institute’s Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN), a network of youth and community leaders committed to cross-sector, systemic approaches to advancing decent jobs for youth. GOYN works in 20 communities across India, Africa, and Latin America and…
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Founder & 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…
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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…
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Gidon Bromberg co-founded EcoPeace Middle East in 1994 and has served as its Israeli Director for three decades.
Mr. Bromberg, an attorney by profession, is an alumni of Monash University in Australia, Washington College of Law at American University, and Yale University's World…
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President, Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC
Gillian Caldwell is a 2025 Skoll Award winning consultant specializing in strategic planning, organizational development and executive coaching for foundations, nonprofits and companies. She was previously appointed by President Biden to serve as the Chief Climate Officer and Deputy Assistant…
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Co-founder & CEO, EYElliance
Liz is Co-founder & CEO of EYElliance. Prior to founding EYElliance in 2015, she spent 15 years working in international development with a focus on inclusive business and access to global markets. Her personal interest in facilitating low-and middle-income countries’ full participation in global…
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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…
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Drew Sullivan co-founded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in 2007 where he serves as publisher. Before that, he founded the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Bosnia. When Drew served as editor, OCCRP won more than 100 investigative journalism awards…
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CEO/Co-Founder, Rippleworks
Doug is on a mission to drive positive change in the world. As the co-founder & CEO of Rippleworks, a foundation dedicated to providing practical support that social ventures need to thrive and make a real impact. Through customized projects, leadership workshops, & access to flexible funding…
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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…
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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…
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Chris is a global mentor with mentees in many countries and a leading exponent on global mental health practice. His mentees currently work in organisational and financial management, estate agency, the linen trade, mental health in the UK, Europe and low- and middle-income countries…
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President, Morehead-Cain
Chris is the President of the Morehead-Cain Foundation, which identifies, invests in, and empowers a global community of dynamic, purpose-driven leaders. Since 1945, Morehead-Cain has operated the preeminent merit scholarship program in the USA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
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Chief International Advocacy Officer, Natura
Char Love is a fiercely determined optimist who firmly believes in the power of people coming together as an unstoppable force for good. She is Natura &Co’s Chief International Advocacy Officer where she is focussed on identifying where to take a stand in this moment that matters and how to join…
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President, Echoing Green
Cheryl L. Dorsey is the president of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that supports emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in their ideas and leadership. A social entrepreneur herself, Cheryl received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1992 to launch The Family Van, a community-based mobile…
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Chuck is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned a BA in Architecture and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith a leading travel gear company that grew to $100 million in revenue and over 2 million customers. As a private equity…
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President and CEO, U.S. African Development Foundation
C.D. Glin is President & CEO of the U.S. African Development Foundation, a U.S. government
agency dedicated to supporting African-led, African-driven development solutions. The USADF
approach prioritizes African investments and customized local technical assistance to African
grassroots…
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Bruce’s work at Skoll focuses primarily on collective impact issues, many carried over from the Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF). A former diplomat, Bruce brings a policy lens to questions of scale, a key focus for all Skoll philanthropic activities. His current remit includes COVID-19 response, climate…
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Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka’s over 4,000 leading social entrepreneurs, “Ashoka Fellows,” operate in 100+ countries to create an “everyone a changemaker” world. Working in fields like health and human rights, three-quarters of…
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President, Viator
Ben leads Viator, a Tripadvisor company and the world’s largest tour and activity booking site. Under Ben’s leadership, Viator gives travelers access to incredible experiences around the world, and helps tour operators grow their audiences, bookings and businesses.
As head of Viator, Ben also…
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I am a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur. Graduated in Product Design from Antwerp University, and with a vision to empower the most vulnerable communities of subsistence farmers in sub-Sahara Africa, I took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable…
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Chief Executive Officer, Muso
Ari Johnson, MD, serves as CEO of Muso, and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, with the Institute for Global Health Sciences. The co-recipient of the 2021 Charles Bronfman Humanitarian Prize, Ari trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at…
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Executive Director,
NidanArbind Singh is a social entrepreneur and activist working with informal workers and their children in India .He founded Nidan in 1996 and National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) in 1999 National Policy for Street Vendors of India in 2004 which was adopted by 11 states of India .In…
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CEO, New America
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold…
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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…
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Founder + CEO, Global Development Incubator
Andrew Stern is the Founder and CEO of the Global Development Incubator (GDI), a non-profit incubator for transformational development ventures, working to build and scale the next generation of social impact solutions. GDI has designed and launched numerous groundbreaking efforts, including:…
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International Director, Centre for Policy Development
Andrew is an international human rights lawyer with 20 years of varied UN and international advocacy experience. Andrew has held many positions at Crisis Action since joining in 2010, including New York Director and Deputy Executive Director. He provides world-class leadership to a global team and…
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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…
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I have worked in sport for many years - motorcycle racing and soccer. I am co-founder of Riders for Health, founder of Two Wheels for Life and co-founder of The Elders Council for Social Entreprwneurs. My focus is on health systems for communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and on supporting other…
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CEO & Co-Founder, Farmerline
Alloysius launched Farmerline to create lasting wealth for farmers and local agribusinesses everywhere. He leads the company’s vision and strategic partnerships with over 3,000 partners across 50 countries. In the last decade, the company has served and digitized 2.2 million farmers, and TIME…
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Alex Nicholls is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford.
He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. In 2004, he was the co-founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship…
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Chief Executive Director/Founder, ICChange
Abdullah Saleh is a Pediatric General Surgeon at the University of Alberta and is the director of the Office of Global Surgery. He completed his medical school and General Surgery training at the University of Alberta and his Pediatric Surgery fellowship at McMaster University. He is the co-founder and…
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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…
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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. The Wellbeing Project is co-created with Ashoka…
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Wawira is the Founder and CEO of Food4Education, a social enterprise creating the blueprint for school feeding in Africa. F4E feeds nearly 500,000 children daily and has provided 90 million meals since opening its first central kitchen in 2016.
She is the winner of the prestigious 2024 Skoll Award…
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As Community Manager, Wendy provides support on a range of projects that inform, interact with, and inspire Skoll Foundation’s broad and dynamic community and network. She is a user centered design enthusiast and driven to keep the human at the core of her work.
Wendy first joined the Skoll…
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Artist, LimeShift Art
Yazmany Arboleda (b. 1981) is a Colombian American artist based in Brooklyn. An architect by training, Yazmany’s practice focuses on creating “Living Sculptures,” people coming together to transform their experience of the world through co-creation. His work engages communities in a process of…
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Vivek founded Namati in 2011 to grow the movement for legal empowerment around the world. Namati and its partners have built cadres of community legal workers – sometimes known as “barefoot lawyers”– in ten countries. The advocates have worked with over 65,000 people to protect community…
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19th U.S. Surgeon General, Emotional Wellbeing Lab
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States appointed by President Barack Obama. As the Vice Admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he commanded a uniformed service of 6,600 public health officers globally. During his tenure, Dr. Murthy…
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Managing Director of Storytelling, Nia Tero Foundation
Tracy Rector is a filmmaker, curator, community organizer, and programmer. She is the Managing Director, Storytelling, for Nia Tero, a non-profit supporting Indigenous land guardianship. She has directed and produced over 400 films, including Nia Tero’s Reciprocity Project, plus feature films…
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CEO, New Profit
Tulaine Montgomery, CEO, New Profit. Tulaine is an entrepreneur, educator, writer, organizer, and currently serves as CEO of New Profit, a philanthropic organization that supports high-impact social entrepreneurs creating solutions to systemic challenges in America by leveraging their proximity to the…
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Healer, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Muse of Poetry, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Victor over the Minotaur, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Producer, Softie Documentary,
Toni is a factual producer and founder of "We are not the machine Ltd", a Kenyan based production company. Her past credits include half hour documentaries for Al Jazeera, MTV Europe, BBC and CCTV Africa. For the last seven years, her career as a creative producer has focused on telling the…
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Product Sales Specialist - Data Center, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Full name, Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont, also known as Matthew de Clermont, Matthew Roydon, Shadow, Sebastian St. Clair, Gabriel ben Ariel, Matthew Chiaromonte. Matthew is the son of Ysabeau de Clermont, husband of Diana Bishop, father to Rebecca and Philip, and…
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God of the Seas, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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God of the Underworld, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Financial Advisor, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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God of the forge, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Queen of the Gods, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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Son of Zeus, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
することによって、長年にわたって維持されてきました。[14]彼はまた、男性、特に若い男性のパトロンとして絶えず呼び出されました。たとえば、彼は戦争の理想と考えられていたので、体育館やエペーボス、または軍事訓練を受けている男性を主宰しました。[14]
ヘラクレスを後援者の神として採用し、彼のカルトの普及に貢献した古代の町や都市がありました。マケドニアの王家の事件があり、主に神の保護と行動の正当化を目的として、英雄からの直系の降下を主張した[15]。
人気のあるカルトでのヘラクレスの崇拝を示す…
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God of war and toxic masculinity, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
In Christian circles, a Euhemerist reading of the widespread Heracles cult was attributed to a historical figure who had been offered cult status after his death. Thus Eusebius, Preparation of the Gospel (10.12), reported that Clement could offer historical dates for Hercules as a king in Argos: "from the…
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God of wisdom and warfare, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Steve Metcalfe is head of Partnerships and Communications at Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP). His role is to increase engagement in WSUP’s work and raise awareness of the need to invest in urban water and sanitation services. He works closely with partners committed to improving…
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Sydney Bristow was born April 17, 1975. For the first six years of her life she lived with both of her parents, Jack and Laura Bristow (real name Irina Derevko). However, her father's work with the CIA kept him away from home much of the time. Sydney and her family were living in rural Maryland…
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God of the Sun, Z VERA TEST ORGANIZATION
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The Godfather, Hogwarts
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Senior Fellow, Perspective Fund, Firelight Media
Sonya Childress has positioned film as a tool to shift narratives and support social justice movement building for over 20 years. Sonya currently serves as a Senior Fellow with the Perspective Fund, a philanthropic resource for documentary film and impact campaigns, where she conducts field-building…
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Executive Advisor, IDEO.org
Shauna Carey is an independent consultant and an Executive Advisor at IDEO.org, leveraging her deep expertise in social impact, strategic innovation, and storytelling to help visionary leaders build organizations that meet the moment.
Before stepping into this role, Shauna spent over a decade at…
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CEO and Founder, Property Point Venture Catalyst NPC
I am a passionate social entrepreneur with extensive experience in socio-economic development, governance, and corporate engagement across South Africa and internationally. As Founder & CEO of Property Point and Entrepreneurship To The Point, and CSR & Transformation Executive at a major…
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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…
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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…
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Senior Director, Human Rights, Education, and Empowerment Group, Winrock International
Sarah Jakiel, Winrock’s Senior Director of Human Rights, Education & Empowerment, has been on the cutting edge of counter-human trafficking efforts for more than a decade. In her most recent role, as chief program officer at Polaris, she led program development, set organization-wide strategy and…
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Sarah is an experienced program and project manager, process improver, and design thinker, with a special love for building order out of chaos. Prior to joining GHC in 2014, Sarah began her career at GlobeMed, a nonprofit that empowers students and communities to work together towards health…
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Chief Executive Officer, Global Knowledge Initiative
Seema is the CEO of Global Knowledge Initiative and an experienced Innovation Strategist working with partners across the social impact and global development sectors to design systemic solutions for a new generation of leaders, organizations, and initiatives that address global poverty and…
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SVP, Social Impact, Participant
Samantha Wright is the Senior Vice President of Social Impact at Participant, where she is currently building campaigns around narrative and documentary films covering a range of issues from public health to racial equity to environmental justice. Previously, she worked closely with…
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Over 29 years of experience, like to working on issues around Community Institutions, Natural Resource Management, Rural Livelihoods and Disaster Management. Interested areas are institution building and governance, gender and inclusion, livelihoods and poverty reduction, networking and policy…
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Counsel, Hogwarts
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Keeper of Keys and Grounds, Hogwarts
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Managing Partner, CoCreative Consulting
Russ helps people who don’t know each other and often don’t even like each other, solve complex problems together.
He is the managing partner in CoCreative, whose Collaborative Innovation practice currently supports 21 multistakeholder networks working on a range of challenges like:
* Aligning…
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Safeena Husain, Founder of Educate Girls, is a social impact leader, empowering communities for girls’ education in India’s hardest-to-reach villages. Recognised globally, she received an honorary doctorate from LSE and became the first Indian woman awarded the WISE Prize in 2023 for her work in…
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As Production Coordinator on the Community & Convenings team, Robin helps coordinate event logistics for the Skoll Foundation, including our signature event, the Skoll World Forum, working closely with our community of innovators and our production partners.
Robin first joined the Skoll Foundation in…
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Pavla Holcová is an investigative journalist and founder of investigace.cz, based in Prague and a regional editor for OCCRP.
She worked on projects such as the Panama and Paradise Papers and the Russian and Azerbaijani Laundromats. Together with her colleague Jan Kuciak, she exposed the ties…
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Rachel Owens is the Head of the EU Office of Global Witness an anti-corruption, human rights and environmental NGO. In 2017, she set up Global Witness’ first EU office based in Brussels leading and working on campaigns to introduce EU rules for mandatory investor due diligence, to crackdown…
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Reza is a foreign and security policy professional with 24 years experience. He spent the first 13 years of his career in the UK government, where he worked on every major international crisis starting with 9/11 and ending with Syria. Reza also served for three years on the UN Security Council, spent…
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President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Since April 2017, Richard Besser, MD, has been president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ABC News’ former chief health and medical editor.
At RWJF, Besser leads the largest private…
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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…
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Thought leader on governance and civic-tech; Impact Investor,
Until recently, Ory was the Managing Director, Omidyar Network and Luminate Group in Africa, both part of The Omidyar Group. As a Principle at Asphalt & Ink she's providing strategic and advisory services to several organizations primarily in the philanthrophy, technology and the civic…
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Health, women's and girl's and youth rights activist and advocate. Executive Director of the Natasha Mwansa Foundation, Women Deliver
Born on the 3rd of May, 2001, Natasha, also known as Africa’s Jewel is a powerful and influential Zambian 18 year old girl who speaks out on issues affecting the health and well-being of young people. She is the youngest recipient of the Global Health Leaders award worldwide awarded by the World…
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Executive Director, Lancet Countdown, National Health Service, England
Nick is the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change, an independent and multi-disciplinary research collaboration between academic centres around the world. It is based at University College London’s Institute for Global Health, and is a…
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Dr Marta Lado
- Internal Medicine/Infectious diseases consultant since 2009 with extensive experience in the Public Health Care System in Spain (Emergency, Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases departments) and specialized in Tropical Medicine through the London School of Tropical…
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Executive Director, Pastoralist Information Development Organization
Martha Ntoipo is a Maasai lady from Longido District, Arusha Region in Tanzania. She is the founder and Executive Director of Pastoralist Information and Development Organization( PIDO). She is currently a student ( in the last year) at the Institute of Rural Development Planning doing a Bachelor degree…
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Member, The Elders
Mary Robinson is a founding member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, who work together for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet. She has served as Chair since 2018, and is a passionate advocate for gender equality, human…
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President, AARP Foundation
Lisa Marsh Ryerson is president of AARP Foundation, AARP’s charitable affiliate, which works to end senior poverty by helping vulnerable older adults build economic opportunity and social connectedness. An experienced and innovative leader, she sets the Foundation’s strategic direction and directs…
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Fisheries Programme Coordinator - southwest Madagascar,
Blue VenturesLovasoa Augustave grew up in the coastal city of Toliara in southwest Madagascar. Living among the seafaring Vezo community, Lovasoa became acquainted with the social and environmental changes impacting the ocean, on which their livelihoods depend. This led him to pursue a BSc degree in…
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Director: HIV and Health Group, United Nations Development Programme
Mandeep Dhaliwal is the Director of UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Group, Bureau of Policy and Programme Support. Ms. Dhaliwal brings to the organization over 20 years of experience working on HIV, health, human rights and evidence-based policy and programming in low and middle-income…
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Analyst, Entrepreneurship To The Point
Maphefo works as a monitoring and evaluation analyst at Property Point which is an enterprise and supplier development programme supporting small and growing businesses. Property Point focuses on areas of business development, access to markets and finance. Aa a part of her role, she works on…
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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…
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Individual, Individual
Kathy Reich is a leader, thinker, and writer on issues related to philanthropy and systems change. She recently completed eight years as the founding director of the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative, a 12-year, $2 billion effort to strengthen key institutions around the world that fight inequality. To…
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CEO, Mulago Foundation
Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale. Most…
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CEO, PushBlack
Julian Walker, CEO of PushBlack, is a respected leader in the fields of media, social advocacy, and Black empowerment. Born and raised in Little Rock, AR, he holds a BS in English from Davidson College and an MFA in Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago, reflecting his deep…
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CEO, Alight
Jocelyn Wyatt is the CEO of Alight, where she leads more than 3,500 team members globally. Her vast experience in strategic development on a global scale is intrinsically human-centered. Alight works in more than 20 countries, co-creating dignified spaces and human-worthy services for and…
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CEO, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Jim Bildner is the CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (www.drkfoundation.org), one of the largest venture philanthropy firms in the world. DRK has made more than 235 investments in early stage non-profit and for-profit social enterprises working to solve complex societal issues including…
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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…
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for almost forty years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm…
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Engagement & Communications Coordinator, Africans Rising
Farida Nabourema is a political activist blogger and writer, recently emerging as the unequivocal voice of Togo’s pro-democracy movement. Farida has been a fearless advocate for democracy and human rights in Togo since she was a teenager. Through over 400 articles written on her blog and other…
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Journalist & Co-Founder, Moderate the Panel
Femi Oke is an award winning international journalist, broadcaster, professional moderator and co-founder of the diverse moderators bureau "Moderate The Panel." Based in Washington, D.C., she hosts the interactive current affairs show “The Stream” for Al Jazeera English; is a correspondent for the Al…
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Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entreprenuership
Foundation leader, public health physician, university professor, social change practitioner and award-winning author. Career rooted in front-line medical and humanitarian work. Extensive work with public sector, business, civil society and philanthropy to build progressive partnerships for change…
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Ambassador, World For All Foundation
A participant and leader in the anti-apartheid struggle.
Held ministerial positions like Health & Welfare; Finance & Economic Development; and Premier of the Western Cape Province.
Was South Africa’s Ambassador to the USA.
Founded the World for All Foundation that opposes all extremisms & strives…
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Emily K. Tracy (she/her) is a social sector fundraising executive with extensive experience serving mission-driven advocacy organizations. Prior to joining Code for America, Emily served as the Chief Development Officer at Polaris, the leading anti-trafficking organization in the U.S. where she oversaw…
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Interim Co-CEO, PushBlack
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Co- Founder, Colectivo de Diseño Disruptivo
Mexican-Brazilian with 15 years of experience in the impact sector: worked in government to protect the human rights of Mexican migrants in the US, started and failed two social enterprises in the US and Mexico. Directed a nonprofit in Mexico aimed at promoting ESG practices in small and medium…
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Founder, The Friendship Bench
Dixon is the founder of The Friendship Bench, a low intensity psychological intervention delivered predominantly by trained community grandmothers in Zimbabwe and beyond. In 2023 over 2000 grandmothers provided therapy to over 200 000 clients from wooden park benches in Zimbabwe.
He is also…
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Co-Founder and CEO, PushBlack
Darrell Scott is Co-Founder and CEO of PushBlack, the largest non-profit news and media platform for Black-Americans. PushBlack attracts and build relationships with Black voters through daily Black history and news services that are delivered through mobile messaging (SMS, Facebook Messenger…
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President & CEO, International Rescue Committee, International Rescue Committee
Rt Hon David Miliband
President and CEO
International Rescue Committee
David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He oversees the agency’s relief and development operations in over 30 countries, its refugee resettlement and assistance programs…
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Project Manager, Caspian Agency
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Dena Trujillo, CEO of Crisis Text Line, has spent over 20 years operating at the intersection of
nonprofit and for-profit, discovering and amplifying models that scale innovative solutions and maximize social impact. Prior to Crisis Text Line, Dena was a Venture Partner at Omidyar Network, where she spent…
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Co-Founder, Colectivo de Diseño Disruptivo
Brazilian-Mexican, designer and facilitator of collaborative processes for social innovation in Latin America.
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Executive Director, Taproot Earth
Colette Pichon Battle is the Co-founder and Partner of Vision & Initiatives at Taproot Earth, a global climate justice organization anchoring various frontline formations in the Gulf South, Appalachia and the Black Diaspora to advance climate justice and combat philosophies of extraction and…
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Annalisa is the Chief People Officer at the Skoll Foundation, where she focuses on managing the strategy and processes related to building, supporting, and retaining the exceptional talent of the Foundation’s team members.
Annalisa believes deeply in Skoll’s vision and works to ensure that the…
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Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Antonio Zappulla is CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate foundation of the global news and information services company. Through news, media development, free legal assistance, and convening initiatives, the Thomson Reuters Foundation combines its unique services to advance…
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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…
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Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s people living on $1-a-day are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers. One Acre Fund has 9,000 full-time staff who…
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Author and Journalist, anjansundaram.com
Author, journalist and TV presenter.
Wrote the books "Stringer" and "Bad News".
Forthcoming book "Breakup"
TV presenter for VICE and Channel News Asia.
Mathematics at Yale and PhD in journalism literature
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Founder and Executive Director,
NOSSASAlessandra is the Executive Director of Peri, a media company focused on stories that matter. She is a specialist in mass communication and large-scale mobilization, with extensive experience in popular mobilization and developing impactful content for television and cinema. Prior to this, she…
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Amanda is the CEO of Code for America, an organization that helped launch the civic tech ecosystem in the United States. Today, Code for America partners with governments and community-based organizations leveraging technology to create equitable government systems focused on programs…
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Founder, Amplifier
Aaron Huey builds campaigns that create real-world change, by any medium necessary. As a National Geographic photographer, he has created 30+ features on environmental conservation, cultural preservation, and social justice, reaching hundreds of millions globally. His approach was shaped by…
